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Author Topic:   Is the TOE falsifiable and if it was, would it advance Biblical Creationism
DBlevins
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Message 153 of 169 (344424)
08-28-2006 7:20 PM
Reply to: Message 148 by Faith
08-28-2006 6:27 PM


Re: Evidence
Seriously, however, it's a more parsimonious or elegant explanation than having to postulate a different local dunking for each mountain on which you find marine fossils.
To quote a good movie in regards to your use of the word "Parsimonious", 'I do not think it means what you think it means..."
If the geology all over the world showed a major flood deposit (relatively uniform throughout the world) that could be dated to the same date with all the same species which were all sorted in order of their sinking (such that you find a remarkably uniform sorting of species in worldwide deposits), then you might have hit upon something. But the fact is that the noadic flood explanation for many of the geology features of this world is in no uncertain terms so far from being "parsimonious", that it borders on the inane. The scientific community has rejected that explanation roughly 150 years.
We don't find uniform flood deposits throughout the world that can be dated to about the same time. What we do find are evidences of local floods sometimes on large scales, such as the flooding of the black sea, or mediterranean, or when large tsunamis hit coastal areas. All of the geological evidence for flood deposits do not show any uniform worldwide catastrophe.
You seem to be confused to mem, when you make statements such as
...than having to postulate a different local dunking for each mountain on which you find marine fossils.
As far as I am aware, nobody is postulating a "dunking" for each mountain you find marine fossils. What people WILL tell you is that the uplift of land that was formally a marine environment is a constant feature of our world. It is still happening today, sometimes in dramatic fashion. NOBODY is saying individual massive flood events covered each mountain and deposited marine animals on their top. Those marine deposits were already deposited BEFORE the land got uplifted to form dry land, or their was a recession of the ocean, as the ocean cycled from transgression to recession. THIS is what we see in the rock record, and why the TOE is a very elegant explanation for what the rock record tells us.

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