Posted on 02/16/2009 9:40:48 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Surtsey still surprises
by David Catchpoole
After the island of Surtsey was born of a huge undersea volcanic eruption off Iceland in 1963,1 geologists were astonished at what they found.
As one wrote: ‘On Surtsey, only a few months sufficed for a landscape to be created which was so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief.’2
There were wide sandy beaches, gravel banks, impressive cliffs, soft undulating land, faultscarps, gullies and channels and ‘boulders worn by the surf (see picture left), some of which were almost round, on an abrasion platform cut into the cliff.’2 And all of this despite the ‘extreme youth’3 of the island!
The geologists’ surprise is understandable, given the modern thinking that young Surtsey’s ‘varied and mature’ features ought to have needed long periods of time—millions of years—to form....
(Excerpt) Read more at creationontheweb.com ...
Good analogy! - You're squirming just like OJ too.
“The perfect laboratory of geological reality, right in your denying face. “
So the specific proves the general?
Anger? LMAOROTFDF!
You are a real case! Civil? is your deception civil? No, its evil, and stupid, and that is why we can’t help but laugh at you. You’re like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character.
“Yes, they were so astonished that they all changed their studies to reflect a 6,000 year old Earth.They didn't because they can't.
Oh wait, no they didn't.”
Same old strawmen! - No, as usual all you can "remember" is how to thrash in denial of the obvious.
"Can you explain how the oceans didn’t boil away from the released energy of moving that much tectonic plate that far in such a short time or the colossal vulcanism that would accompany such an event"
Hey moron. you've just described the Genesis Judgement to a T. That's when our deep oceans were created. Unfortunately your personal demons won't let you read God's word to get a clue.
Figure 2: Fine layering was produced within hours at Mt St Helens on June 12, 1980 by hurricane velocity surging flows from the crater of the volcano. The 25-foot thick (7.6 m), June 12 deposit is exposed in the middle of the cliff. It is overlain by the massive, but thinner, March 19,1982 mudflow deposit, and is underlain by the air-fall debris from the last hours of the May 18, 1980, nine-hour eruption. http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1541/Well, ok.
Scientists actually went into the lake where they were all floating and sinking and saw what was going on. They saw it with their own eyes.
The entire field of modern geology is just a smoke screen for atheism. There's no truth to any of it. Geologists are either idiots or a part of the conspiracy.
“The Hebrew word for “Day” is used the same way it is in English. It can mean the daylight hours; a span of 24 hours; a unspecific period of time, an “Age, Epoch, Era.”” [excerpt]However, as used in Genesis 1, it can only mean a 24 hour period.
“The Genesis story is absolutely true. Just don't bicker about Moses’s translation of his revelation from the Lord.” [excerpt]So God could create the Earth, but he couldn't make Moses understand what He meant by day?
“When he said “days” did anyone stop to think whether it might be in the Almighty's reckoning; not Earth time???” [excerpt]God is outside of time.
Hey, whatajoke, say hi to all your buds at DC for me!
Even knowing just how our ancestors lived a few hundred years ago is surprisingly difficult;more than one tool or item has been dug up at some colonial site and no one knows just what it was used for!
Hey moron. you’ve just described the Genesis Judgement to a T. That’s when our deep oceans were created. Unfortunately your personal demons won’t let you read God’s word to get a clue.
I understand the tactic.
That's great. So where do they have these petrified logs that they dug up?
Sigh.
Yes, Eugenie Scott said, “Evolution applies to astronomy, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, biology, geology — you name the field, and evolution will relate to it, like as not.”
It’s interesting that you take that to mean that the way you do. Especially in light of her next sentence:
“Most audiences have an abysmal understanding of basic science.”
Indeed.
I’ve enjoyed this thread. The true YECs have separated themselves from the (only slightly) more rational OECs. I’ve tried to keep score over all these years, but it gets confusing.
Now that we know all of biology and all of geology are atheistic cults determined to destroy America, let’s move on to physics or astronomy.
The Bible was written by MEN, as they were divinely INSPIRED through revelation; THEY DID NOT TAKE DICTATION FROM GOD ALMIGHTY! What they wrote was the best translation into human language they could do; the Lord feels it is sufficient.
God is outside of time, of course, but even the Bible gives allusions to how He views time: “..a thousand years are but a day to the Lord.”
Another example: Jesus said “I am the bread of Life;” do you believe our Lord is a loaf of bread?????
The Bible is FULL of metaphorical teachings, and if you only see the metaphor, then you're missing the real message!!! You insist on the letter of the words in the Bible, but completely miss the meaning. Just as the pharisees and scribes who were meticulous about keeping the Law of Moses, “you strain at gnats, but will swallow a camel!”
You become one of those Christ said his teachings were meant to confound.
“Most disturbing is that Moses appear to have simply discarded about 1200 pages of interesting stories...”
Do you have a source for that information?
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