3. Walking the Deep

“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked the recesses of the deep?”

Job 38:16

Springs are sources of underground fresh water. They are found in mountains, valleys, and all sorts of places. However, one would not expect to find them on the bottom of the salty ocean. This verse has appeared absurd for centuries in the face of science and reason until the first one was found off the coast of Ecuador. This spring on the ocean floor erupted hot fresh water into the salty ocean. As God used this question to challenge a frustrated Job, He continues to challenge the understandings of our age. It goes to show that by faith, we are to accept God’s word at face value even though we have not found the physical evidence to many of the questions and skepticisms that Creationism is faced with today. God’s word will ring true and outlast any and every evolutionary / uniformitarian scientific claim that comes to bare. As for the rest of the verse . . .

Walking the Recesses of the Deep

Evolutionary and secular scientists claim that the ocean is three billion years old. Since this claim has complete disregard for a Biblical model of the earth and the universe which ranges from 6,000 to 7,000 years old, we must ask an important question: What does the evidence say? The evidence that they need to support their claim would be an ocean bottom that is smooth and buried in miles of sediment. Thanks to twentieth century advances in technology which have enabled mankind to map the ocean floor, we have discovered the ocean floor is actually just the opposite. Instead, it is filled with large mountain ranges, trenches, dense layers of rock, and a thin layer of sediment.

Last time, we studied the Mid Oceanic Ridge which is the result of cataclysmic events believed to cause the global Flood of Noah. In mapping the ocean floor, we have found this 46,000 mile ridge to be the largest, most significant mountain range in the world. Underground forces pushing up this ridge in a rapid fashion caused a catastrophic continental drift giving birth to the continents, trenches, and mountains that we know of today. This crazy topography does not support a slow, steady drift which took millions of years of gradual pushing less than inches at a time. A slow moving continental drift should have plowed any tough topography into a smooth ocean floor. Besides, modern day continental drift is not consistent in any one direction. As the continent may drift in one direction at this rate this year, it could be in a completely different direction at a completely different rate the next year. As you recall the last lesson, the continental drift happened quickly. Ten mile thick slabs of surface crust began sliding on a thin layer of water at the onset of the global Flood. These land masses slid at speeds up to 45 MPH and when resistance was met, the upwards and downwards buckling of the ground formed the trenches and mountain ranges that we know of today.

Another thing that happened during the formation of the Mid Oceanic Ridge is the spewing of magnetized rocks from below the earth known as magnetite. These chunks lay scattered all over the ocean floor, especially concentrated around the Mid Oceanic Ridge. The magnetic fields within the rocks would certainly be able to align themselves with the North and South Pole of the Earth over millions of years. However, that does not prove to be the case. The magnetic fields are erratic and random at best. This evidence matches up with the idea that several magnets were basically thrown around and landed onto the ocean floor and have not yet had the time to line up with the Earth’s magnetic field.

Secular scientists have also figured that the water and wind from the continents erode and deposit 20 billion tons of dirt and rock from the land into the ocean every year. The sediment falls down and loosely deposits itself onto the hard lava-formed rock of the ocean floor. Also every year, one billion tons of this sediment gets pushed underneath the continental plates at a rate of a centimeter per year by a process defined as subduction. The remaining 19 billion tons continues to build up onto the ocean floor year after year. It was believed that the sedimentary build up upon the ocean floor would be miles deep since it should have been ongoing at this approximate rate for billions of years. Evidence from mapping the ocean floor shows that on average, less than 400 meters (yards) of sedimentary build up exists on the ocean floor. So, when you take today’s present rate of erosion with the evidence of a thin sedimentary layer, you only get 12 million years worth of erosion. Here evolutionary science enters into a conundrum. “An alternative (Creationist) explanation is that erosion from the waters of the Genesis Flood running off the continents deposited the present amount of sediment within a short time about 5,000 years ago.”(Dr. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D., ICR associate professor of physics).

In Conclusion

God spoke volumes of scientific wonders to Job which are recorded in the Book of Job. The presence of fresh water springs on the ocean floor is just one of many of them, and a stroll on the ocean floor proves just how young our Earth really is. Scripture speaks that the “rocks will cry out” and that “this rock will bear witness.” Right here, on the ocean floor, the rocks testify about Creation and the Flood which are all events that Christ personally referenced. He stated that the He was before Abraham, and that He was the Creator. He also stated that His Second Coming would be very much like the coming of the Flood in Noah’s days. The Flood came suddenly and with no warning, sparing only a small family who were considered righteous because they believed God’s Judgment was coming. And in believing it would happen, they built an Ark as God instructed and survived. Christ is one day coming again, and only by believing in Him, will people survive the Final Judgment that is coming with Him.

When questions and doubts arise and answers are few or unfound, let Faith alone carry you to the Truth.