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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Dialogues on Maths of the Flood


Maths of Flood - Correcting Premisses · Dialogues on Maths of the Flood · Other Maths of Flood Video

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Scott E
You are presuming Mt Everest was as high as or even existed before and during the Flood.

Yes. The science of geology supports such a presumption. No evidence supports the contrary except the wishful thinking and scientific ignorance of creationists.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Scott E "The science of geology supports such a presumption."

The data or the scientists?

"No evidence supports the contrary"

Except marine fossils found on top of it?

"except the wishful thinking and scientific ignorance of creationists."

Meaning:
  • your social ignorance of CreationistS
  • your ignorance of arguments in CreationisM, right?


Seriously, you will say yourself that Himalayas have been lower than now, that they have risen fairly recently.

You will also pretend that this had happened millions of years before there were human observers, so, all we can say of it is by conclusion.

Now, your powers of conclusion are not brighter than ours. We have one datum more to base conclusions on - the history recorded in the Bible, since taken as accurate.

What exact datum (not theory, but datum) argues on your view that this conclusion must be wrong?

Now, I check the actual figures for Himalayas.

"During the Upper Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, the north-moving Indo-Australian Plate (which has subsequently broken into the Indian Plate and the Australian Plate[10]) was moving at about 15 cm (5.9 in) per year. About 50 million years ago this fast moving Indo-Australian Plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor and the volcanoes that fringed its edges."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas

So, the move was in 20 million years by 15 cm per year.

What if this took only 100 years? It would have meant a speed of 3472 m / h, less fast than a grown and healthy man walking. See calculations below.

It would have started out during the Flood, and it would have continued for 100 years.

Even a somewhat faster process seems possible, especially if the 3000 km distance is not quite proven.

20 000 000 * 15 cm 3 000 km / 100 years 2500 m / month
300 000 000 cm 30 km / year 2500 m / 30 days
3 000 000 m 30 km / 12 months 250 m / 3 days = 83 m / day
3 000 km 30 000 m / 12 months = 2500 m / month
   83 333 mm / 24 h = 3472 m / h


RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
Your numbers mean nothing if you can't come up with a mechanism that raised the Himalayas to its present height.

@Hans-Georg Lundahl
Other proposed mechanism, violent movements (which have been slowing down for 5000 years now)

This is not true. The forces that are proposed to cause the plates to move as they presently do have not changed

in tectonic plates due to same impact which caused subterranean waters to erupt

What impact? You are just making stuff up, without anything to support your claims. Do you have any idea how much energy would have been released if an impact has occurred that caused 3 times more water than is found on earth today to erupt from beneath the surface? And all the while the little houseboat would have not been destroyed

into the flood and probably also left the iridium layer

Where did the flood get the iridium from. It's only found in very minute trace amount, naturally. The layer found around the world is dated to 65my ago. And scientists have traced it's origin to the Chixalub earthquake. You are playing fast and loose with scientific evidence.

Since you mentioned the layer of iridium, you have brought the geological column into the conversation. No dinosaur remains have ever been found above that line of iridium. So, how were they on the little houseboat? And of the 1.2 million extant species, not a single animal or plant fossil has ever been found anywhere near the iridium line.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22 Mechanism in Flood geology : provided by geologists on CMI, like here:

How did the waters of Noah’s Flood drain off the continents?
by Mike Oard | This article is from
Creation 37(3):28–30—July 2015
https://creation.com/how-did-the-waters-of-noahs-flood-drain


Go down to figure 5.

Other proposed mechanism, violent movements (which have been slowing down for 5000 years now) in tectonic plates due to same impact which caused subterranean waters to erupt into the flood and probably also left the iridium layer.

RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
Go down to figure 5

I would rather start with this: "As the water receded from the continents it must have flowed into the oceans"

That's impossible. We are discussing a water supply in addition to the existing oceans.

It only takes a quick look at a globe of the earth to appreciate that the water indeed sits in the oceans. The Pacific Ocean alone takes up almost half the earth’s surface

We are looking for 3 times more water than there presently is in the Pacific Ocean.

That's ridiculous. There's nothing in that illustration that identifies the force that would have caused that to happen. Also, in the case of the Himalayas, we are talking about a 1,500mile long x 95-150 mile wide x 20,000 foot pile of rock. There, no way that illustration is sufficient. Also, there's no objective evidence whatsoever that supports the claim.

@Hans-Georg Lundahl
We have one datum more to base conclusions on - the history recorded in the Bible, since taken as accurate

You can use the bible to prove the bible. Besides, it's LOADED with contradictions, mistakes, utter nonsense (like the flood), despicable vileness and lies, including lies bu you god, himself. So, there's no reason why rational, objective minded person should consider anything it says.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22 "I would rather start with this: "As the water receded from the continents it must have flowed into the oceans""

Dealt with when saying Everest is post-Flood, actually.

"That's impossible. We are discussing a water supply in addition to the existing oceans."

Only if you insiste on an "Everest flood zone" as in water 8 km and some higher than present sea level, as in height of Mt Everest presumed to have already existed.

Oard: "It only takes a quick look at a globe of the earth to appreciate that the water indeed sits in the oceans. The Pacific Ocean alone takes up almost half the earth’s surface"

You: "We are looking for 3 times more water than there presently is in the Pacific Ocean."

We are not looking for 3 times more water than there presently is on earth, again, unless you count Everest as the minimal height of a Flood covering the mountains.

"That's ridiculous."

Think you.

"There's nothing in that illustration that identifies the force that would have caused that to happen."

Oard provides a verbal intro: "Differential vertical tectonics as the floodwater was draining provides the answer,10 because the mountains were pushed up as a result of the Flood, by way of upward vertical tectonics."

"Also, in the case of the Himalayas, we are talking about a 1,500mile long x 95-150 mile wide x 20,000 foot pile of rock. There, no way that illustration is sufficient."

Hence my proposal of other mechanism, namely tectonic sideways movements, leading to subduction, same mechanism as conventional geology, just more rapid.

"Also, there's no objective evidence whatsoever that supports the claim."

A proposed explanation is not exactly a claim to be proven. As long as it explains and nothing else explains data, that is proof, if something else explains them, not proven, but also not irreplaceably necessary as explanation.

"You can use the bible to prove the bible."

I suppose you mean "can't".

When you ask me to defend the Bible, I explain with an extra-Biblical but biblically coherent model.

When you ask for my proof, I answer the Bible.

EXPLAINING AND PROVING ARE TWO DIFFERENT OPERATIONS IN LOGIC, GET BACK TO SCHOOL!

Not saying school should be compulsory, but some things, like debating, are better off for a good schooling, which you lack.

"Besides, it's LOADED with contradictions,"

I think you are seriously wrong.

I think you aer seriously into a story you heard and never bothered to check, like two childhood accounts naming different cities, but still not contradicting each other since people move.

"mistakes, utter nonsense (like the flood), despicable vileness and lies, including lies bu you god, himself."

More prejudice on your part.

"So, there's no reason why rational, objective minded person should consider anything it says."

Even Genetically Modified Sceptic knows better than you. With 40 sth authors, any debunking of one of them will do nothing to debunk the rest.

In fact, a source may both be inaccurate and morally vile, and yet be the source we have for a piece of history, so, even if you were right, which you are not, this does not preclude Bible from being accurate history.

Now, what makes someone take a text as history, as opposed to fiction? Statements in the text? No, but reception of the text.

For instance, I do not take the Lord of the Rings as history, despite everything being in it formulated in a way it would have been if historical or a historical docufiction about long past millennia, simply because I know of no reception of the text prior to Tolkien's publication in 1954 and 55 and the years just before in which he was working on it and even changing plot points. This reception has not involved any academia crediting him with the discovery of a text in Westron, nor of deciphering and translating Westron. ANYTHING related to Red Book of Westmarch and Westron depends PURELY on the text, NOT on the reception.

By contrast, as far back as any can trace the reception of the Torah, it has been regarded as historical, except by sceptics who are a recent addition to the mix. THAT is my proof for historicity of Bible. NOT the Bible text alone.

@RationalSkeptic22 I missed one, here are my answers to that one:

"This is not true. The forces that are proposed to cause the plates to move as they presently do have not changed"

You presume.

It is harder to prove they have not changed. You cannot for instance prove it historically by citing scientific observations from last 5000 years, year by year.

"What impact? You are just making stuff up, without anything to support your claims. Do you have any idea how much energy would have been released if an impact has occurred that caused 3 times more water than is found on earth today to erupt from beneath the surface? And all the while the little houseboat would have not been destroyed"

Again, the "three times more" meme involves Mt Everest already existing before the Flood. We are discussing a scenarion in which it didn't. You cannot use your disagreement with it to prove contractions in it when they only are with your mixing it up with another scenario.

I consider it very probable that either the impact was causing tsunamis the Ark escaped as built on highest available ground, or added water after it had started floating. Oh, since it was floating, it was not navigating against the waves and therefore not broken by them.

"Where did the flood get the iridium from. It's only found in very minute trace amount, naturally. The layer found around the world is dated to 65my ago. And scientists have traced it's origin to the Chixalub earthquake. You are playing fast and loose with scientific evidence."

You are confusing evidence with theories. I have every right to interpret the actual evidence to that layer being 5000 years old. CHE I IX A ELE U BE - Chixalub .... no.

Chicxulub crater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater


See why I am always afraid of mispronouncing and misspelling that place ...

As you can see from article, the iridium is from the meteorite that impacted.

"Since you mentioned the layer of iridium, you have brought the geological column into the conversation. No dinosaur remains have ever been found above that line of iridium."

I did a major check up on geological column. Can you name one place on earth where dinosaurs are found below that line of iridium - meaning it is actually found there too and above them?

I actually even suspect there are places of earth where same iridium line is below some dino type critters, but there it is considered as an older layer from an older impact. The PT boundary (Permian / Triassic).

But I don't know for a fact there is even one place where there are dinos either above or below any extant and identified line of iridium.

I am nearly sure there are slugs above and below a line of iridium in Yacoraite, pretty much same slugs for Maastrichtian ("late" Cretaceous) and for Danian ("early" Palaeocene). Because if both Maastrichtian and Danian fossils are slugs of pretty much same type, only an iridium line comes to my mind as having motivated any differentiation of them into two layers.

"So, how were they on the little houseboat? And of the 1.2 million extant species, not a single animal or plant fossil has ever been found anywhere near the iridium line."

You don't find the iridium line on every spot on earth.

You brought up extant species. While any two animals in a couple were of same species, had no reproductive barrier, this doesn't mean every species now extant had to be there, as speciation events happened after the Flood. Here is an article of mine dealing with it.

Creation vs. Evolution : What Taxonomic Level Needs Representation on the Ark?
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-taxonomic-level-needs.html


Here is a resumé of all links to an article series with geologic column in discussion:

Creation vs. Evolution : Archaeology vs Vertabrate Palaeontology in Geology
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2016/06/archaeology-vs-vertabrate-palaeontology.html


RationalSkeptic22
Hans-Georg Lundahl
"Seriously, you will say yourself that Himalayas have been lower than now"

Right. Based on their present rate of ascension, they were ~450 feet shorter 4,600 years ago.

"that they have risen fairly recently"

Not according to the scientific evidence. And that's all we have to go on that explains their existence.

"You will also pretend that this had happened millions of years before there were human observers"

Nobody is pretending. The scientific evidence shows they began rising ~60 million years ago.

"so, all we can say of it is by conclusion"

There's evidence on which the conclusion are based.

"Now, your powers of conclusion are not brighter than ours"

Yes the most CERTAINLY are because they are based on scientific evidence and they explain everything. All you can do is make assertions and say what might have happened, without ever explaining how it happened.

"We have one datum more to base conclusions on - the history recorded in the Bible, since taken as accurate"

Take it as accurate all you want but it's not accurate.

"What exact datum (not theory, but datum) argues on your view that this conclusion must be wrong?"

All we are saying is we don't believe you. And since you are making the claim, it's incumbent on you to support it. We are also explaining why we don't believe you by pointing out issues that indicates that the flood couldn't have happened.

[Note he refuses to give a precise piece of evidence here.]

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22 "Right. Based on their present rate of ascension, they were ~450 feet shorter 4,600 years ago."

Unless their present rate is the result of a slowing down.

"Not according to the scientific evidence. And that's all we have to go on that explains their existence."

You are confusing evidence as in raw data with current theories.

Also, you are confusing proof with explanation. Explanations must not contradict the proof, but need not be derived from proof (why don't they teach logic in these schools!).

ALSO you are misinterpreting what I mean by recent. In your school of thought, Himalayas, Andes and Alps are the most recent mountains there are, while Pyrenees or Carpathians are lots older, since lower, more worn down.

"Nobody is pretending."

You are referring to the sense given as 4 on wiktionary:
To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.

I was referring to the sense given as 1:
To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception. [from 14th c.]

I was not in this case intending the "as a form of deliberate deception" on your part, which is not necessary for the sense.

"The scientific evidence shows they began rising ~60 million years ago."

No, a certain scientific interpretation of the evidence says this.

"There's evidence on which the conclusion are based."

There is evidence and bad logic applied to it on which your conclusion is based.

"Yes the most CERTAINLY are because they are based on scientific evidence"

We are not unwilling to use that.

"and they explain everything."

Except they don't explain a lot of things, like why you are here thinking about why we are here.

"All you can do is make assertions and say what might have happened, without ever explaining how it happened."

Except we do explain how x happened by y, and then you say we never explain y, even if we do.

"Take it as accurate all you want but it's not accurate."

Claim you ...

"All we are saying is we don't believe you."

I am not asking you to believe me.

"And since you are making the claim,"

I am not making a claim, but defending one against a counterclaim you are making.

"it's incumbent on you to support it."

When you make a counterclaim saying we cannot explain such and such, it is incumbent, not to prove, but to explain.

