Job 33:6
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And I guess I'll go one step further.
I think most people understand that a flood can't account for what we see.
So, what some young earthers do, is...much like the idea with diversification of life after the flood, and the speed of light, and radioactive decay, among other things,
Young earthers propose that everything, for a brief period of time, moved in fast forward.
Light from stars that are millions of light years away, sped up super fast (light had to speed up, otherwise it wouldn't have had enough time to reach earth from stars that are millions of light years away, and we wouldn't be able to see any stars), but then slowed back down as soon as we decided to study it.
Biological diversification sped up super fast (tigers and cats diversified and are in records of ancient China and Egypt dating back several thousand years, even though only one cat "kind" was on the ark) but then slowed down as soon as we began studying it. Drats, not again.
Radioactive decay, it sped up super fast, so everything just happens to look old. Then it slowed down as soon as we decided to study it. Dang, missed the super speed again.
And now we move on to geology. The next field of science that young Earthers need to attack to satisfy their preconceived notions. And what do we see?
Same old story. Plate tectonics moved super fast, blasting mountains into the atmosphere through hydro hyper plate tectonics! Continents ripping apart as waters blast out from the Earth's mantle!!!
But the moment we turn and look to see this grand chaotic blasting open of the mid oceanic ridge...what do we see!?
Oh, they're just moving at a couple cm per year....rather than feet (or more, they don't clarify) per year suggested by hydro hyper plate tectonics people.
And if we measure the distance between the mid oceanic ridge and the coast of North America, we get perhaps 300,000,000 cms. And if we divide by the rate at which continental plates move per year (in this case 2-3cm per year) , we end up with roughly the same amount of years that radioactive dating suggests as the age for the breakup of pangea, 150 some odd million years ago.
Our excitement for the probability of hyper plate tectonics, diminished.
Just like with everything else, the moment we begin actually examining the claim, the world slows down and the evidence of the claim, hidden.
Or perhaps it never existed at all.
I think most people understand that a flood can't account for what we see.
So, what some young earthers do, is...much like the idea with diversification of life after the flood, and the speed of light, and radioactive decay, among other things,
Young earthers propose that everything, for a brief period of time, moved in fast forward.
Light from stars that are millions of light years away, sped up super fast (light had to speed up, otherwise it wouldn't have had enough time to reach earth from stars that are millions of light years away, and we wouldn't be able to see any stars), but then slowed back down as soon as we decided to study it.
Biological diversification sped up super fast (tigers and cats diversified and are in records of ancient China and Egypt dating back several thousand years, even though only one cat "kind" was on the ark) but then slowed down as soon as we began studying it. Drats, not again.
Radioactive decay, it sped up super fast, so everything just happens to look old. Then it slowed down as soon as we decided to study it. Dang, missed the super speed again.
And now we move on to geology. The next field of science that young Earthers need to attack to satisfy their preconceived notions. And what do we see?
Same old story. Plate tectonics moved super fast, blasting mountains into the atmosphere through hydro hyper plate tectonics! Continents ripping apart as waters blast out from the Earth's mantle!!!
But the moment we turn and look to see this grand chaotic blasting open of the mid oceanic ridge...what do we see!?
Oh, they're just moving at a couple cm per year....rather than feet (or more, they don't clarify) per year suggested by hydro hyper plate tectonics people.
And if we measure the distance between the mid oceanic ridge and the coast of North America, we get perhaps 300,000,000 cms. And if we divide by the rate at which continental plates move per year (in this case 2-3cm per year) , we end up with roughly the same amount of years that radioactive dating suggests as the age for the breakup of pangea, 150 some odd million years ago.
Our excitement for the probability of hyper plate tectonics, diminished.
Just like with everything else, the moment we begin actually examining the claim, the world slows down and the evidence of the claim, hidden.
Or perhaps it never existed at all.
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