geology – Page 2 – Matty (Headwind)

January 15, 2021January 15, 2022

The Logical Fallacy of Scientific Truths

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
(1 Timothy 6:20) ESV

Science is a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences, systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation, any of the branches of natural or physical science.
– Science, definition (Dictionary.com)

The phrase scientific truths is plural, meaning more than one. Truth is absolute, meaning there’s only one. In popular science (SciPop) truths are subjective which means that they can be whatever SciPop wants or needs.

December 15, 2020March 6, 2022

Hypothesis 1

Planet earth on the second day as concentric layers of sediment around a gravitational singularity

The Core Accretion Model of Planet Formation

Mass sinks in time, into stratified layers of sediment: a solid core on fire in the darkness, sunk in the shadow of death.
(Job 28:3) MP Technical Paraphrase

We have a Biblical basis for the core accretion model and the origin and timing of Precambrian fossils which were deposited synchronously with the formation of an Oxygen-rich atmosphere.

November 15, 2020July 9, 2022

Hypothesis 22

Biblical Literalism

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

“Biblical literalists” are usually indignant and defend the mainstream science paradigm (SciPop) when shown that they don’t have an inkling of the true extent to which the Bible may be taken literally.

October 15, 2020October 15, 2021

The Earth Narrative

Cutaway of planet earth showing hell at the center

And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
(Acts 2:19) KJV

The peer review driven popular science Earth narrative (SciPop) begins with the premise that the Bible is wrong and hell isn’t at the center. It continues with the idea that the Earth is rotating.

October 6, 2020October 5, 2021

What is a Fact?

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
(Isaiah 28:9-10) KJV

Someone made the charge that we’re denying science. It looked like the knee-jerk reaction of someone with a progressive agenda, a scientifically illiterate science worshiper (SISW). We attempted to explain two things:

September 18, 2020September 18, 2021

Arbitrary Time Hacks

Is Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, one of the pillars of the Earth?

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

The stratigraphic column, Cambrian through Quaternary, was deposited in Noah’s flood, a world-wide event. Arbitrary time hack (ATH) is the technical term for the Eras, Periods and Epochs of the geological timescale.

September 18, 2020September 18, 2021

Timeline Review

Comparison of Earth before and after Peleg's tectonics.

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

The wind which God sent to evaporate the flood water caused rapid cooling and the formation of equatorial and polar ice.

September 16, 2020September 16, 2021

Radiocarbon Dating

This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
(Titus 3:8-9) NKJV

Popular science (SciPop) has a timescale that’s been induced to rationalize biological evolution. Along the way it’s picked up some supposedly supporting evidence: radiocarbon and radioisotope dating.

September 15, 2020September 15, 2021

Abraham and Job

“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
(Job 40:15-17) NKJV

We can be certain that Job was a contemporary of Abraham. This means that when Job describes God overturning mountains, he’s recounting something that happened recently, about 200 or so years before him.

September 15, 2020September 15, 2021

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979)

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
(Isaiah 47:13-14) KJV

People will instinctively mock at the mention of Immanuel Velikovsky but, sadly, he was the last halfway decent scholar of our time. He made an objective evaluation of evidence and asked a lot of hard questions.