CONCLUSIONS.
There was a green-house temperature all over the earth at this time. Storms and tempests were unknown, as such phenomena are caused by sun-power, sun-heat falling directly upon the earth. Rains were infrequent, if at all.
Man, in the day when solar actinism was shorn of its strength, must have experienced remarkable longevity, for upon solar energy depends every form and phaze of life on earth.
The day of rest referred to in Gen. 2:3 in which God ceased from his labors was a windless, stormless, rainless, winterless age; for immediately we are told that “God had not caused it to rain upon the earth.” The climate was warm for man dwelt naked upon the earth. He was nurtured in a green-house world.
The rainbow comes into view after the deluge for the first time. There could have been neither rain nor sunshine previously, just what the Vailan theory claims. The wind came upon the earth after the waters of the deluge had fallen, and not before.
It was after the deluge that God said, “While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The period before the flood was nightless, and evening and morning were day; that is, they coalesced into one period called day.
After the deluge the bow is given; man’s longevity declines; the winds come, and alternating seasons take place—all pointing to the fact that the antedeluvian world was overcanopied by annular waters.
Every leaf of the geologic record declares that the world has been deluged time and again, which this theory also claims to be true, and to have taken place at the declension of each ring or stratum.