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12 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 32

Stratigraphy PROVES the Bible True WATER."
These sedimentary layers often hardened
In describing the famous earth strata in into rock. Some layers, while soft, bent. Others,
England called “The Old Red Sandstone," Hugh after becoming hard, often cracked. “Water
Miller says, “Some terrible catastrophe involved ripple marks” are extremely numerous in many
the SUDDEN destruction of the fish of an area at kinds of stone. And in these strata are found our
least a hundred miles from boundary to boun- coal deposits, which are the COMPRESSED
dary ... The remains exhibit unequivocally the remains of lush pre-Adamic plant and animal life
marks of VIOLENT death." buried by this great catastrophe.
Fossil fishes are found in the highest There is abundant, absolute proof of the
state of PRESERVATION, indicating the SUD- RAPID succession in which the pre-Adamic
DENNESS of this pre-Adamic catastrophe! The strata were deposited -- evidence which evolu-
rigid fins and open mouths of
many of these fossil fishes show
their STARK TERROR! And
sharks five feet long are so interred
that they are PRESSED FLAT TO
THE THICKNESS OF ONLY
ONE FOURTH INCH! The way
they were buried shows clearly
that they were trying to swim
frantically in water heavily laden
with sediment.
Concerning the depth of
these fossils, Lhwayd states,
“Marine fossils ... I have found
buried (or enclosed) within solid
marble on the face of broken
sea-cliffs of the height of 200
fathoms." Water DESTRUCTION This fossil shark, found preserved with its skin, was buried
carried down TO AN ENOR- SUDDENLY in a stratum formed during pre-Adamic destruction
MOUS DEPTH -- MUCH DEEP- of the earth.
ER THAN THE FLOOD OF
NOAH’S TIME CAN ACCOUNT FOR! How tionists REFUSE TO BELIEVE. A vast number
deep the earth’s surface is stratified is not really of fossil trees and plants are found, in some
known. But deep mines and the sides of cases, standing in an ERECT position, and in
mountains indicate the earth may be stratified in other cases in an oblique position -- PIERCING
some places to a DEPTH OF TWO MILES! THROUGH SUCCESSIVE BEDS OF STONE!
The action of the sediment-laden water Horsetails, rushes and other plants are
of the pre-Adamic destruction produced most of very delicate and easily broken. Yet these plants
the earth’s strata as we see them today. Professor are often found IN THE HARDEST SAND-
Woodward of Cambridge says, “The earth, all STONE, UNBROKEN AND INTACT! The
around the globe, appears, wherever it is laid accumulation, or deposition, of the water-carried
open, to be wholly composed of strata lying on sediment was SO RAPID, it prevented the
each other in the form of so many SEDIMENTS decomposition of the outer layers of these
FALLEN DOWN SUCCESSIVELY IN plants! These strata were, in reality, formed in

Evolution -- Fact? Or Fabrication?