The rock sitting atop the world’s tallest mountain is loaded with ancient sea creature fossils — which some are now claiming proves the Bible story of the floods and Noah’s Ark were real events.
The rocks making up Mount Everest’s summit contain the fossilized remains of ancient marine creatures, proof that the highest point on the planet was once sitting at the bottom of the ocean, according to a 2005 finding by the International Union of Geological Sciences.
Geologists believe the summit’s limestone formed on an ancient seafloor and was later thrust upward to form the massive mountain when two gigantic tectonic plates collided with each other around 55 million years ago.
But a now-viral post has brought the old finding back into the spotlight — and has many pointing to it as proof that the Great Flood described in the Book of Genesis really happened.
“Mount Everest contains marine rocks, proving that the highest point on Earth was once at the bottom of the ocean — doesn’t the Bible mention something about that?” David J. Harris, a right-wing news host for Newsmax, wrote on Xin a post that has now garnered over 500,000 views.
The post started a firestorm of hundreds of comments from people debating the finding’s ties to the bible and whether it proves the flood actually took place.
The verse that Harris is referring to is described in the Book of Genesis, which states that “the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.”
The Great Flood proclaims that God flooded the entire earth with 40 days and nights of rain to wipe out humanity’s wickedness, sparing only Noah, his family and pairs of every animal species aboard an ark he built at God’s instruction.
Last May, American researchers claimed to have used radar technology and found the possible remains of Noah’s Ark buried in the mountains of eastern Turkey — roughly 18 miles south of Mount Ararat, which the Bible describes as the boat’s final resting place.
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