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Faith Inactive Member |
MICROevolution is all around me, species-to-species evolution is a delusion.
Yeah, well you made up your god, he says what you want him to say. Mine inspired 66 written testimonies of Him by at least forty men over 1500 years and He says the earth is young. He also said His Creation was "good." But after the Fall and the increasing wickedness of humanity He destroyed the entire earth with water. I take a lot of abuse for believing Him but I believe Him and I'm not going to stop believing Him. Since I know what He has said is true I know there has to be physical evidence of the Flood and it's an interesting challenge to try to find it. Some of it is really quite obvious, but that doesn't make it easy to get across to someone who refuses to see it.
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Pressie Member Posts: 1998 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: Member Rating: 3.7
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Unfortunately for you, 'species to species evolution' has been directly observed, both in nature and in laboratories. Multiple times. Here's an example: http://www.newscientist.com/...leap-to-multicellularity.html Unicellular organisms evolved into multicellular organisms. In the laboratory. Speciation occurred. The evolution of cells developing certain 'jobs' occurred, too. Cells start specialising . Both speciation and specialing of cells. Right in front of our very own eyes. No delusion involved.
Actually, isn't it supposed to be 73 'testimonies' (Catholic Bible)? Or actually 72 as in the original Christian 'Holy Books'? Edited by Pressie, : No reason given. Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Tangle Member Posts: 6615 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.8
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Ok. That means that before the flood there weren't enough coccoliths to cause them to solidify or there was enough but some magical force prevented it doing so.
Yes, as above. But a geological "ooze" isn't what we normally call an ooze, it's rock
Also, you only have only 2,000 years to build enough ooze to form at least 400m of rock for a process we know takes 1,000 years to form a maximum of 10cm
Let's compare the two ideas: 1. What geologists say happened The chalk cliffs are composed of the microscopic skeletons of various forms of plankton. These plankton live in the top layers of the ocean and when they die their skeletons which are composed mostly of calcium carbonate sink slowly to the bottom of the ocean and slowly build chalk rock. When the layer of rock form, they combine with the bodies of bottom living organisms such as molluscs and shrimps which become fossilised. Just to be clear, these skeletons - called coccoliths - are tiny, here's a scanning electron microscope's picture of one:
Can you begin to imagine how many of those you need to make my cliffs? There are bands in the chalk formed of flints and quartz and other bits and pieces. This describes it better than I can:
The chalk is not all the same showing time passing. It also shows purity, meaning that the seas were clear of debris and a long way from land:
Chalk is also only formed in warm (20C) water - I can confirm that the waters here are NOT 20C. So it built up during the long periods of much warmer climate millions of years ago.
These conditions lasted a long time:
There are three identifiable layers in the chalk showing a gradual change in conditions over time:
If you look at the chalk cliffs themselves, you see thin (6"+) layers of flint stones the size of your hand +/-. These flints can only form after the the layers of microscopic chalk have formed. The thin lines here are the flints:
Close up:
The flints are formed from silicates deposited from living sponges and silicate plankton which resolve and re-precipitate. (You obviously realise that if all this could be churned up in your flood and allow to settle - it couldn't chalk is rock - all the flints would be at the bottom, not layered as they are.) The flints, btw are not little pebbles, we build walls and houses out of them here:
All of this tells the same consistent story of very long periods of time and different climates. 2. Faith's view a) in the 2 thousand or so years before the flood in an un-solidified state, then churned up by the flood and allowed to settle in the 4,500 years after the flood. Note that for this you also have to explain the layers of flint that would not settle into neat lines about the less dense coccoliths, why the coccoliths are not rock, why there are three types of chalk signifying differing climates, how the water was very clear allowing pure chalk to form and how the water was at 20C. b) the chalk formed after the flood. For this you have to explain how the rate of between 1-10cm per thousand years changed to something many, many times faster. Science says it takes 4m years minimum, you have a couple of thousand. (I say a couple of thousand to be generous, because we've been using flint to build stuff for as long as that here.) You also have to shift it from where it was formed - in a warm, shallow ocean far away from the land which would pollute it to where it is now - in my back garden, 100m above sea level. