The Search for Truth by Jaan Ranne

Author:Jaan Ranne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nat/Edu/Rel
Publisher: Elm Hill
Published: 2018-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

THE FLOOD

We often tend to think in uniformitarian ways. That is to say that the things we see going on now, have always happened the same way and the same rate. However, within the last number of years, a number of scientists have moved from a uniform model of earth history to the catastrophic model. This means that scientists are starting to believe that there were periods in earth history where things happened very quickly and then slowed down to present speeds. The Biblical account of the Flood is one area where catastrophists feel that it was indeed a good scientific possibility.

Local Flood or Global Flood

Often, when we hear mention of the Flood in the Bible we think of it as a local flood because we cannot imagine the entire earth being able to be covered by water. If we seriously look at the Biblical account of the flood, found in Genesis chapter 6 to 9, we see several reasons why it could not have been a local flood.

1. The language of Genesis 6:7 & 12 suggests a complete annihilation of people (except Noah and his family), land based animals, reptiles, and birds. A local flood has never carried out such complete destruction

2. Genesis 6:3 would indicate that from the time of God’s decision to destroy earth’s inhabitants to the time of the Flood was 120 years. He called on Noah very shortly after his decision to destroy air breathing life so Noah had 120 years to construct the ark. If it was only a local flood, you would think that in 120 years one could walk to high ground and safety. Just where could someone walk in 120 years? If we give a conservative figure of 10 miles/day (16km/day) in 120 years it would be possible to walk 438,000 miles (700,800 km) or 17 times around the world. That should be far enough away from any local flood.

3. In Genesis 7:11 we see that the flood started in Noah’s 600th year on the 17th day of the 2nd month . Then in Genesis 8:13 & 14 we see that Noah left the ark in the 601st year of his life on the 27th day of the 2nd month. That is more than one year aboard the ark. No local flood lasts that long.

4. Finally, evidence of sea creatures have been found on mountain peaks indicating that the mountains were once under water.

All of these reasons are very compelling to believe in a global flood

(Compare the Mississippi flood and Winnipeg floods)

Where Did The Water Come From?

One of the hardest things to get your head around is where did the water for a global flood come from. If it rained as hard as rainfall has ever been recorded, could we have enough rain to cover the mountains? The highest recorded rainfall ever is 5 inches/hr. If it rained consistently that hard for a period of 40 days we would get 10 feet/day and over 40 days we would have 400 feet of water.

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