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compressed mud. Visualize if you will, a huge inland sea,areas proposed by the geologists. There would probably beseveral rivers flowing into it, each draining a different area.We would suppose that there might be a difference in thesediments carried in by various rivers. One river might bringin a great deal of sand; another both sand and decomposedgranite. If some rivers flowed through limestone formations,they would probably carry some into the sea. When therivers flooded they would all bring some top soil with them,which, when deposited and compressed will form shale. Allof these rivers would be carrying and depositing this varietyof sediments, according to the geologists, for hundreds ofmillions of years.Do we find this mixture of sediments throughout thislarge area? No, we do not. We find layers of sand, mixedwith fossils, compressed into sandstone and coveringthousands of square miles, in depths up to 850 feet. We findlayers of limestone, again containing untold numbers offossils, in thicknesses up to 350 feet, also covering hugeareas. The same applies to shale. How could rivers carry innothing but sand for millions of years, then carry nothingbut lime and then nothing but mud for other millions ofyears? The science of hydrology says this is highly improbable.Even more to the point, the logic that you and Iuse every day tells us the same.Then how were they deposited? If we want to learnabout the events of the past, we turn to history. The mostreliable and dependable history is in the Bible, so let's look atsome passages in Job, the Psalms, and Genesis. Job 38:8,". . .who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, asif it had issued out of the womb?" Psalm 104:9, "Thouhast set a bound that they (the waters) may not pass over;that they turn not again to cover the earth". Genesis 7:11,". . .the same day were all the fountains of the great deepbroken up.. ." Here is the source of the massive volumes ofwater necessary to lay down great beds of sediment such asare found in various places all over the world. The historicalevidence of the Bible and the scientific evidence of hydrologyindicate that the continents actually sank temporarily,causing the bottom of the oceans to rise and pour vastquantities of water across the continents. The breaking up ofthe earth's crust permitted fantastic lava flows andtremendous volcanic activity. This supplied the alkalineconditions and the heated water necessary for the deposit oflimestone strata.How are we to interpret these facts? First, it wouldseem that geology, when it formed its basic assumptionsback in the early eighteen hundreds, did not carefully studythe effects of moving water. Hydrology was forced to do thisto solve such practical problems as keeping river channelsopen. When the facts assembled by the relatively new scienceof hydrology are applied to the study of great beds ofsediment, a whole new picture emerges. Most important tous as Christians is that this picture agrees well with thehistory of the Flood. The second part of this study will givesome facts from two other new sciences which support thisview of world history; also the amazing discovery of ahuman sandal-print in rock which contains trilobite fossilsright in the footprint.(To be continued)A Christian scientist not long ago converted a computer!In effect that is what the widely publicized storypretended to say. It concerned a named scientist with theUnited States' Space Programme. The story was that as hecalculated the moon's position in preparation for the firstmanned landmg, he discovered one day was missing. Thenhe recalled that the moon stood still in Joshua's time Insearching out Joshua 10:13 he discovered the silence had aduration only oi" about a whole day." Only the better partof a day was found. Then the record of Isaiah 38:8 came tomind - about the sun going back ten degrees. This wouldgive approx.mately forty minutes to recede, and fortvminutes to come back. Thus the computer was fed theabout a whole day" of Joshua and approximately eightyTalleluiah" T^ "* *> * bMnked ^ ^hallelujah and gave its transistor-heart to the Bible Th IUSthe computer was converted!Computer - Conversion!Rev. Robert More, fr.,Almonte, Ontario, CanadaMany publications, Christian especially, heralded thisaccount. But as with any striking proof of Scripture, scepticsabounded. Some reported the space agency didn't have thescientist listed. Others located the man and after pointedquestioning concluded that his answers were evasive orequivocal. Thus a cloak of suspicion palled the report.John Schaefer, a professor of physics at GenevaCollege in Beaver Falls, contributed an additional scientificconsideration to the controversy. This man is a staunchChristian who convictingly defends the infallibility ofScripture where it touches scientific data and yet is bytraining and profession one of the scientific community.Thus his observation is surely pertinent.Professor Schaefer states that with King Hezekiah, tocompute back from now to where the moon would have beenin his day, his life must be datable to within one hour andtwenty minutes. Presently archeology cannot come closerthan a day in a rare instance or to a year for most events.