FROM WHERE THE GIANT FOSSILS
Fossil finds show us plants and animals of giant sizes: protozoa of 16 cm diameter, dragonflies of more than 70 cm wingspan, tall ferns, dinosaurs, penguins 1.8 m tall, snails over 2 meters long, mammals of enormous sizes, human footprints 70 cm long. Likewise, the variety of living organisms was much greater before. Today we have just 2% of living species compared with those found in fossils. We are not witnesses to an evolution, but to a degradation of the living world. It is obvious that the present life conditions and present abilities of organisms lag noticeably behind those having existed in the past.
The questions are: Why were the life conditions giving such an abundance of and such giant vegetation and organisms at the time? Have the organisms preserved their former potentials in their genetic development? Would a restoration of former life conditions enable the organisms to unlock their genes and offer again all the potentials exhibited by them in the past? Why and how the genetic potentials of organisms have been crippled in the meantime?
We can ask a justified question of what happened causing such an evolutionary fall?
Comparing the mutual relationship between the present life conditions and genetic inclinations of organisms we will see a mutual disharmony showing that the life conditions have changed drastically, and that the living organisms with their genetic potentials are out of step with the present life conditions hardly corresponding to them. A climate change is one of the main reasons why less species survived until now, but likewise why the organisms cannot manifest all their genetic potentials. We will analyze what changes took place in the climate (change in temperature, atmospheric pressure, air composition, sunlight spectrum, magnetic field strength etc.).
TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS AFTER THE FLOOD
Man has a need for an air-conditioner, cooling in summer, heating in winter. We can rightly ask why the "evolution" has not adapted the man to normal temperature differences, it instead being a constant trauma for him. He simply is not adapted to the differences in temperature between seasons and between geographical latitudes. Not only man, but also plants and animals experience a stress (and even death) due to the existing changes in temperature. Most of bird species fly to the south in order to hibernate there. They are not "constructed" to survive the "normal" temperature difference between the seasons.
Many indicators point to the most optimal life conditions being those in tropics and subtropics. A greatest percentage of all vegetable and animal species live in those conditions. Many plants living in the moderate belt manifest all the fullness of their potentials (bloom and bear fruit) only in tropic conditions. The most abundant vegetable and animal world we have neither in a hot desert nor on the poles. It is not by chance that their habitat is in the temperature middle between these two extremes.
All this shows to us that genetic materials of organisms are not adapted to a climate characterized by great daily temperature differences, nor a climate differing from the subtropics and tropic one.
From where such conditions so inadequate to the genetic contents of plants and animals?
Holy Scriptures reveal that abnormal differences in temperature, as well as the occurrence of seasons, are consequences of a great flood, actually the breaking down of a watery canopy that hovered around the Earth atmosphere before the Flood.
Biblical report explains clearly the origin of temperature differences on our planet as a consequence of the great Flood:
"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)
What is the connection between the Flood and the appearance of summer and winter, i.e. why would a breakdown of the watery canopy have resulted in an occurrence of severe differences in temperature?
Let us remember the fact that a clear night foretells a cold morning. But, if the sky is cloudy, the clouds reflect the emitted heat radiation from the earth back to it, and the morning will not be so cold. Before the Flood the watery canopy created a strong glass-house effect, and thus a uniform temperature existed everywhere.
"And God said, 'Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day." (Genesis 1:6-8)
If a glass-house effect had existed on the Earth, that means that a uniform climate had existed all over the Earth, regardless of season and geographical latitude. And all this is confirmed by paleontological finds. Between the rings of a fossilized tree a difference is hardly seen, and the fossils of tropical organisms are found in all geographical latitudes (including the North and South poles too).
Since before the Flood there were not regions of polar climate, as well as climates of hot deserts, it is real to expect that it can be confirmed by an absence of the fossils of those vegetable and animal species which are adapted to the mentioned temperature extremes today. Absurd to be greater, if according to the evolution theory an ice age existed on the Earth for long time, then it would be real to find more fossils of the organisms adapted to cold conditions then those existing today. However, scientific facts say the opposite. Climate on all the Earth was between a sub-tropic and tropic one. Fossils of mammoths, for example, have been found together with the fossils of rhinoceros and other tropical animals.
