Even Uniformitarians And Evolutionists Can’t Escape Evidence Of A Global Flood

 


Ken Ham, founder of Answers In Genesis, wrote a piece in a publication called Harbinger’s Daily showing how evolutionists and uniformitarians are unable to escape or even suppress evidence for a global flood as written in the book of Genesis, citing some highlights from an article from Sci-Tech Daily concerning the Tonto strata and sedimentary layers located in the Grand Canyon, which he believes to be evidence for a global deluge, which evolutionists and uniformitarians refuse to admit.
 
Citing the following claims from the Sci-Tech Daily piece, Ken Ham lists the following:
 
 
 
The Tonto Group holds a treasure trove of sedimentary layers and fossils chronicling the Cambrian Explosion some 540 million years ago, when the first vertebrates and animals with hard shells rapidly proliferated and sea levels rose to envelop continents with emerging marine life.
 
From the Tonto Group’s 500-meter-thick strata, we’re learning about sea-level rise and the effects of catastrophic tropical storms – probably more powerful than today’s devastating hurricanes – during a period of very hot temperatures when the Earth was ice-free.
 
Sea levels were so high during this time period, Dehler says, that rocks like the Tonto Group were deposited atop every continent on Earth, as seas bathed the continents in a complex mosaic of shallow marine, coastal, and terrestrial environments. [1-2]
 
 
 
But what is it within the Sci-Tech item that would suggest evidence of a global flood?
 
 
1.  Sea levels rose to envelop continents. 
 
[What happened during the flood of Noah? The flood waters covered the entire landmass]
 
2.  There was a time when tropical storms more powerful than today’s hurricanes had taken place
 
[Consistent with a worldwide flood]
 
3.  Seas bathed the continents in a complex mosaic of shallow marine, coastal, and terrestrial environments.
 
[If there had been a worldwide flood, we would also expect to see this, even in places well away from the oceans.  Even Bill Nye, in his official debate with Ken Ham eleven years ago, admitted that in Kentucky, which is far from either the Pacific or Atlantic coasts, there are fossil remains of coral animals called zooxanthellae, which are found only in marine environments. [3] ]
 
 
Young Earth Creationists and evolutionists have the same geologic features set before them, but both will interpret what they see differently.  The evolutionists will claim, even when admitting that there were times when landmasses were once submerged in water, that the sedimentary and strata layers we see were laid down over a gradual period of time or at least in several stages [4] but Creationists will insist that these things happened much more rapidly via the global flood written about in the book of Genesis. 
 
But one thing for certain is that would not be possible for there to be sedimentary or strata layers of a marine nature spanning entire continents, including regions far inland, nor for the fossils of marine life to be found in places far away from the ocean unless they were all somehow deposited there and that would have required ocean waters to have prevailed and dominated the continents at some point in history and the Bible clearly records such a time in history (Gen. 6-8) which conventional academics and evolutionary scientists would simply dismiss as a myth.
 
But to Bible believing Christians like Ken Ham, the global flood account written in the book of Genesis serves as a testimony of past judgment upon the world due to the wickedness of mankind and also a warning of coming judgment as well and if we understand the reason for why God destroyed the world with a flood, we will then understand why it is that the world must face judgment again and the reason why God destroyed the world with a flood in the days of Noah is because His creation became far removed from what He initially intended it to be for as it was written in those days:
 
 
 
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…The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence…for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. (Gen. 6:5, 11-12)
 
 
 
For the same reasons that God destroyed the world with a flood, save for Noah and all who were with him in the Ark, God will punish the world once more when all other recourses have been exhausted and evil has reached that measure that can only be remedied by divine judgment and what God did not intend for His creation to be was evil, corrupt, and violent.  Instead, He created it to be good, pure, and peaceful and that is exactly how it was when He had first created it: A good, pure, and peaceful world in which there was no death, no decay, no misery, no suffering, no violence, and no corruption.  It was a world filled with only light, life, happiness, peace, and a perfect harmony between God, man, and nature, but that harmony was disrupted when evil crept into the world and the evil that crept into the world came in the form of a serpent who led the first man Adam, and the first woman Eve to commit a fateful act that changed everything from the world that once was into the world that now is; a world filled with death, decay, misery, suffering, and evil.
 
