Story of a great flood is told by many cultures and ancient religions.
Flood Legends From Around the World We must remember that the people on the Earth had never seen rain before as it stated in Genesis 2 the Earth was watered by a mist.
Gen. 2 [SUP]
4 [/SUP]This
is the history[SUP]
[a][/SUP] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, [SUP]
5 [/SUP]before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown.
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; [SUP]6 [/SUP]but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. The idea is that there was water bubbling up from pockets of water under ground heated by volcanic lava under the Earth. We see similar principles with geysers. The atmosphere of the held more water and was thicker creating greater pressure. This pressure caused plants, humans, and animals to be much larger. It allowed wounds to heal quicker as well. Much of this research has been done by a creationist Carl Baugh whose site is
Creation Evidence Museum of Texas Online - General Information. It is suggested that a major volcanic eruption occurred which heated the atmosphere to the point that much of the water vapor that was in the atmosphere to the earth in the form of rain. This could a possible explanation for the ice age as well. Genesis 7:"[SUP]
11 [/SUP]In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all
the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. [SUP]
12 [/SUP]And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights." So, as the Scripture states something came out of the Earth and caused the heavens to open up! There is evidence that a massive volcano eruption occurred according to secular scientists about 70,000 years that wiped mankind to only perhaps a few thousand people
Toba catastrophe theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Grand Canyon was formed by some great event as well. Only those living at the time and God know what truly happened, but geological evidence and ancient stories for many cultures suggest such an event did occur.
