Firmament 20

Genesis 7:11, 8:2

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Well, well, well. What do we have here? Could it be that the windows of heaven is not just flowery poetic language? If heaven is a sphere of crystal on the edge of space like a sea of glass, which was used to separate the waters above from the waters below during creation, then if portals in it opened water would pour through.

Just imagine, this could be as if large sections, similar to the one that God was riding on in Exodus 24, slid to the side to allow the water through. My goodness, when they slid back into place it could have caused a shower of tiny rolled glass beads to fall, along with grains of shocked quartz as it slammed into place, and other extra-terrestrial elements like Iridium. If it fell just as the 40 days and nights of rain ended then it might be deposited as a thin layer all around the world marking the boundary between one sedimentary sequence and another.

Oh, wait, we have exactly that. It’s called the Iridium Anomaly.

I guess this means that the idea that heaven is a sheet of layered crystal that encloses a spherical universe is actually a predictive testable hypothesis.

Who knew?

This is the end of the rabbit trail. Thanks for following it!

August 5, 2018April 5, 2022

The Firmament Rabbit Trail

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And 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. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
(Genesis 1:6-8) KJV

One of our favorite ways to study the Bible is to follow a doctrine through from the first time it’s mentioned to the last. This is a great way to develop understanding of the doctrine in the broad narrative of scripture.

March 23, 2018March 26, 2022

March 23rd

The Great Deep

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
(Proverbs 8:24) KJV

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Genesis 7:11) KJV

Depths, is a translation of the Hebrew word tehom. The same word is translated elsewhere as the deep, the deeps, depths and the great deep. It occurs, for instance, in the account of Noah’s flood.

March 8, 2018March 11, 2022

March 8th

What sealed the fountains of the great deep?

The Hydrology of Eden Deduction 6

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Genesis 7:11) NKJV

At the end of the second day Earth was a solid sphere. We modeled how the solid Earth was formed into a hollow vessel, like a potter shaping clay, as the water surrounding the Earth passes into it’s interior.

March 5, 2018March 7, 2021

Literally Literal

Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
(Psalms 42:7) ESV

“Deep calls to deep” may be flowery poetic language intended to teach us something spiritual. However we’re going to use it as the literal description of a hydrological cycle. It’s an application of Hypothesis 22.

January 5, 2016August 28, 2021

Depositional Environments

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Genesis 7:11) KJV

Interesting thing about fossils: Fossils don’t just record evidence of ancient life, they also show us clues about what the environment was like when the fossil was made, or deposited.

December 25, 2015March 3, 2021

The Third Day

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. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
(Genesis 1:9-13) ESV

As we build Matty’s Paradigm we find amazing opportunities to account for a lot of scriptural oddities that are a problem for Creationism and Flat Earthers alike.