"We are also explaining why we don't believe you by pointing out issues that indicates that the flood couldn't have happened."

Issues I am dealing brilliantly with. Whether you realise that or not.

RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
"Dealt with when saying Everest is post-Flood, actually"

If you have an ocean and 3 times more water appears, it can't flow into the ocean because it's in excess to the ocean's content

"Only if you insiste on an "Everest flood zone" as in water 8 km and some higher than present sea level"

You have a bathtub full of water. Your home is flooded to the roof and then the flood water drains off. It CANNOT drain into the bathtub because it's in excess to what the bathtub can hold. Same here.

"We are not looking for 3 times more water than there presently is on earth, again, unless you count Everest as the minimal height of a Flood covering the mountains"

I think I'm being reasonable when I say the Himalayas is rising at 1.16 inches per year, and the forces causing the tectonic plates to move have not changed. Therefore, it's reasonable to conclude that the tectonic plates' speed has not changed

"Differential vertical tectonics as the floodwater was draining provides the answer,10 because the mountains were pushed up as a result of the Flood, by way of upward vertical tectonics"

You are just making stuff up. There's not enough water on earth to move the Himalayas. You have water lifting mountains AND laying down strata when that's totally impossible

"Hence my proposal of other mechanism, namely tectonic sideways movements"

LOL!! That's not a mechanism. And where is your evidence that describes such a phenomenon>

"leading to subduction, same mechanism as conventional geology"

Except in geology, everything MUST be explained. You are not even making an attempt to explain anything.

"just more rapid"

What caused it to be 1,000 times "more rapid" and then slow to its present? And why didn't this maneuver rip the earth apart? You don't seem to have the least concept of just how humongous the Himalayas are

"A proposed explanation is not exactly a claim to be proven"

Why do you expect people to believe you when you are just pulling shit out of your rectal data bank and treating it as factual?

"As long as it explains and nothing else explains data, that is proof, if something else explains them, not proven, but also not irreplaceably necessary as explanation"

In other word, any time you reach n impasse, just make an asspull ans "Wala""!

"When you ask me to defend the Bible, I explain with an extra-Biblical but biblically coherent model"

You are using the bible to explain the bible

"When you ask for my proof"

I don't recall asking you for proof because I don't have any. I have evidence that supports what I say. And that's what I ask for

"I answer the EXPLAINING AND PROVING ARE TWO DIFFERENT OPERATIONS IN LOGIC, GET BACK TO SCHOOL!"

LOL! I'm sure you need to follow your own advice, since you are accusing me of something that I never said

"Not saying school should be compulsory, but some things, like debating, are better off for a good schooling, which you lack"

Careful with the insults because I can get real nasty. So, let's stick to what was said.

"like two childhood accounts naming different cities"

Genesis 1 has a different creation accounts than Genesis 2.

"but still not contradicting each other since people move"

It contains contradictions.

"Even Genetically Modified Sceptic knows better than you. With 40 sth authors, any debunking of one of them will do nothing to debunk the rest"

LOL!!! So, 1 author can be shown to be a liar but that doesn't impact the other authors? Comedy gold!!

"even if you were right, which you are not"

LOL! The bible contains mistakes: God didn't make oxygen, CO2, radiated heat, gravity or atmospheric pressure, without life can exist. utter nonsense: The flood myth, which requires ~50 magic acts to pull it off, despicable vileness: condoning slavery, lies: promising A&E they would surely die on the day they ate from the tree but it didn't happen. There's more

"Now, what makes someone take a text as history, as opposed to fiction? Statements in the text? No, but reception of the text"

Horseshit!

"For instance, I do not take the Lord of the Rings as history"

And I don't take the bible as history.

"By contrast, as far back as any can trace the reception of the Torah, it has been regarded as historical"

That doesn't make it so. Every supernatural event described is bullshit, beginning with the first sentence.

"except by sceptics who are a recent addition to the mix. THAT is my proof for historicity of Bible. NOT the Bible text alone"

LOL!! You really had to twist yourself into a pretzel to believe that nonsense.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22
"If you have an ocean and 3 times more water appears, it can't flow into the ocean because it's in excess to the ocean's content"

That is PRECISELY what was already dealt with when saying Everest (and modern Oceans too) didn't exist pre-Flood.

There wasn't any 3 times excess of modern Ocean content in the first place.

"You have a bathtub full of water. Your home is flooded to the roof and then the flood water drains off. It CANNOT drain into the bathtub because it's in excess to what the bathtub can hold. Same here."

No parallel. For one thing, the world doesn't have a roof.

For another, the "bathtub" is dug out much deeper so water can drain off into it.

"I think I'm being reasonable when I say the Himalayas is rising at 1.16 inches per year, and the forces causing the tectonic plates to move have not changed. Therefore, it's reasonable to conclude that the tectonic plates' speed has not changed"

When you say the forces have not changed, you are once again presuming a scenario. Considering the interest you show in maintianing a "three times more water" canard, you have a fairly shallow motive for this preference.

What you do NOT have is independent proof of it.

"You are just making stuff up. There's not enough water on earth to move the Himalayas. You have water lifting mountains AND laying down strata when that's totally impossible"

Can you read?

The article didn't say waters were moving tectonic plates or uplift.

The article did say strata were pushed down around sth, and then that sth had an uplift as counterbalance.

"LOL!! That's not a mechanism. And where is your evidence that describes such a phenomenon>"

It is a proposed mechanism. Evidence usually does not describe, but prove.

"Except in geology, everything MUST be explained. You are not even making an attempt to explain anything."

Except I did give the meteorite in Yucatan (let's skip trying to pronounce that Mexican word!) as explanation for movement of tectonic plates.

"What caused it to be 1,000 times "more rapid" and then slow to its present?"

On a) the meteorite, on b) the forces of resistance, which have grown stronger since solidification of rocks after Flood.

"And why didn't this maneuver rip the earth apart?"

The meteor did rip the then tectonic plates apart. That's what caused the movement.

"You don't seem to have the least concept of just how humongous the Himalayas are"

The precise reason why it needed a big movement in tectonics to build them up (I had to look up humongous, but still).

"Why do you expect people to believe you when you are just pulling shit out of your rectal data bank and treating it as factual?"

Again, explanations are creative.

Sometimes they can be checked, sometimes they cannot.

When they cannot, they can stand.

When they are chcked affirmatively they can stand.

When they are checked infirmatively, they cannot stand. I asked you for one datum disproving my scenario, you haven't given one.

"In other word, any time you reach n impasse, just make an asspull ans "Wala""!"

Except I haven't reached one.

"You are using the bible to explain the bible"

When it comes to texts, not to isolated terms or claims, there is no prohibition in logic against that.

"I don't recall asking you for proof because I don't have any. I have evidence that supports what I say. And that's what I ask for"

What you mean by "evidence" actually boils down to "proof" in good logic.

"LOL! I'm sure you need to follow your own advice, since you are accusing me of something that I never said"

You have time after time here treated my explanations as if they were attempts to prove, rather than to defend the Biblical scenario.

"Careful with the insults because I can get real nasty. So, let's stick to what was said."

You have already been real nasty by not grasping good logic.

"Genesis 1 has a different creation accounts than Genesis 2."

Which do not contradict, since Genesis 2:5-end of chapter is a close up on Genesis 1:1-2:4 (the last verses being a resumé of previous).

"It contains contradictions."

You haven't shown any.

"LOL!!! So, 1 author can be shown to be a liar but that doesn't impact the other authors? Comedy gold!!"

It's comedy gold you think:

  • a) any can be shown a liar
  • b) showing one a liar would prove another one so.


"LOL! The bible contains mistakes: God didn't make oxygen, CO2, radiated heat, gravity or atmospheric pressure, without life can exist."

Not mentioning these does not imply any claim God didn't make them.

"utter nonsense: The flood myth, which requires ~50 magic acts to pull it off,"

Probably three : sending the meteor to .... Yucatan, getting Noah and his animals on the Ark in time, and yes, making a meeting of Oxygen layers and Hydrogen layers, and igniting Brown's gas to make rain.

The factors being arranged so the rest are NOT "magical acts", except perhaps quick dry for some land just after Flood.

"despicable vileness: condoning slavery,"

If you condone prison and mental hospital and employment, you are condoning more vile conditions than the kind of limited slavery which was condoned.

"lies: promising A&E they would surely die on the day they ate from the tree but it didn't happen."

Riddle : to God a day is like a thousand years, they died same millennium, so it did happen.

// Now, what makes someone take a text as history, as opposed to fiction? Statements in the text? No, but reception of the text //

"Horseshit!"

Sorry, but you have just shown you are uneducated as someone born yesterday on historiographical matters. Not on historical events, but on how they are known.

"And I don't take the bible as history."

So, if different reception is not your thing, what is your argument?

"That doesn't make it so."

It being so is the most probable and coherent explanation for it being taken so.

"Every supernatural event described is bullshit, beginning with the first sentence."

Ah, your test for historical truth is your metaphysical prejudice ... nice, now explain how atoms and forces acting as vectors obeying mathematical laws formed sth which can test historical truth or have metaphysics one way or the other ...

"LOL!! You really had to twist yourself into a pretzel to believe that nonsense."

Your reading sense you aren't used to makes you think I twisted myself into a pretzel. I didn't.

RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
"Unless their present rate is the result of a slowing down"

Explain how that’s possible

"You are confusing evidence as in raw data"

LOL!!! There’s no such ting in science. There’s only scientific evidence, which includes data that has been vetted for accuracy, clarity and completeness, and has withstood all efforts to falsify it.

"with current theories*"

Notice that I use the phrase scientific theory*. I do it especially for people like you, to delote the fact that a *scientific theory is totally different from a “theory”.

"Also, you are confusing proof with explanation"

I would be if I asked for it. I have asked you for evidence

"Explanations must not contradict the proof"

PLEASE!! Don’t lecture on how science works because you obviously don’t know.

"but need not be derived from proof"

Science doesn’t “prove” anything. It simply provides natural explanations for phenomenon in the form of scientific theories that are based on *scientific evidence*.

(why don't they teach logic in these schools!) In your school of thought

Why don’t they teach the scientific method to people who tink they are qualified to discuss how science works?

"Himalayas, Andes and Alps are the most recent mountains"

I’m sure the mountains that formed from volcanoes like those in Hawaii and the Galapagos and Indonesia formed later

"No, a certain scientific interpretation of the evidence says this"

Bullshit. In science it’s always about the scientific evidence” A “certain scientist” prepares a hypothesis, gathers evidence and test it. But then he must submit his work for peer review (vetting) where the evidence is cheched for accuracy, clarity and completeness, and every effort is made to falsify THE EVIDENCE. If the hypothesis passes vetting, it becomes a *_scientific theory Then the entire scientific community studies THE EVIDENCE, and if a consensus is reached, the scientific theory is accepted.

"There is evidence and bad logic applied to it"

LOL!! You are confusing how science works with your religion.

"on which your conclusion is based"

I’m not like you, I don’t make conclusions. I repeat what the scientists say.

"We are not unwilling to use that"

Yes you most CERTAINLY ARE because scientific evidence destroys your beliefs.

"Except they don't explain a lot of things"

Like I said, the hypotheses are vetted for completeness. They cannot pass vetting if ll issues are not address. You couldn’t know that, since you don’t know what I’m saying.

"like why you are here thinking about why we are here"

Science only answers questions about the natural world

"Except we do explain how x happened by y, and then you say we never explain y, even if we do"

Explain the force that once moved the tectonic plates over 1,000 times faster than they are moving now.

"I am not asking you to believe me"

Then what’s your reason for commenting?

"I am not making a claim"

All you have done is make claims about the existence of the mountains, how they formed the earth breaking open, water distributed the iridium,

"but defending one against a counterclaim you are making"

You have made counterclaims. Why don’t you know what a counterclaim is?

"When you make a counterclaim saying we cannot explain such and such, it is incumbent, not to prove, but to explain"

I never asked for proof. And you are disputing what this video says.

"Issues I am dealing brilliantly with. Whether you realise that or not."

BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22
"Explain how that’s possible"

Sth moves fast, this results in a collision increasing thickness and bulk of resisting object, resistance increases and resistance slows down movement.

"LOL!!! There’s no such ting in science. There’s only scientific evidence, which includes data that has been vetted for accuracy, clarity and completeness, and has withstood all efforts to falsify it."

That would still be a selection of raw data - ideally.

In practise, you would be using article so and so as "evidence" not only for the evidence in it that are raw data, but also those that depend on the scientist's ultimate theories. You would also not accept Creationist efforts to falsify them, and even when no one makes any effort (except the Creationists you are discarding) to falsify anything worth falsifying, which is sometimes an implication, you will claim it has "withstood all efforts to falsify it".

"Notice that I use the phrase scientific theory*. I do it especially for people like you, to delote the fact that a *scientific theory is totally different from a “theory”."

This does not mean a scientific theory cannot be wrong.

"I would be if I asked for it. I have asked you for evidence"

Despicable formalism in very recent science speak.

Evidence is only evidence if it is a premiss in proof.

Evidence for x is a premiss in a proof for x.

"PLEASE!! Don’t lecture on how science works because you obviously don’t know."

I'm lecturing on how LOGIC works, which your science teachers obviously neglected.

"Science doesn’t “prove” anything. It simply provides natural explanations for phenomenon in the form of scientific theories that are based on *scientific evidence*."

Sorry, but if "evidence" for x does not prove x, it is not evidence for x. Sometimes it can be probable evidence for x, that is when it involves probable proof for x.

"In your school of thought"

Indeed, I have a school of thought which values logic.

And which doesn't fetishize words, as you do with "evidence" not being same word as "proof".

"Why don’t they teach the scientific method to people who tink they are qualified to discuss how science works?"

I'm not discussing how science works, but how it should work.

