Not saying I agree with everything
presented here
Just that it is far and away
the creation story
that best matches up
with the science we have today.
Nothing else even remotely comes close.
There are tons of information like this available online
(and a lot of them a lot shorter lol)
I only chose to share this one
because it came through my email
just as I was starting to think about presenting this kinda info.
(and its eight years old :-)
and still matches up lol
go figure :-).
As usual my comments will be included in parenthesis.
And please keep in mind
That I am taking screenshots and uploading them and then running Optical Character Recognition to get the text to copy and place here, so if there are words, sentences etc that seem out of place that could very well be why.
Hey you know?
This is the outline and "Day 1".
The other "days" will be coming soon.
It's just simply to much to try and do all at once as it's very easy to get lost in the process I just described above.
It's a series.
I'll let you know when I have posted the past of this article.
ENJOY...
DIALOGO -
International Journal of the Proceedings of the Conferences
on the Dialogue between Science and Theology
Volume 3 | Issue 1
Article 28
2016
How Science and Scripture Fuse: A Concrete, Chronological, Connection between the Biblical Six "Days" of Creation and the "Evolution" Timelines - from Scriptural and Secular Parallels
Eloise T. Choice
University of Redlands in California,
USA elgprf@outlook.com
(TY so much)
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Choice, Eloise T, "How Science and Scripture Fuse: A Concrete, Chronological, Connection between the Biblical Six "Days of Creation and the "Evolution" Timelines - from Scriptural and Secular Parallels," Proceedings DIALOGO (DIALOGO-CONF 2016 SRAC), DOI: 10.18638/dialogo.2016.3.1.28, ISBN: 978-80-554-1285-6, ISSN: 2393-1744, vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 313-344, 2016 Available at: http://www.dx.doi.org/10.18638/dialogo.2016.3.1.28
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How Science and Scripture Fuse: A Concrete, Chronological, Connection between the Biblical Six "Days" of Creation and the "Evolution" Timelines
from Scriptural and Secular Parallels
Elolse T. Cholce, M.S.
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ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received 14 July 2016
Received in revised form 28 August Accepted 12 September 2016 Available online 30 November 2016
doi: 10.18638/dialogo.2016.3.1.28
Keywords:
Creation; Theory of Evolution; Intelligent Design, Pre- and Post- Geologic Timelines; Astronomy; Geology: Archaeology;
I OUTLINE:
HOW SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE FUSE
A Debilitating Conflict Resolved. The account of Creation (as chronicled in the Biblical book of Genesis, King James Version 1611, in Tankah: The Holy Scriptures, in The Holy Quran, and in extra-Biblical texts) and the scientifically determined pre-geologic, geologic, and "evolution" timelines regarding the development of the universe, the Earth and life upon it, fuse. What Scriptures say happened on each of the six "days" of Creation precisely parallels that which scientists have determined to have occurred during the universe's 13.7-billion- years of existence and Earth's 4.7-billion-year development. The concrete connection between the two serves the religious interest as it validates the Intelligent Design belief. It serves the secular interest of helping Biblical Literalists to advance in their attainment of scientific knowledge as it provides evidence that the universe, the earth, and life upon it, were not created less than 10,000 years ago in six literal 24-hour periods.
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I. The First "Day" of Creation:
13.7 to 3.9 Billion Earth Years Ago:
A. Genesis 1:1 and The Three Books of Enoch
1. The Big Bang
2. The Dark Age of the Universe
B. Genesis 1:2 and The Sibylline Oracle, Book 1
1. God, the Self-Begotten
2. The Dark Age Continues
3. Pre-Geologic Earth
C. Genesis 1:3-4
1. The Age of Light and Creation
2. The Hadean Eon: 4.5-3.9 BYA
3. Pre-Cambrian Time
D. Genesis 1:5
1. The Universe's Development
2. Our Primitive Solar System
3. Post-Geologic Earth
a. Earth's Moon Stabilized
b. Dry Land Formed on Earth
C. Copper, Gold, Iron, Nickel and Silver Formed
II. The Second "Day" of Creation:
3.9 Billion to 540 Million Earth Years Ago:
Genesis 1: 6-8
A. Archeozoic and Proterozoic Eons and the Vendian Period of Pre-Cambrian Time
1. The First Plants and Animals
2. Corals
3. Two Major Ice Ages
III The Third "Day" of Creation:
540-248 MYA:
