The Truth About The Creation
God's Glory, God's Handiwork, God's
Word, The Genesis Account
A Dissertation by Pastor Ed Rice January 2017
9: The World
Flood
God's curse because of Adam's sin changed the whole environment of
the Earth, but God's curse because of the evil imagination of the
thoughts of man's heart seems to have changed his physical
environment even more. The changes because of the first curse are
only known because of God's documentation, but the changes because of
God's world flood are not only well documented, they left scars and
evidences that one can see and analyze. The atheistic evolutionist
uses science-so-called
to try and imagine a natural cause which would leave such world flood
evidence. He sets his Bible aside, with all that it says about a
world flood, and determines, with all his might, that there was no
judgment of a Supernatural God, no world flood, and that the Earth is
billions of years old. When it comes to the flood, the Bible believer
has the tremendous advantage that he can trust what God said about
it. This allows that the evidence can be evaluated with an insight
which is given by the instigator of the flood, the LORD God, the
Creator of the universe.
Both of these preconceived, going-in positions cause what is commonly
called bias. The evolutionist has the preconceived notion that there
is NO Creator and ONLY “Natural Processes.” The
creationist has
the preconceived notion that God created and said so. Bias, however,
implies dismissing evidence or interpretation of evidence because of
a preconceived notion. The evolutionist completely dismisses
sixty-six books, written by forty different men over a period of
1,592 years, which say over 1,000 times “thus saith the LORD
God.”
Of coarse the creationist might dismiss that lizards can hatch out
bald eagles, or that it takes 168,000 years for light to travel from
a supernova in the Large
Magellanic
Cloud, but these hypotheses are at least evaluated and pondered by
the creationist. Some are only pondered briefly, like when they say
that breeding dogs might produce a Clydesdale horse... one need not
ponder that one to long.
In any event, the diligent Bible believer should be well versed on
the evidences for the God-sent world flood, and be well aware of some
of the theories of how God did it, why God did it is well documented.
Even in analyzing how it came to be, however, one must guard
themselves from thinking that it was in any way a natural flood. When
a believer is blasted for believing something that is naturally
impossible, recall that we have our foundation in the Supernatural,
and He told us what he did up front.
God gives ample
description of what
he did to this Earth when he brought a world flood judgment upon man.
Before considering all the geological ramifications of this
revelation, consider these three important points: 1) The
reality of the flood, 2) The justification of the flood, and 3) The
miracle of the Ark.
The reality of the world flood stands on the Holy Word of God. There
is ample left over evidences of the world flood. We wish to point out
several, but the Bible believer holds to the world flood because God
said so. Although we do not believe it just because of all the
evidences, all the evidences cause us to give God all glory. Such
faith gives the evolutionist headaches.
It also can be understood that the flood was justified because,
“GOD
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the Earth, and it
grieved him at his heart” (Gen 6:5-6). God requires that man
acknowledge his sin and be accountable for it. King David had
grievously sinned, and when he made his confession he said,
“For I
acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that
thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou
judgest” (Psalm 51:3-4). For those who read their Bible
without
allegorically tinted glasses, there are seven dispensations and the
flood brings one of them to a dramatic close. Believers need to be
careful here because there is a new sect of protestant reformers who
use those tinted allegorical glasses. Some say the flood came to
destroy, not man, but giants (in Hebrew, Nephilims). God had to send
the flood, they reason, because angelic devils bred with human women
and produced Nephilims. Not only so, they speculate, it happened
again, and there were devil-human giants in Canaan land. Not only so,
they go on in their wild speculations, it has happened again, and the
governments of the world are hiding the existence of these
super-humans, waiting for the new world order where they will be
revealed as the anti-Christ. Protestants are looking for the
anti-Christ, they are not looking for the meet-you-in-the-clouds,
soon coming Christ. In any event, the flood was not justified to
eliminate fictitious devil-humans, it was for the depraved humans
which fail in all seven of the Bible's depicted dispensations.
