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Jimmy D

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So you don't think it was an extinction event?
 
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If the account of the Worldwide Flood wasn’t in Genesis... would it be a conventional scientific theory today?

Not likely.
There is zero possibility to have a worldwide flood today (which is perfectly Biblical). If it is not possible today, then science will have hard time to deal with it.
 
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You don't think one credible scientist would have stepped forward and suggested this possibility, in the absence of the biblical account.

Our knowledge is not there yet. One hundred years later could be possible.
 
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Not likely.
There is zero possibility to have a worldwide flood today (which is perfectly Biblical). If it is not possible today, then science will have hard time to deal with it.

I agree. My disagreement with the “evolutionary take” is that it begins with the things it sees happening today, and projects that rate all the way back to the beginning (Creation & Flood times). I think that is what Peter was referring to when he said many err by saying everything goes on as it has from the beginning. The Genesis account is “what” happened; there was something else going on (at a different rate - much faster, violent, puzzling) than has happened since (slow & discernable). You have to look at the bible first for “what” happened (the “how and rate” we cannot begin to fully understand), but then look to science for the “understandable how and rate” that has happened since. Two different epochs with uncommon dynamics.
 
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Currently, the study of earth history and cosmos history are two major disciplines that include many many branch studies. They, together, composed a history of the universe as most scientists know it.

Now, the Genesis 1-11 has only a few pages, and most of them are theological, not scientific.

Even what Genesis says could be true, would you expect MOST scientists accept what's said in it as science-based "historical"?

I would take an alternative stand, which is much easier and practical. The modern science CAN NOT prove what's said in Genesis 1-11 is wrong. I think it is much more manageable.
 
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The modern science CAN NOT prove what's said in Genesis 1-11 is wrong.

Modern science has no interest in proving Genesis wrong.

The historical authenticity of Genesis vs science might seem like a thing on these forums, or in fundamentalist circles, but the rest of the world couldn't care less. It's quaint that you think it's of any importance but most people don't give it any more thought than you do of the historical authenticity of Buddha's story. The only time (outside these forums) I've ever discussed anything approaching these issues has been making fun of science-denying Americans.
 
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Um, the point of turnaround of the travelling twin (decelerate, turn round, accelerate) is where his frame becomes non-inertial, and this is when the time difference observed at reunion occurs. The video explains this quite clearly.
 
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So you discount all knowledge except for that housed in a collection of middle eastern tales. Understood.

Except, things like ' total earth upheaval and deluge with possible hurricanes and asteroid collisions all at once (the “Hand of God”)' leave evidence.

Show me some.
 
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Why do I need to do that?
 
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I will state outright that you don't know what you are talking about.

What you are indirectly referring to is the use of index fossils, and you have totally butchered how they are used (what else is new).

HINT: their use does NOT rely on universal strata. Almost the opposite, really.


Then isn't it odd that you did not provide an example, a name, a link, a citation to this universal sedimentary stratum.


You might have a point if there were a sizeable chunk of modern evolutionary biologists advocating Lamarckianism, and if you understood what Darwinism/neo-Darwinism are, and if you understood that gradualism does not - and never did - prohibit catastrophism.

IOW - you should try reading about the nature of the claims you make BEFORE you make them.
Geologist agree with me, uniform sedimentary layers worldwide, remember. All in uniform consistent layers, remember...

How can I remember that which you have yet to provide support for?

I am not a geologist, so maybe I am wrong. However, I have taught classes on evolution, and in those classes I have discussed index fossils and geological phenomena, and if there were consistent, uniform, world-wide layers of sedimentary rock, then I know that there would be no need for the use of index fossils.

So show me a link or a paper or or something.


Five world-wide floods?

Chapter and verse please.

The chapter of the creation, penned by God. Look up global extinctions....

I know about mass extinctions, but I don't know anything about floods causing all of them, and I should think that such events would have been God's work, yet in the bible, there is but one flood mentioned, and there is zero evidence for that.


How can I remember that for which you have not offered anything of merit?

