Contents FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PREF ACE TO THE SECOND PRINTING PREF ACE TO THE SIXTH PRINTING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER I. BASIC ARGUMENTS FOR A UNIVERSAL FLOOD The Depth of the Flood The Duration of the Flood Twenty-one Weeks of "Prevailing" Thirty-one Weeks of "Assuaging" The Geology of the Flood The Size of the Ark The Need for an Ark The Testimony of the Apostle Peter The Total Destruction of a W1dely-D1smbuted Human Race The Total Destruction of Huroamty The Extensive Distribution of the Antediluvian Race Summary and Conclusion CHAPTER II. BASIC ARGUMENTS AGAINST AN ANTHROPOLOGICALLY UNIVERSAL FLOOD Introduction Indians in America Before the Flood The Babylonian Flood Account . . The Presuppositions of Age Determmation Methods All Mankind Not Descended From Noah's Family The Sons of Noah The Table of Nations The Bible and Racial Distribution Anthropology and Racial Distribution Summary and Conclusion CHAPTER III. BASIC NON-GEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST A UNIVERSAL FLOOD Universal Terms Used in a Limited Sense Most Universal Terms Are to be Interpreted Literally The Context Determines the Meaning Universal Terms Are Literal in Genesis 6-9 Because of the Physical Phenomena Noah and the Animals Gathering the Animals to the Ark The Capacity of the Ark Caring for the Animals in the Ark The "Natural-Supernatural" Philosophy of Miracles Postdiluvian Animal Distribution Three Major Views Australian Marsupials Rapid Animal Dispersion Summary and Conclusion CHAPTER IV. UNIFORMITARIANISM AND THE FLOOD: A STUDY OF ATTEMPTED HARMONIZATIONS Introduction Cuvier's Catastrophism and the Diluvium Theory Cuvier's Multiple Catastrophism Buckland's Diluvium Theory Lyell's Uniformitarianism and the Tranquil Theory The Rise of Uniformitarianism The Tranquil Theory The Language of Scripture The Impermng of the Ark The Olive Leaf John Pye Smith and the Local Flood Theory The Birth of the Theory Sir Leonard Woolley and the "Flood Stratum" at Ur The Local Flood Theory and Uniformitarian Geology Summary and Conclusion MODERN GEOLOGY AND THE DELUGE Introduction Geological Implications of the Biblical Record Tremendous Erosion from Rainfall Clouds Not the Source of the Deluge Rains Enlarged Ocean Basms Volcanic and Seismic Upheavals Un recedented Sedimentary Act1v1~y Ide~l Conditions for Fossil .FormatI~n Flood Uniformitarianism ~ndermmed/iJi: ;iblical Basic Harmony of the Field Data an Inferences Nature of Sedimentary Strata More Water in the Present Oceans Volcanism Earth Movements Fossilization f G The Uniformitarian Interpretation o eo ogy 1 The Present: the Key to the Past Organic Evolution The Geologic Time-Table . . Methods of Resolving Contrad1ctlo?s S The Inadequacy of Uniformity to Explain the trata Volcanism and Igneous Rocks Earth Movements Continental Ice Sheets . Phenomena of Sedimentation Fossil Graveyards . . Contradictions in the Uniform1tarian System Misplaced J:ossjls Living Fossils Formations out of Sequence Summary CHAPTER VI. ~I~i~~1~ci'Et~~~~WORK FOR Introduction · H' t The Scriptural Divisions of Geologic is ory The Initial Creation Itself The Work of the Six Days of Creation The Antediluvian Period The Deluge The Modern Post-Deluge Period The Beginning of Creation The Origin of the Solar System The Origin of the Universe The Primeval Earth The Scientific Basis of Creation The Fi~t and Second Laws of Thermodynamics The Uruque Processes of Creation The Entropy Principle and Evolution The Geologic Work of Creation Week The First Day The Second Day The Third Day Creation of "Appearance of Age" Modern Rejection of This Biblical Doctrine The "Steady-State" Cosmology The "Eternal Oscillation" Cosmology Importance of the Doctrine of a "Grown Creation" The World That Then Was "Waters Above the Firmament" No Rainfall Before the Flood Li~tle olcanic or Tectonic Activity Geologzc Evidences of Antediluvian Climate Universally Warm Climate The Supposed Permian Glaciation Explanations of Climatic Change The "Greenhouse Effect" The Antediluvian Vapor Blanket Overfl,owed With Water The Destructive Power of Modern River Floods Destructive Power of Ocean Waves Sedimentation and Fossilization During the Flood Emergence of the Lands New Atmospheric Movements Isostatic Readjustments The Order of the Strata Tectonic Origin of Continental Blocks Sequence of Stratified Beds Early Burial of Marine. Creatures. Hydrodynamic Selectivity of Movmg Water Higher Mobility of _the Vertebrates Burial of Land Ammals and Plants Formation of Coal Beds The "Mesozoic" Strata and the Dinosaurs The Final...