(August 28, 2017 at 10:49 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:(August 28, 2017 at 8:33 am)alpha male Wrote: But if you actually read the Bible you might dump the assumption that mountains were the same height then as now...
Why would we look to the bible for geology?
Because we're in a thread asking the question, "So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??"
We read in Gen 1:9 "Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." Waters in one place implies that the dry land was all in one place.
Then in Gen 10:25, after the flood: 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided.
So, you can interpret from these that the earth was in one place before the flood, then it was divided into continents after the flood. Mountains that are the result of tectonic activity therefore weren't there at the time of the flood.
Creationists who are really into such things though tend to believe that the continents were separated during the flood, and Gen 10 may refer to division of the people.
Doesn't really matter to me. I don't get why people on either side try to analyze a supernatural event in natural terms.
