An Introduction to Catastrophism: When Science and the Bible Agree

Have you noticed the paradigm shift?

- From a solid belief in the Bible, the biblical flood and an earth of mere thousands of years in age,

- To skepticism in the Bible, rejection of the biblical flood of Noah and an earth billions upon billions of years old.

The amazing stories from the Bible, considered improbable within the accepted fact of modern scientists, find rational and logical explanations in Catastrophism.

The Science of Catastrophism satisfies the intellectual incongruity of the Flood, Joshua's Long Day, and the Exodus miracles.

Bible prophecies, recorded in Revelation, find remarkably clear and meaningful explanation when considered in the light of Catastrophist principles.

"The principle of catastrophism is an assertion that catastrophic natural processes have been primarily responsible for the deposition of the various layers in the geologic column and all the rock formations that we observe. Until the 18th century, no other plausible explanation was considered. The biblical worldwide flood as well as other local floods were believed to be responsible for laying down the sedimentary rock layers we observe." (allaboutcreation.org)

Unfortunately for Bible believers of the 21st century, almost universally accepted as scientific fact are the theories espoused by Uniformity or Gradualism. Most of us have been taught in school that Earth's appearance has undergone a slow, gradual and uniform change. Science teachers and television documentaries proclaim that these gradual processes have operated over vast expanses of time--"billions and billions of years"-- to create the world as it is today. It is upon the basis of Gradualism that the Theory of Evolution was postulated.

Catastrophists, on the other hand, see planetary catastrophes as the primary agent of change in the Earth. They believe that extra planetary bodies (asteroids, comets, etc.) have wrought sudden, dramatic change on the past, altering the Earth's appearance and destroying life in wholesale cataclysms. The time scale for such sweeping change is thus dramatically shortened in the Catastrophist view.