Age of the Seafloors: not chronologically but sequential postulates

Koot van Wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD) Visiting Professor, Department of Liberal Education, Kyungpook National University, Sangju Campus, South Korea, Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College Australia

The media is full of the research of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev of Israel researcher Roi Granot’s study of the age of the sea-floors. Granot explains his method of calculating the age of the sea-floors: “"Changes in the magnetic field's orientation over time are recorded in the ocean floors, creating a unique barcode that provides a time stamp for crust formation," Dr. Granot says. "The results shed new light on the tectonic architecture and evolution of this region and have important implications on various geodynamic processes."(1) Granot’s article was published in the Nature Geoscience Journal in August 2016. Fresh on the shelf.

Magnetic strips are formed on the sea-floor are formed when lava are laid in one direction and the magnetic readings can determine the age of the floor. As Der Spiegel writer A. Jano wrote: “Die Ausrichtung der Minerale im erstarrten Lava-Gestein verrät das Alter des Meeresbodens: Geoforscher haben einen Kalender der Umpolungen des Erdmagnetfeldes erstellt - mit seiner Hilfe lässt sich das Alter jedes Lavagesteins feststellen.” [Translated: The alignment of the minerals in the solidified lava rock reveals the age of the sea floor: geo researchers have created a calendar of the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field--with its help, the age of any lava rocks can be determined.”]

One first must validate the “calendar of the polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field”. Who fixed it and how. Who counted the years or is it days or hours or minutes or seconds? Is it chronological or sequential?

The greatest disturbance of the sea-floor was in the year 2692 BCE. That is the year the Noachic Flood covered all the mountains of the earth, the highest one with probably 10 meters of water. It was not a local flood. It was not a Tsunami. The Gilgamesh Epic, which is Israelite “fusion midrash” since it was an exile in Niniveh composing and conflating his Mosaic-Genesis knowledge of the Noachic event in Genesis 6-11 with Sumerian and Middle-Assyrian bits and pieces of the reality of the Flood. Even the Old Babylonian Sumerian Kinglist acknowledged the kings before and after the Great Deluge (see online T. Jacobson publishing and discussing the Sumerian Kinglist with his book from the Chicago Oriental Institute). Granot being a Jew and understanding Hebrew, is the first one who should have had an eye on this issue.

The chronology of the Flood of the Hebrew tradition as embodied in the unaltered text of the consonantal text of the Masoretic Tradition (not the corrupt versions or translations of it later by whoever hands) places the Flood with no uncertain terms absolutely in the year 2692 BCE. The technique how to calculate this date with the Hebrew Text has been explained in detail before.

Psalm 104 describes exactly what Granot found with his concept of subduction zones or zones that gave way or sinked down by saying:

“You covered it (the earth) with the deep (water) as with a garment. The waters were standing above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled (meaning that some mountains moved or sunk). At Your sound of Your thunder they hurried away (continental drift). The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You did established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over. That they may not return to cover the earth”

This report is no different than what Moses described in Genesis.

Granot mentioned that seabed can be found on the Alps. The picture of Axel Bojanowski of Der Spiegel shows the process of continental drifting.(3) Of course he follows Granot and other modern Evolutionists who think they can add years to it by calling it first 360, 340 and then 320 million years ago. In each picture one can see the continents drifting further away with South America and the US lying close to Africa and Great Britain. Continental drifting was used by many to explain the presence of fossils in different continents if the present status quo is accepted. But a Catastrophe [like the Flood of Noah] could have had a different impact on these animals that died instantly or over a few days covered with lava flows.

Some of the age counting is not stable. “Some of the fundamental tectonic characteristics of the eastern Mediterranean remain unresolved due to the extremely thick sedimentary cover (10 to 15 km) and the lack of accurate magnetic anomaly data”(1). Anomaly means we do not know. It means that some things are conflicting with other things. “Lack of accurate” is a good expression meaning that we simply do not know. That is why we need to ask ourselves whether it is not better to talk about sequential data rather than age by years data. In the year of the Flood in 2692 BCE, the magnetic fields and lava flow and upheavals described in Psalm 104:6-8, helps us to understand the work of Granot and his publication. As a Creationist, I am thrilled by his results.

Granot is blinded by his geological Evolution glasses but the data can be explained by changing the glasses to the Creationistic one which is not only in line with the Hebrew text but also the more sensible one. We must remember there was no evolution or dinosaurs on the Moon or Mars. The enigma of this planest’s intricacy speaks for itself. The Fingerprint of Creation is everywhere.

What Granot sees as a virgin lake and the oldest lake in the World just above the horn of Africa, is indeed maybe a virgin lake remains of the Flood of Noah in 2692 BCE.

                                            (Picture taken from Der Spiegel 19 August 2016)

(1)     American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. "Researcher uncovers 340 million year-old oceanic crust in the Mediterranean Sea using magnetic data." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 August 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160815114933.htm>.

(2)     Roi Granot. Palaeozoic oceanic crust preserved beneath the eastern Mediterranean. Nature Geoscience, August 2016 DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2784

(3)     A. Bojanoski, “Mittelmeer: Forscher entdecken ältesten Meeresgrund” Der Spiegel 19 August 2016.

Dear God

Scholars are looking at Your creation, the oceans and Your punishment tool, the Flood, see the ocean bed on the Alps and still cling to their Evolution ideas. Thanks for the Word of God making things so simple and plain to understand helping us to help science make sense of the status quo of this world. Amen