Question: What is the scientific evidence for the movement of land masses during the Biblical flood?
What is generally not known, is that prior to Darwin's and Alfred Russel Wallace ideas, a few enlightened Bible teachers had for some time been postulating that the age of the Earth was probably much older than taught at the time, one such being Professor Thomas Chalmers, a Protestant Theologian, and Mathematician. His teaching was many years prior to Darwin; and therefore he was not trying to accommodate Wallace and Darwin's Ideas, but was moved by the wording of Genesis.
The major disservice that some Christians are still perpetrating, albeit well meaning, that the Earth is only 6,000 years old; (called Young Earth Creationists, or YECs; see Dr. Henry M. Morris) onto the population of the world, undermines their witness to the saving Grace of God in Christ Jesus; as the now well-educated population see/perceive the fallacy of the statement, and assume that the Gospel of Salvation is therefore also just as false and foolish! They now look to Science for truth, and Satan, with masterful timing, has now wrapped together Evolution and old Earth hypothesis; to give credence to the amounts of time needed for the idea of Evolution to take place! Science, with justification, states that the Earth is approx. 4.5 to 5.5 billion years old; and the Universe approx. 13.8 billion years old!
Gen. 1:9-10 shows the world at apparently the "Gondwana and Pangea" stage, and was first commented on by Antonio Snider in AD 1859. Also Science now accepts that 'Continental Drift' was initially at a much faster rate than presently recorded (1"-3"/ year); and initially was probably at "a man's slow walking pace". It is estimated that 'Drift' started approx. between 500 - 180 million years ago, and that fossil remains are similar world-wide on all Continents, due to easy access to land travel prior to the drift of the Continents!
Dr. Bullinger comments regarding the gap between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2; “the world that then was” (2Peter 3:5-6): “Creation in eternity past, to which all Fossils and 'Remains' belong”.
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