The Lake Missoula flood—clues for the Genesis Flood

It is difficult to comprehend fully the immense, almost unimaginable power of the Genesis Flood—because of its sheer size. Its vast volume of water would affect the rates of erosion and sediment deposition in ways not comparable to anything happening today. Its retreat would form unique patterns over the entire earth. However, although present-day floods cannot compare, there was a flood large enough to give us a tiny glimpse as to what a gigantic global-scale flood could accomplish in a short time. It is the Lake Missoula flood,1 which happened at the peak of the Ice Age, about 4000 years ago.2,3

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A.k.a. the Spokane Flood. Return to text.

Wieland, C., Tackling the big freeze: interview with weather scientist Michael Oard, Creation 19(1):42–43, 1996; creation.com/oard. Return to text.

Oard, M.J., The Missoula Flood Controversy and the Genesis Flood, Creation Research Society Books, Chino Valley, AZ, 2004. Return to text.

I.e. a flood thousands of times bigger will not just be a thousand times more destructive, but multiples of that, likely millions of times more so. Return to text.

Oard, M.J., Only one Lake Missoula flood, J. Creation 14(2):14–17, 2000; creation.com/one-missoula. Return to text.

Oard, M.J., Further evidence of only one large Lake Missoula flood, J. Creation 26(3):3–4, 2012. Return to text.

Shaw, J., Munro-Stasiuk, M., Sawyer, B., Beaney, C., Lesemann, J.-E., Musacchio, A., Rains, B., and Young, R.R., The Channeled Scabland: back to Bretz? Geology 27(7):605–608, 1999. Return to text.

Walker, T., A biblical geological model; in: Walsh, R.E. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, technical symposium sessions, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 581–592, 1994. Return to text.

Oard, M.J., Flood by Design: Receding Water Shapes the Earth’s Surface, Master Books, Green Forest, AR, 2008. Return to text.

Twidale, C.R., Geomorphology, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 164–165, 1968. Return to text.

Oard, M.J., Do rivers erode through mountains?, Creation
29(3):18–23, 2007; creation.com/watergaps. Return to text.

Also, the story of geologist J. Harlan Bretz, the guy who found evidence for the Lake Missoula flood (now known as the Bretz Flood) via the pioneering of aerial geology, is instructive about the difficulty that new ideas based on better observation have in gaining purchase in academia. His treatment at the hands of his peers was disgusting and he never forgave them for their intellectual extortion.

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