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Genesis Flood Revisited
Modeled after the 1961 ground-breaking book The Genesis Flood by Drs. Whitcomb and Morris, this detailed work builds on that classic volume with new insights from decades of work by the author, Dr. Andrew Snelling, and numerous colleagues. This recent revolution in geology and the explosion in geological research have established an even firmer basis for understanding the biblical Flood with a God-honoring foundation — the absolute authority and inerrancy of God’s Word.
Examine details of the Creation Week as it builds a solid scriptural case for the Flood’s catastrophic nature and global extent.Find decisive answers to many questions about the Flood and Noah’s Ark, its construction, and the animals taken onboard.Delve deeply into astonishing geological details that unfold from the early chapters of Genesis, including the Creation Week and the pre-Flood world.Explore detailed evidence and a concise, informative 30-page color section with diagrams, maps, and more!Dr. Snelling jettisons the faulty evolutionary-uniformitarian assumptions used by most geologists and instead, interprets compelling new geological and observed field data within the biblical framework for the earth’s history. He also demonstrates that fossils were catastrophically buried in sedimentary layers being deposited rapidly on a global scale on the continental plates derived from the violent rifting apart of the original supercontinent.
His work demolishes radiometric dating, the icon of the millions of years dogma, and builds a thoroughly powerful case for a young earth that explains many geological features such as varves, evaporites, coal, oil, chalk, granites, and more that biblical skeptics sadly have used to scoff at God’s Word. Discover the powerful truth behind the earth’s most enduring mysteries!
Examine details of the Creation Week as it builds a solid scriptural case for the Flood’s catastrophic nature and global extent.Find decisive answers to many questions about the Flood and Noah’s Ark, its construction, and the animals taken onboard.Delve deeply into astonishing geological details that unfold from the early chapters of Genesis, including the Creation Week and the pre-Flood world.Explore detailed evidence and a concise, informative 30-page color section with diagrams, maps, and more!Dr. Snelling jettisons the faulty evolutionary-uniformitarian assumptions used by most geologists and instead, interprets compelling new geological and observed field data within the biblical framework for the earth’s history. He also demonstrates that fossils were catastrophically buried in sedimentary layers being deposited rapidly on a global scale on the continental plates derived from the violent rifting apart of the original supercontinent.
His work demolishes radiometric dating, the icon of the millions of years dogma, and builds a thoroughly powerful case for a young earth that explains many geological features such as varves, evaporites, coal, oil, chalk, granites, and more that biblical skeptics sadly have used to scoff at God’s Word. Discover the powerful truth behind the earth’s most enduring mysteries!
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May 7, 2023
A COMPREHENSIVE UPDATING OF THE WHITCOMB/MORRIS BOOK
Christian ‘Young Earth’ geologist Andrew A. Snelling wrote in the Preface to this 2009 book, “During my teenage years… I read ‘The Genesis Flood’ by Drs. John Whitcomb and Henry Morris. That book convinced me that God’s Word provides the only reliable basis for understanding geology. This was the foundation for my calling into full-time creation ministry … [I went] to work with the Institute for Creation Research [ICR]… For some years Dr. Henry Morris had… been keen for an updated and revised edition of … ‘The Genesis Flood’… [he] asked me if I would be willing to take up this needed assignment… So this book has finally come to fruition, after more than a decade of effort… Our only regret is that Dr. Henry Morris is not here to see the final product…”
He adds in the Introduction, “our purpose in this book is … that Genesis must be taken seriously as literal history… we first need to re-examine the biblical record and the details it gives… In dealing with the scientific evidence… the question to ask is this: If the biblical account of creation and the Flood is true, then what evidence should we look for?... we also need to explore the framework it provides for understanding geology from a truly biblical perspective…” (Pg. 20-21)
He asserts, “Those biblical scholars who promote the view that the Flood was only local usually do so for scientific and archaeological reasons… [They ignore] the question of why the Ark would be needed at all if the Flood were only local… if such an ark was really not needed, how can the reader of the Genesis account avoid the impression of … even dishonesty in the whole Ark building project?... Their silence is indicative of their discomfort in promoting the local flood view, because they know the text doesn’t support that position, yet… to propose a … global flood would place them embarrassingly out of step with their scientific colleagues.” (Pg. 41) Later, he adds, “when one abandons the spurious chronology these flawed dating methods have spawned and embraces the chronological structure provided by God’s inerrant Word… the evidence for the global Flood … around 3000 BC becomes glaringly obvious.” (Pg. 71)
