to make it more understandable. Some of the translations state, The water kept decreasing off the earth. That is not what happened. The Hebrew phrase, Halak-va-shub means the water was going and returning. When they tried to make it more readable, they totally lost the meaning of this passage. The water was not steadily decreasing, rather it was going and returning. Think back to the analogy where we filled your house full of water. If your house was three feet deep in water, and one side was picked up, all the water would rush to one end. Is it going to stay there? No, its going to slosh back up, and then come down, and then back up again. The water is going to be going and returning as it gradually looses its energy. If the mountains lifted up and the valleys sank down and became the oceans, the water would rush into the hole, and then tidal waves would rush back and forth across the ocean, causing secondary erosion. As Noah was calmly sitting in the ark, the tidal waves would race back and forth, and all of a sudden he hit bottom. He looked out and saw that all of the water was rushing away from him. He said, Yea, Lord! The flood is over! Can I get out? The Lord said, No Noah, stay right there son. The water
is coming back. A few days later, maybe it was a week, the water came back and moved the ark four or five miles. By then, Noah had apparently cut off the anchor stones, those big 9,000 pound rocks hanging over the side for ballast. The anchor stones were found four or five miles away from the boat, if Ron Wyatts discovery is Noahs ark.
The rock layers were bent and lifted up as shown in figure 5-36. After this, secondary erosion wiped the layer smooth and new layers were deposited on top, as shown in figure 5-37. That is why we find strange rock layers like Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Rock layers are found standing up. That is why there are dinosaur foot prints found at forty-five degree angles in the Red Rock Amphitheater outside Denver, Colorado. Dinosaur footprints are all over that place. Did dinosaurs walk on hillsides at a forty-five degree angle? No, the land was all flat. They laid their prints down, and then the ground was lifted up afterwards -- the mountains arose.
The textbooks state that it took billions of years to form the Grand Canyon. That is just not true. It was formed rapidly. Features such as those shown in figure 5-38, formed in ten minutes. A miniature version of that can be made in ten minutes out in your yard with a pile of dirt and a water hose. You could wash it away and leave features like that with John Wayne riding around or something like that. The tour guides will tell you that it took millions of years to form the Grand Canyon and the Bad Lands. How do you know that sir? He will say, Well, we only get about twelve inches of rain out here every year. You can tell by the hardness of the rock, and the amount of rain we get that it would take millions of years to make these Bad Lands. Well now sir, you are assuming that the rock hardness has always been the same. What if it was all soft mud, and there was 500 feet of water running through there? The Bad Lands could be formed in about fifteen minutes, couldnt it? Was it a little bit of water over lots of time, or was it lots of water over a little time? There is a big difference. Those places formed rapidly.
As I stated earlier, I believe that all of the continents were connected after the flood. People could walk anyplace in the world. If the ocean was lowered, you could walk anyplace in the world. For the first one-hundred years, the oceans were smaller, the continents were bigger, and the ice caps were huge, trapping lots of water. In the first one-hundred years of history after the flood, the Tower of Babel incident took place, and God confused the languages. The people spread out across the world could walk anywhere they wanted to go. As the water level rose because of the icecaps melting, they became trapped in certain regions. The people then developed peculiar traits. The Australian Aborigines have a small cap muscle; the Indians have higher cheek bones; and the Norwegians have blond hair. They all developed these peculiar traits as small inbreeding groups were trapped in localized areas after the flood.
The Bible says in Genesis 10:25, And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided... The earth was divided in the days of Peleg? Peleg was born one-hundred years after the flood. If you look at the longevity chart in chapter 1 (figure 1-6), you will notice that Noah begat Shem. Shem begat Arphaxad. Arphaxad begat Salah. Salah begat Eber, and Eber begat Peleg. Peleg was born one-hundred years after the flood. I think that it took one-hundred years for those icecaps to melt. It would take a long time for a big block of ice to melt. As the ice melted back from Kansas City, it left behind Drumlins, Terminal Moraines, and glaciers. This would take a long time. The bigger the block of ice, the longer that it takes to melt. Icebergs float around sometimes for five years before they melt in the ocean. Ice that reached all the way to Kansas City would take one-hundred years to melt back to Alaska. As it melted, it slowly raised the ocean level. That explains to me why we find underwater flat-top mountains called guyots. The mountains come up, and they are cut off flat 1,000 feet under water. This also explains why there is a continental shelf. At one time there was a beach way out there at the edge of the continental shelf. This also explains why there are so many legends of lost cities like Atlantis and Poseidon. I imagine that within the first few hundred years, cities were built close to the beach much as they do in Pensacola where I live. As the water kept coming up further and further, the cities had to be abandoned. Maybe this explains why there are some unusual features under water. In Bermuda, they have found large cut stones on the ocean
floor as if someone was constructing a building thirty feet under water. What appears to be a four-lane highway running off the Yucatan Peninsula has been found under the Gulf of Mexico. Who would build a highway under the Gulf of Mexico? Maybe it wasnt under the Gulf of Mexico, ...for in his days was the earth divided...
The purpose of this chapter is to give you an alternative to what you have been taught in school. The Bible warns us in I Timothy chapter 6 to be careful about what is so-called science. Evolution is not science! It has nothing to do with science. It should not be in the science textbooks. Statements like billion of years ago... is not scientifically provable and should not be in the textbooks. No one can prove that the world is billions of years old, but if you pick up any earth science textbook, it will tell you that the earth is billions of years old. That theme is all through the public school textbooks.
You should consider becoming a member of the textbook selection committee and vote against this unscientific data in our textbooks. If you need help, get Mel Gablers book, What Are They
Teaching Our Children? Mel Gabler and his crew research the public school textbooks. They
read and write a critique on each of them. If you want to help your county get good textbooks, contact the Gablers in Longview, Texas. They have already read every book and can tell you which ones are the best.
The Bible warns us in Colossians 2:8, to be careful to not be spoiled by philosophy. It states, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Evolution is a pagan philosophy that spoils us.
I will close with this picture (figure 5-39). It is a picture of a fish swallowing another fish; either that or the little one is a dentist. I cant tell for sure; anyway, its a fossil now of one fish half way down the throat of another fish. You know, neither one of those fish thought that they were going to die that day, did they? They were swimming along minding their business. The big one was eating the little one for lunch or supper, and the flood took place. Mud slides went everywhere; they were buried in the mud and then they both woke up dead. Hey, do you know that you are going to wake up dead someday? Now, think about this. Do you know that you are going to be dead longer than you are going to be alive? Think about that one! That means that you really ought to plan for when you are dead more than you plan for when you are alive because you are going to be there longer. Someday, you are going to be in a position for some people to stare at you from the top, while saying, I wander what he was thinking when he died? When you are dead, and it will happen to you, (its going to happen to me; I fully intend to die, but I want to make it the last thing that I ever do), what are you going to have to show for your life? When you get to heaven are you going to say, Hey Lord, you should see what I left behind. He is going to say, Yeah, I saw all of it. Will you say, Lord, I left behind a fancy car. He will say, Yep, you sure did, son. Maybe it will be, Lord, I had millions in the bank. He will say, Yep, you sure did. Look who has it now. What do you have now?
The Bible says that we are supposed to lay up treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not corrupt; where thieves do not break through and steal. How big is your mansion in heaven? What have you been sending ahead? What has God got to work with? We are going to lose everything down here because heaven and earth shall pass away. We need to lay up treasures in heaven.
There is a war going on, and you can become involved. You can send things ahead right now. You could win souls to Christ. If you cant get you a big one, get you a little one. Find somebody that will listen to you. Somebody will listen to you. Bring somebody to church with you this Sunday. Get involved!