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Geologists identify erratics by studying the rocks surrounding the position of the erratic and the rock of the erratic itself. Erratics were once considered evidence of a biblical flood, [12] but in the 19th century scientists gradually came to accept that erratics pointed to an ice age in Earth's past.
The Genesis flood narrative is included in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible (see Books of the Bible). Jesus and the apostles additionally taught on the Genesis flood narrative in New Testament writing ( Matthew 24:37–39 , Luke 17:26–27 , 1 Peter 3:20 , 2 Peter 2:5 , 2 Peter 3:6 , Hebrews 11:7 ).
Reports say that this volcanic eruption could trigger an ice age from the sheet of ash that not even the sun could stand a chance of penetrating. ... See the top signs of the 'biblical rapture'
While his ideas of Plutonism were hotly contested, scientific inquiries on competing ideas of catastrophism pushed back the age of the Earth into the millions of years – still much younger than commonly accepted by modern scientists, but much older than the young Earth of less than 10,000 years in which Biblical literalists believed.
He attacked the ice age theory in his book The Mammoth and the Flood (1887). He defended a form of neo-diluvialism, that catastrophic floods had devastated large areas of the earth. [3] He did not believe in a global flood and considered the biblical deluge just one of many flood myths to support his theory.
The flood hypothesis hinges on the geomorphology of the Bosporus since the end of the glacial age. [20] The Black Sea area has been isolated and reconnected many times during the last 500,000 years. [21] Opponents of the deluge hypothesis point to clues that water was flowing out of the Black Sea basin as late as 15,000 years ago. [22]
Ussher's work was his contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth. This was a major concern of many Christian scholars over the centuries. The chronology is sometimes called the Ussher–Lightfoot chronology because John Lightfoot published a similar chronology in 1642–1644; however, this is a misnomer, as the ...