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This continues my brief responses to 14 "biblical and scientific" items on a list, sent to me some years ago from a "progressive creationist", called: "Why the Genesis Flood Cannot Be Global". This essentially evolutionary model of origins teaches that the flood of Noah's day was just a local event. His reasons are neither scientific nor biblical. Here is part 3 of my
brief responses to his claims:
4. Genesis mentions no geographical place names beyond greater Mesopotamia until the tenth chapter.
No, it doesn’t, and one reason is that the names given before the tenth chapter are names given to places that are now buried under huge amounts of sedimentary layers. Peter refers to this in his second letter when he talks about the world that “then was”. Mesopotamia is not mentioned by name at all in the
first ten chapters.
Another reason is that the first ten chapters, since they were written afterwards, covered only the main areas of interest to Jewish lineage. Furthermore, we often assume that the rivers Euphrates and Tigris are the same ones mentioned in Genesis, but this is wrong. The present-day rivers were just renamed this,
probably by men at the time of Babel who had moved eastwards into the Plain of Shinar and who remembered, or had a record of, the names of the pre-flood bodies of water mentioned in Genesis 2. Besides, there was only one river at Eden (and it is unnamed), not two; but, there were four headwaters. A headwater is not a river.
5. Genesis 7:19f does not require the water to cover the highest mountains, rather only for water to fall upon, run over, or cover the
elevated hills.
This is absolutely wrong. A simple study of the Hebrew used here will verify that it does, in fact, require the mountains to be completely covered. The Hebrew word (kâcâh) used here means: to fill up hollows; to cover (for secrecy); to conceal, to hide; to overwhelm. Notice, too, that he accepts the fact
that the elevated hills are indeed covered. Since the same Hebrew word is used in both cases, why doesn’t he accept that the highest mountains were covered, too?!
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6. Genesis 8:4 does not require the ark to land on top of Mt. Ararat, rather only on the
hills of Ararat which cover an area exceeding 100,000 square miles.
I would agree that the ark landed in the “mountains of Ararat”. However, he had better hope that the ark is never discovered where it is believed by most to be, and where it has been reportedly sighted by many in the past - at the 13,000 - 16,000 ft. elevation on Mt. Ararat. I’m sure he realizes what
that would do to his theory. The discovery of the ark at that altitude - on any mountain - would most definitely provide conclusive evidence that the flood was indeed global.
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7. The earth does not contain enough water for a global flood.
It certainly appears that the existing water, even though it still covers almost three-fourths of the Earth’s surface, is not sufficient to rise to cover all the high mountains. But that is assuming that the mountains were always the height they are now. Here he is using evolutionary reasoning that says “the
present is the key to the past”. Of course there isn’t enough water now. That’s because the earth upon which we now live is vastly different from the one Adam walked on. If you remove all the sedimentary layers (laid down by the flood) and flatten out the mountains (forced up through massive, catastrophic plate movement in operation as a result of the fountains of the deep bursting forth and starting all the destruction), you have more than enough water to flood the whole
Earth.
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PS - Thank you for your continued prayers for John! As you know, the two types of chemo that have been tried have not worked at all. So, they have now approved something called "Y90", which are essentially injections directly into the liver. He was to have his liver "mapped" last Friday, and the first injection (of two) was to have started yesterday (Monday)! However, the
machine broke in the middle of the procedure on Friday, so everything is delayed again until it's fixed and they can resume the attempts.
PS - I have two brothers. Rob is my other one, who lives in MN. May I also ask you for prayer for him, one of their sons (also named John), and their daughter, Rachel. They all have Covid. Rob and John have both been hospitalized since before Thanksgiving. John is in serious condition still. Both are on oxygen, and John might be intubated soon.
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