A lot before the days of Ad-am (Unit and Universality), and of their wife He-va,
where now there are only desolate and sterile deserted with salty lakes,
there was a vast interior sea that extended on the Asia Central, from the North of the
arrogant mountain of the Himalayan, to their
western extension. In this sea there was an island, that by its beauty
without pair, did not have rival in the world, and was inhabited by the Sons of Will and Yoga...
[Book of Dzyan]
Unpublished Worlds
Hansa_Vâhara
¿Actualism
or
diluvialism?
This article can be
found complete in:
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synopsis of the
article
for their analysis and evaluation:
¿Actualism or diluvialism?
H.
M. MORRIS
IT WOULD NOT be proper to omit from this paper
all reference to the so-called Flood Geology, in spite of the fact that in some
quarters the term is almost a "naughty word." Flood Geology is by some
people classed with such fancies as the Flat Earth theory. But this is not
altogether fair because the Flat Earth theory, now that the South Pole has been
crossed, is totally indefensible, whereas the same kind of absolute disproof of
Flood Geology may not yet have appeared. There are a number of variant forms in
which Flood Geology is presented, but essentially this is what is believed to
have taken place.
At the time of the Flood, which was world-wide,
great tidal waves swept back and forth week after week laying and relaying all
the loose materials on the earth's surface in a series of layers in which were
embedded the animals and plant life representative of each area.
In the course of time these layers became hardened
by pressure and heat until they took the solid form in which they are now found.
Consequently, there are no great geological ages
separating these layers. They were laid in rapid succession, and the living
forms which were buried in them from the trilobites to the dinosaurs were
contemporary with one another. These creatures had therefore inhabited the earth
together during the interval between Adam and Noah.
Part of the evidence said by its advocates to
support this is the existence of a number of animal cemeteries in which are
found indiscriminately mixed together in a tangled mass the bones of innumerable
animals of different species. In all such cemeteries it is evident that the
animals perished suddenly and simultaneously. Carnivorous and herbivorous
species lie together, the latter showing no signs of their bones having been
gnawed by the former, so that their deaths were presumably simultaneous.
Moreover, the bones are so completely and forcibly
mixed together that the destruction was evidently very violent.
A water catastrophe best accounts for these
cemeteries. Animal bones of various species from very different climatic
conditions are found where such creatures no longer exist. This is clearly due
to a change in climate occurring at the time of, or soon after, their
destruction.
Another line of evidence is believed to exist in
the fact that the rocks are found in reverse order over considerable areas in
certain parts of the world. Those rocks which evolutionary geology designates as
most ancient lie above rather than beneath those which are designated as recent.
Orthodox geology accounts for this fact by the overturning of sections of the
earth's crust on a gigantic scale. Flood Geologists reject this explanation.
A few years ago, I attended a conference of
Christian scientific men in which the subject of Flood Geology was raised. It
occurred to me that this question of upside down rocks could be settled very
easily if they were examined carefully to see whether certain fossils which are
normally fossilized feet down, as it were, in these rocks were fossilized feet
up. If the latter were the case, then clearly the rocks have been turned upside
down and the orthodox explanation of the reversed strata is valid. But if not,
then the strata really were laid in the wrong order, and modern geology would
have to do a lot of rethinking. I asked if the animals were found upside down.
Those present did not take the question seriously. Yet it is obvious that this
should be looked into and would be worth doing so, even if a research fund were
necessary, because it would settle the issue once for all.
A book has been published by Martin Gardner
entitled Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science in which the author
claims that this question of upside down fossil forms has in fact been
investigated and the evidence sustains modern geological theory. (33) I'm not
sure how true this is -- that is to say, whether the upside-downness of the
fossils is found in every locality where the strata are reversed. It could be
true of some -- but if it is not true in one single instance, the case is wide
open.
In order that the reader may pursue this point of
view for himself, the short bibliography which follows lists some of the works
of a serious nature which support Flood Geology, including one by George
McCready Price, who is probably its best-known protagonist.
The eye is blinded
by the five colors. The five notes stun the hearing. The five flavors turn insensitive
the palate.
[Lao
Tse, Tao Te Ching]
