Devilution, Pt. 8—Dates, Deluge, and Dinosaurs
God’s Tsunami
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I. Dates…This was the 1st question, next…
II. Deluge...(THE EVIDENCE FOR A GLOBAL FLOOD)
• A second question often asked of the creationist is the question of a global flood.
• Genesis 6 and 7 clearly record a global flood that God brought upon the earth as an act of judgment against men’s rebellion and sin.
• Time will not allow me to give you much detail here, but there are 3 or 4 things I want to say about the flood.
1. The Bible clearly describes a GLOBAL flood, not merely a LOCAL flood.
a. There are some today who want to compromise the scripture, and simply describe this as a local flood, covering only a very small region where Noah lived. [his “world”]
b. That clearly is not what the Bible is talking about. It describes a flood that covered all the high mountains under the heavens (Gen.7:18) And a flood that killed every thing that breaths through it nostrils [allergies?] on the earth, (Gen.7:22)
c. You clearly cannot make a local flood scenario fit the biblical text.
2. There is strong HISTORICAL evidence supporting the flood.
a. Do you know that archeologists have discovered 250 different flood legends from 250 different ancient cultures.
b. There are 33 primary ancient cultures that have been discovered:
• 33 of 33 have a flood tradition.
• 31 of 33 have a common tradition that the flood was globally destructive.
• 32 of 33 say man was somehow divinely saved in the flood.
• 30 of 33 say there was some kind of special provision made for the animals.
• 25 of 33 describe an ark or boat landing on top of a mountain.
• 29 of 33 describe a bird being sent from the boat to find land.
• 30 of 33 describe a colored arch as a symbol of divine favor.
NOTE: Isn’t it interesting that today the rainbow is used as the universal symbol of gay activism. How perverse we have become. We not only have sunken into moral debauchery, we actually flaunt it in God’s face, using the symbol of his holy covenant as a symbol for mankind’s sin.
• 31 of 33 say the first thing the people did when they landed on dry ground is to worship God...(I SHOULD THINK SO!!)
c. There are two laws or principles of historical analysis that I think we need to recognize at this point:
(1) It is commonly understood that if isolated people groups have the same tradition in their stories, this reflects a common ancestry.
(2)It is commonly understood that when widely separated people groups have the same tradition in their stories it must reflect some historical occurrence.
d. This is why I say there is strong HISTORICAL evidence supporting the event of a global flood as described in the Bible.
(Information above taken from tape series, Somebody’s Trying To Make A Monkey Out Of You)
3. There is strong GEOLOGICAL evidence supporting the flood.
a. Again, take a look at such geological evidences as the Grand Canyon. Scientist tell us it took billions and billions of years to form under the erosion effects of the Colorado River.
• But did you know that the top of the Grand Canyon is higher in elevation than where the Colorado River begins (above Granby, Colorado)? Hmmm...That means the Colorado River must have had to flow “UP-HILL” for several million years before it could erode away a ditch deep enough to allow it to start flowing down-hill.
• The fact is, the Grand Canyon could have literally been formed in a matter of days under the astronomical hydraulic pressure that had to accompany the run-off of a global flood.
b. Mount Ararat, 17,000 feet in the air has produced Marine Fossils.
c. In the Himalayas, 20,000 feet in the air, marine fossils have been discovered.
4. There is much FOSSIL evidence supporting the flood.
a. If a global flood occurred that literally drown every breathing creature on the planet, you would expect millions and millions of bodies of dead animals to be swept into various places by the tremendous run-off from a flood.
b. Therefore, you would expect the run-off to deposit tons of dead bodies in large graves, and therefore we should find fossil beds or graveyards full of all kinds of dead animals that were then rapidly covered with tons of mud.
• The Karoo Formation...A fossil bed that contains 8 hundred billion vertebrate skeletons.
• Love Bone Bed (Gainesville, Florida)....Is a fossil bed 120 feet long, and 60 feet wide, and 15 feet deep. 100 different species are buried there. They have found:
• sharks
• whales
• manatees
• fresh water gars
• alligators
• turtles
• snakes
• raccoons
• wolves
• saber toothed tigers
• elephants
• Rhinos
• horses
• camels...etc…
The question is how did all of these animals get to Florida.... They were washed there by the run off of a massive global flood.
c. This is how you get snails and fish fossils on top of some of the world’s highest mountains.
d. In Alaska they have discovered hundreds of frozen mammoths. Many of them still standing in the erect position, with fresh food still in their stomachs, and some even with fresh food (tropical plants) still in their mouths. And they have been frozen perfectly.