Further it needs clarified, that Noah was a miracle, the Ark was a
miracle, the animals coming to the Ark, two by two, was a miracle,
forty days and forty nights of rain was a miracle, living on the Ark
for a year was a miracle, and the re-speciation of the world after
the flood was a miracle. Don't get into the gutter with the
evolutionist and try for a natural explanation for any of it. If you
sleep with the dogs,... if you wallow with the swine,... if you stay
with the camels,... I expect you have heard all proverbs about it, so
pay attention. A Bible believer doesn't care that a six masted
schooner called the Wyoming, was the largest wooden ship ever built,
and it fell apart due to all the vertical, horizontal and torsional
twisting in the ocean.
Bill Nye the science guy does not understand that Noah had a
Supernatural God helping him and the skilled shipwrights he was kin
to, did not. The Ark was a miracle, its construction was, its
preservation was, its floating was, its staying together was, and its
landing in mountains of Ararat was.
Noble attempts to construct models and replicas of Noah's Ark are,...
noble. They are, however plagued with the philosophy that God's world
flood and Noah's survival on an Ark have a perfectly natural
explanation. Modernist liberal Christianity is forever dismissing and
excusing miracles with “natural explanations.” It
dismisses God
with a capital “G” and pursues a god with a small
“g,” and it
plays into the hand of the atheistic evolutionists. In some
instances, so does the modeling and replicating of the Ark. Care
should be taken.
With those few thoughts in mind let us consider the geological
evidences of God's world flood. Again, God
gives ample description of what he did to this Earth when he brought
a world flood judgment upon man. The Bible says:
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second
month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of
the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
…
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were
covered. … 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an
hundred
and fifty days (Gen 7:11,19,20,24).
The abatement of that world flood was on this wise:
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the
earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and
the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually:
and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated. 4 ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the
waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains
seen (Gen 8:1-5).
God is reasonably clear in his descriptions of the world flood. The
fountains of the great deep were broken, water came up and water came
down. This went on for forty days and forty nights. Every portion of
the Earth's surface was submerged in water. Unbelievers have unduly
concerned themselves with where all the water came from and where it
all went to. Exotic answers to these naysayers include grand
encounters and near encounters with comets, asteroid collisions and
more. It is possible that God swung a comet or its tail into our
path. Some have speculated that that might account for the scars on
our moon, the tilt on our axis and the wobble in our precession.
Staunch Bible believers have stood on the fact that God said what he
meant and meant what he said, the water came both out of the Earth,
and down through the air. Various speculations about just how that
happened abound, but when he is God Almighty there does not need to
be an “all natural” explanation for his
“Supernatural”
events. Creationists often fight like alley cats, over their
speculations. I guess that is alright, as long as they reproduce like
alley cats as well.
Before Dr. Kent Hovind was incarcerated for his uncompromising stand
on Bible truth,
VCRs of his creation seminars were being sent to every public school
library of our tri-county area. Atheistic evolutionists had great
cause for concern.
“The most famous, feared and notable creation speaker, Dr.
Kent
Hovind spent nearly a decade in federal prison. Charged with up to
100 years for ‘mail fraud’ before release. He was a
science
teacher for 15 years and began a full-time creation ministry. He was
traveling all over the world doing seminars on creation, evolution
and dinosaurs. He debated more than 100 scientists concerning
evolution versus creation and created the well known 7 part video
creation series translated into 32 languages.
Dr. Dino, as he was fondly called, was well on the way of toppling
the atheistic evolutionist's whole house of cards. Their most
powerful resource came against him, the corrupt, atheistic US
government. Trumped up charges saw Dr. Kent Hovind wrongfully
incarcerated from 2007 to 2015. Those seminars insisted on at least
two things. We are in a war, everybody should be doing something, and
if God said the water for the world flood came up out of the Earth,
then the water for the world flood came up out of the Earth. Dr.
Hovind had a profound ability of making the obvious obvious. The
atheistic evolutionists had cause to fear him, but the US government
had no cause to persecute him.
The Bible states it, “the same day were all the fountains of
the
great deep broken up” (Gen 7:11). Kent Hovind taught it,
“Deep
under the mantle of the Earth's crust there seems to be a layer of
water which God released to flood the whole Earth.” When
God's man
was sent to prison in 2007, the atheistic evolutionist was told by
the American Geophysics Union, “Scientists scanning the deep
interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir...
The finding... will be detailed in the forth coming monograph to be
published...”
