Have you ever studied Noah's Flood?

You may have seen the documentary Noah's Ark - The Real Story with Jeremy Bowen from 2004.

https://youtu.be/fjBv29FUiv8

 

Jeremy Francis John Bowen (b. 1960) is a Welsh journalist who was born in Cardiff.  His presentation was very slanted against the truth of Noah's Flood.[1]  He should take a trip to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky (Ozzy did).

https://arkencounter.com

 

Bowen's story mentions the ocean floor (@ 10:40):

https://youtu.be/fjBv29FUiv8

The ocean floor in many places is covered with Manganese (Mn) nodules which are somewhat like pearls and grow from small bits of basalt, pumice, shark teeth or clay.  The measured growth rates of these nodules indicate an age of only thousands of years.[2]  So, the oceans as we see them today are young.

 

Bowen seems to completely overlook the fact that the Lord brought the animals to Noah via instinct, Providence or direct miracle (cf. Gen. 6:20; 7:8,9,15).

https://www.icr.org/article/how-did-noah-gather-animals

 

The program claims that 30M species must have been on the Ark.  The *kinds* of animals and plants we find on Earth is a much broader category than Species and is often at the Family level.  I tag the Genesis Kinds (baramin) as Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  My book Biological Essentialism takes on that very subject.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w?ean=9781668541234

 

With this understanding that Kinds (ETL's) are not always equivalent to "specie," how many animals were on Noah's Ark?  Some estimates range from 6,744 animals to 16K.

https://arkencounter.com/animals/how-many/

https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/species-and-kinds-and-the-ark/

 

Noah's Ark - The Real Story claims that there is not enough water to cover the planet.  In contrast, let's ask Marilyn vos Savant (born in St. Louis) who has been the Guinness Book of World Records record holder for the highest IQ.  She said that, "If the Earth were smooth, all the land would be covered with seawater to a depth of about 8,810 feet ..."  In addition, Mars may have had a global deluge to a depth of a kilometer.[3] 

 

David V. Jebson lists seven key reasons why the Deluge must have been universal:

https://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/biblical_studies/bcs044.html

 

A number of scholars have gone deep in their research on Flood Legends. 

My copy of Folklore in the Old Testament by Sir James Frazer (d. 1941) is over 100 years old!  It has 65 pages of Flood traditions.  He admits that academics of the past concluded from this historical evidence,  

 

... that such a catastrophe actually occurred, that we have a full and authentic record of it in the Book of Genesis, and that the many legends of a great flood which we find scattered so widely among mankind embody the more or less imperfect, confused, and distorted reminiscences of that tremendous cataclysm.[4]

Explorer and Painter George Catlin (d. 1872) shared this bold revelation:

 

The calamity which their [Flood] traditions say once befell them, destroying the whole human race, excepting one man, who landed from his canoe on a high mountain in the West. This tradition, however, was not peculiar to the Mandan tribe, for amongst one hundred and twenty different tribes that I have visited in North and South and Central America, not a tribe exists that has not related to me distinct or vague traditions of such a calamity, in which one, or three, or eight persons were saved above the waters.

https://creationism.org/books/FrazerFolkloreOT/FrazerFolkloreOT_0.htm

Wilhelm Wundt (d. 1920), who grew up as a Lutheran, in his Elements Of Folk Psychology claimed that Egypt has no Flood Legend (p. 392):

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44138/44138-h/44138-h.htm#THE_ART_OF_THE_HEROIC_AGE

 

In truth, he was sadly mistaken and the saga continues ... deluge sagas (Sintflutsagen):

 

One "flood myth" in Egyptian mythology involves the god Ra and his daughter Sekhmet.  Ra sent Sekhmet to destroy part of humanity for their disrespect and unfaithfulness which resulted in the gods overturning wine jugs to simulate a great flood of blood, so that by getting her drunk on the wine and causing her to pass out her slaughter would cease.  This is commemorated in a wine drinking festival during the annual Nile flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths

What do we make of all these Flood traditions? Dr. Johannes Riem in Die Sintflut in Sage und Wissenschaft (The Deluge in Legend and Science) provided this analysis:

 

Among all traditions there is none so general, so widespread on earth, and so apt to show what may develop from the same material according to the varying spiritual character of a people as the Flood tradition. Lengthy and thorough discussions with Dr. Kunike have convinced me of the evident correctness of his position that the fact of the Deluge is granted because at the basis of all myths, particularly nature myths, there is a real fact, but that during a subsequent period the material was given its present mythical character and form.[5]

 

Francis Collins seems to be oblivious to the overwhelming evidence for the Global Flood (2 Pet. 3:5, see below ↓).  You may have seen Francis Collins rocking out @ a recent protest in DC:

https://youtu.be/zYSyMmfy5hY

 

Collins founded #BioLogos and in 2017 IVP put out a dialog/discussion style book titled Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation? ... that is #TheoEvo

Hugh Ross & his #cru provide the other side of the coin in this "debate." Ross began his career at the age of 7 when he went to the Library to discover why stars are hot! ✨✳✺

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/400232/Hugh-Ross

 

Hugh Ross is not to be confused with the Scottish actor (Patriot Games) with the same name:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ross_(actor)

 

It's a real tragedy that Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation? gives so little attention to the Biblical, Historical and scientific evidence for the Global Flood.

https://www.amazon.com/Global-Flood-Unlocking-Hardcover-Institute/dp/1935587129

The bibliography does include Henry Morris' The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Fwd. by David Jeremiah!). It also has Kurt Wise' fine defense of the reality of Noah's Flood: Faith Form & Time.  

 

Ovid's version of the Flood (@ 5:23):

https://youtu.be/ezdBeGnJSMc

 

The Babylonian account of Atrahasis (Noah) states that the Ark was a kuphar (kuffah, quffa), which was a large round boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuphar#Biblical_significance

 

Such a vessel would not be seaworthy.  This shows that superiority of the Genesis record compared to the Flood Legends of the Ancient Near East.

The Epic of Gilgamesh states that the Ark was a cube! 

 

I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.  Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges and saying, “Where is his promised return?  For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”  For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water.  Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.  But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:2-7, NET)

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; ... then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. (2 Pet. 2:4,5,9)

 

Bibliography on Noah's Flood:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/noah-and-the-flood-in-western-thought/bibliography/2F808B0E126EA79AE732C0EFB98A6338

 

From the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR):

https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/collections/noah-and-genesis-flood/

 

Noah & the Ark (Chabad.org):

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246609/jewish/The-Story-of-Noah-and-the-Ark-in-the-Bible.htm

 

Two items from Britanninca (Noah & Flood Myths):

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Noah

https://www.britannica.com/topic/flood-myth

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us/

 

What do you know about the Diluvial Theory?

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/diluvialism

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_605

 

Review of Riem's book (in German):

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/OAQAY6AXVN3GTRNCRPORV3FIY37YR4NG

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://www.craiyon.com/image/_G03RLJMQ_S2zDp3HlWcnw

 

Notes:

1) "Demolishing a Straw Ark: the BBC's Noah's Ark Fiasco" by Paul Garner, Origins 40,  Feb. 2005, pp. 16,17.

2) Is a Young Earth Possible? by Jay Hall (iCAT: Institute for Catastrophism & Tectonics, Big Spring, TX, 2019), pp. 66-68.

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

3) YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS: Intelligent Defense of Evolution Alternatives through Science, Big Spring, TX, 2014), pp. 96,97.

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

4) Folklore in the Old Testament by James Frazer (Tudor Pub., NYC, 1923, abridged ed.), p. 135.

https://www.amazon.com/Folklore-Old-Testament-Comparative-Religion/dp/0517672510

Here is the unabridged version of Volume 1, see Chapter IV: The Great Flood, p. 104:  

https://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/e-books/frazer/folk-lore_in_the_ot_frazer_vol01.pdf

5) quoted in The Flood by Alfred Rehwinkel (Concordia, St. Louis, 1951), p. 129.