So, you are saying that the 'stratum' that we are living on today proves that there are strata around the entire world formed by these five world-wide floods that you claim (without evidence) occurred?


Creationists twist and turn, and are never straight shooters.
 
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This link is about how planets were formed, not about the Earth's geological history. The link itself is still very informative.
Which belief on how planets formed was based upon their beliefs of geological history. It appears their beliefs on geological history led to incorrect predictions, the hallmark of an incorrect theory to begin with...

Yes? Or do we need to go show scientific theory is judged by its ability to make correct predictions....
 
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I will state outright that you don't know what you are talking about.
And I’ll state outright you should look into a mirror when you say this.

What you are indirectly referring to is the use of index fossils, and you have totally butchered how they are used (what else is new).

HINT: their use does NOT rely on universal strata. Almost the opposite, really.
The hallmark of someone confused. They are index fossils precisely because they are found every one in the same type of strata for its believed age.

Fossils are dated by the strata they are found in. If the strata were not consistent, then they could not be of the same age.

You need to study up on fossil dating before you provide more false data.

Try studying up on the geological column....

Then isn't it odd that you did not provide an example, a name, a link, a citation to this universal sedimentary stratum.
Which do you want to start with, the Cambrian or another?



The point now becomes you deny your own multiple theories about evolution and your own inconsistencies.

index fossil
“Index fossils are the basis for defining boundaries in the geologic time scale and for the correlation of strata.”

Anything else you need corrected on? Your students probably were more confused than you are.




I know about mass extinctions, but I don't know anything about floods causing all of them, and I should think that such events would have been God's work, yet in the bible, there is but one flood mentioned, and there is zero evidence for that.
Please, all fossils but the very few found in lava flows are found in sedimentary strata. How much evidence of floods do you need?


You simply confuse mans ancestors as being more ape like to conform to your theory. I don’t expect the people before the flood to look like us. Just as I don’t expect a poodle to look like a wolf. You have many fossils of our pre-flood ancestors, and guess what, they are found in sedimentary strata too.
 
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Every planet and moon in the solar system is pockmarked with craters from pole to pole. Ever wonder why the earth only has a few? Oh yes, I’m waiting for the inadequate claim of weathering now. And some on earth has been weathered. But actually look at the numbers found on every planet and moon but earth.

Where will be the evidence of hurricane Harvey in 10 years? Non-existent, that’s where. Catrina left almost nothing visible today. And mount saint helens is well on its way to being healed. And I mean come on Tas, every fossil found is almost invariably found in sedimentary strata. You couldn’t ask for more evidence they died by flood....
 
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just a few refutations before I head out.
And I’ll state outright you should look into a mirror when you say this.

Why? I am not the one that wrote of "allies" and "genetic strains" and "phonetic traits."

The hallmark of someone confused. They are index fossils precisely because they are found every one in the same type of strata for its believed age.


They are used to date the strata in other places from which they were originally identified.

The strata are not themselves uniform around the entire world.

My gosh...
 
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Um, the point of turnaround of the travelling twin (decelerate, turn round, accelerate) is where his frame becomes non-inertial, and this is when the time difference observed at reunion occurs. The video explains this quite clearly.
The video is pseudoscience. The airplane where we actually performed tests with clocks did not turn around.

The twins time slows as he begins acceleration, and then speeds back up as he begins deceleration. At the turn around point it again slows as he accelerated and then speeds back up as he decelerates and land on earth. That is why his clock now ticks once again at the same rate as the stationary twins clock.

You best read up on the clock experiment performed in airplanes. There was no frame switching, no turn around. Each one way journey was recorded separately.

You are being hand fed pseudoscience and apparently unable to differentiate between theory and the reality of actual experimental empirical evidence. There is not one single experimental data that supports the pseudoscience of frame switching. All of the experimental data supports changes in velocity, and changes in velocity alone as slowing clocks.

Even the GPS support this. They speed up because of their distance from the earths surface, and slow solely due to their velocity.

You need to learn to differentiate between fact and fiction, and that video is pure fiction.
 
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