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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Welcome, I'm looking forward to learn from you
Could you, before you start, indicate whether you have any qualifications in any of the natural sciences? If you do, which one of them and your field of expertise? Edited by Pressie, : Changed last sentence Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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One thing I don't understand is why you've got this either creation or evolution stance, seeing that the overwhelming majority of religious scientists also accept the theory of evolution?
It thus seems that it's not an either or situation. Why do you think it is?
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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This one was quote humerous:
.....and the smoke and mirrors fantasy of the speculative sciences of the ancient past The mining companies I work for are pretty happy about the 'speculative sciences of the ancient past' built by geologists. Those models seem to be very accurate. And mining companies tend to make lots of money using those models. Those models work. I've never seen a mining company praying for their models. I've always seen them paying geologists to do the work, though. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
This one is funny:
I'll say it again. Archaeology is one of the sciences that deals with the past where the interpretations and speculations cannot be verified. Excuse me. It sure can. The objective, empirical, verifiable evidence. You've got nothing, Faith. Just an old book. One amongst thousands of them. Archaeology has got objective, empirical, verifiable evidence. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Faith's 'arguments' (about those photos placed in this thread ) remind me about a great post from Dr Adequate some time ago. It explained exactly what ‘uniformatism’ is and how it is used by geologists.
EvC Forum: Would ID/Creationists need new, independant dating techniques?? quote: Edited by Pressie, : Spelling
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Yes, you can. We see them all over. Seen those photo's provided on this thread? They are lithified beach deposits.
If it looks like a lithified sand dune, it surely is not a chocolate cake from your mommy's kitchen. It is a lithified sand dune. Do you even know what the word lithified means? Let me give you a hint: it doesn't mean 'magic'. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Sure. Lithified sand dunes in the Clarens Formation, Karoo Sequence.
Some of the many, many references ( I just reference two groundbreaking of many, many studies here): Du Toit, A.L. 1918. The zones of the Karoo System and their distribution: Proc. Geol. Soc S. Afr., 21, p xviii-xxxvii Beukes, N.J. 1969. Die sedimentologie van Etage Holkranssandsteen, Sisteem Karoo: M.Sc. thesis, Univ. Orange Free State. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Faith writes:
You are being of course as vague as possible, but the Karoo system is full of fossils Not being vague at all. Those references are there for you to read. The Karoo Sequence does contain fossils; they are in sequence from the bottom to the top. Both plant and animal fossils. In different members and formations. Those members, formations and groups also have a pattern from bottom to top...
... and therefore represents the Flood deposits which would include lithified sediments. Err, all lithified sediments are lithified sediments.
... As I said, which you apparently ignored, you will not find lithified beaches or dunes on the SURFACE of the earth, .... Not ignored at all. It's obvious that you don't know what the word 'lithified' means.
... only in the strata and wherever lithified sediments with fossil contents are found, that is, where they were rapidly buried so as to become lithified and the buried creatures fossilized. Err. Hope you do know that organic material normally have to get buried for fossilisation to occur.
That describes the Karoo.
Nope. Have you ever seen a Karoo 'rock'? Hope you do know that tens of thousands of geologists have actually studied those rocks, themselves? Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Faith writes:
Show me a lithified beach please that was never buried, or a lithified sand dune that was never buried. You still don't know what the word 'lithified' means.
And stop being so cutesy about the Karoo formation. I know it contains a bazillion fossils....
So do those geologists and paleontologists who actually study the Karoo Sequence.
... so I regard it as a Flood deposit. Luckily what or what or not you regard is of no value at all. What is important are those tens of thousands of geologists and palaeontologists who have actually studied the Karoo Sequence. And publish their findings. Those mining companies, hiring those tens of thousands of geologists, are way more important than you. Unlike you, they actually put their money where their mouths are.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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Tangle wrote:
It's the most successful conspiracy of all time: it's independent of political party, religion, gender, race, and country and it's held up for a couple of centuries. It even seems to work in the real world - finding oil, making drugs, sending mechanical objects far into space. It sure must be the most successfull conspiracy theory ever. I can see old Igor (ex-KGB), Fritz (German Intelligence agency), Lee (Chinese Intelligence Agency), Bro (CIA), David (Mossad), Muhammed (Iranian Intelligence Agency), Carlos (Argentinian Intelligence Agency); Japie (South African Intelligence agency), Nigel (SI5); all sitting together around a camp fire (at Camp David, most propably) declaring: 'The world is lots of years old', take that. Stuff the YEC "research"!
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Faith writes:
quote: Really? Please explain exactly what 'Old Earth theory' is. I've never heard of such a scientific theory in my life. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
You wrote:
No, I don't consider them to be intentionally deceiving us, I think they are deceived but it's got an iron grip on them they refuse to let go. I have nothing against geology as such you see, but I have a lot against evolutionism, and since geologists are also evolutionists insofar as they share the same view of the strata and the fossil record, I call them evolutionists. It's really not such a complicated thing as you would prefer to make it out to be. Do you actually know what you write, Faith? Living in Colorado I guess? (Nothing against people of Colorado at all. Legally smoking weed from the first of January is what I'm referring to). Whoopieeeeeee! Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : Chamged sentence
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