NOTE: Marion’s second edition to his flood book is in the hands of the printers and, hopefully, will be available soon. It is simply outstanding. Below is its Forward. –Gary
Our planet contains numerous mystifying features such as: flash-frozen animals and plants in tropical surroundings found within deep ice of the far north; thick, multiple and rapidly deposited layers of sediment as found in the Grand Canyon and elsewhere throughout the world; fossils of fast-decaying organisms extending through several different sedimentary strata; sea fossils located at the interior of continents; mountain ranges with seemingly inexplicable cause of formation; and many, many more such perplexing features. These features pose the dilemma of their cause as either (1) a single worldwide flood or (2) uniformitarianism (or even multiple catastrophes) throughout thousands of millions of years. Only one of these two can be, and must be, correct. Not both, not neither, but one or the other is the actual cause.
The answer to this dilemma has profound ramifications. If a worldwide flood did not occur, then these features developed over an extensive amount of time encompassing 4.5 billion years or more—a time necessary for promoting the theory of evolution and eliminating the concept of creation by a supernatural God. On the other hand, if a worldwide flood did occur how and when the Bible describes and caused these features, then: (1) the earth is young (a few thousand years), making it impossible for evolution to have occurred; (2) this is evidence of Divine inspiration of the Bible, for mere men of antiquity could not have known and wrote the obscure factors (which this book brings forth) involved in the flood; and (3) there is a creating God Who brought the flood (due to man’s sin [Genesis 6]) and inspired men to record it 1000 to 2000 years later.
How, then, is it to be determined which of these two possibilities is correct? Advocates for an old age of the earth will present matters such as radiometric dating of rocks, radiocarbon dating of organisms, earth’s reception of light from stars seven million light-years from earth, etc. Yet, young earth advocates present the flood (and other matters which are scientifically established) to account for a young earth which harmonizes with the Bible and falsifies the time needed for evolution.
However, traditional scenarios of the flood advanced by young-earth and old-earth advocates (such as: local flood; rain only; rain plus reservoirs of water from beneath the surface of the earth) contain substantial problems which cannot be successfully answered. For fifty-two years, Dr. Fox labored tirelessly on this question, researching extensively in scientific journals and books, lecturing and writing on his breakthroughs, and now presents a second and updated edition of A Study of the Biblical Flood as he expounds his flood model—a model which is new and unique, but explains those puzzling features of the earth, fits the science, and answers the questions. Fox also exposes the old-earth advocate’s acclaimed evidence for an old earth.
To one unfamiliar with Fox’s flood model, this book will be quite enlightening. To one troubled by the unsolvable problems of traditional flood models, this will provide answers. To one distressed by atheistic accusations against the flood (and creation), this will furnish refutations. To one advancing claims against the flood (and creation), this may change the mind of the honest investigator. Quotations and technicalities are supplied to enable the reader to see and examine the research and evidence behind all facets of Fox’s flood model, eliminating the notion for the reader to think Fox merely devised a model from imagination.
As to the author’s immense educational credentials, instructional expertise, and intellectual capabilities, reading “About the Author” at the end of this book would prove most impressing.
I predict Fox’s flood model, upon readers comprehending how it fits earth’s numerous puzzling features mentioned above, will emerge as the academically accepted model of the flood.
Gary R. Henson