With the Flood being important part of creationism (especial YEC) I thought I would take a basic look at a few flood models and some of the problems they encounter.

1) Large flood model.
A global flood of amazing proportions. It covered over Mt Everest at over 5 miles high.

What it did:
- Killed all animals that weren’t on the ark.
- Buried and fossilized these animals.
- Created Oil and Coal by compressing plant and animal matter.
- Distorted all radiometric data.
- Dug the Grand Canyon and other canyons and formations.
- Provided dead animals for the meat eaters.
- Left trees and seeds to grow to revegetate the earth.

Problems:
- Requires 3 times the amount of water on the entire earth.
- Doesn’t account for the organization of fossils.
- The pressure either wasn’t enough to destroy trees and seeds or was enough to turn them into oil, but cant be both.
- No explanation of how it distorted different types of radiometric data by the same amount, making the data correlate.
- Very hard for the animals to get back to their original continents without a single one dying. Like to Australia.
- Doesn't explain why certain animals are found Only in certain places, like marsupials.
- Grand Canyon shows signs of a slow creation. The flood would have had less than 8 days to create the entire Grand Canyon.

2) Small Flood uplift Model
The world was flatter before the flood. It only contained hills (Gen 7:19) and so the world was flooded by a medium amount of water and at some point, the mountains grew to what they are now.

What it did:
- Killed all animals that weren’t on the ark.
- Buried and fossilized these animals.
- Distorted all radiometric data.
- Dug or created the grandcanyon and other canyons and formations.
- Raised the mountains at some point.
- Left Trees and vegetation to regrow.
- Left food to eat for the animals.

Problems:
- No solid biblical evidence for this uplift. As the uplift would have been more destructive than the flood, I would assume to hear a bit about it.
- The Hebrew word for “hills” (har) is the same as for Mountains.
- The energy needed to create this uplift would be very very great. Enough to possibly boil all the flood water and destroy many things.
- The heat and movement created from the uplifting should have defiantly left some tell tale signs in the rocks and mountains.
- Somehow left plants to revegetate the area and food to eat, after the uplift, which would have easily destroyed most, if not all vegetation and seeds and dead animal meat.
- Doesn't account for the organization of fossils.
- No explanation of how it distorted different types of radiometric data by the same amount, making the data correlate.
- Doesn't explain why certain animals are found Only in certain places, like marsupials. Marsupials should be found elsewhere than just australia.

3) Pangea Small Flood Uplift Model.
Similar to number 2, this model suggests that the world was flatter before the flood and that it was arranged into a super continent. The super continent split apart after the flood. Explaining how the animals arrive where they are today.

What it did:
- Killed all animals that weren't on the ark.
- Buried and fossilized these animals.
- Distorted all radiometric data.
- Dug or created the grandcanyon and other canyons and formations.
- Raised the mountains at some point.
- Separated the super continent into what we see today.
- Left Trees and vegetation to regrow.
- Left food to eat for the animals.

Problems:
- No solid biblical evidence for this uplift. As the uplift would have been more destructive than the flood, I would assume to hear a bit about it.
- The Hebrew word for “hills” (har) is the same as for Mountains.
- The energy needed to create this uplift would be very very great. Enough to possibly boil all the flood water and destroy many things.
- The heat and movement created from the uplifting should have defiantly left some tell tale signs in the rocks and mountains.
- Somehow left plants to revegetate the area and food to eat, after the uplift, which would have easily destroyed most, if not all vegetation and seeds and dead animal meat.
- The energy required to move the continents from one large continent, to where they are now, would have been so great it would have killed the animals that got off the ark.
- Doesn't account for the organization of fossils.
- No explanation of how it distorted different types of radiometric data by the same amount, making the data correlate.

A brief look at a few flood models and the just some of the problems associated with them.

-Ari

Last Update 8/10/03

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