A few people believe that mammoths were frozen and buried after the flood. They give three arguments.
1. Postflood carvings of mammoths are found on cave walls in France.
[Response: Some mammoths survived the flood, multiplied, and were seen by humans centuries later.]
2. Mammoth remains are recent, because they are found near the top of the ground.
[Response: Don’t confuse elevation with time. Deep excavation is difficult and rare in these permafrost regions where mammoth flesh could be preserved. Besides, each year frozen mammoths are uncovered in gold mines, but seldom reported.51 I know of no frozen mammoth or rhinoceros remains lying directly above layered strata containing marine fossils, oil, coal seams, or limestone.138 (See Prediction 25 on page 295.) Those who have searched for such deposits below frozen mammoths have found none.]
3. Most fossils buried during the flood had their organic material replaced by minerals. Only a few mammoth bones and ivory have experienced this mineral replacement.
[Response: This is what one would expect. During and long after the flood, warm, mineral-rich waters soaked into most buried organic tissue. As the water slowly cooled, dissolved minerals were forced out of solution, replacing organic tissue. The frozen mammoth remains in Siberia and Alaska were buried in muddy ice, not liquid water. To understand why the flood waters were warm and mineral-rich, see page 130.]