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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RAZD Member Posts: 19732 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Microevolution ... is indistinguishable from macroevolution ... it's just a different time scale ... but it is going on now as well. If you look at a movie frame by frame you don't see movement, it is only when you look at the frames flickering past that this becomes apparent. The process of evolution involves changes in the composition of hereditary traits, and changes to the frequency of their distributions within breeding populations from generation to generation, in response to ecological challenges and opportunities. This has been observed and it is a fact that this happens all around us. If we look at the continued effects of evolution over many generations, the accumulation of changes from generation to generation may become sufficient for individuals to develop combinations of traits that are observably different from the ancestral parent population. This lineal change within species is sometimes called phyletic change in species, or phyletic speciation. This is also sometimes called arbitrary speciation in that the place to draw the line between linearly evolved genealogical populations is subjective, and because the definition of species in general is tentative and sometimes arbitrary. The process of phyletic change in species with the accumulation of changes over many generations, is an observed, known objective fact, and not an untested hypothesis.d The process of divergent speciation involves the division of a parent population into two or more reproductively isolated daughter populations, which then are free to (micro) evolve independently of each other. The process ofdivergent speciation with the subsequent formation of a branching nested genealogy of descent from common ancestor populations is an observed, known objective fact, and not an untested hypothesis. This means that the basic process of "macroevolution" is an observed, known objective fact, and not an untested hypothesis, even if major groups of species are not directly observed forming (which would take many many generations). But that is species to species evolution, Faith ... it has been observed.
Love your tolerance, especially when you whine about intolerance for your ideas. No it is not the bible that tells you the earth is young -- that is an invention of people, and the people that make this interpretation can't agree on time and age ... because they make it up with massive assumptions.
You take a lot of abuse for making stuff up, stuff that has nothing to do with Jesus and stuff that is not specified in the bible. Your posting on the Grand Canyon is typical of this: there is no mention of the Grand Canyon in the bible -- that is all you. Curiously I have no problem with people believing in gods and their kin, but I do have problems with people spouting ignorant and false concepts as if they were blessed truths instead of fabrications made to fit the world into a man-made fantasy. And so, no you have not explained how the chalk beds have the depth of deposits seen at Dover, nor have you explained the magic sorting into layers of different species with transitions from species to species as you travel through the layers. Enoy. Enjoy. by our ability to understand Rebel American Zen Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. • • • Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click) • • •
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Theodoric Member Posts: 5918 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.3
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Why are you wasting your time making these arguments? Why don't you use your prime argument? Godidit. He magically poofed the chalk into existence. Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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ringo Member Posts: 16136 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.1 |
OK. Thanks for the correction.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 1960 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 7.4
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That's it? You just make your assertion and think someone...anyone is going to accept it? This is a Science Forum.
So, that is your argument. You could save yourself a lot of typing if you just post that. What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 3760 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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There are so many traps she has set for herself she cannot keep up. We cannot expect the poor girl to continue to pull these things out of her … eh … air every time so she has to resort to something like:
No clue as to what it might be, whether it is feasible or not, possible or not, but it has to be there. The reason, of course, is that Faith's faith is quite weak and tenuously hangs from the gossamer thread of biblical literalism. Any discrepancy, no matter how small, will bring the inerrant bible, thus her faith and her very reason for existing, crashing down around her ears. This she cannot allow to happen so no matter how impossible an explanation is, it must be true to keep the bible true. If she cannot pull an explanation from ... the air … then there are the blanket “there has to be a mechanical principle”, “there has to be a mechanism”, ”there has to be a way” articles of (tenuous) faith. So why do we all continue like this? You, me, Faith, all of us … why? There is, of course, an answer we like to use which brings me to the real reason for this post. All the above was mere verbose window dressing so I can say that I am keeping on topic with a straight face. The reason we do this, knowing neither is going to sway the other