Bill,
I think that your interpretation of Gen. 2:4-6 is the opposite of what it
really implies. This passage seems to imply that it must have rained long
before the Flood. Verse 5 blames lack of rain for the absence of certain
types of vegetation--vegetation that had been in existence since the third
day of creation, which was long before the Flood even in YEC chronology.
If there had been no rain anywhere on earth at any time before the Flood,
then the Scripture would be giving us the wrong reason for the absence of
this vegetation at a particular time and place before that event.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bill Payne wrote:
> I think the answer to your question is in Genesis 2:4-6. "...for the
> Lord God had not sent rain on the earth..., but streams came up from the
> earth and watered the whole surface of the ground..." The first time
> rain is mentioned is Genesis 7:12 "And rain fell on the earth forty days
> and forty nights." Of course the people that saw that rain died in the
> Flood; Noah and his family were shut up in the Ark.
>
> If you take an OEC view, this won't work, but at least the Bible is
> internally consistent for the YEC view.
>
> Bill
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