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Post by 1dave on Aug 1, 2022 11:06:41 GMT -5
This book is 12 1/4" X 9 1/4", 228 Pages. larger than my scanner and with my set-up very clumsy to scan.I got these images and gave up. If you want more, you will have to buy the book.  He argues that conventional geology dismisses huge sudden changes caused by asteroid impacts.  Here he explains that the asteroid that hit and formed the Gulf of St. Lawrence had a molten mass in its bowl that boiled sea water, depositing a huge amount of salt in short order, NOT the slow depositing they portray.  He believes the asteroid responsible for Noah's Flood hit at Bermuda, and moved the arctic circle to its present location.    |
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Post by rmf on Aug 1, 2022 18:51:06 GMT -5
1dave This is interesting. Yet the author mischaracterizes Uniformitarianism in his preface. Simply put Uniformitarianism is a simple statement, that the present is the key to the past. That the processes that shape the earth we see today are the same processes that shaped the earth a billion years ago. It does not rule out large catastrophic events since we know they happened in the past but the normal processes are indeed slow and take a long time. These slow natural events are punctuated by other catastrophic events like Mt St. Helens, the glacial ice dam that broke and caused flooding from the last ice age, the meteor on the Yucatan at the end of the cretaceous, etc. The earth is a old and complex place and we(mankind) are just now getting the tools needed to sus out some of these one off processes like impact craters. Thanks for sharing this.
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Post by 1dave on Aug 1, 2022 18:57:25 GMT -5
1dave This is interesting. Yet the author mischaracterizes Uniformitarianism in his preface. Simply put Uniformitarianism is a simple statement, that the present is the key to the past. That the processes that shape the earth we see today are the same processes that shaped the earth a billion years ago. It does not rule out large catastrophic events since we know they happened in the past but the normal processes are indeed slow and take a long time. These slow natural events are punctuated by other catastrophic events like Mt St. Helens, the glacial ice dam that broke and caused flooding from the last ice age, the meteor on the Yucatan at the end of the cretaceous, etc. The earth is a old and complex place and we(mankind) are just now getting the tools needed to sus out some of these one off processes like impact craters. Thanks for sharing this. But he is right. There is so much that has been ignored. All the impacts in the ocean remain unknown. So much about our past we don't know. |
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Post by rmf on Aug 1, 2022 19:08:10 GMT -5
1dave yes I agree he is correct about that. Education and discovery are slow processes. When you consider that William Smith (1769-1839), in 1815 produced the first modern geologic map, showing rock strata in England and Wales. We've come a long way in 200 years. Geology was very "sexy" in the 1800's not so much now. Archeology also has ignored many things due to scientific politics and professional snobbery just like Geology and Paleontology actually science in general is very political. Or should I say full of egos in spades.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 3, 2022 8:18:13 GMT -5
Being a creationist and believe the world was created 6000 years ago and the flood occurred 4500 years ago puts the timing of all cosmic bombardments(and all other life threatening geologic events required to form an earth)happening in short time periods at 6000 years ago and 4500 years ago. Living organisms quite different between initial creation to the flood, and then the living organisms after the flood to today. Timing of these events is what separates old and new earth opinions.
As far as an older earth outlook massive impacts like Chicxulub, Sudbury and Vredefort individually should have wiped out all life on earth making epoch theory along with floods with each impact plausible. There is probably more large individual impacts that would have wiped out all life too suggesting yet more epochs.
Creation theory would require all geologic and cosmic forces to occur in 5 - 24 hour days(according to the Bible) for the earth to be created suggesting a supernatural power was in control for all those events to have occured in such a short period of time. Judging from the complexity of the universe and life itself creation events are totally feasible. Science should address that point.
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Post by wargrafix on Jan 7, 2024 14:02:04 GMT -5
A global flood requires more water than the earth had
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