I agree that when God created the Earth He created things with
"apparent" age ie if Adam had cut down a huge tree within the hour he
first stood up it would have had many rings even though it was only a
couple of days old. This would have occurred because of necessity that
creation be uniform in its processes. Perhaps they even had belly buttons
( Adam and Eve ). I never gave much thought to petrified wood though.
I have read that coal or diamonds actually form over short periods of
time not eons per geology. Pressure is the key not time. Your post made
me think about trees.
Let me go back to apparent age. I saw Carl Sagan on the Tonight Show
with Johnny Carson a few years back. Johnny asked Carl about stars and
light years. Carl explained that light had to travel many thousand years
from a star to get to Earth and the star light we see tonight is actually
thousands of years old or left the star x thousand years ago proving the
vast age of the universe. Then he said it's either that or God created it
just to fool people. I immediately realized Carl had said the wisest
thing he had every said without knowing it. He was trying to show his
intellect over God's but God uses foolishness to compound the wise.
So from this line of thought either God spoke petrified wood into
existence as per your suggestion or it forms from natural processes in
short periods of geologic time. Just wondering out loud.
No offense taken.
Paul
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:02:40 -0800 "RangerTP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Graybeard, I apologize. My answer was meant to be, in all
>humility, . . . was meant to be funny, but, not flippant.
>
>In all seriousness. I do believe that petrified wood was
>spoken into existence by God. That the earth was completely
>formed, in all respects, by God. I know that scientists
>believe that it takes millions of years to transform a
>living tree into a petrified tree. I, in all honesty, do
>not know how long it would take to form petrified wood. I
>do know that it does NOT take millions of years. Since the
>St. Helens explosion showed that what scientists "believed"
>to take millions of years to form actually took place in
>matter of minutes or hours. Not years, not decades, not
>millennia, but, minutes or, maybe, hours.
>
>I remember that, in a double-blind test, scientists were
>shown some geologic samples and asked how long they had
>taken to be formed. When it was all said and done the
>scientists claimed millions or billions of years and there
>was visual proof (videotape and eye-witnesses) that showed
>it had all been done in minutes, by Mt. St. Helens.
>
>I'm a little long winded tonight. Must be from spending all
>day with my Sr. Pastor and my Uth Pastor.
>
>Sorry. And I really do believe that it takes no longer than
>God says it does.
>
>RangerTP
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 8:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [RR] Petrified Wood . . .
>
>
>| I asked a question in all seriousness. I believe your
>answer to be
>|flippantly given. I'm sure you meant no disrespect,
>however.
>| In light of Mt. St. Helens and the ensuing " flood" and
>it's results and
>|since the effect was a miniature Grand Canyon ( for some
>reason I
>|remember thinking it was a 1/40 th scale model ) proving
>the small amount
>|of time ( compared to the geological scale ) needed to
>accomplish a
>|geological feat how long do you think this process really
>|takes?
>| Wow, was that a run on sentence or what?
>
>
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