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It has been quite a busy month, between practice for our church’s Easter play, plans for our kitchen, birthdays, etc.  Back to writing on creation and evolution!
Currently, I am reviewing Adam Dimech’s “Plant Evolution Tour”.  I really like the detail to which he goes, explaining the earth’s development, but in language a lay person can understand.
Recall that theologically, in Review of “Plant Evolution Tour” - Part 1, I concluded that closing the knowledge gap brings us closer to God, because further discoveries help us separate those things that happened naturally from those that happened supernaturally.  Ironically, the effect on atheists is a stronger and stronger conviction that God is unnecessary….

My theory of Geocreationism is that the Days of creation can be mapped to geologic eras, making it similar to (or yet another flavor of) Day Age Theory.  In that vein, Day 1 occurred about 3.9 Ga, around the time of the last large meteor strike against the early earth.  Day 2 was some time between 3.9 Ga and 3.5 Ga, when the oceans had finally reformed from their last meteoric vaporizing 3.9 Ga.  Day 3, the creation of land and plants, occurred approximately 2.4 Ga, when plate tectonics began.  Day 4 was about 1.9 Ga, when Oxygen levels reached high enough levels for the sun, moon, and starts to be visible in the firmament.  This means that Day 3 could …

 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.– Genesis 1:11 to 13
Placing God’s creative pronouncement of Day 3 with the appearance of seeded plants on land does not fit into the Geologic Timeline.  The reason is because the sun, moon, and stars were visible in the firmament about 1.9 billion …

Genesis 1:9-11 (NIV)
 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
 
Proverbs 8:29a
29 when he gave the sea its boundary
       so the waters would not overstep his command
 
Job 38:8-11
 8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
       when it burst forth from the womb,

 9 when I made the clouds its garment
       and wrapped it in thick darkness,

 10 when I fixed limits for it
       and set its doors and bars in place,

 11 when …

As Phillip E. Johnson pointed out, “An essential step in the reasoning that establishes that Darwinian selection created the wonders of biology … is that nothing else was available,” but Christian “Theism is … the doctrine that something else was available” (my emphasis):
“Theists who accommodate with scientific naturalism therefore may never affirm that their God is real in the same sense that evolution is real. This rule is essential to the entire mindset that produced Darwinism in the first place. If God exists He could certainly work through mutation and selection if that is what He wanted to do, but He could also create by some means totally outside the ken of our science. Once we put …

Evolution is among the most controversial theories when discussing Creation.  Did God use Evolution?  Did God design Evolution?  Did God participate in Evolution?  and on it goes.  The problem with discussing Evolution as a Christian is that other Christians disagree on what it is.

It is the Geocreationist view that Evolution is a God-designed process, through which He actively created the species we see on the Earth.  Read the entire article, “Evolution and Geocreationism“.

Day 2 is the day when God separated the waters above from the waters below.  The implication is that there was a time when the waters in the sky were connected to the ocean.  God then removed that connection, creating a discernable space where there wasn’t one.  The question is whether there ever was such a time that can be established scientifcally.  The answer is yes.

It is generally believed among the scientific community that the oceans were first created when the clouds became overly saturated with water that had outgassed from a combination of meteor strikes and volcanic activity during the formation of the earth’s crust.  Combined with the cooling effects of the atmospheric moisture, there ensued …

Accepting the science of the early atmosphere could seem a little challenging.  There are widely settled theories about the early atmosphere, around 3.9 Ga (billion years ago), but the reasoning stems from the long-held belief that no ocean existed until around 3.9 Ga.  We now know from 4.4 billion year old zircon crystals that there was actually an ocean 500 million years earlier than originally thought.  So, if the evidence suggesting there was no ocean until 3.9 Ga is the basis for explaining the early atmosphere of that same era, what does that do to the mainstream’s theory of the early atmosphere’s composition?  Well, from this educated layman’s perspective, surprisingly little!

First Evidence of Continental Crust
Consider the premise that a molten earth cannot have an ocean; …

According to the NASA Science News, “Tiny zircons (zirconium silicate crystals) found in ancient stream deposits indicate that Earth developed continents and water — perhaps even oceans and environments in which microbial life could emerge — 4.3 billion to 4.4 billion years ago, remarkably soon after our planet formed.”

This seems to contradict the conventional scientific widsom, that the ancient ocean formed from outgassing and meteors about 3.9 billion years ago, 500 million years later than suggested by the zircon crystals.  However, the existence of the zircon crystals does not mean there was no volcanism or even later outgassing.  After all, the zircon crystals, though formed in an ocean, were fossilized in magma.  According to NASA’s “The Earth Observatory“:
“Thus, the …