How to make sand.

1. The mountains were allegedly not original but created by tectonic plate uplift etc and are still high, indicative of no significant desintigration as your model purposes.

2. How is your model any more viable than mine which depicts an undeterminate timeperiod of soupy mix on earth being churned by seismic activity etc so as to grind up the rocks & pebbles into sand etc?

2. The Ocean beaches and shallow areas which were affected by tides appear to be where the uniform sanding occurs. Perhaps the premordial soup had currents and movement due to the Moon tides etc.

Perhaps the premordial soup had currents and movement due to the Moon tides etc.

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning”the third day.14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights”the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning”the fourth day.

3. As I understand it, mainline science believes that the ancient earth was significantly more watery than the present earth and the atmosphere has changed.

4. As per the Genesis model, there was no atmosphere until God intervened in the working on the premordial earth. No atmosphere = high incidence of bombardment upon earth from asteroides and debris from space being that the ionosphere (if I recall correctly) is what keeps these things from destroying the planet as it is.
This bombardment would likely have pulverized a lot of rock as well as create monster waves and erosion to form much of the sand observed today.

5. Since the Genesis record gives no info on the age of the planet itself, all of the above activity and more could have gone on for a very long time.

Jar, you conveniently (likely on purpose) omitted some of the more pertenant verses relative to my hypothesis.

Some of the verses you did cite were ones which had nothing to do with the points of the quote from me (not designated) to me but tied it in with the irrevelant verses which you cited.

This is not only shabby work on your part but it is deceptive and appears to be designed to somehow malign my intelligence.

1. Deep dark watery planet surface to which God via his spirit applied work indicative of movement of some manner for an undeterminate period of time; undeterminate because there was yet no sun & moon to effect a 24 hr day.

2. After an undeterminate time, light is applied, likely via the same spirit of God which was doing the work.

3. Verse 6 clearly implies significant evaporation to the extent of creating the atmosphere as per science in that after light indicative of extensive heat so as to evaporate up a significant amount of water enough to create dry land and seas. This all again ensues for an undeterminate period of time, given there was yet no sun and moon etc.

4. Not until all of this work is applied to earth does the sun and moon kick in to become the determination of time as we measure it today and to sustain the plants (created on day 3 before sun & moon) and all living from thence on.

Buz writes:1. Because God being the one who originated all true science, science should be applied when applicable. As per Gen 1, it took more heat than the sun could provide to create an atmosphere from a dark cold watery planet.

Genesis 1 writes:Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning”the first day.6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning”the second day.9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

buz writes:2. According to the Biblical record of Gen 1, the 24 hour day was not determined until day four. According to the text it was the presence of the sun that did that.

Genesis 1 writes: The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning”the first day.6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning”the second day.9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning”the third day.14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights”the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning”the fourth day.

I cannot think of any process to produce sand that doesn't require water somewhere along the way.

What sort of chemical can you think of that doesn't involve water? I cannot come up with one.

Like, for example, I would love for them to explain, as a flood deposit, the interbedded sandstone and mudstone bodies with sporadic coal seams that characterize the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation in eastern Wyoming/southern Montana.