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Why Evolution is Impossible part II

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My last post on this thread concerns the impossibility of biological evolution as it relates to genetics. Comparative anatomy is not the bottom line in establishing what was supposed to be a change from one living organism to other organisms. Change within the kind is the expected and observed phenomenon, but the evolution of change from one organism to a different organism never occurs.

This matter was established by the Creator in Genesis chapter one. His word makes it clear that all organisms will reproduce only ‘after its kind’. Such as

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But while we might see genetic change in such things as…

Ligers:
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A liger is a cross between a lion and a tiger. But they are all hybrids. The genetic limitations that God imposed on nature are clearly seen here.

We will never see crossbreeding result in something like this…

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or this…

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…or any variation of the same. Evolutionists laugh at such a claim but they don’t have ANY examples from nature to demonstrate that any kind of biological change has occurred; certainly nothing from genetics.

They claim that mutations are one of the main mechanisms that bring about this change but virtually all known mutations have been harmful. But even if the supposed ‘beneficial’ mutations have occurred in nature how could such a rare thing ever bring about the evolution of such a vast array of life forms on earth? The insect world alone boggles the imagination.

But the mutations observed results in things like…

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Biologists have experimented by taking drosophila flies through tens of thousands of generations and yet ended up with...(guess what?) drosophilas!

Mutations produce things like…

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These facts are well known but theistic evolutionists have bought into the lie of evolution despite the scientific facts. They actually believe that Darwinists are telling the truth about the changes in nature. They trust them instead of God and what He said (ten times in Genesis alone!) 'after its kind'. Simple faith and trust in God’s Word is tossed out in favor of the opinions of those who hate the gospel.

A day of reckoning is coming for all who disbelieved the Lord.

Look, Calypsis, you can't tell us that we believe something we don't believe. And you can't tell us that we don't believe something that we do. I mean, you _can_, technically, but it isn't very constructive.

Really and truly, what you are saying evolutionists think, it isn't evolution. It's something else that nobody AFAIK thinks. You can't expect us to defend it because it sounds silly to us, too.
 
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Wait, can I break down the OPs argument into premises and conclusion?

Premise 1: The bible does not state biological evolution is true

Premise 2: There are species whose morphology is very similar to ancestral morphology

Premise 3: We do not observe the change of one organism to another organism, for example we do not see racist gorilla man, or chimp dog.

Conclusion: Evolution is impossible

Unfortunately the OP fails in creating a logical argument through 3 logical fallacies
P1: Fallacy of appeal to authority. OP asserts that the New testament, Moses, prophets, etc. said all things were created by God (a literal creation). Just because it is written does not make it true.
P2: Converse Fallacy of Accident. The OP argues using a special case against a general rule (never mind the misunderstandings of evolution associated with his arguments)
P3: Clearly a straw man. Organisms do not evolve. Populations do.
 
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Look, Calypsis, you can't tell us that we believe something we don't believe. And you can't tell us that we don't believe something that we do. I mean, you _can_, technically, but it isn't very constructive.

Really and truly, what you are saying evolutionists think, it isn't evolution. It's something else that nobody AFAIK thinks. You can't expect us to defend it because it sounds silly to us, too.

If you think that organisms can eventually change into other organisms with different chromosome counts (i.e. apes 48, humans 46) then you believe in Darwinian evolution. That's that.

If you believe that all living things had a common biological ancestor then you believe in Darwinian evolution which is contrary to God's Word.

I'm getting tired of being lied to. I am an ex-evolutionist and I have debated the issue for 45 yrs. Don't try to give me nonsense that I am not talking about evolution. You don't know what you're talking about. Furthermore, you are decieved by Satan.
 
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Wait, can I break down the OPs argument into premises and conclusion?

Premise 1: The bible does not state biological evolution is true

Right. It affirms the six day creation as the fact of history. Evolution is never mentioned in the scriptures.

Premise 2: There are species whose morphology is very similar to ancestral morphology

Similarity of structure indicates a common Creator, not a common ancestor. The DNA limitations will not allow genetic change from one kind to another.

Premise 3: We do not observe the change of one organism to another organism, for example we do not see racist gorilla man, or chimp dog.

'racist'? I said nothing about race. That is not the issue.

