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A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
(February 23, 2016 at 4:48 pm)Drich Wrote:
(February 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Yes, those "d-bags" who call themselves geologists.  Or are only geologists who study floods "d-bags?" That's childish even for you.
Profession does not make on a d-bag. It is how one behaves in said profession that make one a d-bag. Or are you saying out of all the different professions in the world 'geology' is the one profession that keeps narrow minded people from getting jobs? Does it prevent small box thinkers from speak out and making it look like the whole profession supports only one world view?

What the bible describes is a saturation flood not a flash flood. your d-bags are describing the after effects of flash flooding pretending no other flooding would be possible.

http://hillsborough.ifas.ufl.edu/prohort...ration.pdf

I'm mostly just enjoying watching this, since I'm really busy, of late.

However, I had to jump in here... when I worked at the KDHE, the Environment department (mine) shared a floor with the Geology department. Literally every geologist working there whom I met was a Christian, complete with office bibles, pins on lapels, and the various desktop debris that lets them announce their faith to the world. They were among the most religious bunches I met in a science field. All of them knew as much about evolution as I do; in fact, geologists had the timeline and nature of evolutionary history figured out before biologists did.

As for the "flash flood", do a little math, Drich. We'll say that only Mt. Ararat was covered, as a lowball figure, since the story doesn't mention Everest. Mount Ararat is 16,854 feet tall. It rained, according to the story, for 40 days and 40 nights. That's 40 x 24 = 960 hours of rain.

In order for the floodwaters to have covered the mountain in that time, it would have had to rain 17.55 inches of rain per hour that entire time. No flash flood? The heaviest sustained rainfall on record is Tropical Cyclone Denise, at 71" in a 24-hour period, or 2.95 inches per hour, back in 1966.

Even if you say that half the waters were from "the deep", you're still talking 8.775 inches per hour, nonstop, for almost a month and a half, day and night.

No flash flood? Really?

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we...cords#Rain
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost

I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea - by TheRocketSurgeon - February 24, 2016 at 1:39 pm

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