He states, “all manner of animals may well have been living in proximity to the Ark and wouldn’t have had far to travel to go abroad.” (Pg. 97) He suggests, “If, as the preponderance of evidence shows, the ‘created kind’ … was possibly equivalent … to the family… then there would have only been about 2,000 animals on the Ark… if we adopt the genus as the taxonomic rank … then approximately 16,000 animals would have been on the Ark… if there were as many as 16,000 animals to be carried on the Ark, then at … most … these animals would fit into … only a quarter of the carrying capacity of the Ark… even if there had to be … 43,000 animals… [this] would represent two-thirds of the carrying capacity of the Ark.” (Pg. 101)
He says, “no one can prove that kangaroos and the other Australian marsupials were confined to Australia BEFORE the Flood. And if not… [no] marsupials would have had to ‘hurry’ to get to Australia to the Ark… it is not necessary to suppose that the very same pair of kangaroos that were in the Ark had to travel all the way to Australia after the Ark landed…” (Pg. 119) He adds, “God’s hand would seem to have been involved in guiding and directing these creatures in ways that man… has not yet been able to fathom…” (Pg. 125)
He asserts, “God makes it absolutely clear that He created the stars within the timeframe of an ordinary day… Thus, it did not take billions of years for the light of stars billions of light years distant from the earth to reach the earth… they were immediately created fully-formed and fully-functioning from the very beginning… it is to be expected that the stars also have an appearance of age…” (Pg. 151-152) Later, he adds, “this clear implication of a ‘mature creation’ with a ‘appearance of age’ is a tremendously significant truth that cannot be overemphasized. Many details about how God created… are not given to us in the Genesis record.” (Pg. 381)
Does Gen 10:25 imply continental drift/separation? “The most obvious understanding of this event is that it refers to the division of peoples at the Tower of Babel… to a linguistic and geographic division, rather than to an actual splitting of the earth.” (Pg. 189)
Perhaps surprisingly, he states, “these considerations ... inevitably lead to the conclusion that the Precambrian position of the geological column is as much a physical reality as the Cambrian-Recent portion of the geologic column… intense study of these metasedimentary terranes… in recent decades… has produced an incredible array of empirical data… so that the physical reality of the Precambrian rock record can no longer be in question. Of course, this does not mean that all the finer details of the geological column have been irrevocably established…” (Pg. 216)
Later, he adds, “the fossil record clearly demonstrates that there is a distinctive order of first appearance of the fossils… in the rock record… fossilized bacteria appear first… followed by soft-bodied metazoan fossils, and then invertebrate animal fossils, while fossils of the more structurally complex types appear in successively higher strata… While it is generally true that this pattern … fulfills the expectations of the evolutionary theory… this should not … prompt us to deny that this pattern exists… Our challenge … is to seek a better… explanation … within a biblical geological model for earth history…” (Pg. 230-231) He suggests, “at least some dinosaurs survived the K/T extinction.” (Pg. 233)
He cautions, “it is abundantly clear that the Scriptures are far from exhaustive in the scientific and historical details provided, so there is always a tendency to fill in the ‘gaps’ with inferences and suppositions… a measure of caution is nonetheless warranted lest we read additional information into the text… in other places we endeavor to draw scientific inferences and suppositions from the text that may seem warranted to us, but are nonetheless speculative and open to challenge.” (Pg. 271) He proposes, “the real understanding of origins requires the testimony of an eyewitness who was present at the time… and this has been provided in the divine revelation of the Genesis record… Yet men refuse to believe it … which in effect implies that God is a liar.” (Pg. 363)
He asserts, “the order of God’s creative activities as outlines in the biblical text can in no way be made to fit the order described by both the progressive creation and theistic evolution views, which blindly follow the claimed order … as insisted by the conventional scientific community… the conventional scientific world insists that the sun was formed billions of years after the universe began, and the earth developed subsequent to the sun and the stars were created four days later. Thus, the day-age, progressive creation, and theistic evolution attempts… are merely wishful thinking.” (Pg. 375)
He argues, “Men complain… that God would be dishonest to create the universe... with an appearance of age… This sort of reasoning, however, is entirely unworthy of reasonable men… Such reasoning is essentially an affirmation of atheism, a denial of the possibility of a real creation… if God exists… then there is no reason why He could not… instantaneously create a whole universe full-grown and fully-functioning. Obviously, if God did this, there would be no way by which any of His creatures could deduce the age or manner of creation, by the study… of His creation… to charge God with falsehood in creating His creation with ‘apparent age’ is … arrogant in the extreme---even blasphemous… However, if we are willing to accept in faith the biblical account of creation as simple, literal truth, then we immediately have a powerful tool for understanding…” (Pg. 387-388)
