A personal shortcoming I'm afraid that I have to frequently atone for, but it just chaps my cheeks when someone I've never seen on these threads helicopters in and takes a drive-by cheap shot.
I think you've driven more away from your cause than attracted with your ranting on this thread.
The cause is probably not what you think. "The flood" is just one example of catastrophism I choose to champion. The source of the account of the flood could have been any one of numerous accounts from around the world. The Bible is but one of them. To deny that "a" flood(or floods) happened is tantamount to saying these ancient people were liars and frauds, no? Or in the opinion of the scientific establishment, these people just weren't as smart as we are and couldn't tell the difference between a flood and a crawfish hole.
My advice to you, stay off the GGG threads if you can't conduct yourself in a mannered fashion.
Sound advice for the most part but you've maybe noticed I don't spend nearly as much time replying on these threads as I once did. I still read most of them and pretty much hold my peace until something truly strikes a nerve. The frustration level with the scientific establishment and the parroting of their talking points gives me heartburn.
Pal, when you're reduced to calling facts and truth "a cheap shot", you have to know something is wrong with your mind's logical software.
ForGod'sSake: "To deny that "a" flood(or floods) happened is tantamount to saying these ancient people were liars and frauds, no?
Or in the opinion of the scientific establishment, these people just weren't as smart as we are and couldn't tell the difference between a flood and a crawfish hole."
Your own words, "fool and liar" more and more describe your own posts here, pal.
That's because, for over 100 years, all scientists have well understood there were many ancient floods & other natural disasters which had significant effects on local, regional and even global species populations.
So, why do you pretend otherwise?
That ancient peoples eventually recorded some such events, as they remembered them, seems also indisputable.
But none of this -- none -- provides physical scientific evidence for a single world-covering flood such as recorded in Genesis.
But I'll say again: the point of God's promise in Genesis 8 is not dependent on the scientific accuracy of it's flood report.
ForGod'sSake: "The frustration level with the scientific establishment and the parroting of their talking points gives me heartburn."
Your obvious problem is with truth-telling -- you don't "get" it and can't do it.
You may need counseling for that, or at least education, and I'd highly recommend it.
And you will get a rough-and-ready education here on Free Republic, if you continue posting such misinformed drivel, pal. ;-)