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Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level
ICR ^ | February 25, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 02/25/2009 8:17:44 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Stunning New Evidence of a Higher Ancient Sea Level

by Brian Thomas, M.S.*

According to the record in Genesis, there was a time when the entire surface of the earth was inundated with water. This possibility has been ridiculed because of questions regarding the origin and destination of all the extra water that supposedly would have been required to accomplish this.1 But newly described fossils of marine creatures found in a rock quarry in Bermuda indicate that ancient sea levels used to be 70 feet higher than they are today, which presents a puzzle to standard geological thinking.2

Geologist Paul Hearty’s investigation a decade ago into similar sea-level signs “was met with skepticism among geologists,” but his team’s new data is even more compelling. Hearty and Smithsonian zoologist Storrs Olson, whose research appears in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, found “cobbles and marine sediments,” along with “rim cements.” These features could only exist where they were found if the sea level had been sustained at a higher elevation.3

There is little room for doubt now that sea levels have changed over time. This evidence does not fit with naturalistic theories of origins, which assume that presently observable processes were responsible for all past geologic events. Such an assumption arbitrarily omits the testimony of ancient written records, including the Bible and its account of Noah’s Flood. According to Scripture, the ancient earth was overflowed by water entirely. Thus, at some point, the sea level would have been higher than it is today.

The evidence at Bermuda can be interpreted according to either a creationist or an evolutionary viewpoint. However, the naturalistic evolutionary view must blindly guess at what could have caused the ocean to be 70 feet higher in the past, while Bible-based history relies on the eyewitness account of a world-destroying flood—a fitting place to begin an interpretation of the Bermuda marine fossils.

References

1. It has been noted elsewhere that “if the earth's surface were completely flat,…water would cover the earth to a depth of about 8,000 feet.” (Morris, J. D. 2003. Did Noah’s Flood Cover the Himalayan Mountains? Acts & Facts. 32 (9).) More than enough water exists to account for the global Flood, and the reshaping of the earth that would have taken place during such a cataclysm is reflected in the deep oceans and high mountains that currently exist.

2. Scientists Uncover a Dramatic Rise in Sea Level and Its Broad Ramifications. Smithsonian Institution press release, February 9, 2009.

3. Olson, S. L., and P. J. Hearty. 2009. A sustained +21 m sea-level highstand during MIS 11 (400 ka): direct fossil and sedimentary evidence from Bermuda. Quaternary Science Reviews. 28 (3-4): 271-285.


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To: atlaw

And you think we can change the way the world is ultimately going?


101 posted on 02/26/2009 11:37:37 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

I don’t find much that is appealing about Calvinism, and I think it is our duty to change the way the world is going.


102 posted on 02/26/2009 11:41:28 AM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw
Have you read the book of Revelations lately?

I am in the process of reading it now for the umpteenth time, and it still says the same thing about how the end will be, and it says nothing about what me or any other christian can do to change the outcome.

So, please tell me what you can do to change what God has already ordained to happen.
103 posted on 02/26/2009 11:42:02 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: atlaw
I'm not talking about Calvinism, I am talking about a pre-ordained future that is spoken of throughout the Scriptures.

My life may not be predestined because I have free will, but the worlds destiny is written in stone, and we cannot change it.
104 posted on 02/26/2009 11:45:08 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

As I said, I don’t find much that is appealing in Calvinism. Doctrinal preordination seems to me nothing more than a handy excuse for self-indulgence.


105 posted on 02/26/2009 11:49:50 AM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw
We do have a responsibility to bring help in the harvest of those who are susceptible to the Gospel. In my day to day living I do what is right, yet IO do not walk in front of a truck just because I know heaven is in my future.

However, as I said I do not worship the crops God gave us to utilize in our day to day lives. That does not mean I sh*# where I eat either.

I also understand that it is my duty to prepare for the future as if it the end will come long after I am dead, but I also need to realize that like a thief in the night He could return at any moment.

All this while I realize I can not change the way God is directing the end to come. Fine line I know, but it is the line we as Christians must walk in order to stay sane.
106 posted on 02/26/2009 11:54:14 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

Actually, thank you for that explanation. We’re not so far apart after all, and I apologize for jumping to conclusions.


107 posted on 02/26/2009 11:55:53 AM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw
I am not a Calvinist. I think teaching Calvinism can be borderline heretic for saying we are all preordained to heaven or hell. That takes away free will, and also negate what Jesus told Nicodemus.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:16-17 NKJV)

But it still does not negate what Christ told John on the island of Patmos about the end times. The Revelation of Jesus Christ says what to expect for the end.

