Genesis 1:9-10

THE THIRD DAY

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens 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 the Seas: and God saw that it was good."

There is far more than sufficient water upon the earth to inundate all of the continents and the highest mountains; and it took an act of creation to separate the dry land from the seas. Nothing is revealed here as to HOW God did this. Many things might have entered into it. The stacking of water miles deep upon the polar caps of the earth, the fracture of the earth's crust by mighty cracks, and earthquakes thrusting above the primeval seas, the continents, and the mighty mountain systems are things which men suppose took place.

"Let the waters be gathered together ... unto one place ..." One who examines a global map of the earth will see that the oceans are all connected literally, in "one place." And yet a division among the seas is inherent in the very word "seas" (plural). There can be no adequate explanation of this accuracy apart from understanding it as inspired of God. Neither Moses, nor any other writer of that ancient time, had any personal knowledge that could have led to such a statement.