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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: Aliska
My father thought he saw a high water marks on those mountains, could have been as much as 70 feet, from ages ago (some would say millenia). So

Lake Bonneville. Not a worldwide flood.

41 posted on 02/25/2009 10:29:36 AM PST by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Was the sea level higher, or has Bermuda been pushed upwards?


42 posted on 02/25/2009 10:35:14 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (The only thing standing between us and complete victory over the evildoers is POLITICS!)
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To: dirtboy
The Mediterranean is freshwater? That's news to me.

Wow, thanks for the correction. So I take it it's salty. I did wonder with the Gates of Hercules, or whatever, came to me I think, Straights of Gilbralter, it's called now why it would be fresh.

43 posted on 02/25/2009 10:35:23 AM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

The Med is far less salty than the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world. Maybe that’s what was throwing you off.


44 posted on 02/25/2009 10:39:38 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Aliska
Why is the Dead Sea salty while the Mediterranean is freshwater? This is raising too many questions.

When I was in the army back in the 70s I went to southern France and me and a buddy went swimming in the Mediterranean. As I recall, it was salty, did some sort of miracle happen since then?
45 posted on 02/25/2009 10:39:44 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Some of the Egyptian pyramids are older than Noah’s flood. Why are they filled with dust rather than dried up mud?


46 posted on 02/25/2009 10:41:17 AM PST by broncobilly
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To: colorcountry
Lake Bonneville. Not a worldwide flood.

That was it! Bonneville. No, I figured it wasn't a worldwide flood. I do tend to take the bible more literally than some, but nobody arguing a worldwide flood has been very convincing to me even if I might like it to be so. Doesn't add up with the animals and speciation.

Plus I polluted my mind with Edgar Cayce years ago. Among other things, a few of which may be true, somebody conjectured that after this flood, the earth tilted on its axis and drew all the excess water to the poles where it froze.

47 posted on 02/25/2009 10:41:21 AM PST by Aliska
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To: GodGunsGuts

Does a straw man float in water?


48 posted on 02/25/2009 10:42:41 AM PST by fnord (There's a reason we don't often hear about a Michelob deal gone bad.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

So we’re supposed to accept the measurement of sea level and reject the part about it happening about 400,000 years ago? We pay attention to scientists when they say things you like and ignore them when they don’t?

Just trying to establish the ground rules here.


49 posted on 02/25/2009 10:44:36 AM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Aliska
Plus I polluted my mind with Edgar Cayce years ago.

You too? Mine is also pulluted with Carlos Castenada. It's a wonder I can function at all!

50 posted on 02/25/2009 10:50:56 AM PST by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: dirtboy; OneVike
No, it was just plain ignorance on my part. I stand corrected. It's still interesting despite the paucity of my knowledge in that or any aspect of science. I once could classify local bugs. Can remember a few of them now lepidoptra, hymenoptra, that's about it, could throw in a couple more, what's the point?

I do read some on sciences that interest me, but not having a proper background puts one at a distinct disadvantage. I did study some chemistry and physics but am still too lacking in knowledge and understanding about some very basic things.

I did "float" in the Great Salt Lake. An odd but fascinating experience. It's not a place you'd really want to swim unless you had to.

51 posted on 02/25/2009 10:51:37 AM PST by Aliska
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To: GodGunsGuts
Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet’s sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now.

So does that mean you are giving up on Young Earth theories? Too funny. FWIW, 400,000 was in the middle of an interglacial, so sea levels well could have been higher from having smaller or non-existent ice around both poles.

52 posted on 02/25/2009 10:53:40 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Aliska

Why is the ocean salty?

Because pure water evaporates from the ocean, leaving behind the salt. That water then falls as rain, possibly upon the salty earth. Water that falls on the salty earth returns to the ocean carrying salt with it. Pure water evaporates from the ocean, leaving behind the salt.

Rinse and repeat for eons, and voila, salty ocean.


53 posted on 02/25/2009 10:54:02 AM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: colorcountry
You too?

LOL. Regret the wasted years on that, remember seeing books on/by Carlos but never read any.

I can't function very well lol. Still I don't blame it on my poor choice of reading material, and I've of a mind that even garbage can stimulate you into seeking answers elsewhere.

54 posted on 02/25/2009 10:54:29 AM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

Thanks for the honesty, Something that is so rare these days, even on FR.


55 posted on 02/25/2009 10:58:12 AM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: allmendream

That’s really a good explanation of salt water for dummies, thanks. I’m daring to assume parts of the ocean floor contain large deposits of salt as well but perhaps not if it was never dry land. My so many questions today.


56 posted on 02/25/2009 10:59:01 AM PST by Aliska
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To: dirtboy

Surely you know better than to think I accept long-age uniformitarianism. The point of posting this, like so many other papers and articles I post, is to show that God’s creation is forcing the Evos ever closer to the creationist position.


57 posted on 02/25/2009 11:02:08 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Aliska

The sea floor would contain salt deposits only if seawater had reached its saturation point with those salts. It has not. Salt deposits dropped in the ocean will dissolve into the ocean.


58 posted on 02/25/2009 11:03:47 AM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: DManA
Yea, but mountains go up to 18,000 feet plus.

And the sea at it's deepest is about 36,000 feet. Between that and the top of Everest is a difference of 61,000 feet.

59 posted on 02/25/2009 11:06:41 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: OneVike
As I recall, it was salty, did some sort of miracle happen since then?

I think that a miracle would change it to wine, not fresh water.

60 posted on 02/25/2009 11:09:51 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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