The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-06-07
DELUGE NOT A MYTH.
SCIENTIFIC CONFIRMATION OF
BIBLICAL STORY OF FLOOD.
Antediluvian Man DESTROYED by
Great Glacial Changes - Stue
pendous Forces at Work
in Nature.

In connection with the astonishing
revelations concerning the glacial
period we now know that within
comparatively few thousand years,
probably within 10000 years, there
have been changes of land level in the
northern hemisphere due to forces
which have now ceased to act and
s which are out of all proportion to
those now in operation, says G. Fred
erick Wright in the Detroit News. So
| generally have these earth movements
! been proved to have taken place dur
ing and since the glacial period that
| they may fairly be supposed to have
affected the entire area connected with
the early Biblical history.
| During the glacial period 6.O0O.e0O
cubic miles of ice were piled up over
| a limited area in the northern hemi-
| sphere. The weight of this would
amount to the stupendous sum of "a
| 600 900, 600 100000 tons, which is equal
| to twice that of the whole continent of
North America and to nearly that Of
| the whole of Asia The snow to con-
| stitute this ice came from water evap-
Grated from the ocean, all of which
| was, SO to speak, locked up on the ice
| bound continents. The amount Of
water thus abstracted from the ocean
and locked up on the land was suf-
ficient TO lower its whole level about
300 feet. Thus, not only was this vast
| amount of pressure added to the con-
tinental area, but an equal amount was
| taken from the bed Of the ocean. Thus
it is easy to see that there would have
to be Il very marked readjustment in
land levels. The continents, overload
ed with ice, would settle down, and
even the vast Asiatic continent on
which the ice did not accumulate to
any great extent would of it's own
weight sink to a lower level because
Of the removal of pressure from the
bed Of the ocean. AS the ice melted
off again, and returned this vast
amount of water again to the sea
level, the original distribution of pres
sure was restored.
With such stupendOus forces operat-
ing since man came into the world, we
do not need to prove directly from
science that any catastrophe like the
flood overwhelmed the human race 1t
is enough that we have proved that
the physical forces &C .Sary TO pro-
duce such a catastrophe were in the
field and in operation during mans
early history. The scientific facts
show not only that there is nothing
impossible in the occurrence of the
food, but that it is SO fairly probable
that its reality can be established with
a moderate amount of evidence
AS still further confrmatory of the
Biblical account OF the deluge we may
note that from every hand there comes
evidence that, in connection with the
close of the glacial period, there was
a great destruction of species of land
animals all over North America, Eu-
rope and Central Asia, and that there
is much evidence to show that in large
portions of this area man himself
shared in this destruction. Apparent
ly palaeOlithic man largely, if not
wholly, disappeared from America and
Europe during the closing stages of
the glacial period, since his remains
are closely associated with those of the
various animal species which became
extinct at that time. 1t is therefore
a theory which can be held with a
fair degree of confidence that antedi-
luvian man, after having spread over
all the northern hemisphere, was ex-
terminated by the glacial changes in
all the outlying provinces, so that the
eliminating catastrophe of the No
achian deluge found him limited to the
great centers of early civilization in
the valley of the Euphrates.