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A couple of problems/questions:
What is the proposed mechanism for increasing the planetary mass? You just can’t make mass appear out of thin air!
Is the only evidence continental fit? I.e. the shape fit together when the diameter is reduced?
Assume the increase in mass is real, what would be the effect?
a. the orbit will change, for the earth that will be rather disastrous, because it means that it must have occupied an orbit further out in the past.
b. Likewise for the moon. If the process is going on today we should see the moon spiralling in, but it’s not it is actually moving away form the earth. (Assumption -proportional rates of expansion for planetary diameter).
Where does the water go?, it should produce a “water world”
, er no they didn’t that link is to a Neil Adams web site, he has pasted an article about giant insects (which does not mention his increasing earth diameter at all)
No matter, have a look at this link
Who is Neil AdamsExtracts - My bold.
You have been reading fiction.
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What is the proposed mechanism for increasing the planetary mass? You just can’t make mass appear out of thin air!
Isn't that where the whole scientific debate on life's origins begins with? mass being created from nothing? I thought that was the Evolutionists point to debate?...we say God created the heavens and the earth and evolutionists believe that the universe came from nothing...mind you as recently as last week they are now saying it was a marble sized object...but the question remains where did the marble sized object come from in the first place?
If you cannot make mass appear from nothing how did all the higher elements in the periodic table evolve from Hydrogen?
What if they evolve through a nuclear reaction?...what if the core of the earth was a nuclear reactor? I mean after all we don't truly know what lies at the core.
If a nuclear reaction can form He from H2 and lead to the higher elements in the periodic table, then why would the mass of the earth not increase if the core of the earth was some sort of nuclear reactor?
Thus the same reaction which allows a star to form and build mass would be equally the same reactions that are going on at the core of the Earth building mass and causing the volume to increase.
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a. the orbit will change, for the earth that will be rather disastrous, because it means that it must have occupied an orbit further out in the past.
b. Likewise for the moon. If the process is going on today we should see the moon spiralling in, but it’s not it is actually moving away form the earth. (Assumption -proportional rates of expansion for planetary diameter).
Where does the water go?, it should produce a “water world”
A: Yes but to what extent? if the orbit would change then yes we could have a disasterous effect but what would the actual orbit be? closer? if that is the case, closer by how much? although the mass would change would the density change? a decrease in volume doesn't necessarily mean a change in density.
If I heat up a piece of steel and it expands, I do get a volume increase but the density is still the same. The piece of steel still weighs the same but it's surface area increases proportinal to the volume increase but the weight still has not changed.
Water is after all made from a chemical reaction between H2 and O2 is it not? with that being said once the reaction causes the higher elements to form would there then not be a possibility for water to form when Oxygen molecules begin to form?...yes.
The orbit may have changed, equally the axial rotation may have increased which we have evidence that our angular velocity of the earth is in a decline which means we used to rotate faster.
We would have also seen an immense change in both atmospheric pressure as well as Oxygen levels in the atmosphere because with a decrease in atmospheric volume there would be an increase in atmospheric pressure. A decrease in surface area of water to an increase of surface area of land would also account for higher levels of Oxygen in the atmosphere due to a greater ratio of surface area with oxygen producing plants.
The theory is quite sound...if we want to take it one step further Biblically we can then also theorize that the water canopy theory as mentioned in Genesis 1:7.
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7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
This would render the creation account being passed down from generation to generation relatively accurate. If there were a change in Earth's volume, the earth's magnetic field would have equally increased maybe doubled, which would also act as a shield aginst increased solar and or cosmic radiation which would be also filtered by a water/vapor barrier in the atmosphere....just take a look at all the gas giants in our solar system...you can't deny that our gasses couldn't have been made from water.
The only possibility that dinosaurs could have existed on earth is in an environment with a decreased gravity, increased oxygen levels and greater atmospheric pressure in order for their breathing capacity to be maintained, they would never survive under our present atmospheric and gravitational conditions.
The facts are there are not similar dinosaur fossils found on continents which are seperated by thousands of miles, there are identical fossils found on continents which are seperated by thousands of miles.
The account of creation also never mentions Oceans, it only mentions Seas. Seas are much smaller "bodies" of water as opposed to the vastness of our oceans.
Again, Genesis 1:10 says:
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10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
No mentions of oceans, funny enough Neal Adams is a big time evolutionist and even his theory says that there couldn't have been oceans during the time of the dinoasuars.
Genesis 1:9 further caps the account by gathering the majority of water
under the earth in one place, yet again further proving that the flood waters came from under the earth, the waters were continuosly being pushed up and pressurized nder the earth until the fountains of the great deep had broken up, Genesis 7:11.
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Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so
Genesis 7:11 ... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The only part where I disagree with Neal is on the age gap, there still is no explanation to the tropical vegetation found in Antarctica , this can only be one of two things...either rapid continental shift or sudden climate change.
The origins of the Sahara desert by the science community is dated to about 4000 years ago and was caused by a "Sudden Change in Atmosphere" well they called it a "Brutal" change, you can read about that here:
Sahara Born 4000 years ago....A sudden climate change would also fall under the category of a sudden change in atmospheric pressure killing off the dinoasaur en masse globally.
The only other issue I have is trying to figure out why there are ocean fossils at the top of the Himalayas, this could only be an indication of again rapid tectonic shifting, ocean creatures are not so dumb that they would slowly, incrementally allow themselves to be drawn up onto dry land inches per year...they would sense the change in water depth and continue to move to deeper water if it was a slow ongoing process of millions of years...nothing is that stupid.
If we place the two together, rapid continental drift as well as sudden atmospheric change we would then have the exact conditions to what would contribute to a global catastrophe that not only wiped out every living animal, it would also leave a tremendous amount of sedimentation to which strata would form helping geologists make the eroneous claim to strata dating.
Also with a decrease in volume then the probability that the entire planet was engulfed in a global flood would be entirely possible. After a sudden change in atmosphere, a change in axial position, a change in orbit around the sun and a decrease in angular velocity, an ice age would follow forming the polar caps rapidly, sudden pressure changes cause tremendous changes in temperatures, open up a bottle of pressurized oxygen and watch the ice form on the outlet.
Works for me.
You still haven't commented on NASA's images...NASA still hasn't come forward to say that he has doctored them, in fact, they are now saying that subduction is not taking place on Mars yet there is clearly volcanic activity....you cannot deny the videos, they are NASA's own images.
Peace
CJ