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The Genesis Flood : the Biblical record and its scientific implications / by John C. Whitcomb, Jr. and Henry M. Morris ; Foreword by John C. McCampbell.
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Whitcomb, John C., Jr., 1924-2020
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English
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Philadelphia : Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1961.
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xxv, 518 pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BS658 .W5 1961
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Deluge
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Morris, Henry M. (Henry Madison), 1918-2006
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8vo. rdabf
Summary note
Standard scientific and Biblical defence of seven day creation and Biblical flood.
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Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Basic arguments for a universal flood : The depth of the flood ; The duration of the flood : Twenty-one weeks of “prevailing” ; Thirty-one weeks of “assuaging”. The geology of the flood ; The size of the ark ; The need for an ark ; The testimony of the apostle Peter ; The total destruction of a widely-distributed human race : The total destruction of humanity ; The extensive distribution of the antediluvian race
Basic arguments against an anthropologically universal flood : Indians in America before the flood : The Babylonian flood account ; The presupposition of age determination methods. All mankind not descended from Noah’s family : The sons of Noah ; The table of nations; The Bible and racial distribution ; Anthropology and racial distribution
Basic non-geological arguments against a universal flood : Universal terms used in a limited sense : Most universal terms are to be interpreted literally ; The context determines the meaning ; Universal terms are literal in Genesis 6-9 because of the physical phenomena. Noah and the animals : Gathering the animals to the ark ; The capacity of the ark ; Caring for the animals in the ark ; The “natural-supernatural” philosophy of miracles. Postdiluvian animal distribution : Three major views ; Australian marsupials ; Rapid animal dispersion
Uniformitarianism and the flood: a study of attempted harmonizations : Cuvier’s catastrophism and the diluvium theory : Cuvier’s multiple catastrophism ; Buckland’s diluvium theory. Lyell’s uniformitarianism and the tranquil theory : The rise of uniformitarianism ; The tranquil theory ; The language of Scripture ; The imperiling of the ark ; The olive leaf. John Pye Smith and the local flood theory : The birth of the theory ; Sir Leonard Woolley and the “flood stratum” at Ur ; The local flood theory and uniformitarian geology
Modern geology and the Deluge : Geological implications of the Biblical record : Tremendous erosion from rainfall ; Clouds not the source of the deluge rains ; Enlarged ocean basins ; Volcanic and seismic upheavals ; Unprecedented sedimentary activity ; Ideal conditions for fossil formation ; Uniformitarianism undermined by the flood. Basic harmony of the field data and the Biblical inferences : Nature of sedimentary strata ; More water in the present oceans ; Volcanism ; Earth movements ; Fossilization. The uniformitarian interpretation of geology : The present: the key to the past ; Organic evolution ; The geologic time-table ; Methods of resolving contradictions. The inadequacy of uniformity to explain the strata : Volcanism and igneous rocks ; Earth movements ; Continental ice sheets ; Phenomena of sedimentation ; Fossil graveyards. Contradictions in the uniformitarian system : Misplaced fossils ; Living fossils ; Formations out of sequence
A Scriptural framework for historical geology : The Scriptural divisions of geologic history : The initial creation itself ; The work of the six days of creation The Antediluvian period ; The Deluge ; The modern post-Deluge period. The beginning of creation : The origin of the solar system ; The origin of the universe ; The primeval Earth. The scientific basis of creation : The first and second laws of thermodynamics ; The unique processes of creation ; The entropy principle and evolution. The geologic work of creation week : The first day ; The second day ; The third day. Creation of “appearance of age” : Modern rejection of this Biblical doctrine ; The “steady-state” cosmology ; The “eternal oscillation” cosmology ; Importance of the doctrine of a “grown creation”. The world that then was : “Waters above the firmament” ; No rainfall before the flood ; Little volcanic or tectonic activity. Geologic evidences of antediluvian climate : Universally warm climate ; The supposed Permian glaciation ; Explanations of