PLANET EARTH

We continue our series: ‘Holy Bible of Science’ following the 4th article: ‘More science…wind & waves’: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/more-sciencewind-waves.html

 

Does Planet Earth look round or flat to you?...from the first ever colour photograph taken from outer space.                 

The Jewish prophet Isaiah wrote in about 700 BC:

"It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth..."        Isaiah 40:22

…and that’s centuries before Aristotle claimed the Earth was spherical.                             

By the way, that’s just a colour chart below Earth which hangs on nothing in space, just as Job said about 3,500 years ago:

“He…hangeth the earth upon nothing.”          Job 26:7

Okay then, what about Earth’s continents?                                              
In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Lothar Wegener proposed the theory of slow ‘Continental Drift’ from one super-continent now known as Pangaea (‘all lands’), comprising Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south.

Earlier, in 1859 French-American geographer Antonio Snider-Pellegrini proposed “rapid, horizontal divergence” at the time of the Great Flood.

Flemish mapmaker Abraham Ortelius was the guy who ‘put the world on the map’ with the first ever atlas: Thesaurus Geographicus. Way back in 1596 he suggested: “…Americas were torn away from Europe and Africa…by earthquakes and floods…”

So was there once just one super-continent? Absolutely!...  

“And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas: and God saw that it was good.”      Genesis 1:9-10   

No arguments there, but were today’s continents torn apart or have they been drifting apart over millions of years? Who was right?                                                    

Why not check with eye-witness account?                                                            

”For in [Peleg’s] days was the earth divided…”         Genesis 10:25                               
(Peleg lived 239 years)       

Based on eye-witness report, it takes only half a dozen words to describe the parting of the continents only ~4,000 years ago!

What do you know!...plate tectonics in the Bible - long before the science of ‘geology’ existed.   
Fantastic?  Of course!

This is the 5th article in the series: 'Holy Bible of Science' which appears on hotspuds.blogspot.com.au

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Acknowledgements:  
scienceblogs.com  
geologyfreak.wordpress 
en.wikipedia.org   
pubs.usgs.gov     
ortelius.com        

Image credits:
commons.wikimedia.org      
antiqua-global.art.com