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So it’s almost like... in the beginning... the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness.
I think that might be in a book I read somewhere.
Duh! They even had a movie about it called ‘Water World’ with Kev Costner. ;-)
So many silly memes...
Earth should sue the Big Bang for predatory mortgage lending. But of course there’ll a “the Big Bang too big to fail’ call for government intervention.
I had no idea SUVs had been around that long.
Early Earth was under water...after the first flood. God destroyed all life on earth early on...Noah’s Flood was the second flood. After that, God put the rainbow in the sky as assurance that he would not destroy the earth by flood another time.
Read Genesis 1...
The fact that there is evidence of a previous creation us enough. The pre-humans, the Dinosaurs are evidence.
Hey scientists -- look over here. Those "missing pages" are right in Genesis, chapter 1:
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
There was a time when you could walk from France to England, from China to Japan, from Asia to North America.There was a time when the earth was possibly an almost a total ice ball. Man’s influence on climate is nil and then some.
A fun book to read is Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything.” Lot of geological facts. Not actually extremely factual but a good read.
The most interesting speculation. The Siberian air runs south and bounces off the Himalayas. Gives us our jet stream which is now (Omg!) our Polar Vortex.
This means that we are running out of water!!
We must stop the land from rising!
The only way is to raise taxes!
Wait! There is another way! Stop drinking water!
The more you drink the faster the land rises.
It gets even more interesting when you consider, “Where did the rest of the water go?” A question for which there may be an answer.
(2014) Vast Underwater Ocean Trapped Beneath Earth’s Crust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite
“Combined with evidence of its occurrence deep in the Earth’s mantle, this suggests that there is from one to three times the world ocean’s equivalent of water in the mantle transition zone from 410 to 660 km deep.”
Then the next two questions are the real zinger.
1) How did all that water get from the surface to deep underground? And,
2) Could a significant amount of that water come up again?
What comes to mind is straightforward.
Earth was formed about 4.54 billion years ago. About 4.51 billion years ago, according to the giant impact hypothesis, a Mars-sized planet called Theia collided with the Earth, creating the Moon.
A relatively short time thereafter, at 4.4 billion years, the Earth was mostly covered in water, with very high atmospheric surface pressure of around 27 atmospheres, caused by a heavy CO2 atmosphere. Most major geological changes came about because of hot magma plumes, and only when they died down did plate tectonics begin, at around 3.2 billion years.
So what pushed all that water between 250 and 450 miles deep?
They got the facts right, they are just a little bit off on the timing.
Re “500 million years old magma”. Hell’s bells. I’ve got bagels older than that, and just as hard.
So... are they saying the earth was flooded?
Interesting stuff! Amazing how much the earth itself and it’s climate has changed over a few million years... But then somehow everything that has happened to our climate over the past 50 years is caused by man.
I would really like to know who determined we just caused ourselves to move past the optimal “world” climate anyway...
Hear ye hear ye, the earth was once COMPLETELY under water.
A story several years back about the findings from zircon crystals also revealed that the early Earth was a nice place and not a hellhole. Blue sky, good weather, oxygen in the atmosphere, We could have lived there.
If only we could ask the aliens likely watching us and determining that our planet is like their planet from only 10.5 light years away.
Perhaps some researchers would be more sure of what makes earth tick if only they had a more distant perspective.
Seems great distance makes for more positive postulating.