 

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An Infinite Earth ♁ vs. Reality ∞

Philosophers who thought the Earth was eternal ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_of_the_world

 

However, this contradicts the #HeatDeath of the UNIverse:

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-bidenator-in-chief-vs-heatdeath-of.html

 

Many geologic processes are trumped up as unsolvable enigmas for the Global Flood Theory because of the time factor.  Does it take "forever" for Copper (i Cu) to form?  We read this from a Springer publication on Metals:

 

The majority of copper deposits were created by hydrothermal processes when metal sulfides were precipitated from hot waters in fractures and permeable rocks in the subsurface and at seafloor hydrothermal vents. ... Volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits occur in submarine volcanic rocks and are observed forming today at seafloor hydrothermal vents.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51175-7_2

 

Do we find signs of the Flood in the rock record?  The dramatic increase of the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope ratio before the Cambrian and then the sudden decrease seems to correlate with extreme erosion and then massive deposition as the Deluge progressed.

https://creation.com/geochemical-evidence-flood

 

Supposed Pre-Cambrian "ice-age" deposits are better explained by submarine landslides:

 

Cryogenian [720M-635M] "glacials" have a close association with sedimentary rocks formed in warm climates.  Warm, not cold conditions have been interpreted from associated kaolinite, diaspore, redbeds, dolomite, and limestone with phytolites, as well as abundant carbonates with stromatolites and carbonate ooids. Flakestone, a very distinctive fine-grained carbonate facies with its characteristic broken-up clasts, is an indicator of the action of stormy seas and not an ice-covered sea.

https://creation.com/geochemical-evidence-flood

Henry Gee (In Search of Deep Time) makes this blunt admission:  

 

Popular views of science assume that cause, effect, and purpose can be easily discerned: hardly a day goes by without reports of discoveries of genes for homosexuality, good motherhood, breast cancer or alcoholism; of the bones of ancestors and "missing links;" of explanations of why the elephant evolved its trunk or warnings that a certain food item causes a particular disease. Many of the assumptions we make about evolution, especially concerning the history of he as understood from the fossil record, are, however, baseless. The reason for this lies with the fact of the scale of geological time that scientists are dealing with, which is so vast that it defies narrative. [1]

 

One would wish that Gee applied more critical thinking to the very notion of Deep Time itself!

 

Note:

1) In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee (The Free Press, NYC, 1999), pp. 1,2.

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Deep-Time-Beyond-History/dp/068485421X

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

>> When I say "YOUNG" you say "EARTH" ♪

              Young ... Earth ‼

 

Jesus AGE verses: Mk. 10:6, Mk. 13:19-20, Lk. 11:50,51.

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geologyoftheworld_geologyoftheworld-studygeology-earthscience-activity-7273754067783286785-_Kxp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

 

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Catastrophism - It's What's For Dinner!

Suppose your son has a serious case of bone cancer.  Would you trust a Young Scientist to treat your child?  That is, would you trust Doogie Howser (14 yo)?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096569/

 

Would you listen to a Young Earth Scientist #YES who shares evidence for a youthful world?  I have written two books on that account:

 

Is a Young Earth Possible? - How Science and History Point to a Youthful World and Why it Matters ★★★★½

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

 

YES - Young Earth Science ★★★★

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

Catastrophism (most rocks formed fast) is a key pillar in the case for a #YoungPlanet ... Immanuel Velikovsky (Иммануи́л Велико́вский) brought #Catastrophism #CAT into larger public awareness with such works as Worlds in Collision (1950) and Earth in Upheaval (1955):

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Immanuel-Velikovsky

 

In 2015, Charles Ginenthal came out with Newton, Einstein, and Velikovsky which deals with the instability of the Solar System and challenges mainstream dating methods:

https://www.velikovsky.info/newton-einstein-and-velikovsky/

 

