New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern | Joe Kovacs

[Tim Long]

While God certainly could have done anything He wished, Creation Science tries to find somewhat natural explanations for phenomena such as the Flood.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Continental drift?

Show me the fossils.

[Central Scrutiniser]

No, you dodged my questions about how all the animals somehow made it home, over 10,000 miles and several oceans away.

And each time you dodged my questions, you sidestepped, danced, and then tried to make a smartass remark.

I've asked you to explain how the animals made it home, and you ducked, dodged and weenied out.

I'm guessing you didn't master debate in school.

[Tim Long]

Elaborate, please. The marsupials were living in Australia (after the Flood) before it separated from Pangaea (or Gondwanaland), isolating them.

[Dog Gone]

Come on. Surely you can envision a parade of penguins leaving Mount Ararat, walking through Iraq, perhaps hanging a right to get to Egypt, then walking all the way to South Africa, and then jumping offshore and swimming to Anatarctica.

[VadeRetro]

The water canopy theory accounts for the extra water, but I couldn't tell you where the water went afterwards.

You probably couldn't explain where the kinetic energy of so much water infalling from some fantasitic height went, either. It should have cooked the Earth.

[Tim Long]

Well, the canopy didn't have to be at a fantastic height.

[Coyoteman]

Elaborate, please. The marsupials were living in Australia (after the Flood) before it separated from Pangaea (or Gondwanaland), isolating them.

The date of the global flood:

2252 BC -- layevangelism.com

2304 BC -- Answers in Genesis (+/- 11 years).

2350 BC -- Morris, H. Biblical Creationism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.

Final breakup forming Australia some 55 million years ago.

Whoops?

[Beckwith]

That's the USS Missouri.

[SoCal Pubbie]

According to Wilkpedia (for what it's worth):

The first signs of iron use come from Ancient Egypt and Sumer, where around 4000 BC small items, such as the tips of spears and ornaments, were being fashioned from iron recovered from meteorites (see Iron: History). By 3000 BC to 2000 BC increasing numbers of smelted iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product) appear in Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley (Pakistan and North India). However, their use appears to be ceremonial, and iron was an expensive metal, more expensive than gold. Some sources suggest that iron was being created then as a by-product of copper refining, as sponge iron, and was not reproducible by the metallurgy of the time. The earliest systematic production and use of iron implements appears from the 14th century BC in the Hittite Empire though recent excavations in Middle Ganga Valley in India done by archaelogist Rakesh Tewari show iron-working in India since 1800 BC. By 1200 BC, iron was widely used in the Middle East but did not supplant the dominant use of bronze for some time.

[VadeRetro]

1.8 times the water we have on Earth now is suspended somewhere it won't pick up too much energy falling to the ground. That conjures up an interesting picture of pre-flood people walking around on the underside of a glass-bottomed pool--only there's no glass, just the diminishing patience of the Lord holding up all the water.

If it's too low, it's cutting off part of the atmosphere. Or does it have perforations for breathing?

[VadeRetro]

Also, the lower it is the thicker it is and the more light it cuts off. I think you just have to say, "It was ALL a miracle!"

[Angus MacGregor]

That's a cool looking ape skull.

[Coyoteman]

That's a cool looking ape skull.

It is a beautiful cranium. However, paleontologists place it within Genus Homo, which includes modern humans and a number of their ancestors, as well as some dead-end branches. As such, it is not technically an ape.

In the following chart, H. ergaster, or H. erectus as some prefer, is on the direct line of human descent. You have to go back to the early Australopithecines before you get something that looks very much like an ape (actually a chimp), and even then many of the parts of the skeleton have diverged from the chimp pattern.

If you want to see more cute crania, I could post the Taung baby or Mrs. Ples. Let me know.

Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html

[Central Scrutiniser]

Of course! Don't forget the anacondas, snaking their way through the snows to the seas, swimming home.

Nothing like reality to spoil a good fable eh?

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Nothing like reality to spoil a good fable eh?"

Let's not tell them about teh viruses, bacteria, and other assorted parasites that would need to be incubated and preserved on the Ark, either. That would just be cruel. :)

[Central Scrutiniser]

LOL

Yeah, the whole continental drift just happened in a few years then?

Amazing how you have to create silly non-science to explain the fable of creationism.

It was a miracle, yeah, that's it!

Please explain how all the cold blooded reptiles managed to slither down that snowy mountain.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Let's not tell them about teh viruses,"

Dyslexic much?

[Central Scrutiniser]

And all the wood boring insects as well.

Them tigers musta got real hungry climbing down that mountain after all the plants were wiped out, I betcha they ate the two unicorns.

[VadeRetro]

But ony two big cats were needed, since tigers and lions are still interfertile and can have fertile offspring (barely). There's still some cross-fertility between lions and leopards as well. The big cats of today must have diverged very rapidly indeed in 4000+ years since some founder pair stepped off the ark.

And I thought I believed in evolution!