And the fateful act that Adam and Eve were led into committing which change the world into what it is today was the eating of a certain fruit that they were told not eat from and it was a fruit from a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having been warned that in the day that they ate of it, they would surely die. (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3)
 
But this evil spirit who came to them in the form of a serpent falsely assured them that they would not die as they had been warned if they ate of that fruit but that in the day that they ate the fruit, they would become divine and be given divine wisdom (Gen. 3:4-5) and after they had eaten of that forbidden fruit, instead of becoming more wise and gaining more knowledge, the only thing they had received was the shame of their nakedness (v. 7) and instead of becoming divine, they were reduced to a status inferior to the one in which they were created, and the sentence of death was pronounced upon them as they had been warned (Gen. 3:19) but the consequences of their transgression did not stop with them because the sin that entered into Adam and Eve was then passed down to all of mankind because it is from Adam and Eve from whom all of mankind descend (Rom. 5:12) but the sin that entered into man and into which he is born is not merely bad actions or ill-spoken words, but it is a corruption that resides within all of us; (Mt. 15:11, 17-20) a corruption of human nature itself that produces within us and causes us to do by nature that which is contrary to how God intended for us to be with death being the result for all of us because it is sin that brings forth death (Rom. 6:23) and since all people sin in some form or fashion, all die and because of that fateful transgression committed by Adam and Eve, we are all subject to both a sinful corrupt nature which in turns brings death to us but not only we ourselves but because of sin, all of creation itself is subject to pain and turmoil to this present day (Rom. 8:19-22) which is why the world as we know it is subject to the suffering, pain, turmoil, evil, violence, and destruction that we witness and experience today; all because Adam and Eve were led to believe that they were going to receive even greater things if they ate of that forbidden fruit but instead of receiving better than what they had, they were subjugated to a slavery that they had never anticipated; a slavery to sin and death and not only they themselves but all of mankind as well because we are all born into sin and we are all subject to death.
 
The evil force who, by leading mankind to eat of that forbidden fruit, had caused sin and death to enter into the world, and with death and sin, the suffering, misery, pain, decay, and grief we all witness and experience, had once served at the throne of God as a covering cherub before turning to evil, but in his pride, he thought to make himself equal with God and take for himself what belonged to God alone and as a consequence, he and all who followed him in his rebellion were cast from their positions in Heaven. (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19)
 
That evil spirit was known as Lucifer but after turning against his Creator, he became better known as Satan or the Devil and not only did he cause, by the transgression of Adam, mankind to be subject to sin and death and all of creation to be subjugated to a curse that came by way of sin, caused the dominion once given to man (Gen. 1:26) to be diminished and gave Satan justification to claim lordship over the kingdoms and nations of the world (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is called the prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and he attained lordship over the kingdoms and nations of the world by a lie and the lie he told Adam and Eve was that they would not die but that if they ate of the fruit forbidden to them, that they would become as gods knowing good from evil and it is this very lie that earned Satan the title of being the father of lies (Jn. 8:44) for it is that very lie that is the first recorded lie ever known to man and it is by this lie that Satan caused man to commit the very transgression that caused sin to enter into him and inwardly corrupt him which then brought upon him the sentence of death, thereby making Satan a murderer (v. 44) and which also brought a curse upon all of creation that has subjugated it to every kind of evil and suffering that there ever has been and ever could be, which is why he is called a destroyer (Jn. 10:10) and by which he stole the dominion from mankind thus making him a thief (Jn. 10:10) and a thief that comes to steal kill and destroy (v. 10) to this very day, but Satan is not just a murderer of our bodies and a destroyer of creation itself, but he is also a destroyer of souls because worst of all, the transgression that Satan caused Adam and Eve to commit has caused everyone to be born estranged from their Creator because of the sin that entered into them and then was inherited by all of us.
 
But because the Lord God Almighty who made us is a God of love and mercy and takes no pleasure in punishment and destruction, He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) and the Lord God Almighty has provided us with a redemptive solution to save us from that everlasting condemnation that sin subjugates us to and He has provided that solution in the only One who has known no sin and in whom there is no sin and (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) and that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who came into this world to take away the sins of the world and being without sin, He was able to be that perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) needed to take away the sins of the world which He did by the shedding of His blood upon the cross on which He was crucified and after having purchased our redemption by His death, was raised from the dead so that we, by our faith in Him would be justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) so that anyone calling upon His name for the forgiveness of sins may be saved from what would otherwise be an everlasting unrelenting torment in the fires and darkness of Hell (Rom. 10:13) and with the removal of our sins comes reconciliation to our Creator (2 Cor. 5:18) who then comes to make His dwelling inside of us by way of His Holy Spirit which then instills in us a new nature (2 Cor. 5:17) that makes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty, (Jn. 14:6) no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, (Mt. 6:33) recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
 
And just as the bondage to sin and death began with a lie, and just as by that same lie the dominion that was given to man over the earth was diminished, so our liberation and that of all of creation begins with truth (Jn. 8:32) and the truth that sets us free is that which announces the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ by whose blood our souls are cleansed from sin and by whom we receive that new nature that is contrary to the old sin nature into which we are born; that new nature being that transformation that makes us to want to do that which is good and right in the sight of God and to ensure that He is glorified and honored in all that we do, and to avoid and turn away from all that displeases Him and it is from within that true freedom begins.
 
