Page 10 - Advanced Bible Geography ebook

Chapter 2: Effects of the Flood and the Origin of Nations

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 seasick! 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.

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.

The Lesson ...

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

8