Vernon,
I only have time now to respond to a couple of your statements.
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> (3) Had you not considered the possibility that the Antediluvian earth
> might have been a smoother sphere than it is now? That deep ocean basins
> that now exist might have resulted from events accompanying the Flood?
> And that that is where the water went?
Genesis 2 draws us a map to tell us the geographical location of the
Garden of Eden and mentions lands and rivers that still exist. This would
be utterly pointless if the earth had a substantially different geography
from what it does now. What you are proposing is the flood geology that
has been widely propagated due to the efforts of Henry Morris and his
followers for the last forty years. Morris took his flood theory from the
writings of Seventh Day Adventist writer George McCready Price, who in
turn was basing his beliefs on a vision of the Flood reported by SDA
founder Ellen G. White. I do not consider Mrs. White to be an authority on
any such thing, and I utterly reject anything she said that conflicts with
the Bible.
> (4) Again, to assume that polar ice sheets were around at the time of
> the Flood seems quite unjustified.
That depends on when the Flood was. The ice sheets have not been floated
for hundreds of thousands of years.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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