Dinosaurs explained biblically

You spent a lot of your post giving minute details of the flood and its circumstances.Unfortunately, you are missing the big picture. There was no global flood about 4,350 years ago. There is a huge body of evidence that contradicts the idea of a global flood, but no reliable scientific evidence at all supporting that idea.In other words, its a myth.What you are doing is the equivalent of explaining in minute detail how the Easter Bunny lays and then delivers millions of colored eggs and chocolate bunnies each spring.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

I take it that you disagree with my comment. Unfortunately, you did not specify how you disagree.But just in case you need additional data, here are two points in which you may be interested:

1) I have been doing archaeology in the western US for decades. If there was a global flood 4,350 years ago, we would expect to see evidence in the approximately 4,350 year old soils. We should see a major discontinuity followed by sedimentary soils. We do not see this. But as a check to see whether our method is correct, we do see evidence of post-glacial floods in southern and eastern Washington. Google "Channeled Scablands" for details. These smaller floods were created by ice dams in the area of the Idaho panhandle, and they dammed glacial meltwater east as far as Missoula, Montana. We can date these floods, and determine their extents. All of this evidence would have been wiped out by a far larger flood at a third the age. Further, if we can see the remains of the older floods, and study their extents, our methods for tracking floods archaeologically are adequate.

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2. A small cave in southern Alaska produced human remains dated to 10,300 years ago. Through mtDNA analysis, over 40 living individuals were found with the same mtDNA lineage stretching from California to the tip of South America. This suggests an early coastal migration and a complete lack of replacement of early mtDNA by mtDNA associated with Noah's kin.

Both of these lines of evidence show that there was no global flood about 4,350 years ago.Perhaps you should check your a priori beliefs, as it is entirely possible that some of them are wrong.If that makes us "pathetic" so be it. Perhaps you would be more comfortable in whatever YECho chamber you have frequented in the past, as apparently you are not accustomed to having your beliefs questioned.Edited by Coyote, : Spelling

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

I wasn't trying to slight the other 99 categories in my post. Far from it.I was limiting the evidence to things I had actually participated in (I did not help with the 10,300 year old mtDNA, but I did conduct a similar, but younger, study. It was still significantly older than the 4,350 year date attributed to the global flood.)This way there would not be a convenient canned answer to my evidence over on Answers in Genesis or one of those other creationist sites. Might encourage some independent thinking, eh?

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

How about posting what you are really saying in your own words.Arguing by links is not permitted here. You can make your arguments and then support them by links.But I am fairly familiar with fossil man, so I would enjoy hearing what you have to say.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.