Einstein (d. 1955) and Velikovsky (d. 1979) corresponded with each other from 1946 to 1955: 

http://www.varchive.org/cor/einstein/index.htm

https://www.velikovsky.info/before-the-day-breaks/

What started the #OldEarth fad?  Rejecting #CAT ... we read this from the New International Encyclopedia (1915):

 

Geological work is so slow, and the evidence of vast changes in the past, so clear, that, so long as it was held that the age of the earth was to be reckoned in a period of a few thousand years, no other conclusion was possible than that the changes observed had been rapidly made as a result of stupendous  catastrophes. ... however, it was made clear by Hutton and his successors that the recorded facts indicates slow changes, it began to appear possible that the age of the earth was great [millions of years].  The promulgation of the doctrine of evolution, and the increased knowledge of past life, as recorded by the fossils, brought further evidence of the great age of the earth. [1]   

 

What can we say about prejudice against #CAT ?  According to Michael Rampino (Biology Prof, NYU),

 

In 1831, the Scottish horticulturalist Patrick Matthew (1790-1874) published a clear statement of the law of natural selection ... which both Darwin and Wallace later acknowledged. Matthew, however, was a catastrophist, and he presented natural selection within the contemporary view that relatively long intervals of environmental stability [and biological stasis ?] were episodically punctuated by catastrophic mass extinctions of life. https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/darwins-error-patrick-matthew-and-the-catastrophic-nature-of-the-

 

More on Patrick Matthew here:

https://dl0.creation.com/articles/p142/c14250/j29_2_119-123.pdf

 

Derek Victor Ager, former President of the British Geological Association, published The New Catastrophism - The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History in 1995:

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/sedimentology-and-stratigraphy/new-catastrophism-importance-rare-event-geological-history

 

Is a Global Flood, as described by the hundreds of #FloodLegends from around the world, really a thing?  Marilyn "super smart" vos Savant (see the graphic) said that if you flatten out the Earth, the oceans would cover the land to a depth of 8810' (1⅔ miles). [2]

One primary figure in the "No Young Earth" Movement was the late Ron Numbers (d. 2023).  I had the opportunity to hear his story in a small group @ OU's History of Science Department in the early 1990's.  Although raised Adventist, Dr. Numbers spurned Deluge Theory:

 

I vividly remember the evening I attended an illustrated lecture on the famous sequence of fossil forests in Yellowstone National Park and then stayed up most of the night … agonizing over, then accepting, the disturbing likelihood that the earth was at least thirty thousand years old. Having thus decided to follow science rather than Scripture on the subject of origins, I quickly, though not painlessly, slid down the proverbial slippery slope toward unbelief.

https://creation.com/the-yellowstone-petrified-forests

 

It is now widely recognized that the Yellowstone "fossil forests" - 27 layers @  Specimen Ridge & around 50 layers @ Specimen Creek - were formed catastrophically.  Dr Michael Arct studied the tree ring "fingerprints" of over a dozen trees in different levels and found that they all died around the same time which is consistent with rapid formation of the ash deposits.

https://creation.com/the-yellowstone-petrified-forests

 

Dr. Numbers should have changed his mind !!

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens (1980) #MSH is a clear parallel to Yellowstone:

https://origins.swau.edu/papers/dinos/yellowstone/eng/index.html

In 1962, Henry Morris (Genesis Flood, 1961) spoke to the Houston Geological Society and gave a presentation on #Catastrophism #CAT

https://www.galaxie.com/article/gj04-2-02

 

Dr. Morris spoke to a crowd of 500 folks and during the Q&A time there was dead silence!   According to one observer, the audience was "too stunned to speak!" [3] 

 

Interview with David Kitts - my History of Science Prof:

https://youtu.be/TmF7Y3kpucU

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;

    in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

So he ended their days in futility

    and their years in terror.

Whenever God slew them, they would seek him;

    they eagerly turned to him again.

