(December 27, 2010 at 8:17 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: I will not comment heavily in this thread since i do not have the time nor the relevant knowledge, however i find the "global flood" argument a pure example of the "and then a miracle happens" argument: the global flood is used by creationists to justify everything, from radiocarbon dating to continental drift and fossils of waterborne creatures in mountains. Without ever actually proving that this flood ever happened in the first place.
Creationists use this argument as an alternative to a divine intervention with the guise of appearing scientific. And i find it amusing how creationists constantly refer to this flood without providing any actual evidence for it.
I also find amusing that creationists still have never managed to prove that Evolution can"t work.
Welcome to the thread! it's been interesting for all I think. I disagree a bit with what you said about the global flood though. I feel that catastrophic plate tectonics, marine fossils on land, and inflated radiocarbon dates are evidence for a global flood. The secular side always claims there is no evidence for a global flood (although they all believe that water has covered every part of the Earth at some point in time in the past). Yet think about it for a second, what would a person expect to find if there was such an event? One thing would be flood legends in most of the cultures today because they would have descended from those on the ark (the Chinese symbol for “boat” literally means “eight people in a vessel”). Millions of dead animals buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the Earth. We find both of these. Now the secular side has their own interpretations for these things, but they are what you would expect to find if a flood event did occur. You agree? If not, then what evidence would you accept for a global flood?
As to the evolution comment, it has been shown to be impossible. DNA contains information and the laws of information theory state that information cannot arise by natural unguided processes. People just hold onto Darwinian theory because it gives them a reason to not believe in creation.
