For as long as I can remember, history has been my favorite school subject. I have history books on the bookshelf in my room, I even brought my history book to camp last summer for a bit of light reading. History is my favorite, because it’s fascinating. Reading about the past, and all the important figures and the roles they’ve played in getting the world where it is right now, it is incredibly engaging. Typically, when we read history books about people and events in the past, we don’t relate them to the people and events of the Bible. But if you read the two together, and study them side by side, you obtain a better knowledge of one and the other. Once you start to study the two at the same time, you grow to understand more about the aftermaths of the flood, the Israelite bondage, the background of each nation the Israelites went to war with, and much, much more. It is my desire to share my love of history with you!
For example, are you familiar with Pangaea? If you take a look at a globe, or map, you notice that all the 
continents and islands kind of look like you could fit them together, like a puzzle. Pangaea’s the name people use now for the one continent we believe existed before the earth divided. When God created the world, the Bible tells us God made the land into ONE land, one, not seven different continents (Genesis 1:9). In Genesis 7:11, it tells us the reason why the one land separated, “. . . on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened”. For some evidence, studies have shown specific types of rock that form and suddenly break off the edge of one continent, suddenly start in the same rock type, and same pattern on the edge of another continent. When our eyes tell us our world looks like it used to fit together, they aren’t wrong.
One more piece of evidence. Look at Genesis 10:25. This is one point where reading genealogy is important. It tells us about Shem’s genealogy, “. . . the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided”. This is mind-blowing! It’s very obvious that it’s talking about Pangaea.
This is just one fact that proves how the Bible and History should be studied together. This proves that we can know so much more about our God and His word. I hope you’ll grow with me as we look at a few of these revealing gems hidden in God’s word and in the History He has made for us. Together, we can see how God is woven into time.
Bibliography:
Kyle Butt, Pangea and the Flood, Apologetics Press, https://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=1729
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Something I was wondering though is that in Genesis 7:13 it only mentions the 8 people entering the ark. Noah, his wife, their three sons and three daughters in law. In Genesis 11:10 it mentions that Shem’s son Arpachshad was born 2 years post-flood and from there I reasoned Peleg to have been born 101 years post-flood. So if he was born over a century after the flood, would it make sense that “in his days the earth was divided” to mean that the earth literally split? I was wondering if this could be referring more to the Tower of Babel because this also happened around this time post-flood?
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond, I’ve been thinking about your question!
In Genesis 11:9 it says “Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the earth.” The Strong’s definition of scattered means: to be spread abroad; to scatter. That’s talking about the people being scattered across the earth. They no longer had the privilege of being together.
Now in Genesis 7:11 it says “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.” The Strong’s definition of burst: to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through. It literally split the earth. Now if we look at Genesis 10:25, “. . .the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. . “, the word divided translates the same as ‘burst’. To split, cleave, divide. And the word earth literally translates to land. So it is talking about the earth itself. It would have taken time for the earth to split apart, it would not have divided immediately, it would be splitting slowly throughout that time, and when Peleg was born, the earth finally separated. The land is still moving, it’s just moving very slowly and we can’t see it.
I hope this answers your question!!
Yes. Thank you. It does answer my question.