Water, Water Everywhere

   Much is in the news these days about alien visitors, UAP's (aka UFO's), extraterrestrials, etc.  I think one of the most overlooked evidence of such visitors comes from the Genesis account of creation in the Old Testament Bible.

   When that account is re-visited with a little more knowledge about our solar system, something amazing happens.

   The earth, from its origin, which some say came about from the collapse of our sun when it was a red giant, has always been the water planet.  The water that is here now was here then.  At that time the water would have blanketed the molten earth with a layer of clouds that was thousands of miles thick.  The Genesis account says "...darkness was upon the face of the deep"  No light would have penetrated the clouds.  The earth is not the only body in our solar system like this:  Venus is surrounded by such a layer of clouds.  One of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede, is also covered with water.

   Fast forward now a few million years to the next event from the Genesis account.  As the earth cooled, the layers of clouds thinned so that light now reached the earth's surface.  Since the earth was already rotating on its axis, the phrase "...and God divided the light from the darkness" is consistent.  Keep in mind, no one was around yet to observe any of this.

   Fast forward another few million years.  The earth has now cooled sufficiently for water to condense on the surface.  The Genesis account says:  "...and God made the firmament (sky) which divided the waters which were above from the waters that were below."  It goes on to say:...let the waters be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear."  

   At this point, there would have been very little or no oxygen in the atmosphere.  The extensive vulcanism would have produced a sulfuric acid atmosphere similar to what we see now on Venus.  The cloud cover would have still blanketed the earth.

   Fast forward again to a critical event that changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and made life on earth possible.  Plants were introduced into the earth's history.  One could argue over where they came from, but the geologic record clearly shows that plants were the first living creatures.  These plants contained a complex chemical, called chlorophyl, which enabled the organism to feed off from the toxic atmosphere and release oxygen in the process.  The process of photosynthesis is one of the most complex processes we know about.  There are still things about it that we do not understand.  What is inescapable is the conclusion that this sophisticated process is a technology and did not suddenly appear intact through some gradual "evolutionary" process.  The Genesis account goes on to say:..."let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after his kind and the the tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself after his kind."  For millions of years plants populated the earth, oxygenating the atmosphere and producing a climate that would eventually support the diversity of living things we now see.

   As the water vapor in the atmosphere continued to condense upon a cooling earth, the sky became clear enough to see the sun, moon and stars.  There was no one to observe these events, but there can be no doubt that it would have happened this way.

   Since this scenario follows closely what we now think about the history of earth, it raises the question about how Moses could have ever imagined this.  Although a lot of myths have grown up around this account, it remains unique among the sacred writings of all faiths.  Moses, during his 40 day stay on Mount Horeb, must have been talking to someone who knew all about the earth's history and asked Moses to transcribe it.  Is this direct evidence of a "close encounter of the third kind?"

   If you are a clear-eyed seeker of wisdom and truth, you must seriously ponder this mystery.