The Objection of Not Enought Water for the Flood

Montgomery mentions visiting the Creation Museum in Kentucky and being surprised at an attack on Reason as the enemy of the Bible, even the argument that scientists had conspired to discredit the Biblical accounts. I'd respond that reason is fallen in this fallen world and there is no reason to think our own minds can be trusted to arrive at the truth about anything, especially something historical where we don't have independent evidence to support the theories. So I'm with those who distrust Reason, but I don't accept the sonspiracy idea. The problem is that iwherever reason can't affirm the Bible it is wrong to conclude arguments against the Bible. We should always distrust our own minds and suppose that we simply havven't solved the problem yet, because yes, Nature does definitely have to conform to the Bible in the end. The problem is that we put our falln minds above the Bible rather than the other way around. Scei Science keeps changing its mind, thew Bible doesn't and if we know the Bible is God's word it has to stand no matter what our fallen minds think we've disccovered No conspiracy, just misplaced trust which is to be expected in this fallen world. ,br>


He gives three reasons to doubt the Biblical Flood. The first is that there was not enough wawter to cover the high mountains such as the Himalyas. part of the answer to that is that the Himalayas and other high mountains weren't there before the Flood. How high the pre=Flood mountains wree I guess we can't know but certainly they would have been a lot lower than the current highest.

That's about tectonic plate movement, which he points out wasn't yet established when Morris and Whitcomb wrote The Genesis Flood. It does help put things together to have that fact available. It explains why there are now so much hnigher mountains than before the Flood, and I made use of it to account for angular unconformities, which changies the timing of Siccar Point and the Great Unconformity at the based of the Grand Canyon. Both occurred after all the strata were in place.

And that matters because it dramatically demonstrates that the strata could not possibly be time periods but sediments laid down in a much more rapid fashion. Just looking at the strata really ought to be enough to make that point, however. The idea that time sorted itself into straight flat rocks of separated sediments is absurd on the face of it, but apparently science got all carried away with the idea of the Old Earth and its allotmnet of enough time for evolution to have occurred. Especially once they got all carried away with the idea that there is an evolutionary order in the fossil record.

The cross section of the Grand Staircase to Grand Canyuon area is still my favorite way of demonstrating this fact of the lack of any disturbance ot the strata during their entire laying down. There they aare, all laid one on top of another straight and flat. Those are not time periods. Google Greand Staircase Escalant cross section.
Back to the Montgomery's objection that there isn't enough water on the Earth for such a Flood to have occurred. I don't know if I saw this anywhere else but I don't think so, I thin God showed it to me, that if there was so much rain at the beginning of the Flood, forty days and forty nights of it over the entire globe, that means there had to have been an extremely thick atmosphere of moisture overhead that broke up and fell as rain. Whatever the foundtains of the deep were that also broke up and added water to the Flood they don't seem to be there any more because at the bottom of the oceans we have thed Atlantic Ridge which demonstrates that molten magma is right underneath it.

Anyway, with the collapse of the moisture layer over the Earth the planet would have been exposed to the coldness of outer space,, and if any great heat was generated by the Flood and tectonic movement, it would have rapidly evacuated into that space, and that would include a huge amount of evaporating water. Whihere that is enough to account for the water that covered the eearth I don't know but I'm guessing it may very well bee.