Conclusion: Evolution is impossible

You got it.

Unfortunately the OP fails in creating a logical argument through 3 logical fallacies
P1: Fallacy of appeal to authority. OP asserts that the New testament, Moses, prophets, etc. said all things were created by God (a literal creation). Just because it is written does not make it true.

It is true because God's Word says so. Jesus Christ says so. That's final for a faithful Christian. The facts of science, especially genetics, bears out this truth.

P2: Converse Fallacy of Accident. The OP argues using a special case against a general rule (never mind the misunderstandings of evolution associated with his arguments)

Like your comrades in unbelief you don't know what you're talking about.

P3: Clearly a straw man. Organisms do not evolve. Populations do.

Populations, if there was such a thing as evolutionary change, would have to do it by a change in the DNA. The only real changes evolutionary scientists see in the lab are crossbreeding of organisms that are hybrids; ligers, donkeys, etc. Every other change is merely a variation within the kind.

There is no 'straw man'. You just don't like having your position exosed for what it is: a lie.

Bye.
 
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Sorry but you argument is still logically flawed. You still have a fallacy of appealing to authority (your response to P1), converse fallacy of accident, and a straw man.

Populations do evolve and they have changes in their DNA. Check out this Nature publication by Lenski et al.

Nature. 2009 Oct 29;461(7268):1243-7. Epub 2009 Oct 18.
Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli.

Barrick JE, Yu DS, Yoon SH, Jeong H, Oh TK, Schneider D, Lenski RE, Kim JF.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.


The relationship between rates of genomic evolution and organismal adaptation remains uncertain, despite considerable interest. The feasibility of obtaining genome sequences from experimentally evolving populations offers the opportunity to investigate this relationship with new precision. Here we sequence genomes sampled through 40,000 generations from a laboratory population of Escherichia coli. Although adaptation decelerated sharply, genomic evolution was nearly constant for 20,000 generations. Such clock-like regularity is usually viewed as the signature of neutral evolution, but several lines of evidence indicate that almost all of these mutations were beneficial. This same population later evolved an elevated mutation rate and accumulated hundreds of additional mutations dominated by a neutral signature. Thus, the coupling between genomic and adaptive evolution is complex and can be counterintuitive even in a constant environment. In particular, beneficial substitutions were surprisingly uniform over time, whereas neutral substitutions were highly variable.



Perhaps a better understanding of evolution would help you in your future arguments.
 
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You make a number of appeals to authority in your posts. Also, "Bye" isn't a refutation. Learn to use the forum quote tags properly, or just stop. It isn't witty, its simply annoying, as you are obviously deliberately making responding difficult.
 
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You make a number of appeals to authority in your posts. Also, "Bye" isn't a refutation. Learn to use the forum quote tags properly, or just stop. It isn't witty, its simply annoying, as you are obviously deliberately making responding difficult.

They've only said Bye about 1/2 dozen times already, but they keep coming back.
 
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Big history of Earth.

roughly 6,000 years ago , the heaven and the earth were created , and he gave the dark Earth physics and light (Matter and energy), which was the first day.

On the second day , God separated water from water , which made the sky .

On the third day , God had risen the dry land , and he called the gatherings of waters , "Seas".
He created all sorts of stationary life , vegetation and trees.

On the fourth day , God created lights in the great expanse called the sky , to separate day from night , and to mark seasons.

On the fifth day , he ordered the waters to bring forth life in the sea , and birds in the air.

On the sixth day , land produced all living land animals according to their kind.
He created the livestock , the creatures that move on the ground , and the wild things.
And he then created man to have dominion over all of the Earth.

What does this history lesson tell us?
For one , it tells us that each day is an addition to the previous.Matter and energy , to noble gases and atmospheric conditions , to metalloids and first life forms (plants) , to stars to mark seasons and give light to plants , to sea life and birds , and then to land life and humans.

If you notice something , God didn't create all life on the same day.
If each day is an addition to the previous , then that would mean that land life is an addition to sea and air life.

Are birds and fish related to us?
They are genetically.

