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Coragyps
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Message 49 of 144 (589958)
11-05-2010 9:01 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by slevesque
11-04-2010 2:16 PM


For example, the accumulation of salt in the ocean gives a maximum age consistent with a young earth.
And the accumulation of aluminum in the oceans gives a maximum age consistent with a young earth - very young. Like less than 150 years, Slevesque.
And that age is confirmed to be true, because you don't know a single person who worked on clipper ships before 1900.
Your salt argument is just this absurd.

"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

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Coragyps
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Message 70 of 144 (590374)
11-07-2010 8:19 PM
Reply to: Message 69 by slevesque
11-07-2010 4:37 PM


Re: The Creationist Literature
sand dunes are explained to be underwater sand dunes.
I've challenged many creationists on this board to do this very simple experiment, and to report the results back to the EvC community:
Get a glass pie plate, a protractor, and some sand. Make a pile of sand in the plate, and measure the maximum angle of the cone that dry sand can make.
Repeat the experiment, but making a cone os sand under water, as it would necessarily be in a Global Flood.
Compare angles in in-the-air and in-the-water cases. Look at buried dunes in geology, say, in the Coconino Sandstone in the Grand Canyon. Report those angles back to us, too.
The reality is, had you not have any preconceived notions on how chalk forms, this particular explanation certainly wouldn't jump at you when you would look at chalk for the first time.
T H Huxley put the lie to that before my grandfather was born. Read "On a Piece of Chalk" here:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/Chalk.html

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Coragyps
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Message 75 of 144 (590915)
11-10-2010 2:22 PM
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11-10-2010 1:46 PM


Re: The Creationist Literature
the angle of repose of wet sand at 25 degrees
Wet sand and subaqueous sand are not the same. Do the freakin' experiment!

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Coragyps
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Message 76 of 144 (590921)
11-10-2010 2:31 PM
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11-10-2010 1:52 PM


Re: The Creationist Literature
Why does Chalk look like the product of milions of years of deposition of coccoliths....?
Mr Huxley explained that for you in the link I gave in post #70. He wrote that in 1868. The short answer: because it is the product of millions of years of deposition of coccoliths.

"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

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