KB Biola Broadcaster - 1971-05

Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland

Dr. Charles L. Feinberg

Dr. J. Richard Chase

light which ruled the day, and a lesser light for the night. No doubt this canopy was a great mass of material letting light through. The rays were reflected and refracted. In the daytime the sun's rays came directly through it so that it was the greater light. At night, when the sun was at the opposite side of the earth, the light was reflect­ ed and refracted causing a dusk­ like condition all night long. We are sure that this condition pre­ vailed for an unknown period of time. Certainly the naked rays of the sun never got to the earth be­ ing blocked out by this great can­ opy. This must have created a hot­ house condition prevailing over Page 21

Q. "Was the rain during the time of Noah and the great flood the first on the earth? Gen. 2:6 indi­ cates a mist. I have heard someone suggest that there was a change in the atmospheric condition which caused grape juice to ferment." A. There are some indications that this last observation may be true. Scripture does not say specifically, and we must not be dogmatic. There have been many interesting antedeluvian theories advanced. Some believe that a great canopy covered the earth, somewhat sim­ ilar to the rings around the plan­ ets Saturn or Jupiter. The fact re­ mains that no one really knows. We read that there was a greater

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