Originally posted by RJHinds
The theory is that all those magnetic reversals occurred rapidly during the receding of the waters of the worldwide flood of Noah's time while the sedimentary layers were forming quickly in comparison to the flawed evilution model.
By the way, there were no debunking of his peer reviewed article on the subject. What you have here with your linked article ...[text shortened]... t to inquire further." However, you are taking the atheist's word for it.
The Instructor
No, I studied this phenomena in school, in a geology class. The magnetic lines reverse themselves regularly and the rocks record the changes really well, just like a tape head magnetically charging a magnetic tape but on a larger scale . The magnetic lines get recorded into the rocks and all you have to do is go along the bottom of the ocean with a magnetometer and it registers a regular pattern of norths and souths not quite as accurate as a clock but close enough to be obvious to anyone not self-lobotomized it is showing a clear line to the deep past when Africa and South America were jammed together.
Didn't you ever look at a world map and wonder why South America and West Africa have that jigsaw look to them?
That is because in the deep past, when dino's ruled the Earth, they were joined together and then split apart with the same pattern so at first there was this curving almost riverlike bit of seawater that eventually became the Atlantic ocean.
This is in the record as clear as a bell for those who, like I said, are not self-lobotomized and just refuse to see the obvious, that is, that it took tens of millions of years for Africa and South America to split apart to the distance we see today and that spread is going on as we speak, at about the same rate that fingernails grow, maybe an inch a year. Was the same 1 million years ago and will be the same 1 million years into the future.
If the spreading had been much different in the past the magnetic field recordings of the rocks would have shown it but the separation of magnetic polarity is the same throughout history, within a window of course.