"I’m sure the mountains that formed from volcanoes like those in Hawaii and the Galapagos and Indonesia formed later"

Fair point.

"Bullshit. In science it’s always about the scientific evidence” A “certain scientist” prepares a hypothesis, gathers evidence and test it. But then he must submit his work for peer review (vetting) where the evidence is cheched for accuracy, clarity and completeness, and every effort is made to falsify THE EVIDENCE. If the hypothesis passes vetting, it becomes a *_scientific theory Then the entire scientific community studies THE EVIDENCE, and if a consensus is reached, the scientific theory is accepted."

Nice procedure, where is the detail by which this procedure is supposed to reach truth about matters?

You know, like proof in logic?

To resume my actual point, if the vetters and the "community" share the interpretation of the evidence pieces or raw data given by the scientist, the only chance of them rejecting the theory is the actual raw data being shown false, but this is not the only chance of the theory being false. There is also such a thing as false interpretation.

"LOL!! You are confusing how science works with your religion."

No, I am giving my assessment of why you believe a theory which is obviously false since it contradicts my religion which is true.

"I’m not like you, I don’t make conclusions. I repeat what the scientists say."

Oh, you are a parrot, sorry, I thought I was debating with a human person [/ mode irony off]

"Yes you most CERTAINLY ARE because scientific evidence destroys your beliefs."

I've dealt fairly and squarely with the mathematical evidence in the video and it didn't.

"Like I said, the hypotheses are vetted for completeness. They cannot pass vetting if ll issues are not address. You couldn’t know that, since you don’t know what I’m saying."

Your method would guarantee that, if the ones vetting were infallible.

"Science only answers questions about the natural world"

On your theory, we are part of it.

"Explain the force that once moved the tectonic plates over 1,000 times faster than they are moving now."

The impact from the meteor on ... shall we say Yucatan, I can't pronounce the exact place.

"Then what’s your reason for commenting?"

I'm asking you to believe mathematics : _if_ the Flood waters were only two km above modern sea level, the now water suffices, and _if_ Mt Everest (and some similarily above 2 km, and some even as high as 2 km, but that's incidental) rose afterwards, 2 km of water is sufficient.

I am also asking you to believe logic : if there is a scenario where water would have been sufficient, you are asked to drop your argument.

"All you have done is make claims about the existence of the mountains, how they formed the earth breaking open, water distributed the iridium,"

Models, not definite claims.

"You have made counterclaims. Why don’t you know what a counterclaim is?"

It seems you are unaware, even a hypothesis, not necessarily a claim, is sufficient to remove provenness from the claim, if the hypothesis is other than it and also explains data.

"I never asked for proof."

Evidence is a particular moment in the logical presentation of a proof.

"And you are disputing what this video says."

I am disputing it as pretended disproof of Bible story. I have also given a mathematical calculation parallel, but using a different premiss about what the Biblical scenario entails.

"BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH"


Enjoy, you seem to need it.

RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
"You presume"

I presume nothing. The flood supposedly occurred ~4,600 years ago. The forces theorized to cause the tectonic plates to raise the Himalayas at a rate of 1.16 inches per year are the temperature in the earth’s core, the earth’s rotation and the gravitational attraction between the earth and moon and the earth and sun.

"It is harder to prove they have not changed"

You must show (not prove) that they have and by 1,000 times as much

"You cannot for instance prove it historically by citing scientific observations from last 5000 years, year by year"

Nonsense. YOU are the one claiming the forces presently causing the tectonic plates to move once moved 1,000 times faster. So, YOU must demonstrate how it happened.

"Again, the "three times more" meme involves Mt Everest already existing before the Flood"

Have you ever read the bible? It says the highest mountain was covered. That means mountains must have existed in order to be covered.

"We are discussing a scenarion in which it didn't."

Then you are going against what the bible says. But that’s no surprise.

"You cannot use your disagreement with it to prove contractions"

I’m merely telling you how fast the plates are moving now. Your scenario hs them moving over 1,000 times faster. How was that possible

"I consider it very probable that either the impact was causing tsunamis"

Where’s the evidence for your impact? Are you going to claim the one that destroyed the dinosaurs?

"the Ark escaped as built on highest available ground"

The land was covered

"or added water after it had started floating"

There you go, making shit up again

"Oh, since it was floating, it was not navigating against the waves and therefore not broken by them"

BWWWWWWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"You are confusing evidence with theories"

Look, I have an understanding of this, you don’t. So stop telling me what I’m doing. According to the scientific evidence

"I have every right to interpret the actual evidence to that layer being 5000 years old"

Good!! Here a scientific treatises. The evidence is in it. Go ahead, interpret it: https://eps.harvard.edu/files/eps/files/renne.kt_.science.2013.pdf

"As you can see from article, the iridium is from the meteorite that impacted"

I knew that, you didn’t. You said water laid it down

"I did a major check up on geological column"

Really!!! WONDERFUL!! Then you know the first ~85% of it contains no life or only 1-cell organisms. If god made everything during the first 6 days, then all life forms found in the top15% would have to be found throughout the bottom 85%. Thanks!! Creationists won’t usually go near the geological column for this reason.

"Can you name one place on earth where dinosaurs are found below that line of iridium - meaning it is actually found there too and above them?"

Why? Scientists know the age of the layers of srata

"I actually even suspect there are places of earth where same iridium line is below some dino type critters"

What’s you rationale for suspecting the when you didn’t even know how the iridium got to be where ir is?

"but there it is considered as an older layer from an older impact"

Scientists have found only 1 layer. Why are you implying that another exists?

"The PT boundary (Permian / Triassic)"

Remember, I told you how you abuse science for your purpose. This is an event that is theorized to have occurred ~250mya. But you are going to put it into your timeline of 6,000 years, when you have no justification for doing so

"But I don't know for a fact there is even one place where there are dinos either above or below any extant and identified line of iridium."

The scientists know. If you question them, then go do your own research.

"I am nearly sure there are slugs above and below a line of iridium in Yacoraite"

But you will never find a cat, dog, rabbit, squirrel, or certainly not a human anywhere near there.

"You don't find the iridium line on every spot on earth"

I didn’t say you did, so what’s your reason for saying that?

"While any two animals in a couple were of same species"

That’s a totally senseless comment. But I understand, you are trying to discuss a subject that you know nothing about.

"had no reproductive barrier"

LOL!! That’s not the issue. The horse and donkey and lion and tiger don’t have barriers. But their offsprings aren’t fertine. That’s the key. LOL

"Here is an article of mine dealing with it"

Your article is bullshit for 2 reasons: 1) No ancestor of any species alive today is still alive. So, your “kind” had to do some magic reproduction and then al magically go extinct. 2) Genetic evidence, which is so reliable it can put people on death row in the US, show that every extant species evolved tens of thousands of years before the flood supposedly occurred. No species evolved after the flood.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22
"I presume nothing. The flood supposedly occurred ~4,600 years ago."

5000 in Roman martyrology's chronology.

"The forces theorized to cause the tectonic plates to raise the Himalayas at a rate of 1.16 inches per year are the temperature in the earth’s core, the earth’s rotation and the gravitational attraction between the earth and moon and the earth and sun."

And subduction of plates suddenly has nothing to do with it, despite what I found on wiki?

"You must show (not prove)"

Word fetishism.

"that they have and by 1,000 times as much"

No, only that they can have.

Because, otherwise you have no proof they didn't.

That they did is at present my model for how this worked out. I don't need to prove it, since if it is disproven, I'll need to look for another model and if another model is preferrable, that dispenses with it anyway.

"Nonsense. YOU are the one claiming the forces presently causing the tectonic plates to move once moved 1,000 times faster. So, YOU must demonstrate how it happened."

Demonstrate as in prove? Claim as in propose?

I need to show it can have happened, that's all.

Now, you would agree that:
  • the less weight there is, the faster such a force would move, the more weight there is, the more it would be slowed down?
  • if there was no high mountain during the Flood, there was less weight and flood waters can even have removed weight which was above them in pre-Flood times?
  • whether or not subduction from tectonic plates meeting is still contributing or not, it is thought to have contributed, and can have done so faster since the result would have slowed them down?


If one or more you would NOT agree on, state which ones and why. And do NOT try the "burden of proof" dodge. You have claimed that a rise of Himalayas in last stages of Flood and in post-Flood period (last 5000 years) is impossible, that the non-factuality of these scenarios are necessary and therefore factual. That is a claim.

I have said, they are possible and can be factual. That is a potential model.

Hence, burden of proof is on you.

"Have you ever read the bible? It says the highest mountain was covered. That means mountains must have existed in order to be covered."

Yes, but not that every mountain existing now or every h[e]ight of mountain existing now therefore also existed.

"Then you are going against what the bible says. But that’s no surprise."

What's not a surprise is your rough and ready and slightly illogical (on and off, when it suits you) reading of what the Bible says.

"I’m merely telling you how fast the plates are moving now. Your scenario hs them moving over 1,000 times faster. How was that possible"

  • How it is possible they slowed down, bc such a fast movement is producing weight and pressure slowing it down (as are other factors, like rock solidifying after Flood).
  • How it is possible they were moving so much faster then, again, the meteor in Yucatan will do for now.


"Where’s the evidence for your impact? Are you going to claim the one that destroyed the dinosaurs?"

The one that left an impact in Yucatan and an iridium layer and which is also claimed to have destroyed dinosaurs.

If flood waters covered the earth for about a year after, this would mean some of the atmospheric pollution or all of it was removed before people, mammals, reptiles and dinos came out of the Ark.

"The land was covered"

At the first tsunami? Possibly not yet.

"There you go, making shit up again"

Enumerating alternatives.

"BWWWWWWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"


You seem to need it. Now, when your shock is over, I repeat : since it was floating, it was not navigating against the waves and therefore not broken by them.

Perhaps I should have said "just floating" to clarify my meaning.

"Look, I have an understanding of this, you don’t."

Would you mind stopping to pretend to talk, down to a child, Mr. Bully?

You have ONE understanding of it, I have ANOTHER one.

"So stop telling me what I’m doing."

When you are not only telling what I'm doing but getting it wrong due to your lack of education in logic?

"Good!! Here a scientific treatises. The evidence is in it. Go ahead, interpret it:"

https://eps.harvard.edu/files/eps/files/renne.kt_.science.2013.pdf



Nanterre University Library blocked the opening of the file by one "stratégie de groupe" - do you have sth similar on html?

"I knew that, you didn’t. You said water laid it down"

No, I didn't.

I said it was from the Flood. Not that it was necessarily from Flood waters, but that it was from the overall Flood event.

"Really!!! WONDERFUL!! Then you know the first ~85% of it contains no life or only 1-cell organisms."

You mean, the interpretation of it, not the raw data.

"If god made everything during the first 6 days, then all life forms found in the top15% would have to be found throughout the bottom 85%. Thanks!! Creationists won’t usually go near the geological column for this reason."

It has not occurred to you one can look at the data and come to an interpretation where time on terms of moyboy is not very relevant?

"Why? Scientists know the age of the layers of srata"

Ah, you trust their "evidence" as interpreted by them, without looking at the evidence, as in raw data. No, they don't.

"What’s you rationale for suspecting the when you didn’t even know how the iridium got to be where ir is?"

On your gross misreading of what I wrote.

"Scientists have found only 1 layer. Why are you implying that another exists?"

I am sure there is one layer in each place, yes.

In some places, it is interpreted as the PT boundary (Permian / Triassic).

"Remember, I told you how you abuse science for your purpose."

My purpose doesn't change the raw data.

My changing interpretations is not abusive against raw data.

Scientists are NOT sacrosanct.

"This is an event that is theorized to have occurred ~250mya."

Whenever the event is theorised to have taken place, I think I read there was an iridium layer involved in that one too.

"But you are going to put it into your timeline of 6,000 years, when you have no justification for doing so"

My timeline of 7200 years, and my justification is historical.

"The scientists know. If you question them, then go do your own research."

I did. I also linked to a short resumé of it involving a long list of links to several parts of my research.

"But you will never find a cat, dog, rabbit, squirrel, or certainly not a human anywhere near there."

Yacoraite find is just slugs. So far.

"I didn’t say you did, so what’s your reason for saying that?"

Since neither the iridium line, nor the dinos are found everywhere on earth, you cannot confidently claim there is any single place where iridium line has been found above a dino.

"That’s a totally senseless comment. But I understand, you are trying to discuss a subject that you know nothing about."

You are being rude for no purpose.

"LOL!! That’s not the issue. The horse and donkey and lion and tiger don’t have barriers. But their offsprings aren’t fertine. That’s the key. LOL"

Fine, and the animals in anyone couple were able to have FERTILE offspring.

"Your article is bullshit for 2 reasons: 1) No ancestor of any species alive today is still alive. So, your “kind” had to do some magic reproduction and then al magically go extinct."

Each species on the ark underwent mutations, geographic insulations, genetic drift and therefore produced barriers to fertile offspring - or at least to mating, but the present catalogue of species involves a claim the 17 hedgehog species are not able to get fertile offspring.

"2) Genetic evidence, which is so reliable it can put people on death row in the US,"

About individual identity. That's what it is reliable about.

"show that every extant species evolved tens of thousands of years before the flood supposedly occurred. No species evolved after the flood."

Other evidence has shown a faster mutation rate and therefore speciations can have occurred faster. Here we are NOT dealing with individual identity. The genetic clock is not reliable. It's supposed parallels in glottochronology for linguistics are not reliable either.

RationalSkeptic22
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
th moves fast, this results in a collision increasing thickness and bulk of resisting object, resistance increases and resistance slows down movement.*


Where’s your evidence? Where are you calculation showing this is possible?

"That would still be a selection of raw data"

You call it whatever you want, just don’t tell me I’m dealing with “raw data” because that’s a lie.

"You would also not accept Creationist efforts to falsify them"

Damn right!! Science is specifically restricted to providing NATURAL explanations for phenomenon. It cannot accept SUPERNATURAL explanation.

