From: bpayne15@juno.com
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 22:34:04 EDT
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:43:22 -0500 Craig Rusbult <craig@chem.wisc.edu>
writes:
>
> Is there any plausible theory to explain the flood in Genesis 6-9?
> It seems that serious problems exist for every proposed theory:
> With a global flood there should be significant empirical effects
> (not as much as claimed by flood geology theories, but significant
> anyway) but we don't see these effects. There are MAJOR problems
> with conventional young-earth theories of flood geology which claim to
explain *almost all* of the
> geological record,fossil record, and biogeography.
> But I'm not satisfied with any theories (global or local) about
> the flood, and this is bothering me, and I would appreciate any
> information you can provide (URLs for good web-pages, for archived
> ASA discussions,...) about this.
Hi Craig,
I've had a similar bother over the years. As to a plausible theory to
trigger the flood, you might consider Tom Van Flandern's "Exploded Planet
Hypothesis" (search for Meta Research site). If there was a planet from
which the asteroids were derived, and if that planet had water, and if
that planet broke up, a large amount of water could have come our way
from space. Van Flandern tries to correlate the mass extinctions on
earth with events in space. He also says that comets, which contain
large amounts of water (dirty snowballs), resulted from planetary
fragments being flung into a long ellipitical orbit.
You can search the archives here to find discussions I have had over the
years concerning coal, which I am convinced is a flood deposit or
deposits, rather than swamp deposits as most geologists assume. The data
drives me to conclude that either the earth was flooded multiple times,
or that the geologic time scale is in error and there was one flood
responsible for all of the coal deposits from at least the Pennsylvannian
through the Tertiary. To insist that coal came from swamps puts enormous
strains on the data.
Bill
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