Simple writes:
It seems, looking up the mountain, that the flood buried them there-sea life high in the mountains. ...... why would it not be possible for the flood to do it?
There is one thing that we have in common: We laymen look for simple explanations. So, let me try this one ...
There are many layers of sediment, consisting of different material. Where did the mud come from? It had to be a higher elevation, right? But, if there are many sediment layers all at higher elevations (to pile-up the sediment), and there is a universal drenching of water, then all the higher elevations would be washing the material down at the same time, thus mixing the material, instead of layering it in separate materials. If upwelling was occurring, then you would expect to see disturbed material due to strong underwater current. Now consider how animal/plant types could be sorted and distributed nicely in each layer while all that is going on. Then consider that coincidence occurring all over the planet wherever sediments are found. Finally, consider that the mountain must be formed by raising it. Well, the sediment layers (or at least the topmost sediment layers) when the mountain tilts the layers would show signs of slumping, since they would just have emerged from the water. Oh yeah, one more thing. The original mountains that provided the mud for the sediments you are looking at... where are they? They couldn't have been eroded completely flat with the surrounding landscape.
During some driving vacations across the country, I collected some of the "Roadside Geology" series. They all seem so scientific, but if you collect the lot of them, they all seem to tell a consistent country-wide story. Whereas, with Noah's Flood geology books (not found at the souveneir stores), there are spot stories about specific formations and very general stories, but no comprehensive detailed story that ties all the geological stories together in any level of detail comparable to what science describes in the Roadside series. I want to know if the dirt that I am looking at beside the road came from the West or the East, and whether that is consistent with the book two hundred miles away that describes the other formations.
I know none of the above is convincing you, but it was fun.