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Study Section 2: Effects of the Flood and Origin of Nations

2.1 Connect.

You can imagine the volume of water it took to flood the entire earth! It was massive! During
local rains, we see that a little water can carve gullies into the side of hills and destroy our
crops. Can you imagine what the volume of water twice that of our oceans did to the earth in
a short 40 day period? Also, Noah’s ride in the ark during the first 40 days must have been
quite harrowing. I supposed they got pretty sea sick! This great cataclysmic flood must have
made a tremendous impact on the mountains, rivers, and entire earth. Today we will look at some of
the evidence of geology that points to the reality of that event.

2.2 Objectives:

1. The student should be able to demonstrate how the earth shows evidence for a universal
cataclysmic flood.

2. The student should be able to describe how God reversed the disobedience of man and spread
them throughout the entire earth.

3. The student should be able to describe how all the races of the earth came from the genetic makeup
of two people, Adam and Eve.

2.3 The Effects of the Flood

The flood lasted just over a year (1 year and 10 days). As the sea floor started sinking relative
to the continents, the floodwaters covering the continents began to flow into the oceans. On
each continent the water flowed away from the higher areas in the middle toward the lower
areas at the edges, in a direction generally perpendicular to the shore. Since the Flood was
global, the receding waters would have produced the same sort of signature all over the
world.

The Grand Canyon in the US is an excellent illustration of the rapid
displacement of water. If you will look at the photograph to the right, you
might notice that the sides of the Grand Canyon go almost straight up and
down. (In fact, they actually do go straight up and down in quite a few
places along the canyon.) If gradual natural processes of erosion formed
this Grand Canyon, and not Noah's Flood, then the top edge (or "rim")
should be rounded, and not an edge at all, since the gradual processes of
erosion always tend to round out sharp edges,
not create them. In fact, after hundreds of
millions of years, these same processes of erosion, (which those who believe
"The Story of Evolution" claim formed the Grand Canyon),
would have turned any such edges that might have once existed into gradual
slopes. Also note in the picture you can see that the sandstone was laid down

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