South America Shows the Flood Progression

Institute for Creation Research ^ | March 2017 | Tim Clarey, Ph.D.

[fishtank]

South America Shows the Flood Progression

by Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *

Evidence for Creation

New research confirms that the Flood recorded in Genesis was global. It also reflects the exact step-by-step biblical account of the floodwaters’ progression.

[fishtank]

From the article:

"In Figures 1–6, we show the thickness of the six megasequences across South America. The Sauk is the earliest Flood layer, followed by Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia, Absaroka, Zuni, and finally the youngest layer, Tejas.3 Note how the coverage of the continent steadily increases with each successive layer, marking the Flood’s progression.

These data indicate the Flood started out slowly, inundating limited areas at first but increasing a little more each time as the first megasequences were deposited, perhaps during the first 40 days (Sauk, Tippecanoe, and Kaskaskia). Later, during the deposition of the Absaroka Megasequence, the coverage dramatically increased until the Flood appears to have reached a maximum coverage level in the Zuni Megasequence, possibly around Day 150. Fittingly, this is the exact same maximum level observed across North America and Africa, indicating a truly global event. Finally, the Tejas Megasequence seems to show the floodwaters receding—post-Day 150 of the Flood—and accordingly shows a similar coverage level to the Zuni...."

[Leo Carpathian]

Day 1 to 40 - Algore driving his SUV nonstop.
After day 40 - Algore runs out of gas, water recedes.
Lucky us!

[DesertRhino]

There are around 190 peaks above 20,000 feet. Ararat is around 16,000. There are probably well over 500 peaks that size worldwide.
Pick a sphere, say 20,000 feet above sea level and calculate the volume of water it would take to fill this.

Where did it come from, and where did it go away so quickly? And where did our atmosphere go then?
Or, you can learn to understand allegory and still accept Jesus.

[Ribeye]

“Where did it come from, and where did it go away so quickly? And where did our atmosphere go then?
Or, you can learn to understand allegory and still accept Jesus.”

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Talk like that will get you burned at the stake!
:)

[libstripper]

Where it came from is simple: the great thaw at the end of the last great ice age. Indeed, the flood is not only a central element of the prehistoric biblical tradition, it’s also a fundamental element of Greco-Roman prehistoric narrative.

[afsnco]

One of the more interesting Flood theories I’ve seen involves runaway subduction of the tectonic plates. That would’ve tended to make the earth a more perfect sphere without any high or low places, at least until that plate re-emerged, with all breathing life dead and buried.

The “fountains of the deep” phrase indicates that there was a lot of subterranean water under high pressure that suddenly burst forth, and that could’ve caused the runaway subduction as those gigantic caverns of water emptied and collapsed.

I think I read somewhere that there’s enough water on earth to bury everything to a depth of one half mile if the earth were a perfect sphere.

What would one expect to find if there was a worldwide deluge? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers all over the earth.

The really interesting fossils are the polystrate trees, etc. This is tree trunks that supposedly took billions of years to rot, at least according to evolution theory, because the trunk stretches through what’s supposedly billions of years of strata.

Why couldn’t the strata just be the filtering process of a flood event, and that’s how a tree trunk could easily end up stretching through many strata.

And couldn’t it be that the more simple life forms would end up at the bottom since they couldn’t escape, with more and more complex and intelligent life forms occupying places higher and higher in the strata because they could escape? But this is hardly true in a general sense. Many times the more complex and more intelligent forms are lower in the strata than the less complex and less intelligent forms.

[fishtank]

Tectonic action pushed the mountains UP.

Also, a global flood explains fossils, megasequences, etc etc.

Fishtank, PhD Mech Eng Texas A&M

[fishtank]

Yes, good post.

[fishtank]

Why does Everest have sedimentary rock?

Because Hillary put them there????

[BrandtMichaels]

Genesis 7:11 indicates not only that the fountains of the great deep were broken open but also that the skies [atmosphere] were broken open too. Breaking open the atmosphere could basically cause a mini ice-age too.

afsnco in post #6 is basically explaining something similar to the hydroplate theory by Dr. Walt Brown Phd 1st published in 1980. Although I would add that no matter how large and mobile any organism is there would be utter chaos in trying to flee rising waters and utter chaos is also what we see in the fossil records.

Here’s a link to Dr. Brown’s book - free online or you can choose to purchase it for a relatively nominal price - Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html

[Natufian]

If the fossil records really was chaotic we should find horse fossils mixed in with dinosaur fossils. We don’t and we never have.

[BrandtMichaels]

I think by what your concluding horses and dinosaurs would not only inhabit the same ecosystem but basically they hung out together?

By chaotic I meant index fossils are often found out of sequence. The assigned ages to geological layers do not conform, there is no standard as the number and order of the layers vary worldwide.