Posted on 05/09/2017 9:01:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new research suggests.
Scientists came to the conclusion after analysing tiny zircon mineral grains from a region of Western Australia containing the oldest rocks ever found.
“The history of the Earth is like a book with its first chapter ripped out with no surviving rocks from the very early period, but we’ve used these trace elements of zircon to build a profile of the world at that time,” says lead researcher Antony Burnham, from the Australian National University.
“Our research indicates there were no mountains and continental collisions during Earth’s first 700 million years or more of existence – it was a much more quiet and dull place,” he says. “There are strong similarities with zircon from the types of rocks that predominated for the following 1.5 billion years, suggesting that it took the Earth a long time to evolve into the planet that we know today.”
The team conducted a forensic study of the grains looking for clues to their formation.
They found that the zircon was created by melting old igneous rocks rather than sediments.
“Sediment melting is characteristic of major continental collisions, such as the Himalayas, so it appears that such events did not occur during these early stages of Earth’s history,” says Burnham.
The zircon grains, preserved in sandstone rocks in the Jack Hills, date back to when the Earth was only 160 million years old.
The new research fits in with the “Cool Early Earth” theory that suggests a cool, quiet period followed the extreme conditions of Earth’s earliest history.
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We read the book…Genesis.
yep. Give him a prize. He can have anything on the third shelf. Next!
Yea right.
Put me down as a global ocean flat earth denier.
Holy Noah ,it’s true
Alternatively, the great flood of Noah actually occurred.
Ezek 28:11-13 11 "'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 the garden of God;
======= Was the king of Tyre in the Garden of Eden literaly or figuratively?
If the mountains fell in the sea,
Let it be, it ain’t me.
The heathens are trying to sneak up on our blind side with “zircon grains” and such bolshevik. They know there are innumerable aquatic fossils up in the mountains, and absolutely MUST explain it away, while concurrently nixing the Flood of Noah.
Soooooooo.....it was water that was such a great insulator that the earth’s core never cooled off.
Now I have to get a water thermos for my soup.
I wish these scientists would make up their minds. I can’t afford to buy a new thermos every day.
Did these rocks have serial numbers 1-99 or ancient bar codes? Maybe Fred Flintstone left his initials!
These so called scientists are watching too many cartoons or hitting the bong too much!!!
NEW FLASH....NOBODY KNOWS WHAT PREHISTORIC EARTH WAS LIKE....CAUSE there is NO YOUTUBE VIDEO!!!!!!
Isn’t the “King of Tyre” a lefthanded reference to satan? I think there are others, also in the OT. It alludes to the king, and whatever others are mentioned elsewhere, being influenced or controlled by the devil.
Getting hit by a body the size of Mars that threw up enough crust to create the moon AND displace enough matter to create the Pacific Ocean vs the mega continents would do that.
Exactly.
yup
i agree, anything to prop up their altar of darwin
Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new RESEARCH SUGGESTS.
Scientists came to the CONCLUSION after analysing tiny zircon mineral grains
Research Suggests? Conclusion? All boils down to they are guessing!
More likely “Satan” is a lefthanded reference to temporal rulers, and cultures, who worship themselves.
Ezek 29:1-2
29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
NIV
Etc Etc.
The earth cannot be flat. If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
I love your humor. Be sure to get a new thermos that can both keep hot things hot AND cold things cold. Some brands can’t DO it. I bought a wide mouth one that bragged about how great it was. Total flop! I put chili and a popsicle in it with hope and joy in my heart. What a MESS!
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