Posted on 08/17/2006 8:11:01 AM PDT by Junior
In fact, the world was created at 1723 UTC last Thursday, with a complete set of physical traces and memories of (apparent) events prior to that time.
My theory makes as much sense as yours.
I thought it was 6:05 CST?
Thailand?
No, no, no!!! It is the Rove tectonic plate moving device. That, coupled with global warming.
It's all just a divine conspiracy, doncha know.
To 49% of Americans world history started with Bush's "selection" in 2000. Before that was the mythical golden age of the Gods, when the Government could do no wrong.
I believe in plate tectonics, I believe that there are real geological periods in the Earth's past. I just don't think evolution of life is a plausible explanation for the progression of life across millions and billions of years, given the gaps in the fossil record, and for other reasons.
LOL!
God didn't just form a fully mature man, he formed a perfect and brand new man straight from dirt, unburdened and unscarred by the wear & tear of life, and free of any damage or afflictions.
Comparing the Earth to Adam would work only if Adam were created as a 55 year old with aches, pains, scars, sun & age damaged skin, and wrinkles. As-now, saying that God created the Earth, with all its volcanic activity/craters/erosion as-is is no different and no less deceptive than a God that would create the Earth with fossils already in the ground just to test faith.
I guess ocean front property isn't all it's cracked up to be.
He just likes messin' with your brain
He seems to like doing that a lot lately.
In the beginning the earth was a bare plain. All was dark. There was no life, no death. The sun, the moon, and the stars slept beneath the earth. All the eternal ancestors slept there, too, until at last they woke themselves out of their own eternity and broke through to the surface.
When the eternal ancestors arose, in the Dreamtime, they wandered the earth, sometimes in animal form -- as kangaroos, or emus, or lizards -- sometimes in human shape, sometimes part animal and human, sometimes as part human and plant.
Two such beings, self-created out of nothing, were the Ungambikula. Wandering the world, they found half-made human beings. They were made of animals and plants, but were shapeless bundles, lying higgledy-piggledy, near where water holes and salt lakes could be created. The people were all doubled over into balls, vague and unfinished, without limbs or features.
With their great stone knives, the Ungambikula carved heads, bodies, legs, and arms out of the bundles. They made the faces, and the hands and feet. At last the human beings were finished.
Thus every man and woman was transformed from nature and owes allegiance to the totem of the animal or the plant that made the bundle they were created from -- such as the plum tree, the grass seed, the large and small lizards, the parakeet, or the rat.
This work done, the ancestors went back to sleep. Some of them returned to underground homes, others became rocks and trees. The trails the ancestors walked in the Dreamtime are holy trails. Everywhere the ancestors went, they left sacred traces of their presence -- a rock, a waterhole, a tree.
For the Dreamtime does not merely lie in the distant past, the Dreamtime is the eternal Now. Between heartbeat and heartbeat, the Dreamtime can come again.
I'd like to know about that. I've never heard of it, and I've been working with geophysicists for decades.
I'm going to email this story to one of them to see what they know.
A good example to use in arguing for "no fault" insurance.
Just show me the continuation of the Witwatersrand and we can have a gold digging safari.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
You still can see an ocean from Alice Springs -- if you've knocked back enough tinnies of Fosters first.
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