• Some Alaskans claim they have eaten Mammoth meat from these creatures. They would use saws to carve huge chunks of meat off and eat it.
• There is no way to explain such phenomenon apart from the consequences of a global flood.
e. A global flood could have formed coal beds and oil reserves in very short periods of time.
f. You see, the run-off would have been unbelievable because the water from the flood did not evaporate. The huge caverns beneath the crust of the earth that had pumped up water causing the flood (Gen.7:11 says “the fountains of the deep burst forth”) And the caverns that were created as volcanoes spewed out billions of tons of magma....All these caverns literally collapsed and the waters receded in a run-off affect like the world has never seen.
Dr. Kurt Landers (Head of Geology for Michigan University) said, “Can we, as seekers of the truth shut our eyes any longer to the obvious fact, that large areas of the sea floor have sunken vertically distances measured in miles.” (Somebody’s Trying To Make A Monkey Out Of Youtape 4)
NOTE: This is exactly what the Bible describes happening in Genesis 8:3...
NOTE: The run off affect from such a global flood had to be indescribable. I mean when the huge under ground caverns began to collapse and the water began to rush in by the billions and billions of acre feet...It must have been like a global flush of a toilet!!
5. Prior to the flood many believe the world was surrounded with a VAPOR canopy.
a. Many reputable scientists today believe that a vapor canopy as is described in Genesis 1:6-7 explains both the biblical picture of what happened prior to the flood as well as the scientific evidence.
Gen 1:6-7
b. This seems to describe water existing both above and below the firmament [expanse], (the expanse is that area in the sky where birds fly, Gen. 1:20)
c. So above the firmament, in the atmosphere, the water would have existed in the form of ice crystals.
d. And when the caverns of the earth began to open up (Gen.7:11) it spewed forth hot water, and volcanoes blew out hot lava and spewed billions and billions of hot ash into the atmosphere, creating a “Seeding affect” upon the ice crystals in the canopy of the earth’s atmosphere, and the canopy melted and it began to rain down mud all over the earth. I rained non-stop for 40 days and 40 nights, as this vapor canopy collapsed.
• If this theory is true you would expect subtropical conditions to exist world wide before the flood, because this vapor canopy of ice crystals would create a “greenhouse” effect world wide.
EX. This is exactly what the fossil record supports. For instance in the Northern tip of the Vancouver Islands, they have found fossilized Palm trees.
EX. On the Spitsbergen Islands (North of Russia in the arctic circle) they have found Palm tree leaves 10 to 12 feet in length.
EX. In Siberian Alaska they have found camels, lions, horses, mammoths, tigers, bison, sheep, rhinos. They don’t live there today, it is too cold. But it must have been warm at one time.
EX. In the South Pole they have found fossilized remains of luscious forests with tree trunks 3 feet in diameter.
(Somebody’s Trying To Make A Monkey Out Of You, tape 4)
• The Vapor Canopy would also serve to reflect and disperse harmful radiation coming into the atmosphere from the sun, which would help plants and animals to live longer. And that would explain why the average age of a man before the flood was 912 years. But after the flood those ages began to grow shorter and shorter at a very rapid rate.
• Under these pre-diluvian conditions plants and animals would also be expected to live longer and grow larger.
EX. The fossil record has produced support for this:
• moss like plants 3 feet tall
• huge asparagus stalks 40 feet tall (One stalk could feed a family for years, you’d have to cut your asparagus with a chain saw)
• horse tail reeds over 50 feet tall
• Cock roaches over 1 foot in diameter (how would you like to step on that in the middle of the night?)
• Dragonflies with 3 foot wing spans
• fossil clams over 2 feet in diameter
• hornless rhinos 17 feet tall
• pigs the size of cattle
• camels over 12 feet tall
• birds towered to 11 feet tall
• Beavers the size of pigs
• Deer antlers 12 feet in width
• ground sloths 18 feet long
• Dinosaurs (reptiles never stop growing as long as they live. So they lived long, protected from the harmful affects of radiation. Perhaps this is why they grew so big...they are just old lizards!)
• Duck bill dinosaur...was found fossilized in a swimming position with its head up as if it were trying to get air....It died in a flood!
CONCL. OF DELUGE
(1) The point is there are mountains of evidence to support the Bible’s account of a universal flood.
(2) And in fact, if you take the Bible’s account of a flood literally, it explains a whole lot of other wise unexplainable phenomenon we observe here on the earth.
