WS #1 Fictional History

How did Moses know 3000 years ago, what scientists are only discovering now?

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Welcome to this edition of God's Word for Our World, presented by E.R.

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Potter Podcasts.

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This series is entitled Whistle Stops on My Train of Thought.

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A whistle stop, or a flag stop, is a short, unscheduled stop a train makes to pick up passengers or goods.

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These are short reflections on what I have picked up when my train of thought was suddenly interrupted by what I had just read or heard.

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Maybe there's something for you to pick up too.

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We all know there's historical fiction, and then there's fictional history.

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Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have announced that the Earth was not always covered by oceans.

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Water only in vapor form until the Earth cooled and water condensed 3.8 billion years ago, that's when it rained for centuries and life began to form.

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I guess the rest of it is history over billions of years.

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the evolutionary version anyway.

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There's a scientific dilemma.

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Where did all the water in the oceans come from?

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Water from the interior of the Earth was expelled in volcanic activity.

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That's one explanation.

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Maybe icy comets crashed into the Earth, or a combination of the two.

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Or there was a massive collision that included creating the moon.

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Well, two things science is certain about.

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Today, our planet is in the perfect zone for water to be found in solid, liquid, or gas form.

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A little closer to the sun, and all we'd have is vapor, whereas a little farther away, there would be no vapor at all.

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And the second thing is, oceans help the Earth be habitable.

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The ocean teams up with the atmosphere and efficiently circulates the heat and water around the planet, according to one scientist.

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Without ocean currents, the regions surrounding the equator would be much warmer, he noted, and those around the poles would be much colder.

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The distribution of oceans has changed.

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The land masses used to be together, but they separated into the continents we know today.

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But then there's the Genesis account in the Bible.

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In the beginning, the earth was watered by vapor, and there was a vast canopy of waters above.

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It never rained until God caused the windows of heaven to open, and it rained for forty days.

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And the waters covered the earth for about six months.

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And in the days after the flood, in Genesis 10:25, it says, Eber had two sons.

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One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided.

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Peleg in Hebrew means divided.

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Now, that's when my train of thought came to a halt.

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If the text of Genesis was composed by Moses nearly 3,000 years ago, but what he wrote in Genesis covers the facts scientists claim to have just confirmed, that being there was no ocean in the beginning, and there was an enormous deluge of rain, and the lands of the earth were divided, Genesis even explains where all the water came from.

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Now how did Moses know all that 3,000 years ago before scientists published their findings?

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That's something to stop and think about.

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Thanks for listening.

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Check out the other episodes of this podcast, These Things Were Written, which focus on the biblical text itself, with insights from my studies in the original languages.

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You don't have to know Hebrew and Greek to understand God's Word, but you must hear and read the Bible for yourself.

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Many people say they agree with the Bible but don't actually know what it says, while others disagree with what they think the Bible says.

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Then listen to my other podcasts.

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In Times Like These offers a biblical point of view on cultural issues facing our society and the world we live in.

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And Give Me This Mountain tells the story of our experiences of 45 years of life in Brazil and Portugal, where living by faith was more than just a figure of speech.

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It's based on entries from my personal journals and missionary newsletters beginning in 1971.

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May God use these podcasts in ways that will lead us to seek to know Him better.