And just as we are made free spiritually in Christ and free from what would otherwise be an unimaginable eternity of unrelenting torment in the darkness and fires of Hell, so one day, we will also be free from bodily death when our bodies are changed from that which is corruptible and in which sin dwells into bodies that are incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) for in which there dwells no sin, there is no death, and then afterward, creation itself shall be liberated from the curse that came upon it because of sin and Satan’s claimed lordship over the nations and kingdoms of the world will be brought to an end when he is defeated once and for all forever when he and all those who have sided with him receive their final sentenced and are cast into the lake of fire where they will be subject to an everlasting and unrelenting punishment (Rev. 20:10-15) and then creation itself will be made anew and in that new world, there  will be no death, no decay, nor any pain, nor any hardship, no oppression, no misery, no cruelty, no despair, or any grief for all of these things will have passed away with the old corrupted creation, but instead in this new and undefiled creation, there will only be life, light, goodness, happiness, joy, peace, and contentment before the Lord God Almighty. (Rev. 21-22)
 
If you have not done so already and would like to be a part of a better world to come and be assured entry into the Kingdom of God, then I urge you reader to call upon the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins so that you can be sure that you will be granted entry into the Kingdom of Heaven and need not worry about facing eternal damnation.  It is but a sincere prayer of repentance away:
 
 
 
"Lord Jesus I need you.
 
 
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
 
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
 
 
Amen."
 
 
Know that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
 
 
 
End notes:
 
 
 
1.  Ken Ham, “Overwhelming Evidence: If It Wasn’t In The Bible, Scientists Would Consider A Global Flood Indisputable,” Harbinger Daily, November 29, 2024
https://harbingersdaily.com/overwhelming-evidence-if-it-wasnt-in-the-bible-scientists-would-consider-a-global-flood-indispuatble/
 
2.  Utah State University, “Rewriting Textbooks: Geologists Uncover New Secrets in the Ancient Layers of the Grand Canyon,” Sci-Tech Daily, November 14, 2024
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-textbooks-geologists-uncover-new-secrets-in-the-ancient-layers-of-the-grand-canyon/
 
3.  “Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham (Full Transcript)” Singju Post, February 24, 2023;
debate originally held February 4, 2014
https://singjupost.com/bill-nye-debates-ken-ham-full-transcript/?singlepage=1
 
4.  Carol Dehler, Frederick Sundberg,  Karl Karlstrom, Laura Crossey, Mark Schmitz, Stephen Rowland, James Hagadorn, “The Cambrian of the Grand Canyon: Refinement of a Classic Stratigraphic Model,”
GSA Today, pg. 4, Volume 34, Issue 11, November 2024
https://rock.geosociety.org/net/gsatoday/science/G604A/GSATG604A.pdf
 
 
 
Scripture references:
 
 
 
1.  Genesis 6-8
 
2.  Genesis 6:5, 11-12
 
3.  Genesis 2:16-19, 3:3
 
4.  Genesis 3:4-5
 
5.  Genesis 3:7
 
6.  Genesis 3:19
 
7.  Romans 5:12
 
8.  Matthew 15:11, 17-20
 
9.  Romans 6:23
 
10.  Romans 8:19-22
 
11.  Isaiah 14:11-21
 
12.  Ezekiel 28:12-19
 
13.  Genesis 1:26
 
14.  Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
 
15.  John 12:31, 16:11
 
16.  John 10:10
 
17.  John 8:32
 
18.  Romans 3:23
 
19.  2 Peter 3:9
 
20.  2 Corinthians 5:21
 
21.  Hebrews 4:15
 
22.  Hebrews 7:26-27
 
23.  Romans 4:25
 
24.  Roman 10:13
 
25.  2 Corinthians 5:18
 
26.  2 Corinthians 5:17
 
27.  John 14:6
 
28.  Revelation 21-22
 
29.  Matthew 6:33
 
30.  Matthew 10:28
 
31.  James 1:5
 
32.  2 Corinthians 5:18
 
33.  John 8:32
 
34.  1 Corinthians 15:51-55
 
35.  1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
 
36.  Revelation 20:10-15