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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When you come up with one instance of me spamming, I will cheerfully accept your jibe.
Until then, not so much.
I the issue wasn't spamming and you know it, so get back on the discussion.
Zing!
Rain. What do I win?
“So, did the ocean level drop, or did the land level rise?”
Read your Bible. Surely the answer for some folks can be found there.
For me, I will rely on science. I have seem seashells and fossils at Big Horn Canyon in Wyoming/Montana border area.
Must be easily a mile high out there.
Plates have drifted, collided, gone over the tops of other edges.
Alps and Himalyas result from collision of plates. I don’t recall the process which formed the Sierras and Rockies.
the issue wasn’t spamming and you know it, so get back on the discussion.”
The issue is spamming foolish crap daily, weasel.
Discussion? Please.
Nothing. Rain comes from evaproation. If all you have to evaporate from is salt water then the evaporation leaves the water slightly saltier. Then the water vapor condensates, forms rain, and falls. What does if fall into? Salt water, making it slightly less salty. But either way you start with standing salt water and you end with standing salt water.
Excellent! Who said you didn't understand science?
But either way you start with standing salt water and you end with standing salt water.
But the Earth isn't covered with 8000 feet of salt water. At least not in my neighborhood.
Plop down in your La-z-Boy, eat cheetos, watch old sitcoms, collect some welfare checks, and wait to die. The new Christianity.
Long before your idiotic scientists claimed . . . the only one who keeps moving the bar are your so-called geniuses with a microscope and test tubes.
Siantists is stoopid.
Those Christians who are worried about what we are doing to the planet need to go back and read the Bible . . .
Oops. I apparently left out of the new Christianity tossing your garbage out the living room window.
Your sanctimony isn’t convincing. If you’re going to elevate laziness, nihilism, and negligence into a theology (and indeed, claim that those pathologies are the very essence of Christianity), you’re fairly demanding a response like mine.
You do not have the slightest idea of what Christianity is, or else you would not defend those who claim to be a follower of Christ who do not adhere to His precepts.
I have a general idea from your post what your personal version of Christianity is, and it’s not what is preached or practiced in my church. But hey, as long as you don’t open fire on a street corner, believe whatever you want.
Your words. Not mine.
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