Here is my theory.
All fish and all birds gave life to all land animals.
Half fish and half birded animals became the dinosaurs , and had scales , teeth , dry land eggs , etc.
Dinosaurs had many features from fish and from birds.
Fish and dinosaur dna combined together would make an amphibian like animal , which would have long hind legs (For jumping maybe) , but also would have arms that sprouted from fins.
Bird dna combined with reptile dna would result in a number of ways , which would probably make flightless birds.
fly dna and shellfish dna would result in two creations , one would be arachnid/scorpion-like , and one would be insect-like.
Dna from dinosaurs and amphibians would probably create a lizard like animal.
And that lizard-like animal combined with whales (Mammalian fish) and bats(mammalian birds) , would probably result in a weird amount of variations , including furry rodents , hairless gigantic animals , and a very reptile-like mammal.
Again , if you mix up those variations , you would end up with furry gigantic things .
Few of these furry gigantic things would include apes , lions , mammoths , cows , etc.
Dna of lions and small rodent animals would most-likely create a type of feline that is very small and rodent-like , but has more attributes of cats.
Hyena dna would most likely go into the production of wolves , dogs , foxes , and coyotes .
Ape dna (being the most humanoid , which is no coincidence) , would go to the production of humans.


If land animals do infact have fish and bird dna , then at least half of my theory is correct.

Now lets keep going along the hitsory lesson .

Adam and Eve were the first sinners , and were kicked out of the garden of Eden.
They had children which led up to Noah's story.
According to the story , Noah and his 3 sons built an ark , because God had told him that there would be a flood to wipe out the world.

It rained for a very long time.


The rain that came down onto Earth was a lot.
I think that the rain came from the water in the sky , which was left up there to create atmosphere.
At the time that the sky fell , massive amounts of radiation poured in (Because of the little atmosphere) , which resulted in deformities in the offspring of all living creatures.
And the radiation shortened lifespans.
The animals had quickly become much different , which resulted in variations among all species.
Call it super evolution , if you will.
But the atmosphere recollected itself again , and the deformities among people and animals balanced out.
The land , which were most likely flat plateus , became mountains , valleys , deserts , etc.


My proof of Noah's ark would be the hundreds of flood stories , and the fact that the populations boom up from 2100 BC , which is a recored statistical fact.
 
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My proof of Noah's ark would be the hundreds of flood stories , and the fact that the populations boom up from 2100 BC , which is a recored statistical fact.

The commonality of flood myths would indicate a common source of the myth, not that there was a global flood. Now, if the evidence pointed at a global flood, then the commonality would probably lend even more evidence to a global flood having happened. However, the scientific evidence does not point at a global flood.
 
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The geological evidence rules out an actual, global flood as Dark Lite states. Don't believe me? Well, just ask those who know the rocks. The The Geological Society of America is composed of over 21,000 geologists, and they have issued this statement:

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2001)

By studying the fossil record that forms part of this rich archive of Earth¹s history, paleontologists continue to uncover details of the long and complex history of life.

Acceptance of deep time is not confined to academic science. If commercial geologists could find more fossil fuel by interpreting the rock record as having resulted from a single flood or otherwise encompassing no more than a few thousand years, they would surely accept this unconventional view, but they do not. In fact, these profit-oriented geologists have joined with academic researchers in refining the standard geologic time scale and bringing to light the details of deep earth history.

Modern studies of the evolution of Earth and its life are not only aiding us in the search for natural resources, but also helping us to understand how the Earth-life system functions. Annual layers of ice in the Greenland glacier, for example, range back more than a hundred thousand years.....

There are people who support flood geology for religious reasons, but flood geology is widely recognized as a pseudoscience with no support from the evidence, and has virtually no support among geologists.

Papias

PS - the commonality of flood myths is no surprise. Humans build cities near rivers due to food, transportation, water, and so on. Rivers flood from time to time. Legends are made over time. Why is that surprising?
 
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The geological evidence rules out an actual, global flood as Dark Lite states. Don't believe me? Well, just ask those who know the rocks. The The Geological Society of America is composed of over 21,000 geologists, and they have issued this statement:

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2001)



There are people who support flood geology for religious reasons, but flood geology is widely recognized as a pseudoscience with no support from the evidence, and has virtually no support among geologists.

