The Earth's present geology is powerful evidence for the global Flood described in Genesis. The planet's features are not the result of slow processes over millions of years but are the direct outcome of a year-long cataclysm that radically reshaped its entire surface, destroying the pre-Flood world.

A World Reshaped by Water

The topography of our world is a testament to this recent, violent resurfacing. Towering mountain ranges like Mt. Everest and the Swiss Alps did not exist in the pre-Flood world; they were violently uplifted after the floodwaters had already deposited the bulk of the world's fossil-bearing sediments.

Likewise, the vast ocean basins we see today are new. The entire modern seafloor was formed during the Flood cataclysm, which is why its features and sediments are so young. The thin layer of sediment on the Atlantic's igneous floor and the fact that no ocean floor sediment is older than the Paleozoic era prove that the oceans are recent formations, not ancient ones. Spectacular erosional features like the Grand Canyon are further proof of a massive volume of water rapidly carving through freshly deposited sedimentary layers as the Flood receded.

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: The Flood's Mechanism

The engine that drove this global transformation was Catastrophic Plate Tectonics. The biblical account of the "fountains of the great deep" bursting forth describes the rapid sundering of the Earth's crust. During the one-year Flood, continental blocks moved thousands of miles at speeds up to 2 m/s - a rate about one billion times faster than today.

This rapid movement is the only explanation for the formation of features like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, and the incredible symmetry of the seafloor. As hot magma from the mantle hit the ocean water, it created supersonic steam jets that shot into the atmosphere, causing the intense, prolonged rain described as the "flood gates of heaven" opening.

The Ice Age: The Flood's Inevitable Aftermath

The Flood's aftermath perfectly explains the otherwise mysterious Ice Age. The immense volcanic activity from rapid plate tectonics superheated the oceans. These warm oceans produced massive amounts of evaporation, leading to increased cloud cover and extreme precipitation (snow) at the poles and on the newly formed mountain ranges. This created the exact conditions needed for the rapid formation of the vast ice sheets and glaciers that once covered much of the Earth. The Ice Age was not a separate, unrelated event but the natural and necessary cooling period of a planet recovering from the global Flood.

*Summary created based on documentary Planetary Cataclysm with help of AI