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Yes, and while water is liquid at typical room temperature, lava quickly solidifies into rock. This is a pretty substantial difference between the two models. If I pour water over one flat surface and lava over the other, the water will not necessarily leave sedimentary deposits behind, but the lava will leave a layer of igneous rock. Oh, and then there's the ash (another solid deposit from volcanic eruptions that is not necessarily present in flooding).Mt. St. Helens a recent catastrophic event that involved a liquid (lava).
Beyond that, I can find no support for the claim that Mt. St. Helens produced multiple sedimentary layers in a single eruption, but it wouldn't matter - an eruption is not a flood. They act differently, and have different geologic signatures.
What more do you want?
An explanation for how a single flood event can lay down multiple sedimentary layers, including chalk beds (comprised of the skeletal remains of micro-organisms) hundreds of feet thick, yet despite being global, not produce any sediment in antarctic or arctic ice cores that document dates both before and after the alleged date of the flood. An explanation for how every "kind" of animal on earth could fit onto a boat without that boat sinking or without these animals eating each other. An explanation for how sloths made their way from the middle east to south america, leaving no detectable remains on the journey. An explanation for how plant life survived a global flood that would have covered the entire earth in a layer of fine silt. I can keep going, if you want - the absurdities in the model are piled high and deep.
There many witnesses to His death, there was an empty tomb, no dead body, and over 500 witnesses who saw him alive at one time, many of whom were tortured to death rather than recant their faith in the risen Jesus.
This is all interesting, but how much of it is independently verifiable? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that these 500 witnesses never provided individual testimony - rather, there is exactly one document that records them: the bible. And the bible is not a reliable testimony by any stretch of the imagination.
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