Genesis 1: 9-10 and Enoch, Book 2
A. The "Dry Land - Lifeless Rodinia
1. Gondwanaland
2. Laurasia
B. 10,000 Complex Species of Life Existed in "the Waters"
C. The Ordovician Period Vegetation, Plants, and Fungi Grow on the "Dry Land"
1. Vegetation, plants and Fungi grow on the "Dry Land".
2. The First Mass Extinction
D. Upper Silurian Period - Devonian Period
1. A Third Ice Age
2. Primitive Forests
3. Giant Insects
4. The "Age of Fishes"
5. The First Terrestrial Vertebrate
E. The Second Mass Extinction
F. Mississippian, Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous), and Permian Period of the Paleozoic Era
1 A Fourth Ice Age
2. The Age of Amphibians
3. Grasses and Seed Plants
4. The Permian Extinction
5. Continental Drift Began
IV. The Fourth "Day" of Creation:
248 to 65 MYA:
Genesis 1:14-17
A. The Mesozoic Era
1. of the Sun Light Reaches and Emanates from the Surface
2. A Fully-Formed Solar System
3. Dinosaur Prototypes
B. Triassic Period
1. Fourth Mass Extinction
C. Jurassic Period
D. Cretaceous Period
1.Continents Formed
2. Fifth Mass Extinction
a. Dinosaurs Eliminated
b. New Ecosystem
V The Fifth "Day" of Creation:
65 to 1.75 MYA:
Genesis 1:20-23
A. The Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era
12 Continents Shaped the Same as Today
2. Re-foliation of the "Dry Land"
3. Mammals
4. Birds
5. Rainforests
6. Whales
7. Smaller Insects
8. Smaller Reptiles
VI The Sixth "Day" of Creation:
1.75 Million to 30,000 YA:
Genesis 1:24-31
A The Pleistocene Epoch
1. A Fifth Ice Age
2. Saber-toothed cat, Giant ground sloth, Wooly mammoth, Wooly rhino eliminated from most areas of Earth
B. Revisit the Miocene Epoch of the Tertiary Period
1. Primitive Apes
C. Revisit the End of the Miocene and the Early Pliocene Epochs of the Tertiary Period
1. 50 Species of Apes Existed
2. Pre-Humans Created 7 MYA
a Genetic Manipulation of Apes
b. First Experiments with Upright Walking
C Selection of the Fittest
d. Mankind Phyletic Transformations: Re-creations of mankind.
D. Revisit the Upper Pliocene Epoch and on into the Lower Pleistocene Epoch
1. A New Ice Age
2. Proboscideans
a. Elephants
b. Mastodons
C. Mammoths
3. Phyletic Transformations: Re-creations of Mankind.
VII The 7th "Day:
The Upper Pleistocene
and Holocene Epochs:
Genesis 2:1
A The Upper Pleistocene Epoch:130,000 to 12,000 YA
1. H. neadertalensis co-existed with H. sapiens
2. H. neandertalensis Eliminated
B. The Holocene Epoch (12,000 YA to Present)
1. The Last Ice Age Ended
2. The Earth Achieved Homeostasis
3. H. sapiens co-existed with Adam and Eve
VIII. The 7th "Day: The Anthropocene
Mankind's Innovations
A. Art
B. Academics
C. Industry
D. Technology
II. INTRODUCTION: The Need for a Reconciliation
One important step to advancing in the achievement of scientific knowledge around the globe, is to alleviate the Creation- versus-Evolution War. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) statistics shows that the majority of America's school children consistently score below proficient in all fields of science. Data compiled by its affiliate organization -- the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)-support this bleak picture.1 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) statistics show that America's best and brightest eighth-grade students ranked 11th in scientific knowledge among the 49 participating nations. 2 The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests 15-year-olds around the world every three years. 2009 test scores show that in math, science and reading, America's 15-year-olds ranked 30th, 20th, and 17th, respectively. 3 "As of 2011, U.S. students placed 31st in math and 25th in science rankings rankings out of 31 countries. As of 2012, 46 percent of Americans identify as Young Earth Creationists and reject Evolution. (Grassie 2012) Moreover, students the world over will stand a better chance of acquiring greater knowledge of science once relieved of the 157-year-old creation-versus-evolution(with "evolution" sometimes referred to as "natural selection") conflict about how the universe, the earth and life upon it, came into existence and developed. The rift between the two schools of thought can be traced back to the publication in 1859 of Darwin's On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) proposed that all life on Earth evolved - gradually developed and changed over a period of millions of years - and that since the beginning of life on earth,
(He never purposed how it started.
