How Evolution Flunked the Science Test!
EVOLUTION IS A MYTH!
EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD
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It is the worldwide Flood that changed our whole world. This Flood,
called the "Genesis Flood", because it is found in the oldest history
book in the world, the book of Genesis (the first book in the Bible),
had such a terrific impact on the entire world, that the tribes and
races of mankind all have Flood stories! You will find those stories in
ancient writings of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Persians, etc. You will
also find them in the various tribes in more recent centuries, in North
America, Central America, South America, the South Sea Islands, Asia,
Africa, Europe, and elsewhere.
Among 41 different tribal and national groups, twelve points were most
frequently included in their stories of the ancient flood. Here they
are:
1 - Destruction by a flood.
2 - Some Humans were saved.
3 - A boat saved them. .
4 - The flood caused universal destruction.
5 - One family was protected.
6 - The flood was caused by man's transgressions.
7 - The flood came as a result of a divine decree.
8 - Birds were sent out first.
9 - Animals were saved in the boat.
10 - Survivors worshiped God after leaving the boat.
11 - The boat landed in a high mountainous area.
12 - After leaving the boat, God pronounced His favor on those who were
saved.
We even find the Flood in ancient languages. In Chinese writing, which
is very ancient, the word for "boat" is composed of three picture words:
"vessel," "eight," and "mouth" (which stands for "person"). According to
Genesis 6 to 9, there were eight people in Noah's giant boat (called the
'ark").
The name for "Flood" in Chinese characters is made up of three signs:
"eight," "united," and "earth."
Noah's name is found in many languages of the world and generally
connected with water, boats, or something similar.
Some have wondered if Noah's Ark could have been big enough to save all
the animals. Yet a careful measurement of the boat (the dimensions are
given in Genesis 6 to 9) shows it would be big enough to hold all the
animals, with a lot of space remaining for food.
The Ark was not only very long, it was also very wide. It was shaped
more like a wide barge than a narrow ship. No ship made was bigger until
the 20th century, when oil super-tankers began to be built.
When did the Flood happen? From the best we can know, it occurred about
2348 B.C. That was about 1,656 years after the Creation, which was about
4004 B.C.
By studying fossils and rocks, scientists have learned that the entire
world was evenly warm before the strata were laid down. We know that
because fossils of tropical trees, plants and animals have been found in
polar regions.
There were probably immense amounts of water vapor in the sky before the
Flood. This caused the sunlight to be reflected through�out the world
and keep it all evenly warmed. But, when the Flood occurred, the sky
lost most of its water.
In addition, large amounts of water poured out of the ground. This broke
up the ground and caused great pressure, which the great weight of water
on the surface only added to. The pressure caused cracks to form, and
water, running down those cracks, exploded into steam when it flowed
onto hot magma (molten rock). This produced more explosions, and
volcanoes and earthquakes occurred.
The water ran to lower areas, which, as they filled, sank under the
great weight, and made our ocean basins. Sideways pressures caused the
continental masses, as well as large mountain ranges, to rise.
There is much evidence that the oceans used to be much lower than they
are at present. But that would agree with the fact that the Flood
gradually filled the oceans. Did you know there are thousands of
flat-topped mountains, deep in the ocean? They were volcanoes which had
their tops washed flat by waves and storms, while the oceans were lower
and still filling.
There are many other evidences that the oceans were once very small, and
then gradually filled over a number of months.
During the Flood, tremendous quantities of water flowed. carrying
massive amounts of soil and sediments with it. There are places in the
world where fossil-bearing sedimentary rock is several miles deep. It
points to a gigantic catastrophe at an earlier time.
Terrible storms raged during the Flood, and immense quantities of water
tore at and wore away surfaces. Massive wave action also took its toll.
All this resulted in an astonishing amount of rapid erosion.
Water now covers 72 percent of our planet's surface. If the ground were
absolutely level, there would be over 8,800 feet of water over our
heads!
For this reason, it was necessary that the ocean basins sink and
continents rise. Otherwise, there would be no dry ground anywhere!
Scientists are well-aware that the mountains rose. It is called
"mountain building" or "orogeny." Some of it occurred during the Flood,
and some just after it ended.
There are not only volcanic mountains, caused by the many volcanoes at
that time, but also "folded mountains," caused by the intense pressures
which occurred during the sinking of the basins and the rising of the
continents.
The great pressures also caused immense cracks in the ground, which
produced volcanoes. There are over 10,000 extinct ones in our world
today. It was during, and just after, the Flood that they were
exploding.
The dust that they shot into the air, cooled the entire planet for a
number of years. This caused freezing at the poles, and the beginning of
glaciers (huge, moving sheets of ice) that spread outward. At one time,
northern Asia, all of Canada, and about a fourth of the United States
were covered by glacial ice.
During that time, the northern and southern portions of the world were too cold to live in. But the central area, by the equator, had abundant rainfall, and lush plant growth. The conditions there were ideal for growing crops. Whereas, before the Flood, there were palm trees and tropical plants and animals in the polar regions (geologists have found their fossils), so also evidences of abundant vegetation have been found in the Saharas, where it grew for a time after the Flood. =^..^=
