Bad Bob wrote:
There are grown adults who actually believe that two penguins 1) walked all the way from Antarctica to the Middle East to get aboard an ark built by 2) a five hundred year old man.
Bob, here on Earth, evolutionists are still at square one in their vain attempt to show how a life-from-non-life event could have occurred without God more than 3.5 billion years ago... or 6,000 years ago.
Would you please cross your eyes, turn yourself upside down and inside out, take a selfie in that position and post the really spectacular snapshot as you digest this information again, in slightly different form.Your intelligence is not in question. Your apparently closed mind, however, is very much in evidence. Rectifying it is within your freewill.
Penguins Walking Across the Earth's One Continuous Continental Landmass
1) One continuous ancient landmass, i.e., one continent, and one worldwide sub-tropical climate enabled any animal on earth to live in Noah's neighborhood. If you went to school in the United States, chances are you were taught that there are seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. There are now more than 7 known continents as submerged continental rocks are being discovered, some at great depths, the remains of one supercontinent. Perhaps, the best-known example of a submerged continent is Zealandia.
The recent definitions of two mostly submerged continents which have been named Zealandia and Mauritia have greatly improved scientific understanding of how our planet "evolved" from a supercontinent in a global sea to the seven distributed continental landmasses in multiple oceans that are known today.
Researchers have reported finding extensive continental landmasses submerged beneath the waters of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.
In a 2016 paper entitled, “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent,” the author, N. Mortimer, et al., reported on finding a submerged, coherent (i.e., not a collection of continental fragments) continental landmass about the size of India, located in the South Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia and generally centered on New Zealand.
Zealandia was formerly part of the ancient supercontinent. Today, Zealandia is 94% submerged, mainly as a result of widespread Late Cretaceous crustal thinning preceding supercontinent breakup and consequent isostatic balance.
Isostatic balance can be used to determine the amount the ocean depth increases relative to its original depth. Isostasy (Greek ísos "equal", stásis "standstill") Isostasy is a term that means equal standstill... isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density.
Mauritia was discovered in February 2013 paper, “A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean,” author T. Torsvik, et al., noted that an arc of volcanic islands in the western Indian Ocean, stretching from the west coast of India to the east coast of Madagascar, with the presence of ancient zircons was inconsistent with the geology of the more recently formed volcanic islands, and was evidence of “ancient fragments of continental lithosphere beneath Mauritius (that) were brought to the surface by plume-related lavas.”
A party working in Ecuador was aware that its plumb lines, used to determine the vertical direction, would be deflected by the gravitational attraction of the nearby Andes Mountains. However, the deflection was less than expected, which was attributed to the mountains having low-density roots that compensated for the mass of the mountains. In other words, the low-density mountain roots provided the buoyancy to support the weight of the mountains above the surrounding terrain.
Similar observations in the 19th century by British surveyors in India showed that this was a widespread phenomenon in mountainous areas. It was later found that the difference between the measured local gravitational field and what was expected for the altitude and local terrain (the Bouguer anomaly) is positive over ocean basins and negative over high continental areas.
Scientists have recovered a wide variety of rock types from parts of the seafloor as deep as 4,500m. Most were formed through volcanic eruptions, but some show hints that continental rocks are hiding beneath from a submerged ancient supercontinent. Lab work over the next couple of years will reveal more certain answers.
Lithospheric flexure was first invoked in the late 19th century as a possible scientific explanation for the shorelines uplifted in Scandinavia following the melting of continental glaciers at the end of the last glaciation (ice age). It was likewise used by American geologist G. K. Gilbert in an attempt to explain the uplifted shorelines of Lake Bonneville, as modern scientists resist God's explanation in Genesis of the great upheaval and realignment of the earth during the universal flood of Noah.
Five Hundred Years of Age
2) The long antediluvian (pre-flood) lifespans delineated in the book of Genesis are not myths. The existence of a vast canopy of invisible water vapor above the troposphere (Genesis 1:7) during the period from creation to the flood, in addition to the greenhouse effect such a canopy would produce, together with the earth's magnetic field, which was much stronger before the flood, provided a highly efficient shield against the deadly radiations perpetually bombarding the earth from outer space.
Such radiations, if they had reached the earth would have increased the frequency of both somatic and genetic mutations, and would have decreased the lifespan, as it did after the flood.
The greenhouse effect, likewise, contributed to the antediluvian more congenial environment for longevity. Uniform temperatures precluded air mass movements, precluding any possibility of storms, or rain (except the diurnal mist
which brought moisture to the soil each morning), maintaining an equable humidity worldwide. There were no deserts or ice caps or rugged mountains.
The land surfaces were much more extensive and the ocean smaller than in the present world, because the oceans now contain the water that fell during the flood, depleting the vast canopy that had existed over the earth. All the earth was habitable with a warm, subtropical pleasantly humid climate, and abundant plant and animal life.
Before the flood, there were no earthquakes or volcanoes, no rain, no soil erosion, and therefore no sediments.
The earth's covering of rich soil rested directly on the crystalline crust, and locked within the crust were vast reservoirs of pressurized waters, heated by the earth's internal heat, and emerging to the surface here and there through controlled vents to great artesian springs, which became the sources of the river systems of the antediluvian world. God had created a world that was "very good," Genesis 1:31.
This "good earth" contributed markedly to human longevity before the flood.
Proof of this fact can be found by understanding nature's exponential decay rate. All things fall apart or decay at a given rate. If a container of organisms is exposed to a substance that is radioactive, they will die at a speed called a natural decay rate. This graph curve is the same even if the organisms are exposed to deadly doses of gas or other substances.
If you take the points of the population in question and graph them you can see how close the actual and exponential decay rates compare. This yields an equation and a value called the coefficient of determination. This math ratio tells us how close our graph correlates to the decay curve. This coefficient will be a number somewhere between the range of 0 and 1. A coefficient of 1 is a perfect match.
The antediluvian (pre-flood) Biblical patriarchs lived incredibly long lives compared to today. After the flood (postdiluvian), the life expectancy of a person dropped to the modern average lifespan of a person of around 70 to 80 years.
Plotting the lifespans of the patriarchs on a graph show us their decay curve, which can then be compared to the perfect exponential decay curve (which has a 1 for its coefficient of determination). With this information it can be reasonably proven that the stated number of years lived for the people found in Genesis is literally true.
The coefficient of determination in the graph is almost .89. The decay rate of the Biblical patriarchs listed in the graph is only 11% away from matching the exponential (natural) decay curve. The average lifespan before the flood was 857 years. It took "several" generations after the deluge for a new average lifespan of 70 years to be reached!