Ever.)
nature has selected only the fittest species to survive. Since heretofore, the scientific and the fundamentally religious camps have refused to reason together, the ongoing bitterness has resulted in extreme and unnecessary disdain, one for the other. On June 30, 1860, a searing "evolution debate" took place at the Oxford Museum of Natural History between evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. In America, the Creation vs. Evolution rift expanded during the infamous "Scopes Monkey Trial" (Dayton, Tennessee 1925) that came about because a high-school science teacher, John Scopes, espoused Darwin's Theory of Evolution in his public-school classroom. The conflict was further underscored by the most recent federal trial of 2005 -- Kitzmiller vs. the Dover Area School District - that once again, put the belief in "intelligent design" versus the Theory of Evolution to the test. The decision of District Judge John E. Jones was that there was not enough conclusive evidence to support "intelligent design." A 2005 CBS News poll revealed that 51% of Americans reject the Theory of Evolution (Alfano 2005). Moreover, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is urging the American public to reject any notion of "intelligent design." It is clear that the need for the following discussion is dire.
Presented here is a concrete, chronological, and credible nexus between the Biblical account of Creation and the Theory of Evolution. If taken into consideration, this connection may further serve to alleviate the ongoing Church versus State battle applicable to the teaching of
"Creation Science/Creationism/Intelligent Design" v. the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public-school classrooms; this is important, too, because America's schoolchildren are being pulled back and forth between the two camps in this debilitating tug-of-war.
A. The Fallacy of Genesis Literalism
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) and Edward Sapir (1884-1939) formulated a hypothesis referred to as "linguistic determinism" which postulates that some concepts in one language cannot be understood in a different language because the speakers of the respective languages and their world views are bound by different sets of rules. (Whorf-Sapir) Therefore, the original concept, as is written in one language, may be lost in the translation to another language. When it comes to Creation versus Evolution, the main factor that corroborates Biblical literalism is the mistranslation of the Hebrew word youm, into the English word "day" (denoting a 24-hour period) as it appears beginning in Genesis 1:1 and continues through Genesis 2:3. According to The Bible Library: Strong's Hebrew Old Testament Dictionary, one definition for youm
I looked it up in my Hebrew-Greek Key study bible.
is "to be hot."
(To be warm, an age etc...)
This may explain how it was translated as meaning the time when Earth's sun is shining upon it, further meaning one literal 24-hour period. However, "to be hot" connotes a period of activity, which suggests in this case, an Age of Creation. Concomitantly, its original meaning extends to "an age" or "a space of time" (Bible Library: Reference # 3117). Furthermore, the word "Day" (in Genesis 2:4: "in the Day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens") is understood by all who read the Bible, to mean an Age. So why is it that some readers extrapolate 24-hours for each of the six "days" of Creation, then automatically infer a much longer period of time for "Day" as it is written in Genesis 2:4?
What further contributes to Biblical- Creation literalism is this refrain: "And the evening and the morning were the ... day." It appears that the sun is setting and then rising on the earth, and that connects to the Hebrew definition of "day" as being from sunset to sunrise. The postulation here is that "the evening" signifies the end of one period (Age) of Creation, and "the morning" means the beginning of a successive stage of Earth's development, or a New Age. For those who yet hold to the literal 24-hour interpretation, when discussing the sun going down on the earth and then rising as the earth revolves on its axis, according to the same Creation account in Genesis, it is important to note that the Bible says that God did not make "the greater light to rule the day" -- the sun until the fourth "day." Earth's sun was not fully formed and functional until the fourth Age of Earth's development, which was between 248 and 65 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era.
Additional information regarding Creation is found in The Holy Qur'an. Chapter 7 (Al-A'Raf) reads:
Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and Earth in six periods. Then He settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He makes the night cover the day, which it pursues swiftly. And He created the sun and the moon and the stars - all made subservient by His command. Verily, His is the Creation and the Command. Blessed is Allah, and the Lord of the worlds.
