The Noachin Flood
I want to visit the Creation Museum that opened on Memorial Day near Cincinnati. I've had a renewed confidence in Young Earth Creationism after reading "The Genesis Flood" by Morris and Whitcomb. The book's purpose is to discredit Uniformitarism Geology and Darwinian Evolution by showing that the world was formed by Catastrophism, and uses North America geology as evidence of a universal flood.
The book analyses the story of Noah in Genesis, and then uses several theological arguments to explain why the Deluge must have been world wide and not local. The most convincing for me was in 2 Peter 3:3-7 that describes how people ignore the Deluge so they can continue living in sin and then reminds us that the world will be destroyed by fire in the same way that it was once destroyed by water. The author reminds us that Jesus regarded the scriptures as inerrant and factual, and as I study the bible, I've seen how even the smallest words of Adam and Noah and Abraham were perfectly formed and that it is illogical to dismiss the events of Noah's Ark. The book then reviews the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian flood epics like Gilgamesh that support the Noachin Flood, and even discusses flood legends among the Native Americans! After a hundred pages of background, the book moves into very thick geological discussions of North American geography.
The author makes a keen observation that any evidence contrary to Uniformitarism Geology and Evolution is largely ignored, rather than disproved, only because it is disagreeable. There were some interesting quotes from Naturalists who have finally "freed themselves from the burden of Noah and Moses." It seems that Naturalists have been so indoctrinated by secular theories from youth that anyone who disagrees is ridiculed. I have read half way through the large book, and the author has undeniable examples of how the world has been dramatically affected by a global flood.
Most people seem to struggle with the same basic questions about the Deluge. The first is "there isn't enough water to cover the earth," and the second is "how did anyone breath at such a high altitude", and then the third is "how did all the animals fit on the ark," and the last one is "how did all the animals get to the ark and then return to their environments." I was going to answer them, but these questions have very easy answers if you take a moment to think about it. I then remembered that this is the same reason people don't believe in the Deluge because they don't consider if the evidence supports the theories.
It's a fact that North America was once underwater, and that the climates of the worlds were much different in the past. There is an interesting anecdote about a fossilized palm tree found in Wyoming. The Great Plains were formed by flood deposits too. The book talks about how Radiometric Dating is dependent on assuming that the earth is billions of years old, and that many things that are only a hundred years old give Radiometric dates of millions of years. Its more circular reasoning for support. I think most everyone knows that there are no transition fossils between species too. Evolution itself is not supported by paleontology, and many species found today are almost identical to ones found 250 million years ago. Almost all of the index fossils of long extinct animals from millions of years ago have turned up living in remote areas.
The book has excellent observations of what happens to landscapes when they are flooded and undeniably shows how the land is permanently changed. I think people believe that the Deluge was tranquil and that the earth looked the same after the waters went away, but the book showed examples of how small and short floods had demolished cities. After the Tsunamis, the before-and-after satellite pictures circulated the Internet showing how one wave completely washed away everything in their path.
I think I was initially inspired to read this book because of the submerged city discovered five years ago off the coast of India near Gulf of Cambay; It is the oldest discovered civilization dating to 9,500 BC, and since no other cities this size have been found so long ago, it is evidence that there was once a mass population on the earth that was destroyed by a flood. It has caused a big stir because it is evidence supporting Noah's flood.
Originally posted at Wyatt's Haven of Bliss: http://www.havenofbliss.com/cgi-bin/columns.cgi?writer=0&entry=20070602112602
I want to visit the Creation Museum that opened on Memorial Day near Cincinnati. I've had a renewed confidence in Young Earth Creationism after reading "The Genesis Flood" by Morris and Whitcomb. The book's purpose is to discredit Uniformitarism Geology and Darwinian Evolution by showing that the world was formed by Catastrophism, and uses North America geology as evidence of a universal flood.
The book analyses the story of Noah in Genesis, and then uses several theological arguments to explain why the Deluge must have been world wide and not local. The most convincing for me was in 2 Peter 3:3-7 that describes how people ignore the Deluge so they can continue living in sin and then reminds us that the world will be destroyed by fire in the same way that it was once destroyed by water. The author reminds us that Jesus regarded the scriptures as inerrant and factual, and as I study the bible, I've seen how even the smallest words of Adam and Noah and Abraham were perfectly formed and that it is illogical to dismiss the events of Noah's Ark. The book then reviews the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian flood epics like Gilgamesh that support the Noachin Flood, and even discusses flood legends among the Native Americans! After a hundred pages of background, the book moves into very thick geological discussions of North American geography.
The author makes a keen observation that any evidence contrary to Uniformitarism Geology and Evolution is largely ignored, rather than disproved, only because it is disagreeable. There were some interesting quotes from Naturalists who have finally "freed themselves from the burden of Noah and Moses." It seems that Naturalists have been so indoctrinated by secular theories from youth that anyone who disagrees is ridiculed. I have read half way through the large book, and the author has undeniable examples of how the world has been dramatically affected by a global flood.
Most people seem to struggle with the same basic questions about the Deluge. The first is "there isn't enough water to cover the earth," and the second is "how did anyone breath at such a high altitude", and then the third is "how did all the animals fit on the ark," and the last one is "how did all the animals get to the ark and then return to their environments." I was going to answer them, but these questions have very easy answers if you take a moment to think about it. I then remembered that this is the same reason people don't believe in the Deluge because they don't consider if the evidence supports the theories.
It's a fact that North America was once underwater, and that the climates of the worlds were much different in the past. There is an interesting anecdote about a fossilized palm tree found in Wyoming. The Great Plains were formed by flood deposits too. The book talks about how Radiometric Dating is dependent on assuming that the earth is billions of years old, and that many things that are only a hundred years old give Radiometric dates of millions of years. Its more circular reasoning for support. I think most everyone knows that there are no transition fossils between species too. Evolution itself is not supported by paleontology, and many species found today are almost identical to ones found 250 million years ago. Almost all of the index fossils of long extinct animals from millions of years ago have turned up living in remote areas.
The book has excellent observations of what happens to landscapes when they are flooded and undeniably shows how the land is permanently changed. I think people believe that the Deluge was tranquil and that the earth looked the same after the waters went away, but the book showed examples of how small and short floods had demolished cities. After the Tsunamis, the before-and-after satellite pictures circulated the Internet showing how one wave completely washed away everything in their path.
I think I was initially inspired to read this book because of the submerged city discovered five years ago off the coast of India near Gulf of Cambay; It is the oldest discovered civilization dating to 9,500 BC, and since no other cities this size have been found so long ago, it is evidence that there was once a mass population on the earth that was destroyed by a flood. It has caused a big stir because it is evidence supporting Noah's flood.
Originally posted at Wyatt's Haven of Bliss: http://www.havenofbliss.com/cgi-bin/columns.cgi?writer=0&entry=20070602112602
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