Mother Nature performs her own works in stone which can serve as time-clocks for us. Take Niagara Falls, for instance. When the falls first started, the river flowed over a cliff where the mouth of the gorge below the falls is today. There was no gorge. As the years went by the water broke away the cliff bit by bit, year by year, century by century, to form the seven-mile long gorge which reposes below the falls today. For the past 100 years the breakaway of the Canadian Falls has averaged approximately 4.5 feet per year. When the falls were young – when the gorge’s first 2 to 3 miles or so were being carved out by the river – the breakaway was faster since the falls were narrower, the depth of water passing over the cliff deeper, and the height of the cliffs greater. A reasonable early breakaway figure would be 6.0 to 6.1 feet per year, which would make the age of the falls and gorge below them about 7,000 years – the birth of both fall s and gorge coinciding with oceanographic data which tells us that the oceans all over the world took a sudden rise of over 200 feet, and stayed risen, gradually lowering in height since then to their levels of today.
St. Anthony’s Falls in the upper Mississippi River in Minnesota bears another telltale story in Nature’s series of recording time-clocks. The gorge below those falls is 8 miles long; over the past century the breakaway
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has averaged 5.5 feet per year. If we repeat the same reasoning processes that we used in analyzing the gorge below Niagara Falls, we come up with the same figure for the age of St. Anthony’s Falls and the gorge below them: approximately 7,000 years.
These datings, plus others – such as the eruption of lava around the Pyramid of Cuicuilco in Mexico – lead us to a date of the last cataclysm (Noah’s flood) of somewhere around 7,000 years ago.
Earlier datings – 11,500 years ago for the abrupt end of the Laurentian Basin ice cap in Canada and the ice cap in southwestern Australia, plus the same date for the jamming burial of countless animals, fish, mammals, birds, and humans in the Pejark Marsh in southeastern Australia, plus the same date for the abrupt end of civilization in Tiahuanaco by an inundation, plus scientific data from all over the world showing an abrupt worldwide climatic change at the same time, establish 11,500 years ago as a close estimate for Adam and Eve’s cataclysm, the one preceding Noah’s flood. If we accept Tiahuanacan dating, it was approximately 11,560 years ago.
Isn’t it interesting that the “new stone age” and the “old stone age” datings coincide with the times of Noah’s cataclysm and Adam and Eve’s cataclysm? It is plain that each cataclysm leaves this planet with less
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