I remember my father bringing home pictures of thoses deep sea creatures when I was a kid (60's). I was always amazed that they could live where it was impossible for humans to go.
The flood, I have to agree, is a tough one to prove. It is what makes the bible questionable imo. Evolution/change occurs everyday. Early modern christians understood the creation to be static (per the bible) so they stupidly denied the existence of evolution rather than embrace it as a continued process of god's creation. All they saw was a bunch of atheist evolutionists saying man possibly descended from apes, thus no creator, and they shut their minds to the possibility, and now I think they look like idiots still refusing to accept basic scientific facts.