Precambrian

Mass sinks in time, into stratified layers of sediment: a solid core on fire in the darkness, sunk in the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3) MP Technical Paraphrase

Scripture includes a description of the deposition of Precambrian sediment in response to the creation of gravity on the 2nd day. That may seem far-fetched, but it’s an example of Biblical exposition.

It’s an example of creation theory predictive testable hypothesis 22.

Predictive Testable Hypothesis 22

• IF the Holy Spirit is the power of God to inspire human writers,
  • AND the physics of the universe has been written in scripture so that it’s
    1. obvious and
    2. invisible,
• THEN phrases or words that look like chemistry, physics, biology or geology should be treated as if they are chemistry, physics, biology or geology,
  • AND the science will be congruent with the scriptural context.

At this time dissolved gas came out of solution. Oxygen produced by photosynthetic algae on the first day combined with dissolved iron compounds. Iron oxides precipitated and the Banded Iron Formations were deposited. The Earth formed as sediment accumulated around the gravitational singularity at the center. Job 28:3 is a description of this process. If you’re interested in the exposition of this passage you should see the post Gravity as a Process.

The compacting of matter around the singularity caused some of the life forms to become trapped and buried. These are Precambrian fossils of the Ediacaran biota.

Precambrian formations were deposited on the second day in response to the creation of gravity. Included fossils represent the aquatic life which developed on the first day. They weren’t deposited in Noah’s flood.

– Precambrian

This is a description of an aquatic or marine environment. Precambrian is functionally equivalent to pre-flood or antediluvian. As such, Precambrian sediment wasn’t deposited in Noah’s flood, the sequence from Cambrian through the Quaternary are flood deposits.

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