But people can be born from monkeys...
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Evidence for and against young earth creationism.
- Thread starter Brian Schuh
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KBC1963
Active Member
lol
Hey I ran across this article a few years back. It is a purported scientific rationale for Noah's flood. There were some points that appear to make some sense of observable evidences but I have yet to follow up on them. See if it has merit.
Evidence of flood hydroplate theory cited to support biblical account
Published: 06/02/2012 at 5:55 PM
Does science prove Noah’s flood?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
I've never heard of that happening either.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
According to the Bible, god killed everyone and everything except Noah, his family, and the animals on the ark (and, presumably aquatic life by default given the modus operandi), but according to that source, god failed to do that.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
That didn't work the first time you said it.
It works for me.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
That's great.
If you're trying to convince anyone else, say in a thread titled, "Evidence for and against young earth creationism," you're gonna need more than magic and stories.
The evidence is there, the willingness to see it, is not.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
When is someone going to present it? All we've heard from you is that old stories must be accurate because they're in an old book and when you can't explain anything else you declare magic.
Those are not evidences.
Marine fossils on mountain tops.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
That's not evidence of a global flood. Especially if you know how mountains are formed. And let's not forget that you had to invoke magic to get through that "explanation" as well.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Eh? When did that happen?
Sarcasm Dude, don't take my sentences out of context...
Fossils are generally formed in catastrophes, otherwise scavengers would have devoured them and the rest rotted away. So slow mountain creation works against the likelihood of fossils.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Fair enough
Altfish
Veteran Member
Oh dear; you need a crash course in geology.
In very simple terms. The fossil is formed in an old sea bed, then over millions of years by the movement of tectonic plates they appear in the mountain.
No, a dead creature on the sea floor would be eaten, no fossil. But if there was a catastrophe and a creature was encased in mud that quickly dried out, before rot occured, then you would have a fossil.
Altfish
Veteran Member
You mentioned catastrophes; so let's stick with that.
The catastrophe happens on the sea bed and buries the recently dead creature; it fossilises and then geology takes over, the plates move and hey presto your fossil is no longer on the sea bed but on the top of a mountain.
God only knows, was it fast or was it slow. But geology doesn't move like presto, only God moves like presto.