Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Great Flood

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The Great Flood

This is a great subject to look into as it also debunks the theory of evolution that has circulated since 1859. 
Evidence of The Great Flood is extensive and is published all over the internet, however, this information doesn't get much attention from mainstream media. 
The following information is divided into two sections
The first section is easier for the average reader to read and get the facts, and the second section is more scientific.
Both sections are taken from different sites.(Credit at the bottom of each :D)

Praise The Lord JESUS CHRIST!!!

Genesis 7 
And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

Is there evidence that the flood was global?

The first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 8, tells about a great world-wide flood.  Such a major flood would surely leave much evidence.  When we look around the world we do indeed find much evidence.  Most scientists claim that the past can be understood by what is happening in the world today.  The Bible describes a world-wide flood that was so great that it cannot be understood by looking at modern floods.  I will list several examples from a study of the earth that a great catastrophe once involved the whole earth

1.  Fast moving water can erode away dirt, sand and even rock.  When the water slows down, the dirt, sand and rock are dropped.  This sediment may contain minerals that can be weathered away quickly. In the San Francisco area of California, beds of sediments hundreds of feet thick contain minerals that would have been destroyed if not buried quickly.  Such beds can be seen in many other areas world-wide.  These sediments could not have been laid down slowly over thousands of years otherwise the minerals would have been destroyed by weathering.  Such beds tell us that a great quantity of water was involved and the sediment was deposited and buried quickly. 