Papias

PS - the commonality of flood myths is no surprise. Humans build cities near rivers due to food, transportation, water, and so on. Rivers flood from time to time. Legends are made over time. Why is that surprising?


The evidence says otherwise.

This leaf is extended through several 'varves' which are layers of sediment that evolutionists claim takes a yr per layer.

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One can count seven varves that this leaf extends through. No standing leaf of any kind would survive in an upright position for seven yrs. The existence of this fossil alone demolishes that theory.

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Tens of thousands of animals of all kinds discovered at high elevation at Agate Springs, Nebraska. Did all those creatures just decide to migrate there are the same time and die together in the same place? Or were they merely seeking higher ground from the prevailing flood waters of Noah and got suddenly covered by volcanic ash and instantly fossilized? Which is more reasonable?

Here is another one. The Green River formation in Wyoming. It has millions of creatures that died in close proximity...all of whom were apparently buried suddenly and instantly fossilized. Some of them are remarkably preserved:

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There are many of these kind of fossil graveyards all over the world. It speaks loudly of a catastrophe of major proportions that once destroyed the whole world...from fossil fish in the Alps to the Antarctic to the fossils found in the ocean floors.

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Polystrate fossils. Extending through what is supposed to be millions of years of strata as dated by evolutionists.

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Here is more, taken from National Geographic.

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There is extensive evidence for the flood of Noah. Here is some of it from the great southwest, USA.

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There are, in many places throughout the west, miles between the plateaus. The erosion at the foot of such structures is easily seen almost everywhere as it is at the base of these formations in the picture above. But where is all the billions of tons of sediment that once filled in the land at least as high as the flat surfaced plateaus themselves? In other words...

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...where did all the sediment go? Where is all the dirt and rocks that once filled the space between those plateaus scattered throughout the west?

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This problem exists from as far away places as Texas...

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to the Dakotas...

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To Arizona...

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Geologists who are evolutionists have yet to recognize that so many millions of square miles of missing sediment cannot be explained away with a simplistic answer like 'erosion'...for the erosion SINCE the flood of Noah can be seen by all who merely view the terrain. Just look at the angular build-up of erosion that is seen at the base of each plateau in the pictures above. But where is all the rest? The disposition of such massive amounts of missing sediment to another location would take a flood of catastrophic proportions to account for the phenomena. I maintain that it was the incredible power of the flood waters mentioned in Genesis 6-9 that explains this.
 
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Calypsis4 wrote:
The evidence says otherwise.

The varve leaf - Where is that from? Is that really in varves? What publication describes it, and what to geologists say about it? Right now, all we have is a picture of a leaf. In fact, to my untrained eye, those "varves" look an awful lot like saw marks, and the fact that they cut into the leaf supports that.

fossils at high altitudes are nothing new, including snail fossils. They are usually formed by uplift of the rock after the fossils form. Are you saying that geology has established that the area where the fossils formed was the top of a mountain when the animals were alive? Help me out here.

The next one - just looking at that shows that they weren't instantly fossilized, because all the bones appear to be jumbled up - unless you are saying the animals were first torn limb from limb, then blenderized, then instantly fossilized? Mass fossil locations and even mass, contemporaneous fossilizations are not a problem for evolution - disasters like volcanic eruptions do happen - though caves or such that slowly fossilize those that fall in are also a common source of mass fossil sites. The caves can accumulate fossils for thousands, even millions of years, ending up with quite a few.

The polystrate fossils can be formed in a number of ways. For one thing, layers can be deposited, and trees or other such things grow through them later, and then become fossilized themselves. Sudden deposition does happen, though that of course wouldnt form differently dated layers. Also, deep history could take a fossil and then form layers around it, such as if a petrified tree had subsquent layer form around it. Without detail on your photos (such as what geologists say on the dating of the layers, the fossil, and all that), I can't tell anything from your photos.

Overall - do you think all those geologists are unaware of polystrate fossils, and that you just happen to have this secret knowledge that the experts missed? Does that seem plausible to you? Which do you think is more likely - that all these scientists of different religions (including Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.) all decided to form a grand conspiracy to lie about how to interpret these particular fossils, or, on the other hand, that maybe we don't have the full story on these bare pictures?

