“It’s a Small World after All” is the name of an old Walt Disney World theme park ride. Recent events have shown this to be true.
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has come upon the world quickly. It has been a wake-up call in many ways. It is easily spread and causing much death. one reason the spread has been so fast is due to the amount of world wide travel that happens on a daily basis. The virus travels with them. We are also now seeing economic impacts through layoffs from work, cancelled trips, restaurants, movies, all kinds outings, virtually everything ‘non-essential’ has come to a halt. I do not want to minimize in any way the impact of this virus but do want to use it as an introduction to another topic, based on some similarities. One similarity is the speed at which the world can change. Who in January 2020 could have imagined that the world would be so widely impacted, so changed, by April!
Speaking of people and how fast the world can change, I now switch to the topic I am writing about today. The migration of ancient people from the ‘cradle of civilization’, where humanity supposedly first evolved, found the world. Evolutionary theory says it took about 200,000 years. The image shows the timing and routes supposedly taken. Maybe there is another scenario where- by the migration was much faster; where the world changed much more quickly.
One Sunday in early February 2020 a young man named Phuc was sharing how science has proven the earth is millions of years old, or older. As time was already late we could not go into all the evidence from science to the contrary. Much of this science I have shared in my book ‘The Ultimate Design’, available by clicking here.
Recently I read an article which led me to a NASA sponsored simulation of what the earth could have been like in the past if the ocean levels were lower. This is science looking at the ocean floor and and what appears as land when the ocean level drops. Interesting, but not surprisingly the results are consistent with what Bible believing, creation believing, scientists have long taught. The images below show the land when the oceans levels are dropped by 1.6 kilometre (1 mile) and 3.2 km (2 miles).
With the oceans down only 1.6km we see 6 of the 7 continents connected by land bridges. Mankind could easily have walked and migrated around the earth. With the oceans down 3km virtually all land, all major islands, are connected.
In the Bible, the first book thereof, we read in chapter 11, verse 8 “So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; …”
But you might ask was the ocean level lower in the past? Those scientists who study geology, ice ages and the past, both from a Biblical and non-Biblical foundation, agree there was at least one ice age and the oceans were lower. Biblical scientists say it came after the global flood; Noah’s flood as we call it. The dispersal of people over the earth in Genesis 11 comes after the flood. The events, the dispersal of people occurred around 4,200 years ago, or 2200 BC. People and animals migrated and adapted to the new environments, they did not evolve in these new environments over millions of years. The lower ocean levels make additional migrations routes available, enabling human and animal migration to happen faster and more recently in earth’s history. In fact it is a small world after all!
While the simulation of ocean level changes in not direct proof it does provide one more piece of circumstantial evidence in support of the accuracy of the Biblical account of history in contrast to the evolutionary account. The more we learn from science the more evidence, direct and circumstantial supporting a young earth, a recent creation, not millions and billions of years of evolution.
Phuc, speaking of proof, I defer to some examples. In mathematics we know the derivative of ‘x2’ is ‘2x’. In physics we know Sir Isaac Newton’s force of gravity is Fg = G * m1 * m2 / r2. From electrical circuits we know E= I * R. These have been proven and no one disputes their validity.
No Phuc, despite the ‘scientific evidence’ and the ‘proof’ you hear and read, science has not proven the earth is millions or billions of years old. There are many qualified scientists who do not agree with the evolutionary theories. Every day we see growing evidence to the contrary in many, if not all fields of science. These ocean simulations are a recent example showing the possibility the earth is young, it was created by a creator, God. It is not a random series of events that just happened to bring us to where we are today.