I've been thinking about floods...

...and I can remember the tsunami of 2004. Go see the video posted on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvyC8lctcc or view it in the screen above. This is an amazing collection of videos of the catastrophic nature of flooding due to seismic activity. Now imagine the flood of Noah's time.

The Lord himself verified the Genesis account by quoting it as historically accurate. In Matthew 24 Jesus is speaking of the signs of the end of the age. He shows his disciples the buildings and says in verse 2, "Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down." Quite interesting. The stones will all be toppled.

Jesus then goes on to speak about false messiahs, wars and rumors of wars; all in response to the disciples asking him when all of this will take place, and how will they recognize His coming and the coming of the end of the age...

Jesus also then states that noone knows the day or hour. And he gives reference to the worldwide catastrophic flood that occurred in Noah's day. He says, "For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."

Look again at the video of that horribly catastrophic tsunami of only a few years ago. It is amazing the devastation that took place! What were the numbers? Something like 250,000 dead? And something like 40,000 still missing...just vanished, or "wipe[d] ...from the face of the earth..." (Genesis 6:7). Now, how did this tsunami occur? There was an earthquake, right? But it was not the earthquake, in and of itself, that caused the tsunami. No, it was the rise in the ocean floor that took place. Granted, this earthquake was a 9.3 on the Richter scale, garnering it the 2nd place prize as far as strength of earthquakes go (only the 9.5 in Chile in 1960 was greater), but again, it was the rise in the seafloor that caused the tsunami. I may be wrong here, but didn't the seafloor rise by some feet? Feet? Now, imagine the type of flooding that must have occurred during the Great Flood?

Genesis 7:11-12 records, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."

The springs of the great deep burst forth...The first person to come up with the basic idea for plate tectonics was Antonio Snider. He postulated this from Biblical evidence as well as the geographical evidence he found. Later, a man named Alfred Wegener proposed a version. The scientific community laughed at both of them...

Well, it turns out that the Creationists were right after all! The secular scientists grabbed hold of Creationist theories and twisted them into what we have today...a theory with very little predictive power that excludes God's Word and adds millions of years to the account. Hmmmm...

Anyway, let's look at Genesis 7:19, "They [the flood waters] rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered." I find this quite interesting. This is from the NIV. Now, if all the continents were together like both Creationists and secular scientists agree, then why would there be mountains? Aren't mountains formed as a result of plate tectonics? And if the Great Flood was caused by catastrophic plate tectonics, do you think there would have been mountains before plate tectonics occurred? You know the answer of course, don't you. Obviously, the NIV has a not so good translation here. Other translations, I think, are more proper in that they state that all the "high hills" were covered with the flood waters...Aha! Now we are getting somewhere!

So...there was a WHOLE LOT of water located beneath the crust of the earth that was all released basically at once via massive seismic activity. This massive seismic activity, when occurring on a continual basis, can greatly weaken granite by a factor of a billionfold...therefore, the flood event provided the stressors to the granite to make it possible for rapid transport of the continents. The springs of the great deep opened and jets of super heated water came gushing out! Volcanoes spewed forths volumes of lava...this of course cooled raised the ocean levels a good bit. And we saw in the video what happens when ocean levels are raised only a little bit!

Please understand that earthquakes today actually move massive bodies of earth many multiple feet in less than an hour...so imagine constant earthquakes occurring worldwide...it's easily predictable that this event could easily have moved the continents to roughly their present positions.

By the way, do you remember a guy named Alfred Wallace? Of course not. He was the guy that came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. Well, he was the guy that basically, simultaneously, came up with the theory...he deferred to Charles Darwin in regards to paper publication...so Darwin gets the fame (notoriety?). Anyway, Wallace did some calculations...He determined that if hypothetically we could raise the ocean basins and lower the mountains such that the earth (ground) was completely flat, that the ocean waters would cover the entirety of the earth by almost 2 miles!!! Wow! So is there enough water currently on the earth to completely cover the earth? You betcha! Combine this fact with the fact of Scripture saying that the "high hills" were covered by the flood waters, and with the fact that seismic activity, plate tectonics, would not have produced any high mountains yet, and one can easily surmise that there is definitely enough water to cover the earth in a global flood!

Well, what happened to all the water? Well, continents collide and mountains are formed, yes? All that you learned in Earth/Space Science is basically true...except for the time frames, of course (there are other issues, but we will not go there tonight!). Mountains are formed and what happens to the water? That's right, it drains off!

How many of you have seen what happens to the infield of a baseball field after a rainstorm? If you have good drainage, then you will notice that some pretty big gullies are formed that need to be filled in. When the flood waters were prevailing on the earth, they were sloshing about with tremendous force and bringing massive sediments from all over the world! These layers of underwater mud flows were deposited, one on top of another, rapidly, killing and preserving massive numbers of plants and animals. These still wet layers were in places bent by further plate tectonics. We see good evidence of this all over the place where entire sequences of strata are found bent perfectly without cracks or splits or fissures of any kind. If these layers were laid on top of one another over hundreds of millions of years, then they would have hardened and broken when the mountains pulled them upward...but this is clearly not the case.

There is oh so much more to this wonderful theory of how the geography of the earth was formed! God is so good! And his word is truth. And the rules of science when used properly can only give veracity to the Biblical account wherever it is applied! Psalm 19:1-3 declares, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard."

"...men are without excuse" (Romans 1:20)!!!