EVIDENCE FOR THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD OF NOAH’S DAY AND A YOUNG EARTH

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Hugh Ross is trying to rewrite the biblical account of the flood. In this episode of Answers News, the hosts, Bryan Osborne, Avery Foley, and Dr. Terry Mortenson, share their perspectives on this topic as Bible-believing Christians.

Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (Christianity-defending) ministry dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ effectively.

‘Progressive creationists’ like Dr Hugh Ross,2 who insist on interpreting Genesis in the light of man’s theories like the ‘big bang’, and the supposed ‘proof’ of an old earth (billions of years), insist that those who teach a young earth and literal Genesis 1–11 are the ones putting a stumbling block in the way of scientists and others accepting the Gospel message. However, time and time again, we have found that the opposite is true. Compromising Genesis with man’s ideas from outside of Scripture opens the door to this ‘slippery slide of unbelief’. It becomes a major stumbling block to people being receptive to God’s Word and the Gospel. Unbelievers are generally unimpressed when they see Christians clearly evading the obvious meaning of the beginning of God’s Word.

Your faith will be strengthened by listening to Dr Terry Mortenson defend a young earth by presenting the evidence for Noah’s worldwide flood and the billions of dead things buried all over the world including fossil fuels formed from all the vegetation that was buried.

It is important to remember that Jesus spoke of Noah’s flood when he was telling His disciples about His second coming to earth. He believed that Noah’s flood was worldwide killing all but the eight people on the Ark.

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:36-39

Moreover, many of the things Jesus said would occur at this time have played out already exactly as He said they would. After Jesus return to earth to rescue Israel at the battle of Armageddon, His Millennial Kingdom is next on God’s agenda for planet earth. Go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net to prepare to rule and reign with Jesus for the next 1,000 years.

GEOLOGY THAT CONFIRMS A YOUNG EARTH

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The account of Earth history that is currently popular in secular academia says that Earth’s surface has been shaped over billions of years by slow geological processes. But there is another, ancient, account of Earth history which says that its surface was shaped by a catastrophic, planet-wide flood—just a few thousand years ago. You might be surprised to hear that there are, in fact, many scientists who believe this latter account, maintaining that it is the best fit for a plethora of evidence from across the globe. In this interview, you’ll hear from one such scientist—geomorphologist, Dr Ron Neller—as he discusses five very famous landforms from around the globe, and how they bear witness to a recent global Flood.

MORE EVIDENCE CONFIRMS DINOSAURS BURIED IN NOAH’S FLOOD ABOUT 4000 YEARS AGO

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In 2005 the first popularized find of dinosaur soft tissue rocked the scientific world, and many refused to believe it was real, despite the evidence, because “soft tissue can’t last that long.” But subsequent studies, including a brand-new one, have confirmed that, yes, the soft tissue is original to the fossil.

In this new study, researchers used advanced mass spectrometry and protein sequencing to detect bone collagen in a well-preserved hip bone from an Edmontosaurus uncovered in the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This unexpected find is encouraging other researchers to pull fossils out of storage and look at them with these new technologies. And why? The experts hope they will uncover the biochemical pathways that enabled the preservation of organic compounds over millions of years. How these proteins could remain for millions of years is a big mystery. Evolutionists try as they might, have yet to be able to present a plausible explanation for the existence of soft tissue in supposedly ancient fossils.

A better interpretation starts with God’s Word. The fossils aren’t millions of years old—they are only about 4,350 years old. They are a stark reminder of God’s judgment on a sin-filled world but also of his mercy in preserving Noah, his family, and two of every kind of land animal (seven pairs of some) onboard the ark.

MORE EVIDENCE FOR A YOUNG EARTH

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In this video clip “Mountains After the Flood”, geologists John Whitmore and Andrew Snelling talk with Del Tackett about the importance of their research project in the Grand Canyon. They discuss creation science and why it provides answers to evidence not found in the conventional scientific paradigm. This four-minute segment shows convincing evidence that the Coconino Sandstone was laid down by a catastrophic flood. This formation spreads across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Make sure you watch the entire film to see the fascinating results of their research.

GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR WORLDWIDE FLOOD

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The Bible teaches a worldwide Flood. It destroyed all people and land vertebrates off the Ark. Many creatures were buried quickly, forming fossils all around the world. But could the fossils be the result of local floods instead of a global Flood? In many cases, this is not possible because they are in rock layers covering huge areas—rocks clearly laid down catastrophically by water.

Sometimes they span whole continents and even across different continents around the world. Geologists use the term mega sequence for some of them (mega is Greek for ‘big’). If the layers are extremely wide, then whatever caused them must also have been extremely wide. Let’s see some examples from around the world.

One of the most famous natural wonders in the USA is the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. It is 446 km (277 miles) long, over 1.6 km (1 mile) deep, and 6.4 km (4 miles) to 29 km (18 miles) wide. Standing on one rim and looking at the opposite wall, the layers of rock look like a giant stack of pancakes.

One of the easiest layers to spot is the almost-white Coconino Sandstone. From the other side, it looks thin (arrow, pictured below). But it is actually about 96 m (315 ft) thick. It is so wide that it covers 519,000 km² (200,000 square miles)—almost twice the size of Colorado! It contains 41,700 km³ (10,000 cubic miles) of sand.

Where did all this sand come from, and how did it get there? The sandstone has slanting lines, called crossbeds (‘fossil’ sand dunes). The slope is at a particular angle—the angle of a sand slope under water. The crossbeds are so large that deep flowing water, covering a vast area, must have formed them.

In my own city of Sydney, Australia there is another large formation. It is called the Hawkesbury Sandstone, or just Sydney Sandstone. The sandstone is quite hard and strong, and it was used for many of Sydney’s public buildings.

