Comment on My Goal for La Sierra University by Charles.

I was visiting recently with a coal miner who had spent several years working in the mines of West Virginia. I was stunned to learn that he spent much of that time very deep in the earth – as much as 3 miles deep. The veins of coal were as much as 10 ft thick. He told me of seeing much fossilized animal remains in with the coal but nothing much recognizable as a whole creature.

The presence of an organic matter layer under 15,000+ feet of earthen matter suggests to me nothing but a cataclysmic event. What sort of event could broadly spread a three mile deep layer of earth? The description of the flood from scripture and EG White is most convincing to me.

So, what happens to all of that organic matter under the pressure of three miles of dirt? In a flood, it is roiled and churned and quite liquified. As the earth presses upon the mixure, it would be compressed in the way that makes coal. WaaLaa – fuel for the little people that inhabit the earth 3,000 + years later. It is not so hard to understand what happened to most of the life forms that inhabited the earth prior to the flood. It was all destroyed by a God whose standard is perfection.

What about the great animals of the earth – some of which have some scattered remains that have been found? They are evidence of the pre-flood earth. Scripture makes it clear that prior to the flood, the earth was in a different state. People lived very long which contributed even more to the “wickedness”.

The ecology of the Earth must have certainly been different. The earth was watered by a mist at night and there was no rain. The flood came when the “fountains of the deep” were broken and the rain fell in torrents from the sky. I do not think we can begin to imagine what the earth was like before the destruction. Surely the presence of tropical fossilized remains in cold regions of today’s earth suggests a different ecology.

I am not a scientists but from a common-sense approach, it seems highly convincing to me that the world before the flood was a wholly different place.

People were strong and of great intellect. I believe that many of the huge animals were bred by those humans in a way that displeased God and thus those animals were not preserved through the flood.

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