[Tentative Outline]

Impacts Vertical Tectonics (IVT) Flood Model

Michael J. Oard

General outline of model

Preface

The model will be written up in a series of ten ebooks of variable length. The goal is to be as complete as possible according to the available knowledge and how much time the Lord allots for me. It is hoped to make the model as detailed and as sophisticated as possible, but readable as much as possible for the layman. I have been generally working backwards chronologically within biblical earth history. I have discovered after 35 years of research that going backwards has given me insight into what occurred earlier. My work on the Ice Age has given me insight into Flood runoff (the subject of book 6) and the location of the Flood/post-Flood boundary (the subject of book 8). And book 6 is also providing unique insights into the early Flood (book 5). Furthermore, I am still doing a lot of research on the mechanism (book 4) and so have a lot of learning left to go for the early Flood (books 4 and 5). In this series of ebooks, I am almost finished with book 6 that ended up being three volumes. I will then work on books 8 and 9 in that order. Although I lean right now towards meteorite or comet impacts causing the Flood, I may change my mind by the time I am ready to write, but regardless the other books are written to stand alone and do not depend upon the subject matter of book 4. If I change my mind along the way, book 4 will certainly have a different title.

I. The Genesis Flood Was Real and Global

This book plans to deal with why the Genesis Flood was rejected by the Enlightenment and why it continues to be rejected today. It goes over the fact that the Bible has been proven true time and time again and can be trusted. Therefore, Genesis 1-11 provides us with an accurate history of the world and is important at this time when evolution and deep time (old ages) threaten Christianity, civilization, and the eternal destiny of many. The evidence for a global Flood from Scripture will be shown. The Flood is subdivided into stages and phases according to Tas Walker’s biblical geological model.

II. What Was It Like Before the Flood?

This book will delve into what we can or cannot know about the pre-Flood world. It will attempt to determine what the pre-Flood world was like based on clues from Scripture, rocks, fossils, and isotopes.

III Where Is the Pre-Flood/Flood Boundary in the Rock Record?

This book will examine the issue of the location of the pre-Flood/Flood boundary.

IV. The Flood Was Likely Caused by Impacts

This book will develop the impact submodel of the Flood and examine other major models of the Flood.

V. The Flooding Stage of the Flood: Accumulation of Strata and Fossils

This book will deal with the accumulation of strata and the fossils early in the Flood, including many of the challenging issues surrounding this subject.

VI. Earth’s Surface Shaped by Genesis Flood Runoff

This book focuses on the second and last stage of the Flood and all the evidence for it in geomorphology. This book is essentially already written in three volumes.

VII. The Flood Is the Great Time Cruncher

This book will go through many of those slow processes claimed to take way too much time than the short timescale from Scripture. For a large number of them, bringing back the Flood into Earth history solves these time challenges because slow processes seen today occur rapidly in the Flood.

VIII. The Flood/Post-Flood Boundary is in the Late Cenozoic with Very Little Post-Flood Catastrophism

This book will deal with the evidence that bears on how much catastrophism occurred after the Flood, which is related to the location of the Flood/post-Flood boundary. Knowing this boundary can determine for us what events occurred in the Flood and what came afterwards.

IX. The Rapid Post-Flood Ice Age

This will be an updated and expanded version of the out of print book, An Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood. It will also have a substantial portion on Quaternary dating methods.

X. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications

This book will summarize the model and draw conclusions. Then the implications and importance of the model will be given.