They remembered that God was their Rock,

    that God Most High was their Redeemer. (Ps. 78:32-35)

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

Notes:

1) New International Encyclopedia (1915), Vol. "G" (?), p. 595.

different vol. for reference:

https://books.google.com/books/about/New_International_Encyclopedia.html?id=qxooAAAAYAAJ

2) "Ask Marilyn" by Marilyn vos Savant, Parade, July 9, 2000, p. 14.

3) The Creationists by Ron Numbers (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006, exp. ed.), pp. 235, 236.

 

** kudos: graphic sources >>

https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-kinopoisk-image/1900788/c8f27e4f-d65c-4303-a36a-a7dbf80c55ce/orig

https://www.velikovsky.info/before-the-day-breaks/

https://arkencounter.com/christmas/

 

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Young Earth Today 2032 - YES We Can ... Drop Deep Time!

Today we drop the Kraken on Origins by Robert Shapiro which focuses on the Origin Of Life #OOL ... it was endorsed by Isaac Asimov!

Also, we delve into the thought of anti-evolutionist Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953).  HG Wells wrote a whole book to refute his critique of Outline of History!

Before we get to Origins & Belloc, let's take jaunt into YES research.

 

Where do we go to find info that supports YES - Young Earth Science?  That is, the evidence from History and Science that points to a youthful world.

 

The first item on Qwant is pro-YES !!

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%22Young+Earth+Science%22&t=web

Bing Deep search >>  

"young earth science" definition

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&shm=cr&form=DEEPSH&shajax=1

Four references to my work !!

YANDEX search >>

"young earth science" definition

https://yandex.com/search/?text=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&lr=109918

 

YEP is more fair to YES than many other searchers!!

https://yep.com/web?q=%22young%20earth%20science%22%20definition

 

PreSearch shows several pro-YES items and my book YES - Young Earth Science appears twice !!

https://presearch.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22

 

YES Virginia, there really is Young Earth Science ... #Got_ACROnymz ?

https://www.allacronyms.com/YES/Young_Earth_Science

A classic argument for a youthful world is the downgrade of Earth's magnetic field.  It has long been understood that Earth’s magnetic field is decaying at a rate of  5% per century.  However, as reported by Forbes, the Swarm system of satellites (Alpha, Bravo & Charlie) has discovered that the actual decay is 5% per decade!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/29/is-earths-magnetic-shield-eroding/#23f14319385b

 

One reasonable conclusion from this data is that the earth is newer than many people think:

https://www.icr.org/article/371

 

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Robert Shapiro wrote Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth which came out in 1986: 

https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Skeptics-Guide-Creation-Earth/dp/0553343556

 

It was praised by Ashley Montagu (who favored the unity of humanity), Isaac Asimov and Lynn Margulis (Carl Sagan's first wife). Shapiro speaks of the Eskimo's Creation Story (pp. 15,16), but what about the Deluge?  A number of tribes from the "Great Snowy North" such as Eskimos, Inuits, Yup’iks and Aleuts have traditions of the Global Flood.  Flood traditions of the Northern North American indigenous tribes:

https://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Innuit

Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953) took on Darwin & HG Wells (War of the Worlds, Things to Come) in A Companion to Mr. Wells’s Outline of History. Belloc, was born in France, but died in England. He wrote over 150 books on a wide range of topics.

His travelogue The Path to Rome was a bestseller. He also wrote satiric novels that were illustrated by his close friend G.K. Chesterton! He was unjustly denied a fellowship at Oxford due to his religious views. You can read about him in Jerry Bergman's most excellent Silencing the Darwin Skeptics (p. 114):

https://www.amazon.com/Silencing-Darwin-Skeptics-Slaughter-Dissidents/dp/0981873480

 

A companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of history" by Hilaire Belloc:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74534

 