Dr. Kent Hovind had taught in his creation seminars that water
contained under the mantle of the Earth was blasted to the surface
when God broke up the fountains of the great deep. The extreme
pressure on this water would cause violent eruptions of water
blasting out of the ground with such force and speed that it
permeated the world's atmosphere, and perhaps even blasted all the
way through the Earth's atmosphere. We are, after all, standing on
only 20 miles of crust, under 20 miles of air. (That is troposphere,
not counting stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere)
Based solely on what the Bible declares Dr. Hovind surmised that God
tapped into a subcutaneous water source to flood the planet. Man did
not know that such a water source existed but for what the Bible
said. Bible believers have an advantage over atheistic evolutionists,
we have the book written by the Supernatural Creator. Consider some
implications of believing what Kent Hovind taught us twenty years
ago.
In this decade it was
discovered
that there is a subcutaneous layer of water under the crust of our
Earth. It is a layer so compacted and heated that it is described as
being in a plasma like state, and that layer contains so much water
that if the fountains of the great deep were to be broken up, i.e.
the crust and some of the mantle
over that water, this planet could be completely covered with water
twice over.
When God brought the condemnation of a world flood, there was a
cataclysmic, God caused, miraculous, fracturing of the Earth's crust.
Water burst out of this subcutaneous water reservoir and could easily
blast all the way to the upper atmosphere. It then rains for forty
days and forty nights. As the world floods, both poles of the Earth
freeze, capturing mammoths and tropical vegetation in a depth of ice.
Such a scenario accounts for the evidences still found on our planet.
Throw in Kent Hovind's possibility of a comet encounter and we have
scars on the moon, instantaneous freezing of those mammoths, and a
wobble in the Earth's precession that is still damping out.
Before the flood the physical characteristics of the Earth were very
different than after the flood. God's Word tells us, “And the
LORD
said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years”(Gen
6:3).
God caused that man would no longer live for over 500 years, as was
common previous to the flood. There is good reason to believe that he
used the flood's cataclysmic changes to reduce man's life expectancy.
A thousand or so years later he reduced it again as the Psalmist
reveals, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
and
if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
away”
(Psalm 90:1). We dare not imply that the reduced life expectancies
are caused by nature alone, or just some environmental changes
experienced, for God, as a Supernatural force, says that he had a
role in its decrease. We can, however, suppose that things were very
different before all the cataclysmic changes of his world flood.
Speculations about the physical conditions before the flood abound.
From the Bible one can perceive that there was no rainfall, no
rainbow, and a rich longevity. Tiny lungs on huge dinosaurs make us
speculate about hyperbaric oxygen levels. Dr. Kent Hovind, who has
practiced the greatest hermeneutical care (and only used a trusted
King James English Bible), speculates that there was a canopy around
the planet. Many have slandered his speculation, but none have
presented a more thorough hypothesis. In any regards, things greatly
changed because of God's world flood, and we are surrounded by
evidence showing that God said what he meant, and meant what he said.
In this dissertation I wish to analyze two of those great changes.
The changes in our world's calendar, and the evidence for continental
glaciers and their period on Earth. Before delving into these two
interests of mine, consider again the wondrous discovery of
subcutaneous water being discovered 3,498 years after God revealed
that it was there.
Water
for the World Flood
The waters that the Bible naysayers and the world flood deniers could
not imagine, have been discovered in the fountains of the great deep,
just like God said. The articles below genuinely refute their
skepticism; there is indeed water in the mantle of the Earth.
LONDON: A massive reservoir of water three times the size of Earth's
oceans have for the first time been located hundreds of miles
underneath the surface of the planet. Researchers from Northwestern
University and the University of New Mexico provided the first ever
evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the
United States.
Though not in the familiar liquid form — the ingredients for
water
are bound up in rock deep in the Earth's mantle — the
discovery may
represent the planet's largest water reservoir.
The presence of liquid water on the surface is what makes our "blue
planet" habitable, and scientists have long been trying to
figure out just how much water may be cycling between Earth's surface
and interior reservoirs through plate tectonics.
Northwestern University geophysicist Steve Jacobsen and University of
New Mexico seismologist Brandon Schmandt have found deep pockets of
magma located about 400 miles beneath North America, a likely
signature of the presence of water at these depths.
