The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch by Donald Wesley Patten

Author:Donald Wesley Patten
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

4. A Primordial (Hydrocarboniferous) Catastrophe Prior to the Flood

It is proposed that the antediluvian canopy condensed with the intrusion of particles of astral ice, and that this was one phase of the Flood catastrophe. This subject of the atmosphere of the Earth has a greater significance, and a more striking history, than any of the areas thus far presented. In Figures 6 through 12 in Chapter V (Orogenesis), a series of arcuate curves, spanning our globe, was given as one great evidence of a global cataclysm involving gravitational conflicts and tidal upheavals of magma. Figure 24 now gives a similar pattern, relative to the Appalachian Mountain uplift of the Eastern United States. Here again, the same pattern of arcuate uplifts occurs, lower, to be sure, but nevertheless comparable in alignment or pattern. Other mountain ranges, lower and more eroded, seem to be of this same era, including the Caledonian Mountains of Scotland and the Ural Mountains of Russia. These uplifts suggest that at least one earlier catastrophe, probably more, overtook the Earth prior to the age of the antediluvian world.

There are various reasons which serve as grounds for this suspicion. One is the orogenetic observation just mentioned. Another is our atmosphere. Our atmosphere today contains inert nitrogen, that is, N2. N2 comprises about 77% of our atmosphere, and it comprised nearly as much in the antediluvian age. Where did the nitrogen come from? The crust of our Earth — the rocks and volcanoes — contain no clue. Our Earth's oceans also contain no clue. Yet great oceans and atmospheres of nitrogen are found in various compounds such as ammonia, beyond the asteroids in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Compounds of nitrogen are also found in the trains of comets. They include ammonia, cyanogen, hydrides of nitrogen, ionized carbon monoxides, ionized hydroxyls, ionized nitrogen and various of the lighter hydrocarbons. Perhaps the Earth's nitrogen, like the ice, came from an extraterrestrial source in an earlier primeval catastrophe.

Furthermore, it is to be noticed that coal beds occur horizontally in broad series of strata, often alternating with shales, sometimes limestones. Sometimes there are fifty or more alternating layers. [5] The Appalachians are replete with examples. Sometimes the layers are a few inches thick; occasionally they are many feet. But they seem to have been laid down horizontally. They seem to have been laid down through fluid mechanisms. They seem to have been laid down alternately. They seem to have been laid down by similar mechanisms from continent to continent, and on something approaching a global basis. Again it seems that tidal mechanisms were involved.

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