The World That Perished

The mammoths froze so fast there were no ice crystals that formed in their flesh. One of them had buttercups on its tongue. They had undigested food in their stomachs. For this to happen the ambient temperature had to drop to at most -150 degrees F or -102 degrees C. This could have only happened with a catastrophic event such as the collapse of the vapor canopy. Siberia, was warm before the event and suddenly it was fast frozen. The worldwide flood described in Genesis has many footprints it left behind, the mammoths are just one point of interest. This book is an easy to read starting point describing evidence of the global catastrophe described in the Bible's book of Genesis. I am so excited, I can hardly wait until I read more about the vapor canopy collapse!

"If the universal Flood concept explains far better than other concepts many of the significant features of the earth's crust, why is it not more generally accepted by geologists?" Good question, Dr. Whitcomb - and I thank you for both posing and answering it (as well as scores of others) in this fascinating follow-up to The Genesis Flood.

Witcomb's book is an easy read and easy to understand. I would recommend this book to anyone whom has questions or ever thought about what may have happened during the Great Flood and to the pre-flood and post-flood worlds. Puts many things in perspective related to Genesis 1-11 in perspective.

Actually, Whitcomb does use science to refute science, in addition to using Scripture to refute some rationalistic presuppositions. Excellent work at a popular level.

If you are a Christian and have had questions about the Genesis Flood and want to know more about what the Bible says about it and what science does and does not say about it, then this book might be what you are looking for. You can be one of two people. Either you believe that the Bible and everything it says is truth and that it is infallible, or you don't believe it at all. We can not pick and choose what is or not "really" true in the Bible, because even if a small portion is not true then none of it is...including the resurrection of Christ. After reading this book I have come to the conclusion that the Bible says exactly what happened concerning the Flood. And it discourages me to hear of Christians that say the flood is a myth or that it never happened as the Bible says it did. John C. Whitcomb is an excellent writter. The book is an easy read, I read it in a week. He also breaks up the reading with small bits of information, usually it is about something he is talking about, for example: "Petrified Logs," "Frozen Mammoths" or "Rapid formation of Oil Deposits." He not only gives his opinions in his book, he also gives many other scientists opinions as well, so the reader can make up his or her own mind. He gives at the end of the book pages and pages of Bibliography so the reader can read for themselves the authors and the books he is discussing. In his summary Whitcomb states, "If one begins with the complex array of scientific data and current interpretations of these data without a revealed and thus infallible frame of reference, the conclusions will be ultimately self-contradictory. But with God's Word as his guiding light, one can look at the scientific data from a unifying perspective and thus be assured of ultimate satisfaction." I am only a college student trying to get her degree in education but with my little knowledge I whole heartly recomend this book to anyone who has a desire to know the truth and who wishes to make their own conclusions.