Chapter 8: The Collapse of the Water Canopy

What might have caused the water vapor canopy to = come down=20 as rain? Several theories exist, although, of course, God does = not need=20 a naturalistic cause; He could just sovereignly command the = rains of the=20 flood to pour down by His omnipotent power.

One proposed idea for the precipitation of the = rain is=20 that a meteorite slammed into the earth, shooting great clouds = of dust=20 up into the water vapor. The dust particles would provide the = nuclei of=20 condensation for the raindrops and down comes the canopy. Along = with=20 this idea is the suggestion that the earth tipped 23 1/2 degrees = off=20 dead center during this meteor's impact, resulting in frozen = ice-caps=20 and the four seasons.

Another theory holds that a large number of = volcanoes=20 erupted simultaneously around the earth, and the volcanic dust = provided=20 the particles for the condensation of the vapor into rain. = Perhaps all=20 of these cataclysmic events were happening at the same time -- = the=20 meteor hit the earth, fracturing the earth's crust, which in = turn gave=20 birth to multiple volcanoes.

If there were volcanic activity at the time of = the flood,=20 then volcanic ash would be expected in deep, old ice and frozen = muck. In=20 the antarctic^[1] and=20 arctic, the oldest ice and muck is saturated with volcanic ash. = The=20 creationist position holds water.

A sudden and permanent temperature drop from = pole-to-pole=20 greenhouse warm (heaven and earth system #1) to frozen ice-caps = and=20 moderate temperature (heaven and earth system #2) would occur = during the=20 canopy collapse and Flood. In 1893, just one volcano, = Krakatau,^[2]=20 lowered the average global temperature five degrees for a year. = Dust=20 from Krakatau shot 30 miles up into the atmosphere and a series = of tidal=20 waves washed across the seas with the greatest being 120 feet = high. This=20 incredible wave pushed several miles inland on Java and=20 Sumatra.

If the dust from one volcano could lower the = temperature=20 of the earth for an entire year, what might be the chaos and = cataclysm=20 of hundreds of volcanoes erupting simultaneously? Could it be = that the=20 Bible is describing volcanic activity when it tells us that on = the=20 seventeenth day of the second month: "...the same day were all = the=20 fountains of the great deep broken up,..." (Genesis 7:11)? = This was=20 the first day of a sudden and permanent temperature drop, the = effects of=20 which are in evidence to this day.

The article states: "The eruption of Mt. = Pinatubo could=20 chill the Earth slightly for the next few years and hasten the=20 destruction of the ozone layer over large portions of the world, = say=20 scientists...." (p. 7). Scientific literature refers to the = "Ring of=20 Fire". Several thousand years ago, volcanoes erupted = simultaneously all=20 around the world. What caused this cataclysmic ring of fire? = Could this=20 have been the "seventeenth day of the second month"?

Evolutionary science has no answer for the = existence of=20 many quick-frozen animals found in various places around the = globe.=20 Among these frozen animals are rhinoceros, hyena, oxen, = sabre-toothed=20 tigers, hippopotamus, bison, donkeys, leopards, ibex and giant = woolly=20 mammoths. What is a quick-frozen rhinoceros doing in Siberia? Is = it that=20 he was on a little summer vacation and before he could get back = to=20 Africa, got caught in a freezing blizzard? No, there were = tropical=20 animals living in Siberia before the Flood of Noah's day! The = earth was=20 pole-to-pole greenhouse warm under the water canopy. This = presents an=20 immense problem for evolutionists. What happened back then to=20 quick-freeze tropical plants and animals in Siberia? None of = these=20 frozen "fossil" animals are transitional-form animals. All of = these very=20 ancient animals are discrete entities. They are instantly and = easily=20 classified as bison or mammoths. "Well", say evolutionists, "It = must=20 have been a slowly creeping ice age that caught up to these=20 animals."

The frozen animal remains do not represent a = slowly=20 creeping ice age. They were caught and permanently frozen = (they=20 are still frozen today) with such incredible speed that = undigested=20 plants remained in their mouths and in their stomach's digestive = juices.=20 Giant nine-ton mammoths have been discovered with undigested = buttercups=20 in their mouths and in their stomachs which are still = identifiable as to=20 genus and species of the plant! (see Dillow, footnote = #68)

What would it take to quick-freeze a happy, = healthy=20 nine-ton mammoth grazing on buttercups (and several hundred = other=20 identifiable plants which no longer grow in the frigid climate = where the=20 frozen mammoths are found)? Some scientists went to a major=20 food-freezing company and posed this question. The answer does = not fit=20 into the known realities of heaven and earth system #2 (our = present=20 system). To quick-freeze nine tons of warm blooded animal = munching on=20 buttercups, it would take a temperature of -175=B0F (the coldest = temperature ever=20 recorded on earth is near -128=B0F), a wind-chill factor = of a 200-400=20 m.p.h. wind, over a time of about four hours (eight hours at the = outside=20 limit). The problem is that there is nothing on earth that = approaches=20 these conditions necessary to freeze the animals -- and yet the = animals=20 are frozen. To preserve the meat and undigested plants, drastic=20 conditions not known on our present earth would have been = necessary for=20 the quick-freeze. The freezing of these ancient plants and = animals was=20 not caused by a slowly creeping ice age. Many textbooks will = show an=20 artist's imaginary picture of a mammoth standing in a blizzard = with a=20 slowly creeping glacier moving up from behind. This is = imagination, not=20 reality. The mammoths were warm-temperature animals, eating=20 warm-temperature plants in a warm-temperature climate that = suddenly, in=20 a matter of hours, became permanently frozen.