A commentary by esteemed scholar and editor, Malik Ghulam Farid explains the concept of "six periods" of The Creation:
Ayyam is the plural of yaum, which denotes time absolutely, or it may signify an indefinite period, or a stage in the development of a thing. It is not possible to surmise and define the length of this period. It may be a thousand years or fifty thousand years. But the word yaum definitely does not refer here or in any other verse of the Qur'an as the period of time determined by the rotation of Earth on its axis...we [scholars] cannot definitely determine the length of the 'six days during which the creation of the heavens and Earth was completed. God brings about different changes in different periods, some taking a thousand years, and others fifty thousand years, and yet others even a longer period. All that we can say is that the creation of the heavens and Earth took six long cycles to become perfect and complete (336).
Those "six long cycles," or the six "days" of creation, precisely parallel the following periods of the development of the universe and the earth:
the Age of Darkness,
the Age of Light and Creation,
pre-Cambrian (Earth) Time;
the Paleozoic,
Mesozoic,
and Cenozoic Eras;
the five major extinctions and the one minor extinction (the Biblical Flood) of life on Earth.
Colonel James Churchward, author of The Lost Continent of Mu (2001), studied and interpreted the account of The Creation from the ancient Naacal tablets of India, the writings of which he believes pre-date those "civilizations of the early Greeks, the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Hindus" by tens of thousands of years. Based on his extensive study and research into the matter of The Creation accounted for in these tablets, he refers to each "day" of this process of development and change as an "intellectual command." He explains it this way:
The seven commands are without doubt, also indicative of seven periods of time. A period of time is not measured by any particular number of years. It may mean a day, a year, or millions of years. Thus these tablets do not assign any particular length of time to Creation. It may have taken millions, or tens of millions of years to accomplish what was recorded in the tablets. It is merely stated that Earth was created in seven periods of time, not in seven [literal] days, as recorded in the Biblical legend (15).
God "created the heavens and the earth," but He did not accomplish that in six literal 24-hour periods. The account written in Genesis was not intended to represent a detailed account of how the universe, visible matter and life within it came into existence. Therefore, we must look beyond the Biblical account, particularly to the three surviving extra-Biblical books of Enoch for detailed information.
(Go figure right?
Who been yappin about that book?)
The Biblical Old Testament contains very little about Enoch, who lived an estimated 622-987 years after Adam. Genesis 5: 21-24 read:
And Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: And Enoch was not: for God took him.
However, there are three known extra-Biblical account of Enoch's encounters with God and His angels and of his ascensions into "heaven." The oldest 1 Enoch - is categorized as the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Enoch ("Henok") and was written sometime between the 2nd century B.C.E. and the 1st century B.C.E. The second version - 2 Enoch, or the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch -- was recorded in the late 1st century A.D. Finally, Rabbi Ishmael wrote the Hebrew Apocalypse of Enoch, or 3 Enoch, circa the 5th and 6th centuries A.D.4 These books and their translations are included in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth (1983) but Enoch 2 is included also in Lost Books of the Bible. The books of Enoch tell us that he was transformed into the angel Metatron and thus became God's scribe; God then dictated to him the details of The Creation. They further tell us that he wrote 366 books, but the editor of the Enoch books tells us that, to date only the three have been discovered. The hope is that the following exegesis will obviate the Creation vs. Evolution conflict so that Creationists may advance in their attainment of scientific knowledge. Moreover, it should serve as a platform for conciliatory dialogue between the Creation and Evolution camps.
The Six Main Ages of the Universe and of the Earth and Its Life Forms
1) The First "Day" of Creation:
13.7 to 3.9 Billion Earth Years Ago
"In the beginning, God created the heaven and Earth," but that "beginning" is an estimated 13.7 billion years ago for "the heaven" and an estimated 4.7 billion years ago for the sun, and the earth and its moon, as is currently measured by Earth time. "In the beginning" before time existed, God, "The Antecedent of Time" and "The Self-Begotten" (The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Sibylline Oracles, Book 1) "thought" to create the visible from the invisible
Subatomic and quantum realms anybody?)
