Posted on 10/22/2009 7:38:11 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Years ago, National Geographic published a remarkable photograph of a polystrate fossil, a fossilized tree that
extended stratigraphically upward through several layers of rock in Tennessee. Its roots were in a coal seam, and the
overlying deposits included bedded shale and thin carbon-rich layers. An advocate of any form of uniformitarianism
would believe that it took many, many years to deposit this sequence of layers (much longer than it takes for a tree
to grow and eventually die and decay), yet one vertical fossil extends through them all. This one fossilized tree offered
a direct contradiction to the evolutionary mantra that "the present is the key to the past"...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
” The name polystrate (”many layers”) is used only by creationists. You will seldom find it in the standard literature, even though the related concepts are easily grasped.”
Ha Ha Ha!
Hmmm.. “not found” in any major online dictionaries either.
Good catch.
I would say they had the same minds, and probably better capability than we have today, but they did not have the measured data that we have. We have the luxury of having the electron micrograph of the X-chromosome, which when we see it, we know immediately what Moses was trying to convey. I find it fascinating that the book of Genesis is riddled with punchlines that take thousands of years for us to figure out. For example, the serpent’s head being crushed by a Woman’s heel has some Divine mirth about it. In high school physics we calculated that a stilleto on an average weight woman can pack about 2000psi.
Normally I could understand this as a simple mistake caused by someone who doesn't understand the concepts or has never studied beyond their own circle of knowledge, but as I pointed out in a link above, these kind of questionable debate tactics come directly from their own "Baloney Detector". They are well aware of how to use these tactics and employ them every chance they can. Just like they warn people to look out for the "Baloney" of calling your opponent a "Nazi" yet, that is a tactic they use more often than I've seen most other groups use it.
The Darwinists will allow that earth wide catastrophes from “snow ball earth” to “killer asteroids” but as Lewontin said, just don't allow a Divine Foot in the door!
It's been known as "going cartoony" for as far back as I can remember on the internet.
Once one "goes cartoony", there is no salvation.
Pyroclastic and lahar events, not mythical global flooding events.
St. Augustine already did that in his monumental work “On Christian Doctrine”. He used the word figurative. He did emphasize that love-of-God and love-of-neighbor must be the substratum from which to interpret the Biblia Sacra. An unbeliever picking up the text might not have good success with it if charity is not operative.
I have no problem with someone believing God meant 6 Earth days literally. I wasn’t there. I’m also willing to live a lifetime waiting for the answer to be told. If you believe that “time is the measure of motion”, then it may be the case that many strange effects, e.g. event horizons, occur when the material universe came to be ex nihilo.
It is also instructive to let the data speak, and not be constrained by obsolescent theories which may be hard for some to let go of. The trees standing in the face of an onslaught of kinetically sorted mud flows is instructive.
Way!!!
A global flood isn't so difficult for the Darwinists’ mind to accept as the idea that a God they don't believe exists may have caused it as a punishment for acts they don't believe exist, i.e., sin.
“The Darwinists will allow that earth wide catastrophes from “snow ball earth” to “killer asteroids” but as Lewontin said, just don’t allow a Divine Foot in the door! “
Creation rationalizers don’t allow for evolution in an old earth being that Divine Foot.
“Lost in your reasoning is whether The Creator of life has the right to decide what crimes are worthy of forfiture of that life.”
What did the animals who were not among the lucky pairs on the Ark do to deserve their fate?
>>When a general statement is made, it takes only one counterexample to disprove it.<<
No general statement has been made. This is, at best, something interesting that requires further examination. It does nothing to TToE, as much as you people would like.
The Theory is quite intact, despite these attempts to pinprick it to death.
>>That God might actually call us to account for our actions at some point.<<
And if He is a Just God, you will be called to account for your attempts to defraud His Children and make them ignorant and stupid.
>>A global flood isn’t so difficult for the Darwinists’ mind to accept as the idea that a God they don’t believe exists may have caused it as a punishment for acts they don’t believe exist, i.e., sin. <<
*sigh* You don’t get to define who doesn’t believe in God. God created this magnificent Universe with all kinds of complex rules — you just can’t grasp them, so you just say “God Make all, He like me for saying that.” Your attempt to curry favor with Him like a network currying favor with the TOTUS-reader is transparent to us, so it is certainly to Him.
Don’t conflate your willful ignorance with other people’s relationships with God.
Evidently not so hard as you assume:
“01 January 2009 Early Earth ‘was covered in water’ [Keyword: earth ]
Earth was once a ‘waterworld’ much like the one depicted by Hollywood, scientists believe.
A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet.
Just 2% to 3% of the Earth's surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today.
The Earth at that time may have resembled the way it looked in Waterworld, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie starring Kevin Costner.
New Scientist magazine reported: “As the mantle cooled, land would have gradually appeared as the oceans became deeper and regions of high relief on the continental crust formed.”
www.earthdive.com/site/news/newsdetail.asp?...true...
Now where have I read this before? Maybe in the first few chapters of Genesis? and I'm not talking about Noah.
“Pretty black and white. Your God is a vengeful and jealous God. Why is he worthy of my worship? He should stop having his son appear in grilled cheese sandwiches and concentrate more on stopping tsunamis and famine”
Maybe men should stop wasting billions of dollars on trying to find life on Mars and demonstrate their Darwinian derived morality and prevent famine. Or maybe spend a few dollars and good sense not to build right up to water's edge.
Much easier to blame God for human failings. Correctable failings.
” But then again, that has nothing to do with this thread.”
Has that ever been a problem in the past?
Your friends, the IDers say, there has been no response from God in the last few hundred million years and thus God must be dead.
A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet.
Just 2% to 3% of the Earth’s surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today.
The Earth at that time may have resembled the way it looked in Waterworld, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie starring Kevin Costner.
A new model of the early Earth suggests that until around 2.5 billion years ago oceans covered almost the whole of the planet. Just 2% to 3% of the Earth’s surface would have been dry land, compared with 28% today. The Earth at that time may have resembled the way it looked in Waterworld, the 1995 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie starring Kevin Costner.
Glad to have you aboard this OL' Earth!
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