THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1S98.
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(lows of Heaven were not opened as rest on Mount Ararat. This moun­
they had no existence; we also tain is but 16,960 feet high while
know that the fountains of the Mount Everest is 29,002 feet
great deep had no existence. a3 high; what become of the water
water does not rise above the foun­ that was above Mount Ararat?
tain head. If the air contained all There was 12,960 feet of it. Did it
the water it could hold and it was dry up at the rate of almost 110
precipitated at one time, it would feet a day? If M«»unt Hercules is
not be sufficient to cover ordinary a reality it would be necessary to
hills, to say nothing of high moun­ dispose of 15,803 feet of water in
tains.
110 days in order that the peak of
Sir John Leslie says: “Supposing Mount A rarat might be exposed
the vast canopy of air, bv some for the Ark to rest on. This would
sudden change of internal constitu­ be at the rate of nearly 144 feet per
tion, at once to discharge its whole day, or about 6 feet each hour.
watery store, this precipitate would Even then there was still 16,960
form a sheet scarcely five inches feet of water between Noah and
thick over the surface of the globe.” the sea level which had to be dis­
The greatest rainfall that was posed of.
ever known was in southwestern
Noah entered the Ark on the
Assam, in 1861, when it reached 17th day of the 2nd month and
the enormous amount of 905 inches the Ark rested on the 17th day of
for the year. This is the wettest the 7th month. The waters con­
place on the globe, as its average tinued to abate, and on the first
annual rainfall is 610 inches. The day of the 10th month the tops of
largest rainfall reported in the the mountains were seen, and on
United States is at Tatoosh Island, the 27th day of the 2nd month the
Washington, 92.4 inches, while the earth was dried.
smallest is from Yuma, Arizona,
From this it will be seen that in
3.1 inches. Understand these fig­ 30 days less than one year the
ures are for the rainfall for an en­ water, which was of sufficient quan­
tire • vear.
tity to cover the highest mountains,
r
After the flood had appeared on or about 6 miles deep, was all dried
earth it was necessary to have it up. Was theje ever such an evap­
disappear. Again we ask, where oration before or since? Of course,
did the water go to? Did it evap­ the story is laid aside as an ancient
orate? We have already shown fable by the more intelligent peo­
that the atmosphere could not hold ple. Even Christian scholars do
it in solution. It would have to fall not accept it in its literal sense at
again.
the present time.
If the earth had been covered for
After Noah left the Ark he took
a period of 40 days, it would have of every clean animal and made a
absorbed all it was capable of. In sacrifice* of it; the Lord smelled a
fact it would have penetrated into I sweet savor and w?as so well pleased
the very bowels of the earth and with it that he agreed then and
either extinguished the subterra­ there never to repeat the experi­
nean fires or, by the excessive gen­ ment of drowning the world. As a
eration of steam, caused an explo­ sign of this he placed the rainbow
sion that would have blown the in the sky.
earth into small fragments.
W hat a beautiful story if we
Genesis viii, 1-2, says:
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would only take it in its primitive
and God made a wind to pass over poetic nature, and not try to ma­
the earth and the waters assuaged. terialize it into a theological dog­
The fountains of the deep and the ma. Many tales were told of the
windows of heaven were stopped, rainbow ranging from this one to
and the rain from heaven was re­ the idea that it pointed to a pot of
strained.’’ According to this, there gold that lay below the lower end
is, or was, a supply of water in of the bow.
heaven. The wind or a spirit (the
But to-day we know the cause of
same word is translated both wind the rainbow. In fact, we can make
and spirit) passed over the earth them ourselves, This proves that
and the waters assuaged. At the we have the right idea of them.
end of 150 days “the waters were There never was a time since
abated” and the Ark rested “ upon water, sunlight and an eye existed
the mountains of A rarat.”
that a rainbow’ could not be seen
The location ot this mountain when the conditions were right for
(or mountains) is not definitely them. The law of refraction and
known, but it is supposed to be in reflection of light is no different
Armenia. If such is the case, the to-day than it was at the time the
mountain called Ararat is but 16,- flood is supposed to have taken
960 feet high. It rained 40 days place. When the sun is at a per­
of the 150. The assuaging of the son’s back, a cloud or rain storm
waters could not have begun until low enough dow n on the horizon
the end of the 40 days, or until it will produce a rainbow. It is not
stopped raining, and between that necessary to go into the laws of
time and the end of the 150 days, the refraction of light and its sepa­
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or in 110 days, the waters must ration into its primary colors. It
have evaporated or dried up or is a matter of everyday occurrence,
disappeared in some way to a suf­ and every school boy has had his
ficient degree to enable the Ark to 1
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