In the same "geological" vein (about your "out west" pictures) - you are saying that geologists worldwide, including the whole Geological Society of America - have somehow missed the existance of the whole freakin' southwest united states?!??! Don't you think it is a little more likely that they have looked at these supposed "flood" features, and rejected that interpretation based on the evidence? I mean, even with my untrained eye, it is obvious that all those pictures you posted are more easily explaned by simple erosion than a flood - I don't see why you think they support flood geology, much less why you think the Geological Society of America is unware of the states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and more.

You are aware, I assume, that flood geology was the way all features were interpreted until the early 1800's (before Darwin), and as more and more problems added up, slowly rejected as untenable based on the evidence? It's not like geologists didn't try as hard as they could for a century to make flood geology work. They did - committed Christians, too. They couldn't do so, and finally realized that it was only the idea that the flood in genesis was literal and worldwide that was closing their eyes to God's full revelation, in the earth itself.

You know about the efforts of Sedgwick, including his statements in 1831, right?

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There is extensive evidence for the flood of Noah. Here is some of it from the great southwest, USA.

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There are, in many places throughout the west, miles between the plateaus.
Just throughout the west? Kind of limited for a global flood isn't it? That kind of area would make sense if sedimentary rock from the bottom of a shallow sea was uplifted.

The erosion at the foot of such structures is easily seen almost everywhere as it is at the base of these formations in the picture above. But where is all the billions of tons of sediment that once filled in the land at least as high as the flat surfaced plateaus themselves? In other words...

MonumentValley6.jpg


...where did all the sediment go? Where is all the dirt and rocks that once filled the space between those plateaus scattered throughout the west?

576.jpg


This problem exists from as far away places as Texas...

westTexas-1.jpg


to the Dakotas...

SouthDakota-1.jpg


To Arizona...

MonumentValley1.jpg


Geologists who are evolutionists have yet to recognize that so many millions of square miles of missing sediment cannot be explained away with a simplistic answer like 'erosion'...for the erosion SINCE the flood of Noah can be seen by all who merely view the terrain. Just look at the angular build-up of erosion that is seen at the base of each plateau in the pictures above. But where is all the rest? The disposition of such massive amounts of missing sediment to another location would take a flood of catastrophic proportions to account for the phenomena. I maintain that it was the incredible power of the flood waters mentioned in Genesis 6-9 that explains this.
What is simplistic about erosion? In fact creationism need erosion to happen much faster than geology. Taking a look at that last picture of yours, it is hard to estimate the positions of the base of the cliffs, but approximately 1/20 of the space outlined is filled with erosion you say took place since the flood. That is assuming none of it has washed or blown away in this time.
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In other words, this amount of erosion took place in about 4,000 years. If the volume of erosion is 1/20 of the space between the cliff the whole distance could have been eroded in 80,000 years. You do not specify where your pictures comes from, in geology we are probably talking about erosion going on over something like 50 million years. Monument valley has taken 25 million years to erode, the Grand Canyon 65 million. It sounds as if it is creationism that needs hyper fast erosion after the flood.

So where did the rest of the sediment go? Probably washed away by rain and blown away in the wind, ending up in alluvial valleys and at the bottom of the sea. What is the great puzzle about missing sediment?

Incidentally. If you are trying to look at the geological picture you probably shouldn't mix it up with creationist ideas like thinking the erosion you see happened in the last 4000 years.
 
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Just throughout the west? Kind of limited for a global flood isn't it? That kind of area would make sense if sedimentary rock from the bottom of a shallow sea was uplifted.

You evolutionists really know how to avoid the issue don't you! Nice going. I never said it was ONLY the western USA. But that is where I did my study. Such features can be found in many places all over the world where flood waters at one time cut through major portions of land and carried away multi-millions of tons of sediment to other areas of the world. It all had to go somewhere. It didn't go down in to the earth. It didn't melt. It didn't evaporate. The point is it was all transported by a force large enough and powerful enough to move it.

What is simplistic about erosion? In fact creationism need erosion to happen much faster than geology.

How hard is it to figure? The visible erosion is at the base of those plateus and we can measure the amount laid down since the flood. No matter how you cut it the amount won't extrapolate bacwards for millions of yrs.

So you've got Noah's flood or you've got nothing. The Lord made it obvious...both in HIs word and by visual observation. But people who are brainwashed with evolution don't care.

