Remember those WWII planes that landed on the ice cap, and ended up being rediscovered recently...under more than 200 feet of ice. They said that much ice should have taken hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate on those planes, and yet....
I do understand what you're saying, but their assumptions have been proven wrong so many times, and in so many areas of discovery, that they really don't know which way is up.
What will be interesting is if and when they tap into the massive deposit of crude oil beneath the northern Rockies...which is larger than all of the Middle East and Gulf combined. Most of it is beneath the Rockies up in Canada, but some of it is under our mountains. Canada has no reason to complain about that pipeline being stopped by that guy in the White House. They have more oil available to them than any other country on the face of this planet, and yet they choose to play politics and market sabotage. Pretty sad, really.
Oh, and that amount of crude, mineral oil did not come from buried plant life. The chances of that much plant and animal life being buried in just the right manner, with just the right pressures and heat to become oil...that's almost like trying to prove that biological evolution can happen from mere randomness and time....
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Yes.....The Lost Squadron 70 years ago.
I realize that alot of Christians do not want to know this stuff. We want to belive that God snapped His fingers and POOF, there it was.
He certainly could have done that.
We want to believe that the earth is 6000 years old and that the Rocky Mountains, Smokey Mountains, Hamillas, and Alps were all formed in a couple of weeks. We then also are forced to accept that the Dinasaur's lived and walked among Adam and Eve even when there is No Scriptural evidence.
We force the Hebrew words of "Behemoth and Leviathan to mean Dinasaur when in fact they mean a large, grass eating river monster.
We tend to debate that Noah took them on the Ark even if there is NO Scripture evidence.
However, I am NOT debating, but I also understand that God rules nature and it is at His beck and call. Geologists have shown that At one time, North America was a mostly flat land, largely covered by a shallow sea. The deposits of that ocean can still be found today, but the continent had few mountains. It was filled with fish and creatures for millions of years.
Then came "Volcanoes and Uplift". Mountain chains are usually created in one of two ways: Uplift and volcanic activity.
Sometimes they are created by Continental drift. Greatly simplified, the idea is that the entire world we live in and the crust beneath the sea are all setting on shifting plates. Evidently, after this inland Sea, "Uplift" created the Rockies and the land rose above the sea floor and what was once there is now under those mountains.
(circa 1979), that deep caverns could also be formed very quickly as well. (think Grand Canyon)