as He revealed it to Enoch:
And the Lord spoke to me: 'Enoch, beloved, all you see, all things that are standing finished, I tell to you even before the very beginning, all that I created from non-being, and visible things from invisible. For before all things were visible, I alone used to go about in the invisible things...while I found no peace, because I was creating all things, and I conceived the thought of placing foundations, and of creating visible creations.' (2 Enoch 24:2)
"Ego cogito, co, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I Am."). Rene Descartes (1596- 1650), from Discourses on Method
In his article, "Guth's Grand Guess," Lemley (2002) wrote about the "Big Bang" or "singularity" theory, which posits "the universe began as a minuscule fireball of extreme density and temperature" and "it has been expanding and cooling ever since." He described the work of cosmologist Alan Guth who, in 1979, developed a groundbreaking theory about the beginning of the universe:
[He] emerged as the first scientist to offer a plausible description of the universe when it was less than one-hundredth of a second old. During an unimaginably explosive period between 10-37 second and 10-34 second after its birth, Guth said, the universe expanded to a rate that kept doubling before beginning to settle down to the more sedate expansion originally described (34).
God disclosed to Enoch how He launched the "Big Bang" (at point zero) with precision timing to within 1 billionth of a second:
Before anything existed at all, from the very beginning, whatever is, I created from nonbeing into being, and from the invisible things into the visible... Before any visible things had come into existence, and the light had not yet opened up, I, in the midst of the light moved around in the invisible things, like one of them...yet I did not find rest, because everything was not yet created. And I thought up the idea of establishing a foundation, to create visible creation. I commanded the very lowest parts, that visible things should come down from invisible, and Adoil came down very great and I beheld him, and lo! He had a belly of great light. And I said to him: 'Become undone, Adoil, and let the visible come out of thee. And he came undone, and a great light came out. And I was in the midst of the great light, and as there is born light from light, there came forth a Great Age, and showed all creations, which I had thought to create. And I saw that it was good. And I placed for myself a throne [command station/safety zone] and took my seat on it, and said to the light: 'Go thou up higher and fix thyself high above the throne, and be a foundation to the highest things." And above the light there is nothing else, and then I bent up and looked up from my throne. And I summoned the very lowest a second time, and said: 'Let Archas come forth hard. And he came forth hard from the invisible. And Archas came forth, very hard, heavy, and very red. And I said: 'Be opened, Archas, and let there be born from thee. And he came undone, and an Age came forth, very great and very dark [the Dark Age of the Universe), bearing the creation of the lower things, and I saw that it was good and said to him: 'Go thou down below, and make thyself firm [clump together], and be for a foundation for the lower things. And it happened, and he went down and fixed himself and became the foundation for the lower things, and below the darkness there is nothing else. (The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 Enoch: 24-26)
"And the earth was without form and void [did not exist]; and darkness was upon the face of the deep" (Genesis 1:2)
Astronomers believe this Dark Age of the universe (that followed the Big Bang) produced an enormous amount of heat equal to the explosion of an atomic bomb. After about 400,000 years of being very hot, the universe cooled sufficiently to allow prevail gravitational forces to prevail and then to cause dark matter to clump together. From there it took hundreds of millions of years more for the first stars and galaxies to form. During the Age of dark matter, energy was present as photons. Some photons became quarks and these in turn, formed neutrons and protons. These then formed the lighter elements known as hydrogen, helium, and lithium. After hydrogen came into existence, as God had so "thought" it, He caused clouds of hydrogen to form around the densest regions of dark matter. The force of gravity caused these clouds of hydrogen (potential water) to condense. The more condensed the clouds became, the hotter their centers became, as gravitational pull prevented heat and light from escaping. In time as they became hotter, hydrogen was converted into helium by means of nuclear reactions. This was the beginning of the end of the Dark Age of the universe when the first light appeared.
And God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
After the hydrogen clouds condensed and nuclear reactions took place at the core, they ignited, and hundreds of millions of years after the "Big Bang," primordial suns and galaxies formed. The first suns were red giants - very big and hot. The larger stars burned out faster than did the smaller ones because they exhausted their source of hydrogen faster than did the smaller stars (Page1985). These first suns then exploded, or detonated, hurling the heavier elements - carbon, oxygen, silicon and iron throughout the universe, God's "endless realm." (2 Enoch).
Astronomers marvel at the "fine-tuning" of the universe and wonder why it "... is so benevolent, providing conditions that are nearly perfect for human life" (Berman 29).
(Its our imagination, the fine-tuning, thats what they try and sell us today...Yeah...right...go with that.)
This is how God "commanded" it.