"And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth: and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." Genesis 7:19.

But apparently you don't believe what Moses said, do you? That's called 'unbelief'.

Taking a look at that last picture of yours, it is hard to estimate the positions of the base of the cliffs, but approximately 1/20 of the space outlined is filled with erosion you say took place since the flood. That is assuming none of it has washed or blown away in this time.
monument%20valley.JPG

In other words, this amount of erosion took place in about 4,000 years. If the volume of erosion is 1/20 of the space between the cliff the whole distance could have been eroded in 80,000 years. You do not specify where your pictures comes from, in geology we are probably talking about erosion going on over something like 50 million years. Monument valley has taken 25 million years to erode, the Grand Canyon 65 million.

And you have lived long enough to observe that 'FACT', right? Tell the readers. What we do know is that by present erosion rates we don't get millions of yrs for the erosion that is visible. There is nothing you can do about it.


It sounds as if it is creationism that needs hyper fast erosion after the flood.

You are mocking God's Word. God's Word is nothing BUT creationism...and Noah's floodism. It doesn't teach anything else.

So where did the rest of the sediment go? Probably washed away by rain and blown away in the wind, ending up in alluvial valleys and at the bottom of the sea. What is the great puzzle about missing sediment?

You aren't even attempting to think this through clearly. It is not so much WHERE, but WHAT was powerful enough to transport over 98% of the erosion that is no longer visible to the observer.

Incidentally. If you are trying to look at the geological picture you probably shouldn't mix it up with creationist ideas like thinking the erosion you see happened in the last 4000 years.

Nonsense. I gave you the reasons. There are far more than that that I did not document.

Your position is in error. Evolution as interpreted by uniformitarian geology is a myth.
 
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Calypsis4 wrote:

The varve leaf - Where is that from?

It comes from the Edinger Collection. Don't have the website protocol. Sorry.

Is that really in varves?

Have you never seen a varve before? Well, take a look for yourself:

Varve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What publication describes it, and what to geologists say about it? Right now, all we have is a picture of a leaf.

'A picture is worth a thousand words', no doubt you've heard. This one destroys evolutionary geology all by itself. It can be likened unto NASA astronauts on the moon discovering an oblong shaped monolith that sends radio signals. Get my drift?

In fact, to my untrained eye, those "varves" look an awful lot like saw marks, and the fact that they cut into the leaf supports that.

Nope. That's wishful thinking. You're trying to protect your belief in mythical evolution.

fossils at high altitudes are nothing new, including snail fossils.

Right. Because the flood of Noah put them there.

They are usually formed by uplift of the rock after the fossils form. Are you saying that geology has established that the area where the fossils formed was the top of a mountain when the animals were alive? Help me out here.

Sure. Here is where the animals in the first photo were buried (by the tens of thousands in the SAME location)

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This is the 4,300 ft. elevation of Agate Springs, Nebraska. I took the photo myself through the big window of the museum there. Do you honestly believe that all those thousands of animals migrated to that spot and crowded together in one place only to die together and slowly get fossilized together over millions of yrs? Come on!

Animals just don't lay around for millions of yrs only to be covered over inch-by-inch and become fossilized. It doesn't happen that way. These organisms obviously experienced instantaneous burial, perhaps from volcanic sediment and/or huge amounts of land sediment that fell on them at the same moment and they were fossilized instantly.

The next one - just looking at that shows that they weren't instantly fossilized, because all the bones appear to be jumbled up

Just the opposite is true. They WERE instantly fossilized. What else but cataclysmic conditions could possibly do such a thing since slow and gradual processes would only see these bones go the way of all other bones...first the insects/predators would eat away all the flesh and then the weather would eventually turn the bones into dust.

- unless you are saying the animals were first torn limb from limb, then blenderized, then instantly fossilized?

The dinosaur you see through the museum window is just one of the many dinosaurs that were found, skeleton intact, upon that ridge at 4,300 ft.

Mass fossil locations and even mass, contemporaneous fossilizations are not a problem for evolution - disasters like volcanic eruptions do happen - though caves or such that slowly fossilize those that fall in are also a common source of mass fossil sites.

