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Originally posted by Joe Meert:
I am having a discussion with Barry Setterfield over on another board and it struck me (again and again and again) how creationists develop 'just so' stories to fit a particular argument. The problem is, of course, that all the 'just so' stories don't hang together as a cohesive thesis. For example, Barry claims that the Siberian trap volcanism triggered the Permo-Carboniferous glaciations and that the deccan triggered the Cenozoic glaciations. These all fit into the ye-framework because radioactive decay was faster, it is also his assertion that the Precambrian glacial deposits are the result of the Noachian flood. There are several problems with these ideas (not the least of which is the mechanism for generating glacials through volcanism on a 10-100 year time scale). The first is that the eruption of the Siberian traps post-dates the glaciations it is supposed to trigger (in Setterfield's magical mystical world radiometric dating works but it has to all be scaled into 6000 years). ...
Cheers
Joe Meert
True. It seems that creationists have a tenuous grasp of time and historical background. Not sure how to get around it when they are in abject denial.
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