(February 24, 2016 at 1:39 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:holy smokes dude your like the 10th person...(February 23, 2016 at 4:48 pm)Drich Wrote: 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
let me escort you though the bible since you personally can't be bothered to read it.
It wasn't just rain. Springs "burst fourth" Genesis 7. So how do springs work? do springs start at high elevations and wash down? No not unless it is from a glacier or snow melt. springs start in low lands, now imagine the whole planet erupting into various springs. What does that do to your rain fall requirements? what does that do to your theory of flash floods? Try to imagine what would happen if just every single lake or pond/inland body of water on the planet, boiled over at the same time at the same rate.. the term you need is Saturation Flooding. Not only that, the bible says it rained for 40 days and nights, it says nothing about how long the springs ran for.
Saturation flooding does not move sediment. It just water logs and kills everything.
http://hillsborough.ifas.ufl.edu/prohort...ration.pdf
In localized examples of saturation flooding nothing gets displaced, even in long standing examples we don't have sediment or debris moved around. we get swamps and marshes. think everglades, La. byou but mountain height and on a world wide scale.
Again we have examples of flooding where nothing is moved in both of those areas I mentioned so it is possible, if you don't buy into the idea of a tsumumi type of flash flood.
