The Causes and Effects
Before the Flood, the earth’s orbit around the sun had a year of 360 days - the paradise orbit. The topography and climate were very different from what we have today. Contrary to the present teachings, there was no Ice Age before the flood. The Ice Age started with the Biblical Flood and we are still in the waning part of it. The continental shelf was above ocean level and it provided land bridges to all continents. This allowed various animals, such as mammoth, mastodon, saber toothed tiger, etc., to roam vast unnamed areas from today’s Siberia down southeast to Florida and west to England. The earth paradise had an abundance of this wild life and vegetation. However, for a long period of time a great moral problem progressed through the human population as the inhabitants chose not to follow the natural righteous way of life. From this premise, the Lord had no alternative but to put an end to this lifestyle of mankind.
As Scriptures record, only a man named Noah and his family were righteous in the eyes of the Lord because they lived according to the natural law. He instructed them to build an ark. In the meantime, the Lord prepared a comet that would strike the opposite side of the earth. The Great Lakes region is the place were this strike occurred, and where the catastrophic event of the Universal Flood began to unfold. Before this event, the Great Lakes region ( See Fig. 1. ) was bordered by the Canadian Shield to the north, and plains on sandstone formations east, west, and south of this region.
Figure 1
Georgian Bay existed at this time and was part of a large river system with a source extending from western Canada and emptying into the St. Lawrence river.
The comet was made up of interstellar materials whose elements varied in size and composition. Solar radiation caused the comet to decay into a swarm of meteors that eventually followed a trajectory path on a collision course with the earth.
Figure 2
Figure 2 illustrates the three stages of change the comet encounters as it proceeds around the sun. The first stage shows the comet’s orbit ascending towards the sun. The second stage shows the vaporizing and breaking up of the comet. The third shows the remnants as a swarm of meteors and ice on a collision trajectory heading towards the earth.
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