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.
THE NOACHIAN DELUGE.
There is enough water now on the earth and in its rocky frame to make an hundred terrific deluges, every one of which could drown the world of living beings.
In early days man believed there was a great deep on high. The sources of the deluge were “broken up,” and never again can the world be destroyed from that source. If the fountains of the deep were on the earth or in the seas then they are not “broken up.” If they were in the clouds, they were not, for that source still exists. Then we must believe that they came from beyond the clouds.
With the fountain of the great deep placed on high—the veritable waters above the firmament—we can readily understand why the “windows of heaven were opened,” and why “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up.” The rainbow proclaims these facts around the circuit of the earth.