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This is the most awesomely hilarious thing I've read in the past week. What a nutter! The repetition of the "uniformitarian" alone had me laughing myself silly. Thanks!
Run on tinfoil at the supermarket!
Wow.....
Entire thing is an example of spectacular idiocy.
The really rugged mountains of the world are, in fact, relatively "young" in geological terms...only tens of millions of years.
However, they're only the latest in many sets of young, rugged mountains; the Appalachians have had several extending back hundreds of millions of years.
It's fairly routine for these mountains to be eventually eroded down, and for things to go fairly "quiet" tectonically for a long time....and then when another continent or Island Arc hits, for yet another range to be built.
Article also displays a nice creation of a uniformitarian strawman, too.
Not this creationist nor any other creationist that I know. This is fringe thinking, if you can even call it thinking.The current theory of evolution has plenty of problems but garbage like this makes Christians and Jews look really, really stupid in the eyes of nonbelievers.
All of the evidence points to a universe that is approximately 14 billion years old and an earth that is approximately 4.5 billion years old. These ages do not conflict in any way with the Bible. Period. The end.
Quite an amazing denial of reality!
Reminds me of a book report I tried to fake once as a freshman at my Catholic high school.
My Jesuit teacher's comments began with "Holy cow, man! what a specatacularly brief attempt at summarizing 3/4 of the novel!"
What "catastrophic driving forces"? It would be truly educational to know how the details of a flood can account for them.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's Bush's fault!
It really is an absurd concept.
Was there a really big flooding incident in early civilization? Probably. The ancients passed it down in oral legend. Was it local? Undoubtedly. Did it almost become allegorical after generations of telling? Almost certainly.
Noah's Flood makes no sense given what we know about science today. It's a good checkpoint to see who bases reality on some fundamental faith and who uses the brain God gave them.
I am still confused why the Chinese writings don't mention them all being wiped out by the Flood?
OK, give it to me in 25 words or less.
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It's David Copperfield Science: what flim-flam patter do I use to get the punters to accept the illusion I'm creating of the Earth being only 6000 years old?
Can you say "Lysenko" boys and girls? (I knew you could.)
Look it up--that's what you are advocating. Held back scientific progress for a couple of generations.
It starts out with a lie and goes downhill from there.
Another good web site is creationscience.com
Another good web site is creationscience.com
I have a book called "The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch" that basically states that ALL the modern mountain ranges were created during the great flood.
In a nutshell, he hypothesised that the flood was caused by a Mars sized planet coming close to the earth and revolving around it a few times, ripping up mountain ranges with every revolution. This planet also brought an ice moon that came close enough to the earth to reach what he called the roache limit, where it's own gravity broke down and it fell apart. Most of it fell on the poles, giving us our current ice caps. The remainder either fell through the atmosphere and eventually became "rain," or dissipated into space, since we are too close to the sun to maintain ice rings like Saturn.
He also saw the great flood as more of a massive tidal wave.
Anyway, I have hit just the high points.
The book was printed in the 1960's.
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Observational evidence? We don't need no stinking "observational evidence." We've got a philosophy and we're stinking to it. And our philosophy says the universe has operated the same way for billions of years as it operates today. Period. /s