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The Sydney Sandstone is 350 km (220 miles) long, 250 km (150 miles) wide, and nearly 300 m (1,000 ft) thick in places. This also contains large crossbeds. One secular geologist said that the sandstone was deposited by huge waves of water mixed with sand. How big? 250 km (150 miles) wide—about the same as the sandstone deposit—and 20 m (66 ft) high, travelling about 100 km (60 miles) per hour. We don’t see them happening now. But the worldwide Flood of Noah’s day when God first poured out His wrath upon this earth explains them.

God tells us that in the last days before Jesus’ second coming to earth to rescue His Saints before pouring out His wrath on Earth once again, people will deny that the worldwide flood of Noah’s day that destroyed mankind (except 8 people) ever happened.

“You should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these, the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.” 2 Peter 3:2-6

People you need to accept God exists and you can know Him. He tells us we are without excuse. Look at the following Scripture: God tells us, we just need to look around us, take a look in any garden at the beautiful flowers.

“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

Also, fulfilled Bible prophecies should be enough for you to believe that all the two thousand prophecies of Jesus second coming to earth will be fulfilled as well. You need to know that these Bible prophecies tell us that we are not too far from Jesus’ second coming and the second time God pours out His wrath upon an unrepentant lawless world.

I know that Jesus returns first to take believers in Him to heaven before God pours out His wrath upon the world. I will be one of those who is saved. What about you? If you want to know how to get saved then go to either of these two websites http://www.answersingenesis.com or http://www.creation.com.

EXPLORING A CATASTROPHE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

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Most visitors to geological parks don’t connect the rocks with Noah’s Flood. But that global cataclysm immediately came to mind when Dr. Felix Wong first went on a commercial-guided geological tour of Hong Kong. He told me:

The ‘geotour’ guides were showing us where a supervolcano had erupted, and water levels had increased catastrophically in the past. These secular guides did not seem to appreciate how this evidence for geological catastrophe impacted geology on a continent-wide scale, let alone global. Despite this evidence, they continued to explain the rocks purely from the perspective of uniformitarianism. This assumes that geological processes in the past were essentially the same as in the present. So, everything must be explained from a ‘slow and gradual’ standpoint, over great ages of time. An occasional local catastrophe can be invoked, but it is made to fit into this overall multi-million-year scheme.

Asked why he now spends time showing people evidence that Earth’s past was much more violent, he said: It is very much a personal motivation. If long ages from a ‘slow and gradual’ standpoint cannot be backed up by evidence, then the worldwide geological record, with all the death and violence observable in it, would be the catastrophic evidence of the global Genesis Flood—as identified by creationist geologists. Whereas if the long-age ideas were real, the death and violence we see in the fossil record would not have been the consequence of sin because these would have been in the world long before there were any humans. The whole message of the Gospel, and the credibility of Jesus Himself, who showed that He believed the events in Genesis really happened, including Noah’s Flood, would be undermined. This sort of evidence is life-changing.

Our main purpose is to help participants connect the rocks with the Bible, through an understanding of Noah’s Flood. The Flood ‘washes away’ the millions of years. I show how things that people have been taught take vast ages happened much more quickly and are found everywhere in the world, even in Hong Kong. Since 2019, we have run 78 tours with 1,800 participants in total. Most of our geotours have been in the eastern part of Hong Kong within the volcanic and sedimentary rock regions.

Besides the igneous rock, 15% of the land surface of Hong Kong is covered in layers of sedimentary rock. Felix explained:

Eroded from elsewhere, these sediments were transported and deposited by massive water flows into what geologists call sedimentary basins. Hong Kong has three of these basins: Tai Pang Wan Basin, Ap Chau Basin, and Pat Sin Leng Basin, with lengths of 30 km, 5 km, and 15 km (19, 3, and 9 miles) respectively. 

He pointed out that the geological features of these basins show that deposition was not a slow-and-gradual process:

For instance, the sedimentary rocks of the Tai Pang Wan Basin on Tung Ping Chau Island are at least 350 m (1,150 ft) thick, while the sedimentary rocks of Ma Shi Chau (Tolo Harbour Formation) are at least 500 m (1,650 ft).

Within the framework of the biblical Flood, such largescale sedimentary rocks would have been deposited during the early and late Inundatory Stage of Noah’s Flood. That is, when floodwaters rose upon the land. Then the exposed rocks would have been severely eroded during the Recessive Stage of the Flood, when the floodwaters were receding from the land back into the oceans. Such evidence can also be found from the exposed granite rocks which cover 35% of the land surface of Hong Kong. The receding water seriously eroded granite rocks into interesting forms including sea arches in Hong Kong.

HKCRM’s geotours have covered sedimentary rock regions including Tung Ping Chau of the Tai Pang Wan Basin (Fig 3), Ap Chau in the Ap Chau Basin (Fig. 4), and other sedimentary islands. The geotours examine mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, and breccia. In addition to these sediments, the deposited material also includes vegetation and animal remains in the form of fossils. Other features of interest include bedding details, recumbent folds (i.e., bent back on themselves by the force of water), and raindrop impressions. HKCRM’s geotours have covered granite rock regions, such as Po Toi Island. The exposed granite rocks were weathered by the receding floodwaters into interesting forms all over the island (fig. 5). When all these features are examined and explained, their relevance for past geological catastrophe becomes obvious and the participants on the tours are amazed.

God told us that in the last days prior to His return the world will deny God judged the world with the worldwide flood of Noah’s day and will be taken totally by surprise when He pours out His wrath once again on an unrepentant world.

“Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.” 2 Peter 3:3-6

Abstract from an article HONG KONG SUPERVOLCANO GEOTOUR by Neville Chamberlain in Creation Magazine Vol 45, Issue 3, 2023