My Layer Challenge

[AV1611VET]

Then we can only speculate that the key would be made out of bone or stone in the shape of a club with a loop to attach to his caveman belt.

I assume this was in jest.

If not, let's try it this way:

So if you dig in your backyard and find a trilobite fossil, then dig down further and find a penny dated 1975, what would that tell you?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I assume this was in jest.

If not, let's try it this way:

So if you dig in your backyard and find a trilobite fossil, then dig down further and find a penny dated 1975, what would that tell you?

Just so you know, I gave my answer to (relatively) the same question, in post #62, but you ignored it.

 

[AV1611VET]

Just so you know, I gave my answer to (relatively) the same question, in post #62, but you ignored it.

Fair enough.

I researched it and found out that trilobites are found deep in rock layers -- not on the surface as I thought.

My bad.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I researched it and found out that trilobites are found deep in rock layers -- not on the surface as I thought.

I found mine in an exposed cliff face.

 

[AV1611VET]

I found mine in an exposed cliff face.

Grand Canyon?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Grand Canyon?

Marble Mountains/Death Valley

Ultimate Guide to Find Fossils in the Marble Mountains

Geology of the Area: The mountains contain a rich outcropping of the Latham shale, known for its diversity of lower Cambrian fossils. The fossils are approximately 518 million years old. The Latham…

californiafossils.wordpress.com

 

[Kylie]

On the third day of the creation week, Earth consisted of one giant ball of seawater.

Let's call it Terra Aqua, for lack of a better term.

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Then God commanded the atoms to get together and form land.

Then He commanded the waters to stand aside and let the land come to the surface.

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Here's my question:

Are we expected to believe that that land consisted of millions and millions of years' worth of layers of fossils?

Including fossils of plants, which said plants weren't even created until later in the day?

I contend that God created only ONE LAYER, and calls that layer "Earth."

Not Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, or any other kind of "zoic".

"Earth"

What say you?

What say I?

I say that you are starting by assuming the very thing that you wish to prove, that the Biblical account is correct. You first need to support that claim. And no, the Bible doesn't count as support. The claim can not support itself, after all.

 

[AV1611VET]

I say that you are starting by assuming the very thing that you wish to prove, that the Biblical account is correct. You first need to support that claim. And no, the Bible doesn't count as support. The claim can not support itself, after all.

Then you'll go through life wondering why Bible believers won't buy into academia's teaching about land consisting of millions and millions of years' worth of layers of fossils, won't you?

You can stick to your logic and play games, but in the end, who loses?

 

[River Jordan]

Then you'll go through life wondering why Bible believers won't buy into academia's teaching about land consisting of millions and millions of years' worth of layers of fossils, won't you?

More accurately, wonder why some Bible believers (a minority of Christians actually) won't buy into academia's teaching.

 

[AV1611VET]

More accurately, wonder why some Bible believers (a minority of Christians actually) won't buy into academia's teaching.

Well I attempted to alleviate that wonder, but academians are trained to reduce everything down to formulas and equations, then wonder at everything and trust nothing.

But I tried.

 

[River Jordan]

Well I attempted to alleviate that wonder, but academians are trained to reduce everything down to formulas and equations, then wonder at everything and trust nothing.

But I tried.

As long as people don't get the impression that your rather unique views on creation and science are shared by all, or even most Christians.

 

[AV1611VET]

As long as people don't get the impression that your rather unique views on creation and science are shared by all, or even most Christians.

You show me a person who thinks my views on creation are unique and not worth embracing, and I'll show you a Straight-A student in college.

 

[River Jordan]

You show me a person who thinks my views on creation are unique and not worth embracing, and I'll show you a Straight-A student in college.

Doesn't work. I know plenty of people in our church who are just fine with evolution and an ancient earth-universe, and never went to college.

 

[AV1611VET]

Doesn't work. I know plenty of people in our church who are just fine with evolution and an ancient earth-universe, and never went to college.

They take it on faith, do they?

 

[River Jordan]

They take it on faith, do they?

Evolution? No.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Doesn't work. I know plenty of people in our church who are just fine with evolution and an ancient earth-universe, and never went to college.

Sounds a lot like my old church. Never was there a sermon on those topic either.

 

[River Jordan]

Sounds a lot like my old church. Never was there a sermon on those topic either.

I think we had a few sermons about science and scripture (in a general sense) about a dozen years ago, but we haven't had one since. From the conversations I've had with people it doesn't seem like it's ever been an issue for most of them.

 

[AV1611VET]

Evolution? No.

God broke the tie before evolution was ever put in the minds of man.

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 

[Aaron112]

They take it on faith, do they?

anti-faith

 

[AV1611VET]

anti-faith

Plenty of people in Jordan's church exercising anti-faith to embrace evolution?

Is that what you're saying?