The Evolution
of a
Creationist
8
THE COLLAPSE OF THE WATER
CANOPY
What might have caused the water vapor canopy to
come down
as rain? Several theories exist, although, of course, God does
not need
a naturalistic cause; He could just sovereignly command the
rains of the
flood to pour down by His omnipotent power.
One proposed idea for the precipitation of the
rain is
that a meteorite slammed into the earth, shooting great clouds
of dust
up into the water vapor. The dust particles would provide the
nuclei of
condensation for the raindrops and down comes the canopy. Along
with
this idea is the suggestion that the earth tipped 23 1/2 degrees
off
dead center during this meteor's impact, resulting in frozen
ice-caps
and the four seasons.
Another theory holds that a large number of
volcanoes
erupted simultaneously around the earth, and the volcanic dust
provided
the particles for the condensation of the vapor into rain.
Perhaps all
of these cataclysmic events were happening at the same time --
the
meteor hit the earth, fracturing the earth's crust, which in
turn gave
birth to multiple volcanoes.
If there were volcanic activity at the time of
the flood,
then volcanic ash would be expected in deep, old ice and frozen
muck. in
the antarctic and
arctic, the oldest ice and muck is saturated with volcanic ash.
The
creationist position holds water.
A sudden and permanent temperature drop from
pole-to-pole
greenhouse warm (heaven and earth system #1) to frozen ice-caps
and
moderate temperature (heaven and earth system #2) would occur
during the
canopy collapse and Flood. In 18, just one volcano,
Krakatau,
lowered the average global temperature five degrees for a year.
Dust
from Krakatau shot 30 miles up into the atmosphere and a series
of tidal
waves washed across the seas with the greatest being 120 feet
high. This
incredible wave pushed several miles inland on Java and
Sumatra.
If the dust from one volcano could lower the
temperature
of the earth for an entire year, what might be the chaos and
cataclysm
of hundreds of volcanoes erupting simultaneously? Could it be
that the
Bible is describing volcanic activity when it tells us that on
the
seventeenth day of the second month: "...the same day were all
the
fountains of the great deep broken up,..." (Genesis 7:11)?
This was
the first day of a sudden and permanent temperature drop, the
effects of
which are in evidence to this day.
Science News (July 6, 1991, Vol. 140, #1,
p. 7)
headlines:
"VOLCANO COULD COOL CLIMATE, REDUCE OZONE."
The article states: "The eruption of Mt.
Pinatubo could
chill the Earth slightly for the next few years and hasten the
destruction of the ozone layer over large portions of the world,
say
scientists...." (p. 7). Scientific literature refers to the
"Ring of
Fire". Several thousand years ago, volcanoes erupted
simultaneously all
around the world. What caused this cataclysmic ring of fire?
Could this
have been the "seventeenth day of the second month"?
QUICK FROZEN
ANIMALS
Evolutionary science has no answer for the
existence of
many quick-frozen animals found in various places around the
globe.
Among these frozen animals are rhinoceros, hyena, oxen,
sabre-toothed
tigers, hippopotamus, bison, donkeys, leopards, ibex and giant
woolly
mammoths. What is a quick-frozen rhinoceros doing in Siberia? Is
it that
he was on a little summer vacation and before he could get back
to
Africa, got caught in a freezing blizzard? No, there were
tropical
animals living in Siberia before the Flood of Noah's day! The
earth was
pole-to-pole greenhouse warm under the water canopy. This
presents an
immense problem for evolutionists. What happened back then to
quick-freeze tropical plants and animals in Siberia? None of
these
frozen "fossil" animals are transitional-form animals. All of
these very
ancient animals are discrete entities. They are instantly and
easily
classified as bison or mammoths. "Well", say evolutionists, "It
must
have been a slowly creeping ice age that caught up to these
animals."
The frozen animal remains do not represent a
slowly
creeping ice age. They were caught and permanently frozen
(they
are still frozen today) with such incredible speed that
undigested
plants remained in their mouths and in their stomach's digestive
juices.
Giant nine-ton mammoths have been discovered with undigested
buttercups
in their mouths and in their stomachs which are still
identifiable as to
genus and species of the plant! (see Dillow, footnote
#68)
What would it take to quick-freeze a happy,
healthy
nine-ton mammoth grazing on buttercups (and several hundred
other
identifiable plants which no longer grow in the frigid climate
where the
frozen mammoths are found)? Some scientists went to a major
food-freezing company and posed this question. The answer does
not fit
into the known realities of heaven and earth system #2 (our
present
system). To quick-freeze nine tons of warm blooded animal
munching on
buttercups, it would take a temperature of -175B0F (the coldest
temperature ever
recorded on earth is near -128B0F), a wind-chill factor
of a 200-400
m.p.h. wind, over a time of about four hours (eight hours at the
outside
limit). The problem is that there is nothing on earth that
approaches
these conditions necessary to freeze the animals -- and yet the
animals
are frozen. To preserve the meat and undigested plants, drastic
conditions not known on our present earth would have been
necessary for
the quick-freeze. The freezing of these ancient plants and
animals was
not caused by a slowly creeping ice age. Many textbooks will
show an
artist's imaginary picture of a mammoth standing in a blizzard
with a
slowly creeping glacier moving up from behind. This is
imagination, not
reality. The mammoths were warm-temperature animals, eating
warm-temperature plants in a warm-temperature climate that
suddenly, in
a matter of hours, became permanently frozen.