Hilaire Belloc seems to accept the long ages of mainstream Geology, yet he  recommends Aquinas, but Thomas falls into the YES camp!!  The famed astronomer Ptolemy (d. ~170 AD) held that the constellations of the  zodiac will have finished a complete rotation in 36K years.  Aquinas responds that (pp. 361,362):

 

This reason seems unsuitable, because if there were any movement (revolution) in the sky which does not finish sooner than after 36 thousand years it would follow that the universe would have to last that long, which does not seem probable (quod non videtur probabile).

https://www.academia.edu/121775481/Was_Thomas_Aquinas_a_Young_Earth_Creationist

 

In addition, Aquinas believed in Creation in Six (real) Days #CISD

HG Wells wrote a book in response to Belloc and pushes Darwinism.  The opposite of evolution is Biological Essentialism.  My thesis is the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  Examples of ETL's include horses, hydras and humans.  I think Belloc would agree with me since he stated,  

 

It is true that humanly recorded historical experience covers but a very brief fraction of the total time allowed for even the shortest estimates of the past of this world. None the less, it is sufficient to prove that types once achieved are permanent. Call it five thousand years (perhaps man-made prehistoric [sic]  pictures may extend that limit), even that short period is enough to prove the existence of stable types. For if during five million years some animal form existing at the moment has been forever slowly changing by a process such that its present apparent fixity is an illusion, and is still proceeding to further slow changes indefinitely, then five thousand years ought to show a perceptible fraction of the movement; only a thousandth of it, no doubt, but one in a thousand is measurable: tiny, but measurable. Yet no fundamental change, still less any progressive change, is apparent. During all the historical epoch fixity of type is invariable. [see Ch. 2]

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74534/pg74534-images.html#Page_9

 

Belloc further defends the fixity of types in the fossil record:

 

The geological record also shows us nothing but Fixed Types. Each may have come by a transition more or less rapid out of some other—but at any rate fixed they are, and the longer the time demanded by the modern geologist for his periods, the longer the Fixed Type can be proved to exist. Some few survive  today from the very early days of life on this earth. It was hoped, when the theory of Natural Selection was first broached, that evidence would appear for continuous change. None has so appeared. On the contrary, the more fossil evidence we acquire the more definitely does it appear that the Fixed Type is the normal - indeed the only - recorded thing.

 

I argue in the last chapter of my book Biological Essentialism naturally leads to Young Earth Science (YES):

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

The rate of rock formation is a key factor in the #Age_ofthe_Earth Controversy as   Belloc admits:

 

It is, perhaps, asking too much of our author [HG Wells] to adopt a strictly scientific attitude: that is, to distinguish between hypothesis and proved fact. And this is particularly true of a study so full of hypothesis as geology. Men pretend to vastly more knowledge than they have in that branch of knowledge - as, for instance, on the rate of stratification. A man cannot but be influenced by his own time, and Mr. Wells is influenced by the unscientific loose thinking and insufficiently supported affirmations of his generation and place.

 

HG Wells was born in 1866.  In the early 1800's there were a number of "Scriptural Geologists" who defended the #GlobalFlood from Scripture and Science:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Turning-Point-Terry-Mortenson/dp/0890514089

 

Even the Babylon Bee ("Jay Stixx" film) has gone Young Earth!!

Young Earth Creationism Rocks with Dr. Tim Clarey:

https://rumble.com/v3nyt5d-young-earth-creationism-rocks-with-dr.-tim-clarey.html

 

No, we don't have over 2K episodes.

However, our numbering ("How Numb I Am" ♪) has been sequential since Young Earth Today 2024:  

https://youtu.be/5bQ7iDhopWg

 

Alternatives to #Guugli >>

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/go-beyond-google-best-alternative-search-engines

 

Hilaire Belloc - A Biography by A. N. Wilson (1996):

https://www.amazon.com/Hilaire-Belloc-Biography-N-Wilson/dp/0749324074

 

** kudos: mag-decay graphic: 

https://www.soulask.com/the-state-of-the-earths-magnetic-field-indicates-that-it-will-soon-shut-down-completely/

 

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