Had the events of the global flood been understood when Darwin proposed organic evolution in 1859, evolution and its many adverse social, scientific, and educational consequences probably would not have arisen. Here’s why.
If a culture ignored, for any reason, a past event as cataclysmic as a global flood, major misunderstandings or errors would creep into science and society. One of the first would be the explanation for fossils. Typically, Fossil A lies below Fossil B, which lies below Fossil C, etc. If flood explanations were weak, unbelievable, or censored, evolution would provide a simplistic answer: Organism A evolved into B, which much later changed into C. Fossil layers would represent vast amounts of time, so other geologic features could then easily fit into that time frame. With so much time available, possible explanations multiply—explanations not easily tested in less than a million years. Billions of people, most of whom were not scientifically sophisticated, would hear and be taught these million-and-billion-year explanations for much of their lives. Belief in those unimaginable time spans would become the cultural norm. A century after Darwin, evolutionary explanations for the universe, chemical elements, heavenly bodies, Earth, and life would, like cancer, multiply and metastasis. Part I of this book shows that those ideas are false.
Part II will show, in ways an interested layperson can understand, the flaws in those geologic explanations and that there was a global flood, with vast and unique consequences. For example, coal, oil, and methane did not form over hundreds of millions of years; they formed in months. Fossils and layered strata did not develop over a billion years; they formed in months. The Grand Canyon did not form in millions of years; it formed in weeks. Major mountain ranges did not develop over hundreds of millions of years but in less than an hour! Radioisotopes didn’t form over a billion years and then decay over billions of years; most came into existence in weeks! These statements are shocking until we carefully examine the evidence in Part II.
You will be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to debate these matters with someone who understands the flood. [See pages 586– 587.] However, if you are the first to find someone with an earned doctoral degree in basic or applied science to refute these statements and the conclusion of Part I (that the theory of evolution is bankrupt) and that person completes a written, publishable debate with me—then a $10,000 finders fee will be yours. [See page 586 for details.]
Ironically, some leading creationists who believe in a global flood have contributed to its frequent rejection by advocating unsound mechanisms for the flood. They have failed to answer people’s most basic questions, such as: “Where did so much water come from, and where did it go?”
One of these incorrect explanations is the canopy theory. (Pages 529– 537 examine its many problems.) Others who know of these problems have proposed an equally weak explanation called catastrophic plate tectonics. It is the flawed plate tectonic theory sped up a millionfold by conveniently assuming miracles and unworkable mechanisms. Page 500 gives several facts that falsify the plate tectonic theory.
Past failure to answer honest flood questions opened the door to evolution and old-Earth beliefs. Answering those questions will begin to (1) reestablish the flood as Earth’s defining geological event, and (2) reverse serious errors that have crept into science and society. Don’t be surprised at how catastrophic the flood was. Just follow the evidence.