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The Genesis Flood: Discussing a Global Deluge from a Water Engineering Perspective
JUSTIN CRICK – CIVIL ENGINEERING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ASA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
from a Water Engineering Perspective JUSTIN CRICK CIVIL ENGINEERING - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
from a Water Engineering Perspective JUSTIN CRICK CIVIL ENGINEERING - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Genesis Flood: Discussing a Global Deluge from a Water Engineering Perspective JUSTIN CRICK CIVIL ENGINEERING SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ASA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES About me Graduate civil engineering student
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The Creationists – detailed account of American Creationism
ASA doesn’t take official position on controversial issues
Division in 1940s over flood geology
YEC scientists split from ASA and start their own societies
Creation Science History
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Dr. Henry M. Morris (hydrology) Dr. John Whitcomb (bible teacher)
Co-author The Genesis Flood
Old School Young Earth Creationists
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Theory that the pre-flood world was surrounded by an layer of invisible water vapor
Used to account for water during the Flood
Old School #1: Water Canopy Theory
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Ended up being disproved by ICR’s own creation scientist
Under optimistic parameters, only a depth of 6.5 feet could be suspended in a vapor canopy
Old School #1: Water Canopy Theory
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Cataclysmic geologic event “At the same time, waters and probably magmas were bursting up through the fractured foundations
- f the great subterranean
deep”
(The Genesis Flood, p265)
Old School #2: Fountains of the Deep
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Parallel Passages
Judges 15:19 – Samson thirsty Isaiah 48:21 – Water for Israelites, Moses
Bible gives no cataclysmic events to provide drinks of water
Old School #2: Fountains of the Deep
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(Left to Right) Drs. Andrew Snelling, Steve Austin, Kurt Wise
Modern Flood Geology
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Envisioning pre-flood world based on modern geology methods Arbitrary choice of supercontinent… Why not Nuna?
New School #1: Pre-Flood Supercontinent
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Plenty of current research on this
- topic. Selective
choice of evidences?
New School #1: Pre-Flood Supercontinent
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Figure taken from AiG website. Incredibly unlikely scenario to base revisions of earth history
New School #1: Pre-Flood Supercontinent
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In my own research experiences, I studied creep deformation of 10-15 mm/yr Practical and
- beservable data
sampling
New School #2: Computer Modelling
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According to flood geologist computer models, lithospheric plates would have moved speeds minimum of 2 meters/second during the flood. If true, heat generated alone would probably burn
- ff much of the oceans
New School #2: Computer Modelling
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Reinterpreting texts to fit a paradigm foreign to the context of biblical passages and historical interpretation
Concluding Remarks
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Example interpration: John Calvin’s commentary emphasizes passage has to do with God’s relationship to humans; not the natural world. “For it ought always to be borne in mind, that the world stands through no other power than that of God's word, and that therefore inferior or secondary causes derive from him their power, and produce different effects as they are directed.”
Concluding Remarks
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The nature of the earth and its human inhabitants were the same before and after the Flood
Both worlds contain sinners in need
- f a savior.
Flood narrative was a picture of the salvific work of Christ, which has paid for our debts that we may saved from the condemnation of our sins, and made right with God.