This book compares knowledge of pre-historic things from two dissimilar sources. One source is ancient, the other modern. It presents knowledge from both sources in chronological order and shows the remarkable similarity demonstrating the fact the ancient source of knowledge had it right long before modern science discovered the same things. The first source is the written record in ancient scriptures of the bible. The second source is the evidence that is recorded in geology and astronomy. This information is presented here as a timeline of how everything around us came to be what it is today. Before the beginning of the twentieth century, around the year 1900, nobody knew that "And the Earth was without form and void. And Darkness was upon the face of the deep..." The second verse of the bible, Genesis 1:2 (KJV) was an introduction to several biblical accounts that told the same story as this book tells. Scientists back then had no knowledge of the specific event it was referring to. That event, and the circumstances around it, had not yet been discovered by modern science and the long ago understanding of what it meant had long since been lost and the verse was simply preserved and carried along as some religious theobabble by dedicated theologians. Theologians did not recognize it for what it said. They did not even imagine such an event was in the history of our planet. They assumed it referred to something else. This and many other biblical references referring to the same thing appeared to talk of water covering the earth. Theologians assumed they were references to the flood of Noah. They did not even suspect they referred to an earlier more significant event that is now becoming realized by modern science. Scientists did not understand the significance of the event that verse referred to. Little did they know that the continents are temporary in the sense of the long run. Little did they know that the continents are floating, buoyed up by the mantle below. Little did they know that there had been a time when the entire surface of this planet had been covered with water before the continents were formed. It is the dry land of those continents that verse refers to, not the planet earth. It should be obvious. The bible itself defines the word earth, to be the dry land. It is described in detail in the ancient scriptures: And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. Gen 1:9,10 You see, the word "Earth" seen in the second verse of the bible, does not refer to the planet, but to the solid surface parts of the planet as opposed to the oceans. It refers to the "dry land" of the continents. At one time in the history of our planet, the "earth" was not formed into the dry land of the continents. And now it is. Currently, only about 29 percent of the surface of out planet is above sea level. The continents are isolated piles of earth piled up over three miles high above the sea floor. That leaves the rest of the solid surface of the planet-about 71 percent of it, to be a sea floor an average of over two and a half miles below sea level. It was a big deal, and still is. As of yet, the mechanism that caused the "forming of the earth,"-the gathering of the dry land into continents, - is still little understood. That mechanism still operates today, keeping the dry land piled up into continents so they do not spread out over the sea floor under the ocean. It is a situation that is unique to our planet alone among other nearby heavenly bodies studied by scientists.
About the Author: The author, AnOldScientist, has been a scientist and a theologian all his life. Combining those two pursuits has made him no stranger to controversy and persecution. His background and education is in the sciences of Geology, Theology, Information Recognition, and Electronics. In 1969 or 1970, The Old Scientist -he was a young scientist then-while pursuing a degree in geology at San Jose State University, came face to face with a college exam question that changed the course of his life. The question was concerning the existence of the continents. If the earth is as old as it appears to be, and the rate of erosion is as fast as it appears to be, according to the philosophy of Uniformitarianism where rates were always the same as they are now, the continents should have been eroded down to sea level by now. The continents should no longer exist. The continents should be awash by the sea as a shallow worldwide ocean. To paraphrase the question, What is the mechanism that keeps the continents piled up over three miles high to rise above the level of a three mile deep ocean? (The existence of that mechanism is a big deal in the multiple creation accounts of the bible.) You see, at the time, that mechanism was not a part of modern science. It was still being debated as to whether continents really drifted across the face of the planet. Over the years The Old Scientist pondered that question long and often. He watched as the scientific community came to accept the idea not only that North and South America actually did draft apart, but that there must be some super mechanism that builds continents. Eventually, AnOldScientist retired from a thirty-three year long career as a scientist in the Military/Industrial Complex where he specialized in information recognition and exploitation. Since then, he has applied that specialty to the study of science in the bible. His discoveries show that the technical information mentioned in the bible is consistent, and in accord with reality. Those discoveries are accumulating in a book in progress. The proposed title of the book is: "Technical Mysteries of the Bible The Confluence of Science and the Bible Where the Rivers of Reality and Religion Meet The Unfinished Writings of an Old Scientist upon Studying the Bible." By Max B. Frederick, AnOldScientist The challenge I am facing today is the dissemination of those discoveries before I leave this world and those discovered secrets die with me.