Why almost all coal was made during the same period

[Astrid]

I agree. But a lot of people steadfastly refuse to accept what they (deep down) know to be true.

Then too there's an awful lot of uneducated
people. Tho some can learn!

Our maid ( from a little farming village in
Philipines ) was a smart lady but just so little
education.

The subject of scaring away the lizard who
tries to eat them moon (eclipse) came up.

I took time to explain. When she suddenly got the
idea I think she got a bit dizzy, but, she was so
intetested and excited!

But then s-he did not believe her life would fall apart
if she understood it, no risk to eternal salvation.

We sent her back to Phils with full scholarship
and she is thriving. Yeah!

 

[AV1611VET]

I agree. But a lot of people steadfastly refuse to accept what they (deep down) know to be true.

That's probably what they said to Frances Kelsey.

 

[AV1611VET]

Then too there's an awful lot of uneducated people. Tho some can learn!

Amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

 

[Offline4Better.]

Unless you already buy into the religious narrative, I don't think there's justifiable reasons to reach those conclusions. At least, there's no evidentiary warrant for them. Just like I'd argue there's no evidentiary warrant to conclude any intervention around the Big Bang.

To the best of my ability, I don't know what started our current instantiation of the universe, or started life on this planet. The idea of the Christian deity "getting involved" in evolutionary biology or Big Bang cosmology are post-hoc rationalisations, derived from pre-suppositions. To me, that's the exact opposite of what we should be doing when presented with evidence. It's cart before horse stuff.

For me, a much better answer is 'I don't know, but won't it be interesting to find out'.

As to your question about peat bogs. It's likely that most modern peat bogs are a result of the warming and glacial retreat/rise in sea levels from the end of the last Ice Age and the start of the Holocene. But, modern peat bogs aren't the only bogs that exist, or have existed. Peat bogs seem to have played a significant role in altering the climate over the last 400 million + years

For the bogs, that is true. Modern peat bogs formed recently, but there have been older ones that have turned into coal, or have altered the climate over the last 400M+ years. And hey, whether you are Christian or not, as least I as a Christian agree with you on the age of the Earth and the age of coal. New peat bogs may be a source of emissions, so people must be careful not to disturb the bogs, or else we would have more global warming.

 

[Astrophile]

For me, science solidified my faith in God, especially when reading up on astronomy as a tweenager back in the early 2010s. The Catholic physicist, Georges Lemaître said that the universe has a finite age, and beginning. Fast forward to the 21st century, and we now know the universe has an age of 13.8B years. And God said "let there be light", and as astronomers have discovered, the Big Bang emitted electromagnetic radiation, detectible as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

Article on the Frenchie astronomer priest dude: Georges Lemaitre: Father of the Big Bang | AMNH

NASA on the CMB: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Lemaitre was a Belgian, not a Frenchman.

 

[Astrophile]

Amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

The Titanic really existed, and its remains have been found on the floor of the ocean. The Ark didn't exist, and searches over more than a century have found no trace of it.

 

[AV1611VET]

The Titanic really existed, and its remains have been found on the floor of the ocean. The Ark didn't exist, and searches over more than a century have found no trace of it.

Well I ain't got it!

 

[partinobodycular]

Amateurs built the Ark.

Great sound bite, but how do you know that Noah was an amateur?

 

[AV1611VET]

Great sound bite, but how do you know that Noah was an amateur?

Good point.

And I'm glad you asked it.

I believe Noah lived in what is now the state of New Jersey.

And New Jersey back then, when Pangaea existed, was landlocked.

Noah was hundreds, if not thousands of miles from water.

So I don't think he was in the business of building arks.

 

[partinobodycular]

I believe Noah lived in what is now the state of New Jersey.

Forgive me, but I'm a bit skeptical... but whatever floats your boat

 

[AV1611VET]

Forgive me, but I'm a bit skeptical...

Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

New Jersey Pine Barrens

... but whatever floats your boat

LOL -- that's funny!

 

[Astrid]

The Titanic really existed, and its remains have been found on the floor of the ocean. The Ark didn't exist, and searches over more than a century have found no trace of it.

Earliest ark "discovery" I've heard of was reported by
Marco Polo

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

For geology I will stick with science. For inspiration I will stick with the Bible.

 

[Astrid]

For geology I will stic with science. For inspiration I will stick with the Bible.

I've read the Bible.
There's a lifetime of wisdom in it.

I would not let geology spoil it for me.

Too bad a few more can't manage the vice versa of thst.

 

[AV1611VET]

Earliest ark "discovery" I've heard of was reported by Marco Polo.

If so, Marco Polo saw "an" ark, not "the" ark.

I believe Noah dismantled it after the Flood to build his homestead.

 

[AV1611VET]

For geology I will stick with science. For inspiration I will stick with the Bible.

And if the two contradict?

 

[AV1611VET]

I would not let geology spoil it for me.

A little late for that, if you ask me.

 

[FireDragon76]

From what I have read, there are different kinds of coal. What he is speaking of in the video may be true of one kind of coal (anthracite, possibly?)

It was my understanding that peat, under pressure and with enough time, forms coal.

 

[FireDragon76]

Lemaitre was a Belgian, not a Frenchman.

Close enough. Belgium was just a bit of France carved up by the British after the Napoleonic wars as a buffer state in the game of the great powers of Europe. Little did they know, it would be more like France's Welcome Mat for generations to come.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I meant to say flood of genesis, not that it is described how it was formed during the flood

I really don't understand this kind of making things up when it comes to trying to intersect Scripture with science.

I see it all the time, people will just invent something with their own imagination and then claim that it's true.

The Bible says nothing about coal formation.
Science doesn't indicate coal was formed in a great deluge.

So where are you getting this information from? Either someone told you this, and you just believed it without questioning it; or you're making it up by yourself.

Why do that? I really don't understand it.

If you disagree with what scientific observation and study says, and if Scripture is entirely silent--why not just say "I don't know"?

Why make something up?

-CryptoLutheran