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THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
PART 3
Oceanography is the study of the history,
geography, motions and chemical composition of
the Ocean.
The ocean:
• Covers around 70% of the earth’s surface
• Primary source of our life giving rain
Dr. Robert E.D. Clark:
He says, “that water vapor alone does not readily
lend itself to the production of clouds. “Nuclei,”
he says, “must be provided on which the water
can condense.” The huge quantities of salt in the
seas, together with wind and water action, create
the conditions whereby the formation of rain is
generally made available over the surface of the
earth” (The Universe: Plan Or Accident?).
There are many benefits we get from the ocean:
1. We get 13% of our salt from it.
2. It contains many useful minerals that we use, such as
magnesium, gold, iron, copper, cobalt, and nickel.
3. Provides a way to travel across the world by boat.
4. Its moisture provides us with life giving rain.
5. It sustains life for many different creatures, many of
which we can eat.
6. Its tides help clean out our harbors and it keeps things
fresh.
7. It keeps its plants alive, which provide us with 90% of
our oxygen.
The Water Cycle
Job 36:27 For He draws up drops of water, Which
distill as rain from the mist, 28 Which the clouds
drop down And pour abundantly on man. 29
Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of
clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
Amos 5:8 He calls for the waters of the sea And
pours them out on the face of the earth; The
LORD is His name. (Around 760 B.C.)
Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which
the rivers come, There they return again. (Around
935 B.C.)
The water cycle
Wasn’t generally understood until the 16th or
17th century
The topography of the ocean floor
Acts 27:28 So they took a sounding and found
twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a
sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.
20 fathoms = 120 feet
15 fathoms = 90 feet
Psalm 33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea
together as a heap; He lays up the deep in
storehouses.
Job 38:16 "Have you entered into the springs of
the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
In 1873 British scientist discovered a recess in
the Pacific Ocean that was 5 ½ miles deep and
then another team found an area that was over 6
miles deep.
“Before the invention of echo-sounding
equipment it was generally thought that the
bottom of the oceans would present the
appearance of plains, plateaus and gently rolling
terrain. Now we know that it also has valleys and
mountain ranges, and even canyons, to equal all
the forms we find on land.” (A.E. Parr )
Jonah 2:5 The waters closed in over me to take
my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were
wrapped about my head 6 at the roots of the
mountains. I went down to the land whose bars
closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my
life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Matthew Fontaine Murray discovered the sailing
paths in the sea
“Before Matthew Fontaine Murray lived there
were no sailing lanes and no charts of the sea.
One day, when he was ill, his son read to him
from the eighth Psalm. He read that God put
under man ‘…the fowls of the air, the fish of the
sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of
the sea.’ ‘Read that again’, he said. Upon hearing
it the second time, the venerable scientists said,
‘If the Word of God says there are paths in the
sea, they must be there. I will find them.’”
(Dehoff, pg. 53).
Sea Charts
Bible
Job 38:16 "Have you entered into the springs of
the sea,..
Earliest mentioning of these springs in secular
history comes from Strabo around 63 B.C. – 21
A.D.
The Ocean and Evolution
NO TIME = NO EVOLUTION!
Consider this:
• 2 Billion tons of sediment are dumped from the
rivers into the oceans each year.
• All the earth’s continents will erode away is
some 14 million years.
“Why, in the course of millennial, is there so
astonishingly little sediment on the ocean floor? “
Geology
Geology involves the study of the history of the
earths crust, rocks and strata
Geological Column
Geological Column
Would have to be
130 miles deep.
The earth crust is
only 25 – 30 miles
deep.
The flood in Gen. 6:17 and Gen. 7:23 is the
answer
For something to become a fossil it has to be
covered quickly before it decays.
Since there are so many different organism in one
place the flood waters best fit why so many are
preserved in one place. The water would quickly
bury these creatures give them the ideal
condition to become fossils.
Incas lived around 500 – 1500 A.D.
“This stone was engraved by the Incas long before the
discovery of dinosaurs in the mid 1800's. Engraved on this
stone is a triceratops dinosaur which is accurately
portrayed in detail with a human rider mounted on its
back. It would appear that the Incas, or their ancestors,
had seen living dinosaurs.”
“The oldest fossil footprint yet found was
discovered in June 1968 byTrilobite
William J. Meister on
an expedition to Antelope Spring, 43 miles west
of Delta, Utah, USA. He was accompanied by his
wife and two daughters, and by Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Shape and their two daughters. The party
had already discovered several fossils of trilobites
when Meister split open a two-inch-thick slab of
Foot
prints
with
rock
with
his hammer
and discovered the print.
sandals
on 'like a book' revealing on one
The rock
fell open
side the footprint of a human with trilobites right
in the footprint itself. The other half of the rock
slab showed an almost perfect mold of the
footprint and fossils. Amazingly the human was
wearing a sandal! The sandal that seems to have
“In 1934 Mr. A.M. Coffee of Stinnett, Texas, a
pumper for the Gulf Oil Company, discovered a
trail of nine “human-like footprints” in series on a
rock ledge about four miles out of town. He
worked one of the tracks loose and took it home.
After he showed the artifact to a few friends
including his boss, various interested persons
took the rest of the tracks from the site. The
discovery created an instant controversy among
archaeologists, geologists and anthropologists,
because the sedimentary rock system of the
entire area is geologically assigned Permian
(assumed to be 225 million years old). The
general consensus was that the print had to be a
carving made by Indians, or the like. The
difficulties involved in drawing such conclusions
Out of the 250,000 different species preserved in
fossils there has never been a half formed
creature.
Scientist will never find their missing link.
Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the
fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind,
whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was
so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the
herb that yields see d according to its kind, and
the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself
according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good.