... Northwestern geophysicist Steve Jacobsen and University of New
Mexico seismologist Brandon Schmandt have found deep pockets of magma
located about 400 miles beneath North America, a likely signature of
the presence of water at these depths. The discovery suggests water
from the Earth's surface can be driven to such great depths by plate
tectonics, eventually causing partial melting of the rocks found deep
in the mantle.
The findings, to be published June 13 in the journal Science, will
aid scientists in understanding how the Earth formed, what its
current composition and inner workings are and how much water is
trapped in mantle rock.
... Scientists have long speculated that water is trapped in a rocky
layer of the Earth's mantle located between the lower mantle and
upper mantle, at depths between 250 miles and 410 miles.
Jacobsen and Schmandt are the first to provide direct evidence that
there may be water in this area of the mantle, known as the
"transition zone," on a regional scale.
The Aug 22, 2014 Earth Science article rehearses
the same
information:
Researchers have found evidence of a potential "ocean's worth"
of water deep beneath the United States. Although not present in a
familiar form, the building blocks of water are bound up in rock
located deep in the Earth's mantle, and in quantities large enough to
represent the largest water reservoir on the planet, according to the
research.
For many years, scientists have attempted to establish exactly how
much water may be cycling between the Earth's surface and interior
reservoirs through the action of plate tectonics. Northwestern
University geophysicist Steve Jacobsen and University of New Mexico
seismologist Brandon Schmandt have found deep pockets of magma around
400 miles beneath North America—a strong indicator of the
presence
of H₂O stored in the crystal structure of high-pressure minerals at
these depths.
"The total H₂O content of the planet has long been among the
most poorly constrained 'geochemical parameters' in Earth science.
Our study has found evidence for widespread hydration of the mantle
transition zone," says Jacobsen.
For at least 20 years geologists have known from laboratory
experiments that the Earth's transition zone—a rocky layer of
the
Earth's mantle located between the lower mantle and upper mantle, at
depths between 250 and 410 miles—can, in theory, hold about 1
percent of its total weight as H2O, bound up in
minerals
called wadsleyite and ringwoodite. However, as Schmandt explains, up
until now it has been difficult to figure out whether that potential
water reservoir is empty, as many have suggested, or not.
If there does turn out to be a substantial amount of H2O
in the transition zone, then recent laboratory experiments conducted
by Jacobsen indicate there should be large quantities of what he
calls "partial melt" in areas where mantle flows downward
out of the zone. This water-rich silicate melt is molten rock that
occurs at grain boundaries between solid mineral crystals and may
account for about 1 percent of the volume of rocks.
Before it was found Dr. Kent Hovind predicted that there was water in
the rock layers deep in the Earth. God said so. In the February 2015
debate with Ken Ham, Bill Nye the science guy went on and on about
how his science makes predictions of missing links and then finds
them while the creationist's science makes no predictions whatsoever.
Perhaps he was right. Creationists need not make a bunch of
predictions about truth, God wrote it down for us to read, and then
sent it in the form of his only begotten Son. “Jesus saith
unto
him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
The
Flood Caused Cataclysmic Changes in the Calendar
The Bible says that when God created the world it was very good. It
also says the lights which he put in the firmament were “for
signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years” (Gen
1:14). These lights certainly consisted of the sun, the
moon
and the planets which mark out the Earth's seasons. Two verses later
God adds that, “He made the stars also” (1:16).
This seems to limit these lights which are “for
signs and
seasons, and for days and for years” to
these bodies, and eliminate the fixed stars which make the backdrop
of outer space. When one says 'first star I see tonight' he is
usually looking at a planet (and today he might even be seeing a man
made satellite). Thus our sun, moon and planets were created by God
as our calendar system, to mark out days, seasons, and years, and
they were created 'very good.' In this treatise I contend that this
well-made calendar system consisted of a very organized year which
the moon divided into twelve 30 day months. I then contend that a
catastrophic event altered this system into our present condition.
Bible believers will
quickly
recognize this catastrophic event as the world flood of Genesis
chapter 6-10. There are many references to this judgment of God on
the Earth which imply changes in the heavens and the earth. In
2Samuel 22:8 David was not referencing the world flood in particular
but parallels God's wrath, “When the waves of death compassed
me,
the floods of ungodly men made me afraid” (vr. 5); there
David says
“Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of
heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.” Everything
about God's wrath at the world flood implies the shaking of Earth and
moving of the foundations of heaven. There are some movements and
shaking which could easily cause the Earth calendar to change to a
365 and ¼ day year with a 27 day 7 hour 43 minute lunar
month. We
can use these two supposed changes to our calendar to hypothesize
what changes took place in our solar system in God's wrath
of
a world flood 4000 years ago.
