Deluge
a general overflowing of general inundation or flood in the time . Three schools of thought or opinion exist with respect to the deluge. (1) The common one that it was universal not merely as regards the human part of which, the highest peak of the race, but with respect to the world, every Himalayas not excepted, was submerged. peak (2) That while drowning all mankind except the eight persons in the ark, it was partial, being limited to central Asia. The ordinary mind will consider ths view abs standing high in Central Asia would run absurd, and say that the water it went; but the geologist knows that over the world, becoming shallower as in such a vast flood what appears to the sinking of the land. If the land subsided eye the rising of the waters is really the Caspian, the Persian Gulf, etc., a deluge in central Asia, cracks extending to the would be produced, while a like upheaval of the land would bring it to a termination. ( 3) Bishop Colenso considers the deluge deluge unhistorical. scribed in Gen. vi. vii. viii.; dated by The deluge predicted by Noah is de- Usher and the English Bible 2348 B. C.
Traditions of such an event are found among many races. by the geologists were deposited during The old view that the fossils collected the Noachian deluge is now held only by the the unenlightened. nodon gracilis), a small quadruped in-