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.

2. The Flood

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day or the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.”

Moses, Genesis 7: 11-12

Hollywood has produced films showing global cataclysms as the result of global warming. They show a subzero cold front freezing a helicopter instantaneously to temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero causing it to fall from the sky while its crew members are nothing more than ice statues. They showed New York and California being flooded and frozen, a volcano erupting in the middle of LA, and much more. Yet, little creativity on their part is afforded to the efforts of demonstrating the reality of the Flood, God’s first (but not final) Judgement upon the earth. In this e-mail, you will see science and scripture walk hand in hand as the reality of the “springs of the great deep bursting forth” had cataclysmic effects resulting in it raining for forty days and forty nights; the ice age; the rapid formation of oil, coal, and the fossil record; the creation of the modern day mountains, volcanoes, canyons, oceans, and continents.

The Hydroplate Theory

Any scientific assumption that cannot be proved in a lab on a regular basis is a theory. Evolution is a theory. Electromagnetism is a theory. The existence of black holes is a theory involving a lot of math and assumption, yet we all for the most part find their existence certainly plausible. Even the way a radio works is a theory because let’s face it, we may have big ideas about how it works with tried and true measurements to support what we all believe in, but let’s face it, no one has ever seen a radio wave. There could be even deeper mysteries to it.

Even in Creationism, we have theories of our own. The difference is that our theories yield to the Word of God which we know to be true. One of these theories is the Hydroplate theory. Hydro meaning water and plate involves the many layers of sediment, dirt, and rock which make up the crust and mantle of the earth. So, the theory involves a subterranean layer of water that is underneath the earth’s surface constituting the water mentioned in Genesis that burst forth from the Great Deep. The theory was developed by a Dr. Walter Brown (Former Air Force Academy Professor, Professor Emeritus of Physics, and Director of the Center of Scientific Creation) who is also a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He has created various computer simulations and mathematical models that uncover what we see in scripture with what we see today.

According to Dr. Brown’s theory, 10 miles below the earth’s surface, a subterranean layer of water that was a ½ mile thick existed in various interconnected chambers. This water constituted half of the water in the oceans today existed in this thin spherical shell of interconnected chambers. Subterranean pressures began to build up which caused the earth’s crust to stretch and expand like a balloon causing failures in the earth’s crust in between the hydroplate and the earth’s surface causing a crack to form. The crack went in two different directions: one moving north and one moving south at the rate of 3 miles per second. The cracks followed the path of least resistance as it encircled the globe in about two hours time. As the crack formed, the subterranean water began to vent through the small crack as 10 miles of earth and rock pressing down upon it accelerated the water to hypersonic speeds. Enormous amounts of pressure and hundreds of degrees of heat due to friction took its effect upon the water making its rocketing ascent all the more explosive. As it spewed forth from the crack at speeds breaking the sound barrier, it sprayed 20 miles upward into the earth’s atmosphere giving birth to this global cataclysm. According to Dr. Brown, this event would have the energy release of 10 billion hydrogen bombs. Some of the water coming out of the crack just fell down to the ground as a tidal wave. Some of it began to change weather patterns and set the stage for the forty days and nights of torrential rainfall that the world has never seen before or after. Some of the large volumes of water quickly froze in the earth’s atmosphere and fell back down to earth as a freezing blast instantaneously freezing, suffocating, and burying all life in its path. This is why in places like Siberia and Alaska, you find perfectly preserved mammoths that were instantly frozen in place. The ice age was not global. In caves in Nebraska, evidence can be found for an ice age, while in Arkansas caves, you cannot find evidence for the ice age. So, the effects of the ice age did have north and south limits and would not have affected places like Israel and Mesopotamia, but the Flood did.

The Sedimentary Mudslide

As this high pressure water spewed forth, another thing began to happen. Erosion occurred at the cracks and they were continuously widened as sediments began to spew forth with the water creating a large mudslide on both sides of the cracks covering the continents. The mudslide engulfed plants and animals leading as it spread forth over the land with a tremendous amount of heat and pressure. This set of dynamics led to the rapid production of coal, oil, and the current fossil record. If it were not for this sedimentary burial of animals today, the mineralization process could not have occurred to preserve the animals that are being dug up today. This fact alone challenges evolutionary beliefs in how the fossils got to be in a position to be fossilized in the first place.

The Significance of the Mid Oceanic Ridge (MOR)

The Mid Oceanic Ridge (MOR) is the tallest and largest mountain range in the world and traces the globe like a seam on a baseball. Where is it? It’s on the ocean floor. How did it get there? It’s one of the cracks from the Flood. As the cracks eroded to a certain width, subterranean rocks began to spring upward to form this mountain range. As it gained in height, it elevated the earth’s crust in that region. A small portion of the water left behind from the subterranean hydroplate began to act as a lubricant causing the continents to begin to drift away from the crack. The continents accelerated to a speed of 45 miles per hour until they met resistance. Once resistance is met, the crust began to compress and buckle up and down. Where it buckled up, a mountain was formed. Where it buckled low, a trench was formed. The rising of the MOR continued to push the earth to form the rise of continents, mountains, and oceanic trenches throughout the period of the flood. All major mountain ranges today are parallel to the Mid Oceanic Ridges from where they slid. Eventually water drained off from the rising land into the deep ocean basin.

In Conclusion

Before the Flood, there was no rain: “for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth . . . but streams (also can be translated as a mist or a spring) came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.” (Genesis 2:6). Plant life found from this period is described to have very broad leaves in order to catch the mists which supplied the earth its daily allotment of water. God’s Judgment brought change. This cataclysmic Flood left the earth, its climate, and everything now different. Now we have a hydrologic cycle which did not exist before the Flood. In the hydrologic cycle, you have rain falling on the land, then it gets evaporated into the air, it condensates, it rains, and so on. As a result, a dramatic reduction in the size of leaves is noted between the plant life of today and Pre-Flood. Only God could put together something so violent and altering, and could make it so life giving.

In His next and final Judgment according to the book of Revelation, the earth and the universe as a whole shall undergo an intense fire causing them to pass away and leaving us with a New Heaven and a New Earth. There we shall have no tears and no sorrows. There will be no seas for the water that flows there shall be the Water of Life flowing from the Throne of God established on the New Earth. We also will not have any light except for the Light of God. Another Judgment is coming: more severe, more intense, more violent, and much more altering. But, the life it will yield will be all the more exquisite for those who know that Christ is their Ark through the coming storms.