Cataclysmic Continental Shift: The Most Recent Cataclysm WAS Noah's Flood After All

Slowly but surely, the tide is turning among mainstream scientists as they become more open to the idea that a comet struck North America roughly 10,000 years ago, putting an end to the "ice age." What they don't realize is that the evidence they are bringing to light is also providing proof of the global deluge of Noah's time.

The direction of the striations in Europe and North America
point to an origin around Greenland - the previous ice cap.

However, this is not new evidence. It is just resurrecting the line of thinking held by the majority of geologists who lived roughly 200 years ago. Before Darwin stole away the hearts of scientists, the majority of geologists where considered "catastrophists." Why? Because the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to that fact. Almost everything written in the earth's rocks made it clear that a geologically recent catastrophe had shaped the land.

The evidence included striations in rocks (deep scratches made by rocks carried by glaciers or heavy flooding), all pointing in the same general direction over a huge portion of the earth. These striations generally occur in a northwest to southwest direction in Europe and north by northeast to south by southwest direction in North America. They were convinced they were caused by the intense flooding since glaciation couldn't account for everything they were looking at.

Erratics like this were ferried long distances during the flood
inside icebergs from the breakup of the previous ice cap.

Another bit of evidence were the large number of erratics throughout Europe and North America. These are large rocks that have been broken off and found hundreds if not thousands of miles from their origins.

They originally thought that flood water washed them there, but now it is agreed that they were trapped inside ice during the polar cap's break up and floated the distances within icebergs to be deposited relatively unscathed in the most unusual places. Some in the middle of plains sitting wholly exposed after the ferrying icebergs came to rest, then melted. There are also many found in piles, where the bergs jammed up then melted, or along ridge tops where the bergs beached at the time when the valley below was filled with flood water.

Silt-laden flood waters washed wildlife violently into blind canyons and caves,
leaving fossil graveyards of jumbled and dismembered animals and plants.

More evidence came from sands and gravels burying lower flanks of entire mountain ranges or completely filling valleys. These deposits tend to be banked up against north or northwest facing mountains in Europe and north or northeast facing mountains in North America. Caves and fissures pointing those directions are also filled, sometimes with partially fossilized remnains of devastated plants and animals. The same thing happened to southwest facing caves in Australia. (Read: Naracoorte Caves May Hold World's Greatest Fossil Collection)

It was almost universally understood these were some of the many fingerprints left by a catastrophic global flood. But atheistic scientists have been systematically burying or reinterpreting this evidence to fit their dogmatic belief in chance evolution.

Was it really a comet?

Today's scientists detest the idea of cataclysms because it makes earth's age too young for their theories to fit. So they jump on any new find that makes the earth older and ignore those that make it seem young. But more and more scientists are coming to terms with the mounting evidence of a global cataclysm at the end of the last "ice age."

A carbon/iridium-rich layer immediately on top of the age of "ice
age" megafauna, similar to the K-T boundary associated with
the demise of the dinosaurs. Comet? Or super-volcanoes?

The consensus is shaping up to be a comet strike. However, the fallout from one or more super volcanoes as a result of a continental shift could also leave the same evidence as a comet. Evidence like rising sea levels, melting ice, world-wide carbon-rich layer and nanodiamonds to name a few.

Noah's Flood. Not a comet.

There are two reasons that people don't realize that the "comet" catastrophe and Noah's flood are one and the same.

REASON ONE: People have it in their mind that it rained for 40 days and then the earth was flooded. And a comet is a fiery, percussive event. However, there was more to the global flood than 40 days of rain. Rain was the least of their worries. The continents sank and the sea floors rose and is described in the Bible as the "fountains of the great deep [were] broken up" (KJV) or "burst forth." (NIV) Josephus in his Antiquities 3:2 said, "[God] turned the dry land into sea; and thus were all these men destroyed: but Noah alone was saved."

Consider these details found in the Book of Jubilees.

Jubilees 5:24-25
And the Lord opened seven flood-gates of heaven, And the mouths of the fountains of the great deep, seven mouths in number. (fountains of the great deep = ocean basins. Where there seven seas?)
And the flood-gates began to pour down water from the heaven forty days and forty nights, And the fountains of the deep also sent up waters, until the whole world was full of water. (emphasis added)

This caused widespread flooding as the oceans were pushed out of their basins and overwhelmed the continents and mountains. All civilization along the coasts were obliterated.