He says, “With … ecological zonation in mind, it is to be expected that as the … ocean waters began to inundate the land, the strong… ocean currents would first have deposited their load in the shallow seas, burying the marine creatures there, before… burying the amphibians and reptiles living near the shores. As the waters rose… the dinosaurs were next destroyed, and finally at the highest elevations the birds, mammals, and angiosperms were buried and fossilized… this pre-Flood zonation … can explain the order of fossils in the geologic record.” (Pg. 430) He continues, “why aren’t at least a few mice or sparrows in Paleozoic ne Mesozoic deposits?... why weren’t animals and plants from ‘higher zones’ mixed and fossilized with those in ‘lower zones’ during the massive river and valley flooding… in the Flood event? Other factors must have been significant in influencing the time when many groups of organisms met their demise…” (Pg. 433)
He also proposes a “relatively brief post-Flood Ice Age.” (Pg. 462) But he admits, “the existence of … land-bridges does not explain the biogeographic distribution of the majority of plants and animals in our post-Flood world… it is expected that many pre-Flood plants would have still been floating on the ocean surface … Therefore, these log mats immediately after the Flood may have been … carrying many organisms across the oceans in the post-Flood world… this rafting dispersal mechanism … can successfully explain the biogeographic distribution of most plants and animals today.” (Pg. 466-467)
He argues, “An apparent age might be deduced… but this would not be its true age. This is exactly the situation with respect to these radioactive elements… It is therefore … perfectly reasonable to suppose that the radioactive elements… were created directly by God, who then produced the daughter elements at whatever rates he chose... the true age of the earth can only be known by means of divine revelation… The fact that the earth’s crystalline rocks … yield … radioisotope ‘ages’ in … billions of years, when the true age of the earth … is only 6,000 years, means that God chose to accelerate the radioisotope decay rates in order to serve His purposes…” (Pg. 504-505) He emphasizes, “The only possible way in which men can KNOW the true age of the earth is by means of divine revelation!” (Pg. 511)
He concludes, “It has…been the purpose of this book to show how the outline of earth history provided by … Genesis … provides a scientifically accurate model within which all the verifiable observations of field and experimental data in geology and geophysics… The ranks of… creation scientists and Flood geologists are still meager and thin… I would therefore … issue a challenge, particularly to young readers … to train in whatever fields of science… so as to join the ranks…” (Pg. 615-616)
This book (which is much more detailed in ‘geological’ terms than other ‘young Earth’ books) will be of great interest to many Young Earth creationists.
Christian ‘Young Earth’ geologist Andrew A. Snelling wrote in the Preface to this 2009 book, “During my teenage years… I read ‘The Genesis Flood’ by Drs. John Whitcomb and Henry Morris. That book convinced me that God’s Word provides the only reliable basis for understanding geology. This was the foundation for my calling into full-time creation ministry … [I went] to work with the Institute for Creation Research [ICR]… For some years Dr. Henry Morris had… been keen for an updated and revised edition of … ‘The Genesis Flood’… [he] asked me if I would be willing to take up this needed assignment… So this book has finally come to fruition, after more than a decade of effort… Our only regret is that Dr. Henry Morris is not here to see the final product…”
He adds in the Introduction, “our purpose in this book is … that Genesis must be taken seriously as literal history… we first need to re-examine the biblical record and the details it gives… In dealing with the scientific evidence… the question to ask is this: If the biblical account of creation and the Flood is true, then what evidence should we look for?... we also need to explore the framework it provides for understanding geology from a truly biblical perspective…” (Pg. 20-21)
He asserts, “Those biblical scholars who promote the view that the Flood was only local usually do so for scientific and archaeological reasons… [They ignore] the question of why the Ark would be needed at all if the Flood were only local… if such an ark was really not needed, how can the reader of the Genesis account avoid the impression of … even dishonesty in the whole Ark building project?... Their silence is indicative of their discomfort in promoting the local flood view, because they know the text doesn’t support that position, yet… to propose a … global flood would place them embarrassingly out of step with their scientific colleagues.” (Pg. 41) Later, he adds, “when one abandons the spurious chronology these flawed dating methods have spawned and embraces the chronological structure provided by God’s inerrant Word… the evidence for the global Flood … around 3000 BC becomes glaringly obvious.” (Pg. 71)
