Polar Shift
 

We know that the earth demonstrates that the earth loses it's poles a few times every million years or so and the earth shifts the terrestrial location of the North & South poles as well from time to time.

The poles of the earth are currently moving very rapidly (terrestrially speaking) making one wonder if we are about to experience a polar shift.

Your thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMYz...eature=related

Re: Polar Shift
 

Many have said that a shift of the poles is either due or even past due. The fact that we just don't have a clear picture of the earth's dynamo at the core prevents better predictions. Also, most of the evidence that we have of past shifts is locked up in the iron of the sea floor crust. This allows only a broad extrapolation of the exact timing of the shifts in the earth's polarity.

We do know that it happens. We also know that every shift is not associated with extinction events. In fact there have been literally dozens and dozens of very benign shifts in the past 200 million years.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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?

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I was thinking today about the prophecies that say things like this and I was thinking of looking back and trying to trace when these things might have been fulfilled and starting to put together a time table on it.

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Dec 2012 baby! YEEE HAAA!!!!

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

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