House of Truth Ministries
November 2020
House of Truth Ministries is about sharing the Gospel in various venues.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)
November 2020
House of Truth Ministries is about sharing the Gospel in various venues.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)
We did not participate at the Fullerton Farmers’ Market this year as only food vendors were allowed due to COVID-19.
Below is the second part of Bruce Herdrich’s two-part article on the evidence for Noah’s flood.
Below is the second part of Bruce Herdrich’s two-part article on the evidence for Noah’s flood.
Examining Evidence for the Flood of Noah’s Day
As stated in a previous article, Bible believers can test God’s Scriptures against itself for consistency, and may verify some of its recorded historical events with clues remaining from an event’s aftermath that defy alternative explanations contrary to the Biblical account. These verifying observations are limited by the capacities of current archeology and science for rediscovery and measurement.
One extraordinary event is the flood of Noah’s day, which the Bible historically records as covering the entire Earth in Genesis 7:17-24. There are 10 features of today’s world that indicate this flood really did cover the entire Earth.
1: Abundance of water on the Earth today. Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, much of it deep, with the ocean’s deepest floor at the Mariana Trench at 36,000 ft below sea level being over a mile deeper than the height of the world’s tallest mountain above sea level. If the world’s tallest mountains were leveled off near their bases and thrown into the ocean, the displacement of water would cause the entire surface of the world to be flooded again to a deep level. During the flood, the tallest mountains were likely lower than today’s mountains.
2: Marine/ fish fossils are at the top of all of today’s highest mountains worldwide.1
3: Modern fossil formation is rare as unburied corpses decay or are scavenged before they fossilize. Ancient fossils of complete large animals found at high elevations exist only because they were rapidly buried in thick layers of mud, that could only be caused by a huge flood or volcanic eruption. Polystrate fossils of upright tall trees completely entombed in multiple layers of mud also demonstrate this. Genesis 7:11 says the fountains of the great deep burst open during Noah’s flood, which describes erupting volcanoes, which typically emit a lot of steam. 2 3
4: The huge transcontinental – transoceanic continuous sedimentary layers in today’s earth, with no signs of erosion between the layers, must have been deposited around the same time by a huge flood and post flood run-off. Separated local floods could not have perfectly matched up the layers from one region to the next with no breaks between them, especially if they occurred at different times. 4-7
5: Transport of huge boulders across the Lake Missoula scablands, and multiple horizontal lines of volcanic ash deposits along exposed ground around the former lake’s shorelines is acknowledged to have been caused by an energetic flood. 8 Some refuse to believe it was a single flood. But the multiple ash lines, rhythmites, at different levels in the hillsides, are because the highest elevation line was deposited near the peak of the flood from the settling of ash of a volcanic eruption, while lower lines were deposited during the continued or subsequent eruption(s) while the lake level was receding from evaporation of the single flood. The spaces between the lines are merely a lapse in time between eruptions during lake evaporation, or a temporary wind shift in the opposite direction during a continuous eruption, blowing the ash cloud to another location for a while. Assumption laden radiometric dating of various rock layer levels cannot determine when the ash lines were deposited. How unlikely a coincidence it would be that the 80 or so ash lines were each deposited from 80 different floods widely separated in time, with each occurring while a volcano was erupting. A single large flood is much more likely.
