On 3/24/2012 9:11 AM, wgroom wrote:
> On Mar 22, 4:59 pm, Tom McDonald<
tmcdonald2...@charter.net> wrote:
>> On 3/22/2012 12:29 PM, wgroom wrote:
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>>> Well, the evaporation process was pretty self-evident. Wind is
>>> mentioned. You mention heat. Now if the rain/evaporation process
>>> started then, wouldn't that influence some of the heat when the
>>> 'canopy' made it's way back up?
>>
>> If you can't respond to the issues of orogeny, heat of tectonic
>> movements and heat of rainfall, why not just say so?
>>
> Why would or should I?
Because the heat of those two processes would have made life impossible
during and after the flood. Fairly important to Noah, et al., eh?
> You can't prove the origin of water here. I
> do have books on those. Which do you want recommended to you...as it
> applies to the Great Flood?
Something written by a physicist would be a nice change of pace.
>>>> But, strangely, the Bible does not mention Noah, his family, and all the
>>>> animals being par-boiled from the combined heat of the orogeny and the
>>>> rainfall. Why is that?
>>
>>> Because it mentions them building vineyards and spreading themselves
>>> out. Guess they didn't wilt in the heat, did they?
>>
>> That's pretty much the point. Either God miracled it all, and changed or
>> suspended laws of nature in the effort, or it never happened. It would
>> have, at a minimum, boiled everything to death. And beyond.
>>
> It's really simple. Before the flood is was a very plentiful
> greenhouse, and after there was lots of ice, rain, geology changes,
> and a evaporation/rain process.
Which would have required a suspension of the laws of nature during the
Floode. It is really simple--but your side requires miracles, not science.
>> If you think the Floode was done by miracles, and the natural effects
>> that would have resulted if the story happened as written, then why are
>> you trying to harmonize the Floode story with scientific facts?
>>
>> If you think the Flood was done by a process that didn't suspend natural
>> laws, then it didn't happen. Period.
>>
> Oh ,it happened.
That's the issue to be determined. You are begging the question. Not a
very intellectually honest thing to do.
>>>> I have. Even some you recommended. I only found guesses and assertions
>>>> there--no valid evidence sufficient to support Ye Floode or any of its
>>>> natural sequalia.
>>
>>> Besides guesses and assertions there are many finds within geology,
>>> topographys, oceanographys, and fossil finds that are quite poignant
>>> and how they do confront what others say about what they found in
>>> science community. IOW, you can't read very well, or don't want to.
>>
>> I have no idea what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that there
>> are still questions in science? Well, duh. Of course there are.
>>
> And they can't counteract the obvious finds of quick, catastrophic
> finds by the scientists who research the Flood.
I have studied a very large number of such finds of the results of
catastrophes. None of them were world-wide; passing few covered more
than a few hundred square miles; and the temporal ranges seldom or never
overlap. You can't boot-strap any of those finds into a world-wide,
catastrophic Floode.
>> Are you trying to say that there are some facts that confound scientists
>> and point to a great world-wide flood? I'd like to read something about
>> that.
>>
> Just go to Amazon or Alibris and put in Genesis Flood, and you can
> start there.....
Nope. Your claim, your duty to supply supporting data. I've even said
I'd take your references for a spin, if I haven't already read them.
>> I can, in fact, read pretty well. I've read a number of books of the
>> sort you have been telling us to read. Every one of them, in the places
>> where they claim to have facts that modern science can't explain, but
>> which facts are explained by 'creation scientists'--in every case,
>> further reading has shown that they are wrong in those claims. Every time.
>>
> Do tell, So why are you asking for recommenations??
I have an open mind. If you have some stunning work that actually
provides a strong scientific support for Ye Floode, I'll read it if I
can find it for free (library, on-line, etc). I just don't have the
money to buy books--unless I can be stimulated to think I'll read
something worth investing my extremely limited funds.
>> If you've got better sources, name them. But so far, what you've
>> referenced savors too much of the above problem.
>>
> We're still waiting for your 'a' source...that would directly in great
> detail counteract the Flood scientists.
Go to Amazon, Alibris, or your local college library. Check the
Talk.Origins.com web site. Google some actual scientists wrt the
impossibility of the Floode.
>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>>> Narrow-minded canopy you have there.
>>
>>>> Nope. That's what your canopy would have done, had it existed. Yet the
>>>> Bible makes no mention of it. Why is that?
>>
>>> Can't get over the waters from above and waters from below?
>>
>> Not enough water, unless the land was essentially flat. If the land was
>> essentially flat, the orogeny since the flood would have melted the
>> surface of the planet.
>>
> Crazy.
Nope. Physics. Look into it sometime.
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>>> A lot is written on the carbon
>>> dating finds and methods and why they are so diverse.
>>
>> Yes, working in archaeology some time ago, I read quite a bit on the
>> issues of carbon dating and what affects 14C dating. It's a very
>> well-established science. If you would be willing to tell me some of the
>> 'lot that is written' that you think calls the accuracy and precision of
>> 14C dating into question, I'd be willing to address those issues. It's
>> not as though any of it is a secret--at least not on the science side.
>
> The books relate many specific things on all sorts of dating methods,
> some being able to show established history to counteract the
> variances in the dating by radioactivy finds.
So you can't provide even one example out of that whole 'lot that is
written' to show a problem with 14C dating. And you now are extending
that inability to other radiometric dating methods.
Maybe you should look some up and tell me how that calls any sort of
radiometric dating into question. Hell, *I* know a fair bit about the
problems of radiometric dating; and I also know how many of them are
dealt with. And I also know something about the limitations of some
methods. Do you? I mean really know, not just take the word of
anti-science religious folks?