Counsels on Secular Worldview

Counsel #14 — A Plausible Creationist Explanation

Picture: Counsel #14 — A Plausible Creationist Explanation CSe 54.1

As the flood progressed, it destroyed terrestrial ecosystems in succession, burying organisms accordingly. It is uncertain when the rising waters reached the ark and floated it away from its construction site; it might have been late in the flood, potentially explaining the scarcity of human fossils. Eventually, the ark landed, freeing its inhabitants to roam the new landscape. Any subsequent fossils would be from animals on the newly formed land during the flood’s later stages when conditions were still catastrophic. These animals then had to traverse the earth from continent to continent. Advances in biogeography (the study of organism distribution over the earth) suggest that animals and plants can travel on oceanic masses of floating plant debris, such as logs or mats of living trees and other plants. This still occurs today on a small scale. At the flood’s end, vast amounts of such floating material likely carried living animals and plants far across water bodies.^[54] CSe 54.2

“So Noah came out of the ark. His sons and his wife and his sons’ wives were with him.” Genesis 8:18 NIRV CSe 54.3

“A violent wind which was caused to blow for the purpose of drying up the waters, moved them^[55] with great force, in some instances even carrying away the tops of the mountains and heaping up trees, rocks, and earth above the bodies of the dead.” Ellen White in Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 107 CSe 54.4

Reflect: What unique insights might Creationist scientists bring to the scientific community to challenge current paradigms? CSe 54.5