Volcano produced in 6 months

Some people ridicule creationists for believing in a “Young Earth”, but when geology happens in front of your eyes, then there is a deep flaw in the “deep time” theory.

From wattsupwiththat.com

Birth of an underwater volcano: “This thing was built from zero in 6 months!”… Which is a lot less than 12 years

David Middleton / 1 hour ago May 22, 2019

Guest geological observation by David Middleton

From the American Association for the Advancement of SCIENCE! of America…

Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
By Roland PeaseMay. 21, 2019 , 1:20 PM


Last week, Marc Chaussidon, director of the Institute of Geophysics in Paris (IPGP), looked at seafloor maps from a recently concluded mission and saw a new mountain. Rising from the Indian Ocean floor between Africa and Madagascar was a giant edifice 800 meters high and 5 kilometers across. In previous maps, there had been nothing. “This thing was built from zero in 6 months!” Chaussidon says.

His team, along with scientists from the French national research agency CNRS and other institutes, had witnessed the birth of a mysterious submarine volcano, the largest such underwater event ever witnessed. “We have never seen anything like this,” says IPGP’s Nathalie Feuillet, leader of an expedition to the site by the research vessel Marion Dufresne, which released its initial results last week.

The quarter-million people living on the French island of Mayotte in the Comoros archipelago knew for months that something was happening. From the middle of last year they felt small earthquakes almost daily, says Laure Fallou, a sociologist with the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre in Bruyères-le-Châtel, France. People “needed information,” she says. “They were getting very stressed, and were losing sleep.”

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Science! As in “She blinded me with…”

Reflection on John 13:31-35

Scripture

“Now I am giving you a new commandment. Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you should love one another.”

Observation

It is the night of Jesus’ betrayal and arrest. Judas leaves the room to go and prepare his treacherous act.

In the midst of all this, Jesus’ thoughts are for His friends. He tells them He will soon be leaving them; they will look for Him but will not find Him.

He gives them a final commandment to love one another as He has loved them. Their love will be the proof to the world that they are His disciples.

Application

Jesus’ commandment to His followers is that we are to love one another as He has loved us.

Jesus loved us so much that He laid down His life for our sake.

He loved me like that, and He loved my christian sisters and brothers like that.

To be a follower of Jesus means that I have to love them like Jesus loved them.

The bottom line for the christian life is to love each other with sacrificial, self-denying love.

The New Testament spells this out in different ways so that we shall know what love looks like.

The person with much money should share with those who have little. We should share the burden of those who are weighed down in any way. We should help to meet the needs of other believers.

This might look like buying a car for someone or cooking a casserole or mowing a lawn.

The remarkable thing is that when love becomes a habit, Jesus dwells among us.

Prayer

Lord, please help me to love all my christian brothers and sisters. I find it hard to show love to some people, so I ask for a special measure of your grace to do this. Amen.