Properly understood the Bible gives clear proclamation of the creation by God and His work of judgment through the great flood in Noah’s day. Even in the Psalms we may find this. I was reading Psalm 33 and these verses struck me as important. (My emphases added in bold text.)
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: He lays up the depth in storehouses. 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. 9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
Psalms 33:6-9 KJV
The Creator, Jehovah, spoke the Universe into existence. The ‘host’ of heaven are the stars, which He knows all by their individual names.
4 He tells [counts] the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.
Psalms 147:4 KJV
It was not the big bang that spontaneously created the Universe out of nothing. It was the mind of the Intelligent One who spoke the Universe into existence. He created the solar system and the planet Earth with all that was necessary to support life.
When He created the Earth He placed boundaries (Psalms 74:17) for the oceans that they not pass, except at His command in the great Flood.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:9 KJV
God initially created only one ocean. But it was by the water in that ocean, the water in the “deep”, that He flooded the world in Noah’s day. God sent a great flood that covered the whole Earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:11-12
The ‘fountains of the great deep’ may indicate water in the crust itself. After God broke up the crust during the flood some of that water contributed to the flood waters that covered the continents in Noah’s time.
It has been estimated by some that the crustal rocks contain 5–10 times the amount of water that we find in the oceans.
One discovery has produced evidence for the first time of a large body of water found deep in Earth’s mantle with at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.1,2 The water is locked in moisture-containing rocks 700 km to 1,400 km beneath the surface—a subterranean ocean.
Although water covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, water is actually relatively rare, representing just 0.05% of the Earth’s total mass. This certainly brings to mind this verse:
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: He lays up the depth in storehouses.
Psalm 33:7 KJV
But some of this water that was stored there in the rocks (in addition to the existing ocean water) He released onto the surface in the great Flood. God explains this to Job when rhetorically questioning whether he could do what God had done.
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:8 KJV
Now Psalms 74 is worthy of note.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth. 13 You did divide the sea by Your strength: You broke the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 You broke the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat [food] to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 You stopped the fountain and the flood: You dried up mighty rivers. 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the borders of the earth: You have made summer and winter.
Psalms 74:12-17 KJV
This passage does seem to relate to the great Flood though verses 16 and 17 seem to relate to the original Creation in the beginning. Yet verse 12 indicates salvation by the Ark a prophetic symbol of Christ saving us by the Flood waters from sin in the world that came as a result of Adam’s sin. See 1 Peter 3:20,21.
In those flood waters were ‘dragons’, verse 13. The King James Bible was translated in 1611 and the word ‘dinosaur’ (or Dinosauria, meaning “terrible reptile”) was first coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842.3
Thus, the translators could never have had access to that word. They used ‘dragon’ here where the Hebrew word תַּנִּין תַּנִּים (tanniyn) has the meaning of some sort of monster or serpent.
Certainly from context it is marine dwelling. Some translations render it ‘jackal’. But that is just the influence of the so-called modern science of evolutionism on those fallen humans who attempted to explain what God already had.
The word ‘leviathan’ in Psalm 74:14, the untranslated Hebrew word לִויָתָן (livyathan), seems to indicate that during the course of the great flood that God killed dinosaurs. The meaning was probably unclear to the translators, but some lexicons list the meaning as serpent or sea-monster (the latter obviously from context). Some marine dinosaur seems to be as an appropriate choice as any. Maybe a plesiosaur? Hmmm, barbecue dino steaks! Probably tasted like chicken.
Before the Flood humans were essentially vegetarians (Genesis 1:29), but after the Flood God told the survivors in the wilderness that they could eat meat (Genesis 9:3). Possibly these verses speak of God supplying the needs of the 8 survivors aboard that Ark, or at least, after they landed, one year after the Flood waters started to cover the Earth.
The idea of a marine dinosaur is supported by this verse.
26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom you have made to play therein.
Psalms 104:26 KJV
In that Psalm we read:
5 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. 9 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
Psalms 104:5-9 ESV
Verses 5 and 6 describe God’s initial creation of the basement rocks of the Earth, the mantle and the crust. He seems to be promising it will not be destroyed. He also created the oceans, covering the planet with water like a garment.
At one point the waters, the oceans covered the mountains. This was true in the peak of the great Flood (Genesis 7:20). The waters were above the highest mountains by at least 15 cubits (about 7 metres) which must have been a depth greater than the draft of the Ark4 (the depth it sank in the flood waters), else it would not pass safely over all mountain tops. The Ark’s height was 30 cubits (Genesis 6:15) and it is assumed it sank into the waters half that amount.
Then God caused the flood water to leave the land (verse 7) and as part of that process the deep ocean basins formed. The mountains rose and the valleys sank (verse 8). Hydrostatic equilibrium was being established during the flood. This ultimately resulted in the continental boundaries we know today (verse 9).
If you levelled the surface of the Earth today, made it smooth like a billiard ball, the current oceans would cover the whole surface to a depth of 3 km.
Where did all the water go? It’s still there in the oceans. The greatest depth of the oceans (11,000 m) now is greater than the height of the tallest mountains (8,850 m).
Finally God promised (verse 9) that He would never again flood the world with a global flood.
Why would He need to make such a promise? If the Flood was only local and not global as some, who compromise on the plain reading of Genesis, believe? It make no sense. In fact, the only way it makes sense is if you take God’s words as He intended.
Research has shown that 3 times the Earth’s oceans waters are trapped in rocks 700 km underground.5 The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite lying in a Earth’s mantle, within the mesosphere (see Earth cut away figure), the layer of hot rock between Earth’s surface and its liquid outer core. This is evidence that more water was once trapped inside the mantle and was released onto the surface during the great Flood.
It is also consistent with the abiotic formation of petroleum and natural gas deep in the Earth’s crust. It could be that the global flood was needed to trigger its formation, or, to open the fissures by which it could reach the surface. Read Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons: Not Fossils But Primordial.
Thus the evidence, when correctly viewed through a biblical lens, a biblical worldview, makes much more sense than some long-age evolutionary story.
References
- Massive New Ocean Discovered Deep Inside Earth’s Interior, 10 December 2007, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/scientists-scan.html
- Richard A Lovett, Huge Underground “Ocean” Found Beneath Asia, National Geographic, 27 February 2007, news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-ocean-asia.html
- Richard Owen (1804-1892), http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/owen.html
- http://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/biblical_studies/bcs043.html
- Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core.html#.U6AMPvmSxFv
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