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Author Topic:   Have any Biblical literalists been to the American Southwest?
nator
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Message 1 of 183 (240593)
09-05-2005 1:27 PM


Zhimbo and I have just returned from a fabulous 10 days in the American Southwest.
After 5 nights at a remote B&B at almost 6,000 feet in New Mexico (Zhimbo got in a lot of great astronomical observation) we spent 5 more nights driving to see some of the most incredible geological formations on the planet, including Canyon de Chelly, the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest, Monument Valley, and Grand Canyon.
For fun, I tried to figure out a way to reconcile what most Creationists tell me about what happened to form them and what I saw, but I just couldn't.
My question to the Biblical literalists is have any of you ever seen these places for yourselves and have you really tried to figure out how all of these features could have been produced in a few thousand years, and how the Flood figures in to what is seen?

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Message 2 of 183 (240603)
09-05-2005 2:04 PM
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09-05-2005 1:27 PM


Where oh where is this little thread gone?
I'd love to promote this thread but I'd like it to be where the literalists can reply. The problem is there's no good fit in any of the Faith forums. Would you agree to it being in Education and Creation/Evolution?

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nator
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Message 3 of 183 (240683)
09-05-2005 7:23 PM
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09-05-2005 2:04 PM


Re: Where oh where is this little thread gone?
Sure, that sounds fine.

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Message 4 of 183 (240684)
09-05-2005 7:25 PM


Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.

Nuggin
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Message 5 of 183 (240692)
09-05-2005 7:58 PM


American Southwest
I believe the American Southwest is a direct result of the worldwide flood.
Water covered the entire world, so everyplace in the world was subjected to the same treatment.
That's why all those "old" features you talk about are spread so widely across the world rather than being clustered in one small corner of one country.
I mean, come on, maybe... MAYBE... if the Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon and Arches National Monument were close together you'd have an argument that they represented some sort of regional erosion pattern.

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nator
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Message 6 of 183 (240696)
09-05-2005 8:09 PM
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09-05-2005 7:58 PM


Re: American Southwest
LOL!

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Message 7 of 183 (240731)
09-05-2005 10:39 PM
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09-05-2005 1:27 PM


Love the Southwest.
It was like all my life I'd been wearing dirty glasses.
The beat goes on.
There are the Superstitions...
and Casa Grande...
and one of my favorites, the Mogollon Rim with over 35,000 years of pollen history alone.
Then there is El Capitan and Devil's Sinkhole and Enchanted Rock and Government Canyon and Grand Canyon Caverns and ...

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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nator
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Message 8 of 183 (241001)
09-07-2005 10:06 AM


Hello? Any Biblical Literalists out there?
bump

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Message 9 of 183 (241017)
09-07-2005 11:24 AM
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09-07-2005 10:06 AM


Re: Hello? Any Biblical Literalists out there?
You should know that whenever you ask "difficult" questions, creationists melt away. How many YECs responded to my cave post? It's been there a few months now...

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Message 10 of 183 (241021)
09-07-2005 11:35 AM
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09-05-2005 1:27 PM


I'm staying away from EvC as much as possible so I don't want to get into a lengthy discussion about this. No, I haven't been to the Southwest though I really want to see it, so you can disqualify my answer on that basis. It is, however, pictures of the formations of the Southwest that convince me the most of the Flood apart from the Bible. The stacked strata, so obviously rapidly formed by water, the fact that all the formations are shapes of stacked strata exposed by what looks like massive water erosion, and of course the incredibly copious fossil contents.

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Nuggin
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Message 11 of 183 (241025)
09-07-2005 11:43 AM
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09-07-2005 11:35 AM


World wide
But, if the flood was worldwide, why are these formation ONLY in the southwest?

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Message 12 of 183 (241032)
09-07-2005 12:07 PM
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09-07-2005 11:43 AM


Re: World wide
There's no reason the Flood would have left ONLY this kind of effect, it's just one large area where it looks obvious because the strata have been exposed in so many dramatic ways. But there *are* places in the rest of the world that show similar deep stratifications and the sculpting or exposure of them after they were formed, places in Africa for instance, IIRC. These are just places were the strata were exposed so they're visible to the naked eye, but deep drilling just about anywhere on earth encounters the same stratifications. You see stratifications in high mountains too. Seems obvious to me, though I know people here hate that expression, that deep stacks of strata were laid down BEFORE they were exposed --by erosion in the Southwest, or by the tectonic forces that pushed up the mountains, or by road cuts wherever, etc. Despite all the emphasis on how individual strata show erosion and other disruptive effects, nothing like the water erosion and tectonic upheavals that exposed the entire stack after its complete formation has been shown, which in itself is evidence for a rapid laying down of the strata.

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Nuggin
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Message 13 of 183 (241055)
09-07-2005 1:24 PM
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09-07-2005 12:07 PM


Re: World wide
So, if I'm reading you right, every example of stratified sedament is defacto proof that there was a world wide flood.
It doesn't matter what the layers consist of, where they are located, their depth, their fossils (or lack of fossils). Every layer, everywhere in the world, examples of the great flood.
Therefore no layer is older than 6000 years old. "Young" mountains like the Rockies or the Himalayas are just as old as "old" mountains like the Appelacians, despite the obvious differences in erosion.
I accept that your religion requires you to believe what you believe, but let's not use words like "evidence". After all, we don't use the existance of bread as "evidence" of Hansel and Grettle

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Message 14 of 183 (241058)
09-07-2005 1:30 PM
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09-07-2005 1:24 PM


Re: World wide
So, if I'm reading you right, every example of stratified sedament is defacto proof that there was a world wide flood.
I wouldn't put it that way, but yes I think the worldwide strata themselves are evidence for the Flood.
It doesn't matter what the layers consist of, where they are located, their depth, their fossils (or lack of fossils). Every layer, everywhere in the world, examples of the great flood.
Yes. I believe the actual facts are consistent with what water that saturated the earth would have done, and not consistent with the OE explanation.
Therefore no layer is older than 6000 years old. "Young" mountains like the Rockies or the Himalayas are just as old as "old" mountains like the Appelacians, despite the obvious differences in erosion.
The erosion has to do with their composition and the way they were formed, not their age.
I accept that your religion requires you to believe what you believe, but let's not use words like "evidence". After all, we don't use the existance of bread as "evidence" of Hansel and Grettle
I haven't mentioned my religion in these observations.
Thank you for the conversation. That's all for today.
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Nuggin
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Message 15 of 183 (241060)
09-07-2005 1:38 PM
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09-07-2005 1:30 PM


Re: World wide
I understand Faith is taking a break, so if some other Creationist would like to pick up the banner and run with it...
I believe the actual facts are consistent with what water that saturated the earth would have done, and not consistent with the OE explanation.
Is this "magic" water? Why does it behave differently than ordinary water?
The erosion has to do with their composition and the way they were formed, not their age.
So, erosion is not a process which takes place over time. Since age has nothing to do with it. Therefore, if one mountain range contained granite and the other mountain range also contained granite, and they were both laid down at the same time and exposed to the same forces (World wide flood), then we'd expect all mountain ranges which consist of the same materials to have the same amount of erosion.
If I'm drawing the wrong conclusion from your data, please let me know how.
I haven't mentioned my religion in these observations.
You're right. Unfair of me to assume that your religion had anything to do with your literal intreptation of the Bible's old testament.
You could just as easily be Hindu and cling to the YEC model. Though, I don't know why anyone would.

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