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Equatorial Glaciation?

August 13

Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

(Genesis 8:1) NKJV

After Noah’s flood a wind caused the water to evaporate. The cooling effect caused the formation of equatorial and polar ice. Temperate zones were in the mid-latitudes of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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Permian

August 12

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

(John 15:13) KJV

The Permian is an induction dumpster fire. Inconvenient sedimentary deposits and evidence of phenomenon which are difficult to rationalize found their way into the Permian.

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Mosses, Lycopods, Sphenopsids

So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day. And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

(Isaiah 10:17-18) NKJV

“Mosses, lycopods, sphenopsids, ferns, seed ferns and cordaites.” The next part of the description we have of the Pennsylvanian is a laundry list of plant kinds which sounds like an ecosystem or habitat, not a period of time.

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Catastrophically Buried Middle Pennsylvanian Sigillaria and Calamitean Sphenopsids from Indiana, USA: What Kind of Vegetation Was This?

  • William A. Dimichele, W. John Nelson, Scott Elrick and Philip R. Ames
  • PALAIOS Vol. 24, No. 3/4 (Mar. – Apr., 2009), pp. 159-166
  • Link to Article

Abstract

A catastrophically buried stand of calamitean sphenopsids and sigillarian lycopsids is reported from the Middle Pennsylvanian of southwestern Indiana, in the Illinois Basin.

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August 13th

Equatorial Glaciation?

Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

(Genesis 8:1) NKJV

After Noah’s flood a wind caused the waters to evaporate. The cooling effect caused the formation of equatorial and polar ice. Temperate zones were in the mid-latitudes of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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