Sorry was out visiting my Grandma, didn't have time to give a fast reply, but here U GO!
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Hardly. The only way you can come to that conclusion is if you're making up coral growth rates out of whole cloth. Coral grows very slowly. There's simply no way that the coral reefs we have today could have grown in the past 3500 years.
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First off there is no possible way to date a Coral Reef, in total accuracy. Coral grows at different rates, depending on water temperature, oxygen level, amount of turbulence, and availability of food.
Did you know that the rate of coral growth can be nearly doubled by increasing the temperature by only five degrees Celsius?
At right conditions and taking EVERYTHING in consideration, everything could have grown back in less then 3500 years. Yet it had about 4400 years to do so.
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Moreover, what would the coral have grown from? Your fictional flood would have killed all the coral. The stuff doesn't grow from seeds, you know.
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1st off, it is NOT a fictional Story,
Theory ONE:
God replants the earth and/or protects the "Water World".
Theory TWO:
Coral polyps produce eggs which, after they are fertilized, float through the water until they settle on rocks to create new coral reefs. Great number of eggs are produced at one time! These eggs (Protected by God) float around till they find a fit environment (after the flood) in which they can flourish.
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If you're proposing that all current sea life adapted to salinity in 3500 years, you're proposing rates of macro-evolutionary change that even evolutionists wouldn't countenance. 3500 years isn't enough time to adapt to changing salinity, especially at the rates you're talking about.
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I never said it was 3500 years. Actually I believe it was more like "4400 years since the flood" It is NOT an macro-evolutionary change, I suggest you look that word up again. It's a micro-evolutionary change in which is a SMALL change occurs within a kind. Creationist called "Variation". Which doesn't require long period of time.
Today we now have fresh water crocodiles and salt water crocodiles that are different species but probably had a common ancestor.
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And there's a mile of geologic sediment over most of the Earth's surface. Divide a mile of dirt by 8,000 feet of water and tell me how clear that is. That's like taking one cubic foot of water and adding 5/8ths of a cubic foot of dirt. Would you
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Your assuming that a mile of the sediment was in the water at all time, at all places, and at every level of the water. Your also assuming that the dirt was not laid down till the very last second of the story. Yet that was very unlikely. Taking everything in consideration I don't see how you'd get mud.
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Also the thing you didn't cover was, if the seas weren't salty when Noah sailed his Ark, when did they get salty? If it didn't happen at flood time or soon after, you have even less time for sea species to acclimate to the new salinity, making you even more of a super-evolutionist.
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Theory ONE:
The entire world was largely fresh water. Today about 30% of the rain water washes into the oceans, bringing mineral salts with it. The oceans are getting saltier every day. Today's oceans are about 3.6% salt. Between the salts washing in from ground water and the salts leaching in from subterranean salt domes, the oceans could have gone from fresh water to 3.6% in the 4400 years since the flood. Animals have been adapting to the slow increase in salinity over the last 4400 years.
Theory TWO:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/...ea/AnswersBook/fish14.asp
This message has been edited by TruthisLaw, 07-15-2004 07:07 PM
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