Catastrophic Flood Geology by Scott Mauser Outline Notes - PDF document

Catastrophic Flood Geology by Scott Mauser Outline Notes • Foundational Question – Which fits the evidence better: The Bible or Naturalism? • What is a Worldview? o A mental map of reality. It shapes how we think and live. • Assumptions Lead to Conclusions. Bad Assumptions Lead to Bad Conclusions. • We are dealing with Facts – how do determine Truth amongst the options? o Abductive Reasoning – The Truth Should Be: ▪ Feasible ▪ Straightforward (Occam’s Razor) ▪ Exhaustive ▪ Logical • Naturalism cannot account for reason! ▪ Superior (Cumulative Test) • Great Resources: o A Pocket Guide to the Global Flood, by Answers in Genesis o The Global Flood by John D. Morris • Is Genesis 1-11 poetry or historical narrative? o Read Dr. Boyd ’ s Technical Paper Here: https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/Statistical-Determination-of- Genre-in-Biblical-Hebrew.pdf • Worldwide or Local Flood? o Which is most Feasible and Logical? ▪ Depth ▪ Duration ▪ Physical Causes ▪ Need for an Ark ▪ Destruction of All Mankind ▪ Destruction of Earth and All Flesh ▪ Promise of no more Floods ▪ Global Nature Wording ▪ New Testament Testimony o Theological Consequences of Believing in a Local Flood: ▪ Lessens Seriousness of Sin ▪ Definition of “ Very G ood” ▪ Comparison with end times (2 Pet 3:5-7, Is 24:18-22) • There are other evidences for Noah’s Flood: o Archaeological Evidence o Anthropological Evidence o Tower of Babel o Flood Legends

• Divine Creation and Divine Judgment in the Global Flood o Can’t go against the 2 nd Law o 1 st Law – Requires a Creator o 2 nd Law – Points to the Fall and Future Judgment • “Earth does not look old, but it does look flooded.” - John Morris • 5 Principles for Interpreting Strata o Superposition o Original Horizontality o Original Continuity o Cross-cutting Relationships o Process-Product Analogy • Gradual Uniformitarianism vs. Catastrophism o Catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope. o Gradual Uniformitarianism - slow incremental changes, such as erosion, created all the Earth's geological features. The proponents of uniformitarianism held that the present was the key to the past. o Both make Predictions. o Neo-catastrophism is now acceptable (evolution with large catastrophes). ▪ Modern Volcanos ▪ Tsunamis ▪ Channeled Scablands ▪ Cavitation at Glen Canyon Dam ▪ Touched Beds in Burlingame Canyon ▪ Mount St Helens o The Ark is Viable. (see this book Noah ’ s Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe or visit the Ark - https://arkencounter.com/) o The Global Flood is needed to have the world we see today! o Biblical Geology: Properly Understanding the Rocks by Tas Walker (see more here: http://biblicalgeology.net/) o Was there enough water? – Yes! • 6 Geologic Evidences/Predictions 1. Fossils of sea creatures high above sea level – High and Dry Sea Creatures a. Millions and Billions of Dead Things … See Evolution: The Grand Experiment by Dr. Carl Werner for more details. b. Fossils on Mt. Everest c. Due to Isostasy (the floating of continents), water would have had to wash over continents to create marine fossils. 2. Rapid Burial of plants and animals – The World’s Graveyard a. Exquisite preservation of creatures within mass graveyards b. Rhinos c. Trilobites d. Nautiloid layer within Grand Canyon (billions of fossils)

e. Fossils of Montceau-les-Mines (in France) f. Mazon Creek Coal Beds in Illinois g. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado h. Green River Formation – Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming i. Thick coal layers j. Thick chalk layers 3. Rapidly deposited sediment layers spread across vast areas – Transcontinental Rock Layers a. Tapeats Sandstone b. Redwall Limestone c. Chalk beds d. Coconino Sandstone i. Cross-bedding (Sand waves) – analyses shows that these rock layers are deposited as underwater sand dunes and can show the direction and speed and depth of currents. e. Fossil Footprints are very often found in layers below where the organisms are found fossilized. f. Ayers Rock 4. Sediment transported long distances – Sand Transported Cross Country a. Coconino Sandstone – Evidence shows water was flowing across all of N & S America for the supposed 300 million years from NE to SW. b. Navajo Sandstone – sand grains travelled 1,250 miles from their source. 5. Rapid or no erosion between strata – No Slow and Gradual Erosion a. Layers often have flat, knife edges – There is no evidence of Bioturbation. b. Great Unconformity c. There is little to no evidence of the supposed missing time between layers. 6. Many stata laid down in rapid succession – Rock Layers Folded Not Fractured a. Within the Grand Canyon b. Kaibab Upwarp c. Often no compression or Tension cracks d. Often no crystalline change due to pressure and temperature • People often don ’t carefully consider the evidence because of their worldview and what they ’ve been taught for so long. • The Flood and the Gospel o The Flood was bigger than Civil War, WWI, and WWII. o We see correct judgment at the Nuremburg Trials – God is just in His judgment with the Flood. o The rock layers scream – “ Repent! ” o Come to Christ for rest.