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.
And you think we can change the way the world is ultimately going?
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.
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.
Actually, thank you for that explanation. We’re not so far apart after all, and I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
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.
Simple.
Do something God hasn't anticipated.
Q.E.D.
“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.
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.
I don’t know if this would explain it, but Salt Lake was once much larger than it is today.
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.
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.
You ought to try some Robert Monroe on for size, and then Zechariah Sitchin. Bring your crayons. :-)
“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!
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