Chapter XVII: The Great Flood: The First Planetary Geohydrological Shift
A hypothesis of the Flood as the first planetary water-system collapse. Scripture’s Great Deep began to read like a record of rupture, resealing, and biological decline.
What follows is a hypothesis that emerged late, after enough pieces had fallen into place for a larger pattern in Scripture to reveal itself.
MB called me as I neared what I believed was, once again, the eve of the submission of From Volcanoes to Vitality (FVTV). Of the hundreds of calls we have shared, each one bringing some new convergence, this one felt different. He believed he had found scriptural confirmation that the shift in global water quality we had been articulating in FVTV was not just modern, but also ancient. Not simply a loss of minerals in bulk, but a failure of the conditions that allow water to carry mineral order, sustain gradients, and coordinate life.
In other words, he believed a Geohydrological Shift had occurred once before.
I did what I always do when someone hands me a claim that big: I tried to break it. I asked AI to help me search widely, not for comforting quotes, but for the repeated structure, the places where Scripture speaks about sources of water (i.e., that is, deep systems, fountains, rupture, sealing, and downstream consequences). And the pattern that emerged did not feel like cherry-picking. It felt like Scripture was describing a coupled hydrologic system, and then describing what happens when that system is violently inverted.
For the following, it helps to know that in Scripture, the “Great Deep” refers to a vast, primordial reservoir of waters beneath the Earth, understood not as a static body of liquid, but as a living source system.
In modern terms, this maps closely onto what we, in our Rock–Water Circuit framework, described as the “deep mantle,” where we found, in our research, that enormous quantities of water are stored not as oceans but bound within minerals as hydroxyl ions. Discoveries involving ringwoodite-bearing diamonds, along with mantle plume studies and deep borehole data, have revealed that the Earth’s interior holds water volumes comparable to, or exceeding, those at the surface.
Within the Rock–Water Circuit, this deep, mineral-bound water functions as the planet’s primary reservoir and pressure-fed supply. The full scientific framework for concluding that a geohydrological shift is underway in our time, along with the practical case for addressing it, is presented in From Volcanoes to Vitality. Our own geohydrological shift has not yet become a full collapse. But if it is left uncorrected, Scripture offers a striking picture of what that failure could look like when carried to its end.
Here, I want to show what Scripture says a full rupture looks like: the Great Deep as a source system, the Flood as a rupture, the resealing as a shutoff, and the long decline in vitality that follows.
Biblically, the sequence is explicit. In Genesis, the creation account begins with the formation of the Great Deep, the Earth, and the skies above.
“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
—Genesis 1:6 (ESV)
“God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above.”
—Genesis 1:7 (ESV)
