Orogenesis


Growing EarthThe animated gif of the expanding earth is from Michael Netzer who licensed it under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Notice that the modern oceans did not exist when the continets fit together on a minuscule planet. Indeed the modern oceans are new and growing, while the continets are old.

Orogenesis means mountain building. The longest mountain range straddles a global expansion seam that runs through every ocean. The expansion seam is active, spitting out lava that builds udersea mountains. Except for continental margins and a few tabletop shallows, undersea mountains are made of dense basalt, not slow-hardening, lighter granite.

Surface mountain ranges encircle the Pacific, running through a chain of islands off the Coast of Asia. Another ring of mountains encircles western China, extending to Siberia. Mountains also run from Europe to India and in lesser ranges elsewhere. What caused continental mountains? An article in Nature from Tony Lowry and Marta Perez-Gussinye compares seismic velocities for the two kinds of continental basements, plains and mountains. They claim that a low seismic velocity ratio for mountain basements reveals areas rich in quartz. They claim the quartz belts are absent from the flat plains. This suggests that continental mountains pushed up in weakened areas where quartz has fractured the basements with water deposited seams.

The Bible presents the rudiments of natural history, including mountain building. The [1] mountains were born (Psalm 90:2); [2] the mountains and the hills are old, from antiquity (Habakkuk 3:6); [3] God erected the mountains with His strength (Psalm 65:6); [4] the base of the mountains is flint (Job 28:9). Mountains are not mentioned until the cataclysm.

Let’s review biblical creation. Elohim finished the creation of the heavens and earth on the first day (Hebrew completed action), all of it (Hebrew et). Evidently the completed god-particles were not extended in space because the Earth had no form. Then Elohim continued to command light to continue to be. The space matter takes up and its other properties are not independent of light that continues to dither around within atoms. The earth at this early stage was covered with water. Then Elohim continued to command an expanding atmosphere (raqiya shamayim) to separate waters below from waters above. A similar process is going on today on Enceladus as gases and waters jet out - forming an enormous orbiting ice ring. Every modern year, Earth’s leading hemisphere ploughs into millions of house-sized, dust-covered snow balls. Spacecraft have photographed the UV absorbing streaks as twenty 100 ton snowballs hit earth every minute. Evidently remnants of the water that was separated on day two continue to return.

On the third day, Elohim continued to command the waters to be gathered into one place. 2 Peter 3:5 “For when they maintain this, (that all things remain the same - verse 4) it escapes their notice that by the word of God the (plural) heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water.” Peter states that the solid part of the terrene globe (ge) stood out (ek) from the water. Ek is the point of origin from which something comes out. In porous ground, water seeps down into subterranean aquifers. If it is acidic, it eats out great cavities in the rock. Quartz crystals form from a saturated water solution. Downward quartz veins are evidence that the primordial earth was once submerged in mineral laden, probably acidic, water. In some areas, the quartz veins contain water deopistied gold. Why don't modern oceans leak underground? Modern oceans are slightly alkaline, not acidic. They are imprisoned by a dense, impervious, basaltic seafloor.

Genesis chapter two informs that it did not rain in Eden, rivers flowed around the land and the surface of the earth was watered by up-flowing streams. During the cataclysm the underground seas burst forth as from a womb (see Job 38) It was then that God "placed boundaries on it and set a bold and doors, and I said, Thus far you shall come, but no farther; and her shall your proud waves stop." Job 38:10-11 During the cataclysm, mountains formed concurrently with the first modern oceans. (The Atlantic did not exist when the eastern Mediterranean and the central Pacific began to form. Psalm 104:6-9 "You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters were standing above the mountains. At your rebuke the fled, at the sound of your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose; the (Hebrew wide) valleys sank down to the place to which you established for them. You se a boundary that them may not pass over, so they will not return to cover the earth."

How can we verify biblical earth history? We see that the continents only fit together on a tiny globe without major seas and that the oceans are clearly younger than terra firma. The Bible states three times that the Earth stretches out in unbroken continuity. New sea floor is continually forming along the undersea expansion seam. The most powerful evidence for a biblical Earth history is visible galactic history (the history of the plural heavens). Many early galaxies were naked, without starry arms. We follow (at many ranges) how the stars continually came out, accelerated out, as billions of galaxies intrinsically grew into huge, local, growth spirals. How could this be? The Bible clearly states that the creation is enslaved to change (Romans 8:21). The visible properties of matter kept on changing throughout cosmic history, just like one would expect from the literal text of the Bible. Someone could ask, how could the galaxies grow in only 6,000 years? We observe with telescopes at many ranges that atomic clocks accelerate concurrently with the accelerating star streams. Our ancestors mentioned things that could only have been true if earth and the solar system also expanded. If you don’t understand why gravity accelerates both Earth’s orbit and rotation, read this blog: http://tiny.cc/u2g0e  and this http://tiny.cc/enyw5

What happens when matter (atoms) keep changing relationally throughout earth history? Jacob said the days and years of the children are shorter and worse than those of the fathers. The book of Job describes living dinosaurs. Job mentions the geological ages associated with a single lifetime. Indeed we find skulls with thick brows, just like Job mentioned - their faces doubled, changed, before they died (Job 14). Our facial bones keep growing as we age. If we lived for geological ages, like the ancient poets claimed, we would end up looking Neanderthal. The Neanderthal children did not have the thick brows of their grandparents.

Always use the biblical principle that the creation is enslaved to change when examining the evidence for earth history. What evidence? No constants of any kind are visible when we compare the properties of matter in billions of ancient galaxies. Yet scientists have contrived an entire empirical system with their notion that atoms do perpetual motion. They even invented a mathematical universe that is 99% invisible to protect their first principle - that the properties of matter are fixed, not emerging. Yet we see a biblical cosmic history with our eyes. How great will be the fall of western science before the power of God’s word and the simple, visible evidence that confirms it.

Read an essay of Enceladus forming an ice ring

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