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To: RightWingNilla
Based on the quote from Sedgwick, they examined the data, and if anything tried their darndest to reconcile it with a YEC global flood . . .

My contention is that there ain't nobody seen nothing yet when it comes to the complete geologic record. Think about it. What's the deepest hole ever dug by human design? Ten miles?

If you could drop a pfennig down the KTB hole, it would take several minutes to hit bottom, for this research drill hole has now penetrated to 7.5 kilometers. It is the second deepest man-made hole, after the Soviet 12-km hole in the Kola Peninsula. Drilled solely for scientific purposes, the rocks and strata encountered by the KTB drill bits have forced the redrawing of German geological maps. The "real" subterranean world turned out to be quite different from that inferred from both surface indications and the seismic and electrical probing of the depths. Three specific surprises are worth mentioning:

1.) Temperatures in the drill hole rose far faster than predicted.
2.) The expected boundary ("suture") between two old tectonic plates thought to exist at 3 km according to surface geology had not yet appeared at 7.5 km.
3.) Most interestingly, crevicular structure (crevices and pores) existed at almost all depths, even though theory said they could not because of intense pressures. And these voids were filled with fluids. P. Keher, a KTB scientist, was amazed at what the drill found:

"When I started 25 years ago, the idea was that the deeper you go into the crust, the drier it gets."

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This is just one of a tiny few examples where the record has been explored in some detail. How does it compare to the rest of the earth? Do you think the theory of evolution will be revised any if, as it appears from the article above, there there is a hell of a lot more water down there than anyone ever suspected?

1,599 posted on 12/06/2004 12:46:04 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: longshadow

1,600: another prime!


1,600 posted on 12/06/2004 12:54:23 PM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Yes, you are right. In fact there is a big room down 11 miles with nothing but water in it and the big book of creationistcrapsite nonsense with the wicked witch of the West and four trolls.


1,611 posted on 12/06/2004 2:12:14 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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