In Gen. 1:7 God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. According to the Hebrew the atmosphere became an expanse between two bodies of waters, and of course the upper stratum had to move round the earth. In Gen. 1:3,4 light came in and garnished the heavens before the sun was seen. In the 10th. verse the waters on the earth were called seas, the water above the earth was called the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon them. “And God said, Let there be light,” and light came upon the deep. In Gen 1:14-19 the sun which existed for ages did not appear in the heavens until after the sun brought forth grass, etc. Then it is plain that some intercepting canopy cut off the direct rays of the sun. The writer of Genesis did not say the sun and moon shone upon the earth, but he does say the stars did this. According to the Vailan theory this is true, but they shone in from polar regions. The earth’s surface was not heated by the sun’s direct rays, but under the overcanopying vapors it must have been warmed, and its temperature equalized by transmitted and diffused solar heat. CONCLUSIONS. There was a green-house temperature all over the earth at this time. Storms and tempests were unknown, as such phenomena are caused by sun-power, sun-heat falling directly upon the earth. Rains were infrequent, if at all. Man, in the day when solar actinism was shorn of its strength, must have experienced remarkable longevity, for upon solar energy depends every form and phaze of life on earth. The day of rest referred to in Gen. 2:3 in which God ceased from his labors was a windless, stormless, rainless, winterless age; for immediately we are told that “God had not caused it to rain upon the earth.” The climate was warm for man dwelt naked upon the earth. He was nurtured in a green-house world. The rainbow comes into view after the deluge for the first time. There could have been neither rain nor sunshine previously, just what the Vailan theory claims. The wind came upon the earth after the waters of the deluge had fallen, and not before. It was after the deluge that God said, “While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The period before the flood was nightless, and evening and morning were day; that is, they coalesced into one period called day. After the deluge the bow is given; man’s longevity declines; the winds come, and alternating seasons take place--all pointing to the fact that the antedeluvian world was overcanopied by annular waters. Every leaf of the geologic record declares that the world has been deluged time and again, which this theory also claims to be true, and to have taken place at the declension of each ring or stratum. THE NOACHIAN DELUGE.