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Creation Day 3: God creates the Earth using His Special Mayim Why God Create d Two Different Types of Crust
Let's read Genesis 1:9 again. The very moment God declared - "Let the elements (mayim) of the earth (the shamayim or the heavens below) be gathered into one place ..." - dry land appeared! Scientists have given a name to this former " supercontinent ". They call it " Pangea " meaning " all-land ". The big question you might be asking yourself now is, If God created land first at the beginning of Day 3 (water was created next ), what was the surface of Earth made of before He created land? In 1910, a curious young German geologist named Alfred Wegner wrote this to his
girlfriend, “Doesn’t the east coast of South America fit exactly against the west coast of Africa, as if they had once been joined?” (She later married the young romantic.). It was Wegner's passion for
solving this unsolved mystery - why continents appear to fit together perfectly as pieces of a puzzle - that will now help us finally understand how God created and then separated His special mayim (elements) in order to make a perfect planet for mankind to eventually call " home ".
By studying slow moving frozen glaciers in Greenland, Alfred Wegner discovered that the main difference between the continental crust (40% of earth's surface) and ocean crust (60% of earth's surface) is the density of rocks. Like glaciers, t he lighter, less dense continental rocks literally float on top of the denser oceanic rocks (composed mainly of iron and magnesium).
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