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Catastrophic Flood Geology

by Scott Mauser

Outline Notes

• Foundational Question – Which fits the evidence better: The Bible or Naturalism?
• What is a Worldview?
• A mental map of reality. It shapes how we think and live.
• Assumptions Lead to Conclusions. Bad Assumptions Lead to Bad Conclusions.
• We are dealing with Facts – how do determine Truth amongst the options?
• Abductive Reasoning – The Truth Should Be:

▪ Feasible ▪ Straightforward (Occam’s Razor) ▪ Exhaustive ▪ Logical

• Naturalism cannot account for reason!

▪ Superior (Cumulative Test)

• Great Resources:
• A Pocket Guide to the Global Flood, by Answers in Genesis
• The Global Flood by John D. Morris
• Is Genesis 1-11 poetry or historical narrative?
• Read Dr. Boyd’s Technical Paper Here: https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/Statistical-Determination-of-

Genre-in-Biblical-Hebrew.pdf

• Worldwide or Local Flood?
• Which is most Feasible and Logical?

▪ Depth ▪ Duration ▪ Physical Causes ▪ Need for an Ark ▪ Destruction of All Mankind ▪ Destruction of Earth and All Flesh ▪ Promise of no more Floods ▪ Global Nature Wording ▪ New Testament Testimony

• Theological Consequences of Believing in a Local Flood:

▪ Lessens Seriousness of Sin ▪ Definition of “Very Good” ▪ Comparison with end times (2 Pet 3:5-7, Is 24:18-22)

• There are other evidences for Noah’s Flood:
• Archaeological Evidence
• Anthropological Evidence
• Tower of Babel
• Flood Legends

• Divine Creation and Divine Judgment in the Global Flood
• Can’t go against the 2nd Law
• 1st Law – Requires a Creator
• 2nd Law – Points to the Fall and Future Judgment
• “Earth does not look old, but it does look flooded.” - John Morris
• 5 Principles for Interpreting Strata
• Superposition
• Original Horizontality
• Original Continuity
• Cross-cutting Relationships
• Process-Product Analogy
• Gradual Uniformitarianism vs. Catastrophism
• Catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent

events, possibly worldwide in scope.

• Gradual Uniformitarianism - slow incremental changes, such as erosion, created all the Earth's geological
• features. The proponents of uniformitarianism held that the present was the key to the past.
• Both make Predictions.
• Neo-catastrophism is now acceptable (evolution with large catastrophes).

▪ Modern Volcanos ▪ Tsunamis ▪ Channeled Scablands ▪ Cavitation at Glen Canyon Dam ▪ Touched Beds in Burlingame Canyon ▪ Mount St Helens

• The Ark is Viable. (see this book Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe or visit the Ark -

https://arkencounter.com/)

• The Global Flood is needed to have the world we see today!
• Biblical Geology: Properly Understanding the Rocks by Tas Walker (see more here:

http://biblicalgeology.net/)

• Was there enough water? – Yes!
• 6 Geologic Evidences/Predictions
• 1. Fossils of sea creatures high above sea level – High and Dry Sea Creatures
• a. Millions and Billions of Dead Things…

See Evolution: The Grand Experiment by Dr. Carl Werner for more details.

• b. Fossils on Mt. Everest
• c. Due to Isostasy (the floating of continents), water would have had to wash over continents to create

marine fossils.

• 2. Rapid Burial of plants and animals – The World’s Graveyard
• a. Exquisite preservation of creatures within mass graveyards
• b. Rhinos
• c. Trilobites
• d. Nautiloid layer within Grand Canyon (billions of fossils)

• e. Fossils of Montceau-les-Mines (in France)
• f. Mazon Creek Coal Beds in Illinois
• g. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado
• h. Green River Formation – Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming

i. Thick coal layers j. Thick chalk layers

• 3. Rapidly deposited sediment layers spread across vast areas – Transcontinental Rock Layers
• a. Tapeats Sandstone
• b. Redwall Limestone
• c. Chalk beds
• d. Coconino Sandstone
• i. Cross-bedding (Sand waves) – analyses shows that these rock layers are deposited as

underwater sand dunes and can show the direction and speed and depth of currents.

• e. Fossil Footprints are very often found in layers below where the organisms are found fossilized.
• f. Ayers Rock
• 4. Sediment transported long distances – Sand Transported Cross Country
• a. Coconino Sandstone – Evidence shows water was flowing across all of N & S America for the

supposed 300 million years from NE to SW.

• b. Navajo Sandstone – sand grains travelled 1,250 miles from their source.
• 5. Rapid or no erosion between strata – No Slow and Gradual Erosion
• a. Layers often have flat, knife edges – There is no evidence of Bioturbation.
• b. Great Unconformity
• c. There is little to no evidence of the supposed missing time between layers.
• 6. Many stata laid down in rapid succession – Rock Layers Folded Not Fractured
• a. Within the Grand Canyon
• b. Kaibab Upwarp
• c. Often no compression or Tension cracks
• d. Often no crystalline change due to pressure and temperature
• People often don’t carefully consider the evidence because of their worldview and what they’ve been taught for

so long.

• The Flood and the Gospel
• The Flood was bigger than Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
• We see correct judgment at the Nuremburg Trials – God is just in His judgment with the Flood.
• The rock layers scream – “Repent!”
• Come to Christ for rest.