2) The Second "Day" of Creation:
3.9 Billion to 540 Million Earth Years Ago
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven [sky]. (Genesis 1:6-7)
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37- 100 A.D.) in his Antiquities wrote it this way:
After this, on the second day, He placed the heaven [sky] over the whole world [Earth], and separated it from the other parts; and He determined it should stand by itself. He also placed a crystalline [firmament] round it, and put it together in a manner agreeable to the earth, and fitted it for giving moisture and rain, and for affording the advantage of the dews
(Book 1, Chapter 1, v. 30, p. 29).
Solar energy forms in the sun's core where nuclear fusion reactions occur. After a million years, this energy moves towards the outer surface of the sun. The final process that moves this energy to the surface is called convection. Light travels at just over 186,000 miles each second. Since Earth's distance from the sun ranges between 94,500,000 and 91,400,000 miles, it takes, on average, 8.3 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth (Ellison 1985). After the clouds receded, the blue light from the sun made Earth's previously red skies blue by day (Cameron 1985). This is the only known star in the galaxy that creates sub-atmospheric blue skies. Earth's development was now moving into the Archeozoic and Proterozoic Eons of Pre-Cambrian Time.
God then established forward moving time on Earth, and explained to Enoch the reason for that:
And the Lord set everything forth for the sake of man, and he created the whole Creation for his sake. And He divided it into times: And from times He established years, and from the years, He settled months, and from the months He settled days; and from the days He settled 7; and in those He settled the hours and the hours He measures exactly, so a person might think about time, and so he might count the years and the months and the days and the hours and the perturbations and the beginnings and the endings, and that he might keep count of his own life from the beginning unto death. (2 Enoch 65: 1-8)
The single ocean that existed during that time has been named Panthalassa, and the "dry land" of the first Eons, Rodinia. During the successive Cambrian Period to come, God would establish the "dry land" near the South Pole (and to the northeast and northwest of there), and during Upper pre- Cambrian Time, its landmasses will begin to drift northward.
It is written in 2 Enoch that God disclosed to him how He had created what the Bible refers to as "angels" to assist Him in the further development of Earth during this second Age of Creation:
And from the energy I created the ranks of the bodiless armies - ten myriad angels and their instruments are fiery and their clothes are burning flames. And I gave orders that each should stand in his own rank. From the rock I cut off great fire, and from the fire I created all the armies of the bodiless ones, and all the armies of the stars and cherubim and seraphim and ophanim and all these from the fire I cut out (29:3.)
In his article, "Guth's Grand Guess" Lemley (2002) wrote that Alan Guth believes "an advanced race could harness the engines of inflation and create a whole cosmos from scratch. Indeed our universe could be such a creation" (33).
The passage cited above and others from the books of Enoch suggest that, that is precisely what happened. After God created the angels (ironically conceptualized by present-day man as being "aliens" and "extraterrestrials")
(Who's been yapping about UAP being
angles (locust from the deep) for four years now nonstop now?)
those to whom God had given the knowledge of biochemistry
then seeded Panthalassa with the chemicals necessary for life formation.
Concomitantly, those scientists who believe that the first life that appeared on Earth was transplanted from "outer space" are, evidently correct.
(But how it got there in the first place (Life) they have nom idea. Like I said when I started this, I dont agree with everything contained here, just that the biblical account of creation more accurately mirrors what modern science says way more than it is given credit for.)
Case in Point: Those who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life outside our solar system have established the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Among those believers and hopefuls are scientists, many of whom do not believe in angels because, as I have been informed, they have never seen one. Ironically, although they have neither seen "aliens" nor have to date, discovered intelligent extraterrestrial life, they still believe in the possibility of their existence, just as Christians who have never seen "angels" believe in their existence.
Evidence suggests
that the Biblical angels,
both the heavenly
and the fallen,
are the so- called "aliens"/"extraterrestrials,"
and are the Earth gods of antiquity. 6
(Referenced below)
Blakely, R. (2004).
Paleogeography Through
Geologic Time.
Retrieved December 4, 2006
from http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/
(Hello!
One book explains it all.
Buddhism got that?
Mohamed got that?
Confucius?
Who else?
What other faith?
ONE true faith.
ONE.
Period.
Keep in mind this was written 8 years ago and there were plenty of people making the assertation:
"Evidence suggests
that the Biblical angels,
both the heavenly
and the fallen,
are the so- called
"aliens"/"extraterrestrials,"
and are the Earth gods of antiquity"
Loge before that.
Not 20-30 different tribes of aliens/extraterrestrials.
1 race of beings for all the
Ancient astronauts
Angels.
What is your more logical explanation?
How is it more efficient than what was just explained?
I got three chairs and a table these days.)
Approximately 3.7 billion years ago, aerobic bacteria and blue-green algae developed in the waters during pre- Cambrian Time and released oxygen into the atmosphere. (Ellison 1985) And just as God had planned it, initially from alga, both simple and complex plants would develop:
Without algae, it is doubtful that man could have evolved and survived. Indeed, many biologists believe that one- celled algae may have been the remote ancestors of all multi- cellular organisms. Perhaps as much as 90 percent of all photosynthesis is accomplished by algae. Algae-like cells were the first to change inorganic substances to living matter and release oxygen by the miracle of photosynthesis. And so they were the ultimate source of our oxygen, food, clothing, and shelter. Thus the fundamental link in the world's food chain was forged, allowing for the development of all higher life. And algae even earlier had mastered a miracle called chlorophyll. It is perhaps the most remarkable of all chemicals, for it helps create... the nutrients upon which our lives depend. What mysterious forces managed to invent so complicated a molecule? (Zahl 1974, 360-363)
From the protozoan (Greek, "first animal"), both simple and complex animals would develop including mankind. During the Vendian Period the final stage of pre-Cambrian Time - oxygen continued to build in the atmosphere as the first plants, seaweed and other tiny plants developed in the waters. Then the first animals (worms, jellyfish, sponges, and other invertebrates) came into being, and corals developed from those (Ellison 1985, 16h). God implemented two major Ice Ages during this "day" of Creation, to increase the amount of oxygen on Earth and to thereby advance the development of life on Earth.
"And the evening and the morning were the second day."
(Genesis 1:8)
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