God and the Seas
Image via Wikipedia "So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts." ( Psalm 104:25 ) The oceans of the world are indeed great and wide and comprise essentially one sea, in contrast to the Seas of the pre-Flood world ( Genesis 1:10 ), which were probably relatively narrow, numerous, and distributed more or less uniformly around the globe, as inferred from the marine fossil deposits laid down in those basins by the Flood. The present oceans, however, now contain the vast reservoirs of water poured out through the fountains of the great deep--all of which were broken up in one day--plus the torrents coming from the windows of heaven, which were opened that same day ( Genesis 7:11 ). The Flood not only destroyed everything on the land ( Genesis 7:22 ), but also great numbers of marine organisms. After the Flood, however, with the vastly enlarged oceanic environments available, the surviving marine organisms quickly spr...