regardless of logic, faith or strength of argument, is for the “lurkers”; that silent majority hidden in the clouds of the internet looking down upon these proceedings gleaning some useful information and understanding to benefit their own thoughts and outlook. We do this to sway Them, to inform Them, to educate and inspire Them. Except Them aren't there. I have two masters degrees. One is in Economics. That has helped me in my professional life but doesn't do much for me in this discussion. I only bring it up, in addition to being verbose, to brag on myself even though I know that in this community the academic achievements as well as the non-degreed expertise represented here far out weighs my meager effort. But, I also have a masters in Computer Science, specifically Database Design in Automated Systems. Yeah, it's an old archaic degree but this was 40 some years ago when the most powerful computers were 2 meg, 1.7 mip boxes the size of an Olds 88 with a 30 meg 11-platter disk drive the size of a dishwasher cabled in, and the most popular program language then also began with a “C” but had “OBOL” instead of a “+” or a “++” after it. Still, I have, somewhat, kept up with the state of the technology so I knew that such things existed but the full realization did not hit me until recently. Instead of Them watching us, living and learning as we all assumed, what is hidden in the clouds of the internet looking down upon these proceedings are Searchbots. Thousands of them. Their goal is to index every word and image of every page on the net and then pack it all into those search engine databases like Google, NSA, Bing and that GoDuckDuckGoDuckGo thing. There are so many of them now that they have pushed all of the lurkers off the net. At the top of this page you see the line with the number of folks now online in this domain. Right now it reads 207 Online (10 members, 197 visitors). Of those 197 visitors fully 344 of them are mindless searchbots (yeah, that's how insidious they are) indexing away without any comprehension of anything we say here. And there is always, these days, the possibility that some of our “members” are really searchbots in disguise. Straggler? You there? We know Tanypteryx is one cause that bot screwed up and indexed its finds here (Message 23) instead of in a search engine database. I wouldn't be surprised if Crash Frog got resurrected, again, as a searchbot! (for those of you who haven't been here for long that's kind of an inside joke, sorry) Anyway … the searchbots have taken control of the cloud and destroyed all lurkerdom, all so when you put some useful word (evolution) into a search you can get “wholesale prices on evolution” over here and “the widest selection of evolution” over there. So now we are engaged in a struggle in this and other threads to win debates and to change the minds of those active participants who will never be changed, we know will never be changed, all for the sake of those who are not there, are not listening, are not watching because they have all been “bot” out. God, what a long fuckin' way to go for such a stu*id joke. Edited by AZPaul3, : forgot all about my st*pid banned word. Edited by AZPaul3, : itallics
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 1960 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 7.4 |
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member
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Wait, that doesn't add up. I checked on my calculator. Typo? How many of the visitors do you really think are searchbots?
I hope you didn't use 344 out of 197 on purpose as a joke.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 3760 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Your calculator has not kept up with the technology.
More than all of them.
Pishaw! Me?
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Coragyps Member Posts: 5375 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Faith, dear heart: Why are those cliffs white, top to bottom, in the OP picture? Violent currents swept up the ooze, right? They transported the ooze across many miles of ocean, right? And they didn't mix any dirt in? Really? http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/Chalk.html is pretty nice piece from T.H. Huxley. From 145 years ago. It puts the lie to your hypothesis.
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 1013 days) Posts: 3808 From: Adirondackia Joined:
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Because it feels so good when we stop. "If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Faith Inactive Member |
I dunno how it was formed, Cor-Cor, I was trying out some questions and I don't have a clear opinion about how it got there yet. But as for dirt in the mix, most of the strata sediments are pretty homogenous too and you'd have to get up very close to see other sediments mixed in. HOWEVER, I don't have an opinion yet, as I said. I'm enjoying that article by Huxley though. I like that kind of writing and thinking. It's too long to read all at once right now so if he says anything that casts light on my question I'll come back later and let you know. I am, however, VERY intrigued by his revelation of the extent of the chalk formations, from England across Europe to the Aral Sea, north to Denmark, south to North Africa. Very intrigued.
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Pollux Member Posts: 240 Joined: |
Unfortunately Faith, like ICR et al., says any evidence that contradicts the Bible is false.
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