Originally Posted by pelathais (Post 1032993)

The primary concern is the constant recalibration of direction finding equipment to adjust the changing declination of a compass from True North. The GPS system has made that largely obsolete, however scientists and others (like the US Navy) don't like to be relying upon just one system.

Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 1033021)

I have a book about this. From a Creationist perspective... could something like this have been a factor in the Great Flood of the Bible?

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1033024)

We, of course, can't say no because we don't know.

But I have doubts that an actual polar shift was involved in the flood because that would place the timing of the last polar shift at around 4300 years ago. That's not long ago.

I don't know if such a recent polar shift could be the case.

Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 1033025)

One would have to argue that perhaps the scientific data is incorrect... I just found it interesting. Here's something kind of thought provoking...

Isaiah 24:1-2
1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

A prophecy?

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1033028)

Dec 2012 baby! YEEE HAAA!!!!

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1032995)

Yeah... I had forgotten about the airports needing to recalibrate these days.


We do know that these things happen... but we don't know whether they happen quickly or over time. That would have a lot to do with the long term impact. And... yes... these are not necessarily extinction events.

The upcoming alignment with the center of the galaxy could be a catalyst for such an event. And... it could NOT BE a catalyst.

We'll see.

Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 1033021)

I have a book about this. From a Creationist perspective... could something like this have been a factor in the Great Flood in the days of Noah? (Not sure about video below. Just submitting for discussion.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__hcI2k_P4

Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 1033025)

One would have to argue that perhaps the scientific data is incorrect... I just found it interesting. Here's something kind of thought provoking...

Isaiah 24:1-2
1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

A prophecy?

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1033029)

Well... in reference to the YEEE HAAA!!!!

A polar shift would have the potential of being quite a ride. :)

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1033058)

actually predictions of such are from the fringe. noted scientists do not believe this will cause any real upheaval.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth (Post 1033061)

Could you quote a few?

I've never known of the writings of any scientist that didn't at least consider the possibility... even a very real one... that a planetary polar shift would take place sans "any real upheaval".

The opening video was the chief scientist for NOAA.

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1033058)

actually predictions of such are from the fringe. noted scientists do not believe this will cause any real upheaval.

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1033064)

yes and he didnt say it would cause real serious problems. he suggested it would increase active particles from the sun. other than that he didnt suggest craziness would insue.


with the exception of some crazies on the internet, I have not seen any solid science that suggests the end of things as we know it.

Originally Posted by pelathais (Post 1033094)

The book that they referred to appears to have been "Pole Shift" by John White. John White was never associated with NOAA in any way, he's not even an American. He is a British/Canadian psychiatrist. He was active in Vineyard church planting and died in 2002. Just how this makes him an authority on meteorology and the effect the earth's magnetic field has on climates is left unsaid.

I don't think the interview is with John White, however. Like I said earlier, it's hard for me to follow all of the audio. The stuff about the "Coriolis effect" however doesn't appear to have been explained very well. From what I gathered, the speaker being interviewed seemed to think that the entire core of the planet was going to "flip." We really don't have any evidence that this has ever happened and it does stretch one's credulity.

The "flipping" of the magnetic poles doesn't involve the earth itself or even the nickel-iron core of the planet flipping over. It is simply a reversal of polarity. There is a huge amount of evidence that this happens with some regular frequency.

The speaker in the vid was mistaken when he said the evidence for the pole reversals was "in the Arctic where lava comes to the surface and freezes..."

The evidence is largely on the sea floor in the temperate and equatorial areas where sea floor spreading has caused iron rich basalts to come up to the surface of the sea floor (miles beneath the surface of the ocean) and the lava cools preserving the alignment of the iron in which ever direction the poles were at the time.