This was posted in another thread today, along with my response, asking for a source:
"Maybe you forget already the headline news, only this spring, on the book @ the Grand Canyon, by 23 top scientists, of many disciplines, demonstrating how the clear layers of strata & the fossil record support the Genesis 6 global flood - whose cataclysmic pressure was needed both to create & preserve fossils from the normal decay to dust
They also show that fossils are randomly dispersed - both simple & complex species in each strata, with no evidence of gradual development
Indeed, they show that the very arrangement of strata, from heaviest rock at the bottom to lightes soil on the top, is entirely commensurate with the settlement after that global flod, & did not take aeons"
This one I would like a source for, please. You mention that it was "headline news" but I must have missed it. Given that it would overturn the entire science of Geology as we know it today, I am very surprised it slipped by me.
I really am dead serious. If you make a claim like this based on something you heard at a YEC seminar, or based on something you read on a Creationist site, and not on actual "headline news", then you are walking the fine "Hovind" line of misleading/fraudulent statements.
If this was an actual scientific conclusion reached by legitimate, working scientists in the relevent fields of geology (as opposed to just YEC psuedo-scientists who are making the same un-supported claims they have been making for years), then I will apologize for jumping to any conclusions.
Well, I have been told the truth behind this claim and, not surprisingly, no apologies on my part are needed.
It seems that it was not "headline news" at all (under anyone's definition of the term), so it the poster has something to explain right on top.
This dramatic claim is based solely on a CREATIONIST coffee table book written by a non-scientist (more explaining to do there as well), with contributions by folks at AIG, thus NOT top scientists at all, much less "top" scientists in geology or paleontology, the only relevent sciences involved. Instead, the book description says: "Includes essays from 20 top creationists such as Ken Ham and Henry Morris."
It is this type of YEC claim that makes fellow Christians so frustrated with YEC's. Here is a statement full of half-truths, misleading information and stuff close to outright lies.
This is the view of Christianity that YECs are sending to the world.
"Maybe you forget already the headline news, only this spring, on the book @ the Grand Canyon, by 23 top scientists, of many disciplines, demonstrating how the clear layers of strata & the fossil record support the Genesis 6 global flood - whose cataclysmic pressure was needed both to create & preserve fossils from the normal decay to dust
They also show that fossils are randomly dispersed - both simple & complex species in each strata, with no evidence of gradual development
Indeed, they show that the very arrangement of strata, from heaviest rock at the bottom to lightes soil on the top, is entirely commensurate with the settlement after that global flod, & did not take aeons"
This one I would like a source for, please. You mention that it was "headline news" but I must have missed it. Given that it would overturn the entire science of Geology as we know it today, I am very surprised it slipped by me.
I really am dead serious. If you make a claim like this based on something you heard at a YEC seminar, or based on something you read on a Creationist site, and not on actual "headline news", then you are walking the fine "Hovind" line of misleading/fraudulent statements.
If this was an actual scientific conclusion reached by legitimate, working scientists in the relevent fields of geology (as opposed to just YEC psuedo-scientists who are making the same un-supported claims they have been making for years), then I will apologize for jumping to any conclusions.
Well, I have been told the truth behind this claim and, not surprisingly, no apologies on my part are needed.
It seems that it was not "headline news" at all (under anyone's definition of the term), so it the poster has something to explain right on top.
This dramatic claim is based solely on a CREATIONIST coffee table book written by a non-scientist (more explaining to do there as well), with contributions by folks at AIG, thus NOT top scientists at all, much less "top" scientists in geology or paleontology, the only relevent sciences involved. Instead, the book description says: "Includes essays from 20 top creationists such as Ken Ham and Henry Morris."
It is this type of YEC claim that makes fellow Christians so frustrated with YEC's. Here is a statement full of half-truths, misleading information and stuff close to outright lies.
This is the view of Christianity that YECs are sending to the world.
