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sidelined Member (Idle past 5908 days) Posts: 3435 From: Edmonton Alberta Canada Joined: |
Ice shelves do float glaciers attached to ground do not.These ice worms live only in a narrow range from Alaska down the coast of B.C. as far south as the area of Mt. St. Helens The down fall of rain would warm them beyond the range of temperature at which they can survive.
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 989 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
DO worms creep? I thought they slithered. Is slithering the same thing as creeping? Or for that matter, do worms have "flesh?"
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southerngurl Inactive Member |
quote:LOL, it would have to be quite the dove to fly over the entire earth. Likely the dove would only have traveled a few miles from the ark. Also, these particular worms do not feed on dirt, but algea. Earthworms do not exaclty feed on dirt. They feed on organic material, such as leaves, ect.
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southerngurl Inactive Member |
quote: Actually, in my experience, most springs are ice cold.. and have excellent tasting water! I simply can't picture the poles melting because of rain.
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southerngurl Inactive Member |
quote: ROFLOL, anyone who thinks dinosaurs were on the ark does have some problems. Oh yes, 2 stegs, 2 tyrannosaurus, 2 brontos, 2 triceratops, 2 ankylosaurus, oops we're full, sorry to the rest of you! No, dinos died out long before God made man.
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southerngurl Inactive Member |
quote: I can't think of any animal that would have a problem with that, other than people (sadly, not enough people it would seem).
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 989 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
I believe Crash is referring to hot springs - which come up from the earth's interior - which is what appears to be implied by 'fountains of the deep.'
Not the cool mountains springs you'd find on a nice hike.
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roxrkool Member (Idle past 989 days) Posts: 1497 From: Nevada Joined: |
Then I take it you don't think the Bible is inerrant.
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Lithodid-Man Member (Idle past 2931 days) Posts: 504 From: Juneau, Alaska, USA Joined: |
Rather than reply to any specific posts I decided to just write a general one. I really wish I would have seen this one back in August! While my current research is in arthropods, I have a long-standing love in annelids. I thought a basic background addressing certain points would be useful. Yaro's original point still stands uncontested.
The first thing to keep in mind with 'worms' is that the term defines an organizational grade rather than a taxonomic grouping. There are 'worms' across several phyla (Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nemertea, Annelida, Echiura, Hemichordata, etc.). The worms being discussed are annelid worms in the Class (probably polyphyletic) Clitellata. The other members of the phyum are Pogonophora (like the deep-sea vent tube worms of fame) and Polychaeta (the mostly marine bristle worms). Sometime far back in this discussion the suggestion was made that earthworms living in lake sediments represented the same 'kind' as earthworms. For this to be true the definition of 'kind' needs to be once again stretched to impossible limits. Because those lake worms (Limnodrilus, I believe?) look like earthworms they must be the same kind. The fact is that Limnodrilus is in a completely different suborder (Tubificina) than is the earthworm (Lumbricina). If they are the same kind and diverged since the flood by microevolution then Humans and Lemurs could have microevolved since the flood (Suborder Anthropoida vs Prosimia), cows and pigs (I don't remember the taxa, Boviina and Suiformes? I am an invert guy!) and so on. The worms differ at a very important level. In another post marine blood worms were mentioned, these are actually a completely different class, Polychaeta. The polychaete called a blood worm is a glycerid, usually genera Glycera, Hemipoda, etc. The family is completely marine. One of the more energetically demanding aspects of physiology is ion regulation. Most organisms, especially aquatic ones, simply cannot do it efficiently. The majority of marine invertebrates die quickly with even slight changes in salinity. Skin-breathing terrestrial organisms cannot usually tolerate any salt water. Freshwater creatures dehydrate in the presence of salt water. Yes there are a few creatures that are euryhaline but most (I would say 99% as a ballpark) cannot. So unless the flood maintained the exact salinity at the exact points all over the world, we would have lost both fresh and saltwater organisms. I cannot see how the flood could be both salt and fresh in all of the right places, makes no sense. I do agree with Southerngurl's point (although not the flood) that earthworms wouldn't really have been a problem on the ark. The other thousands of kinds of worms would have been more problemmatic.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 735 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
I can't think of any animal that would have a problem with that,
Most mammals, at least when not in captive situations, have pretty strong "taboos" on in-the-family breeding. Where do you think we humans came up with rules about incest, after all? Chimps have the same rules...
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Deathknight Inactive Member |
Whats bugging you?
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
southerngurl responds to me:
quote:quote: Irrelevant. Didn't you read the passage? What part of "the waters were on the face of the whole earth" don't you understand? The Bible directly states that there wasn't any place for the dove to land on the whole of the earth irrespective of where the ark was or how big or little the ancient Hebrews thought the earth was. The dove couldn't find a place to land because there wasn't a place to land anywhere on the entire planet. Ergo, no icebergs. So where were the worms? Rrhain WWJD? JWRTFM!
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berberry Inactive Member |
southerngurl writes:
quote: Indeed it would. It would also be quite the storm to flood the entire earth. Your point? Dog is my copilot.
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hitchy Member (Idle past 5118 days) Posts: 215 From: Southern Maryland via Pittsburgh Joined: |
Do you remember the first scene in the Holy Grail when Arthur is stuck in the middle of a conversation with two guards at a castle. He comments that a swallow could carry a coconut by gripping it by the husk. The two guards try to ratioanlize and come up with a way this could be done. One type of swallow is big enough but not migratory. Two small swallows could carry the coconut btwn them with a strip of bark held beneath a feather. Arthur then leaves the guards after realizing that he would not be heard for the real reason he was there--to get a knight for the round table.
I realize that this type of conversation occurs anytime you debate a "flood geology" believer. They start with a misconception and then try to rationalize it. The only problem is--the more they try to rationalize, the more rediculous their position becomes. No amount of information (or disinformation or misconstrued information or purposely neglected information) supports a worldwide flood, period. I can see having fun with this type of conversation and enjoying the pleasure of ripping apart blatantly incorrect thought and bringing down low the grand false ideas of our time, but at what point to we just drop it and get on with better things? So, for all of you "great flood" defenders, have a nice life. Keep searching for your coconut-carrying swallows. The rest of us will be busy filling-in the gaps of our knowledge of this world. Ark or not, fountains of the deep or not, ice canopies, "polystrate" fossils, "kinds", etc. None of this matters. They are BS, no, worse than BS. They are just plain false. Nhee!
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southerngurl Inactive Member |
quote: Ice is water!
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