Solving the Mystery of the Biblical Flood

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Quick interjection........There may be other dating methods, but in addition to radiocarbon dating, Thorium/Protactinium, & Thorium 230/232 ratios were used to date deep dea cores.There's no specific need to talk in radiocarbon years, other methods were available to corroborate.Mark------------------
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Originally posted by wmscott:

On the forest record, you should have referred to the Bristlecone pine tree ring record which extends back 10,000 years without any gaps. In fact the oldest living Bristlecone tree predates the biblical date for the flood by three hundred years. Any reasonable flood theory would have to account how these trees and many others were able to survive a global flood. What it appears to have happened is the flood started in late fall, and occurred in winter time in the northern hemisphere when the trees were dormant and ended before the spring. Thus it is very possible for a global flood to have occurred and to have left no gap in the tree ring record, if it was brief enough. It is only if you start theorizing a longer flood or like the creationist flood, one that rips up the surface of the earth, that you run into serious problems with the record of plants.

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Originally posted by wmscott:

The ice age pulled enough water out of the oceans long enough that the ocean basins flexed upward to make up for the missing pressure, this is called hydrostatic pressure. The sudden return of the previously removed water occurred faster than the sea floor could be pushed back down. Since the oceans were in effect too small to hold all the water, the earth was flooded for a time.

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How can oceanic lithosphere flexing occur fast enough for this to happen, in the space of a couple of days/weeks/months? More/less?You have stated in an earlier post that the water of the flood is back in the ocean, this must have involved very fast downflexing of the oceanic crust to affect just one season.Mark------------------
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[This message has been edited by mark24, 01-22-2002]