Mike Oard - Flood by Design

First printing: June 2008

Second printing: July 2011

Copyright 2008 by Mike Oard. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations in articles and reviews. For information write:

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to Roy Holt (19552003) from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who went to be with his Lord and Savior after an unexpected coronary thrombosis. He married Melanie Joy Beenken in 1989 and they had three children: Matthew, Bethany, and Jessica. Roy was active in the Creation Science Association for Mid-America and helped found the Creation Science Fellowship of New Mexico. He wrote an alternative creationist guide to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Roy was an avid fossil collector. Roy would be pleased to know that his fossils and books are now in the possession of the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum in northern Kentucky.

I believe his most important creationist achievement was the publication of the 40-page article in Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal showing with meticulous science that the Flood/post-Flood boundary is in the very late Cenozoic, mainly in the early to mid-Pleistocene in areas not associated with the Ice Age (Holt, 1996). I have come to a similar conclusion from almost independent data, mainly based on the results of my study of the geomorphology that makes up this book.

I greatly respect Roys other creative ideas in creationism, in particular his idea that during the Genesis flood the land and sea reversed their roles . He had planned to flesh out this idea in the future, but poor health prevented him. The idea is provocative. In the future, I would like to examine this idea more thoroughly. He will be missed by myself and many others.

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. Job 28:10

Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to my thinking on geomorphology. It was actually a uniformitarian geologist who first called my attention to this gold mine for Flood geology. Although he thought planation surfaces would challenge the Flood paradigm, I soon found out that they were a challenge to the uniformitarian paradigm and are readily explained by Flood runoff.

I especially thank my wife, Beverly, for going over the English and improving the readability of the manuscript. Of all the creationists, it was Peter Klevberg who contributed most to my study of geomorphology. We have been out in the field and have worked on numerous papers together. I also appreciate the enthusiasm of John Hergenrather on the subject of geomorphology, especially in our work with far-traveled quartzites. I thank Dennis Bokovoy, Harold Coffin, and Dave Andersen for sharing ideas out in the field on geomorphology.

I also want to thank Tas Walker and John Reed for reviewing an earlier draft and their encouragement during the writing of the book. I again thank Tas for writing the foreword. I have simply fleshed out his ideas on the Retreating Stage of the Flood. And I also thank John for writing the endorsement on the back of the book.

I thank Emil Silvestru, John Whitmore, Peter Klevberg, and Carl Froede for reviewing parts of the manuscript. I appreciate the efforts of Gorman Gray for providing uniformitarian opinions on my planation surface ideas.

Over the years, I have had several artists draw or modify illustrations. I would like to thank Bryan Miller of Master Books for doing most of the schematics in the book. I also thank my son, David, my son-in-law, Mark Wolfe, and Daniel Lewis of AiG for providing the first drafts of some of the illustrations. I appreciate the work of Peter Klevberg on the water gap and pediment schematics, and the original schematic for the origin of submarine canyons. Thanks also go to AiG, Ruben Berra, Russ Humphreys, Tas Walker, Carl Froede, and Dennis Bokovoy for providing some of the photos and illustrations.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. Genesis 7:19

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