Peleg - From Pangaea to today

Only God gets to move around that much water

Back when God was making the earth, he commanded all the water on the planet to gather together into a single body and caused the land to appear.

It seems logical that if all the water was in a single body, all the land would also have to be together, you know, to avoid dividing all that water into separate oceans, rivers, lakes, and seas.

 

Genesis 1:9-10 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

However, that's not the Earth we are used to seeing. Our Earth looks more like this:

Well, that's weird; something must have happened. The bible gives us a hint while running through some genealogy. About 100 years after the great flood, some guy named Eber had two sons, Peleg and Joktan.

Genesis 10:25 (KJV) And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

It turns out Eber wasn't very creative with names. Apparently Peleg means "division" and Joktan means "lesser." Way to go Eber! Now, some so-called "scholars" think Peleg got his name because the humans stopped all living in one place and were dispersed across the earth. I think that's just crazy. Such an event seems too gradual to be first-born son name worthy. No! I demand a CATACLYSMIC explanation! I say the earth was physically divided.

No, not like that.

Imagine that God created a perfect landmass. It was all fertile garden land and stuff, perfect for growing food and grazing delicious animals. You know, flat like a cue ball.

 

Then one day, God decided to spice things up and introduced a major cataclysm. One that broke all the land into pieces and slid them around the globe, creating mountains, valleys, deep ocean trenches. Yeah; that seems more like God's style.

Moral: God always goes big.