"which is sometimes an implication, you will claim it has "withstood all efforts to falsify it""

It has withstood all SCIENTIFIC efforts to falsify it

"This does not mean a scientific theory cannot be wrong"

Of COURSE it doesn’t. But when they are wrong, only another scientific theory can correct them

"Evidence is only evidence if it is a premiss in proof. Evidence for x is a premiss in a proof for x"

Believe what you want. Are you familiar with the “Static Universe” and “Expanding Universe” theories. The impotant point is that they both were valid explanations for the status of the universe for over 50 years, with some scientists supporting 1, while others scientists supported the other. Neither of them was proved. But later, the “Static Universe” theory was falsified (disproved). BUT THAT DIDN’T PROVE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE THEORY. It just increased the likelihood that it’s the correct one. Now if you can’t understand that, then frop it because you are wrong

"I'm lecturing on how LOGIC works, which your science teachers obviously neglected"

BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A person wo believes in talking snakes and donkeys and all of the other ignorant shit in the bible is attacking my ability to reason. Comedy gold!!

"Sorry" LOL!1 I couldn’t agree more

"but if "evidence" for x does not prove x, it is not evidence for x. Sometimes it can be probable evidence for x, that is when it involves probable proof for x"

ROTFLMAO!!

"Indeed, I have a school of thought which values logic"

LOL!! Yet you believe that stupid flood story

"And which doesn't fetishize words, as you do with "evidence" not being same word as "proof""

Where’s the logic in thinking you are right and refusing to study the scientific method

"I’m not discussing how science works, but how it should work"

You are a liar. I have repeatedly told you science doesn’t prove anything, yet you are telling me I’m wrong.

"Nice procedure, where is the detail by which this procedure is supposed to reach truth about matters"

Once more for the short bus rider. Science provides the most reasonable explanation for the evidence. It may be true and it may not be true

"You know, like proof in logic?("

LOL!! Pitiful

"To resume my actual point"

You don’t have one. All you are going to do now is bullshit some more

"if the vetters and the "community" share the interpretation of the evidence pieces or raw data"

LOL!!! “evidence pieces of raw data”. You just insist on calling it “raw data”, don’t you.

"given by the scientist, the only chance of them rejecting the theory"

It’s not a *_scientific theory_. It’s a scientific hypothesis. It becomes a *_scientific theory only after completing peer review(vetting).

"is the actual raw data being shown false"

There are many reasons why a pakage can be rejected.

"but this is not the only chance of the theory being false"

It’s not a theory

"There is also such a thing as false interpretation"

Bullshit. Why are you too arrogant to lread and earn how the process works?

"No, I am giving my assessment of why you believe a theory which is obviously false since it contradicts my religion which is true"

Once again for the short bus rider. I don’t believe theories, I’m convinced by the scientific evidence and when I don’t have the ability to understand it, I accept it based on the record the scientists have. After all, they have provided us with 100% of our knowledge of the universe. Your shitty religion has only provided us with superstition, ignorance, intolerance, bigotry and utter nonsense.

"Oh, you are a parrot, sorry, I thought I was debating with a human person"

LOL!! Like I said, the scientists hve provided me with all I know about the universe. So tell me, where should I be getting my information from. Why is that a negative thing, while pulling shit out of your ass like you do a positive thing.

"I've dealt fairly and squarely with the mathematical evidence in the video"

I don’t recall you describing the mechanism by which the tectonic plates were propelled 1,000 times faster than they are moving now.

"Your method would guarantee that, if the ones vetting were infallible"

LOL!!! And you think you are logical. If your god is fallible, why should you expect man to be infallible

"The impact from the meteor on ... shall we say Yucatan"

And you think tis is a good way to debate. Where’s your evidence?

"I'm asking you to believe mathematics : if the Flood waters were only two km above modern sea level, the now water suffices"

According to the scientific evidence the sea level would rise 216 feet if all the ice melted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbiRNT_gWUQ

and if Mt Everest (and some similarily above 2 km, and some even as high as 2 km, but that's incidental) rose afterwards, 2 km of water is sufficient

"Yes, it’s sufficient to raise the sea level 216 feet"

"I am also asking you to believe logic
if there is a scenario where water would have been sufficient, you are asked to drop your argument"


All yo have done is make asspulls. Demonstrate what you are saying

"Models, not definite claims"

If you are not making claims, then no one has to accept what you say

"It seems you are unaware, even a hypothesis, not necessarily a claim, is sufficient to remove provenness from the claim"

That has no relevance for how science works

"if the hypothesis is other than it and also explains data"

That has no relevance in science

"Evidence is a particular moment in the logical presentation of a proof"

That makes zero sense. But even if it did, I have not uttered the word “proof”, except to tell you I haven’t used it. You made a false accusation, and like all creationist, you are saying all kinds of silliness to avoid acknowledging your error.

"//And you are disputing what this video says.// I am disputing it as pretended disproof of Bible story"

WTF happened to you. All of a sudden you can’t write a cogent sentence.

"I have also given a mathematical calculation parallel, but using a different premiss about what the Biblical scenario entails."

LOL!!! The spelling NAZI wrote "premiss"

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@RationalSkeptic22
"Where’s your evidence? Where are you calculation showing this is possible?"

Very general terms : have you ever seen car collisions explained on TV? The two cars don't just go on infinitely, they do slow down, right?

"You call it whatever you want, just don’t tell me I’m dealing with “raw data” because that’s a lie."

But you SHOULD be dealing with raw data. You should question "if scientist x concludes y, what was it he physically actually measured".

"Damn right!! Science is specifically restricted to providing NATURAL explanations for phenomenon. It cannot accept SUPERNATURAL explanation."

Thanks for admitting you are a hidebound ideologue ....

"It has withstood all SCIENTIFIC efforts to falsify it"

Meaning on your terms, all atheistic and non-spiritual, that is materialistic ones.

"Of COURSE it doesn’t. But when they are wrong, only another scientific theory can correct them"

I'm reminded of papacy, except papacy actually has a promise of Christ behind it.

"Believe what you want. Are you familiar with the “Static Universe” and “Expanding Universe” theories. The impotant point is that they both were valid explanations for the status of the universe for over 50 years, with some scientists supporting 1, while others scientists supported the other. Neither of them was proved. But later, the “Static Universe” theory was falsified (disproved). BUT THAT DIDN’T PROVE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE THEORY. It just increased the likelihood that it’s the correct one. Now if you can’t understand that, then frop it because you are wrong"

I understand you perfectly. This means that for fifty years, same evidence was proof for neither of them, against neither of them and new evidence is proof against the modern Heliocentric version of static universe.

"BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Enjoy, you seem to need it.

"A person wo believes in talking snakes and donkeys and all of the other ignorant shit in the bible is attacking my ability to reason. Comedy gold!!"

You just here showed an ability to reason in a prejudiced way, but not a trained ability to reason in a systematic way as as per a training in logic and a knowledge of what kind of proof is valid. Disproof is also proof and needs to follow the logical laws for proof to be valid.

"LOL!1 I couldn’t agree more"

arf, arf ...

"ROTFLMAO!!"

You showed your cultural ... rusticism ... ? ... again.

"LOL!! Yet you believe that stupid flood story"

Stupid or not, you have no logical disproof of it.

"Where’s the logic in thinking you are right and refusing to study the scientific method"

I'm not refusing to study it, I'm refusing to replace logic with it.

"You are a liar. I have repeatedly told you science doesn’t prove anything, yet you are telling me I’m wrong."

You told me yourself that science disproved the (modern heliocentric version of) static universe theory.

"Once more for the short bus rider. Science provides the most reasonable explanation for the evidence. It may be true and it may not be true"

The only "most reasonable" I know is proven or most probably proven.

[skipping some of your barbarism]

"LOL!!! “evidence pieces of raw data”. You just insist on calling it “raw data”, don’t you."

Mesuring a level of carbon 14 in relation to carbon 12 and its percentage of the usual present level or that one corrected to pre-industrial levels is not a really raw datum type of raw datum, but it is still a raw datum compared to the assigned age.

"It’s not a *_scientific theory_. It’s a scientific hypothesis. It becomes a *_scientific theory only after completing peer review(vetting)."

Fine, word fetishism and formalism again.

"There are many reasons why a pakage can be rejected."

Does logical reasoning about its philosophical value as a theory ever enter into it? If so, can it involve any criticism such as a supranaturalist would welcome?

"Bullshit. Why are you too arrogant to lread and earn how the process works?"

Who says I don't know how it works? I am not engulfed with it, nor willing to make it the test of truth.

"Once again for the short bus rider. I don’t believe theories, I’m convinced by the scientific evidence and when I don’t have the ability to understand it, I accept it based on the record the scientists have. After all, they have provided us with 100% of our knowledge of the universe. Your shitty religion has only provided us with superstition, ignorance, intolerance, bigotry and utter nonsense."

And a lot of good scientists ...

No, I don't see two possibilities, being convinced by their evidence or accepting it anyway bc of their record, there is a distinct third one of not being convinced, not accepting it, making sure I understand what I reject and that better than you understand what you defend.

"LOL!! Like I said, the scientists hve provided me with all I know about the universe."

Your breakfast this morning was not in the universe? Or you have no knowledge of it?

"So tell me, where should I be getting my information from."

As long as you accept no religion, which is a beginning, the information should be gotten by:

  • senses
  • conclusions from sense data.


If you provide either on your own, fine, if someone else provides, ask how he is supposed to know, and whether his reasoning is valid, and don't reserve it for members of the opposite team. Get a habit of judging that equally on your own side and someone else's (like Creationists').

"Why is that a negative thing, while pulling shit out of your ass like you do a positive thing."

When you have raw data directly answering a question, don't contradict them.

When you don't, pull as much shit out of your ass, eliminate the shit, keep what's not shit.

"I don’t recall you describing the mechanism by which the tectonic plates were propelled 1,000 times faster than they are moving now."

I mentioned meteorite on Yucatan, I'll fill in details : crushed some water reservoirs open, leading to a domino effect, leading to tectonic plates gliding wildly.

I am not a geologist, if you are give me the problems and I will see what I can do.

"LOL!!! And you think you are logical. If your god is fallible, why should you expect man to be infallible"

Yes, I think I am logical :

  • 1) I am not admitting God is fallible
  • 2) I am not allowing claims of infallibility to creep in where there is only fallible man with no promised help by God.


Therefore, I think I am logical to reject a confidence which would be well placed only if the vetters were infallible, like the confidence they adressed all issues.

"And you think tis is a good way to debate. Where’s your evidence?"

I think I do very well not to pretend to know a place name which I can't pronounce. My evidence is the same as yours about that meteorite.

"According to the scientific evidence the sea level would rise 216 feet if all the ice melted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbiRNT_gWUQ"

You are missing that the Oceanic basins are also a heritage from receding Flood. No Mariana basin before the Flood any more than an Everest. So we are NOT speaking of water in ice caps, we are speaking of water in today's Oceans.

"Yes, it’s sufficient to raise the sea level 216 feet"

Deliberately missing the point by pretending my scenario only deals with ice caps.

"All yo have done is make asspulls. Demonstrate what you are saying"

I already did demonstrate that 2 km of water involves no more than the total amount of water we have on earth today, most of it not in ice caps, but in Oceans.

"If you are not making claims, then no one has to accept what you say"

Do you have to accept a calculation?

"That has no relevance for how science works"

That's the exact idiocy with modern scientists.

"That has no relevance in science"

That's the exact idiocy with modern scientists.

"That makes zero sense."

Just because you are a barbarian in logic ....

"But even if it did, I have not uttered the word “proof”, except to tell you I haven’t used it."

I have already noted that word fetishism.

"You made a false accusation, and like all creationist, you are saying all kinds of silliness to avoid acknowledging your error."

You have shown everything needed for it and you attempt a word fetishism to avoid the conclusion.

"WTF happened to you. All of a sudden you can’t write a cogent sentence."

With your grasp of grammar, what you consider so is not a definite criterium.

"LOL!!! The spelling NAZI wrote "premiss""

When exactly was I a grammar Nazi about spelling? I have been so about word usage. I did once correct "can" to what you probably meant as "can't".

1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume III, Book III, Chapter XVII, page 173

[…] that he might have no excuse for evading the test, the Franciscan declared himself willing to be a victim to this high logic, and to be burned for the sake of securing the necessary minor premiss.


https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/premiss

II
I had
doubleposted the one Scott E answered, here is under the thread where that one is single:

Hans-Georg Lundahl
1:51 You are presuming Mt Everest was as high as or even existed before and during the Flood.

Sol Roth
Aren't you presuming it didn't?

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Sol Roth I am concluding it didn't from Bible being history.

Sol Roth
​@Hans-Georg Lundahl
Ok, but the bible doesn't mention everest, and it does mention mountains

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Sol Roth Correct on both.

Know what?

Mount Judi is one mountain claimed at times to be the landing place of the Ark.

It is two km high at its highest point.

Now, 2 km is perfectly within the possibilities of water now present on Earth to have covered, if Oceanic bottoms were lifted up to sea level, with quite a lot of water to go around for there having been seas in the pre-Flood world too.

This means, 2 km above sea level is about as high as it can have been.

Now, a piece of land that is 2 km high is termed a mountain, like Mount Judi.

What we must deduce is, mountains much higher, like Andes or Himalayas, cannot have existed pre-Flood, and I don't think the Alps did so either (fossils of whales and seals are found in Austrian alps, so I think Alps were coastline area in pre-Flood times).

But this doesn't mean no mountains existed, it only means some exist now which didn't exist then. For Mount Hekla, that is obvious ...

Hans-Georg Lundahl
added
Sorry, I meant Surtsey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey

I also found Eldfell, while looking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldfell

Sol Roth
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
"Mount Judi is one mountain claimed at times to be the landing place of the Ark"

Not in the bible it isn't, how come only you can propose a mountain not mentioned in the flood?

