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Living Evidence of a Global Catastrophe: How Microbial Biogeography Supports Noah's Flood

Fabich, Andrew (2018) Living Evidence of a Global Catastrophe: How Microbial Biogeography Supports Noah's Flood. Answers Research Journal, 11: 15. pp. 227-236. ISSN 1937-9056

Abstract

Microbial biogeography is a sub-discipline of microbial ecology dealing with microorganism distribution and abundance around the earth. The father of microbial biogeography, Martinus Beijerinck, is famous for saying "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects." This statement permeates modern thought in microbial biogeography, but no secular explanation offers why this is true. If everything is everywhere as is claimed, then there ought to be some global distribution mechanism that explains why everything is everywhere in soils. Here, I hypothesize that the reason why everything is everywhere in soils is Noah's Flood. Noah's Flood offers the explanatory power lacking in secular reasoning to provide a rationale behind the statement "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects." Evidence is presented that demonstrates Beijerinck was right to a certain extent—we do not find the microbial species everywhere, but we do find the microbial kind everywhere in soils. The microbial kind is defined here as the microorganism God created that is recognized at the family or genus level, which is helpful in understanding microbial biogeography. A model is offered for the microbial biogeography of soils in terms of Noah's Flood. Then, an example is given in terms of the smell of rain as it comes from the soil bacteria Streptomyces. Afterwards, there is a brief discussion of the importance of worldviews when looking at evidence such as microbial biogeography. The biblical account of Noah's Flood provides an update to modern microbial biogeography and modern creation apologetics with trillions of living things, contained in the soil, laid down by water, all over the earth.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science (General) > QH Natural History. Biology > QH103.1 Biogeography
Q Science (General) > QR Microbiology > QR75 Bacteria
Q Science (General) > QS Creation Science (General) > QS7 The Genesis Flood
Depositing User: Admin
Date Deposited: 04 Sep 2026 23:44
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2026 23:44
URI: https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/1716

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