Watching the National Geographic special on Noah's Ark tonight inspired some thoughts and questions concerning the six day creation. One question that would lead to other questions is: In a perfect world what would you have? What characteristics would you see or not see? Whether they were geological, physical, spiritual, etc.

Lets begin a list of possibilities.

1. No death. animal nor human death.


2. No pain or suffering.


3. No laborious work.


4. No rain, snow, cold weather, nor harsh weather of any kind.


5. No earthquakes, thus, tectonic plate movements.


6. No Volcanoes.

It has been suggested that animals had died but man did not before the fall of man. If there is no death then it would be assumed that death wouldn't affect animals either since through sin death entered into the world (Romans 5:12).

It had not rained (Genesis 2:5), But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground (Genesis 2:6). So, if it hadn't rained, would there be layers of sedimentary rock and dirt? Also, because of sin the earth was cursed.

Genesis 3:17-19 Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

So, if thorns and thistles were created as a part of a curse on the earth, what other possible things came from that? Would there have been volcano and earthquake activity that would cause major geological changes or possibly death? When exactly would volcano and tectonic activity begin? If you are a Young Earth Creationist as myself you'd have to believe that this activity would have started within the last 6,000 to 10,000 years, but was it in Adam's time or in Noah's time? Not that in Adam's time or Noah's times makes that much difference, but rather, if there was a time that there wasn't major geological change (ie. rain, snow, ice, volcano, earthquake) prior to Noah's flood. Could someone dig so far into the ground that they could find a portion of undisturbed soil? Undisturbed meaning not in sedimentary layers laid down by flooding and volcano activity. And would it be evidence of creation having undisturbed soil? If there were "millions and billions" of years of evolution, and there would be constant geological change during this time, then its likely that all soil as we know it would be in sedimentary layers and none would be as it originated even in evolutionary terms. However, from a creationist stand point, the earth is cursed during Adam's time and completely covered in flood water in Noah's time.

If indeed God created the heavens and the earth and created them in a perfect stage as we YEC believe He did. Could one find evidence of it? Can we find evidence of pre-flood, pre-volcano or pre-tectonic activity? If we can, then what would that evidence be? What could we look for? would we just look for pure undisturbed earth?

What other things can be added to our List of possibilities? What other thoughts could be added to our Undisturbed Soil idea?