The caves can accumulate fossils for thousands, even millions of years, ending up with quite a few.

They weren't in caves. Human beings OBSERVED the flood and every nation on earth has ancient history of flood traditions. The scriptures of God tell us what happened. Why should we doubt what Moses told us? Jesus didn't?

The polystrate fossils can be formed in a number of ways. For one thing, layers can be deposited, and trees or other such things grow through them later, and then become fossilized themselves. Sudden deposition does happen, though that of course wouldnt form differently dated layers. Also, deep history could take a fossil and then form layers around it, such as if a petrified tree had subsquent layer form around it.

That is foolish. No tree on earth would ever stand for millions of yrs waiting to be covered up slowly by sediment.

You didn't document a source that gives scientific reasoning for this phenomena. But that would take observation over millions of years. That you cannot do nor can anyone else.

Without detail on your photos (such as what geologists say on the dating of the layers, the fossil, and all that), I can't tell anything from your photos.

The details speak for itself. Fossils of trees that extend through millions of yrs of strata. Why do you think National Geographic even published those pictures to begin with? It's an anomaly they can't figure out.

Overall - do you think all those geologists are unaware of polystrate fossils, and that you just happen to have this secret knowledge that the experts missed?

They struggle with it and nervously rub their hands together after attempting to 'explain' how this could happen. But what happened at Mt. St. Helen's is telling us the true story of how this happens. Thousands of standing trees destroyed by the 1980 eruption are being fossilized as we type. It doesn't take millions of yrs.

Does that seem plausible to you? Which do you think is more likely - that all these scientists of different religions (including Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.) all decided to form a grand conspiracy to lie about how to interpret these particular fossils, or, on the other hand, that maybe we don't have the full story on these bare pictures?

Yes, it is a conspiracy that many people bought into. I did too. I am an ex-evolutionist. But it isn't hard to figure out that they weren't telling the truth and I've given some excellent reasons on this page alone that reveal why.

In the same "geological" vein (about your "out west" pictures) - you are saying that geologists worldwide, including the whole Geological Society of America - have somehow missed the existance of the whole freakin' southwest united states?!??!

Yes, by being brainwashed with lies just like I was.

Don't you think it is a little more likely that they have looked at these supposed "flood" features, and rejected that interpretation based on the evidence?

No, because they don't have the evidence. The evidence speaks of the truthfulness of scripture, not evolution.

I mean, even with my untrained eye, it is obvious that all those pictures you posted are more easily explaned by simple erosion than a flood - I don't see why you think they support flood geology, much less why you think the Geological Society of America is unware of the states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and more.

You are aware, I assume, that flood geology was the way all features were interpreted until the early 1800's (before Darwin), and as more and more problems added up, slowly rejected as untenable based on the evidence? It's not like geologists didn't try as hard as they could for a century to make flood geology work. They did - committed Christians, too. They couldn't do so, and finally realized that it was only the idea that the flood in genesis was literal and worldwide that was closing their eyes to God's full revelation, in the earth itself.

You know about the efforts of Sedgwick, including his statements in 1831, right?

You've just given opinions, nothing more. Toss evolution. It is a myth.

Papias

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Wait, are we talking about evolution or geology? I thought they were mutually exclusive?

What ever happened to disproving evolution using DNA and on a biological level?


Oh wait, I think I see the relation. Evolution is to geology just as dinosaurs are to oranges?

Can anyone else think of a better analogy?
 
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Wait, are we talking about evolution or geology? I thought they were mutually exclusive?

We are talking about uniformitarian principles of geology which are based on an evolutionary, long-age belief system.

What ever happened to disproving evolution using DNA and on a biological level?

That's easy to do. But that is not my subject on this topic.

Oh wait, I think I see the relation. Evolution is to geology just as dinosaurs are to oranges?

Can I believe my eyes? You actually said that?

Hint: the rocks are DATED in the millions of yrs by evolutionists who find various kinds of fossils in them. How are the fossils DATED? By the rocks that contain them of course! That's a simplified version as to how the dating of million/billions of yrs got started long before the radiometric dating methods were invented.

Can anyone else think of a better analogy?

Evolution is to truth as lego skyscrapers are to blind chance.:thumbsup:

Best wishes.
 
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