6: The onset of any ice age, let alone a single Ice Age, is a mystery to scientists as to what could have caused it on our Earth. There are no models which satisfactorily simulate the emergence of possible conditions leading to an ice age. The only exception is, that of vast ocean heating caused by numerous volcanic eruptions at the ocean’s floors, which were some of the fountains of the great deep bursting open as described in the Genesis account of Noah’s flood. After the flood, these warmed oceans with so much energy, evaporated huge amounts of water into the sky as snow clouds. Much snow fell which accumulated from year to year as each summer’s sunshine was blocked by the clouds of volcanic ash thus inhibiting melting of the snow. Thus the global flood explains the ice age.9 10
7: The current number of all humans is within the range expected, if the world was re-populated from only the three families of Noah’s three sons and their wives who survived the flood on the Ark with Noah and his wife, about 4,500 years ago. This is based on birth and death rates and spacings accounting for numerous factors. 11
8: Chinese character for boat is that of 8 people in a vessel, matching Noah’s story
9: There are numerous flood legends across the many cultures of the world. 12
10: Remains of human cities found underwater around the world today, and legends of the lost continent of Atlantis, testify of a huge sudden flood. 13
There may be many more evidences of Noah’s flood, but the occasional rainbow we see after a rainfall reminds us of God’s promise to never destroy the Earth by a flood again. If Noah’s flood was not a global flood that covered and destroyed the entire Earth, then God has lied and broken His promise every time a large flood has occurred since the time of Noah. But God is truthful, as is His Word.
This article’s author, Bruce Herdrich, is one of the board members of House of Truth Ministries
References
1. High & Dry Sea Creatures. Dr. Andrew Snelling.
https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/fossil-record/high-dry-sea-creatures/
2. Embracing Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 45 Issue 5 pg. 11
3. Flood Evidence from Sea Levels and Strontium Dr. Vernon Cupps. Acts & Facts Volume 49 Issue 3 pg. 11
4. Palo Canyon Rock showcases Genesis Flood. Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 47 Issue 7 pg. 10
5. Resolving the Sheet Sand Enigma. Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 46 Issue 11 pg. 14
6. A Rock-Based Global Sea Level Curve Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 2 pg. 9
7. European Stratigraphy Supports a Global Flood Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 12 pg. 10
8. https://creation.com/only-one-lake-missoula-flood
9. The Bible Best Explains the Ice Age. Dr. Jake Herbert. Acts & Facts Volume 47 Issue 11 pg. 10-11 https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af1811.pdf
10. Subduction was essential for the Ice Age Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 3 pg. 9
11. Six Biological Evidences for a Young Earth. Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins . Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 5 . (Evidence #6) pg. 12.
12. Flood Legends From Around the World. http://nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html
13. 8 Mysterious Underwater Ruins of Lost Civilizations. https://medium.com/@humanoriginproject/8-mysterious-underwater-ruins-of-lost-civilizations-8f83aee6b117
This article’s author, Bruce Herdrich, is one of the board members of House of Truth Ministries
As stated in a previous article, Bible believers can test God’s Scriptures against itself for consistency, and may verify some of its recorded historical events with clues remaining from an event’s aftermath that defy alternative explanations contrary to the Biblical account. These verifying observations are limited by the capacities of current archeology and science for rediscovery and measurement.
One extraordinary event is the flood of Noah’s day, which the Bible historically records as covering the entire Earth in Genesis 7:17-24. There are 10 features of today’s world that indicate this flood really did cover the entire Earth.
1: Abundance of water on the Earth today. Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, much of it deep, with the ocean’s deepest floor at the Mariana Trench at 36,000 ft below sea level being over a mile deeper than the height of the world’s tallest mountain above sea level. If the world’s tallest mountains were leveled off near their bases and thrown into the ocean, the displacement of water would cause the entire surface of the world to be flooded again to a deep level. During the flood, the tallest mountains were likely lower than today’s mountains.
