Re: Bill's flood and acidic waters

Bill Payne (bpayne@voyageronline.net)
Sat, 01 Aug 1998 23:42:57 -0600

Hi Glenn,

Glenn R. Morton wrote:

> I have often heard the response to the above that all those scientists are
> using their atheistic and evolutionary presuppositions to avoid seeing God.
> But they are not the ones who cannot explain the CO2 and sulfuric acid
> problems of the global flood. The scientific explanations don't have the
> problems your views do, so it would appear that YECs (and this included me
> when I was a YEC) use their theological presuppositions to avoid scientific
> data. I would suggest that unless you can explain the zillions of problems
> I keep raising for the flood, your 'mute testimony' idea is useless.

If God could create a *universe* so finely tuned as to be described as
being balanced on a knife edge, then He could also, I think, manage to
balance the CO2 and sulfuric acid and the zillions of other problems you
see (and I admit) either naturalistically or miracously. But to say
that His Word consists partially of mythology because you can't see the
solution to the problems is to say that you know more about how the
universe operates than the one who created it and you does.

Recently a reference was made to water seeking its own level, and this
presenting a problem for the flood which, according to the Bible,
covered the tops of all the mountains (around the whole earth, IMO).
The Bible says water doesn't always seek its own level: "The waters
were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground,
with a wall of water on their right and on their left." (Exodus 14:22)

Now, tell us, Glenn my friend, do you believe there was "a *wall* of
water on their right and on their left", or do you believe this is
another example of Bibical mythology?

Bill