Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:
Frank Gilliland wrote:
On 4 Sep 2005 16:44:42 -0700, wrote in
ups.com:
Mike Coslo wrote:
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That being said, there is no doubt in my mind that
the world was *not*
created in seven days starting on Sunday, the 23rd of October
in 4004 BC
as determined by Ussher - and put in print in one of my bibles at home.
Actually, Genesis says it took six days - because the Creator
rested on the seventh day.
Rush job, too. Left a lot of holes....
LOL!!!
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I highly doubt that it was created by
a supreme being.
Why? Couldn't the Supreme Being have set it all
in motion, and the Bang was just the method?
I get a kick out of some of these discussions. Especially regarding
evolution. These "Christians" are constantly trying to poke holes in
the theory, yet are too short-sighted to consider that 'evolution'
(even with all it's holes) might be one of God's creations. If so,
then they are effectively attacking their own faith.
I've asked them that (one time I was trapped in a car on a 4 hour drive
with a couple fundies- arrrgh) We had a grand old time. I used to keep
me yap shut because it doesn't do much good, but after the second hour
of them trying to save my soul, I unleashed the dogs on them.
Does your soul need saving?
They think so!
Would you be offended if they prayed for your soul?
Turns out
they did not know where the water came from or went to, and didn't know
why the kangaroos had to swim from Australia to the middle east in order
not to drown.
Do you refer to a flood? There's one in New Orleans right now. Do you
know where the water came from? Do you know how it's going to be let
out? Are the zoo animals swimming for Cairo?
The water came from two sources. One was fresh water and the other salt
water from a storm surge. Water that was once some place else came to be
deposited in New Orleans and the world has suffered no increase or
decrease in the amount of water that exists in the world.
Do you know this from first-hand experience, or what?
The world
covering biblical flood is quite a different matter.
The known world in the biblical flood...
A huge amount of
water that doesn't exist here toady would have to had existed at that
time.
Why?
It would have had to be someplace else before the flood, and then
after the flood, it would have had to go some place else.
Much like the water in New Orleans. It wasn't there two weeks ago.
Three months from now it will be somewhere else. Will you be able to
account for all of the water then?
Another interesting question:
During the rain and flood period, the ocean levels would have to raise
by many 10's of thousands of feet. What effect would this have on the
rotational velocity of the earth? Same thing when the water receded.
Probably rotate faster as a water covered earth should have far less
frictional drag than a rough land/mountain covered earth. If you
discount the atmosphere.
Since the water came from rain, and therefore fresh, there should be a
distinct record of the Oceans salinity dropping drastically at that time.
You should have asked Noah if he could float an egg in the water or
not.
Even my more serious questions were troublesome for them,
especially since they were engineers. They really hated my thoughts on
how if they were correct about the young universe and Earth were fact,
some of the "facts" that they tried to use to disprove Evolution, such
as dating anomalies, could not be true because the basic nuclear decay
rates (or is that nukular?) were wrong to begin with.
- Mike KB3EIA -
It's "nuclear." And they should be dating much younger women if decay
is going to be a problem.
I had dated a few anomalies myself in my younger days. Some were fun,
and others.....
Too many cultures have a tradition of a great flood for it to be a
fairy tale.