<<To me the major problem with uniformitarianism (especialy among
theists) is that it implicitly denies that God could have intervened
in geological history and assumes in a strong sense that "the
present is the key to the past.">>
Hi, Steve. Yes, I agree with you here. My point was about a particular
moment in time when Scripture says God performed a miracle vis-a-vis the
flood waters. That seems to be a wild card that frustrates uniformitarians
like Glenn, but I've been trying to explain that the frustration is caused
by their own, faulty premise, viz., that God should have provided a certain
kind of evidence, and because he did not he is "deceitful."
<<As you point out, Genesis 8:1 ascribes the cause of the floodwaters
receding to a "wind". The word for "wind" [Heb. ruach] here is the
same word translated "Spirit" in Genesis Gn 1:2. There is a strong
but subtle parallelism between the Creation story in Genesis 1-3 and
the post-Flood re-establishment story in Genesis 8-9. If the "wind"
in Genesis 8:1 was the Spirit of Genesis 1:2, then there should be
no difficulty at all for theists in assuming that God supernaturally
removed all the water, along with the sediment and the dead human
and animal bodies.>>
Interesting! And also recall that God made the ground dry by "wind" when
the Israelites were escaping from Yul Brynner.
<<Normally I don't like postulating miracles as an escape from
Biblical a difficulty, but here such a miracle is well supported by
both the Biblical text and the practical realities of re-
establishing the post-Flood environment in pristine condition so
life could return to normal.>>
I agree. Scripture is explicit about a miraculous clean up of the flood. I
just noticed that a couple of days ago, and it's been fascinating to follow
that up. I may be missing something very important, and if so, I'd like to
find out what it is.
Jim