The Flood Gen 6-11, Moses 8 - CFM with Sam

Did the Flood really happen?

The Flood narrative took a beating by academia over the 1800s and 1900s. Virtually all groups subscribed to the gradual theory of earthly evolution, where cataclysmic events had no place. Even at Brigham Young University, there are professors who have said that we will never find evidence of the flood.

Noobs. They couldn't be more wrong

There was a scientist in the 1900s that basically had his career ruined for his consistent claims from evidence he discovered that a catastrophic flood event happened in the world some few thousand years ago. I can't remember his name but if someone is interested in the comments, I can go find it. by the end of the century, the same organizations that had destroyed his career slowly came around, acknowledged that his evidence was compelling, and even slowly recognizing him for his work. In my opinion, they should have done a lot more than they, they should have recognized that their own organizations were incredibly hostile to new ideas, including ones that were scientifically valid, a fundamental breach of trust between them and society. But they didn't. So we can expect more of the same in the future about other ideas that challenge the institutional status quo.

Currently, the shift still is happening in science to acknowledge that there was a cataclysmic flood event that reshaped the entire world's human history. Although still considered a fringe pseudo scientist by some, Randall Carlson is helping our lagging institutions make vast strides in understanding the world. He has taken some of the most ardent antagonists of catastrophic flood theory out in the field and showed them the evidence of massive flood plains, of massive mountain formations broken and carried hundreds of miles down where they were laid, of vast channels carved into rock by rushing waters, and they say (yes, ardent detractors really have said this) 'How did we miss it all these years?' 

Randall believes the flood happened in the 12,000 year mark, which is substantially older than the traditional view of the biblical narrative, but the event describes exactly what the biblical narrative says. A 1+ mile high ice sheet used to cover the majority of North America. If a large comet or meteor smashed into that ice sheet, you would transfer the energy of hundreds of nuclear weapons into a water source suspended above major land masses. Billions of ice fragments would be catapulted into the air like a massive volcanic eruption, where they would be blown and precipitate around the world, causing rainstorms and flooding elsewhere. Meanwhile, the liquified glaciers would wash down through America and maybe other places, and washing into the ocean where sea levels would rise, wiping out all major population centers in the world.

We don't know if Randall's event is the flood event, but we can reasonably conclude that a catastrophic flood event did happen based on scientific evidence, and if that is true, the vast majority of scientists over the last 200 years in this field have been dead wrong and know very little of these works of God, whether manifested in religion or in nature.

Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
Isaiah 29:14-16

What are we to learn from the flood

The flood is a complex event. It has implications that reach the beginning and the end of the world, it is personal, it is global, it is tied to the baptismal ordinance and the atonement.

For me, the lesson from the flood is that sometimes, the world we live in ends. It could be your world, your family's world, your nation's world, or the entire world itself. 

Sometimes everything you lived like is gone. The world ends. You no longer live in the world you thought you lived in.

What do you do?

You do as Noah.

You keep listening to the voice of God. You prepare to be able to do what He tells you. You accept that sometimes you need to leave everything because the world you live in today is not the world you live in tomorrow.

Stay Grateful, Stay Humble, Stay Open to the Voice of God.

Bon Courage ;)