Posted on 04/10/2002 2:33:45 PM PDT by aculeus
Maybe it's just clogged....
If they are factual then it would account for the geological magnetic data recorded in the strata.
But it would seem that the position of the earth was reversed rather than the magnetic fields.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
As well as the sun standing still, depending where you are. If the surface of the earth flips around, there will be huge winds and the oceans will slosh. New stresses will build in the earth's crust and the release through earthquake and volcanos will be noticeable.
Right you are, this would involve the temporary (few generation) disappearance of the Van Allen Belts that protect from cosmic radiation. We would receive about the same level of radiation as the astronauts on the moon. Suntanning would be out, going outside much will be out. Cancer and mutations will be way up.
Some folks on this thread are confusing the magnetic poles with the rotational poles. The rotational poles have to do with things like the direction of water running out the drain.
Essentially, the north pole magnetic field starts losing its strength. It very very gradually decreases over centuries until a moment comes when it cannot be said that there is a magnetic pole and magnetic compasses don't point any particular way. But the process hasn't stopped, it is simply in a pendulum swing. Gradually the south pole magnetic field starts to build up ... and the compass needle that used to point north begins to point south. After several centuries the south pole has essentially taken over the magnetic attraction that used to belong to the north pole.
We know this has happened before by examining the magnetic flecks in ancient lava and clay. When this stuff was first formed and still fairly liquid, whatever magnetic flecks were embedded in it (crumbs of iron and nickle) would tend to line up with the magnetic field ... if all or most of the flecks lined up together then the magnetic field was very strong at the time this stuff solidified, if the flecks were more random then the magnetic field was weaker. This sort of evidence indicates that the magnetic field has swung at least one full cycle in earth's history ... but north and south magnetism haven't changed places in all the time that humans have been using a magnetic compass so our human ancestors never experienced this shift.
But He didn't put a timeframe on that did He?
You could also figure that this referred to the collision that yielded the moon - According to Genisis, the moon was created a Looooooong time after the interstellar gasses, stars, planets, continents, oceans, and even the first living things.
Before mammals and man of course, but it's interesting that Genisis predicted the latest lunar theories 4000 years before science discovered that the moon was formed by collision.
Predicted continental drift too. And the bird-dinosaur relationship.
Hey, we couldn't keep Gretzky, and we aren't able to hold onto the North Pole either. Those are facts
It's not because we didn't want to; it's because our funny money ain't worth squat!
Your rich Yankee capitalist, Montgomery Burns(Enron exec, I think) is buying the North Pole.
I hope he moves the sucker to Florida; maybe we'd get better winters up here, eh?
I'll mark my calendar.
Don't worry mate, when those flipping poles reverse, we can catch our falling sky with reverse umbrellas. Better buy some magnetic insurance.
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