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.
“somewhere near Salt Lake City in Utah, think it may have been west of there, there are mountains that rise above the desert floor. My father thought he saw a high water marks on those mountains”
Your father was probably correct. Salt Lake is the remnant of an ancient inland sea, with the salt concentrations being left from the evaporated ocean. The whole area was at one time submerged, and not terribly long ago as geologic natural history goes.
Bermuda has been as low as 300’ below sea level, and as high as 1400’ above in the last 300,000 years.
ICR is the refuge of complete crackpots.
The real crackpots believe that random mutation + natural selection can produce super sophisisticated bio-nano machines that merely give the “appearance” of design.
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Actually, the author makes an excellent point: “This evidence does not fit with naturalistic theories of origins, which assume that presently observable processes were responsible for all past geologic events.”
Creationists are quite correct in pointing out that uniformitarianism is an unwarranted assumption with respect to the debate over origins and the age of the Earth.
No, it's not a joke. The situation is dire. We may not survive the hour. Rescue is not possible; escape is not possible; resistance is futile.
We are under heavy, sustained bombardment from the Creationist Retards on one side and the Environmentalist Retards on the other.
Surrender Now! or forfeit the remainder of your brain cells.
What are the odds that the vast majority of the global warming alarmist scientists are Temple of Darwin fanatics? LOL
So it was part of the ocean because it was salty, I knew we were on great salt flats, very level which is why they are useful for test driving. Don't know why I jumped into a subject I know next to nothing about. It would be more interesting if I trusted retrogressed data more and there weren't so many conflicting theories to sort through.
I was studying a map of the Caribbean last night, and there are so many archipelagos, you know there were likely land bridges at one time or more mass to the islands. That would tend to argue that either the land was higher and sank or the ocean was lower and rose. Could be both during different eras. Same in that England may once have been connected to Europe by a land bridge. Oh heck, I do rather believe in the continental drift theory, which makes one wonder if all the land mass was once concentrated.
Why is the Dead Sea salty while the Mediterranean is freshwater? This is raising too many questions. Why is the ocean salty at all? Must have to do with massive salt deposits at one time. What caused them? I can't afford to get too diverted right now, but there are so many things I don't know and never thought to ask or read up on.
Once I did try to figure out how many existing inland salt water lakes/seas there were and could only think of two, the Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake, but I think there were more. Amazing planet we live on.
The myth of a great flood is the most common of all stories told or written by ancient and contemporary indigenous peoples. There is no culture on earth with a written or oral history that does not have a flood myth, and not only a flood myth, but an account of a series of events that unfolded in a proscribed manner. Read “Hamlet’s Mill” by Santillana and Von Dechund, research the terms “world mountain” “world pillar” “axis mundi” “tree of life”. Tales of the destruction of the earth by celestial “dieties” occur in the Popul Vuh, Vedic texts, the Pyramid texts, Sumerian and Babylonian epics, Icelandic sagas, South Seas Islanders legends, Chinese legends, Amerindian legends, the list is huge.
Myth is history, often disguised and layered, but history.
See: www.kronia.com for much more.
Siantists is stoopid — placemarker.
It’s also why the worlds largest salt mine is 1700’ below Lake Huron.
Interesting. Raises more questions, of course :-)
I have read several books about 1066 and have never heard that one. Do you have a source I could read?
The Mediterranean is freshwater? That's news to me.
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