THE EARTH'S POSITION AND ORBIT BEFORE THE FLOOD
Due to the lack of a watery canopy, the Earth had to tilt from its axis to the present 23 degrees after the Flood to be heated more uniformly.
Without a glass-house effect it would be exposed permanently to overheating of equator and cooling of the poles. The severe differences in temperature would result in great differences in air pressure and strong winds that would make life conditions on the Earth impossible. Due to the change to the present 23 degree angle, the length of the Moon orbit around the Earth and the Earth's orbit around the Sun are distorted. Before, every month had 30 days, and the year lasted 360 days.
EROSION BEFORE AND AFTER THE FLOOD
The small temperature differences of the pre-Flood climate blocked the effect of erosion. At the present rate of erosion all continents would be leveled to the ocean in just 25-40 million years. But in the glass- house conditions, the causes of erosion disappear: rains, winds, as well as breaking of the rocks caused by temperature differences.
As for the glass-house effect low temperatures did not exist in the atmosphere under the watery canopy, the formation of the clouds did not exist either, as well as rain drops.
"The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth." (Genesis 2:5)
Rainbow, as a symbol of the covenant between God and man for the first time appeared after the Flood, for till that time it was not raining:
"I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." (Genesis 9:13)
The rain itself is unnatural. It kills small insects. Hail breaks and destroys plants. The same can be said for the product of great rain - floods.
How was the ground irrigated if there was not raining?
Every morning, due to a mild cooling, a mist passed over the earth and condensed the water gently in a form of a dew, such as it is described in Genesis 2:6:
"But a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground."
In the conditions of the high atmospheric pressure, because of the weight of the watery canopy, that was beyond atmosphere, temperature of the condensation of watery steam in the shape of mist and dew was considerably higher than today.
In the glass-house conditions the winds disappear. Winds raise the dust from the earth and pollute the atmosphere, and if a stronger ones they break the vegetation and so show their unnatural post-flood origin.
The daily heating and nocturnal cooling of the rocks causes their breaking, that also disappearing in a glass-house effect (there is not creating and spreading of deserts, and so on).
SUNGLASSES
It seems that human eyes were not created for such a spectrum and strength of sunlight, therefore man has a need to wear glasses, which specially darken certain frequencies of the sunlight spectrum.
Watery canopy above the Earth's atmosphere made obviously an adequate filter for the sunlight, probably like the one people want to create today with darkened glasses.
Some consider that such a canopy would diminish sunlight on the Earth to such an extent that its surface would be extremely cold: "Just a little reduction in the angle the sunlight falls onto the poles results in polar caps! What would happen if there was such a watery canopy, blocking penetration of the light frequencies making the greatest heating of the Earth?!"
However, the watery canopy rightly prevents a cooling of the Earth surface.
Since under the surface of the Earth's crust a constant temperature of about 12 degrees C exists, gradually increasing with the depth, we must keep in mind that the Earth atmosphere before the Flood was heated by its own heat radiation. Without the watery canopy the Earth is like a man without clothes. A naked man depends exclusively on the temperature of his surroundings. His body temperature is not significant when it is radiated out freely to the space. On the other hand, if he wears some clothes, it retains his heat and makes him independent from external temperature to a great extent.
One ought to examine what a light spectrum is and how it acts when passed through a filter of the watery canopy and, especially, how that light influence the vegetable world. Higher light frequencies lead to luminescence of chlorophyll - on the level of lower, red part of spectrum. Therefore, a plant itself "creates" red light from blue and violet frequencies for its needs. It is well known that divers, proportionally to the depth of diving, notice firstly a loss of the red part of spectrum, and then in spectral order of the other light frequencies as well. Likewise, it is known that water prevents destruction of the violet part of spectrum.