"What we must deduce is, mountains much higher, like Andes or Himalayas, cannot have existed pre-Flood"

why?

"and I don't think the Alps did so either (fossils of whales and seals are found in Austrian alps, so I think Alps were coastline area in pre-Flood times)"

I don't follow, whales and seals exist now, so they must have existed pre flood, so how can their fossils be used to determine anything?

"Sorry, I meant Surtsey"

Surtsey is a volcano, but volcanic activity isn't the only way mountains form.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Sol Roth
//Mount Judi is one mountain claimed at times to be the landing place of the Ark//

"Not in the bible it isn't, how come only you can propose a mountain not mentioned in the flood?"

"MountainS of Armenia" may refer to mountains near Cizre which long had an Armenian community.

// What we must deduce is, mountains much higher, like Andes or Himalayas, cannot have existed pre-Flood //

"why?"

Bc, as the video correctly says, Mount Everest being covered with water would imply more than three times more water than there is.

// and I don't think the Alps did so either (fossils of whales and seals are found in Austrian alps, so I think Alps were coastline area in pre-Flood times) //

"I don't follow, whales and seals exist now, so they must have existed pre flood, so how can their fossils be used to determine anything?"

Whales weren't swimming around in the high mountains.

Whales could have been dragged across long stretches of land by flood waters, but if so would have disintegrated and left no beautiful whale fossils.

Now, we do have Cetotherium Lintiacum.

Dito for seal fossils, we do have Praepusa Vindobonensis.

So, Lienz was open sea, Vienna (specifically Nussdorf where the seal was found) close to a coastline.

// Sorry, I meant Surtsey //

"Surtsey is a volcano, but volcanic activity isn't the only way mountains form."

My point was exegetical. That the text mentions there were mountains cannot mean all mountains existing now must have existed then, since we know mountains have formed since then.

Sol Roth
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
"My point was exegetical"

So was mine.

"That the text mentions there were mountains cannot mean all mountains existing now must have existed then"

It doesn't have to.

The bible acknowledges the existence of mountains, it's reasonable to use the height of a mountain as currently observed as the baseline for the amount of water required to flood the earths surface.

I can't see the logic of using a lower mountain other than to try to mitigate the absurdity of the story.

Bc, as the video correctly says, Mount Everest being covered with water would imply more than three times more water than there is

Ah, I understand you a little better now, there isn't enough water to cover everest, the bible is true, therefore everest couldn't have existed. Right?

"Whales weren't swimming around in the high mountains"

I agree

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Sol Roth
// My point was exegetical //

"So was mine."

I'm checking it.

// That the text mentions there were mountains cannot mean all mountains existing now must have existed then //

"It doesn't have to."

It would seem, on your view it actually has to. You see, you are picking one specific mountain, the highest. That means, either you presume without any evidence another mountain as high as it existed, or, more probably, you presume Mt Everest existed.

My point is, you cannot prove that from the text.

"The bible acknowledges the existence of mountains, it's reasonable to use the height of a mountain as currently observed as the baseline for the amount of water required to flood the earths surface."

And why the very highest of them?

Mount Judi is currently observable, and its height is giving ample viability to the Flood waters = present waters solution, since it is little over 2 km high.

"I can't see the logic of using a lower mountain other than to try to mitigate the absurdity of the story."

Or remove an articifially tacked on absurdity alltogether.

"Bc, as the video correctly says, Mount Everest being covered with water would imply more than three times more water than there is"

Exactly.

"Ah, I understand you a little better now, there isn't enough water to cover everest, the bible is true, therefore everest couldn't have existed. Right?"

Part of it. Other part, top of Mt Everest has been under sea water. Flood is an excellent occasion providing such.

// Whales weren't swimming around in the high mountains //

"I agree"

Thank you, then you will also agree Alps must have been under sea.

Meaning within Biblical history, they were sea up to the Flood. Meaning, sth as high as Alps has risen since the Flood covered all mountains.

III
I also
sook out someone to respond to after his response to video:

Barry Sabahat
Hard to believe that people try to defend the veracity of the claims of Noah in the face of logic.

The numbers are so staggering that whatever reasonable discount you give them, they still won't make a difference.

The number of animals were overestimated? Really? Ok, even if you reduce the numbers significantly, it is still an impossible task to get them on board and keep them alive for a year.

The mountains were lower and the sea floor sank? Ok! But sea floor sinking in one place would raise the mountain tops elsewhere. No difference. The amount of rainfall was so much that there would have to be nearly a sheet of water dumping. At the heights these guys are talking about, the temperature would be below freezing. It wouldn't rain. It'd snow.

The source of water wasn't rain. Really? That's what the bible says. Aren't we going by the Old Testament?

If this claim was made in any other context, these same people would laugh at it. But because it's in the context of religion, they defend it in the face of significant evidence to the contrary.

Believe what you want. But don't force it on my kids.

Someone I blocked?
added sth I cannot see?

Barry Sabahat
What conclusion do you think these facts support?

Barry Sabahat
Good point.

End (so far)
of "invisible" dialogue. Here is my answer:

Hans-Georg Lundahl
"The source of water wasn't rain. Really? That's what the bible says. Aren't we going by the Old Testament?"

Check the actual text:

Genesis 7: [11] In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened: [12] And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights

TWO sources : fountains of the great deep + flood gates of heaven where their opening involves rain.

"The number of animals were overestimated? Really? Ok, even if you reduce the numbers significantly, it is still an impossible task to get them on board and keep them alive for a year."

Even with just 500 pairs?

Creation vs. Evolution : What Taxonomic Level Needs Representation on the Ark?
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-taxonomic-level-needs.html


"The mountains were lower and the sea floor sank? Ok! But sea floor sinking in one place would raise the mountain tops elsewhere. No difference."

Thank your for showing the difference!

When this happened, solids on Earth were more unevenly distributed vertically, meaning that waters could cluster on the lower half of that height (or even more, if Mariana Basin is deeper than Mt Everest is high) so that the higher half could restore the dry land.

"The amount of rainfall was so much that there would have to be nearly a sheet of water dumping."

Supposing we deal with a Flood zone of 8 km water above current sea level. With just 2 km, ten to twenty times the rainfall in Cilaos, Reunion, 16.III.1952 would be adequate if we also add waters of the deep giving a significant portion.

"At the heights these guys are talking about, the temperature would be below freezing. It wouldn't rain. It'd snow."

You are confusing absolute height over centre of earth with height over sea level. As sea levels were raised, 2 km above present sea level was just sea level. At sea level it would rain.

"Believe what you want. But don't force it on my kids."

So you believe school compulsion is wrong? Fine ... so do I! (If your point is instead school compulsion is fine as long as other parents' children have evolution driven down their throat, you are a hypocrite.) (Oh, btw, you did use "force" correctly? As in enforced school attendance forcing someone's children to read what neither they nor their parents want to read and to limit whatever criticism they would want to add? Just allowing your children to read it on free time involves no forcing anyone ...)

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood or Ark, sorry - II the dialogues


Bill Nye Answered on "Science Works" Meme, Inter Alia · Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood, sorry, the Ark - I, my comments · Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood or Ark, sorry - II the dialogues

Carried on from here:

Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood, sorry, the Ark - I, my comments

Dialogues

I

Hans-Georg Lundahl
2:07 Land bridge or near such ... Sunda Sahul, during glacial maximum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia

That Glacial Maximum is misdated as older than 5000 years ago is another story.

Scott E
That Glacial Maximum is misdated as older than 5000 years ago is another story.

It being "another story" doesn't excuse you from providing a credible scientific reference for it. This is a standard creationist tactic: pull in a random scientific fact that supports your myths and treat it as completely credible, while dismissing as false (and without evidence) any related facts that cause additional problems for the story.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Scott E Reference?

Passim on CMI (creation.com is their url).

Work about details?

W e l l - so happens I have done some myself. But that is not what is normally meant by "scientific reference" - is it?

@Scott E "while dismissing as false (and without evidence) any related facts that cause additional problems for the story."

There is no fact causing insurmountable problems for the story.

Simply a matter of letting C14 content back then have been considerably lower.

Scott E
@Hans-Georg Lundahl

Passim on CMI (@t is their url).

Like I said, a credible scientific reference. I.e., an article published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, detailing both conclusions and replicable methodology, by scientists with credentials in an applicable field.

Simply a matter of letting C14 content back then have been considerably lower.

So show credible scientific evidence that it was. You just imagining it to be so doesn't get us anywhere.

Note
If he is not giving their URL, was he not shown it? Or is he refusing to credit it?



Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Scott E "Like I said, a credible scientific reference. I.e., an article published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, detailing both conclusions and replicable methodology, by scientists with credentials in an applicable field."

Check Michael Oard on CMI.

"So show credible scientific evidence that it was. You just imagining it to be so doesn't get us anywhere."

Show "credible evidence" of opposite?

The Bible is credible evidence of carbon 14 having been lower.

History primes reconstruction, when it comes to the past and the Bible is credible history, therefore deep time is NOT credible reconstruction.

Scott E
@Hans-Georg Lundahl

You're the one who claimed that the dating of the last glacial maximum was wrong. You provide the reference to the actual scientific journal article showing that. It's not our job to go digging to prove your claims. If Michael Oard, whoever he is, has such an article on CMI, whatever that is, you must have read it and should be able to provide a direct link to it here without much trouble.

The Bible is credible evidence of carbon 14 having been lower.

That's one of the funniest things I've read in a while.

Show "credible evidence" of opposite?

I'm not the one claiming C-14 levels were anything in particular. You are, and it is your claims that require them to be something specific. The burden of proof is on the person making a particular claim. That's you. I hope you don't actually think "prove me wrong" makes for a convincing argument.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Scott E "I'm not the one claiming C-14 levels were anything in particular."

Yes, you are.

If you say "last glacial maximum was" - citing wiki: "The ice sheets reached their maximum coverage about 26,500 years ago (26.5 ka BP)," you are claiming two things:

  • 1) The organic remains associated with LGM have 4.053 percent modern Carbon.
  • 2) They started out with 100 pmC.


So, this means, you are claiming carbon levels were at 100 pmC.

Suppose they had been at 200 pmC, 4.053 pmC would really be 2.0265 percent left of that, and it would have been 32,200 years ago.

Suppose they had been at 50 pmC (a level I consider they reached after Göbekli Tepe), that would have been 8.106 percent left, and it would have been only 20,750 years ago. NB, with the constant known half life known as Cambridge halflife.

So, if they had been at 25 pmC, that would be 16.212 percent left, 15,050 years ago.

At 12.5 pmC when they started, it would be 32.424 percent left, 9300 years ago.

At 6.25 when they started, it would be 64.848 percent left, 3600 years ago.

I believe it was more than 3600 and less than 9300 years ago. I go to my previous work, and I look it up:

2913 BC
 6.333 pmc 25 713 BC

2868 BC
 11.641 pmc, 20 668 BC


Ah, so, it started out between 6.333 and 11.641 pmC between 2913 and 2868 BC.

2913 06.333 +
2868 11.641 =
5781 17.974 : 2 =
2890 08.987


So, 8.987 pmC should give us 19,900 extra years from when it started. After 4890 years there should be 55.348 percent left of that.

55.348 * 8.987 / 100 = 4.974 pmC left. A bit higher than the 4.053 pmC I think the remains are showing and a bit more recent than "last" (or only) glacial maximum.

"Earlier" glacial maxima are not carbon dated anyway.

"If Michael Oard, whoever he is,"

Michael Oard
https://creation.com/michael-oard


Note, MS in Atmospheric science.

"has such an article on CMI, whatever that is,"

Creation Ministries International
https://creation.com/


"you must have read it and should be able to provide a direct link to it here without much trouble."

Today, yes, I have more time, I'm in a library - yesterday, I was in a cyber with limited time. Here is one article:

Tackling the big freeze
An interview with weather scientist Michael Oard
by Carl Wieland (December 1996)
https://creation.com/tackling-the-big-freeze


@Scott E btw, I forgot linking to my previous work, here is my own article:

Creation vs. Evolution : Refining table Flood to Abraham - and a doubt
http://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2018/05/refining-table-flood-to-abraham-and.html


Scott E
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
*Yes, you are.

If you say "last glacial maximum was" - citing wiki: [etc]*

Except that I said no such thing, nor cited any wiki, nor made any claim to knowledge about any Carbon-14 levels anywhere, at any time. I think you're hallucinating. The only person making C-14 claims here is you.

I see no actual measured data in your own explanation, mostly some math and personal suppositions that aren't explained well, nor supported in any way. Sure, if you assume your preferred target date from the outset (the one that makes your myth work), you can calculate back to see what environmental C-14 levels then would have been. Congratulations on doing an exponential decay calculation correctly. There's only the tiny snag that your target date is the thing you're trying to show in the first place. It is thus on you to show, by some other means, that C-14 levels at that time actually were at the low level you need them to be.

Michael Oard sounds like an interesting person, to put it politely. While his degree and occupation seem applicable to what you're saying, an interview is not a peer-reviewed journal article, and "Journal of Creation" is not a credible peer-reviewed research journal in his field, e.g., Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Atmospheric Science Letters, or a number of others. From a brief search about him, he appears to have earned his master's degree in 1973 and only ever published articles in creationist magazines and web sites since then, plus some children's books. You'd think that if he had anything to say that other scientists in his field were willing to take seriously, he'd have said it in journals used by those scientists and not just "journals" where the audience knows nothing about the relevant science and are eager to have their beliefs confirmed by "experts".

gsundiszno
First problem with your position is that the biblical flood ALLEGEDLY occurred less than 6,000 years ago. Your bible claims a creation of the whole universe about 6,000 years ago. Human habitation is known to have existed in the Australian continent for up to 65,000 years ago. One set of claims is very inconsistent with the other and all the evidence supports the 65,000 years version.

