Posted on 04/11/2002 1:49:22 PM PDT by Phil V.
Looks like the Rodinians are getting ready to sue the Pangaeans for reparations.
As if The Creator is going to keep trying...until He gets it right.
Kind of like the thing in the Lampoon parody where Sam Ervin asks Segretti or one of his henchmen where he got the bag with the $500,000 in twenties in it and the latter replies "I found it". I don't believe in that sort of thing myself, i.e. I don't believe that #### just happens; I believe that when #### happens, there's a reason for it.
Likewise, the entire continental mass of the planet doesn't just end up in one place for no particular reason; when that happens, there's a major, serious reason for it. The continental mass of the Earth ends up in one place when some major force of attraction, gravitational or electromagnetic or both, pulls it into one place. Such in fact was the nature of the antique solar system. This is the thing about the so-called "Saturn theory" which you see "Junior" and one or two others trying to make into a strawman on FR occasionally.
I'm a more than a little surprised that He got it "Wrong". More likely, every instant - from the distant past and on into the infinite future - is EXACTLY the way it is Supposed to be - perfect in every detail. . . .Except that we small slivers of His Creation fail to appreciate that HE IS STILL CREATING!!!!!!
Amen.
Amusement suggests a foundation upon which one stands, evaluates and smiles knowingly with superior knowlwdge. I admire your faith.
Convection?
Have you ever melted a pot of lead and observed the floating slag converge?
Judging from this evidence, the rifts formed about 1.5 billion years ago. Dr Rogers and Dr Santosh reckon that Columbia began to break up around then. About 500m years later, its pieces reassembled to form yet another supercontinent, called Rodinia. Geologists believe that Rodinia (whose existence is generally accepted) disintegrated about 750m years ago and then reformed into Pangaea after a period of fragmentation that, once again, lasted for roughly 500m years.
I thought Velikovsky put Saturn atop the Earth a few thousand years ago, rather than hundreds of millions.
Or is there some other aspect of Velikovskianism that this aligns with?
I can't figure out where and how life appeared in your scenario. Did it evolve independently on isolated land forms or did it appear on a super continent and the species isolated when the original land mass broke up?
There may not have been the moon at that time and gravity may have affected earth's surface differently, with other forces factored in. In a general sense, the explanation in the bible (probably not six literal days as we know them in our solar system, but rather sort of six epochs) works just as good as anything else the scientists have postulated to date.
Pangea enjoyed prosperous stability until they were balkanized by massive illegal immigration from Gondwanaland.
I'll not quibble with that!
What I find curious is the literal interpretation - the one that suggests that God DID ALL HIS WORK in a short period of time then "cashed in His 401K, sat back and sipped iced tea . . . just observing.
I suppose that I am too influenced by my workaholic father who never saw much use in idle time. He literally died with his "boots on". Work is NEVER done. I find comfort in the notion that God never went into "retirement" - that he is still shaping, refining, (evolving) His Creation. (Just my Wish)
Thanks!
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