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To: plain talk; editor-surveyor
The article says ancient whales and it happened between 2 and 7 million yrs ago. You mention “the flood” which implies noah’s flood. Noah wasn’t around 2 million years ago.

The dating of "between 2 and 7 million yrs ago" is just conjecture, based on some shaky presuppositions. The truth is, no one knows, or can know, with any degree of certainty how old these things are. All one can do is make hypotheses, on the assumption that dating methods that may be correct up until a certain point back would hold true beyond that, and that nothing could have intervened to skew the data.

132 posted on 12/11/2012 11:49:24 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Prince of Whales)
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To: Charles Henrickson

OK. The point is they believe these to be old ancient whales. While the dataing is a guess there is a huge difference between ancient and recent fossils. Anyone trying to link this to “the flood” is just pushing their young earth agenda.


137 posted on 12/11/2012 12:27:53 PM PST by plain talk
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