But there were also global earthquakes. Volcanism at the plate boundaries in the polar regions and the cataclysmic flooding added melting polar ice to the mix.

It took 40 days for the continents to sink enough that the flood waters got to the high elevation where Noah had built the ark before it began to float. (That's were the 40 days comes from.) No wonder Noah was ridiculed. He built the ark so far from the ocean that it seemed ludicrous. However, if he had built it on the coast he and his ark would have been dashed to pieces from the onslaught - which was the fate of all the other coastal cities and ships of the time.

It took a total of 150 days before the turmoil ceased and the waters began to abate. It took a full year from the time that Noah entered the ark to the time that the land had dried up enough to leave the ark - which was after the continents had resurfaced (in different positions, our current configuration).

Jubilees 5:29

...the seventh month [as the flood subsided] all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the water began to descend into the deep below. (If abysses = ocean basins; the risen sea floors returned to their original depths.)

If 70% of the earth's surface is water, it doesn't take much to realize that if the earth's crust were flat, our planet would be covered 100% by water. So it wasn't just rain. The continents were much closer together before the flood and then shifted to the current position after the flood. Ouch! It was NOT pretty.

But the dates don't match!

REASON TWO: Most people object to the comet/flood connection, because the dates don't align. But more and more I'm convinced that both young earth creationists and evolutionists have their dating wrong. Whether it was around 10,000 BC, 3000 BC or somewhere in between, it doesn't matter. Until we figure out how to accurately date, you must look at the patterns of evidence and the sequence of events relative to each other.

For example, the Greek historian, Herodotus, measured the layers of sediment along the Nile River deposited by the annual flooding and calculated that the earth was 5000 years old. However, what he actually calculated was the age of Noah's flood. Herodotus lived in the 5th century BC, so according to Herodotus's measurements, the age of the flood would have been around 5400 BC. That is within my above estimate.

What matters is that historical events occurr in the same sequence as the physical evidence.

This is much like Tim Mahoney's "Patterns of Evidence: Exodus" and the archaeological evidence of the Israelite exodus.

In the video, he points out that the Egyptologists who claim the Exodus never occurred were looking in the wrong time period - the reign of Ramses II, which was during the New Kingdom. However, evidence of events at the end of the Middle Kingdom DO occur in the proper sequence to match the Bible.

Be sure to watch it on Netflix or buy it from Amazon. It is fascinating.

So, to sum up. The flood (with or without the aid of a comet) destroyed the known world, includinge the pre-flood civilization (Atlantis), the hunter-gatherer cultures scattered around the globe and the megafauna of the time (mammoths, giant sloths, wooly rhinoceros and saber-tooth tigers to name a few).

Bent Seamount Chains

Another interesting bit of evidence is the fact that the seamounts in the Pacific have a radical bend in them. Meaning at one point in time something happened to change the direction of the Pacific plate's movement. During the most recent shift, the Pacific plate actually pivoted during all the turmoil then resumed its march after the shift.

Most likely the mounts in the western legs such as the Emperor chain were created during the run up to the most recent shift (pivot) and the Hawaiian seamounts were created during the calming down period after the shift. The movement then slowed to its current rate and the hotspot stabilized and cooled with the visible islands of Hawaii and the big island being the most recent result. That would make these islands less than 10,000 years old, not millions.

Regular cataclysms

There have been several periodic extinction events since the beginning of Earth's creation and we shouldn't count on comets or asteroids to be the cause every time (Deus ex machina). I was willing to accept the one leaving the K-T boundary that killed off the dinosaurs as a lucky strike that arrived at the beginning of a continental shift, accelerating or exacerbating it. But two in a row? What are the odds? I really think we should be looking under our feet instead of to the sky for the answer. This regular occurrence is part of the natural inner workings of our planet.

Read about what it is here: What Is Cataclysmic Continental Shift?
And what causes it here: Cataclysmic Continental Shifts: What Causes It?

Sources:

D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair, Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C. (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1995)