Introduction

Notes:

The global flood of Noah's time, as described in the Bible (Genesis chapters 6-9), is a key tenet of Creationism. The rocks of the earth, as portrayed in the "geologic column", contain many fossils which document a large amount of animal death in the past. This "fossil record" is said to show that evolution has occurred. However, creationists believe that the global flood provides a better scientific explanation of these fossils and the formation of other large-scale geologic features of the earth.

The severity of the flood and its drastic effects on the physical characteristics of the earth are little appreciated. The flood not only destroyed the majority of all plant, animal, and human life, but transformed the earth from a more uniform tropical-like climate into one having the extremes of climate we have today (as the result of the water in the original "vapor canopy" above the earth being released at the start of the flood - Gen 7:11). The flood waters eroded the surface layers of the earth down to the basement rocks and redeposited all of this material. Vast floating mats of vegetation were buried, forming the coal and oil reserves we now find. Some creationists believe the continental plates of the earth were split apart at this time, separating an original supercontinent into the continents as we know them today. The collision of the plates caused mountain ranges to form.

All of this took place because "The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time" (Gen 6:5, NIV)

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