Isaiah Roman

From Creation to Babel part 14

In the world today it seems impossible to propose the concept that the world is a mere 6 to 10 thousand years old. After all, hasn’t science proved otherwise? The “facts” of science have built a case as to why the earth could be billions of years old. Yet, the facts of creationism remain just as strong. Many in our world today who claim to be Christian attempt to fit the Bible to what we know about science. Many more attempt to separate what we know about the Bible from science. The two need not be separated at all.

The truth of the matter is that this world is not unmolested in it’s celestial travels. We know for a fact that from time to time disasters of tremendous magnitude have impacted this world to great effect. The following tale describes one such disaster. This tale is based upon evidences and facts which have been collected over the course of three years of intense research. This chain of events fits perfectly with what we know about both the Bible, and our world.

When God began to create, He created mass and space. Part of this mass was a particular form of matter called water. He then created the properties of energy – light – and using energy he formed the mass and space into shapes throughout the universe. This universe was cold, but contained the motion and momentum which result in gravitation, magnetics, and inertia.

God then created the atmosphere, then he separated the land masses from the seas, but the earth was still cold. The waters froze across the earth, and on the earth, and in the earth. Deep down, however, waters flowed through the earth like veins and capillaries, heated by the rotating molten core of the earth.

God planted the seeds of plants and trees, but they didn’t grow. There was no sun. Then, finally on the fourth day, God lit the suns. The sudden burst of radiation energy burned off some of the earth, other areas covered in water quickly evaporated and began to rapidly fill the atmosphere, creating a thick cloud cover. This cloud cover shielded the earth from much of the radiation of the sun, much more than our current sky can filter.

As God continued to create, first adding fish, then birds, then mammals and beasts, then finally mankind, the atmosphere began to stabilize. The temperature on the earth was maintained cool because most of the surface of the earth was covered in ice. The thick layer of clouds kept the sun from rapidly burning away the ice layer, and the ice layer kept the temperature of the atmosphere at a fairly stable temperature.

The only variance of note was when the sun set, the clouds would settle on the earth, causing a thick dew which watered all of the plants, and provided fresh water to bugs, birds and even animals. For a great deal of time on this earth the atmosphere was quiet, pacific.

Mankind grew, spread and flourished throughout the earth. The earth was one continent then, and many men began to gather into groups, build communities. They began, in their complacency, to forget about the God of their creation. They began instead to worship the Sons of God, they began to worship creatures, they began to worship themselves. The earth and it’s people were “corrupted. For all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.1”

1656 years after God evicted Adam from the Garden of eden, God had finally had enough. He spoke to a man named Noah and told Noah that it was going to rain. God chose Noah, because Noah was the only man who remained that “walked with God.” God told Noah to build an ark. Noah had never seen rain. He didn’t know what rain was. Noah had never heard of an ark. God specifically outlined exactly what this ark would be, and one can only imagine Noah’s reaction.

The ark was to contain rooms within it. These rooms not only would house animals, but would provide a strong superstructure which would brace the vessel against the power of the seas. The ark was to be covered with “asphalt,” or “pitch” which is a product of distilling tree sap. This infers a fairly high level of understanding of chemistry, but what’s more is the level of carpentry, tool making, and construction needed to make the ark itself.

This vessel is not so much a boat, as it is a massive casket. The ark is a box, three stories tall, each story 17 feet tall,  for a total height of about 50 feet2. It was approximately 83 feet wide and 500 feet long. The total internal cargo capacity was over 2 million cubic feet. Each floor contained approximately 41,500 square feet of floor space.

Into this giant box Noah was told to assemble two of each “kind” of animal and seven of each “clean” animal. Although today we have several millions of different individual animals, science has told us time and time again that each of our modern creatures comes from a single type of creature. For instance, all dogs are assumed to have come from the wolf. To assemble two of each “kind” of animal, it was only necessary for Noah to assemble two wolves, two cats, two cows, etc. What’s more important is the simple fact that he didn’t need to get adult versions of these creatures. Reptiles and dinosaurs could have been eggs, or newly hatched. The same with cows, or mammoths or other large creatures.

It took Noah a hundred years to build the ark. One might imagine the reaction of Noah’s neighbors to this massive construction. For one hundred years they had the opportunity to repent and come along side Noah in his efforts. The ark certainly had enough room to carry a few more people. As it turns out, seven days before the rain was to come God told Noah to take himself and all his house into the ark. There were only eight people who entered the ark. There was Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives, and no one else.

When the time came God shut the door of the ark and the rains began. Science has shown us through genetics that there was, at some point in our past, a “funnel” in the genetic code. We know that the entire current population of this planet owes it’s history to a small group of people who were, in essence, a funnel point in our genetic history. A study of demographics using known models of human reproductive rates shows that over the course of 1600 years there could very well have been over 1 billion people on the planet at that time.

When the rains began to fall, very few probably knew why this strange phenomena was taking place. They certainly had never seen the sky turn black and red before. They certainly had never seen lightning and heard thunder before. The large drops of water falling from the sky were nothing compared to the sudden massive change in temperature.

Somewhere, on the other side of the continent, a meteor had struck. This meteor, half the size of New York City, smashed into the earth with a massive force. The atmosphere was superheated in a second and immediately the water stored in the atmosphere began to release itself. Water that had been held under ground in streams and rivers was forced out of the earth because of the massive seismic reaction to the impact, which in turn caused further seismic reactions. As the plates of the earth began to shift and tear, more eruptions began to tear the fabric of the planet apart.

Glaciers of ice, which had been melting slowly from the inside out, like ice cubes left out too long, were already on the brink of letting their water loose. The temperature shift and the moving earth were the final straw. These massive deposits of water finally let loose, cutting huge swaths of destruction across massive areas of the surface of the earth.

The resulting deluge, coupled with tsunamis of incredible size, the sudden reforming of huge areas of the surface of the earth, and the resulting volcanic activity forever changed the surface of the earth. The water washed away plants and people alike. The water came down for forty days and forty nights, but the water stayed on the surface for over a year.

Only some fish, and what was on the ark survived.

As the earth began to calm down, and the waters began to recede, the waters needed somewhere to go. Great caverns that had once contained pockets of ice, or that had been newly formed by the shifting of the earth were formed. The water flowed into these pockets, dragging with it vegetable and animal material. Sooner or later these pockets were closed over with debris, and then with mud. These pockets would be sealed beneath the surface of the earth for thousands of years, the pressure and heat building until the material decomposed into it’s final state; oil.

In other low-areas the thick layer of mud at the bottom began to become pressed down by the subsequent layers of mud that had begun to settle as the water became still. Creatures buried in massive mud flows by the sudden onslaught of so much water died with food still in their stomachs, babies still yet to be born. Here and there entire herds of animals were buried beneath tons of mud. Yet even other animals were washed into the far north, where the waters naturally froze back into ice.

On a lone mountain, somewhere in what is now modern Turkey, the ark came to rest. After a few months of waiting, it’s occupants were finally able to step out on dry land. The first act of Noah was to sacrifice to God. The next act was to begin life again. Noah and his sons set up a settlement and began to grow crops and husband the animals to replenish the earth.

Soon, Noah discovered something new. His grape juice turned to wine.

1. Genesis 6
2. Using the standard 20” cubit from fingertip to elbow method.