Hydroplate Theory- The Flood

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dcontroversal said:
All 7 times it is used in my Strong's Exhaustive Concordance has the following....6389 Peleg Peh-leg the same as 6388;earthquake; Peleg a son of Shem:-Peleg.

All seven times it is listed as 6389 and the above is verbatim word for word out of my Strongs.
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I only use strongs as a last resort. it is ok for seeing things, but not very reliable.

I did see earthquake in one of my lexicons (most likely strongs) but the rest spoke of "the son of", or a "river" which would resemble a division, as a river does divide.

but not sure that it matters really ..
 
oldhermit said:
If the name is related to a geological division (which is certainly possible), it must be related to some geological event that is not recorded that is not related to the flood. The time of the flood and the time of Peleg are too far removed in time to have any connection because the flood did not occur in the days of Peleg.
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Cycel, IntoTheVoid, Percipi, TheKringledOne

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oldhermit said:
If the name is related to a geological division (which is certainly possible), it must be related to some geological event that is not recorded that is not related to the flood. The time of the flood and the time of Peleg are too far removed in time to have any connection because the flood did not occur in the days of Peleg.
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Barring what you guys have been talking about I will go with Peleg-->earthquake-->land (earth divided) as the language of the tower of Babel was very specific, and the language of the flood was very specific and the indication of earthquake(s) being tied to the earth being divided (land masses) seems to fit to me...right or wrong!
 
When I studied plate tectonics back in the 1980's I realized that the evolutionary model for origins did not work, but in fact the better paradigm was creation, followed by catastrophism especially the flood.

I do believe split started to happened during the time of Noah, that the plates began to break up. Even secular science acknowledges that there was originally only one continent, a place called "Pangea." There are models of the shifting of the plates, even if the dates are out of whack.

If the earth divided in Peleg's time, a 100 or so years later, it would indicate to me that is when the plate boundaries really started to shift and move. Probably the last chance for those kangaroos to jump on the Australian plate, the bison on the American plate, and other creatures like giraffes, hippos and rhinoceros to jump on the African plate.

I think it is interesting that the Bible can rationally support plate tectonics!
 
Angela53510 said:
When I studied plate tectonics back in the 1980's I realized that the evolutionary model for origins did not work, but in fact the better paradigm was creation, followed by catastrophism especially the flood.

I do believe split started to happened during the time of Noah, that the plates began to break up. Even secular science acknowledges that there was originally only one continent, a place called "Pangea." There are models of the shifting of the plates, even if the dates are out of whack.

If the earth divided in Peleg's time, a 100 or so years later, it would indicate to me that is when the plate boundaries really started to shift and move. Probably the last chance for those kangaroos to jump on the Australian plate, the bison on the American plate, and other creatures like giraffes, hippos and rhinoceros to jump on the African plate.

I think it is interesting that the Bible can rationally support plate tectonics!
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That is certainly a possibility.
 
eternally-gratefull said:

I only use strongs as a last resort. it is ok for seeing things, but not very reliable.

I did see earthquake in one of my lexicons (most likely strongs) but the rest spoke of "the son of", or a "river" which would resemble a division, as a river does divide.

but not sure that it matters really ..
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Yeah I know...I have about 10 books I use to study the words...
 
the hydroplate theory is interesting...though some other biblical creation scientists have pointed out apparent flaws in the theory...

i should add though that much of brown's work does not depend directly on the hydroplate theory...some of his conclusions could still be just as valid if one of the other theories of flood geology turn out to be correct...
 
about the division of the earth in peleg's time...

i am pretty sure that this does not refer to the actual splitting up of the continents...that would have produced a natural disaster as destructive as the flood itself...maybe even worse...

in the leading model of flood geology...called 'catastrophic plate tectonics'...nearly all of the continental drift happened during the flood...

i have not directly studied this in the hebrew myself...but i have heard that elsewhere in the bible when hebrew words related to 'peleg' are used...it usually refers to division by water...

so very likely the division of the earth in peleg's time is when the land bridges between the continents were covered by rising water...maybe due to the melting of ice age glaciers...or maybe due to the continents sinking down somewhat as the earth's internal structure recovered from the flood...
 
RachelBibleStudent said:
about the division of the earth in peleg's time...

i am pretty sure that this does not refer to the actual splitting up of the continents...that would have produced a natural disaster as destructive as the flood itself...maybe even worse...

in the leading model of flood geology...called 'catastrophic plate tectonics'...nearly all of the continental drift happened during the flood...

i have not directly studied this in the hebrew myself...but i have heard that elsewhere in the bible when hebrew words related to 'peleg' are used...it usually refers to division by water...

so very likely the division of the earth in peleg's time is when the land bridges between the continents were covered by rising water...maybe due to the melting of ice age glaciers...or maybe due to the continents sinking down somewhat as the earth's internal structure recovered from the flood...
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I've seen this passage used as evidence for the Flood (of which I believe was worldwide) but given the context, it seems to me to be recording the splitting of humanity into different language groups and their dispersal from the Tower of Babel.
 
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