by Bad_Wolf 15 Replies latest social current
Entire world used to be covered by water. I am not talking about the 'great flood', but on Earth's formation itself. The bible talks about Earth being only water and then God making dry land appear.
Any theories? Were ancients lucky, or did they have a form of geology that noticed aquatic fossils in dry land, etc?
Its ancient mythology where anything can happen out human imagination
Quote a few scriptures and lets have a look
Entire world used to be covered by water.
Says who?
""And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth,[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas""
Just saying the fact that the entire Earth used to be covered in water, was this just pure luck that it was correct or what are the ideas?
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Floods were common occurrences in many parts of the world where humans developed civilization, with often catastrophic consequences.
Hunters out wandering around probably encountered unmistakable fossil evidence of sea life (shells, impressions of fish skeletons, etc.) on mountains & hills far from water.
It is human nature to try to make sense of things. Ancient people had no access to any sort of scientific equipment or knowledge to know why or how things in nature happen. So they often attributed things they couldn't readily figure out to the actions of superhuman deities.
Throw all that into a bag, shake it up, and out comes a "god(s) caused a worldwide flood that covered even the mountains" myth.
Entire world used to be covered by water.
Says who?
I guess I am not the only one who did not know that. I was recently in Colombia and went to the salt mines. It was explained how the salt mines were formed. Ancient ocean covered it.
But here is a recent article https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130266-early-earth-was-covered-in-a-global-ocean-and-had-no-mountains/
"Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new research suggests.
Scientists came to the conclusion after analysing tiny zircon mineral grains from a region of Western Australia containing the oldest rocks ever found.
“The history of the Earth is like a book with its first chapter ripped out with no surviving rocks from the very early period, but we’ve used these trace elements of zircon to build a profile of the world at that time,” says lead researcher Antony Burnham, from the Australian National University.
“Our research indicates there were no mountains and continental collisions during Earth’s first 700 million years or more of existence – it was a much more quiet and dull place,” he says. “There are strong similarities with zircon from the types of rocks that predominated for the following 1.5 billion years, suggesting that it took the Earth a long time to evolve into the planet that we know today.”
"Floods were common occurrences in many parts of the world where humans developed civilization, with often catastrophic consequences."
I am not talking about a flood, I am talking about before dry land on Earth, the entire Earth covered in water. Not a flood happening after dry land appeared.
That would also explain why no mammals of earliest fossils. Could not happen if only possible for aquatic life.
You're asking how ancient man "knew" the whole earth was covered in water.
My answer (the whole thing, not just the part you snipped) tells how they didn't "know" that at all.
That would also explain why no mammals of earliest fossils
Earliest fossils are of prokaryotic life more than 3 billion years ago. Mammals didn't evolve until 160 million years ago.
