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Noah's Flood — fact or fiction?

SHIPS COVERED BY MOUNTAINS

Who has heard of such things? The buried remains of large, well-formed boats / ships, have been found in several places, actually -- in either solid stone or at remarkable depths underground. To list a few, they have been found in Switzerland. - (Switzerland: B. Fregoso, De dictisfactisqi Memorabilibus Collectanea. Medoliani, 1509, np) Also in Russia. (P.J. Strahlenberg, A historical-description of the northern part of North and Eastern Europe and Asia. London, 1738, 462 pp; see p.405) And also, in Africa. (General Literature and Miscellaneous Communications: no 17 "Ship discovered in the Earth in Africa", 1818, QJI Lit Sci Arts Lond, vol. v, p.150)

The Swiss discovery occurred in 1460 when miners were digging for metals in the canton of Berne. The ship was buried 100 feet deep inside the mountain. They also unearthed an anchor of iron. But what horrified these miners more than anything else was the bizarre sight among the ship's timbers of the bones and skulls of forty men.

WARNINGS -- AND SKEPTICISM

You know, as humans we are notoriously skeptical of warnings. It seems we have an ingrained reluctance to believe messengers of doom, as we like to call them. Can you imagine the uproarious laughter when that crazy eccentric Noah first told his fellows that he was preparing a survival vessel? And why? Because there was soon to be global destruction by water! The bible claims Noah was a preacher of righteousness in whom the Spirit of the Lord pleaded with man for over one hundred years.

What was the reply? Well, your guess is as good as mine but if the Bible as I have found, can be trusted, then the "there's nothing new under the sun" admonition seems reasonable to me. And therefore, it could've been something like this "Oh, come off it!" say the scientific gurus mockingly. "Everyone knows there's not enough water on earth for such an event." And others who may have been competent mariners could have replied thus "there's never been any flood in the past and anyway we have boats," and you may have possibly heard others soothing their peers. "We can save ourselves."

Ahh -THE UNEXPECTED STRIKES

And then it happened, the most terrible cataclysmic incident ever experienced. The sudden tilting of the planet's axis, bringing terrific stresses upon the earth's surface, enough to shatter and dislocate it beyond description. The whole globe shuddered and whatever the catalyst, it was of TITANIC POWER.

The same external force that tipped the earth over, generated high speed ultra-vibrations within the earth. It disrupted the designed balance within the earth, unleashing a literal thermonuclear meltdown. The huge amounts of water that were encased under the earth's granite crust, began heating rapidly. This heat added to pressure, which added to the heat, and more pressure. And in a matter of minutes something had to give. The pressure build-up became enormous. And the earth's granite crust exploded. The waters, under super-pressure, began to rip the earth apart at the seams.

Suddenly a CRACK APPEARS and soon continents form.

At first, there would have appeared a microscopic crack, which grew in both directions. At the speed of about 2½ miles a second, following the path of least resistance, the crack would have begun to move around the earth encircling the globe in about eight minutes. Under great pressure, other cracks were soon opening. As these great cracks joined, a volcanic flame throwing effect would have resulted and in these brief moments the earth was being ripped apart forming continents.

EARTHQUAKES

With the sudden rupture of the granite crust, the stresses and friction would have been enormous. The tilting of the earth's axis generated a devastating earthquake. The original extent of this "great deep" is indicated by the depth of the disturbed layers of the earth today. The earth's stratified layers are, on average, about half a mile (one kilometre) deep. Some oil fields which have filled these basins have a depth of over 3 miles, while the deepest sediment filling these holes has been measured at 10 miles (16 kilometres). These basins, before the Big Event, were filled with vast amounts of water.

CANOPY COLLAPSES

The earth is believed to have had an enveloping canopy, just as Venus and Jupiter do today. This canopy (transparent, in this case) shielded the earth from deadly cosmic radiation, as well as moderating a sub-tropical climate from pole to pole. Now, with the radioactive balance under the earth disturbed, violent energy was released. Vast amounts of water were suddenly heated to over 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Under enormous pressure, the water exploded through the granite crust. It was expelled at such force that narrow jets shot 70 miles into the sky. The first hot jets of water would have shot against the canopy. They ripped open holes or windows in the canopy. As the book of Genesis

puts it, "the windows of heaven were opened." The sides of those holes began to collapse. Soon the entire outer canopy began to disintegrate. The result: sudden, violent temperature changes. In certain areas, due to the lines of force at the earth's magnetic poles, the canopy would disintegrate as blocks of ice. But universally it would descend as rain.

The collapsing canopy poured down in such volume and force, the result was disastrous. This condensing mass of extra water made it possible for torrential rain to fall continuously over the entire earth for six weeks non-stop. It was at this time that these waters entered our present oceans.

And since the daily rotation of the earth was now disturbed, the planet's waters were set into excessive tidal action. Moved by inertia, tidal waves rushed up over the land. The water that would soon cover the earth was coming from three sources: the underground basins, the firmament canopy, and thousands of new volcanoes. And as the deluge swept over the land, some may have been in their boats at sea some would have headed out to sea to escape the carnage but they were all overwhelmed.

At Naples, Italy, in the 16th century, after an earthquake split open a mountain, another large ship was found again, inside the mountain. And at Peru, in South America in around 1540, near Callao, Spanish miners were following a vein of gold and silver where deep underground, they were startled to come upon an ancient ship. (P. Cieza de Leon, La Cronica del Peru: Part One. Seville, 1553, pp. xxxii and 367)

Ovid likewise speaks of ancient ship anchors found on the tops of the highest mountains. I have seen some myself, at thousands of feet above sea level. It's true!

Well, it is probably needless to say that if such a devastating event did occur in our past, then all our conceptions of the history of this earth will have to be revised. The fact is, there are cultural legends worldwide, concerning such an event, in which the stark terror of men and women still lives on... the screams as they stampede to higher ground... and a single, small group of survivors, who repopulate the planet.

This is the most widespread and deeply rooted tradition on earth. These global traditions make it crystal-clear that this Great Deluge was no mere Mesopotamian flood.

As many a scientific researcher has found, legends tend to be based on a core of fact. Many an archaeological find has been made from the clues found in such legends. But it is not only racial memory. Geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence for this event is embarrassingly abundant.

Could our present Uniformitarian scientific establishment be wrong? Could there really have been such a cosmic global disaster as the Great Flood? And was this re-shaping event far greater than we can ever conceive? And has Noah's Ark been found?

The Ark Conspiracy

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