The Greatest Deluge the world has ever seen.

What a deluge of snow the UK has seen over this past month. In Northern Ireland I don't think we have seen such a fall of snow and the drop in temperatures since 1963 (I was only a wee lad then).

I was thinking about Noah recently and how the rain promised by God started to materialise on the earth. It was a deluge that the peoples of the world thought was never going to stop. It didn’t and the people who were looking for its end decidedly perished in it. Many today wonder how so much rain could fall and cover the earth so comprehensibly yet the answer is in God’s Word, ‘The Bible’ as we know it. In Genesis 1:6-7 we see God dividing waters. One below on the earth and what appears to be a canopy of water above the earth. This canopy above the earth created a humid environment allowing many species of His creation to exist. It would be logical to assume that God used this canopy of water to flood the earth in Noah’s day. What significance would this have had on the environment that was left? Most certainly the humid greenhouse effect would have disappeared because the canopy of water that the sun was shining through had now gone. This would have caused some types of certain kinds of life to be reduced in numbers due to the change in their living conditions. I believe that life changed for the dinosaur (dinosaur being a relatively new word to describe a certain batch of life that remains have been found in different parts of the world). Many would not have been able to survive the new living conditions.

It is interesting that Sir David Attenborough, an eminent scientist of some repute, has stated recently in an interview with Sky News the following:

"Every now and then there's a blip (extinction), like what happened with the dinosaurs and pterosaurs."

Yet men of Sir David’s calibre fail to even contemplate the possibly that God’s hand of creation and ultimate handling of His creation is the result of what we have on earth today. There are of course many other less publicised yet equally eminent scientists who hold to the belief that there must be a Divine originator without whom this world with its life-forms and the surrounding galaxies would fail to exist.

God even told of the fact that the earth was round in the writings of Isaiah:

Isaiah 40:22 -It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

God even allows us to see what can only be described as creatures that fit into the ‘Dinosaur’ ‘kind’ in Job 40:15 (Behemoth) and Job 41: (Leviathan).

I am not an scientist but sometimes the obvious is overlooked because it is so simple in the first place. The old saying comes to mind:

‘When plain sense makes good sense seek no other sense lest it result in nonsense’ 

Psalm 24:1 - The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.