Matty Lawrence

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Late Triassic Wildfires

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
(2 Timothy 4:3-4) NKJV

What really matters in the popular science narrative of godless existence (SciPop)? Location, location, location. Were forest fires an extinction event at the end of the Triassic? Or did a few burned trees get fossilized?

August 14, 2020August 21, 2020

First Mammals; Rise of the Dinosaurs

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
(Job 30:29) KJV

First mammals? A place where mammals were buried doesn’t make them the first mammals. The presence of mammal remains in sediment is used to place the sediment in timeline of the evolution narrative. That’s what you call circular reasoning.

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Decline of Glossopterids

In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
(Revelation 22:2) NKJV

In real estate it’s location, location, location. In Paleodoublespeak its location, location, location. Glossopterids didn’t inhabit a savanna ecosystem with arid to semiarid climates, so there aren’t any.

August 14, 2020August 21, 2020

Rise of the Cycadophytes, Ginkgoales

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
(Proverbs 15:4) NKJV

The Triassic wasn’t rise of the cycadophytes and Ginkgoales, it’s the preserved remains of cycadophytes and Ginkgoales because their habitat was destroyed and buried in a world-wide flood. That’s Paleodoublespeak.

August 14, 2020

Arid to Semiarid, Savanna Type Climates

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
(Exodus 3:1) KJV

The paleoenvironments of the periods of geological history that we’re seen so far include a statement about climate as a way to rationalize why so much sediment would be eroded, transported and deposited.

August 13, 2020April 22, 2022

Peer Review

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
(2 Timothy 4:3-4) NKJV

We have considered the dubious nature of the Great Permian Contrivance. The Permian, and its supposed date millions of years ago, isn’t a testable hypothesis, so it’s not, technically, scientific.

August 13, 2020October 2, 2021

Global Warming

For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
(Deuteronomy 32:22) NKJV

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged.
(Genesis 8:1) KJV

As the waters abated after Noah’s flood there was significant global cooling which caused equatorial and polar glaciation. There were temperate zones in the Northern and Southern hemisphere.

August 13, 2020September 15, 2021

Earth in Upheaval

Then Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
(Job 9:1-6) KJV

Earth in Upheaval is the name of a book by Immanuel Velikovsky which lays out his summary of the evidence for cataclysmic upheavals in the history of Earth.

August 13, 2020August 24, 2020

Which Ice Age?

From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth? The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.
(Job 38:29-30) NKJV

When we refer to ice ages we usually mean the “recent” ice age that ended supposedly 10,000 years ago. In the popular science narrative (SciPop) this was the last of several retreats and advances of polar ice over the last 10,000-40,000 years.

August 13, 2020August 13, 2021

The Things We See

Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”
(Luke 10:23-24) NKJV

We have a very flippant attitude towards the “scientific” basis of the Christian establishment. That’s because it’s a half-baked capitulation with popular science (SciPop). It’s nothing personal.