The incident of the exploding star (Supernova 1987A) that created the Crab Nebula roughly 170,000 light years from Earth and the benefit of such an explosion to life on Earth are detailed in "A Universe That Is Built for Life" in Discover magazine's February 2003 edition:
If Earth had been nearby when this supernova exploded, we all would have been toast. And yet such exploding stars created the oxygen, carbon, silicon, and iron that make up much of our world and our bodies. If earlier generations of detonating stars had not seeded interstellar space with those elements, we would not exist. Had the Big Bang been one part in a billion more powerful, it would have rushed outward too quickly to allow galaxies to form. Even more remarkable, the four forces that govern the interaction of matter and energy have just the right properties to allow atoms to bond together into compounds, clump together into planets, or crash together to generate nuclear energy inside stars (Berman 2003, 29).
Humans, and other life forms on Earth, as astronomer Carl Sagan phrased it, are made literally of "star stuff." Albert Einstein (1879- 1955) forever changed scientific thought with his revolutionary ideas of time, space, mass, motion, and gravitation. His special theory of relativity, E=mc2 or, energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, simply stated, dictates that an enormous amount of energy must be released from its source to transform "invisible" matter to "visible" matter.
And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness (Genesis 1:2-4)
God continued his explanation to Enoch:
And I commanded that there should be taken from light and darkness, and I said: 'Be thick and it became thus, and I spread it out with the light and it became water, and I spread it out over the darkness, below the light, and then I made firm the waters. And I created seven circles from inside, and imaged it like crystal wet and dry, that is to say like glass, and the circumcession of the waters and the other elements, and I showed each one of them its road and the seven stars each one of them in its heaven [place in the universe], that they go thus, and I saw that it was good. (2 Enoch 27:1)
Around 4.7 billion years ago, Earth's sun began to form when gravitational forces caused swirls of hot gases and dust to collect at its center. Nuclear fusion then caused the sun to begin to emit heat and light. The heavenly bodies that would move around it also formed when gravitational forces caused swirls of gases and dust to collect at the center of the whirlpools. The postulation here is that God selected the gases, dust, and debris left over from the sun's formation that would coalesce and form each planet (Greek: "wanderer").
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." (Genesis 1:6-7)
During this Age of Creation
(the Hadean Eon: 4.5 3.9 BYA), when this planetary - system was in its infancy, debris left over from the sun's formation coalesced and formed planetesimals. God chose three locations for possible life development: the second, third, and fourth rocks from the source of energy, or the "light." The life that was later to form in the waters of Earth would need energy from the sun to develop.
From hydrogen and oxygen, God created liquid water (about 3.9 billion years ago), which fell on Venus, Earth, and Mars, borne of the primitive atmospheres that He had created on them. Lightning - sparks caused by rapidly moving electrically charged particles was ever present. In time, substantial bodies of water formed on the surface of Earth (Greek: eraze, meaning, "to the ground") and Mars, and there was volcanic activity on all three planets. About 3.9 billion years ago, God established circulation patterns to the waters that had fallen on Earth; this would serve to influence temperatures on the "dry land" (particularly during glacial periods) that were yet to "appear." Archipelagos-giant islands- divided the primal waters. The Biblical book, 2 Peter, seems to support that the formation of Earth was the work of Almighty God from "the beginning":
For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and Earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: (3:5)
God created magnetic shields for all three planets which surrounded them and protected them from harmful solar winds. Volcanic activity on Mars, which had helped create its atmosphere, ceased. Moreover, because of its distance from the sun, its unstable magnetic shield and environment, its size (about half the size of Earth), and a comparatively low gravitational force, Mars became lifeless. At the same time, Venus succumbed to an unbridled greenhouse effect.
National Air and Space Museum researchers have so far, verified the presence of water on Mars as far back as 3.5 billion years ago. From updated analyses of images sent back to Earth from spacecraft orbiting Mars, they state that liquid water may have covered as much as 40 percent of its surface, and may yet be present in its polar icecaps and its subterranean regions. In addition, based on magnetized bands detected by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, planetary scientists have determined that the primitive Mars and the primitive Earth were similar, and that bacteria may even have developed on Mars as well. Although the Phoenix robot recently discovered a miniscule amount of water ice in locations other than the polar region, life on Mars has yet to be found.
