Did the Noachian Flood Cause Global Catastrophe?

By Bill Jahns

Uniformitarianism is the foundational basis of evolutionary geology. This belief holds that the present is the key to the past. As nonsensical as it may seem, the bottom line of this view is that since a global flood is not now occurring in the present, it never happened in the past either. This teaching holds that sedimentary layers of strata covering most of the planet have been laid down at a uniform rate over billions of years.

Pioneer geologist James Hutton taught uniformitarianism as an article of faith.

Author Carl Dunbar sums up this belief in his book Historical Geology: “. . . Given sufficient time, processes now at work could account for all the geologic features of the Globe” (1969, p. 22).

Other authors state regarding uniformitarianism: “. . . The great thickness of the sediments . . . (is) the inevitable result of the long-continued operation of the slow erosion that we observe today” (Principles of Geology, 1968, p. 18).

But when the geologic strata and the fossil record are interpreted in light of what the Bible reveals, it becomes plain that many of the layered sedimentary rocks were in fact deposited in rapid succession rather than over eons of time (as evolutionists have long claimed). The natural history of the earth is in harmony with the biblical account in Genesis.

Noah’s Flood must have unleashed natural forces that have not been experienced since that time. Wind, rain and water raged over this planet during the great Flood. Winds of hurricane force and mountainous tidal waves must have roared over the earth. The fountains of the great deep would have sent streams of water gushing out of fissures in the ground.

Of course, this is far from the uniformitarian concept maintained by many geologists. In fact, globe-altering havoc was everywhere present. The earth and its geological features would never be the same again.

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