Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . e present sea-level. To the same effect is the evidence from NorthwesternEurope. On the approach of the Glacial epoch, -theNorth Sea between England and Scandinavia, which isnow everywhere very shallow, was all dry land, inter-sected only by the channel of a mighty stream whichconducted away to the far north the combined floodsof the Rhine, the Weser, and the Elbe, augmented byall the water which issued from the area of the Balticand of the eastern watershed of Great Britain. Thefiords of Norway then increased their grandeur by theaddition of
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . e present sea-level. To the same effect is the evidence from NorthwesternEurope. On the approach of the Glacial epoch, -theNorth Sea between England and Scandinavia, which isnow everywhere very shallow, was all dry land, inter-sected only by the channel of a mighty stream whichconducted away to the far north the combined floodsof the Rhine, the Weser, and the Elbe, augmented byall the water which issued from the area of the Balticand of the eastern watershed of Great Britain. Thefiords of Norway then increased their grandeur by theaddition of many hundred feet to the present height oftheir cliffs above the water. To the south, this pre-glacial continental elevation was sufficient to join Africa Scientific Credibility of the Deluge 219 to Europe across the middle part of the Mediterranean,and to permit the elephant and the hippopotamus freelyto roam over the plains of Sicily and Southern bones of these animals have been mined for ex-port by the ton from a cave near Raised Beach in Sweden. The Glacial Epoch as a Vera Causa. CHAPTER VIII. THE GLACIAL EPOCH AS A VERA CAUSA. The significance of the Glacial epoch can be fullyrealized only by those who have made a special studyof the subject. Still, there are a few facts which canbe briefly stated, and which bear with great force uponthe question of the recent occurrence of a period ofexceptional instability in the earths crust; while theproper appreciation of these facts will tend to removeprejudices which the uniformitarian theory has raisedin many minds against crediting any such story as thatof the Flood. The main facts relating to the Glacialepoch, which are both capable of abundant proof andpertinent to the question in hand, are these:— At the close of the Tertiary period, snow accumu-lated over the elevated portions of the northern part ofNorth America- and the northwestern part of Europefaster than it melted. Under the pressure of its ownwe
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