The Enuma Elish indicates the earth was split in half during the main event, and there were 7 major Flood events around the world after the first event. The study done in Mediterranean Sea cores said that the Mediterranean filled in 7 times, and emptied out 6 times. The Mediterranean was the first and oldest geological “split” in the Euro-African continent.
Where did this split in the earth happen mentioned in the Enuma Elish, or what moral truth were they trying to say if they were not actually recording something that humans experienced?
The ANE accounts I have read are vague when it comes to life before this event, and they say the inhabitants who lived through it mingled their blood with apes to form humankind. The last two dieties in their list of gods is the sun and moon, as if these two phenomenon happened after the earth was split and the moon formed.
Genesis gives us a week of creation detail. There is no mention of the sun and moon. Just two great lights. Two great lights could be anything nearby that provided light during the day and night on the earth before this event. That God created the sun and moon for days and seasons did not mean that it was implemented at the time of creation. Such purposes could have been implemented hundreds and thousands of years after the act of creation. According to all accounts the moon was not even in it’s current form until millions of years after the big bang. ANE accounts say humans or some beings actually experienced it.
Genesis does not say the earth was formed first or already existed from a previous universe. It says that God created the universe and the substance that would become all the solar systems including stars and planets at the same time. A universe that was near 14 billion years in size. The makup of the universe was empty and void. When God separated the light and darkness that is spatial just like separating the waters was spatial. The big bang agrees, because after the first light there was darkness. The evening or advent of the spatial darkness was the first day. If we moved through space we would still keep a 24 hour day cycle because that is what our bodies have adjusted to. If we ended up in a situation where that changed, we would have to evolve over time to the change forced upon us.
Does the 24 hour cycle that we are used to govern the whole universe, or is that just a solar system phenomenon? If before this cataclysmic event the earth had a different mass, size, and even location in respect to the sun, would this not change the dynamic of every currently observable interpretation of the past? The interpretations we have now of the evidence hinge on nothing changing that I have listed in the last billion years. Some of the age of the earth has to be attributed to God giving the universe a size, and age accordingly and in relationship with a solar system that is much younger while doing both at the same time. God did not deceive modern humans, because while separated by thousands of years ANE humans claimed to have experienced all of the events of creation to within days of it starting, but the earth itself has gone through an event that unintentionally messed with all the evidence.
Is it even possible that dinasours can even survive under current conditions? They have not seem to have had much luck doing so.
If the sun and moon are not literally mentioned, why attribute them to the two great lights? Especially since the moon did not even exist in the beginning. It does not even makes sense as being figurative since the figurative part about tjeir purpose would not have happened if the moon was not around. Unless the light at night was just figurative and literally never happened.
And in the case of the Grand Canyon if an existing river already meandered, several major releases of water would have kept to a more crooked shape not necessarily a straight line.
Compare Colorado to the Mississippi which has not dug a canyon but has over time put more debri into the Gulf of Mexico. There is not millions of years of debri left at the end of the Colorado River. During violent floods, debri is deposited differently, because it lessons the length of where that debri is deposited, as opposed to normal flooding and water carrying debri further. Slow etching of the Canyon is doable if you have a river 18 miles wide miraculous moving slow enough where considering the original height would be an impossibility. The Niagara would be an example of the change in heights. It is not winding nor 18 miles high, nor formed quickly but over time. Three rivers that would have emptied the same huge body of water covering most of central USA.