‘And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters. And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.’ (Genesis 7: 17-21)
Now consider examples of sedimentation found worldwide, some above and below the lie of the land. Of special note are the mountains of deposits found worldwide, often depicted on Google. For these mountains of sedimentation to occur, the waters had to be higher than the existing mountains worldwide. The evidence then shows a world-wide flood.
Then there is the Mount St Helens volcano eruption in Washington State in 1980 (third right picture above). In a matter days and weeks, layer after layer of lava lairs formed in front of the scientists studying the explosion. This demonstrated that the supposed millions of years necessary to lay down such formations are not necessarly a true fact of science.
After churchmen fell for heliocentrism in 1820, an evolved one by then, and a heliocentric meaning Bible, churchmen then had to go along with the 'science' that showed a long ages Earth. Soon we got the following:
In his 1913 book Galileo and his Condemnation, the Jesuit Fr Hull (1863-1952) gives us a demonstration of the propaganda used and the history of how the modernists made Noah’s Flood conform to the ‘advancement of science.’
‘Down to a generation or two ago it was the general belief of Christians that the deluge of Noah covered the whole Earth, and that it is so described in the most explicit terms in the Bible. Certain new considerations, mainly drawn from geology, led specialists to the contrary conclusion that the deluge was by no means universal, but was a comparatively local phenomenon; widespread enough to cover the area occupied by mankind at that time, but not much more. This view at first found considerable opposition in theological circles; partly because the restriction of the area of the flood was not as yet demonstrated beyond question, and partly because it ran counter to the literal text of the Scripture as universally understood by its interpreters. Fortunately, the view did not attain such sudden publicity as to cause a widespread sensation, and so no crisis arose. The partial-deluge-view gradually came to look more feasible, and the possibility of interpreting Scripture accordingly became more evident. The new view gradually filtered down from learned circles to the man in the street, so that nowadays the partiality of the deluge is a matter of commonplace knowledge among all educated Christians, and taught to the rising generation in elementary schools.’
How could local-floods, river sediments, sea sedimentation etc., result in such fossil-containing mountain layers at such heights in many countries of the Earth? ‘Local’ waters could not reach such heights as common sense will tell you. But a global flood as depicted in Genesis and Chinese history could have caused such mountains of sediments found worldwide. It tells us of a deluge of rain and months of waters bursting from under the Earth causing separations of lands and mountains to form world-wide before receding and leaving behind the landscapes and mountain high rock-forms as we now find them.Alas, 100 years after Fr Hull, we find the global Deluge depicted in Catholic Bibles not only as local, but that not all people were drowned:
‘Deluge. The great flood which covered the whole land or region in which Noe lived (Gen. 6:1-9:19). God sent this flood to destroy all men in this region because of their wickedness. Noe and his family alone were spared (Gen. 6:1-8). Scriptural scholars say that the flood did not necessarily cover the whole Earth as we know it today; some even hold that it not necessarily destroyed all the people on the Earth.’ ----- The Holy Bible: The Catholic Press Inc. Chicago, 1951.
So much for the dogma: ‘no salvation outside the Catholic Church (the Ark).
Why then, according to Genesis, did God tell Noah to build a massive Ark over many years, a barge, the dimensions of which are recorded in Genesis and known by modern shipbuilders to be the perfect dimensions for its purpose, a barge bigger than any modern cruise ship, just to spend a year afloat on a local flooded plain the size of a large lake when he and his family could have simply moved with horse and cart to a dry region in the same way as Moses was advised to move out of Egypt to save his people? Moreover, why did Genesis tell us Noah took so many animals, birds etc. in the Ark to preserve such kinds on Earth after the waters receded? If there were ‘regions’ that were not flooded, then surely the animals and birds on them would have made God’s order to Adam totally unnecessary.
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