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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
You're lucky to be living in an area that is so filled with evidence that there was no Biblical Flood and that the earth is billions of years old and an area with so many folk to be taught.
Road trips (and Google Earth) will be a great aid. Google Earth is a marvelous way to show what old and young mountains look like. On the Virginia Shore stands Calvert Cliffs, great sand dunes filled with only ancient fossils, teeth from mega sharks and fossil clam shells the size of your head while at the base you can find modern shark teeth and sea shells. There is Stone Mountain. The various early pathways through the mountains let the kids see examples of bedding and layering and various non-conformities. Cumberland Gap is where I got such experiences. In South Carolina there is an ongoing dig , the the Topper site that goes back a fairly long way, to around 30,000 BCE so far IIRC. And don't forget to look up. Show them galaxies. Ask them how far away they might be? How far away from our solar system would you need to be for it to look small enough to cover with one finger? Also one of my favorite examples of the difference between Science and Creationism is Mendeleev's Periodic Table. In a post from almost ten years ago (Message 143) I said:
quote: This difference of approach is both simple to understand and also very important. Just as Mendeleev said "We should find elements that are currently unknown but will have these properties and fit in the overall picture right here.", the work of Wallace and Darwin said here is what we will see. And so far every single new discovery has fit within and support that basic framework. If someone claims to shoot an arrow and hit a target, then we must see an arrow or an arrow hole in the target. If the arrow hole is not there then they did not hit the target. Begin with the assumption something is true. If the flood happened what must we see? Take a look at No genetic bottleneck proves no global flood. If the Universe is only 6000 years old, what must we see? Take a look at the thread Exploring the Grand Canyon, from the bottom up. and see if it helps. Look at simple questions like How to make sand.. One of my favorite learning experiences came from RAZD and his thread Are Uranium Halos the best evidence of (a) an old earth AND (b) constant physics?. Another simple concept involve the fact that change leaves evidence and was touched on in Message 5 of Physical Laws ....What if they were different before?. Anyway, maybe these might help jumpstart a pathway.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
When it comes to layers here are some other threads that might help.
Salt of the Earth (on salt domes and beds) Conclusion vs Presupposition Lake Varve Sediments and the Great FloodAnyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped! |
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Percy is the sole support for this board and actually even wrote all the software that runs it. Right now you have to type the codes but there are quite a few codes not often found on other boards.
We are all very adept though at delegating guilt (what's the point of even having guilt if you can't delegate it) so feel free to blame Percy.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Once you do the experiment with the kids and they record how long it takes for the fine material to settle you can talk about the Green River Varves, over six million repetitions of coarse and the fine material, iteration upon iteration.
How do it happen over and over again?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
and also understand evolution is a fact and that the Theory of Evolution is the only current explanation of life we see and that the Universe is at least 14 billion years old and the earth over 4 billion years old and that mankind has been round for orders of magnitude more than 6000 years and the there has never been a worldwide flood while humans existed.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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One of the great places you can visit online is Chauvet Cave in France where you can find fabulous and sophisticated paintings from 20,000 to over 30,000 years ago.
How did they determine things were that old?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
You can visit them only online. Even research access is severly limited since just the matter of folk's breaths can start mold growing and change humidity levels.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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One of the really great things about Chauvet Cave (and many other sites) is that you find a consilience of method involved.
There is of course radio carbon dating but also other indicators like overlaying of carbonate and silicate materials, nested drawings, the presence of extinct animal bones, the stalactites and stalagmites that could only form after the landslide that sealed the cave off. It is consilience like found here that forms the basis of so much science; that different tools and methods and technology all return similar answers. And it has never been flooded.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The response (and we see it here fairly often) is that conditions in the past were different. The speed of light might have been different.
The answer is that Change Leaves Evidence. What would this universe look like if basic constants like the speed of light were different? What happens to E=mc2 if c doubles? The Large Magellanic Cloud (a close by galaxy) is about 160.000 light years away. If the speed of light changed so that light 160,000 light years away got here so that it could be seen in 964 AD, how fast would the light have to travel?
Other galaxies are even further away. For us to see them today, how fast would the light have to travel? What would that do to E=mc2?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Bishop Sims (at the time the Episcopal Bishop of the Atlanta Georgia diocese ) in a Pastoral letter from 1981 explaining the churches opposition to the attempt to insert Creationism into the Atlanta public schools uses similar reasoning.
You can read the letter here. From the Pastoral Letter. (a Pastoral Letter is read aloud in every church within the diocese)
quote: Edited by jar, : fix sub-titleAnyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Wiki is a good introduction but is not a high grade resource.
We can have evidence that natural laws have remained constant over extremely long periods of time but Uniformitarianism goes beyond that. It assumes also that processes remained the same, that mountains do not get higher as they erode, that rain falls down and not up, that collisions raise mountains and do not create oceans, that water sorts by particle size and does not sort by species. It's always possible that at some time continents colliding did not cause mountains or that rain fell up not down or that as mountains eroded they got higher or that floods really did sort by species. But if that were true then we are faced with an end to learning, the answer to everything is simply "God did it". You need to remember that for many people that is not simply a possible answer but rather the desired answer. When faced with that situation I generally point out that if true then there is no reason to expect brakes to slow your car, antibiotics to cure infections, wings to lift a plane, the sun to rise tomorrow or for God not to simply wipe all Christians from the face of the earth.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I guess what I'm struggling with is calling the scientific position on this "assumptions" rather than conclusions based observed evidence. It seems to me that in the physical realm where we can explore, if floods really did sort by species at some point, then what we would find is fossils in flood sediment sorted by species, etc. We don't have to assume it wouldn't happen -- we can just look at the evidence. But you can look at the evidence and find what you want. For example in the past floods sorted in a manner that excluded grass pollen. Other floods excluded all modern species. The Biblical flood sorted so that no humans got mixed in with dinosaurs.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The flood sorted things so humans and dinosaurs ended up in different layers. Ask Faith.
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Perhaps you can get Faith to present the method and process in her imagined flood that laid down the iridium layer and also the white cliffs of Dover which she has also claimed as the result of the flood.
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: I've discussed all this stuff elsewhere. This is tiresome and your attitude is offensive. Then it should be no problem for you to actaually provide links to anywhere that you discussed all this stuff Faith. Any links Faith? Any model Faith? Any process Faith?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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