Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 59 (9164 total)
4 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,920 Year: 4,177/9,624 Month: 1,048/974 Week: 7/368 Day: 7/11 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   What is your best arguments against a world wide flood.
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 5 of 47 (36644)
04-09-2003 11:40 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by some_guy
04-09-2003 11:21 PM


But when looking from a creationist's perspective where the earth is only a few thousand years old.
But it isn't a few thousand years old. It's been known since 1820 or so that it's a thousand or more times that old, and ALL scientific evidence confirms that - about 4,560,000,000 years old since it accreted from protoplanetary objects, to be more precise. And no matter what the dates say, there are no worldwide deposits all dating to any one event anywhere in the geologic record. A "great flood" in the last 5000, or 500,000, years would have left some trace. It's not there.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 4 by some_guy, posted 04-09-2003 11:21 PM some_guy has not replied

  
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 18 of 47 (37574)
04-22-2003 1:26 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by booboocruise
04-22-2003 1:25 AM


the earth is tilted on its axis. However, stonehenge and the Ramses star-map of Egypt do not line up well as how they should. In fact, if you mapped out how the earth's axis is 'wobbly' you'll find that it is behaving like a spinning top that was struck forcefully about 4.5 thousand years ago (4500 y.a.)
Why do all the other rapidly spinning planets precess like that? Were they struck forcefully by a flood, too? Why does a spinning top that has not been struck by anything precess like that? You need to read some elementary physics, booboo.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 14 by booboocruise, posted 04-22-2003 1:25 AM booboocruise has not replied

  
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 25 of 47 (37681)
04-23-2003 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by PaulK
04-23-2003 4:19 AM


Re: Sanhorn
At this point it seems to me that the most likely explanation is that the whale fossil was found much lower on the mountain and that it was raised to that point by isostatic rebound. Rebounds of over 200m are apparent from the geology.
Note also that rebound has been measured at rates as high as 11 mm per year in this area - that's 11 meters each millenium, and that's in the present, now that the rate has slowed greatly since the initial icemelt.
Ref: Space-Geodetic Constraints on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Fennoscandia G. A. Milne et al., Science 2001 March 23; 291: 2381-2385.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 23 by PaulK, posted 04-23-2003 4:19 AM PaulK has not replied

  
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 27 of 47 (37712)
04-23-2003 4:09 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by booboocruise
04-23-2003 3:58 PM


Re: references
Why on earth should it matter WHAT KIND of seashells they are.
Find out for us what kind they are - you brought up the topic. I think that you will find that the reason it matters is that the suite of shells up there has not existed as living organisms for 20,000,000 years - that's how long that rock has been high and dry.
http://www.whoi.edu/pclift/eostxt.html
[This message has been edited by Coragyps, 04-23-2003]

This message is a reply to:
 Message 26 by booboocruise, posted 04-23-2003 3:58 PM booboocruise has not replied

  
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 34 of 47 (37747)
04-23-2003 8:26 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by booboocruise
04-23-2003 8:07 PM


Re: She sells seashells
The official gazetteer for the US returns no hits for "sanhorn."
U.S. Board on Geographic Names | U.S. Geological Survey
Try again?
Timor is an island between Indonesia and Australia.
[This message has been edited by Coragyps, 04-23-2003]

This message is a reply to:
 Message 33 by booboocruise, posted 04-23-2003 8:07 PM booboocruise has not replied

  
Coragyps
Member (Idle past 765 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 40 of 47 (37760)
04-24-2003 12:41 AM
Reply to: Message 39 by booboocruise
04-24-2003 12:35 AM


Re: Whales was
booboo, where is this mountain you brought to the party?

This message is a reply to:
 Message 39 by booboocruise, posted 04-24-2003 12:35 AM booboocruise has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 42 by NosyNed, posted 04-24-2003 1:39 AM Coragyps has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024