https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/ ... d-insight/ 'Very Rare June Ice Storm on Hawaiian Mountains Provides Insight into the Flood.'
('Ice storm' is another term for freezing rain; though some of the precipitation appears to have been directly out of fog or cloud.)
The only Bible verse cited by Oard here is Genesis 7:11:
"In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened".
Oard ignores the obvious meaning of 11b - groundwater coming to Earth's surface perhaps following an earthquake. Instead he indulges in eisegesis: "The “fountains of the great deep” busting [sic] open implies the earth’s crust opening in some way. When this happens, one would expect a huge amount of volcanism." But the Bible suggests that flood was all of WATER - and NOT partly of volcanic lava.
Linking a recent event on Hawaii to the flood account in Genesis is beyond ridiculous. But of course they aren't linking to Genesis but to AiG/CMI SPIN on Genesis.
Also, the (utterly fictional) YEC 'post-flood' ice age is supposed to have involved vast amounts of snow - NOT freezing rain (that forms ice on impact either in cold winter conditions or at altitude - when the surface temperature is at or below freezing).
"We know there was much volcanism during the flood." Oh no we do not. It's not in the Bible. By YEC thinking above all it must therefore be misinformation and eisegesis. So his piece does NOT (biblically) help ANYBODY 'understand' the Genesis flood. (These same people condemn other people for misreading or ignoring the Bible.)
"This example shows that rain can be easily produced by hot lava interacting with the sea water in the same way as Kilauea". The Bible describes NO such thing. Re-read Genesis 7:11 Oard - and stop making Genesis say things it does not say. Apart from the fact that a literally worldwide flood almost wiping out humanity is both impossible and not found in history or genetics, Genesis 7 does NOT mention or allude to volcanic eruptions - whether under the oceans or on land as the waters rose or sank.
"...the vapor canopy is not a biblical concept". Nor is the tosh being advanced by Michael Oard.
"So if we multiply this rare event on Hawaii several thousand times, we can get a glimpse into another mechanism for how further rain could have been produced for the 40 days and nights of torrential rainfall worldwide during the early flood." And if we divide the real age of Earth by around a million we get the age YECs insist upon. No problem.
But notice how does not repeat the Purdom Facebook drivel that "this may help explain some weather mechanisms that initiated the Ice Age shortly following Noah's Flood". Assuming he read the Purdom Facebook post in question, it appears that it was too preposterous even for Mr Oard. So all he can offer is an unbiblical mechanism for 'further rain'.
These same people deny (and are currently trying desperately to ignore) that real science allows us to understand how all the huge heatwaves this summer in California, Canada, Iberia, northern Europe and Japan in particular are being enhanced by man-caused climate change specifically how humans have added more of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane to Earth's atmosphere.
PS to my preceding post:
The new Oard article does cite this report that Purdom never quoted:
http://strangesounds.org/2018/06/lava-f ... sland.htmlThis article does suggest that "the interaction of lava with sea water has created an unusual weather phenomenon causing freezing rain on the Big Island Summits".
I just sent an email, as follows:
The stupidest YEC claim ever?
https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/ ... d-insight/ 'Very rare ice storm on Hawaiian mountains provides insight into the flood.'
More here (including a brief critique of the new Oard fantasies which echo Purdom fantasies):
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3889&p=52210#p52210Never mind the fact that NONE of this is in the Bible. It's preposterous nonsense. By the author's own words you have to multiply an unusual event in Hawaii 'several thousand times' to get a 'glimpse' of something. (So stand by for some other YECs to exclaim "what a great article!")