Hi purple,
In
Message 24 you quoted Faith:
quote:
The existence of marine fossils in mountains and deserts is also great evidence for a worldwide flood.
To me, it seems that the confusion is between "evidence" and "evidence that supports a
specific conclusion".
I don't know if this will help, but allow me to bring in "The Dreaded Analogy":
Suppose a person is found shot to death in my house. My fingerprints are all over the place.
The fingerprints are "evidence", but they do not support any
specific scenario. I live here, so my fingerprints
will be everywhere. It is only in the
details of where they are and where they are not that we have evidence
for any specific scenario.
Similarly, fossils being everywhere is not evidence for a
specific scenario. There are lots of possible ways in which fossils could have been distributed all over the world. Only by studying the details can we form a valid conclusion on
which scenario is most probable.
So, while the fossils are evidence, in and of themselves they are not evidence "for" anything.
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