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04-14-2003, 01:18 PM
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We do have evidence for the flood, you just don't like it because it opposes evolution and the fundie science view of how the Earth formed.
1) what evidence? I've seen what there is to offer, and am thoroughly unconvinced. 2) even if true, how would the global flood "oppose evolution"? 3) even if true, how would the global flood oppose the "fundie science view of how the Earth formed"? So, I don't "like" the flood, not because it opposes evolution or how the earth formed, but because it's a mythical story with absolutely no supporting evidence that stands up to even a tiny bit of rational examination. |
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04-14-2003, 01:21 PM
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You obviously have no idea how science works.
Or calendars, or history/archaeology, or... |
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04-14-2003, 01:22 PM
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04-14-2003, 01:34 PM
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Originally posted by Magus55
... the fundie science view ... LOL! Magus, are you going to answer my question, which I asked twice (three times now): Who accepts your date for a "global flood"? |
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04-14-2003, 01:50 PM
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Or Egyptians didn't exist when people think they did.
Silt. Every year the Nile would flood and leave a new layer of silt on all the fields surrounding it. It's what enabled Egypt to have a civilization at all, rich crop lands. Every year the Nile would flood, every year a new layer of silt. To find the dates all you have to do is count the layers. If there were years when the Nile didn't flood because of drought then that would mean that the dates would be older than they seem and not younger. |
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04-14-2003, 01:59 PM
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Ah, but Biff, all those silt layers were deposited by the Flood, you see!
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04-14-2003, 02:03 PM
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Magus, forget Egypt for a second. In light of the 4400-years-ago date for the flood you proposed (and keeping in mind that you claim mountains were "much lower" or maybe even non-existent then), how would you account for Methuselah, a 4767-year-old Bristlecone Pine growing on a mountain in the White Mountains of California/Nevada?
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04-14-2003, 02:16 PM
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A year under a couple of miles of salt water won't do a pine tree any harm. After all even the olive trees kept their leaves for the snowy white dove to pluck
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04-14-2003, 02:37 PM
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A year under a couple of miles of salt water won't do a pine tree any harm.
Nor apparently the rise from around sea level to 10,000+ feet on the back of a mountain! |
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