The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-04-11
THE GREAT DELUGE.
Evidence That the Entire Earth Was
not Inundated,

Geological and archaeological rea-
sons combine to prove that geographi-
cally the deluge was not universal. AT
the time assigned for the deluge the
surface of the earth was substantially
as it is now. If, then, some great
portion of the dry land had been sub.
merged, proportionate rise or land
above the waters would have been nee
essary in some other part of the globe.
For, as Professor Alexander Winchell
observes, "the terrestrial globe, in some
OF Its behavior, may be compared to an
lndia-rubber ball filled with water.
II indented by pressure in one place,
there must be protuberance equal in
volume in another place.
Hence, il all Asia had been SUBJ
merged, proportionate amount of dry
land would have been lifted above the
waters somewhere else. That Asia,
Africa, Europe, Australia and America
were all submerged at the same time
seems geologically impossible, and we
have no evidence which would Justify
us to assume that God wrought so
stupendous wonder.
On the contrary there are geological
and archaeological facts which evil
IDENTIFY prove that some portions of the
earth have not been inundated by tile
Noachian deluge. For instance, in
Auvergne, France; in the Elfel coun-
try OF the Prussian Rhine Province; in
New Zealand and elsewhere, there are
extinct volcanoes, evidently older than
Noe, that are marked by cones of
pumice-stone, ashes, and such light
substances as could not have resisted
the waters Of the deluge."
Whereabouts was the delugep In
dlcations seem to point to Western
Central Asia. 1t ia quite probable
that the leading descendants of Adam,
the direct line Of the ancestors of
Gods chosen people OF old, contin ued
to reside near the former happy home
Of our first parents, the Garden OF Par
adlse. Now, this was undoubtedly
situated in Western Central Asia, as
tile Book Of Genesis unmistskably indl-
Gates by stating that four rivers, the
Prison, the Gehon, the Tigris and the
EuphTates, had their source in the re.
gion Of the Paradise. That really the
Tlgris and the Euphrates of to-day were
meant can not be doubted, In the frs
place, of the Tigris 1t is expressly
stated that 1t is the same that passeti
along by the Assyrians. Secondly
there is no geological reason known
why the present Tigris and Euphrate
should not have existed In the days o
Adam, or even long before.
Thus, for instance, our Missouri
Ohio and Mississippi. the latter abou
as far South as Tennessee, seem to hav
been in existence during the tertiary
age, long before the appearance o
man upon earth.
Moreover, it is not likely that tb,
transient tnundation caused by til
deluge has permanently changed th
channels Of these rivers, which 1t coul
not have done without changing tn
sntire surface Of the surrounding tel
ritories. And, finally, the Book {
Genesis was written at time whe
40 other rivers were known as tn
Tigris and the EuphrRtes than ii
rivers which still bear these names,
For these reasons it can not |
doubted that the Paradise was locate
somewhere near or about the sourc,
IL the present Tigris and Euphrates,
Armenia. This is the opinion Of cor
petent authorities.