Ill Wind From Eden

With the sudden collapse of this vast canopy, untold billions of tons of water deluged the earth. This great added weight might have caused tremendous changes in the earth’s surfaces. The earth’s crust is very thin, estimated at between 20 miles (32 kilometers) and 100 miles (161 kilometers) thick, stretched over a rather plastic mass thousands of miles in diameter. Hence, under the added weight of the water, great shifts in the crust likely occurred. In time, new mountains evidently were thrust upward, old mountains rose to new heights, shallow sea basins were deepened, and new shorelines were established, so that now, four-fifths of the surface is covered with water.

In the days of Noah, the Bible says, a great flood covered earth’s highest mountains and destroyed all human life that was outside the huge Ark that Noah built. (Genesis 7:1-24) Many have scoffed at this account. Yet, seashells are found on high mountains. The Bible says that even the highest mountains were covered with water. So, as already posed, where did all that water go after the deluge? It is right here on earth.

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The evidence is just what one would expect to result from the fall of a vast insulation moisture blanket. The polar regions were suddenly plunged into a deep freeze. Animals in or near those regions were trapped and frozen solid. Creatures overtaken elsewhere were buried in great numbers under earth and debris. No natural death, or drowning by ordinary means, nor death by disease can satisfactorily explain all this evidence. But an earth-wide flood accompanied by a drastic change in climate can.

Further evidence that a flood of immense proportions occurred in the not-too-distant past is the great number of fossils and carcasses deposited in icy, mucky dumps. The Saturday Evening Post noted: "Many of these animals were perfectly fresh, whole and undamaged, and still either standing or at least kneeling upright-- Here is a really shocking, to our previous way of thinking, picture. Vast herds of enormous, well-fed beasts not specifically designed for extreme cold, placidly feeding in sunny pastures-- Suddenly, they were killed without any visible sign of violence and before they could so much as swallow a last mouthful of food, and then were quick-frozen so rapidly that every cell of their bodies is perfectly preserved." ("Riddle of the Frozen Giants" by Ivan T. Sanderson, the Saturday Evening Post, January 16, 1960, pp. 82-83).