Living creatures on the surface could well have been killed suddenly, raining debris to the sea floor to add to the salts being rapidly precipitated out in a series of violent events. They could be responsible for the huge copper deposits under Cyprus and the vast salt layers under the Mediterranean sea floor. Of course, rapid weather and climate changes were probably taking place during that same time as well. As soon as nature's upheavals had slowed, the civilization of Egypt could have rapidly expanded and European civilization soon after as well. Earth's history appears to have been marked by catastrophes and disasters that were denied vehemently in previous generations by secular science.
Catastrophes now seem inescapable.
Walt Brown's book is must reading also for the well-informed who want to form a Biblically based scientific world view. Above all else, our Creator invites us to learn and understand and to inquire of him-the universe has a more remarkable history than we first imagine and we do not yet know very much at all about the world we live in. This article was originally published in the January 1998 Personal Update NewsJournal. The Mediterranean is the world's largest inland sea. It lies between the continents of Europe and Africa and is bounded on the east by the westernmost stretches of Asia.