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With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
Just wanted to share my own pictures of Meteor Crater in Arizona to conclude the last two posts challenging Dr. Bob to wake up the scientist in him and put the Prophet to bed.
The impact was about 50,000 years ago and could not have hit in a more desolate place than near Flagstaff. I had looked down on it flying to ministerial conferences and "Refresher Programs" that were exhausting. To sit there and consider the moment of impact and all that really is was simply amazing to me. I have a piece of vaporized "Meteoric Iron" which is meteorite impacted with earth rock mixed.
Go if you ever get the opportunity. For big projects it beats a shovel! :)
The 6 mile approach to the Meteor Crater wall
A bit closer
Looking over the rim
(I could not get the entire view in one pic)
Rocky upturned debris on the rim above impact point
Looking down the pulverized rim into impact point
Up ended house size strata on the rim
Turned up strata along the crater walls
Taking home a piece of real Earth history
And now we return to our regularly scheduled postings...
"Does the amount of water on and in the Earth support the view of the Genesis flood of Noah’s time?
Yes."
Bob goes on...
"What does science say?
It’s left with two options for what accounts for all of the Earth’s water:
It came from extraterrestrial sources – namely comets and asteroids;
The Earth itself is actually manufacturing water
The latest studies pointing to vast reserves of fresh water – or “primary water” – are being used to lend credence to the second option. Why? Because the previous theory could not begin to explain how water equivalent to or exceeding the water in all of the Earth’s oceans could have found itself deep beneath the planet’s mantle.
So maybe there is another explanation – God made the water."
Probably not Bob
(Nor is the Grand Canyon a Genesis Flood feature)
At a minimum, the first 11 chapters of Genesis are tale weaving and story telling in an age where "that's the best we can do", to explain things in ways we should know better than today. Many don't of course because "It's in the Bible".
A personal collection of Carbonaceous Chondrites containing water. These are pieces and left over debris, 4.5 billion years old, of the formation of our solar system and spent the vast amount of their time between Mars and Jupiter before ending up on my desk.
The origin of Earth's oceans has been a topic of much scientific debate. But with a genuine understanding of Deep Time for our origins and the nature of the chemistry of not only our Solar System but of the Universe itself, water would come naturally to a planet just as did Gold, Silver and platinum and iron from the cores of exploding Super Nova. These rare elements are formed in the last seconds before a star explodes and spews them into clouds that later coalesce into new stars with new and planets with these elements within them now.
Long wonderful story brought to us by science, not religion.
As a counter point to Dr Bob's simplistic and faith restricted nonsense...
If the topic actually interests anyone and Answers in Genesis is not found to be all that satisfying, there are many well done lectures on the topic and what is known and suspected to date as to the origins of water on earth. None of them will reference Noah or the Genesis Flood.
"The further one regresses in time, the more obvious it becomes
that the principal and singular
religious worship found around the globe has revolved around nature. This nature
worship has included reverence not only for the earth, its creatures and their fecundity, but also for the
sun, moon, planets and stars. For many thousands of years, man has looked to the skies and become awestruck by
what he has observed. This awe has led to the reverence and worship both of the night and day skies, an
adoration called "astrotheology."
While fertility worship has constituted an important and prevalent part of
the human religion, little has astonished humankind more than the sky, with its enormous, blazing, white day
orb in the azure expanse, and with its infinite, twinkling, black night dome. So fascinated by the sky, or
heavens, has been man that he has created entire religions, with organized priesthoods, complex rituals and
massive edifices, in order to tell its story."
Acharya S.
And the reason for the tilt and the origin of our moon
{Nice moon this evening. Take a look}
is...
At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth's growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit around the Earth and aggregated into the moon.