He states, “all manner of animals may well have been living in proximity to the Ark and wouldn’t have had far to travel to go abroad.” (Pg. 97) He suggests, “If, as the preponderance of evidence shows, the ‘created kind’ … was possibly equivalent … to the family… then there would have only been about 2,000 animals on the Ark… if we adopt the genus as the taxonomic rank … then approximately 16,000 animals would have been on the Ark… if there were as many as 16,000 animals to be carried on the Ark, then at … most … these animals would fit into … only a quarter of the carrying capacity of the Ark… even if there had to be … 43,000 animals… [this] would represent two-thirds of the carrying capacity of the Ark.” (Pg. 101)
He says, “no one can prove that kangaroos and the other Australian marsupials were confined to Australia BEFORE the Flood. And if not… [no] marsupials would have had to ‘hurry’ to get to Australia to the Ark… it is not necessary to suppose that the very same pair of kangaroos that were in the Ark had to travel all the way to Australia after the Ark landed…” (Pg. 119) He adds, “God’s hand would seem to have been involved in guiding and directing these creatures in ways that man… has not yet been able to fathom…” (Pg. 125)
He asserts, “God makes it absolutely clear that He created the stars within the timeframe of an ordinary day… Thus, it did not take billions of years for the light of stars billions of light years distant from the earth to reach the earth… they were immediately created fully-formed and fully-functioning from the very beginning… it is to be expected that the stars also have an appearance of age…” (Pg. 151-152) Later, he adds, “this clear implication of a ‘mature creation’ with a ‘appearance of age’ is a tremendously significant truth that cannot be overemphasized. Many details about how God created… are not given to us in the Genesis record.” (Pg. 381)
Does Gen 10:25 imply continental drift/separation? “The most obvious understanding of this event is that it refers to the division of peoples at the Tower of Babel… to a linguistic and geographic division, rather than to an actual splitting of the earth.” (Pg. 189)
Perhaps surprisingly, he states, “these considerations ... inevitably lead to the conclusion that the Precambrian position of the geological column is as much a physical reality as the Cambrian-Recent portion of the geologic column… intense study of these metasedimentary terranes… in recent decades… has produced an incredible array of empirical data… so that the physical reality of the Precambrian rock record can no longer be in question. Of course, this does not mean that all the finer details of the geological column have been irrevocably established…” (Pg. 216)
Later, he adds, “the fossil record clearly demonstrates that there is a distinctive order of first appearance of the fossils… in the rock record… fossilized bacteria appear first… followed by soft-bodied metazoan fossils, and then invertebrate animal fossils, while fossils of the more structurally complex types appear in successively higher strata… While it is generally true that this pattern … fulfills the expectations of the evolutionary theory… this should not … prompt us to deny that this pattern exists… Our challenge … is to seek a better… explanation … within a biblical geological model for earth history…” (Pg. 230-231) He suggests, “at least some dinosaurs survived the K/T extinction.” (Pg. 233)
He cautions, “it is abundantly clear that the Scriptures are far from exhaustive in the scientific and historical details provided, so there is always a tendency to fill in the ‘gaps’ with inferences and suppositions… a measure of caution is nonetheless warranted lest we read additional information into the text… in other places we endeavor to draw scientific inferences and suppositions from the text that may seem warranted to us, but are nonetheless speculative and open to challenge.” (Pg. 271) He proposes, “the real understanding of origins requires the testimony of an eyewitness who was present at the time… and this has been provided in the divine revelation of the Genesis record… Yet men refuse to believe it … which in effect implies that God is a liar.” (Pg. 363)
He asserts, “the order of God’s creative activities as outlines in the biblical text can in no way be made to fit the order described by both the progressive creation and theistic evolution views, which blindly follow the claimed order … as insisted by the conventional scientific community… the conventional scientific world insists that the sun was formed billions of years after the universe began, and the earth developed subsequent to the sun and the stars were created four days later. Thus, the day-age, progressive creation, and theistic evolution attempts… are merely wishful thinking.” (Pg. 375)
He argues, “Men complain… that God would be dishonest to create the universe... with an appearance of age… This sort of reasoning, however, is entirely unworthy of reasonable men… Such reasoning is essentially an affirmation of atheism, a denial of the possibility of a real creation… if God exists… then there is no reason why He could not… instantaneously create a whole universe full-grown and fully-functioning. Obviously, if God did this, there would be no way by which any of His creatures could deduce the age or manner of creation, by the study… of His creation… to charge God with falsehood in creating His creation with ‘apparent age’ is … arrogant in the extreme---even blasphemous… However, if we are willing to accept in faith the biblical account of creation as simple, literal truth, then we immediately have a powerful tool for understanding…” (Pg. 387-388)