The reason why the pre-Flood remnants of organic matters have negligibly little carbon C14 is precisely in the watery canopy blocking a penetration of cosmic radiation and so prevented origin of C14, and it is concluded on the basis of that fact that some fossils are older than the date of the origin of life on the Earth (older than 6000 years).
Before the Flood and for some time after it, according to the Biblical report, incest was not a sin. We can ask: Why? Because the main source of mutations - the harmful cosmic radiation was blocked by the watery canopy.
An organism fights against the influences of the harmful radiation by means of complex systems like those used by it in its struggle against viri and bacteria. All these processes additionally "tire" the organism and deprive it of energy and activity that would be used for its own growth.
The accumulated harms of genetic contents caused by continual action of cosmic radiation in the past-Flood history of the world, crippled additionally the vegetable and animal potentials and approach them to their existential minimum.
WHY ARE THERE HOLES IN THE OZONE LAYER?
The period of the magnetic field decay is 1400 years. In the year 1835 this field had 85,6 x 10_21 A/m, and today 80,1 x 10_21 A/m. For an average human lifetime (70 years) the geomagnetic field of the Earth reduces its strength for its 40th part. According to the existing exponential rate of decay of the magnetic field, it would become negligible in several thousand years. Cosmic rays and solar wind would reach the Earth freely and act disastrously upon the living world. The ozone holes are rightly a consequence of the existing decay of the Earth geomagnetic field.
How is it possible that the Earth has a geomagnetic field even though it is filled with electrons when spins of electrons cannot be ordered above 700 degrees C, is a question in itself. Likewise, an important question is what influence did a strong magnetic field have upon the living world.
Would it, and why would it, be needed by the living beings?
THE BLESSINGS OF THE PRE-FLOOD ATMOSPHERE HIGH PRESSURE
A worker in a caisson (a bell for the work on the sea floor) had hurt himself, and his wound healed completely after several hours of being in such high pressure conditions. Thus for the first time a blessing of a high atmospheric pressure was noticed. From then on so-called hyperbarical chambers have been used - chambers with high pressure having a healing effect upon various illnesses (heart and brain strokes, senility...). By a beneficial acting of the high pressure in the hyperbarical chamber, limbs that would be otherwise amputated due to freezing are recovered completely. Open wounds are healed overnight, instead of the usual several weeks.
Even inner bleedings are stopped and healed. A person proclaimed to be dead due to poisoning by carbon-monoxide recovered in three weeks in a chamber in Texas at A&M University, without a memory loss. As to the plants, a tomato stalk growing for three years in such a chamber grew 3 m high (which, according to one source, 930 fruits, and to another with over 100 kg of fruit) and continued to grow more. Fossil finds rightly confirm such blessings of the pre- Flood conditions. A great number of kinds (until now extinct) and their enormous sizes confirm that former life conditions were considerably better than the present ones.
Why does a higher air pressure fit organisms better?
In the high pressure conditions the needed gases reach the organisms cells very easily. Their solubility in water is much greater under a higher pressure. Drinking illness in divers appears correct because a great quantity of air is dissolved in the diver's blood. The same phenomenon can explain how the animals of enormous sizes (octopuses, for example) living in great depths can survive in the water without light and vegetation that would supply it with oxygen. The transport of gases between organisms and their surroundings is much better under a higher pressure.
SOME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PRE- FLOOD AND POST-FLOOD LIFE CONDITIONS
If the pre-Flood world was characterized by a tropical and semitropical climate, why then it is not favorable for all the plants living today in the moderate climate on the Earth?
We are witnesses to the fact that an unnatural sultriness of warm days chokes even men. A high humidity, especially characteristic of tropical climate (a higher temperature leads to a greater evaporation of water) literally chokes up particular plants. A plant cannot get air and therefore dies. Hot tropical climates would rightly give to that plant an opportunity to fulfill all its potentials, but it cannot survive due to its inability to receive the needed gases from the air. However, a high pressure increases solubility of the gases and the choking does not take place.