Immanuel Velikovsky, a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist, documented the
idea of a fifteenth century altered Earth orbit which changed the
calendar in his 1950s book “Worlds in Collision.”
His ten year
long interdisciplinary research, and his brilliant and entertaining
writing style created revolution and shook the doctrine of
uniformity of geology, ergo it shook the pillars of Darwin's theory
of evolution. His physics and theories were overwhelmingly rejected
by the scientific community, but his research documented well the
fifteenth-century changes, as recorded by numerable cultures,
religions, and mythologies around the world. The calendar changes
that Velikovsky researched and documented reasonably align with the
time of God's world flood. Ussher dates that Biblical flood at 2448
BC.
When I propose herein that Earth once had a 360 day year I do not
wish to lend any credence to Clarence Larkin's (1850-1924) hypothesis
that God got hung up on such a calendar when he wrote out Bible
prophecy about upcoming events. Dwight Pentecost (1915-2014),
distinguished professor emeritus of Bible exposition of Dallas
Theological Seminary, agreed with Larkin that God mislead with this
type of deception, a deception that only learned scholars might
detect. I recommend that one remain leery of such a hypothesis which
is only discernible by the scholars or “clergy.” I
contend,
again, that God clearly wrote what he meant and absolutely meant what
he wrote.
The calendar likely changed from a 360 day year during the Biblical
flood, and such a change is quite conceivable. Because of the laws of
gravity and centrifugal force there are three ways to bring about an
increase in the length of a solar year. A year being the time it
takes to circle the sun in an orbit. One way would
be to change the orbital mechanics. This could be done without
changing any physical laws simply by moving the Earth 1,436,974 km
further away from the sun, which would only decrease the sun's
radiant energy on Earth by less than 2%. Or, the time in one year
could be increased by 5 ¼ days by a decrease in the mass of
the sun,
a very unlikely event not herein pursued, but possible
mathematically.
Lastly this increase in
a year's
length could be accomplished by an increase in the rotation of the
Earth. A faster rotation, would make for shorter days, and it would
take more of these shortened days to clock out our orbit around the
sun. Thus, although such an increase would not change the time it
took to circle the sun, it could easily increase the day count from
360 to 365 ¼. The right combination of these two
possibilities can
be made to account for the aforementioned change in the lunar orbit
around the Earth. We can thus balance these into a likely scenario
wherein “the earth shook and trembled;
the
foundations of heaven moved and shook,”
and the nicely ordered calendar system that God made in creation
altered to the conglomerated one that we see today.
The scenario of the Earth once having a 360 day year and twelve 30
day months is a justifiable hypothesis. It is more justifiable for
the Bible believer who understands Noah's calendar, which became the
Jewish 360 day per year, 30 day per month calendar.
The Jewish calendar is not alone in this circumstance, many ancient
civilizations used a 360 day calendar. A catastrophic change in our
orbital mechanics brought about by a comet plunging into our sun is
an equally justifiable hypothesis. It is more justifiable for the
Bible believer who knows there was a world flood here, and that there
was water damage on our moon and nearest neighboring planets: water
damage that could have been caused by a passing comet.
Photographs of Mars
indicates that
water once stood to a considerable depth there and it has, what
appears to be, water channels produced from the resulting flood. It
is interesting that the modern atheistic evolutionists, who sent
expeditions to mars, will believe a “world flood”
there, but
vehemently deny a world flood on Earth. They certainly want to avoid
lending any credence to the Bible that they hate. Earth's moon has
craters with no remaining asteroid debris; craters likely caused by
huge ice chunks that quickly dissipated leaving only the crater. It
is also plausible that Earth passed through the ice tail of a comet.
Unlike Earth's moon, God has the Earth surrounded in a magnetic
field. It is conceivable that the ice from a comet tail would seek
out either of Earth's magnetic poles for its entry. Such an entry of
massive amounts of ice could account for the wobble in the Earths
tilt (precession), account for the instantly frozen mammoths at the
poles, and account for the Biblical revelation that it rained for 40
days and 40 nights on the whole Earth.