Because Earth remained stable and promising as a result of God's assessment, He then concentrated His efforts - "intellectual commands" - on planet Earth. During this earliest Era of Pre-Cambrian Time, rock crusts began to form from the hardened lava that had flowed from volcanoes situated beneath Earth's surface. Meanwhile, volcanic activity raged on Earth's satellite as well. After more time passed, parts of Earth cooled and melted repeatedly, the crusts grew thicker, larger, and harder, mountains rose, and the continents began to form and drift apart. In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) was the first to propose the idea that the continents -- "the dry land" - were once one supercontinent that drifted apart over time; he called this process "continental displacement." He named the supercontinent Pangaea - Greek for "all" and "earth." Later during Earth's development, the clouds slowly ascended into the atmosphere, and the rains stopped. During this transition from the pre- to the post-geologic period of Earth's development, copper, gold, iron, nickel, and silver began forming in shale siltstones, lava, volcanic ash, and metamorphic rocks. Due to the waxing and waning of Earth's internal heat, its crust, accordingly, melted and cooled repeatedly (Ellison 1985).
"And God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night." (Genesis 1:5)
God set Earth and the other planets and the moons of this solar system on courses around "the light" the yet developing sun. During its early formation, Earth spun up to 10 times faster on its axis than it does now, so its literal days were between two and five hours each in length. God formed Earth's satellite at the same time as He formed Earth (about 4.7 billion years ago) and the moon was then a lot closer to Earth (approximately 10,000 miles away). The satellite's position and presence served to stabilize Earth's rotation on its polar axis; this in turn, helped regulate Earth's climate. More time passed and Earth's satellite moved slowly away from its host planet and continues to do so to this very day, at approximately 1½ inch each solar year. Unlike the satellites of other planets in this and in other known solar systems, Earth's moon was set at an angle above Earth.
(Thats a "brute force fact" you dont hear about to much.)
This precise positioning of the moon was critical to the formation and maintenance of life on Earth, as were the positions and paths of the other planets around the sun, just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) had speculated.
The presence or absence of a moon does not necessarily render its host planet suitable for life formation, as is evidenced by the fact that seven of the ten planets so far discovered in this solar system have satellites. This is further testament to the fact that Earth is unique in this planetary system, and that intelligent entities were behind the formation of life here. God created life on Earth, but on no other planet in this solar system. The planets were set at pre-determined distances from the sun, and in specific orbits around the sun so that effectually, they would not perturb one another, as do planets in some other solar systems. To establish Cosmic Choreography, God orchestrated specific movements of the planets and their satellites. All the planets move in the same direction around the sun, that is, from west to east. As they orbit the sun, Venus, Uranus, and Pluto rotate clockwise, from east to west, in retrograde motion. On the other hand, the sun and the other planets, including Earth and its moon, rotate counterclockwise, or eastward toward the "rising" sun, which itself travels around the center of this galaxy. In addition, in order to create and preserve life on Earth, it was necessary for Mercury and Venus to have no satellites, for some moons to rotate in retrograde motion around their host planets, and for other moons that orbit around the same planet, to rotate in both directions. Moreover, four of the planets closest to the sun needed to be mainly terrestrial, and those farthest from the sun, mainly gaseous in composition, except Pluto. The sizes and rotational axes of the planets were also important in creating and preserving life on Earth (Uranus rotates on its side), as were their distances from the sun and from one another.
(I already know Ethan
"pure coincidence!")
God set the largest planet, now called Jupiter, in a particular position in this solar system and granted it such a strong gravitational pull, that it would protect Earth from undesired impacts of the larger asteroids and meteoroids; Earth's moon would absorb the smaller ones.
(More "Brute force facts")
Scientists understand that the workings of the universe invariably obey the laws of physics, and that the universe is one of law and order. Yet, physicists, in particular, continue to raise the question of how the laws of physics came to be. If God is the self- created One (and He is), and If God created the universe of law and order (and He did), then, simple logic dictates that He also created the laws of physics that give order to His cosmos.
(Goes to "initial conditions",
the laws governing what was to come into exhistnace had to be in place before what eventually DID come into exhistnace, this is exactly what the cosmologist and the astrophysicist etc. just do not want to discuss and with good reason good, they have exactly 0 explanations as to how that happened as it implies something had to have been in place prior to creation, hum, I wonder what?)
"And the evening [the end] and the morning [the beginning of a new Age] were the first day." (Genesis 1:5)
(And that gets us to Day 2 lol)
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