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Author Topic:   Fossils, strata and the flood
PaulK
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Message 3 of 163 (558167)
04-30-2010 2:46 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by killinghurts
04-30-2010 2:07 AM


There are some possible sorting mechanisms (such as hydrodynamic sorting), so a completely random order would not be expected. However the actual order observed is well beyond anything that could be expected from the Flood.
All YECs have is a collection of ad hoc hypotheses that do not come close to explaining the actual data.

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PaulK
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Message 47 of 163 (558464)
05-01-2010 2:54 PM
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05-01-2010 2:18 PM


Re: Flood evidence is everywhere you look
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This is an example really and quite simply how the two sides interpret the exact same evidence but the interpretation is completely opposite. Both you and Faith agree with the evidence...that there is a sizable marine fossil record where it should not be...up high in the mountains. The difference is clearly how the two sides believe the fossils got there.
The difference is that creationists do NOT deal with all the evidence. The Flood simply is not a viable explanation of the geological record. The order of the fossils - the subject of this thread - is one of the reasons why. And you will note that Faith has not dealt with it.
We know that mountains grow by slow pressure deforming the rocks, pushing them upward. We know that the rock was already rock by that time. Conventional geology has absolutely no problem with this. Flood "geologists" have to explain how it could all happen is so short a time - without anyone noticing it or anything equivalent in modern times !

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Message 49 of 163 (558466)
05-01-2010 3:13 PM
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05-01-2010 3:03 PM


Re: Flood evidence is everywhere you look
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Think about what you just said Paul...of course, if Noah's flood were true, no one would have been around to observe. Noah and his family were in the ark.
I did think about it - and more than you did. If you want nobody to be around to observe you are stuck with allowing even less time, making an even bigger problem. You can't have the rock lithify and be deformed into a mountain in a few years ! And the size of the alleged Flood (which is ruled out by many other lines of evidence) makes no difference to that at all!

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