Furious Flood

The thunder roared triumphantly as the stormy waves tossed the vessel mercilessly back and forth.  The ship just barely missed a deadly plume of boiling, lava-heated water.  Rain poured down in torrents for over a month.  The sun was veiled by towering dark clouds and volcanic ash in the air.  The eight people on board the ship did not set their feet dry, stable land for about a year, and when they arrived, not a breathing thing would be there to greet them.  Have you ever pictured Noah’s flood like this before?

There is no such thing as a tranquil flood, and most certainly not a tranquil global flood!  Water can do catastrophic damage very quickly.  A few months ago, I attended a webinar on flash floods by the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) that showed many examples of rapid erosion, cars being carried many miles downstream by rapid currents, and trees and other structures being swept away.  CoCoRaHS is not a creationist or Christian organization, but they do recognize as any good scientist should, that a lot of water can do a lot of damage over a small amount of time.

As Christians, we don’t need billions of years to explain all the rock layers and canyons we find because the Bible tells us about a catastrophic world-wide flood that can easily account for the geologic features and fossils we find.  Do you know what evidence we would expect to see if Noah’s flood really did happen?  Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.  That is exactly what we find!