[I had originally meant this to be one post, but as I went along, I realized that would not be the case. So here is part 1 of "In The Beginning..."]
If you truly believe the Bible and all it says, then you believe that before there was time there was the Almighty. If you truly believe the Bible, you will believe that by merely speaking the Almighty created time, the laws of physics, the entire light spectrum; all the stars, nebualaes, galaxies in the universe; the angels and other heavenly beings along with the master pieces that we see in the heavens; and so much more!
Not only did the Almighty create it all, He created it perfect. He used the atmosphere to protect us from the deadly radiation of outer space by making it thicker and having a different combination of gases, and it was this atmosphere which also would have allowed the plants to grow bigger, faster, and richer than they have anytime since. The entire world would likely have been close to places such as the Amazon today. Except... there would be no annoying and deadly creatures, poisenous plants, or dangerous diseases. There would also have likely have been even more plants.
I feel I should explain the atmosphere some more. I don't have all the science know how, nor do I have the links and such for now, but if you feel you need to verify what I say, you can find the research. I am just pulling the knowledge from my head; most of this I got from books though. So not some random stuff I read on the internet. I will also be using logic and common sense based off of a Biblical perspective. That is why I began this post the way I did, so that when I mention things others say are impossible, you need only remember what the Creator has done.
So, the atmosphere. Well, it is believed (I'll use that term for modesty, though I believe it is a well known fact by most scientists) that there used to be many more green house gases in the atmosphere, as well as oxygen. That sounds almost like simply making the air denser. Scientists also have found evidence that the atmosphere was thicker in the past. There have been experiments, however, of what an atmosphere like this does. If you want to look up research for this, just look up "Hyperbaric Atmosphere" or something. That is what I believe it was like during the beginning of creation. It has been proved (meaning actually been done to real people) that a hyperbaric atmosphere can speed up the rate of healing and provide almost action-film like energy to people. There have been instances of both people and animals who were injured to such an extant that it was believed nothing could be done. So, they simply stuck them in a hyperbaric chamber. The body took care of itself from there.
Imagine with me, for a moment, that we did have a hyperbaric atmosphere in the past. Just as it has such an effect on people and animals, it has a strong effect on plants. The plants would have been HUGE! There would have been so many, and they would have been so healthy, plus the superpower like atmosphere, everything could have grown very large and lived very long. I believe that people grew to be over thirty feet tall in this period and for hundreds of years after. You think that sounds over the top? You simple minded people! I am talking about the Creator of Everything here! He created more galaxies then we have yet to discover! Over such vastness of space that we cannot comprehend it! He has also created things so small that only in the last few decades have wee been able to see them. Down to atoms and molecules, and possibly beyond. We cannot even explain what holds the protons, neutrons and electrons together; nor can we explain where all the matter in space came from. If I remember right, there is an estimated 10x178 (if I wrote the scientific short hand correct) atoms in the galaxy. Let me put that another way.
There are believed to be this many 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in the universe at least! Now tell me, why would He, in the beginning of time, only make people six or so feet tall? We already have evidence of bugs which are very small today being humongous in the past. Why not people? And since everything worked at such peak efficiency, we could live a very long time as well. Heard of Methuselah? He lived 969 years. Well guess what, we were originally made to live forever! If the average life expantancy today is around 70 years (give or take a few), yet the Bible says that people used to live over 900, why couldn't they have been that much bigger physically as well? I can't even remember my original point now, there is so much I can talk about in the beginning.
I've had people tell me that humans being over thirty feet tall in the past is a bit of a stretch. Well now I'm saying, is it? Did you read any of what I just wrote? Back to what I said in the beginning of this post. Do you believe in an Almighty Creator who can do all that? If you can and do, then you can also believe that we were bigger (and smarter, and healther, ect.) in the past. We have degerated since then. So has the atmosphere (was that my original point?); and that is just one small reason as to why we are in such a sorry state today. In the beginning, we were made the the grand scale of the Creator. Our bodies were very large and strong, our minds were powerful and fully active, we could live for such length of time that we can't even comprehend it today, we lived in a place that had such rich and abundant access to food and nourishment, and we were very close to the Creator. I am talking about before the Fall. Alright, you can stop imagining now.
Oh wait, you weren't imagining. You simply saw a glimpse of the splendour of the Creator, and what He has done in the past.
Great post! My barely connected thoughts (I think that way):
ReplyDeleteThe scientific notation should have been 1*10^78, as opposed to 10*1^78, but I got the point.
Professional athletes (like Novak Djokavic and Terrel Owens) sometimes get into hyperbolic chambers.
I wonder if dinosaurs were just dogs or horses from this time that you speak of?