Second problem is that if the kangaroos (and all the other species unique to Australia) used the Sunda Sahul then why are those species unique to Australia? Surely there must have been some suitable environments along the way?

You make very poor arguments. Try again!

@Hans-Georg Lundahl Has anyone in the employment of CMI ever published a peer-reviewed paper in a science journal????

Seriously, CMI, AiG, and all the similar propaganda organizations spend most of their time and money on using lawyers trying to force their religious views on society despite the American Constitution (they are American organizations working in the USA primarily) clearly states that this is a secular nation.

WHAT CMI DOESN'T DO IS PUBLISH SCIENCE PAPERS!!!

LOL!

@Hans-Georg Lundahl Michael J. Oard has only one paper to his credit from any source besides various creationist groups. It was published in 1968, at his alma mater (University of Washington) and presumably either part of his education (dissertation) or before he went creationist.

Not one paper is listed after that time period that was published at a science publication. Only religious propaganda groups. Okay, he did one paper on wind phenomena prediction. If he had actual evidence he should brave the peer-review process. Lacking anything besides wishful fantasies he has hidden behind the propaganda program. Punch in "Michael Oard" at 'scholar.google.com'. Basically he is a liar, in my opinion!

@Hans-Georg Lundahl Did your study of carbon 14 include the rate for replacement caused by alpha radiation which would INCREASE the number of carbon 14 isotopes?

You clearly suffer from the pathetic methodology of creationists whereby they have a result and only look for alleged evidence to support their preferred conclusion instead of looking at the evidence and using that to make the determination of a result. Really pathetic abuse of the scientific method.

Watch this video and learn more about carbon 14 radiometric dating!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSYBp-Kjx0

Hans-Georg Lundahl
"Michael J. Oard has only one paper to his credit from any source besides various creationist groups."

"Not one paper is listed after that time period that was published at a science publication. Only religious propaganda groups. Okay, he did one paper on wind phenomena prediction. If he had actual evidence he should brave the peer-review process."

You are missing that CMI is a science group and has peer review.

"Did your study of carbon 14 include the rate for replacement caused by alpha radiation which would INCREASE the number of carbon 14 isotopes?"

You mean replacement in the atmosphere? It certainly did.

My top speed of replacement is 11 times the present production, from beginning to end of Göbekli Tepe, which I identified with Babel of Genesis 11.

Did you mean in samples? If so, that would be a lame excuse for not getting the implications of "millions of years' specimina" carbon dating to 20,000 - 50,000 years.

"instead of looking at the evidence and using that to make the determination of a result."

The available evidence is:

  • from the present, the present remains of carbon 14 in old samples
  • from the past, as in viewed in the past, the history.


If you discount Genesis from being history you will get another result than if you [count it as such, sorry, was hasty and tired]

"Watch this video and learn more about carbon 14 radiometric dating!"

Might do, not sure if I'll learn more about it there.

"First problem with your position is that the biblical flood ALLEGEDLY occurred less than 6,000 years ago. Your bible claims a creation of the whole universe about 6,000 years ago. Human habitation is known to have existed in the Australian continent for up to 65,000 years ago. One set of claims is very inconsistent with the other and all the evidence supports the 65,000 years version."

There is a little problem with your allegation.

The 65,000 years are not from a carbon date, but another method. If you go carbon dates, Mungo man or Mungo woman is dated to c. 20,000 BP

If we go to my table again, that would nearly exactly be 2868 BC. With 11.641 pmc, back then, we get 17800 extra years, so 20 668 BC ... that would be just before the Mungo specimen.

Btw, I am using a Biblical chronology based on LXX, in Roman Martyrology, giving Creation in 5199 BC - or Christmas day 5199 years after Creation. Flood in 2957 BC.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Scott E "Except that I said no such thing, nor cited any wiki, nor made any claim to knowledge about any Carbon-14 levels anywhere, at any time. I think you're hallucinating."

No, I am drawing out the implications of your claim.

If YOU don't know anything about carbon levels at all, YOU have no problem with "last" glacial maximum being in first half of 29th C. BC. You are perhaps trusting others who claim 26 500 BP? Well, THEY base that on two claims about carbon 14 levels, a directly testable one for the present, and one not directly testable for when samples are from.

So, if YOU don't know ANYTHING about carbon levels, you are still trusting OTHERS who claim they DO.

@Scott E "I see no actual measured data in your own explanation,"

In the wiki, the date for "last glacial maximum" was given at 26 500 BP.

THAT means a supposition of 100 pmC when organic samples started + a measure of 4.053 pmC.

So, the wiki is indirectly giving a measured datum for organic samples from "LGM".

Oh, if you want to know how I convert pmC to years or vice versa, I usually leave that to the Carbon 14 Dating Calculator:

Carbon 14 Dating Calculator
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~deturck/m170/c14/carbdate.html


It uses the same maths as what the scientists are using (they may also use some calibration, but it is supposed to be about marginal vaccillations in initial pmC), and the mathematician who made the program is not a Young Earth Creationist.

@Scott E "personal suppositions that aren't explained well, nor supported in any way. Sure, if you assume your preferred target date from the outset (the one that makes your myth work),"

Carbon dates work at all because we can check carbon dates with history.

Libby gave the wrong halflife, one that is slightly too short.

It has been corrected thanks to history.

Now, this means, history is important in determining whether carbon levels were at 100 pmC or not.

You carbon date anything that's 2000 years old, and you know from history it is, a result like 78.511 pmC both confirms that and the Cambridge halflife.

As for "not explained well" if you don't think so, carbon dating was never explained well to you in the first place, you just trusted it bc "science".

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno I found one of yours just now, so here is more for you:

"Has anyone in the employment of CMI ever published a peer-reviewed paper in a science journal????"

Creation is a science journal and it is peer reviewed.

"Seriously, CMI, AiG, and all the similar propaganda organizations spend most of their time and money on using lawyers trying to force their religious views on society"

Did you eat the wrong mushroom yesterday?

No one of their lawyers is forcing any person or institution to convert to Evangelical or to Creationist.

"despite the American Constitution (they are American organizations working in the USA primarily) clearly states that this is a secular nation."

You need to read up on 1st Amendment. It states no such thing.

@gsundiszno "Second problem is that if the kangaroos (and all the other species unique to Australia) used the Sunda Sahul then why are those species unique to Australia? Surely there must have been some suitable environments along the way?"

Answered by CMI : marsupials are timid, and so they hurried to get to a place where left alone by intimidating species.

Scott E
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
If YOU don't know anything about carbon levels at all, YOU have no problem with "last" glacial maximum being in first half of 29th C. BC.

If that's when credible scientists say when it was, perhaps that is so, or perhaps not. I'm not making any evaluation of that, because I'm not familiar with any of those claims or conclusions or methods they used to achieve them. My state of knowledge on it is simply that I don't know. YOU are the one making a very specific claim here, and I have yet to see it backed up by any evidence I should take seriously. Stop trying to dodge that by turning it back on me, and prove your claims.

Where is your evidence that starting levels of environmental C-14 were between 6 and 11 instead of 100? Even if 100 is wrong, why should your particular values be right, other than that you want them to be, so the math going forward from that gives you the date that makes you happy about your beliefs?

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Scott E "If that's when credible scientists say when it was, perhaps that is so, or perhaps not. I'm not making any evaluation of that, because I'm not familiar with any of those claims or conclusions or methods they used to achieve them."

How will you evaluate who of them and I is "credible" without going into the exact nature of the evidence?

I don't go by "credible", I ask myself what evidence they are using and if it would work on my theory too, which it does.

And them ignoring that is their scientific ideology.

"Where is your evidence that starting levels of environmental C-14 were between 6 and 11 instead of 100?"

No, first, you mix it up. Starting levels of samples dated to 26 500 BP.

Environmental C14 started even lower on my theory, as Flood is before the Ice Age maximum.

A Neanderthal dated to 50 000 BP (if carbon dated) lived before the Flood, so between 5199 and 2957 BC (tending to latter date but not quite on it), which means the sample is about 45 000 extra years of instant age, when the Neanderthal died and gave up his soul to God.

This means, he started out with 0.432 pmC, meaning he presumably could have breathed an atmosphere with 0.432 pmC - 200 times less than now.

Now, my evidence for this is, as already said, the Biblical chronology (as well as some evidence Neanderthals were pre-Flood men, but not the lineage of pre-Flood men we come from as post-Flood men : one daughter in law of Noah would have been part Neanderthal, but have a mother who wasn't and as woman also have no Y chromosome, since Y chromosomes and mitochondriae are two parts of the Neanderthal genome conspicuously lacking today).

My general principle, not shared by the guys you chose to lable credible scientists, is, history primes reconstruction AND Genesis is history.

They would arguably share the first statement of that principle and apply it to what they admit as credible history and I apply it to what I admit as such.

@Scott E "why should your particular values be right,"

Because recorded history.

What you call "my beliefs" is my belief that Genesis is recorded history. Not just chapters 12 - 50 (which all or near all Christians admit), but chapters 2 to 11 (chapter 1 involves some pre-history, near unique in going six days back beyond human eyewitness to events, only John 1:1 goes further back).

If I believed some other history, I would of course not be proposing such values. The set you consider credible scientists are accepting "Deep Time" as credible history and are therefore fine with environment has had around 100 pmC for all or most of last 100 000 years. I have created some technical problems for me by disagreeing, but I think I have solved them.

They and I agree the value was 100 pmC 2000 years ago, since a sample from then carbon dates at about 78 pmC. A "recentist" claiming Augustus died (though we are not likely to have his body to test, he was cremated) 300 years or 1000 years more recently than that would have to conclude carbon was lower 1700 or 1000 years ago. I don't, and the guys you call credible scientists don't because neither of us are recentists.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno Video - I actually already watched it and came into a series of debates commenting under it.

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : ... on Radiometric Dating
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-radiometric-dating.html


Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : ... on Radiometric Dating with Tony Reed
http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-radiometric-dating-with-tony-reed.html


Scott E
Hans-Georg Lundahl So you start with the completely non-scientific presupposition that Genesis is an accurate record of history, and then tack on some science after that to do some calculations that let you prove to people that Genesis is an accurate record of history (which is the question this all started with and what the debate in the video was about). Typical creationist drivel, borrowing bits of science where it suits you and dismissing it where it doesn't, to fit the things you've decided beforehand to believe no matter what.

gsundiszno
Hans-Georg Lundahl CMI is a science group? LOL! Sure, kid, and Santa is a polar explorer! Any carbon 12 atom can be converted to carbon 14 at any time if it collides with alpha radiation. I love that you mention Gobekli Tepe. You managed to point out a man-made structure that predates the alleged "creation" of the entire universe. Great job invalidating your silly claims. If you understood radiometric dating you would know that carbon dating has a specific range and other isotopes have to be measured for time frames outside of carbon's known range. SNORK, CMI is a science group! You are a funny dude!

ROFLMAO@U! Dude, every species makes all efforts to avoid their predators! Even you do. When you get a small cut don't you put some sort of antibiotic on the wound? Not only that but the fact remains that no specimens/remains/fossils/etc have been found outside of their current range!!!! Oh, I beat that CMI will claim that the predators hid the skeletons! How much energy have you wasted trying to make a myth "work"????? I bet you might even be a flat-earther! There are bible verses that support that "fact"!!!! LOL!

Does CMI think that the thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) was "timid"? How about the Tasmanian Devil?

Hans-Georg Lundahl
gsundiszno "CMI is a science group? LOL! Sure, kid, and Santa is a polar explorer!"

And a yogi is a PhD physicist ...

"Any carbon 12 atom can be converted to carbon 14 at any time if it collides with alpha radiation."

Possible, but the present theory is, C14 atoms mainly come from N14 colliding with such very far up in the atmosphere.

You are aware that "years back" is reckoned in how few, not how many C14 there are compared to today's normal ratio C14:C12?

"I love that you mention Gobekli Tepe. You managed to point out a man-made structure that predates the alleged "creation" of the entire universe. Great job invalidating your silly claims."

If you are not in too much of an alpha state lag next time you read what I wrote, after your yoga session, you may notice, I consider that C14 content back in GT was considerably lower back when it was recent samples than for recent samples now. Like, below 50 percent of modern carbon.

This means they had more than 5730 extra years in "instant age". Which in turn means, according to chronology of Roman Martyrology (the one I favour) it comes between Flood and Abraham.

"If you understood radiometric dating you would know that carbon dating has a specific range and other isotopes have to be measured for time frames outside of carbon's known range."

If you understood it, you would know that unlike for carbon dates, these other isotopes cannot be tested about their halflife, since it is too long for studying in history of isotope studies. Or in history for known historic samples (exception : history of volcanic eruptions has a tendency to invalidate Ka-Ar).

I mean, 100 years is known history and with a half life of 5730 years, you will get (50 %)^10/573 - the Carbon dating calculator says there will be 98.798 percent modern carbon left, and the normal calculator solves the math example as 0.9879760628287868

0.9879760628287868
=98.79760628287868 %
=98.798 % = what the carbon dating calculator said.

Now, what time scale would get you such a measurable result for Ka-Ar?

1.248×10^9 years = 1,248,000,000 years.
1,248,000,000 * 10 / 573 = 21,780,105

Hello, what historians were writing down human history 21,780,105 years ago?

"SNORK, CMI is a science group! You are a funny dude!"

It takes one to know one, right?

"ROFLMAO@U! Dude, every species makes all efforts to avoid their predators!"

Sure. But some species have better capacity for the flight reaction than others. Getting to Oz is a bit quicker for a Cangaroo than for a Sloth, right?

"Even you do. When you get a small cut don't you put some sort of antibiotic on the wound? Not only that but the fact remains that no specimens/remains/fossils/etc have been found outside of their current range!!!!"

