The_Great

Lately I've been hearing a lot on cable tv about people who can't believe in the great flood. It troubled me that there was no one that could think of anything contrary to their disbelief. This programming went on for about two months, and when it started to die down, I felt like I was missing out on a huge portion of the story--a story which one can only assume that the world has yet to develop.

So after all this programming that I viewed and certain others, I almost had enough information to come up with a theory of my own. I had been thinking about it for a while now, coming up with an idea that there could have been a layer underneath the earth's crust that may have burst at the time of the flood causing "the underground waters (to) burst forth on the earth and" make "the rain (fall) in mighty torrents from the sky," Genesis 7:11. However this seemed greatly unreasonable to me. I dwelled on this idea for two months remaining unsuccessful in any attempt to convince myself of its possible legitimacy.

Then all of the sudden, I came up with a new idea, which was aided by another's idea. This idea was that all contintents may have at one point been connected. This idea became fairly self evident once I took another look at a map. The best example would be the coastal border of South America and Africa.

The border of South America and Africa seem to fit together almost like a jigsaw puzzle, and with a little bit of shaping you can even piece the rest of the continents together. This suggests that at some time in our history there was one super-continent. Scientist have called this super-continent: pangea. The major conflict with this idea is that most scientists seem bent on the irrational idea that the universe has been around for an unimaginable amount of time, and in that time this super-continent (pangea) was ripped apart a few inches a year by techtonic plates.

I do not believe this idea. I also don't believe the idea that the universe has been around that long. I believe in what the One who was there says, and according to Him the world hasn't been around long enough for the continents to have been ripped apart inch by inch. So a part of my equation/new idea had to be that pangea was separated some time before people took written record, and within about a ten-thousand year period.

So enough with the introduction. My idea is that the act of pangea separating and the great flood were both a single event. The only way I could imagine that the entire world could have been flooded is that pangea used to float. I noticed that pangea seemed to be positioned conveniently over the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Having realized that, the idea popped into my mind that pangea might have floated. After this I immediately began to think about what it would take to make this possible.

If a thick layer of the lower plane of Pangea were a buoyant non-dissolvant material, then pangea may have floated. What would make Pangea cease to float would be if the upper plane of pangea were saturated with water - The great flood.

For the years before the great flood, from the time of creation to the time of Noah, the lava sprung out of the mid-atlantic ridge would have been super heating the surounding water and slowly disintegrating the buoyant layer that made pangea float.

Once this layer gave out, the rest of the material above it would've began to sink and become saturated with water, increasing the amount of pressure that pangea is placing on the ocean, and in turn causing the water to spew out of the newly formed opening in pangea just over the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

This gaining pressure would've increased for a period of time as the grounds above the buoyant layer of pangea continued to be saturated by the ever increasing amount of water that was shooting out of the ground. And then at some point, 40 days acording to the Bible, the pressure weighing down on pangea would've been so great that it finally hit rock bottom.

Now that the once unitary pangea is resting on the sea floor, the pressure will now start to dissapate. All the water that has yet to rush out to the ocean will now force it's way out like a giant tsunami the will never be seen again. The layers of these newly formed continents that can be saturated with water have had water soaking them from the top layer to the bottam, and will now continue the process by letting the water from the upper soaked layers to drizzle down until it equlizes with the ocean and in affect creating the first continental water table, and lowering the entire height of the ocean enogh to reveal islands such as hawii.

Theoretically, there is much to debate in this theory, Potentialy lots of money to be made by writing books on the idea, and different variations of this idea. Unfortunately, this is a theory I am not willing to explore.

This is a theory which has yet to be proven. What would prove this? The answer is, a core sample. It would have to go deep enough to reveal certain patterns in the sample. There is a very large difference in the consistency of the ocean floor and the continental floor, therefore if a very deep sample showed the same patterns deep within the sample as the patterns found in the ocean floor, then this would most definetly prove this concept that the continents once floated. Also, there is a lot of oil in the ground which could possibly give the necessary watter protection to provide enough lift.

Example of a core sample