Just as Jesus foretold the destruction of the Temple, He never said that those involved in the destruction could change it. It was inevitable even if each persons life involved in it was not predestined for destruction. Their individual motives and choices led to what Christ said would happen.

Do you claim to say Christ was wrong in His predicting the destruction and death thus giving the apostles an excuse to live willy nilly? No, I do not think you are, we all must live as we are told to, especially because we do Know the end.

That is why He gave the great commission to go and baptize the nations and teach them in the ways of Jesus taught them.
108 posted on 02/26/2009 12:04:37 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: atlaw

Steel sharpens steel, and I too apologize for my harshness. I get a bit defensive. I am after all a minister of the word, so I pray I have not offended you.


109 posted on 02/26/2009 12:06:25 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike
So, please tell me what you can do to change what God has already ordained to happen.

Simple.

Do something God hasn't anticipated.

Q.E.D.

110 posted on 02/26/2009 12:07:32 PM PST by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Lazamataz
Do something God hasn't anticipated.

So you claim to know something that God does not? And pray-tell how is that possible?

God is all knowing and all powerful, there is nothing He does not know. he even knows what might be that won't happen.

So how do you plan on doing something He has not already anticipated?
111 posted on 02/26/2009 12:21:20 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: qam1; All

“This is a joke, right?”

No it is not. Many people do not find it hard to believe the word of unknown witnesses from 3,000 years ago, transmitted through various writings which may or may not have been copied accurately, and translated from one language into several others.

The fact that such witnesses were in a part of the world many thousands of miles away from Bermuda or the Himalayas, is totally beside the point in their minds. Actually, if the leather glove which was soaked in blood and then dried, didn’t fit, they had to acquit. (Never mind that it should have been cleaned, reconditioned, and restretched by a knowledgable leather cleaner. In which case it would have fit. Sheesh, people are dumb.)

In school did you ever play the game where someone starts with a sentence, then whispers it to the next person, it goes around through 20 people, and it is amazing what the final sentence turns out to be.


112 posted on 02/26/2009 4:07:50 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: fishtank; SunkenCiv; blam; All

The earth might also have been raised by volcanic inflation of underground magma. In 1902 when Mt. Soufriere on St Vincent erupted killing 2,000 there were areas where the sea level of the shoreline changed 15 feet over several days. When Pelee on Martinique erupted the next day killing almost 40,000, a ship many miles at sea had the following experience. It became very hot, and sharks started leaping out of the water all over the place. Then the water under the ship suddenly dropped about 4 feet. There must have been extremely widespread disruptions on the sea floor and the underwater ground level.


113 posted on 02/26/2009 4:15:44 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Aliska; All

I don’t know if this would explain it, but Salt Lake was once much larger than it is today.


114 posted on 02/26/2009 4:17:57 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Aliska; All

A really wonderful book “ Endless Forms Most Beautiful” by Sean B. Carroll (2005) is worth reading. It integrates many areas of natural science with the latest discoveries in DNA and genetics. Whether you believe in God or Nature, the way in which living creatures develop and change is truly awe inspiring.


115 posted on 02/26/2009 4:42:44 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: OneVike
So how do you plan on doing something He has not already anticipated?

Well, what you do is, you plan to turn to the right at an intersection ALL DAY LONG. You think about it, you rehearse it, you plan it out.

Then at the last second, you suddenly TURN LEFT!

ha HA ha.

116 posted on 02/26/2009 5:13:56 PM PST by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Lazamataz
Ohh!

The old switcheroo, when the Big Guy aint looking for you to turn.

Right?.....

Or is that Left?...

No, it's right.

Right?

Duh, I did it again. I mean Left, Right?....

Oh darn. Now I'm confused.

Boy, I'm glad I ain't God. We would be in a world of hurt!
117 posted on 02/26/2009 5:39:09 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: colorcountry; Aliska
It's a wonder I can function at all!

You ought to try some Robert Monroe on for size, and then Zechariah Sitchin. Bring your crayons. :-)

118 posted on 02/26/2009 5:43:54 PM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: GodGunsGuts
“What are the odds that the vast majority of the global warming alarmist scientists are Temple of Darwin fanatics? LOL”
Well, there sure are a lot of them over at DC!

119 posted on 02/26/2009 9:21:19 PM PST by Fichori (If YOU Evolved, YOUR Unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are VOID)
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To: atlaw
DCer posting placemarker — placermarker.
120 posted on 02/26/2009 9:23:10 PM PST by Fichori (If YOU Evolved, YOUR Unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are VOID)
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