Which is a problem for evolutionists, since marsupials exist in two habitats : Australia and South America.

"Oh, I beat that CMI will claim that the predators hid the skeletons!"

You might want to look up what they actually do claim. http://creation.com

"How much energy have you wasted trying to make a myth "work"?????"

How much have you wasted to debunk one in order to make another one work?

"I bet you might even be a flat-earther! There are bible verses that support that "fact"!!!! LOL!"

In fact none that do so clearly. It is conspicuous that, one, Bible authors lived in the Old World well before Magellan and most of them before Eratosthenes and Aristotle, two, none of them felt tempted to brag in detail about his "scientific knowledge" (if he had such) of a flat earth.

It is also conspicuous, that "circle" verses work equally with a globe, since globes as well as flat surface circles have circumferences, which is what the word for "circle" mainly means, and "four corners" verses work better with four corners of Old World on a Globe (extending SE corner to Australia), or even Old World and Americas, if you treat Atlantic as a secondary inland sea:


NW British Isles or Alaska
SW Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn
SE Australia
NE Japan

So, no flat earth verses in sight ...

"Does CMI think that the thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) was "timid"? How about the Tasmanian Devil?"

Well, more like, God made sure there was one predator they didn't escape. Check running speed for Tasmanian Devil and for, say T. Rex (there were still some just after Flood) or for Tigers ...

Hans-Georg Lundahl
Scott E "So you start with the completely non-scientific presupposition that Genesis is an accurate record of history,"

Hello, Theory of Knowledge Department? There is an urgency!

History is not determined by science, it is science that is determined by history.

To record history, you don't need fancy science, you need a commonplace understanding of the world around you, which may have very crude scientific concepts.

But to do science, you certainly need history. If you say "bacteria mutate" you are making in reality a claim about Lenski experiment, and Lenski having arranged an experiment is history. Without that history, you don't have that science.

Yes, I suppose, as a decent historian (not as a scientist) that Genesis is well recorded history. More well recorded from 12 to 50, sufficiently well recorded from 2 to 11 and chapter 1 is (fairly unique for the Bible, though parallelled in John 1) pre-history, before human observers were around, revealed to Moses, not record he found.

"and then tack on some science after that"

Science is always tacked on after history.

"to do some calculations that let you prove to people that Genesis is an accurate record of history"

To show that it CAN be, despite a raised objection.

Very different, my reasons why Genesis IS accurate history are another concern, which I haven't touched on yet, but now I will do so.

Here is how Father George Leo Haydock comments on a verse in Genesis 3:

"Concerning the transactions of these early times, parents would no doubt be careful to instruct their children, by word of mouth, before any of the Scriptures were written; and Moses might derive much information from the same source, as a very few persons formed the chain of tradition, when they lived so many hundred years. Adam would converse with Mathusalem, who knew Sem, as the latter lived in the days of Abram. Isaac, Joseph, and Amram, the father of Moses, were contemporaries: so that seven persons might keep up the memory of things which had happened 2500 years before. But to entitle these accounts to absolute authority, the inspiration of God intervenes; and thus we are convinced, that no word of sacred writers can be questioned. H."

Get it? A) oral tradition is fairly reliable, and Genesis 2-11 is built on oral tradition, while later chapters could also have been written down, B) this history is confirmed by Moses composing the final book of it and his doing miracles which only God can do.

"(which is the question this all started with and what the debate in the video was about)."

In fact, Bill Nye was not debating the question from scratch, he was giving objections on a few specific points.

"Typical creationist drivel, borrowing bits of science"

What does "borrowed" science mean? You didn't discover it yourself? Fine, then most of us use borrowed science.

What does "bits of" mean? You don't know all science there is to know? Most of us don't, and I am far from exceptional.

"where it suits you and dismissing it where it doesn't,"

There is no fact of science we accept when it suits and dismiss when it doesn't. But there are facts of science we do accept and there are factoids of the "scientific world view" we don't accept.

Get your terminology straight.

"to fit the things you've decided beforehand to believe no matter what."

Science is the wrong field to ask whether one should or should not believe that Genesis is history. History is the right field.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl There were some T. rex around AFTER the alleged flood? Your evidence for this is what? There are no tigers (Panthera tigris) in Australia. Ever. Not one skeleton, partial or complete. And no sloths in Australia either.

Since you brought up sloths, how do you explain sloths making it from Central and South America all the way to the Iraq/Turkey region? From say, Panama? Walking the length of the Rockies, braving the arctic weather found in Alaska, crossing some sort of ice/land bridge at the Bering Strait, then a huge stretch of Siberia, then the Gobi desert, over the Himalayas, then the deserts of Iran, Turkey and Iraq? Never once deterred by weather, great mountain ranges, considerable numbers of predators, then surviving on an Ark for a year, only to then return home?

How about flightless, non-aquatic birds found only on specific remote oceanic islands? The Kiwi bird of New Zealand? No land bridge there! Or how about the Inaccessible Island Rail from Tristan da Cunha (only on one island of the archipelago! Middle of the fierce south Atlantic!)?

So, T. rex evidence? You might find this video about T. rex soft tissues of great interest!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDY7GSf6Rk

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno "There were some T. rex around AFTER the alleged flood? Your evidence for this is what?"

  • 1) T. Rex have existed since they have been found (about 30 full skeleta)
  • 2) This means the following is probably pertaining to them: Genesis 6:[19] And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.


"There are no tigers (Panthera tigris) in Australia. Ever. Not one skeleton, partial or complete. And no sloths in Australia either."

No tigers? Reason why cangaroos found it safe.

No sloths? Because they didn't hop all the way to Australia.

"Since you brought up sloths, how do you explain sloths making it from Central and South America all the way to the Iraq/Turkey region? From say, Panama? Walking the length of the Rockies, braving the arctic weather found in Alaska, crossing some sort of ice/land bridge at the Bering Strait, then a huge stretch of Siberia, then the Gobi desert, over the Himalayas, then the deserts of Iran, Turkey and Iraq? Never once deterred by weather, great mountain ranges, considerable numbers of predators, then surviving on an Ark for a year, only to then return home?"

You are presuming pre-Flood geographic, oceanic, climactic conditions to be more or less like post-Flood ones. Already Four Rivers of Paradise say sth else, since the two most easiuly as well as all named alternatives for the less easily identified post-Flood ones do not have a common source after Flood. What if for instance there was an Atlantis where now there is an Atlantic? What if Atlantis sunk in post-Flood times (perhaps between Genesis 10 last verse and Genesis 11:9?)?

You are even presuming sloths are known from pre-Flood times. What if all xenarthrans from South America are post-Flood? Including "Promegatherium ("before Megatherium") is a genus of prehistoric xenarthrans that lived in Argentina, during the Late Miocene."

You see, Aquitanian Miocene "started 23.03 million years ago" and Messinian Miocene "ended 5.333 million years ago" = no carbon dating used = no guarantee they are any bit older than a Neanderthal dated to [I am sorry, I was tired and impatient and didn't end the sentence - whenever they are dated to. As carbon dated 40,000 BP. I added this afterwards:] - say 40,000 BP (carbon).

"How about flightless, non-aquatic birds found only on specific remote oceanic islands? The Kiwi bird of New Zealand? No land bridge there!"

I'll first look up how Evolutionists explain the kiwi ...

"Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites (which also consist of ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi

Now, what about ratites?

"A ratite is any of a diverse group of flightless and mostly large and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite

Well, duh, looks like evolutionists have exact same problem. Kiwis were flightless when they arrived. Because all ratites elsewhere (Africa or South America) are also flightless. Here is another one for you:

"Elephant birds are members of the extinct ratite family Aepyornithidae, made up of large to enormous flightless birds that once lived on the island of Madagascar. They became extinct, perhaps around 1000–1200 CE, for reasons that are unclear, although human activity is the suspected cause. Elephant birds comprised the genera Mullerornis, Vorombe and Aepyornis. While they were in close geographical proximity to the ostrich, their closest living relatives are kiwi,[2] suggesting that ratites did not diversify by vicariance during the breakup of Gondwana but instead evolved from ancestors that dispersed more recently by flying.[3]"

To spell this out for you:

"DNA sequence comparisons have yielded the surprising conclusion that kiwi are much more closely related to the extinct Malagasy elephant birds than to the moa with which they shared New Zealand."

(Kiwi article, again)

So, spread by flight and then all of them lost flight? We are not against admitting mutations may result in lost abilities, for one.

Even more, we are also not against men bringing ratites to diverse places by boats.

There seem to have been no fossil kiwis on NZ.

However, there are fossils on NZ:

Ankylosaur Maastrichtian Probably a nodosaur similar to Kunbarrasaurus.
Compsognathid Tithonian Known from phalanges. Associated with possible coprolites.
Ornithopod Maastrichtian Possibly an Elasmarian.
Joan Wiffen's theropod Maastrichtian Possibly a Megaraptoran.
Titanosaur Maastrichtian Known from a rib.
Unidentified dinosaur Early Maastrichtian Known from footprints. Possibly a thyreophoran.
Unidentified theropod Late Cretaceous Known from toe bone around the size of Allosaurus.
Kaiwhekea
Mauisaurus
Prognathodon
Taniwhasaurus
Tuatara.
Carsosaurus Cenomanian 
Ectenosaurus Cretaceous 
Eidolosaurus Cretaceous 
Hector's Ichthyosaur Triassic 
Kaiwhekea Cretaceous 
Komensaurus Cretaceous 
Liodon Cretaceous The maximum length of this species is 30 feet (9.1 m).
Mauisaurus Cretaceous Largest plesiosaur in New Zealand.
Moanasaurus Cretaceous Largest mosasaur in New Zealand.
Nothosaur Triassic 
Pontosaurus Cretaceous 
Prognathodon Cretaceous 
Pterosaur Late Cretaceous Possibly an Azhdarchid.
Sphenodon Mesozoic-Holocene Extant.
Taniwhasaurus Cretaceous 
Tuarangisaurus Cretaceous


Since I believe that Maastrichtian and other Cretaceous, Triassic and so on are diverse pre-Flood biotopes (mainly pre-Flood), how did an Ankylosaur make it to NZ?

"Or how about the Inaccessible Island Rail from Tristan da Cunha (only on one island of the archipelago! Middle of the fierce south Atlantic!)?"

I'd say Tristan da Cunha might have been accessible from Atlantis before it sank.

"So, T. rex evidence? You might find this video about T. rex soft tissues of great interest!:"
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDY7GSf6Rk"

Have debated this elsewhere. You rely heavily on Tony Reed.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl Wow, a full blown (probably a "fool" blown) Gish Gallop! You worked pretty hard to fail so miserably at explain how the Kiwi got to Iraq/Turkey.

You also failed to include any evidence of T. rex specimens that were younger than 66 million years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

I do enjoy Tony Reed and his very well done presentations. He isn't the only one, but he is one of the best and his real virtue is that he is succinct in his presentations. You could learn from him!

Atlantis? _ROFLMAO@U!+ SNORK! MAYBE THAT IS WHERE SANTA VACATIONS! UFOS! FLAT EARTH! SASQUATCH!

You still haven't explained how the Inaccessible Island Rail made it to Tristan da Cunha. Or Atlantis! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno
"Wow, a full blown (probably a "fool" blown) Gish Gallop!"

If my answer was long, it was not so by heaping ten diverse arguments on each other, and hoping someone won't be able to answer them all.

That's what usually referred to as Gish Gallop. It's not limited to Creationists and it's not there in all Creationists, and considering how you attributed it to me, I am not sure it's even there in Duane Gish.

"You worked pretty hard to fail so miserably at explain how the Kiwi got to Iraq/Turkey."

If you meant I didn't give a detailed explanation, that is true.

I also do not think the ratite couple on the ark were different ones for kiwis and ostriches and emus, it could well be a common ancestor of them all.

"You also failed to include any evidence of T. rex specimens that were younger than 66 million years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus"

It has not occurred to you that "66 million years old" is a definite claim, which needs definite evidence.

Now, the pieces of evidence usually presented as warranting that are geological column and radiometric but non-carbon dates.

Did you miss the piece where I said Ka-Ar cannot have its halflife tested, because it's too long? 100 years for a halflife of 5730 years (the one for C14, documented by lots of specimens from last centuries as correct) corresponds to 21 million years for a halflife of over a billion years, which therefore is not testable.

T. Rex is a land vertebrate and "from Mesozoic" and both of these are qualities that are lacking in the actual column in Grand Canyon.

Now, land vertebrates have this property so far verified in my research, that you don't find two layers of them above each other. VERY compatible with my theory that Cretaceous and its subdivisions, Jurassic etc are simply different biotopes mostly of the pre-Flood world.

"I do enjoy Tony Reed and his very well done presentations. He isn't the only one, but he is one of the best and his real virtue is that he is succinct in his presentations. You could learn from him!"

I've debated him, he refuses to learn from me and is ultra vicious against Christianity, because he is an ex-Christian.

"Atlantis? _ROFLMAO@U!+ SNORK! MAYBE THAT IS WHERE SANTA VACATIONS! UFOS! FLAT EARTH! SASQUATCH!"

You seem to think cultural associations + despising a certain culture is enough as far as arguments are concerned. I don't belong to that subculture, but I don't despise it like you do.

"You still haven't explained how the Inaccessible Island Rail made it to Tristan da Cunha. Or Atlantis! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

You still haven't explained X sounds like a follow up to a Gish Gallop. Plus I kind of did. It wasn't inaccessible while Atlantis was around.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl So where is "Atlantis"?? You debated Tony Reed? Where? Christianity is a man-made myth system based off of an older bronze age myth. It has the credibility equal to Zeus and Osiris. It is amazing to me that supposedly educated people would believe anything that ridiculous! And then heap "righteous indignity" on top! Too fricking funny if it weren't so pathetic.

