Evidence from Geology


The reader might argue, “Your astronomical evidence cannot be confirmed. It is distant evidence, so there is no way to verify that matter  changes as a relationship.”  Let's look for evidence that matter has changed right here on earth.

The Bible says something about geology that is supported by simple evidence.

The Bible says the earth was smaller in the past. Wait a minute, that is unscientific! Yes it is, but it is supported by simple understandable evidence. In Isaiah 42:5 God says He is spreading out the earth and everything that issues from it. In Isaiah 44:24 He is spreading out the earth all alone. The Hebrew verbs show that this is a continuing action not just something that happened at creation. Psalm 136:6 “To Him who spread out the earth above the waters. The verb to spread out [raqa] is this verse is an active action in unbroken continuity.  If we were to interpret the Bible literally, one would expect that the primordial earth was smaller than the modern earth.

With the exception of the Pacific, the oceans have a great crack running right down the middle that follows the contours of the opposite continental shores. (Even in the eastern Pacific, a great crack follows the contours of the coast).  Geologists have confirmed that fossils and rock strata on the opposite shores are similar, even across the pacific. They assume that the continents somehow have drifted apart. This theory has many difficulties. For example, where does the force come from to move huge continents away from each other?  Yet if you slide the continents together on a globe, they do not fit. If you try to fit Africa and South America together, the other side of the earth does not fit.  Lands that used to fit together are now thousands of kilometers apart. The geologist, S. Warren Carey, showed many years ago that the only way to reassemble the continents is on a smaller globe.

Many simple bits of information fit the Biblical concept of a continuously expanding earth.  Two thirds of the earth's surface is made of younger volcanic material than continental rocks.  A global expansions seam spews out fresh lavas every year widening the oceans.  The continents are covered with tick layers of ground up rocks that were laid down as watery sediments. The ocean floors are covered with tin layers of clays and marine oozes.  Ground up sedimentary rocks are primarily found in the oceans where they were carried out to sea from the land.  These include material carried by river deltas, icebergs and mud slides from the continental shelves.

What mechanism could make the earth expand in size? If the very nature of matter changes as a relationship, atoms would need to increase in size. Most of the matter in the earth is down deep under our feet.  We have no way to examine this matter. If matter changes relationally, the surface of the earth would need to crack and spread apart. Psalm 136:6 says that the earth is stretching out in the waters. The verb in Hebrew refers to a continuing pounding action like hammer blows spreading metal. 

What about subduction?  It is clearly contradicted by the thin, layered undisturbed sediments in the ocean trenches. If the earth's crust were to crack open and allow thousands of kilometers of sea floor to be swallowed, surely we would see scarps, volcanism, scraped off sea mounts and scraped off oceanic oozes at the subduction areas.  The absence of these things clearly shows that subduction is a myth invented to prevent the earth from increasing in size.   Yet the simple visible evidence supports an earth that continually gets bigger, just like the literal words of the Bible state with grammar.

We can also see surface features on the solid bodies of the solar system suggesting they also were much smaller.  For example, global magnetic bands on Mars suggest it once was a minuscule planet.  I recommend that the interested reader get the book Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences by S. Warren Carey. Carey was a geologist, not a creationist. Don’t be impressed with his theories, but the evidence he presents for a growing earth is very extensive.

How could the earth expand continuously when GPS satellites, laser ranging to the GEOS satellites and VLBI interferometry not detect it? If matter changes as a relationship, the orbits of satellites, the rate of clocks, the nature of gravity and the dimensions of the earth would necessarily all change together. In such a universe, scientists could not measure the increase in size of the earth.  Their instruments and their mathematics depend on the assumption that the properties of matter are unchanging.  Scientists are like a boy who measures himself against a growing tree using his own feet for a ruler. The tree, boy and foot-ruler all change so the measured constants are the result of an assumption.  Yet anyone with eyes can see the visible evidence that the boy grows and that every atom in the universe changes as it ages.  In this short article, I cannot go into great length about the evidence that the earth was smaller in the past.  Please read other geology articles periodically posted on this site.


Remember that what I am presenting here is simple evidence.  Scientific evidence is often complex and is always adjusted to fit their creed that the properties of matter are not continually changing.


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