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Food for thought (excerpt):

Conclusions and Implications

There is no longer any doubt that the surface of Mars has in the past been covered by huge volumes of water which spread over vast areas. These resulted from cataclysmic outflows, which were also responsible for catastrophic erosion of channels and valleys, on a scale far greater than anything comparable on Earth, and deposition of sedimentary strata. It appears that much of this water still resides near the Martian surface in permafrost and as ice. Mars has in the past also experienced huge volcanic eruptions and vast lava outpourings across its surface, perhaps on a greater scale than those on the earth.

There is an irony in the obvious parallels with the earth. Most geologists today vehemently oppose any suggestion that in the earth’s past there were cataclysmic outbursts of water that flowed catastrophically across its surface as the global Genesis Flood, even though planet Earth is still 70% covered in water. Yet they are equally adamant that the surface of nearby planet Mars has in the past been cataclysmically covered in water, even though most of its surface is now dry. However, the evidence on both planets is the same — landforms carved and sedimentary strata deposited catastrophically. Obviously their conclusions are based on a belief in uniformitarianism (”the present is the key to the past”), not the evidence which is consistent with the Bible.

http://www.icr.org/article/3151/

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There is no longer any doubt that the surface of Mars has in the past been covered by huge volumes of water which spread over vast areas. These resulted from cataclysmic outflows, which were also responsible for catastrophic erosion of channels and valleys, on a scale far greater than anything comparable on Earth, and deposition of sedimentary strata. It appears that much of this water still resides near the Martian surface in permafrost and as ice. Mars has in the past also experienced huge volcanic eruptions and vast lava outpourings across its surface, perhaps on a greater scale than those on the earth

You are twisting these statements greatly. You obviously have not studied Mars in *any* detail. Yes, it is likely that Mars had a northern ocean at one time and that it had from 10-70% of our atmospheric pressure (it now has about 0.7%). The convenient fact that you omit is that it was stripped away when the magnetic field of Mars failed about 3.5 billion years ago. You also cite lava flows when you know that those flows give evidence of the history of Mars over billions of years. The history of Mars is divided into three epochs by the obliteration of craters by lava. Once the magnetic field failed and the atmosphere was stripped away the weathering on Mars effectively stopped. Areas that have high crater density are the oldest features while areas that have little crater density are the youngest.