Documentary - Argumentative, yet open
“Is Genesis History?”
One either believes the Bible in its entirety - including a literal seven day creation and a global flood - or dismisses it as a fairy tale.
Trying to combine Conventional Thinking - from the Big Bang several billion years ago to miraculous one-celled organisms that evolved to modern day variety of live - with the eye-witness observation recorded in Genesis, is simply ludicrous.
History - is it his story or is it old, obsolete and falling by the wayside?
The film “Is Genesis History” looks at the broad sweeping picture painted in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, and looks at the physical evidence located worldwide.
I found the documentary-film quite interesting, and intriguing.
They brushed many topics - covering almost everything that could be considered controversial, such as the Grand Canyon, the phrasing of Genesis - it’s written style, not just the words - the fossil records, the layering of sediments, Epodes, the very stars and constellations above our heads, and a whole lot more.
As I was watching, I had a few questions; questions that I will be expounding on in the next few paragraphs.
Notable locations (and viewpoints) include the Grand Canyon: rock layers, weathering (or lack of it), fossil layers.
Take the fossil layers. Included in the many, many geological ages, are seventeen different layers that include Marine fossils.
Are we to believe that the Global Flood, which covered the entire world (the tops of all mountains), never happened, when the most logical explanation for multiple layers (ages) of marine life to exist high above sea level is if, at one time (or seventeen times) that entire continent was underwater?
So, the Grand Canyon, was once covered in sea-life.
Next up: Did God mean “Day” as in one twenty-four hour period, when “Day” is used during the creation week?
To dig deep, one has to look at the ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.
The Holy Bible, though very popular and widely read in English, was not originally written in English. Or even The King’s English, or Shakespearean Old English.
Earth’s earliest records of “The Bible” are written in Hebrew.
Some translations require context - i.e. the word that means “genealogies” can also mean “history”. (The family records of Adam, of Noah, of Abraham, for example).
Other words are specific. The word that translates to “day” is an exact time. There is no wiggle room to add thousands of years, or even million of years, to the Creation account in Genesis.
For all those who believe God of the Holy Bible used evolution to build our world from a watery-ball floating into space, to a sphere with dry land, slowly covered with plants, then populated by fish growing legs and loosing their gills to gain lungs, SORRY, but no go.
Also take a look at what used to be Mount Saint Helens.
Before the eruption on 18th of May 1980, it was a huge mountain, with no canyons.
Less than fifty-years later, and the former Mountain top became a huge crater, with large lakes, rivers, and canyons.
Those canyons, were not formed from millions of years slow erosion, but carved from rapid-flowing waters.
So, while my generation has not had the experience of seeing landscape change over weeks - or even instantly, as volcanic ash covers millions of acres and devastates ecological systems thousands of miles away - we have photographic records and time-stamped evidence that canyons, such as the Grand Canyon, can be formed from draining lakebeds.
The team and crew who helped put “Is Genesis History” together looked at many other aspects.
They touched upon the fact that carbon dating rocks can give conflicting results. One rock, three labs, three ages.
I didn’t follow what they were explaining about when they were studying the stars in the heavens or the galaxies estimated to be untold light-years away.
Tissue discovered in Dinosaur bone - that, they touched upon.
So many topics were brushed, it became a bit overwhelming.
One either believes the Bible in its entirety - including a literal seven day creation and a global flood - or dismisses it as a fairy tale.
Trying to combine Conventional Thinking - from the Big Bang several billion years ago to miraculous one-celled organisms that evolved to modern day variety of live - with the eye-witness observation recorded in Genesis, is simply ludicrous.
History - is it his story or is it old, obsolete and falling by the wayside?
The film “Is Genesis History” looks at the broad sweeping picture painted in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, and looks at the physical evidence located worldwide.
I found the documentary-film quite interesting, and intriguing.
They brushed many topics - covering almost everything that could be considered controversial, such as the Grand Canyon, the phrasing of Genesis - it’s written style, not just the words - the fossil records, the layering of sediments, Epodes, the very stars and constellations above our heads, and a whole lot more.
As I was watching, I had a few questions; questions that I will be expounding on in the next few paragraphs.
Notable locations (and viewpoints) include the Grand Canyon: rock layers, weathering (or lack of it), fossil layers.
Take the fossil layers. Included in the many, many geological ages, are seventeen different layers that include Marine fossils.
Are we to believe that the Global Flood, which covered the entire world (the tops of all mountains), never happened, when the most logical explanation for multiple layers (ages) of marine life to exist high above sea level is if, at one time (or seventeen times) that entire continent was underwater?
So, the Grand Canyon, was once covered in sea-life.
Next up: Did God mean “Day” as in one twenty-four hour period, when “Day” is used during the creation week?
To dig deep, one has to look at the ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.
The Holy Bible, though very popular and widely read in English, was not originally written in English. Or even The King’s English, or Shakespearean Old English.
Earth’s earliest records of “The Bible” are written in Hebrew.
Some translations require context - i.e. the word that means “genealogies” can also mean “history”. (The family records of Adam, of Noah, of Abraham, for example).
Other words are specific. The word that translates to “day” is an exact time. There is no wiggle room to add thousands of years, or even million of years, to the Creation account in Genesis.
For all those who believe God of the Holy Bible used evolution to build our world from a watery-ball floating into space, to a sphere with dry land, slowly covered with plants, then populated by fish growing legs and loosing their gills to gain lungs, SORRY, but no go.
Also take a look at what used to be Mount Saint Helens.
Before the eruption on 18th of May 1980, it was a huge mountain, with no canyons.
Less than fifty-years later, and the former Mountain top became a huge crater, with large lakes, rivers, and canyons.
Those canyons, were not formed from millions of years slow erosion, but carved from rapid-flowing waters.
So, while my generation has not had the experience of seeing landscape change over weeks - or even instantly, as volcanic ash covers millions of acres and devastates ecological systems thousands of miles away - we have photographic records and time-stamped evidence that canyons, such as the Grand Canyon, can be formed from draining lakebeds.
The team and crew who helped put “Is Genesis History” together looked at many other aspects.
They touched upon the fact that carbon dating rocks can give conflicting results. One rock, three labs, three ages.
I didn’t follow what they were explaining about when they were studying the stars in the heavens or the galaxies estimated to be untold light-years away.
Tissue discovered in Dinosaur bone - that, they touched upon.
So many topics were brushed, it became a bit overwhelming.