2.  Stones that are rolled around by waves or currents become rounded and are called wash rock (also called conglomerate).  Conglomerate rock in Alberta, CanadaConglomerate beds are common all over the world.  One bed that I have studied in Alberta, Canada contains granite boulders of football size, that have been washed several hundred miles from the Rocky Mountains, the nearest source of  this kind of rock (Figure 1).  This bed is close to 100 feet thick and extends over several hundred square miles.  Similar beds of even greater extent are present east of San Diego, California, along the Columbia River, in Washington and Oregon, on the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and along the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada only to mention a few in North America.  The northwest flanks of the Swiss Alps consist of mountains of uplifted conglomerate that have been washed off the Alps.  In the past great sheets of moving water dumped wash rock into thick layers that extend for hundreds of miles in all directions.  No similar deposits of this extent are being produced in the world today.  
3.  Many beds, such as the Redwall of the Grand Canyon, can be traced for thousands of miles (Figure 2).  Redwall from Grand CanyonThe Redwall or its equivalent extends north all the way to Canada, east to Niagara Falls in New York, and south to Mammoth Caves in Kentucky.   An equivalent is even found on the top of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain.  Also evidence of such widespread water is thin bands of clay called tonsteins that appear in or between coal seams.  Some of these one or two inch laminations spread across thousands of square miles in Europe.  Such massive and far-reaching beds require continent wide, if not world-wide, flooding.  The current direction indicators in the Redwall and similar beds, show a generally East to West movement of water.  Modern rivers and seas produce currents in various directions depending on the topography of the country.  Coal is composed of buried plant material that has been subjected to heat, pressure and chemical action.  Some coal beds can be very thick.  In the United States and Canada, there are beds that are over 100 ft. thick.  Some coal seams in Europe and Australia are several hundred feet thick.  Geologists claim that coal is produced from buried marshes and peat bogs.  Since it takes several feet of peat to be compressed into one foot of coal, seams of coal several hundred feet thick would require peat bogs over a thousand feet thick.  No peat bogs of such depths are found in the modern world.  Therefore such thick coal seams require conditions in the past that are not happening in the present world.  Some coal seams in the eastern United States can be traced north and south for hundreds of miles.  Such geographical extend and such thickness, require massive water movements on a very large scale.  A world-wide flood as described in Genesis would be expected to lay down sediments over very broad geographical areas and that is what we see in the geological record.
4.  Fish fossils are common.  Often the skeletal remains are preserved, that is, the bones have not been scattered (Figure 3).  A nearly intact fossil fishExperiments with fresh dead fish have shown that dead fish in water will disintegrate and their skeletons will fall apart in less than one week.  The abundant remains of intact fossil fish skeletons indicate rapid burial sufficiently deep to prevent oxidation, bacterial decay, and breakage due to feeding by other animals.  Fish that die in modern lakes or rivers usually completely decay and seldom leave any trace of themselves.  One bed containing numerous fossil fish scales extends over several states in the Southwestern United States.  Surprisingly very few fish bones are found in the same bed.  This seems to indicate that scales sloughed off fish that were starting to decay and were swept away by water and buried well away from where the fish bones were buried.  Only broad expanses of moving water could do this.   In Brazil fish fossils are found with the skin, muscles, organs etc. all preserved.  The fish look like they had just been caught but they are petrified and hard as stone.  They are abundant and distributed over several thousand square miles.  The large plateau where these fossils are found is well above sea level and a good 500 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.  Catastrophic conditions are required to create such an extensive assemblage of animals and plants so exquisitely preserved.  
5.  Massive graveyards of thousands and even millions of fish, dinosaurs, and mammals are seen in North America, Europe, and Africa.  The same is true of plants.  Fossil sea animals from Cincinnati, OhioFrom Utah-Colorado north to Alberta-Saskatchewan, Canada, thousands of dinosaurs are found in certain beds such as the Morrison Formation.  Dinosaur National Monument in Utah has a visitor’s display where numerous dinosaurs are exposed.  Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a good places to see numerous fossil mammals jumbled together.  Other parts of the world also illustrate fossil graveyards.  The city of Cincinnati, Ohio sits on top of a great mass of sea animals (Figure 4).  The Messel site near Frankfort, Germany, is also a most unusual collection of animals and plants.  These two sites along with others mentioned above reveal the following information:  1.  The burial of great quantities of animals together.  2.  Rapid burial and excellent preservation.  3. The presence of species now limited to different continents.  4.  The position of mammals that suggest death by drowning.  Geological processes as seen in the modern world cannot account for such unusual conditions.  A world-wide catastrophe involving water is the easiest explanation.  
6.  A factor that needs further consideration is the mixing of widely diverse animals from different geographical areas and habitats.   In Germany the Geiseltel lignite (soft coal) deposit, is a fantastic mixture of a great variety of animals and plants from insects to mammals and birds and from deciduous trees to fungi.  Yellowstone petrified logThe Santana Formation of Brazil mentioned above is a mixture of oceanic animals of various habitats.   Open ocean fish, bottom dwelling fish, fresh water fish, and sharks along with plants are all mixed together.  The petrified forests of the Yellowstone area contain trees from a number of different environments (Figure 5).  Species range from temperate (pines, redwoods, and willows) to tropical and exotic (figs, laurels, breadfruit, catsura, and cinnamon) and from semi-desert to rain forest types.  If the study of fossil pollen from the conglomerate beds that contain the Yellowstone petrified trees are included, more than 200 species have been identified.  How could such unusual mixtures be brought together and buried except by unusual catastrophic transport by water?  A final example of unexpected fossil mixtures is seen in amber (petrified pitch).  It is easy to understand how insects could be caught in sticky pitch and wind could blow pieces of leaves and even flowers into the pitch but how could sea animals such as coral be included?  Waves or strong currents from the sea must have broken up and carried bits of coral that stuck to the pitch before it became hard or petrified.
These are only a few of many examples from the study of the earth and its contained fossils that support a major world-wide flood.  We can trust the Genesis record as a true account of an event in the past that affected the whole world. 
Harold Coffin, Ph. D. Geology, paleobotany
Here ends the first part :) 
And the second part :) 
Scientific Evidence for a Worldwide Flood 

