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Message 61 of 427 (791038)
09-09-2016 11:38 AM
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09-09-2016 9:53 AM


Re: On Meanders
Faith writes:
The Grand Canyon meander was also cut in flat terrain which is clearly seen in the picture posted above. The idea that the levels were caused by erosion is nonsensical; they are clearly rings showing former levels of the river, which was obviously very deep when it started.
Sorry but that makes absolutely no sense at least in the English language.
If the Colorado River canyon began on a flat plain how could it be very deep when it started? On a flat plain water simply spreads out.

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Message 62 of 427 (791041)
09-09-2016 12:52 PM
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Re: On Meanders
Ok take that meander - it looks pretty slow and gentle to me.
Now imagine that flat landscape covered by 40,000 feet of water that suddenly has to drain away somewhere. I can't see why it wouldn't go out just like a tide. Unlike ice, it's properly fluid, it wouldn't gouge huge channels, it would take the least line of resistence, it would simply slide away frictionlessly until it got to ground level leaving a flatish landscape strewn with boulders and trees. A bit like what happens after a real flood:

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Message 63 of 427 (791042)
09-09-2016 1:26 PM
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09-09-2016 10:17 AM


Re: On Meanders
So if you can find oil and gas using YEC geology...tell me how you do it.
Explain to me how you use the relative dating and the "morphology" to find an unknown and undiscovered oil and gas deposit.
I am sitting here waiting for the explanation of the methodology you use.

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Message 70 of 427 (791049)
09-09-2016 1:54 PM
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09-09-2016 1:53 AM


I am merely reporting what I've been told by former YECs who worked successfully in oil exploration while operating under a YEC paradigm.
"while operating under a YEC paradigm" does not seem to mean applying YEC assumptions, but simply not worrying about how old stuff was while searching for oil, and while continuing to believe the earth was young. It does not seem to mean that assuming a young earth was the least bit helpful in finding oil.

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Message 71 of 427 (791050)
09-09-2016 1:58 PM


BTW, Faith's explanations violate basic laws of physics, but she is so stupid she doesn't realize this. Ask her to explain the angular unconformity at the grand canyon. violates basic physics .All of her explanations for a strat column anywhere violate basic laws of physics, chemistry, biology and math.
Is it possible for a mentally ill person to think they have an understanding of geology.........well this thread and many others prove that is true.

  
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Message 72 of 427 (791051)
09-09-2016 2:15 PM
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09-09-2016 1:54 PM


The YEC paradigm violates basic laws of physics and chemistry. As such it has no use in predicting anything, regardless of what you may think.

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Message 73 of 427 (791055)
09-09-2016 3:10 PM
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09-08-2016 5:03 PM


So if you concede {oil is} findable by YEC methods welcome to the club and I'll expect you to bring your arguments to bear against the OE guys.
Uh, just where did anyone "concede it's findable by YEC methods"? Rather, what I've been seeing them say is that a YEC who follows standard geological practice would be able to find oil. Nothing about YEC methods being useful in that endeavor.
There are many analogies we can draw from. You could have the most hare-brained wrong ideas about cooking and baking, but so long as you follow the recipe you will get the desired results. But where did those recipes come from? From cooks and bakers who did understand food science and how cooking and baking does actually work.
In Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation (1951), after the predicted collapse of the Galactic Empire, the Foundation started to export technology cloaked as religion. The neighboring worlds would send their acolytes to be trained by the Foundation priests and those technician-priests would perform the requisite rituals and say the requisite prayers and then push the green button to start up the fusion reactor, etc. I read that when I was an Air Force computer repair technician and I saw how that applied to several of the technicians I was working with. You do not need to understand how something works in order to operate or maintain it; all you need to is to know and to follow the procedures for those tasks. And who wrote those procedures? People who do actually know how those systems work.
So for a YEC to be able to find oil, he needs to use procedures developed and published by old-earth geologists (OEG, AKA "real geologists"). That YEC will not be using YEC methods, but rather OEG methods. That a YEC following OEG methods should be able to find oil does not in any way validate YEC methods.
The formation of the geologic structures which trap oil cannot be explained by YEC methods. The distribution of index fossils cannot be explained by YEC methods. The association of oil and gas with such structures and such index fossils cannot be explained by YEC methods. However, they can all be explained by OEG methods.
Furthermore, early in the history of oil exploration it took OEG knowledge and understanding to anticipate what kinds of structures and which index fossils to should be associate with oil and gas deposits. The only way that association could have been worked out without OEG would have been purely by trial and error.
Though there have been attempts to use YEC methods to explore for oil. One YEC explanation for oil formation is by meteor impact and some YECs have tried exploring about impact sites, but with no success. There's also at least one company, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc, (reported about on NPR, 2013 Nov 27) which has been using the Bible to find oil without any success, though they do raise a lot of money from fundamentalist donations (kind of reminds one of Mel Brooks' The Producers).
So when you use OEG methods you can find oil, but not when you use YEC methods.

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Message 74 of 427 (791058)
09-09-2016 5:55 PM


and old human habitation sites in the Americas.
Another reason to throw the idea of a Young Earth on the trash heap of history are all the human habitation sites over 10,000 years old just in the Americas.
There's Topper that pushes human occupation in the Americas back over 40,000 years.
And Bluefish caves.
And Meadowcroft Rock Shelter.
And Monte Verde in southern Chile.
There's Anzic-1 and the Haida peoples of British Columbia.
There's Cactus Hill and Saltville in Virginia.
Since it is very likely that there were human population in the Americas thousands of years before the creation dates marketed by Young Earth Creationists the whole idea of a young Earth is once again refuted.

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Message 75 of 427 (791059)
09-09-2016 6:05 PM
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09-09-2016 5:55 PM


Re: and old human habitation sites in the Americas.
The oldest date I've obtained personally in the western US is 9,410 BP.
Another site you could add to the list: the Manis Mastodon Site in Sequim, WA. Several dates there are on the close order of 13,800 BP.
Another site, one that I worked on, is the Marmes Rockshelter, in central Washington. It goes past 11,000 BP.
There are quite a few others as well.
All show that the young earth idea fails. And try as the might creationists have not been able to find any flaws in radiocarbon dating, though they will often shout "assumptions," as if that invalidated a whole branch of science.

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