It would not, however, account for all the water for a world flood,
for God said he broke up the fountains of the great deep for the bulk
of that water.
Let us hypothesize then
that God
caused a comet or comet tail to pass by our Earth and the Sun 4000
years ago. This is not to diminish from the revealed Word of God and
suppose a naturalist solution to a Supernatural event, but to
understand more completely what God said happened. An atheistic
naturalist might even suppose such a hypothesis believable because of
the Earth's upcoming close calls with asteroids and comets. Just the
same be sure that he, or the modernist liberal is not allowed to take
a Supernatural God out of the world flood.
As a comet, which is a
screaming
fast ball of ice with a tail of debris,
comes on a hyperbolic orbit toward our Sun, it passes near all nine
of our planets. If it were to just pass through our solar system, the
orbit of our moon might change because of the force of the collisions
and the mass of water added to the Earth. The orbit of our Earth
might change because of the force of the collisions and the mass
added to our Sun (we previously advocated that any mass added to our
Sun would likely be negligible). And the rotation of the Earth could
increase or decrease due to rotational energy added or removed. Just
adding a mass of water to the Earth, however, would slow its
rotation, and thereby lengthen a day and shorten the year (i.e.
bringing the water mass up to rotation would drag the Earth energy to
a slower rotation. A slower rotation would actually lengthen a day,
making fewer of them pass by in one orbit of the Sun, i.e. giving a
phenomena of a shortened year, instead of the hypothesized lengthened
year).
Dr. Kent Hovind
hypothesizes equally
well that rock and water expelled from under the crust of the Earth
might have left the Earth, cratered the moon, and changed the density
balance of the Earth.
Water expelled from the Earth could increase its orbital spin in the
same way an ice skater draws in her arms to increase her rotation.
These physical changes can be combined and analyzed to determine a
realistic comet collision, or water eruption, that changed the Earth
from man's first observed 360 day year with twelve equally marked out
lunar months, to an awkward 365 ¼ day solar calendar. The
Hebrews of
the Bible now have to add one thirty day month seven times in
nineteen years just to keep things lined up. Judaism 101 states it
like this:
“A year with
13 months is referred
to in Hebrew as Shanah Me'uberet (pronounced shah-NAH
meh-oo-BEH-reht), literally: a pregnant year. In English, we commonly
call it a leap year. The additional month is known as Adar I, Adar
Rishon (first Adar) or Adar Alef.... In the fourth
century,
Hillel II established a fixed calendar based on mathematical and
astronomical calculations. This calendar, still in use, standardized
the length of months and the addition of months over the course of a
19 year cycle, so that the lunar calendar realigns with the solar
years. Adar I is added in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and
19th years of the cycle. The current cycle began in Jewish year 5758
(the year that began October 2, 1997).”
The scenario in view here is that the year changes from 360 days to
365 ¼ days and the lunar month from 30 days to 29
½ days. Like all
of life's processes such a likely scenario is easily rational but
mathematically very intense.
Consider first that the sun has variations of it's own and
“The
total solar irradiance,” (TSI) is the amount of solar
radiative
energy impinging on the Earth's upper atmosphere. It is observed to
vary in phase with the solar cycle, with yearly averages going from
1365.5 Watt per square meter at solar minimum, up to 1366.6 at solar
maximum. There are fluctuations about the means of about +/- 1 Watt
per square meter on timescales of a few days. The min-to-max
variation, at the 0.1% level, is far too small to affect Earth's
climate directly.” It can be considered that increasing
Earth's
orbit to account for more time in a yearly orbit would change the TSD
an imperceptible amount.
The
Changed Calendar's Mathematical Analysis
For someone with a high school level of physics the following
analysis is mathematically intriguing. It utilizes the simple laws of
orbital mechanics to demonstrate the feasibility of a comet collision
changing the solar and lunar orbits from a 360 day year and twelve 30
day months to our present conglomerate and far less ordered system.
