Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PREF ACE TO THE SECOND PRINTING
PREF ACE TO THE SIXTH PRINTING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER I. 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 W1dely-D1smbuted Human Race
The Total Destruction of Huroamty
The Extensive Distribution of the Antediluvian Race
Summary and Conclusion
CHAPTER II. BASIC ARGUMENTS AGAINST AN
ANTHROPOLOGICALLY UNIVERSAL
FLOOD
Introduction
Indians in America Before the Flood
The Babylonian Flood Account . .
The Presuppositions of Age Determmation 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
Summary and Conclusion
CHAPTER III. 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
Summary and Conclusion
CHAPTER IV. UNIFORMITARIANISM AND THE
FLOOD: A STUDY OF ATTEMPTED
HARMONIZATIONS
Introduction
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 Impermng 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
Summary and Conclusion
MODERN GEOLOGY AND THE DELUGE
Introduction
Geological Implications of the Biblical Record
Tremendous Erosion from Rainfall
Clouds Not the Source of the Deluge Rains
Enlarged Ocean Basms
Volcanic and Seismic Upheavals
Un recedented Sedimentary Act1v1~y
Ide~l Conditions for Fossil .FormatI~n Flood
Uniformitarianism ~ndermmed/iJi: ;iblical
Basic Harmony of the Field Data an
Inferences
Nature of Sedimentary Strata
More Water in the Present Oceans
Volcanism
Earth Movements
Fossilization f G
The Uniformitarian Interpretation o eo ogy 1
The Present: the Key to the Past
Organic Evolution
The Geologic Time-Table . .
Methods of Resolving Contrad1ctlo?s S
The Inadequacy of Uniformity to Explain the trata
Volcanism and Igneous Rocks
Earth Movements
Continental Ice Sheets .
Phenomena of Sedimentation
Fossil Graveyards . .
Contradictions in the Uniform1tarian System
Misplaced J:ossjls
Living Fossils
Formations out of Sequence
Summary
CHAPTER VI. ~I~i~~1~ci'Et~~~~WORK FOR
Introduction · H' t
The Scriptural Divisions of Geologic is ory
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 Fi~t and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
The Uruque 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
Li~tle olcanic or Tectonic Activity
Geologzc Evidences of Antediluvian Climate
Universally Warm Climate
The Supposed Permian Glaciation
Explanations of Climatic Change
The "Greenhouse Effect"
The Antediluvian Vapor Blanket
Overfl,owed 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 Movmg Water
Higher Mobility of _the Vertebrates
Burial of Land Ammals and Plants
Formation of Coal Beds
The "Mesozoic" Strata and the Dinosaurs
The Final...

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