Another interesting fact about mammoths is
documented by
M. L. Ryder:
"The scarcity of
hair in the
modern elephant is associated with a corrugation of the
epidermis, and a
lack of skin glands. Although the mammoth, too,...lacked glands,
the
increase of the hair was associated with a loss of the epidermal
corrugation....
Sections cut
parallel to the
skin surface revealed sparse, round, non-medullated hairs with
no glands
or erector muscles."
Mammoth skin has been dissected and, to the
surprise of
evolutionists, it contains no sebaceous (oil) glands. Why should
this be
a surprise? Because cold temperature animals have a plentiful
supply of
oil glands to oil their hair and fur. Wolves, polar bears and
seals have
such oily fur that the frigid northern water rolls off and does
not
penetrate to the skin. Cold temperature animals need a lot of
oil to
protect them from the wet cold. A mammoth could not last very
long in a
frigid climate without oil in its hair. It was a
warm-temperature animal
eating warm-temperature plants that was caught suddenly and
frozen
quickly and permanently in the distant past. Evolution
provides
no answer for this! A slowly creeping ice age is not a
sufficient
explanation for the quick-frozen animals -- but a cataclysm such
as
would have resulted with the collapse of the canopy at the Flood
of
Noah's day provides the answer and the evidence.
An animal with no oil glands in its skin cannot
survive in
a frigid climate. But an animal with oil glands can survive in
frigid
or tropical climates. Leopards have oil glands and can
survive in
tropical climates. Yet, their pelts have been used to make fur
coats
that are quite warm in winter. Polar bears survive in zoos in
the
intense summer heat of southern states.
These mammoths (and many other animals) were
frozen so
quickly that their meat can still be eaten.
"In many
instances, as is
well known, entire carcasses of the mammoth have been found thus
buried,
with the hair, skin and flesh as fresh as in frozen New Zealand
sheep in
the hold of a steamer. And sleigh dogs as well as Yakuts
themselves,
have often made a hearty meal of mammoth flesh thousands of
years
old."
This sudden and permanent temperature change
from pole-to-
pole greenhouse warm to the present perma-frost or permanent ice
condition at and near the poles could have happened during the
collapse
of the water canopy at the Flood-judgment of God in the days of
Noah.
The frozen condition, since the break-up of the canopy permitted
heat to
escape our atmosphere, has preserved for us animal and plant
life (now
extinct) which existed in heaven and earth system #1. Evolution
has no
good answer for the sudden death of the frozen animals. The
Bible would
lead us to believe these things happened at the Flood
destruction of
system #1.
The Bible gives us a warning in Colossians
2:8:
"Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain
deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world,
and not after Christ."
Evolution is a philosophical system and an empty
deception.
Christians should not be taken captive by evolution -- there is
no
factual science (science not based on assumptions, see
Dr.
Kerkut's assumptions in Chapter 2, page 21) to support the
molecules-to-man model of origins. In studying origins (where we
came
from) we must keep in mind that both evolution and creation are
faith
systems. We have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed into
believing that
scientific facts prove evolution of molecules-to-man to be true.
No one
but God was there when the universe and life appeared. Let us
not be led
astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ! (II
Cor.
11:3)
l.
Praise Ye
the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the
heights!
2.
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his
hosts.
3.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of
light.
4.
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the
heavens.
5. Let
them praise
the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
(Psalm
148:1-5)
See Anthony Gow, "Glaciologial Investigations in
Antarctica,"
Antarctic Journal of
U.S.,
Vol. 7 No. 4 (1972),100-101.
Cheryl Simon, "Krakatau 18: The Shock Felt 'Round
the World',"
Science News, 124
(May,
1983), 138.
M. L. Ryder, "Hair of the Mammoth," Nature, 249 (May 10,
1974),
190,191.
G. Richard Lydekker, "Mammoth Ivory," Smithsonian Reports
(1899), p.
363, as reported by Dr. Joseph Dillow, The Waters Above, p.
312. (See
footnote #69)
When we
depart from
the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ (II Cor. 11:3),
we
accept empty deceptions. Many Christians have departed from
Biblical
Truth to believe in Darwinian evolution or in Punctuated
Equilibrium
(evolution did not happen too slow to see, it happened too fast
to see).
Stephen Jay Gould and
Niles
Eldredge promote "Punctuated Equilibria" as the mode of
evolution (see:
"Punctuated Equilibria: the Tempo and Mode of Evolution
Reconsidered,"
Paleobiology, 3
(Spring
1977). The punctuated equilibria model (evolution is too fast to
see)
has been around for a long time even though Gould seems to
accept praise
as the "father" of it. Punctuated equilibria is foundational to
Marxist-Leninism and was seen by Marx
and Lenin as
essential to move people away from Biblical Truth into the vain
philosophy and empty deception of Marxist-Leninism. For
excellent
documentation of this and Gould's roots as a Marxist, read:
The Long
War Against
God
by Dr. Henry Morris (Baker Book House, 1989), and Understanding the
Times by Dr.
David Noebel (Summit Ministries, Box 207, Manitou Springs,
Colorado
80829, 1991).
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