An analysis of the change in the Earth orbit that would add the 5.25
days to a 360 day year would begin with the basic equation from
orbital mechanics for the period of the Earth's orbit:
t2 = 4p2
r3
/(G M)
where: t = time period of an orbit
p = 3.141592654
r = radius of the Earth's orbit
G = gravitational constant currently
M = mass of the central mass (i.e. sun)
For Earth's orbit period to increase by the necessary 1.45833% would
require r to increase by 0.96990% (i.e. (1.01458 t)2
= 4p2
(1.00987r)3
/(G M)). Thus the radius of the Earth orbit would go from 0.99039 au
to our present 1 au. Note that the au is a space measure of Earth's
distance from the sun, 1 au = 149,597,871,464 m. Thus the Earth would
move from 148,160,896,900 m away from the sun to our present
149,597,871,464 m distance. Since the radiated energy from the Sun is
inversely proportional to the square of the distance, Sun energy
would have decreased on Earth by only 1.949% because of this move of
1,436,974,564 m.
Although unlikely, the same equation could increase the Earth's orbit
period by the necessary 1.45833% with a decrease in the mass of the
Sun. It's mass would have to decrease by 2.85408% (i.e. (1.01458 t)2
= 4p2
r3 /(G
(1-0.02854 M)). Thus the mass of the Sun would go from 1.93165e+030
kg to our present 1.9884e+030 kg or decrease by 5.67506e+028 kg which
is just over 9,502 planet Earths! There is no accounting for such a
decrease in the mass of the Sun so the decreasing Sun mass hypothesis
is hereby dismissed.
Who weighed the Sun in the first place? Okay, it was actually backed
out of the equation above as follows. Given that the period of an
Earth orbit is currently 365.2424 days (31,556,943.36 sec). The
equations for the mass of the sun is:
m = 4 pi2
r3
/G t2
where: pi = 3.141592654
r = radius of the Earth orbit, currently 1 au = 149,597,870,691 +/-
30 meters
G = gravitational
constant
currently calculated to be 6.67390 E-011 N m2
/Kg 2
t = 31557600 sec = period of orbit
thus m = mass of sun, currently calculated
= 1.9886869190E+030
Also the radius of a lunar orbit can be backed out of this equation
given that the period of a lunar orbit is currently 27.321582 days
(2,360,584.6848 sec) (A sidereal month is referenced to the stars or
constelations; the synodic month, is the period between new moons as
seen from Earth and is 29.530588 days (2,551,442.8032 sec)).
The equations for the radius to the moon orbit is:
r3
= G m t2
/ 4 pi2
where: pi = 3.141592654
G = currently
calculated to be
6.67390 E-011 N m2
/Kg 2
m = mass of Earth,
currently
calculated
= 5.97223 (+/- .00008) E+024 kg
t = 2,360,584.6848 sec
thus r = radius of the lunar orbit, calculated to be 383,176,222
meters
Thus it is mathematically feasible that the catastrophic world flood
described in the Holy Bible could have altered the characteristics of
the Earth's rotation, orbit, and moon to such an extent that the
calendar would alter significantly. Thus a pre-flood 360 day year,
with twelve evenly divided 30 day months is a very likely scenario.
An extensive spread sheet analysis of these equations was performed
to analyze the balance of changes which would produce these changes
in our calendar. My engineering background and my involvement in a
USAF R&D effort involving satellite orbits led me to believe
that
a viable solution would easily fall out of such a multivariate
analysis. It did not. There are several viable possibilities whereby
adding or removing water from the Earth, combined with passing
through the tail of a comet might result in just such a change in the
calendar, but the number of variables involved became to burdensome
for a final analysis. Now that I am retired, I look forward to
opening these spread sheets again, but for the present I am left
convinced that God orchestrated just the right scenario. What God did
in sending the world flood very likely changed the orbital mechanics
of the Earth in such a way that his original 360 day year divided
into exactly twelve thirty day months changed to our present messy
calendar with a 365 ¼ day year divided into twelve a not
exactly
29.530588 day month. Although I am at present certain of this
change, the full analysis must follow in another publication. The
next chapter deals with another observable scar caused by God's world
flood judgment, waters stored in continental glaciers.
(That is crust, which goes around a 1,800 mile thick flexible mantle
which is surrounding a 4,000 mile diameter liquid ball of still
molten rock).
To Continue in this series click the link below:
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Glaciers After The Flood. . . 201
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. . . Glaciers Change Things. .
. 202
. . . The Real Ice Age. . . 205
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