"The scarcity of = hair in the=20 modern elephant is associated with a corrugation of the = epidermis, and a=20 lack of skin glands. Although the mammoth, too,...lacked glands, = the=20 increase of the hair was associated with a loss of the epidermal = corrugation....

Sections cut = parallel to the=20 skin surface revealed sparse, round, non-medullated hairs with = no glands=20 or erector muscles." ^[3]=20

Mammoth skin has been dissected and, to the = surprise of=20 evolutionists, it contains no sebaceous (oil) glands. Why should = this be=20 a surprise? Because cold temperature animals have a plentiful = supply of=20 oil glands to oil their hair and fur. Wolves, polar bears and = seals have=20 such oily fur that the frigid northern water rolls off and does = not=20 penetrate to the skin. Cold temperature animals need a lot of = oil to=20 protect them from the wet cold. A mammoth could not last very = long in a=20 frigid climate without oil in its hair. It was a = warm-temperature animal=20 eating warm-temperature plants that was caught suddenly and = frozen=20 quickly and permanently in the distant past. Evolution = provides=20 no answer for this! A slowly creeping ice age is not a = sufficient=20 explanation for the quick-frozen animals -- but a cataclysm such = as=20 would have resulted with the collapse of the canopy at the Flood = of=20 Noah's day provides the answer and the evidence.

An animal with no oil glands in its skin cannot = survive in=20 a frigid climate. But an animal with oil glands can survive in = frigid=20 or tropical climates. Leopards have oil glands and can = survive in=20 tropical climates. Yet, their pelts have been used to make fur = coats=20 that are quite warm in winter. Polar bears survive in zoos in = the=20 intense summer heat of southern states.

These mammoths (and many other animals) were = frozen so=20 quickly that their meat can still be eaten. =

"In many = instances, as is=20 well known, entire carcasses of the mammoth have been found thus = buried,=20 with the hair, skin and flesh as fresh as in frozen New Zealand = sheep in=20 the hold of a steamer. And sleigh dogs as well as Yakuts = themselves,=20 have often made a hearty meal of mammoth flesh thousands of = years=20 old." ^[4]=20

This sudden and permanent temperature change = from pole-to-=20 pole greenhouse warm to the present perma-frost or permanent ice = condition at and near the poles could have happened during the = collapse=20 of the water canopy at the Flood-judgment of God in the days of = Noah.=20 The frozen condition, since the break-up of the canopy permitted = heat to=20 escape our atmosphere, has preserved for us animal and plant = life (now=20 extinct) which existed in heaven and earth system #1. Evolution = has no=20 good answer for the sudden death of the frozen animals. The = Bible would=20 lead us to believe these things happened at the Flood = destruction of=20 system #1.

"Beware lest any man spoil you through = philosophy and vain=20 deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the = world,=20 and not after Christ."

Evolution is a philosophical system and an empty = deception.^[5]=20 Christians should not be taken captive by evolution -- there is = no=20 factual science (science not based on assumptions, see = Dr.=20 Kerkut's assumptions in Chapter 2, page 21) to support the=20 molecules-to-man model of origins. In studying origins (where we = came=20 from) we must keep in mind that both evolution and creation are = faith=20 systems. We have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed into = believing that=20 scientific facts prove evolution of molecules-to-man to be true. = No one=20 but God was there when the universe and life appeared. Let us = not be led=20 astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ! (II = Cor.=20 11:3)

l.      = Praise Ye=20 the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the = heights!
2.    =20 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his=20 hosts.
3.    =20 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of=20 light.
4.    =20 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the = heavens.
5.     Let = them praise=20 the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created. = (Psalm=20 148:1-5)

^[1]=20 See Anthony Gow, "Glaciologial Investigations in = Antarctica,"=20 Antarctic Journal of = U.S.,=20 Vol. 7 No. 4 (1972),100-101.

^[2]=20 Cheryl Simon, "Krakatau 1893: The Shock Felt 'Round = the World',"=20 Science News, 124 = (May,=20 1983), 138.

^[3] M. L. Ryder, "Hair of the Mammoth," Nature, 249 (May 10, = 1974),=20 190,191.

^[4] G. Richard Lydekker, "Mammoth Ivory," Smithsonian Reports = (1899), p.=20 363, as reported by Dr. Joseph Dillow, The Waters Above, p. = 312. (See=20 footnote #69)

^[5] When we = depart from=20 the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ (II Cor. 11:3), = we=20 accept empty deceptions. Many Christians have departed from = Biblical=20 Truth to believe in Darwinian evolution or in Punctuated = Equilibrium=20 (evolution did not happen too slow to see, it happened too fast = to see).=20 Stephen Jay Gould and = Niles=20 Eldredge promote "Punctuated Equilibria" as the mode of = evolution (see:=20 "Punctuated Equilibria: the Tempo and Mode of Evolution = Reconsidered,"=20 Paleobiology, 3 = (Spring=20 1977). The punctuated equilibria model (evolution is too fast to = see)=20 has been around for a long time even though Gould seems to = accept praise=20 as the "father" of it. Punctuated equilibria is foundational to=20 Marxist-Leninism and was seen by Marx = and Lenin as=20 essential to move people away from Biblical Truth into the vain=20 philosophy and empty deception of Marxist-Leninism. For = excellent=20 documentation of this and Gould's roots as a Marxist, read:=20 The Long = War Against=20 God=20 by Dr. Henry Morris (Baker Book House, 1989), and Understanding the = Times by Dr.=20 David Noebel (Summit Ministries, Box 207, Manitou Springs, = Colorado=20 80829, 1991).

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