Eleventh Post

Exploring the Great Flood

Glory to Jesus Christ, y'all!

And a grace-filled Byzantine Feast of the Major Prophet Ezekiel and Roman Feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi!

Everybody's heard of the Great Flood. It's in the Bible in the book of Genesis. Most, including most current Catholic churchmen, think that it's a mythological account, an account useful perhaps for the primitive ancient Israelites who wrote it, maybe a regional pagan story dressed-up to make it compatible with Yahweh.

Sadly, as this author has written before, modern man's mind is seriously infected with temporal snobbery: past folks were primitive, stupid, uncomprehending, unaware, unobserving dolts, very unlike us sophisticated, intelligent, SUPERIOR moderns.

A falsehood repeated often enough (like “Blondes have more fun.”) ends up conditioning the hearing/reading mind into thinking that that said falsehood is a fundamental principle of reality. This author was raised in the 1960s and 70s, and, repeatedly exposed to prevailing pop culture, considered an LAX luggage tag to be the height of travel glamor, and the celebrity denizens of Los Angeles to be the gods of the West Coast Mount Olympus. Thanks be to God, that pack of lies and others did not root too deeply in him because, growing up, he was also regularly exposed to the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, wherein actual Reality was taking place. However, extirpating them has nonetheless been a many-year project: mental conditioning is powerful!

With a childhood of summer Pocono Mountains (Northeast PA) rock prospecting and collecting under his belt, the author eventually earned a BA in Geology and went through young adult life uneasily trying to maintain the Genesis Flood account and Old Earth Geology/Evolution in the same mental space. Never the twain would meet. Finally, a multi-inch stalactite on an only century-old concrete railroad bridge convinced him that the Old Earth story was bogus, but he had not the paradigm to replace the mainstream Old Earth History with.

After about a decade or two, he came across the Hydroplate Theory paradigm that comprehensively put the many geological puzzle pieces together.

Having traveled to and/or flown over (window seat) the vast majority of the fifty states of the USA, the author can confidently say that the signs of the Great Flood are nearly everywhere! (And there's nothing like the beautiful photography of states’ tourist info to fill in where a fellow couldn't set foot!)

Interestingly, a group of formations like this, photographed by the author in Brusett, MT,

has a nearly identical copy some thousand miles to the South in the Navajo Nation straddling the AZ-UT line. And very similar landscapes appear in ND, SD, and KS. This speaks of a similar or identical process or set of processes taking place in a significant chunk of the country. (And yes, it's cold coffee in the plastic bottle! 😃)

And a close-up look at the strata, the chunks of rock in them, as well as the fossils, hints at an event of great violence.

The upcoming posts will be exploring the Great Flood further, including a treatment of each of two competing Great Flood paradigms:

The Hydroplate Theory (HPT)

&

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT)

Each has an explanation to offer to account for what is seen out there.

Stay tuned!

Our Mother of Perpetual Help, aid us!