Besides, the air bubbles preserved in the chamber shows 30 % of oxygen in the air of that time (differently from today's 21 %). Judging by the greater quantity of oxygen, it is real that there was a greater percentage of carbon-dioxide too in the air. It has been found experimentally that an increase of the carbon-dioxide from 0,03 % to 1 %is beneficial to the plants, and only a further increase begins to hamper them. Probably that increment existed once on the account of the share of nitrogen in the air, but let us remember that nitrogen dissolves very easily in water under a pressure, and thus was much accessible to plants than today, when we add it artificially in the form of various nitrogen fertilizers.
A greater percentage of needed gases and greater pressure of those gases thus multiplies their beneficiality.
Why are oxygen and carbon-dioxide not as available today to the extent that they were before the Flood? What has happened to them? We are witnesses to a gradual increase in CO2 quantity in the last seventy years which represents a problem because it causes a glass- house effect, that is a retention of the Sun's energy. (Let us remember that it is not sunlight passed through the watery canopy)
Where does the aforementioned CO2 quantity come from?
From the pre-Flood stocks of organic matter conserved in the coal and oil, released by their combustion!
"The quantity of the carbon blocked in limestone sedimentary rocks and fossilized organic matters, being excluded from its surroundings in that way, exceeds totally, for all the time of sedimentation and fossilization during the geologic history, twelve times the quantity of CO2 present in atmosphere today." (Dr. Milorad Jankovic "Ecology" p.124)
An enormous quantity of carbon and oxygen is underground today, and it is in fact almost the entire organic mass of the pre-Flood civilization. Should it come into the present matter exchange circle, we would have much more O2 and CO2 then today. However, they would not be used like before, for let us remember that tropic and sub-tropic life conditions characterized all the Earth's surface.
Thus, an enormous quantity of CO2 was a constituent of the pre-Flood living world, and then remained, to a great extent, hidden for this world of ours in a conserved form - coal and oil.
Why has God driven a major part of the pre-Flood flora and fauna underground? What would have happened had the aforementioned organic matter not been fossilized after the Flood?
The degraded post-Flood vegetation would have not succeeded in binding the excess of CO2, and a larger quantity of CO2 would have been freed in the atmosphere than before the Flood, that making life conditions impossible.
Evolutionists believe precisely that at the time of the origin of life an enormous quantity of carbon dioxide was in atmosphere, and that the vegetable world bound the carbon, and left the oxygen free.
Why is it unreal to believe that once a greater quantity of unbound carbon dioxide existed in atmosphere?
It has been proved experimentally that all plants are hampered by an 1 % increase of CO2 concentration in the air, because it reacts with water building a carbon acid. And should an increased quantity in the air not act harmfully on living beings, a very unfavorable effect of glass- house would occur. Since there is no a watery canopy around the Earth any more that would reduce the Sun's heat radiation, an enormous quantity of CO2 would just retain its heat radiation and increased the temperature of the Earth's surface.
The excess water, blown away by the winds after the Flood (Genesis 1,8) and frozen instantly on the poles (thence the Ice Age theory), would have been thawed in such conditions and covered all the land up to the 70 m height. Likewise, a temperature increase and increased evaporation of water (moisture) would have made, in the conditions of so lowered pressure, the conditions for life on the Earth choking and unbearable.
Is there a Biblical and scientific evidence supporting the theory of today's organisms containing non-activated (locked) genetic potentials in themselves?
In the book of the prophet Isaiah, we have conditional prophecies, that would have been fulfilled had the Jews accepted Jesus as a Messiah.
Those are not descriptions of a New Earth where there is no death any more, but of a blessed Earth where the consequences of sin are removed to a great extent:
"The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed." (Isaiah 11:7)
It is very possible that many animals that are degraded because of the consequences of sin have potentials in their genetic structure that are locked due to the today's unfavorable conditions. An unlocking of specific genes in specific conditions is an already noticed phenomenon.
