I don’t know when it was. But, there is no scientific reason to believe it takes millions of years for oil, gas and coal to form. It is for example possible to produce oil with Fischer-Tropsch process in relatively short time. When organic material sunk and was buried to sediments, the conditions were good for forming oil for example.
The fossil fuel deposits are dateble.
No good reason to believe in millions of years. It seems the original continent was relatively round and it surrounded Pacific Ocean. Arctic sea, Atlantic and Indian Ocean floors were abowe the vast water reservoir. The land above the was like vault structure. Because the water could not escape from below, before the flood, it also could have supported the land above it, until something broke the earth shell. I don’t know what broke the earth shell above the water, but when it was broken, the water could escape and it would not have supported earth the land anymore, which is why the land sunk.
Many good reasons to believe in millions of years, and what was this "original continent?"
Land masses have been drifting around for Billions of years, occasionally coming together into a supercontinent, then splitting apart again. There is reason to believe this. Scientists didn't just dream it up.
I get the impression you're not aware of how long the planet's been here, or how tiny a segment of this history
we've been here.
Please post links to this original continent surrounding the Pacific ocean, and some link explaining all this subterranean water. Where did you hear of all this?
All this would, of course, have predated life on Earth.
What did you not understand?
It's not that I didn't understand. It's that the facts and conclusions are pure fantasy. They're religious doctrine in a lab coat.
In current form it may be impossible, but if the form was different, it can be possible.
... and if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
So what's that mean? Form of what? Is there some reason to think there was some other "form" of something?
I think that is what the Bible says in this:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened. The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:11-12
Sorry, I have no good reason to believe that.
Evidence, please?
Sorry, I have no good reason to believe that
The last supercontinent was roamed by dinosaurs, wasn't it?
Were these what Noah had on board the ark? Was the dove he released actually a pterosaur?
There were no humans for a couple hundred million years after the last supercontinent.
Again, we're talking about radically different time periods. Your claim of a supercontinent puts the event hundreds of millions of years ago. Your mention of humans and large mammals put's it almost yesterday. Which is it?
Many creatures and plants can survive under the surface of earth as seeds or eggs. It is possible also that there were cavities, or caves that remained dry. Bible tells that everything on the surface of dry land died. there are many things that could have survived under the surface.
Few land animals or plants can survive over a month under water.
How deep is this "surface" the Bible mentions? I still don't understand how a functional ecosystem survived such an event. The authors of the story don't understand biology.
Maybe because no one has ever asked it from them? I believe many modern engineers could develop a way to build a wooden raft to survive the conditions and to be relatively easy to build. Many are unfortunately misled by the inside the box atheistic thinking, when they assume everything should have been as they imagine modern boat.
People have asked for commentary from engineers and shipbuilders many times, for a century or more. Boatbuilders have even attempted to reconstruct it -- and failed. Not a year goes by that I don't see some documentary on the ark on TV.
You don't seem very familiar with the details of this controversy you're so sure of.
They had quite long time for it. And if it was built like the log raft design, it wouldn’t have been very difficult. I could do it also, if I would have the time and the wood.
A large enough, wooden, seaworthy vessel could not be built, according to engineers. Maybe you should publish a plan in an engineering journal, and show them how you'd do it.
Automatic system means basically feeding automatic that works by the principle that things fall (If you don’t know about this, I recommend to learn about Mr. Newton).
I don't care what the design of this automated system might be.
Today's engineering is far superior to anything available in Noah's day, yet no zoo today has been able to come up with one.
I think there would have been enough room, if you understand that it would have been enough to have the different animal families, not current animal species. Current animal species are not very reasonable classification of animals.
So today's diverse fauna evolved from a few ancestral forms on the ark? "Evolved?" Now we're back to the date of the event. How long would you say this evolution of new kinds took?
It probably was similar to Baltic sea. Baltic sea has areas with different salinity levels, which is why fresh and salt water animals can survive there. Heavy rain made probably freshwater areas and the water that was released form the “fountains of great deep”, was perhaps saltier.
Salinity gradients are common, all over the world. The obligate freshies live in the fresh section, the salties in the salt section. Those species that can tolerate varying levels swim back and forth.
But a radical change in salinity in less than a month would see a massive die-off.
Q: What were Noah and his pets breathing, considering that no oxygen was being produced by either oceanic phytoplankton or terrestrial forests?