climatic change ; The “greenhouse effect” ; The antediluvian vapor blanket. Overflowed with water : The destructive power of modern river floods ; Destructive power of ocean waves ; Sedimentation and fossilization during the flood. Emergence of the lands : New atmospheric movements ; Isostatic readjustments. The order of the strata : Tectonic origin of continental blocks ; Sequence of stratified beds ; Early burial of marine creatures ; Hydrodynamic selectivity of moving water ; Higher mobility of the vertebrates ; Burial of land animals and plants ; Formation of coal beds ; The “Mesozoic” strata and the dinosaurs. The final flood deposits : Tertiary stratigraphy ; Mammals as index fossils ; Uplifts of the Pliocene ; Continuing abnormal conditions. Post-Deluge geologic activity : Freezing of arctic soils ; Siberian mammoth beds. The Glacial period : Onset of the Ice Age ; Ice-Age theories ; The flood and the glacial period ; The theory of multiple glaciations ; The evidence for only one glaciation. The end of the Ice Age : Sudden warming of the climate ; Atmospheric carbon dioxide. Residual effects of the Deluge period : Continuing volcanic and tectonic disturbances ; Enclosed lake basins and raised beaches ; Raised river terraces ; Evidence of former lower sea levels
Problems in Biblical geology : Methods and results of geochronology ; The lead age methods : Experimental difficulties ; Original lead ; Leaching ; Lead isotope methods ; Radiogenic lead contamination ; Other methods ; Discordant ages. The rubidium method ; The potassium method ; The significance of the radioactivity data ; The fact of a “grown” creation and “apparent age” ; Variations in the decay rates : Supposed invariability ; The decay processes ; Alpha-decay and the potential barrier ; External energy sources ; Cosmic radiation ; The Van Allen radiation belt. Agreement of ages from different methods : Creation of accordant “apparent ages” ; Concordant changes in decay rates ; Pleochroic halos. Supposed correlation of radioactivity and stratigraphic ages : Extent of agreement ; Cause of apparent limited agreement. Astronomic methods of age measurement ; The radiocarbon dating of recent deposits : Assumptions in the method. Carbon 14 and the Deluge : Antediluvian radiocarbon proportions ; Postdiluvian radiocarbon proportions. Contradictions in geochronology : Meteoritic dust ; Meteorite radioactivity ; Tektites ; Disintegration of comets ; Atmospheric helium ; Salt in the sea ; Juvenile water ; Crustal accretion. Post-Deluge chronology : Tree rings ; Origin of postdiluvian civilizations ; Population statistics. Antediluvian longevity and radiation : Effect of canopy on longevity ; Somatic effects of radiation ; Genetic effects of radiation ; Decrease in life-span after precipitation of canopy. Formations implying slow deposition : Deposition and lithification ; Coral reefs ; Deep-sea sediments ; Evaporites ; Cave deposits ; Buried forests. Varved deposits : Difficulties in varve interpretation ; Green river formation ; Other causes of lamination. Origin of oil and mineral deposits : Uniformitarianism and petroleum geology ; Stratigraphic occurrence of oil ; Formation of petroleum deposits ; Rapid formation of petroleum pools ; Origin of ore and mineral deposits. Modern significance of the Genesis flood : Bankruptcy of uniformitarianism ; Importance of the question ; Two basic philosophies ; Theistic evolution rejected ; Evolution, communism and humanism ; Evolution and education ; Biblical Christianity and evolutionary philosophy ; The scientific weakness of the evolutionary hypothesis ; Strategic role of historical geology ; The prophetic testimony of Scripture
Paleontology and the Edenic curse : Anthropology and the fall ; The animal kingdom and the fall : The bondage of corruption ; Adam’s dominion over animals ; Vegetarian diet before the fall ; The Edenic curse and structural changes. The plant kingdom and the fall ; The balance of nature and harmonistic theodicy
Genesis 11 and the date of the flood : Genesis 11 need not be interpreted as strict chronology : The numbers of years are not totalled ; The name and years of Cainan do not appear in the Hebrew text ; Genesis 5 and 11 are perfectly symmetrical in form ; Information is given concerning each patriarch which is irrelevant to a strict chronology ; The postdiluvian patriarchs could not have been contemporaries of Abraham ; The Bible implies a great antiquity for the Tower of Babel ; The Messianic links were seldom firstborn sons ; The term “begat” sometimes refers to ancestral relationships. Genesis 11 cannot be stretched beyond certain limits : The analogy of Biblical chronology ; The dating of the Tower of Babel ; The patriarchs and the “Old Stone Age” ; The Babylonian flood traditions.
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