I agree with you Rene as to how we in our lifetime are finding out how enormous our universe truly is and how awesome our Creator is. Mind-boggling is right!
Bob - I will respond to your comments in Levy's thread on this thread, as I believe many of us have long ago threadjacked his original question! Sorry Levy!
I personally don't think God steps outside of His laws of nature and that being what we would call in physics, "the scientific method". Just as God obeys His own spiritual laws... the laws or commandments of the bible, I most surely believe that He obeys His own physical laws... the laws of the universe. Excepting those miracles of stepping outside the bounds of physics that He performed in scriptures to show mankind His power and attributes; after the bible was complete there have been no miracles outside the bounds of physics and there will be no miracles until the first resurrection when the dead will be raised etc.
Yes, I believe there have been "huge" catastrophic changes to the planet earth as evidenced by large meteor impacts supplied by satellite photography; by glacial activity produced from the thick polar ice sheets from the ice age and forming for example the USA's appalachian mtn. range; and large deposits of ash covering the earth from volcano eruptions decimating many life forms that are now extinct. But just as "healings" aren't miracles, neither are these catastrophic events. They are in the bounds of physics... the laws of nature.
I believe that God, as one of His chief aims, is to show His creation family that the laws of physics reveals design in the universe - in turn as evidence that He is the Designer. I don't believe that God intends for us to keep science separate from religion and is not a barrier to be understood apart from religion. And of course, you know Bob that there is only one true religion and that is the God of the bible! True science cannot be understood apart from the bible.
Bob, it sounds like from your comments and questions to me that you adhere to the approximately 6000 year "young earth" theory. I don't know if what I suspect is true or not, but I don't anymore. It's not plausible. Ray and others have convinced me otherwise. With my newfound Spirit guided belief in the Kingdom Age and eras beyond, it completely (for me) dispels the myth of a no pre Adamic time period or post resurrection time period. Therefore, there is no need for a young earth. For the most part scientists aren't corrupt... there are too many checks and balances! So billions of years it will be!
In the video above - the young scientist that stated "the desire of mankind for hundreds of thousands of years"... was only his ungodly speculation as the majority of scientists have. But their science is science, and the preciseness of it's field to that of perfecting it to the laws of physics leaves little to debate.
Since the mountain, where all of the technical dishes and equipment were located for space observation, looked to be isolated in the vastness of the tableland surrounding it, I would believe that it was formed by volcanic activity/eruption and not plate movement that forms mountain ranges and not just one single mtn. As far as the fossils on top of the plateau, that's where I would have to speculate. That impart is why I am curious about the Ice Age and it's effect on the earth with the rising and falling of the seas that I alluded to in the other thread with the continental divide gif. Perhaps Antarctica was iced over much more than today (we know that it was), and the resulting melt-down covered the relatively close Chile mtn. plateau, and hense, the fossils.
I for one am a "king", and if it be God's will, I will reach for the stars, and it is most certainly does not take the place of me worshipping our true and only God. He has given me a mind to ponder such awesomness, and I am glad to have that ability!
Science and God do mix. He created science and He operates in the realm of science. We are created in His Image!
doug