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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And the moon is made of green cheese.
Ezek 27:1-3 27
NIV Ezek 27:23-24 23 NIV Ezek 28:1-5 28 "'In the pride of your heart you say, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a man and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god. 3 4 and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 your heart has grown proud.
NIV
The word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. 3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
======= Was the commerce between Tyre and Eden literal or figurative?
“More likely “Satan” is a lefthanded reference to temporal rulers, and cultures, who worship themselves.”
Doubtful. Satan is consistently described in the Bible as the same singular individual.
Matt 4
“Then Jesus was led out into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, to be tempted there by Satan.”
Etc. Etc.
The waters were parted and a firmament created... sounds familiar.
>>Doubtful. Satan is consistently described in the Bible as the same singular individual.
Who are they described as/confused with in Isaiah 14:12?
And, it was flat too. Then it got warm and the water evaporated and all of a sudden.......................algore was born. ;-)
How do they know this particular plate, like all the others, might have gone through multiple, maybe thousands, of cycles of being subducted, molten, reformed, uplifted, eroded, subducted, molten, reformed, uplifted, eroded, etc., etc., etc.
The Earth might be trillions of years old, and their studies would only discover the 4 billion years of the current exposure of a tectonic plate.
ML/NJ
Love it. My view exactly.
>>The waters were parted and a firmament created... sounds familiar.
How long did that take?
~Time being a derivative function of state-change that progresses relative to E in the inertial frame(s) from which it is observed~
Probably only took a “day”, or so, from the inertial perspective of the Creator - in the context of (more than?) infinite E.
So your question is does Lucifer = Satan? Could be - opinions differ. Curious, is this the same event that Jesus is describing in Luke 10:18?
And since you like to discuss Names & titles, who do you think is the “one” who is described in Revelation 19:11?
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And so forth....
Just like that one time when...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei figured out the Earth wasn't at the center of the universe after all - and convicted of heresy.
These same geniuses have also managed to castrate those within their purview of the ability to apply biological fact and common sense toward correcting the condition of cultural psychosis in which the delusion of "Gender fluidity" has been concocted.
>>So your question is does Lucifer = Satan?
Nope.
The question in the context of Isaiah 14 is why King Jimmuh’s misdirecting, dominion assuming, eunuch minions confused a temporal King with a supernatural entity.
And in the context of Ezekiel - the same question applies.
Sounds like the planet Pandora in Herbert’s “The Lazarus Effect”.
The vacuum of space is a good insulator too
Soooo Genesis 2? “The Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
Or just as easily Noah’s time and the cataclysm that changed the world. With a faulty dating system, we can’t be sure.
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