Unfinished business
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I've already explained that kilometers of water would have protected those on the ark. The peak deay rates may have been well into the flood.
And in both my posts in this thread I have concentrated on sources of radiation that would not be at the bottom of the sea. Why belabor this point when it isn’t relevant? I hope it isn’t necessary for me to repeat this.
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You have a very good point about the radiation contributions from the air - and it would seem to be a sceanrio killer. I think it is the argon in the air that is most dangerous(???) Guess where it comes from? Radioactive decay of heavy elements. It would have taken time for the argon to diffuse out of the rocks. Anybody - feel free to correct me on this paragraph. The message - there are a hundred potential reasons why the flood could be a myth but we need to look at it within our scenario not the mainstrem scenario and, as with mainstream science, allow for future developments.
Okay, I’ll look at this with a flood geologists point of view.
Radon is a decay product of Radium. Much of the Radium in the environment is found in sediments and is water soluble. You say that much of the sediments found on earth were transported and laid down by this flood, so it only stands to reason that the Radium in those sediments were distributed throughout the water column.
Radon itself is water soluble and highly volatile. It enters the atmosphere readily from water. Especially aerated water.
The flood scenarios I have seen you propose in these pages surely must have been a turbulent affair bringing much of the sediments containing Radium near the waters surface. This would aid Radon entering the atmosphere.
You said in Message 5 of this thread:
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Preliminary work by flood geologists estimates that 2.5 km of water is sufficent to protect Noah and the animals from catastrophic radiation damage.
And now you admit some sort of damage was caused by this accelerated decay.
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My point on the longevity drops is that the radiation may have been the cause! Assume I'm not being irrelevant and you'll find my posts easier to understand.
Maybe you would care to describe what this damage was, and how it manifested itself over a number of generations.
BTW, I wasn’t able to find anything at ICR that deals with 2.5 km of water shielding those on the ark.