Two Vastly Different Views:
Let's not kid ourselves.  What this is all about is whether or not the Old Testament book of Genesis (along with the rest of the Old Testament, and the New Testament) is an accurate account of what happened around 4600 years ago with regard to a worldwide flood and about 6000 years ago with regard to Creation itself.  Is the Bible accurate and true or is it just a book of allegorical stories?  
Was the great majority of the world's sedimentary strata laid down by a single Worldwide Deluge in a short amount of time, or is the evolutionary scenario of slow change, acting over eons of TIME and the associated Geological Time Chart (with its millions and millions of years) a more accurate account of Earth history and how we came to be?
This is also about God's future judgment of mankind and the return of Jesus Christ to rule over the Earth that God and His Son created.  We say this because Jesus related His return to the days of Noah and the Flood.  See Luke 17:20-2719:11-27John 5:22-2312:32, and Rev. 22:12. 
Let's Look at the Evidence: 
Polystrate Fossils:
One of the strongest pieces of evidence for a worldwide flood is the existence of what Rupke termed "polystrate fossils."  Such fossils are found all over the world: especially in and around coal seams.  They are often in the form of  fossil  trees that were buried upright and which often cross multiple  layers of strata such as sandstone, shale, limestone  and even coal beds. 1,2,3,4  They range in size from small rootlets to trees over 80 feet long.  Sometimes they are oblique (or at an angle to) the surrounding strata, but more often they are perpendicular with (or standing 'upright' in) it.  For example, at Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate tree (and root) fossils are found at various intervals throughout roughly 2,500 feet of strata.  Many of the trees are from 10-20 feet long, 5,6 and at least  one was 40 feet long. 5,6,7   
Very few of these upright fossil trees have attached roots, and only about 1 in 50 8  have both roots and rootlets attached.  Such trees, and their missing roots are discussed in detail in an article on 'Fossil Forests'.9  Likewise many, if not most, of the large, fragmented, and  broken-off  Stigmaria roots (of these trees) are also missing their rootlets In fact, that's how the word "stigmaria" (roots) got its name: i.e. because of the scar marks left behind from the broken off (and now missing) rootlets. 9  
Many of these roots and rootlets are also buried individually. 9  Thus virtually proving that neither the trees themselves, nor their rootlets were buried in the place where they grew, or "in situ," but were uprooted and re-buried where they are now found.
Similar circumstances occur elsewhere in Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces, as well as the United States, South America, Europe, China, Russia, and Australia.  Buried tree stumps are also found on Axel Heiberg 10,11 Island in Northern Canada and wherever coal seams are found.
And although there is much data on buried trees in the geological literature, much of it is from books that are over 100 years old.  One of the first articles on this subject was by Rupke, and in it he comments that: 

With regard to Rupke's observation, I suspect the reason why such is still the case has more to do with a pervasive bias against any and all evidence for a Creator to whom we may one day have to give account than to the ever-mounting evidence against the theory of evolution and the millions and millions of years that such a belief needs to make it seem true.
The Fossils Themselves:  
Clastic Dikes:  According to  Austin, a clastic dike is:   
Clastic dikes present a problem to the "mythions of years" mindset of evolution in  that  massive "older" sediments are found intruding up into overlying younger strata.  This must have occurred while the "older" sediments were still in a plastic state.  This is clearly brought out in a book on this subject by Dr. John Morris on this same subject: i.e. on the Age of the Earth.
One would  think that a million  years would be more than enough time to turn massive sand laden sediments into sandstone,  yet we have an example of sediments which  are said to be  80 million years older than those above them, and yet they still had not become hard, but were in a wet and plastic state when an earth movement caused them to be forced up into the (supposedly much) younger sediments.Such things not only present serious problems for the evolutionary  method of  "dating", but also tell us that something is wrong with the millions of years mindset of evolutionary theory itself, and thus cause strong suspicion that we are not being told the truth by the mass media, nor the "Scientific" community of believers in evolution. 17,18,19 
Mt. St. Helens:

Three separate eruptions produced  sedimentary-type layers hundreds of feet thick.  One of these was a hurricane velocity deposit that produced thousands of thin  laminations up to 25 feet thick.  The third eruption was a lava flow,  which turned into a hot mud-flow as it  crossed the Toutle River.  This hot mud flow not only diverted  the  river, but carved a 17 mile long  series of canyons (up to 140 feet deep) in a matter of hours.  They call it the Little Grand Canyon of the Toutle River." 20,21,22  And to this very day, neither the mass media, nor any  popular  "science" publications have told the public what happened. 23  See also Mt. St. Helens: Evidence in Support of Catastrophe. 
Palouse Canyon:   