When a young bee eats beebread it transforms into a queen bee instead of a worker bee. When an Mexican ascolotl - an amphibian living in water exclusively, was brought to Europe, its first offspring transformed into an ordinary salamander and went out to live on the land. Many plants propagate with sprouts, until favorable conditions appear when they bear blossom and fruit. So, there exist hidden potentials that are freed but not before the appropriate conditions exist. If we create such experimental conditions, corresponding to the pre-Flood conditions of a constant favorable temperature, appropriate strength and light spectrum, magnetic field, air composition and its high pressure, it is realistic to expect an unlocking of the genes locked until now.
The stories about the various giant and extinct animals (lizards, dragons ...) recorded can be explained by an accidental unlocking of the genes in some of today's living organisms. Whether the vestigial organs will recover, and what we could expect to get by breeding plants and animals in super favorable (pre-Flood) conditions will be shown only by experiment itself.
WHAT TO BREED IN EXPERIMENTAL PRE-FLOOD CONDITIONS?
For the experiment it would be desirable to take a plant known not to bloom, but which propagates by sprouting (as it is in inadequate conditions). It would likewise be desirable that it is a plant rotting in the most favorable (tropical) conditions due to the aforementioned "choking". If in such conditions (with a warm and humid climate and a higher atmospheric pressure) it blooms and bears fruit, that will be a proof that the pre-Flood conditions are ideal ones. It would be ideal that the experimental plant blooms 12 times per year, as described in the Bible (Revelation 22:2). Until now many sorts of different fruit was selected, bearing its fruit every month: strawberry, plum, fig etc. Besides the plants, it might be interesting to take various kinds of insects for breeding in the pre-Flood conditions, because of their rapid way of propagation.
INEXPLICABILITY OF THE HIDDEN POTENTIALS FROM THE EVOLUTION THEORY STANDPOINT
Getting the plants and animals of enormous sizes is not only a proof of the pre-Flood conditions being the most favorable ones for life, but also a proof for the existence of hidden potentials of living organisms, that being a proof against the natural selection and evolution theory.
For instance, man has much greater intellectual abilities than demanded by his mere existence. The ability of man to play the violin, to deal with art generally and with scientific and philosophic considerations exceeds the demands of his existence. This is unexplainable by the natural selection and evolution theory, for nature selects just an existential minimum and nothing more than that. In other words, a man of today would have to live on the very brink of existential abilities.
We should even witness to selection, but instead we see much greater abilities than are necessary for the existence of the species. As soon as, "by a mistake", an ability appears exceeding the very mere need for existence, nature does not select it, and accordingly does not keep it alive in life either. In order that the nature select a particular new ability of an organism, all other specimens of the species must be removed by unfavorable conditions, otherwise the nature will be content with the already existing properties of the species.
An even greater problem for evolutionists is the realization that man uses just about 5% of his psychic abilities. That realization fits the teachings of the Bible, that says that man is degraded physically after the fall into sin, and especially after the Flood. Evolution cannot explain the origin of potentials of any species at all, for how could nature know that the potentials exist and thus select them, they being potentials only and not manifested abilities?! It is impossible and unexplainable that nature would select in such a way that man contains 95 % of unused potentials, knowing that it selects just an existential minimum, of manifested abilities only.
If man manifests just 5 % of his abilities, what surprises await us in the activation of these potentials, especially with various plants and animals in the experiment concerned!
What disputes the evolution theory too is not only the excess of human abilities, but also the excess of his (unnatural and pathological) motives.
What is the use of these great abilities, if they are moved by motives that are inappropriate and abusive against man's own existence?
Let us note that a man will sacrifice his own existence and his very life for the sake of pleasure. As long as he is selfish, it is more important to him how he feels than whether what he does is good.
The psychological needs are excessive and just burden a man, hindering him in his existence. Therefore, had a selection formed the property of the species, the man would never have become sinful.