He says, “With … ecological zonation in mind, it is to be expected that as the … ocean waters began to inundate the land, the strong… ocean currents would first have deposited their load in the shallow seas, burying the marine creatures there, before… burying the amphibians and reptiles living near the shores. As the waters rose… the dinosaurs were next destroyed, and finally at the highest elevations the birds, mammals, and angiosperms were buried and fossilized… this pre-Flood zonation … can explain the order of fossils in the geologic record.” (Pg. 430) He continues, “why aren’t at least a few mice or sparrows in Paleozoic ne Mesozoic deposits?... why weren’t animals and plants from ‘higher zones’ mixed and fossilized with those in ‘lower zones’ during the massive river and valley flooding… in the Flood event? Other factors must have been significant in influencing the time when many groups of organisms met their demise…” (Pg. 433)
He also proposes a “relatively brief post-Flood Ice Age.” (Pg. 462) But he admits, “the existence of … land-bridges does not explain the biogeographic distribution of the majority of plants and animals in our post-Flood world… it is expected that many pre-Flood plants would have still been floating on the ocean surface … Therefore, these log mats immediately after the Flood may have been … carrying many organisms across the oceans in the post-Flood world… this rafting dispersal mechanism … can successfully explain the biogeographic distribution of most plants and animals today.” (Pg. 466-467)
He argues, “An apparent age might be deduced… but this would not be its true age. This is exactly the situation with respect to these radioactive elements… It is therefore … perfectly reasonable to suppose that the radioactive elements… were created directly by God, who then produced the daughter elements at whatever rates he chose... the true age of the earth can only be known by means of divine revelation… The fact that the earth’s crystalline rocks … yield … radioisotope ‘ages’ in … billions of years, when the true age of the earth … is only 6,000 years, means that God chose to accelerate the radioisotope decay rates in order to serve His purposes…” (Pg. 504-505) He emphasizes, “The only possible way in which men can KNOW the true age of the earth is by means of divine revelation!” (Pg. 511)
He concludes, “It has…been the purpose of this book to show how the outline of earth history provided by … Genesis … provides a scientifically accurate model within which all the verifiable observations of field and experimental data in geology and geophysics… The ranks of… creation scientists and Flood geologists are still meager and thin… I would therefore … issue a challenge, particularly to young readers … to train in whatever fields of science… so as to join the ranks…” (Pg. 615-616)
This book (which is much more detailed in ‘geological’ terms than other ‘young Earth’ books) will be of great interest to many Young Earth creationists.
December 3, 2023
Utter nonsense and kick in the lower regions to all hard working geologists.
Snelling's basic conclusion "I don't know therefore my god". Claiming that because there's no fossil evidence of Kangaroos near the supposed ark site means that his god must have assisted. Or as he puts it - "God’s hand would seem to have been involved in guiding and directing these creatures in ways that man"- this is beyond daft.
Yet the same Andrew Snelling who now claims the earth to be <10000yrs old wrote academic papers stating unequivocally that certain geological formations contain rocks that are 1.8 billion years old, so which one are we supposed to believe? He clearly thinks Young earth creationism is a more lucrative path and it's believers are (obviously) more gullible and naïve and let's be honest, religion is the only place where these two things are seen as virtues.
So unless you're a YEC and you need some confirmation bias to shore up your baseless beliefs then this book is best avoided.
Snelling's basic conclusion "I don't know therefore my god". Claiming that because there's no fossil evidence of Kangaroos near the supposed ark site means that his god must have assisted. Or as he puts it - "God’s hand would seem to have been involved in guiding and directing these creatures in ways that man"- this is beyond daft.
Yet the same Andrew Snelling who now claims the earth to be <10000yrs old wrote academic papers stating unequivocally that certain geological formations contain rocks that are 1.8 billion years old, so which one are we supposed to believe? He clearly thinks Young earth creationism is a more lucrative path and it's believers are (obviously) more gullible and naïve and let's be honest, religion is the only place where these two things are seen as virtues.
So unless you're a YEC and you need some confirmation bias to shore up your baseless beliefs then this book is best avoided.
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