An Australian Beach:    
See also Talking About Geology / Varves30

Spontaneous Sorting of Layers:Laboratory experiments have shown  that spontaneous sorting and layering occurs with a sand, mud and clay slurry.  When the mixture slows down, the sand, mud and clay will  spontaneously precipitate (or settle out) and form individual layers.  Dr. Guy Berthault has performed a number of  experimentswhich demonstrate this31,32,33  Those who want to see this can do so online at youtube and the following links Evolution: Fact or Belief?  or  Experiments in Stratification
Turbidity Currents:  
For example, regarding turbidites and the impact they are having on modern Geology, Kurt Howard 41 said the following in his paper on this topic:   


Extensive Strata and Pancake Layering:  
As we observe sedimentary strata throughout the world  we see  almost  everywhere flat-lying (or "pancake")  layered strata.  Many of these layers are so extensive that they cover several states. For example, the Tapeats Sandstone covers over half of the United States, andrawings from Dana's  Manual of Geology depict over 90 percent of the United States and Mexico, and half of Canada  under water.  We also know that the Grand Canyon was once under the ocean because of the marine fossils that have been found there.

Evolutionists believe that such layers were deposited slowly over millions and  millions of years.  Some claim that much of the strata is simply "river" deposits  or river deltas. 42,43  Creationists and a growing number of geologists see problems with such interpretations. 44,45  First because there is virtually no evidence of  erosionbetween the layers, and second, because the sheer size and extent of  the layers tells us that they could not have been formed by rivers, nor river deltas.  That's because many of the "layers" are quite thick and cover literally  thousands of square miles.
This, coupled with the presence of marine fossils that are buried in many of the layers, tells us that they were deposited by ocean currents by a flood or  floods like nothing we have seen in moderns times.
A Whale of a Fossil: 

More Fossil Whales:

Marine Fossils In The Mountains:  
In Mountains all over the world one can find sea  shells and other marine fossils.  These include the Sierras,  the Swiss Alps, the  Himalayas and many more. 49,50,51,52,53  See also this see this video 54 by Dr. Walter Brown.  See also Seashell on the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler.
Frozen Mammoths: 
Fissures In The Rocks:  
"In the rock on the summit of Mont de Sautenay - a flat-topped hill  near Chalonsur-Saone between Dijon and Lyons - there is a fissure filled with animal bones.  'Why should so many wolves, bears, horses, and oxen have ascended a hill isolated on all sides?'  asked Albert Gaudry, professor at the Jardin des Plantes.  According to him, the bones in this cleft are mostly broken and splintered into innumerable ... fragments and are 'evidently not those of animals devoured by beasts of prey; nor have  they been broken by man.  Nevertheless, the remains of  wolf  were ... abundant, together with those  of cave lion, bear, rhinoceros, horse, ox, and deer... Prestwich thought that the ... bones... were found in common heaps because, '... [they] ... fled [there] to escape the rising waters.'" 55,56
Erratic Boulders:  
All  over Europe and  North America are found large "erratic" "boulders" which  were transported many miles by some mysterious force -- the most likely of  which  is a massive flood  that swept over the Continents.  Concerning these Velikovsky writes:

Was the Flood Local or Worldwide?   
In the late 60's and early 70's:


The Black Sea Evidence:

Miracle or Worldwide Flood?
'Evolution is above all very uneven.  Certain periods were outstandingly productive of  new and verile forms  which often seem to have sprung into existence  from nowhere ... and to have become dominant almost simultaneously over a large part of  the world ... How such sudden multiple creations were brought about is a task for the future to determine.'" 60, 61  
Note: Manticoceras and Cheiloceras are two different types of ammonites.
Worldwide Chaos and Out of Order Fossils: 



"... only 15-20%  of the earth's land surface has even 3 geologic  periods appearing in 'correct' consecutive order."  64


"The extent of disorder is ... not well documented; however, the widespread occurrence of anomalies ... suggest that disorder should be taken seriously ..."  ref. 61  p. 234.  W. J. Arkell.


All of this evidence should make even the most skeptic think twice :) 
May The Lord Jesus Christ bless you all! :)

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