Originally posted by sonhouse
What you think is wrong. I am talking about the core falsehoods, the myth of the world wide flood, the very idea a god would kill all its land creations to get at a few hundred wayward humans is so abhorrent I can't imagine why people would fall for such an obvious ploy.
Oh yeah, then there is the 7 day creation tale, not even new to christianity but pl ...[text shortened]... se and put down women. That is the sum of it, that is the result built up over 2 thousand years.
There is evidence of the possibility of worldwide flood. The following are a few examples:
There is a worldwide tradition among natives of a global flood.
An analysis of population growth statistics confirms that there was near zero population at the estimated time of the end of the flood.
Human palaeontological evidence exists even in the earliest geologic 'ages' (eg human footprints in Cambrian, Carboniferous, and Cretaceous rocks).
The glacial period started very quickly. This would require a cataclysmic event such as a global flood to trigger such a rapid climatic change.
Studies show that much of the world's folded beds of sediment, even sediment thousands of meters thick, have no compression fractures, indicating that they were contorted while they were still wet and soft.
There is an absence of physical evidence that indicates a time change between rocks of 'successive ages'. Sedimentary rock layers worldwide appear to have been laid down very quickly, as by a global flood.
Globally, there is an almost complete absence of any evidence of animal and plant root activity within the tiny layers of sediment. Slowly deposited layers should show this activity, flood deposits wouldn't.
All types of rocks (eg limestone, shale, granite, etc) occur in all geologic 'ages'. This indicates a common formation on a global scale - the situation that would have been created by the mixing of sediment in a global flood.
The burial of fossil deposits worldwide had to have occurred in a catastrophic event like a worldwide flood.
Marine fossils can be found on the crests of mountains. Apart from mountain uplifting, this can also be explained as the marine animals being washed there and then buried. A global flood could do this.
There is a worldwide distribution of most of the fossil types, indicating transportation on a global scale by a global flood.
Worldwide, fossils from different 'ages' are often found in the wrong order. This indicates a global mixing of fossils as a consequence of a global flood.
Dinosaurs and many other prehistoric creatures died out suddenly. A catastrophe such as a global flood could have produced this result.
Polystrate fossils that are found worldwide indicate turbulent or rapid deposition. A global flood would be required to do this worldwide.
Polystrate fossils also form when water-logged timber sinks in a large body of water. A year long global flood could produce worldwide polystrate fossils formed in this way.
Raised shorelines are found worldwide indicating a time when the world had a different sea level. A consistent interpretation of this is that a global flood altered the levels of the oceans and seas.
Mountain-high water level marks found throughout the world are consistent with the recession of a global flood.
Hydrologic evidence points to the world's sedimentary rocks being deposited in one continuous episode. All the layers could have been laid down by a single event, such as a global flood.
Hydrologic experiments show that flowing sediment automatically settles out in distinct layers. Therefore, sedimentary rock layers can be just as easily explained as flood debris, as slow deposition.
25 Mar '14 09:161 edit
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