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I would like to initiate discussion on the following questions: 1. Are moral systems objective, or must they be objective? 2. Does morality require God? 3. Is morality based on authority or the intrinsic worth of it's propositions? 4. What is the foundation for, or the fundamental idea of...

I don't know what your talking about. How do you say plume tails don't exist? The reason they are postulated is that they are observed in plume model simulations and analogous physical models. Obviously that the mantle and plumes are solid has nothing do with with anything here. Plumes are...

Well the 'cooling' of mantle plumes isn't all that useful in this context. Continuously erupting hot spots survive not because of an internal heat capacity of an underlying plume head but (probably) because it is fed from a thin conduit extending to the source region (thought to be near the...

thanks, my friend! Feel free to post the link everywhere you like!

Believe it or not but he has a bit of a reach on many less intellectually inclined 'creationists'. Even AIG wont come out and say he is a complete nut (the most they will do is suggest 'caution' to his arguments or refer to his '250k challenge' as an unfortunate 'gimmick'). My parents entire...

I'm sure he wont care, but I made this petition to get Hovind to engage in a written exchange: http://www.petitiononline.com/khovind/petition.html Anyone interested in truthfulness, whether 'creationist' or 'evolutionist' should be happy to sign it. I suppose this might get him to either...

I don't think so. Catastrophic plate tectonics--perhaps about as general a description of such an event as you can get, is very new. I think that the assertion that the "basics of geology and physics disproved the flood [200] years ago" is dumb and clearly exhibits a lack of understanding in...

It is an attempt at formulating a rather fundamental alternative hypothesis of large scale geodynamics so that observations in geology and geophysics can be explained. I don't think disqualifies is the word. If this were so, then it would be unfortunate if Wegener's primary reason for...

Thats because this "flood model" has evolved. Material physics, geophysics, shock hydrodynamics, etc. was not very well developed at this time... lol, I don't think that is a good analogy. Why are you comparing competing observational hypotheses to competing very theoretical hypotheses...

sadly, even many scientists allow belief to effect their work indefinitely. Scientists will always make value judgements, but value judgements are value judgements. -Chris Grose

lol, what are you talking about? What I've said you can find in any introductory text on diagenesis.. -Chris Grose

I didn't say they were. Who are you talking to? -Chris Grose

Indeed as far as I know you are right. However, they are not necessarily indicative that YEC time scales are wrong either. -Chris Grose

You seem to think that it actually disconfirms more sophisticated hypotheses like CPT. -Chris Grose

lol... no. Probably not. However this is only because those diagenetic processes which cause lithification tend to take some span of time to develop. Thermal conduction takes time, the development of overburden pressure requires time for sediments constituting the overburden to deposit...

Perhaps you should go back and read post 842. -Chris Grose

lol. That was cute... -Chris Grose

The global flood of 200 years ago was disproven by the science of 200 years ago.. I am guessing that you also do not endorse tentativity in science? -Chris Grose

Of course they are. Thats what CPT is, an attempt to explain observations. An explanation for observations implies a hypothesis. Hypotheses which attempt to convey dynamic systems require mechanisms. Motivation for investigation does not imply truth or falsity. I agree that the majority of the...

My point is that it is probably misleading to consider the earths surface static. It probably isn't just a matter of dumping enough water to exceed the height of everest and then somehow removing that excess water. -Chris Grose