Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
2 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,817 Year: 3,074/9,624 Month: 919/1,588 Week: 102/223 Day: 0/13 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   The Flood = many coincidences
Peg
Member (Idle past 4930 days)
Posts: 2703
From: melbourne, australia
Joined: 11-22-2008


Message 14 of 445 (490850)
12-09-2008 3:12 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Blue Jay
12-08-2008 11:26 AM


Re: The Flood... Again (sigh).
gday bluejay
bluejay writes:
there's this pesky thing called "radiometric dating" that you're going to have to face up to sooner or later. Like most creationists and IDists, you have simply assumed that you can just dismiss radiometric dating as “iffy” and “inaccurate” without having to actually resort to using evidence.
Dating IS iffy, different labs have given different dates... an example of such was in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where fossils of apelike animals attracted special attention because their finders claimed they were linked to humans.
First measurements of argon in the volcanic tuff in which the fossils were found showed an age of 1.75 million years. But later measurements at another qualified laboratory gave results a half million years younger. then the ages of other layers of tuff, above and below, were not consistent. Sometimes the upper layer had more argon than the one below it. But this is all wrong, geologically speaking”the upper layer had to be deposited after the lower and should have less argon.
So if the results of radiometric dating are not consistent, then their is something wrong with the method and it cant be trusted.
bluejay writes:
Second, your link leads to an article about a mammoth estimated to be 50,000 years old. By comparison, the Cretaceous Period was 65 to 145 million years ago, and the Jurassic was directly before that. I’m not sure why there is a mammoth article here at all.
Third, I’m calling your (or your source’s) bluff: nobody has found Jurassic creatures in the Cretaceous Period. I will gladly retract this statement if you show me the fossils in question.
that article shows that along side the mammoth fossil, they pulled up a "The hunt, involving 75 people, also unearthed the leg bone and vertebra from an Ice Age deer and belemnites, the remains of squid-like creatures from the Jurassic period, some 150m years ago"
bluejay writes:
So, is it your opinion that the seafloor should be completely flat in the absence of a flood?
no, my suggestion is that perhaps the earth is STILL flooded by water

This message is a reply to:
 Message 4 by Blue Jay, posted 12-08-2008 11:26 AM Blue Jay has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 15 by Granny Magda, posted 12-09-2008 5:07 AM Peg has not replied
 Message 16 by PaulK, posted 12-09-2008 7:20 AM Peg has not replied
 Message 17 by JonF, posted 12-09-2008 7:51 AM Peg has not replied
 Message 18 by NosyNed, posted 12-09-2008 12:08 PM Peg has not replied
 Message 19 by Blue Jay, posted 12-09-2008 12:53 PM Peg has not replied
 Message 20 by Architect-426, posted 12-11-2008 12:25 AM Peg 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