Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:16:48 PM
There are men who try to reconcile the irreconcilable. These are professing Christians who believe that the Genesis Flood was a local flood rather than a world wide flood. They do this because the idea that the fossil record is collection of contemporary life forms buried in sediments from a global catastrophe would put them outside the so called ‘scientific community’. Unfortunately, this community is more about the approval of men than about science...
Major peer-reviewed science journals serve as forums for an incestuous style of peer review and intellectual discussion.
Faculty members of prominent universities are raised to celebrity status and their opinions promoted as those of science’s most progressive thinkers.
International conferences are held with speakers and select attendees chosen to present a unified body of scientific thought.
Supporters are given high academic honors while dissenters are marginalized.
These actions can bestow overwhelming scientific respectability on even scientifically empty concepts. Rank-and-file scientists may find themselves under pressure to conform despite their better judgment. The tendency is to succumb to group-think and the herd-instinct, which is now labeled "informational cascade". [http://www.icr.org/article/4590/]
Those that compromise the doctrine of a global Genesis Flood may not realize that a local flood theory amounts to demeaning the integrity of God. Has the promise made to Noah and his descendants about never again flooding the earth been kept?
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you… Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth” [Genesis 9:8-11].
If Noah’s flood was indeed a local flood, then the promise has been broken, because there are many local floods all over the world about every year. The promise is still trustworthy only if it refers to a global flood.