RE: Religion and Science are 1000% Opposite
October 19, 2017 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2017 at 12:35 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 19, 2017 at 10:41 am)Huggy74 Wrote: How do you reconcile the above quote with this
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/12/us/wha...m-sea.html
Quote:Scientists have found fossils of whales and other marine animals in mountain sediments in the Andes, indicating that the South American mountain chain rose very rapidly from the sea.
Quote:When these animals died from 15 million to 20 million years ago, their carcasses settled to the ocean floor and were embedded in submarine sediments.
And this
The Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Bristol, UK suggests.
Quote:With collaborators at Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre and partially funded by BHP Billiton, Dr Evenstar analysed large boulders from 2km high in the western margin of the Andes. She has shown that the Andes were already near their present elevation 14 million years ago.
What? Huggy are you telling me that flood happened tens of millions years ago?
Considering your article(s) I don't see the problem. You quoted only parts of articles and I presume you try to say that sea animals died on Andes that were already high mountains, but the articles do explain themselves you should just read more:
"Among the fossils the scientists reported bringing back were the bones of whales and other marine animals found at altitudes of more than 5,000 feet. When these animals died from 15 million to 20 million years ago, their carcasses settled to the ocean floor and were embedded in submarine sediments. But since then, the violent upthrusting of the Andean chain has carried the sediments to the tops of mountains. In geological terms, the time the fossils took to rise from ocean floor to mountain top was relatively brief."
So there you go. In other article you show how some scientist said that Andes where full length 14 million years ago: so let's say they died 20 million years ago and then next 6 million years ago "the violent upthrusting of the Andean chain has carried the sediments to the tops of mountains". What's the problem? Andes are very volcanic so they did grow relatively fast, but still millions of years.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"