Re: hypothetical question about Noah's flood

Sheila,
I think you are not taking into account the broader requirements of a
global flood less than 6000 years ago. It has to be something that tore
up the primordial land and redeposited it in the strata now encountered.
That the Flood only lasted a year is, from the standpoint of geological
time, virtually nothing. But geological time is absolutely excluded from
consideration by all who hold to a global flood. The deluge was,
according to flood geology, catastrophic and cataclysmic. One thing
possibly suggested as a model is the length of time it took for the
atomic bombs to explode over Nagasaki and Hiroshima relative to the
extended existence of the cities. But it seems inadequate. Even
destruction times duration of the recent tsunami off the Indonesian coast
seems relatively close to zero compared to the destruction required and
yearlong duration of the Flood.

A major problem which we have in analysis is focusing on a single aspect
of a greater problem as if it were the crucial and major factor--tunnel
vision. There are always ramifications galore.
Dave

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Sheila Wilson
<sheila-wilson@sbcglobal.net> writes:
I understand your position but that wasn't my question. My question was,
if it did occur, what would we see. Purely hypothetical, no debate on
whether or not it happened.

These questions came after reading Chris Sharpe's essay on the age of the
universe and astromony. One significant point that he made was, if the
universe was only 6000 years old, we would not see most the stars because
they are too far away. The light didn't have time to get here. So what
would the earth look like if a global flood did occur? I don't think we
would see any geologic evidence of a global flood as described in
Genesis. In geologic time, it was instantaneous. Of course, volcanoes
are instantaneous and we can see lots of evidence of them. How deep of
sediment layer would we expect?

Any ideas?

Sheila
Received on Fri Jul 22 16:25:18 2005