"The Flood was an act of God, not an act of nature."
That's very interesting, because most creation scientists who advocate a
Flood go great lengths to explain it all, from start to finish, purely by
natural means. They barely give God any credit at all, sometimes not even
as the instigator of the Flood. Try reading Whitcomb and Morris *The
Genesis Flood* or Walter Brown *In the Beginning* sometime.
In fact, Brown (who is no fan of evolution) has stated, "One could dismiss
each of these scientific problems [for the existence of a canopy] by saying
that God performed a miracle. That may be true....However, miracles should
not be proposed to 'prop up' a scientific theory....As one sees more and
more 'miracles' required by canopy theories, their credibility decreases,
and the need for an alternative explanation increases" (page 177).
He has also stated, "We may never understand how God physically triggered
the flood. However, once triggered, many events must have occurred whose
consequences, or "wreckage," we can still see....One should be able to
place many of these consequences in a cause-and-effect sequence that (a)
conforms to scientific laws, (b) best explains all the details of these
observations, and (c) provides a greater understanding of this global
catastrophe. This is the purpose of the hydroplate theory" (page 184).
Whitcomb and Morris have said it more succinctly: "But throughout the
entire process, 'the waters which were above the firmament' and 'the waters
which were under the firmament' *acted according to the known laws of
hydrostatics and hydrodynamics*....To be sure, the sudden and powerful
upsetting of the delicate balances of antediluvian nature brought into play
hitherto unknown tectonic and aqueous movements while new sets of balances
and adjustments were being achieved. But such adjustments must be
described as natural and not supernatural" (page 76-77; emphasis in
original).
Kevin L. O'Brien
"Good God, consider yourselves fortunate that you have John Adams to abuse,
for no sane man would tolerate it!" William Daniels, _1776_