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20th August 2003, 12:06 AM
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Reps: 19,183,710,574,649,584 (power: 19,183,710,574,664) | | | My favorite is escapability up the mountains. You know, the one about oak trees outrunning velocirators. The really amusing thing is these same creationists will turn around and tell you that there were no significant mountains before the flood.
Then there is the biome one, you know how mangroves and water lilles alway live high in the mountains and lichens and conifers alway live way down in the swamp. Wait, creationists have this backward too and what about there being no mountains?
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20th August 2003, 04:05 PM
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Reps: 19,183,710,574,649,584 (power: 19,183,710,574,664) | | Originally Posted by Gracchus And if there were no mountains, whence came those thousands of cubic miles of sediment?
I suppose that would make an interesting topic for a new thread. Creationists postulate that thousands of feet of sediements including sand, gravel, limestone and so on, were deposited all over the world by the flood but they never reveal any source for these sediments. Did God create 10,000 cubic miles of sand somewhere just for it to be picked up by the flood and distributed to form the Coconino sandstones and did He create huge piles of sand in other places to account for all the sandstones in the world? That doesn't make much sense to me.
However, I would like to hear some YECs try to explain the fossil record on this thread. I guess they must know that they can't do it.
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24th August 2003, 02:10 PM
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Reps: 19,183,710,574,649,584 (power: 19,183,710,574,664) | | | So are the YECs who post ready to admit that there is no way that a significant fraction of the fossil record could have been deposited by a worldwide flood? It seems that way. How many falsifications of the worldwide flood do you need before you follow the lead of the creationist geologists of the 19th century and realize that it is your interpretation of Genesis that is incorrect and not most of science?
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Reps: 75,142,064,124,300,000 (power: 75,142,064,124,315) | | Originally Posted by Frumious Bandersnatch So are the YECs who post ready to admit that there is no way that a significant fraction of the fossil record could have been deposited by a worldwide flood? It seems that way. How many falsifications of the worldwide flood do you need before you follow the lead of the creationist geologists of the 19th century and realize that it is your interpretation of Genesis that is incorrect and not most of science?
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25th August 2003, 06:12 AM
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Reps: 19,183,710,574,649,584 (power: 19,183,710,574,664) | | Originally Posted by Siliconaut The silence continues... *bump*
Of course it continues. All YEC explanations of how the worldwide flood might have sorted to the fossil record are so easily shown to be nonsense that they have quit trying.
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25th August 2003, 12:46 PM
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Reps: 12,682 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Siliconaut The silence continues... *bump*
The silence continues because no one wants to discuss the issues. The pick on some tiny, tiny little point, then they falsify it, and claim victory. Then when you try to get them into a discussion on the real issues, they do not want to talk about it. Because they know it will not be so easy for them to falsify the real issues at hand. |
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Reps: 295,212,687,427,838,720 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by JohnR7 The silence continues because no one wants to discuss the issues. The pick on some tiny, tiny little point, then they falsify it, and claim victory. Then when you try to get them into a discussion on the real issues, they do not want to talk about it. Because they know it will not be so easy for them to falsify the real issues at hand.
Right, John. We're all familiar with the YEC tactics you've mentioned. This thread was for more rhetorical purposes; trying to expose YECism for the pseudoscientific nonsense it is. |
26th August 2003, 11:01 AM
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Reps: 19,183,710,574,649,584 (power: 19,183,710,574,664) | | Originally Posted by Nathan Poe Right, John. We're all familiar with the YEC tactics you've mentioned. This thread was for more rhetorical purposes; trying to expose YECism for the pseudoscientific nonsense it is.
And it seems to have done the job well.
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