2: Marine/ fish fossils are at the top of all of today’s highest mountains worldwide.1
3: Modern fossil formation is rare as unburied corpses decay or are scavenged before they fossilize. Ancient fossils of complete large animals found at high elevations exist only because they were rapidly buried in thick layers of mud, that could only be caused by a huge flood or volcanic eruption. Polystrate fossils of upright tall trees completely entombed in multiple layers of mud also demonstrate this. Genesis 7:11 says the fountains of the great deep burst open during Noah’s flood, which describes erupting volcanoes, which typically emit a lot of steam. 2 3
4: The huge transcontinental – transoceanic continuous sedimentary layers in today’s earth, with no signs of erosion between the layers, must have been deposited around the same time by a huge flood and post flood run-off. Separated local floods could not have perfectly matched up the layers from one region to the next with no breaks between them, especially if they occurred at different times. 4-7
5: Transport of huge boulders across the Lake Missoula scablands, and multiple horizontal lines of volcanic ash deposits along exposed ground around the former lake’s shorelines is acknowledged to have been caused by an energetic flood. 8 Some refuse to believe it was a single flood. But the multiple ash lines, rhythmites, at different levels in the hillsides, are because the highest elevation line was deposited near the peak of the flood from the settling of ash of a volcanic eruption, while lower lines were deposited during the continued or subsequent eruption(s) while the lake level was receding from evaporation of the single flood. The spaces between the lines are merely a lapse in time between eruptions during lake evaporation, or a temporary wind shift in the opposite direction during a continuous eruption, blowing the ash cloud to another location for a while. Assumption laden radiometric dating of various rock layer levels cannot determine when the ash lines were deposited. How unlikely a coincidence it would be that the 80 or so ash lines were each deposited from 80 different floods widely separated in time, with each occurring while a volcano was erupting. A single large flood is much more likely.
6: The onset of any ice age, let alone a single Ice Age, is a mystery to scientists as to what could have caused it on our Earth. There are no models which satisfactorily simulate the emergence of possible conditions leading to an ice age. The only exception is, that of vast ocean heating caused by numerous volcanic eruptions at the ocean’s floors, which were some of the fountains of the great deep bursting open as described in the Genesis account of Noah’s flood. After the flood, these warmed oceans with so much energy, evaporated huge amounts of water into the sky as snow clouds. Much snow fell which accumulated from year to year as each summer’s sunshine was blocked by the clouds of volcanic ash thus inhibiting melting of the snow. Thus the global flood explains the ice age.9 10
7: The current number of all humans is within the range expected, if the world was re-populated from only the three families of Noah’s three sons and their wives who survived the flood on the Ark with Noah and his wife, about 4,500 years ago. This is based on birth and death rates and spacings accounting for numerous factors. 11
8: Chinese character for boat is that of 8 people in a vessel, matching Noah’s story
9: There are numerous flood legends across the many cultures of the world. 12
10: Remains of human cities found underwater around the world today, and legends of the lost continent of Atlantis, testify of a huge sudden flood. 13
There may be many more evidences of Noah’s flood, but the occasional rainbow we see after a rainfall reminds us of God’s promise to never destroy the Earth by a flood again. If Noah’s flood was not a global flood that covered and destroyed the entire Earth, then God has lied and broken His promise every time a large flood has occurred since the time of Noah. But God is truthful, as is His Word.
This article’s author, Bruce Herdrich, is one of the board members of House of Truth Ministries
References
1. High & Dry Sea Creatures. Dr. Andrew Snelling.
https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/fossil-record/high-dry-sea-creatures/
2. Embracing Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 45 Issue 5 pg. 11
3. Flood Evidence from Sea Levels and Strontium Dr. Vernon Cupps. Acts & Facts Volume 49 Issue 3 pg. 11
4. Palo Canyon Rock showcases Genesis Flood. Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 47 Issue 7 pg. 10
5. Resolving the Sheet Sand Enigma. Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 46 Issue 11 pg. 14
6. A Rock-Based Global Sea Level Curve Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 2 pg. 9
7. European Stratigraphy Supports a Global Flood Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 12 pg. 10
8. https://creation.com/only-one-lake-missoula-flood
9. The Bible Best Explains the Ice Age. Dr. Jake Herbert. Acts & Facts Volume 47 Issue 11 pg. 10-11 https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af1811.pdf
10. Subduction was essential for the Ice Age Dr. Tim Clarey. Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 3 pg. 9
11. Six Biological Evidences for a Young Earth. Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins . Acts & Facts Volume 48 Issue 5 . (Evidence #6) pg. 12.
12. Flood Legends From Around the World. http://nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html
13. 8 Mysterious Underwater Ruins of Lost Civilizations. https://medium.com/@humanoriginproject/8-mysterious-underwater-ruins-of-lost-civilizations-8f83aee6b117
This article’s author, Bruce Herdrich, is one of the board members of House of Truth Ministries
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