Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-02-05

OF Jesus, tie Apostles and Moses re-
specting the Deluge.
The great stumbling block heretofore
has been the suppositlon that the story
Of the Delupe implies a fiat earth, and
that such Il food Of waters rising high
er than the mountains should be recog'
nlzed as an lmpossibillty, since we
know that the earth is sphere. Thus
does shallow thinking called "wisdom
Of this world" set IN defiance the Wis
dop Of God and His Word-to It's own
confusion
As the study Of astronomy has pro
gressed, the Yallian theory respecting
creation has come forward II shows
that the earth when In molten condi'
ton must have thrown of various min
erals In gaseous form. These, cooling,
would become more or less separated
from each other, according to density,
and must have constituted great rings
aud bands about the earth, similar 10
those which we perceive encircling
Saturn and Jupiter. As the earth
cooled, these rings would obtain sepa-
rate motions Of their own because OF
their distance: yet always they would
tend TO gravitate toward the earth.
The circumambient air, or armament,
would keep these from immediate pre-
cipitation. Gradually they would spread
out as great canopy, gravitating more
and more toward the poles, because OF
the greater centrifugal force at the
equator. Finally, the accumulation AT
the poles would become 30 great ms TO
overcome the resistance OF the atmos-
phere, and cause precipitatlons. which
would flow toward the equator.
The theory is that many such deluges
had been precipitated upon the earth
before man was created and that from
these came many Of the mineral depos
its Of earth. Only one such ring re-
mained when man was created. In
deed, this was not n ring, but had come
to the state in which II acted as can
opy. As the last Of these rings, 1t con
sisted of pure water. Az canopy II
refracted the suns rays much as would
the roof OF hot-house, so that the
temperature Of earth was uniform-the
same at the poles as at the equator
Divine Wisdom foreknew the condition
of things which would prevail at the
time Of the Deluge, and hence delayed
the breaking OF this great envelope OF
waters until that time
Frozen In tho Solid Ice.
Not long ago, in Siberia, a mammoth
was found with grass between Its
teeth, frozen solid in great basin OF
ice, which was so clear that the AMI
NAL could be seen long before the ice
melted enough for It to be conveniently
exhumed Similarly, a deer was found
In the polar regions, with undlgested
grass In its stomach, proving clearly
that the catastrophe which overlook
It and froze It solidly in the ice was
sudden one-Just such as did occur,
according to the Vailian theory.
The breaking of the watery envelope
made the change at the poles sudden
and sent a great food Of waters over
the earth toward the equator. Thus
came the great Glacial Period and
some Of the great glaciers, or icebergs
carried over North America, cut great
gullies, valleys, crevices, canyons. &c
ologists have traced the course Of some
OF these and charted them.
Equatorisl Heat Was Intense.
As the cold at the poles was extreme
to form the great ice-caps covering
the earth and only gradually melting
away-so the heat Mt the equator must
have been proportionately extreme.
The intense heat at the equator warm
ing the ocean, set up ocean currents
These for the past four thousand years
have been gradually modifying the arc
tic regions ns-adyancing the temperate
zone further and further toward the
poles, and more and more reducing the
ice-caps, bringing them toward the
equator as great icebergs to be melted
and sent back warm.
The Ark Divinely Protected.
We naturally Inquire, Where was the
Ark while such torrent of water
poured over the earth from the poles? |
How was II that the Ark was kept |
safe and comparatively quiet in such a
time OF stress2 The answer of faith |
would be that God, who directed Moab |
and his family to build the Ark, exer
cislng His Power would undoubtedly |
protect II.
And now comes forward Prof. George
Frederick Wright. the geologist, who |
tells the world that the region around |
about Mt Ararat, where the Ark
rested. was apparently at one time the
scene OF a great eddy. While the wa.
.ers ragged elsewhere God specially
held that part quiet, just as we have
'ften seen quiet eddy or bay along
side OF swiftly rushing stream
Prof. Wright's deductions respecting
he quietness Of this little corner OF the
'arth are drawn largely from the fact
hat he finds there wonderfully deep
'oil, which seems to indicate that 1t
vas n settling basin for intensely mud
iy waters in the long ago