The only "culture" I despise is the culture of "willful ignorance".

And still no evidence for T. rex being alive at the same time as humans. Or a plausible explanation for how any flightless, non-aquatic birds found only on extremely remote oceanic islands could have made it to Iraq/Turkey and back. Nor any for the sloths...............

But keep trying, your slogans are so darned cute!

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno
"So where is "Atlantis"??"

It seems shallows have been found by submarine investigations.

"You debated Tony Reed? Where?"

Among others, here:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : ... on Radiometric Dating with Tony Reed (update : and others)
http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-radiometric-dating-with-tony-reed.html


"Christianity is a man-made myth system based off of an older bronze age myth."

As for Christianity being a man-made myth, I think I countered it here:

somewhere else : Could a Community Arising a Century Later Invent ...
https://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.com/2018/12/could-community-arising-century-later.html


"It has the credibility equal to Zeus and Osiris."

To what exact claims of them?

"It is amazing to me that supposedly educated people would believe anything that ridiculous!"

It's amazing how so much despising of culture could go into ... culture.

"And then heap "righteous indignity" on top! Too fricking funny if it weren't so pathetic."

I don't think I did righteous indignity, in fact ... were you thinking of someone else?

"The only "culture" I despise is the culture of "willful ignorance"."

There is more than one culture you despise by branding it so. Wilful disagreement with your culture would be more correct.

"And still no evidence for T. rex being alive at the same time as humans."

Except history.

Except carbon dates of Dinosaurs getting into the span of carbon dates for human skeleta.

"Or a plausible explanation for how any flightless, non-aquatic birds found only on extremely remote oceanic islands could have made it to Iraq/Turkey and back. Nor any for the sloths..............."

I think your lack of detail in response to my answer shows wilful ignorance on your part.

"But keep trying, your slogans are so darned cute!"

How about learning to read? I gave no slogans, I gave arguments ... (wait, a yogi might want to abstain from yoga or other alpha states before actually dealing with that for at least half an hour) (OK, that was a slogan, feel free to call that cute).

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl So, what, no evidence forthcoming on the existence of T. rexs alive at the same time as human? How are you forging ahead on your explanation of sloths getting to Iraq/Turkey? What about those flightless, non-aquatic birds from remote oceanic islands?

Hell, I haven't even brought up the Giant Palouse Worm!!!

Never mind the remote and rare plants!!!!

You also never explained away how Gobekli Tepe could have existed for some 5,000 years BEFORE the universe!!!

Since you seem to be Catholic I have some questions. To be fair, are you Catholic???

ans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno
"So, what, no evidence forthcoming on the existence of T. rexs alive at the same time as human?"

As said, Genesis 6. Now, YOU have no evidence to the contrary. That some scientists consider 66 million years proven fact doesn't shift the burden of proof to me, unless I have no answer to their purported proofs, which I had.

READ OUR DIALOGUE AGAIN:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood or Ark, sorry
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/12/bill-nye-supposed-to-destroy-flood-or.html


You scroll down past I, II, III, IV, V to Dialogues, then I.

"How are you forging ahead on your explanation of sloths getting to Iraq/Turkey?"

I mentioned Atlantis, did I not? Besides, I also mentioned sloths perhaps not being known from pre-Flood times.

"What about those flightless, non-aquatic birds from remote oceanic islands?"

I think I already DID mention:

  • evolutionists have the same problem
  • as far as I am concerned, kiwis could have been brought along by Maoris.


"Hell, I haven't even brought up the Giant Palouse Worm!!!"

No, you haven't. Here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Palouse_earthworm

Where is the argument against the Flood?

"Never mind the remote and rare plants!!!!"

Tree mats floating above the flood, and some plants remaining alive.

"You also never explained away how Gobekli Tepe could have existed for some 5,000 years BEFORE the universe!!!"

AGAIN, READ OUR DIALOGUE AGAIN:

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : Bill Nye Supposed to Destroy the Flood or Ark, sorry
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/12/bill-nye-supposed-to-destroy-flood-or.html


You scroll down past I, II, III, IV, V to Dialogues, then I.

If carbon levels in the atmosphere breathed by the organic material of GT when alive were like 42 - 47 % of the modern level, GT fits very neatly between 350 and 401 after the Flood - where it should be, if Babel.

"Since you seem to be Catholic I have some questions. To be fair, are you Catholic???"

Yes. I am also one of the Catholics who reject "Vatican II", "John Paul II" and for that matter already "Paul VI" and their successors as non-popes, as pseudo-popes, as anti-popes. And if you were bringing up Pius XII, well Dignitatis Humanae doesn't decide either way, and the allocution to a group of scientists in 1951, the year after, is just the level of an allocution, definitely lower than an encyclical adressed to all bishops.

@gsundiszno I'm impressed on how dense you can come off as being, in an oral situation, that might be a winner. As it is, people can check our dialogue.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl You made the claim that T. rex was alive during the time of humans. Per your argument of "genesis" said so then you'll also have to prove dragons, satyrs, unicorns and human giant, as well as talking donkeys and snakes! Not one skeleton has been found of T. rex that is less than 66 million years old.

Not one skeleton has been found for the dragons, satyrs, unicorns and human giants. They are mythological from your "book of magic".

Sad.

The rest is just more blather......

Oh, except that earth worms can't survive for a year in saltwater, silly child!

@Hans-Georg Lundahl says the man who believes T. rex played on the Ark! I'll bet you think they were vegetarians as well! LOL!

[refers to my point of his tactic of playing dense]

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno
"You made the claim that T. rex was alive during the time of humans."

Yes, based on history, and you made a definite counterclaim.

"Per your argument of "genesis" said so then you'll also have to prove dragons, satyrs, unicorns and human giant, as well as talking donkeys and snakes!"

You are missing what I said to Scott E : Genesis is history, history primes science, not the other way round.

Donkeys and snakes usually don't talk, one of each did, and in each case it was an angelic being talking through them.

Dragons would be one indication outside Genesis that T. Rex or Dimetrodon Grandis or some such coexisted with man.

Unicorns might be the traditional name for Ceratopsians.

Human giants, well, some bones that could be dinosaurian also could be human giants : head and most of skeleton missing doesn't tell which femur it was.

Satyrs, well, we have at least Greek and Roman tradition, plus Scottish kelpies to back up the "hairy ones" which could also mean something else.

"Not one skeleton has been found of T. rex that is less than 66 million years old."

Not one skeleton of T. Rex has been found that is more than 7000 years old.

My proof : Biblical chronology - what's yours? We each made a definite claim, we each need backing it up.

"Not one skeleton has been found for the dragons, satyrs, unicorns and human giants. They are mythological from your "book of magic"."

Several, in fact, except perhaps satyrs.

"Sad."

Shall I feel sorry for you?

"The rest is just more blather......"

Of what you said? Sure/Oh, of what I said? Was it over your head?

"Oh, except that earth worms can't survive for a year in saltwater, silly child!"

At 50 I am hardly a child anymore, and earth worms can have partly survived on Ark as bird food, and also Flood was not salt water.

"@Hans-Georg Lundahl says the man who believes T. rex played on the Ark! I'll bet you think they were vegetarians as well! LOL!"

Most carnivores have vegetarian moments or at least piscivorian ones. Very tiny and young T. Rex (or other Coelurosaurians, as they are arguably all one kind and taking a smaller race would be nice to other critters), they could have been fed suitable veggies, earthworms or .... fisssssssshh (there was plenty around the Ark).

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl If the global flood occurred the waters would have been definitely saline. Salt water. Not only that but earth worms drown in any kind of water. What a science ignoramus!

The bible is hardly historical! It claims Israelites in Egypt for over 400 years yet there hasn't been a single Israelite skeleton or artifact found in Egypt. Just one of the most archeologically explored place on earth. None found in the Sinai either. Over a million Israelites wandering around in a relatively small place for 40 years (roughly the life expectancy during those times!) and not one skeleton? You are aware that dry deserts are only the single best place for preserving remains, right?

So, not only is the bible not historical, but your genesis verse doesn't mention T. rex, no other verse mentions T. rex, and/or similar dinosaurs. The bible doesn't even bother to mention the New World, nor Australia, nor Antarctica. That is because a bunch of semi-literate goat herders had no way of knowing these things when they sat around and invented the stories.

No firmament either. Just a trillion galaxies with over a billion stars each on average.

Keep it coming, you heretic! LOL!

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno "If the global flood occurred the waters would have been definitely saline. Salt water."

That's not what Creationists think. Seas were at worst brackwater.

"Not only that but earth worms drown in any kind of water. What a science ignoramus!"

Did I say sth about logmats? Did I say sth about earthworms on the ark as bird food supply? Or did I really forget?

"The bible is hardly historical!"

50 + 40 + 27 + 36 + 34 + 24 + 21 + 4 + 31 + 24 + 22 + 25 + 29 + 36 + 10 + 13 + 14 + 16 + 16 + 42 + 14 + 4 + 16 + 15 + 28 + 16 + 24 + 21 + 28 = 680 chapters of historic books.

I omitted books of instruction and devotion, as well as books with clearly more prophecy than history (I included Daniel, Ezra and Nehemia, though).

"It claims Israelites in Egypt for over 400 years"

In fact, the Biblical chronology I am counting on more like reckons the 430 years only had second half in Egypt, first in Canaan, before 70 persons migrated to Egypt.

Note also, they started out fairly modestly in numbers.

"yet there hasn't been a single Israelite skeleton or artifact found in Egypt."

How would you know one if you found one?

What if Israelites were buried in Egyptian style?

“You will never find a lost watch if you’re looking for it in the wrong place,” says Murray. “If we are looking in the wrong period, because of the erroneous assumptions about the Egyptian chronology of Manetho, then it’s no wonder we don’t find evidence of the civilizations of David and Solomon, or the walled cities of the Conquest, or the Exodus from Egypt. No wonder secular archaeologists stand up and confidently claim there is no evidence of an Israelite sojourn in Egypt.

“However, secular archaeologists themselves have found evidence of the land of Goshen—the region of Faqus (Gk. Phacusa, the name in Ptolemaic times, traces back to the Egyptian Pa Kesem, with the ‘m’ later dropping off; the Septuagint calls the land of the sojourn Gesem, not Goshen.) There is a strong local tradition linking this area to Goshen. Helena, the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, in the 4th Century AD, asking about the land of Goshen, was pointed to this area. Austrian archaeologist Manfred Bietak, excavating there in the mid-1980s, found evidence of Semitic occupation—including homes with artefacts and animals of Canaanite origin, not found elsewhere in Egypt, plus the way in which they buried their dead. Because of the faulty chronology, he does not associate those settlements with Israel and Egypt (‘too early’). Bietak also concluded that these Semites had participated in the building of a significant nearby Egyptian metropolis.” The Bible does not say the Hebrews built pyramids; as Murray teaches his history students, “Hollywood is not in the business of teaching true history.”

Unravelling myths about myth
Carl Wieland chats with historian and archaeologist Murray Adamthwaite
https://creation.com/unravelling-myths-about-myth


"Just one of the most archeologically explored place on earth."

Sure, and one giving lots of hints archaeology can't cover all of history, since preservation is erratic.

"None found in the Sinai either. Over a million Israelites wandering around in a relatively small place for 40 years (roughly the life expectancy during those times!) and not one skeleton?"

Life expectancy back then? Don't think so. King David a few centuries later wrote:

"The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected."
[Psalms 89:10]

In other words, if you didn't die very young, but reached adult age, a normal life expectancy was 70 to 80 years.

"You are aware that dry deserts are only the single best place for preserving remains, right?"

Not really, if scavengers come along, of which there are plenty.

The real gold mine for preserving human remains are deep burials with very air tight sealing.

"So, not only is the bible not historical,"

You forget that history is not in the main confirmed by archaeology and does not depend on such confirmation to be reliable.

When South East France was being conquered by Romans about a generation or two or three before Caesar, there were lots of battles. Nearly no battle fields from then are actually excavated.

Waterloo battle could not be proven by archaeology, by now, since bones were dug up for fertiliser mid 19th C.

"but your genesis verse doesn't mention T. rex, no other verse mentions T. rex, and/or similar dinosaurs."

It doesn't mention even elks, yet arguably elks were on the ark. It's not a zoological inventary.

"The bible doesn't even bother to mention the New World, nor Australia, nor Antarctica."

I suppose Moses knew of them, when writing Genesis, prophetically. Seeing that diverse empires were going to have access to Genesis, he arguably left it out so that these were not tempted to cross Atlantic or Indian and Pacific Oceans.

It is definitely possible they are mentioned in Apocalypse as "the wilderness" which is an accurate description of most of these places (barring Antarctica which is not inhabitable) up to pre-Columbian and pre-Tasmanian and pre-Jacobo-Cookian times.

"That is because a bunch of semi-literate goat herders had no way of knowing these things when they sat around and invented the stories."

Would you mind explaining why, with so much "invented" stories they spent so little of 680 chapters (OK, the Four Gospellers were not goatherders, not even sure the fourth was a fisherman, St John of the Gospel could have been someone else than St John of the Twelve, namely someone with Cohen connections) on real history which they could hardly help noticing was going on and happening, and at least some of it was real interesting?

With traditional author assignments, we can even say they started writing history well before Egyptians and at least about the same time as people in Mesopotamia - and went about it with more thoroughness. I'd go so far as to call Genesis the first world history of the world. At least first 11 chapters, since later ones narrow the scope to one of the nations.

"No firmament either. Just a trillion galaxies with over a billion stars each on average."

Supposing modern cosmology were in fact true, which I don't, it is at least irrelevant for historic accuracy.

"Keep it coming, you heretic! LOL!"

There is one heretic here, and it's you.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl the Giant Palouse earthworm would have had to get to the Ark in order to be bird food. And bird food doesn't survive. Do you even bother to note what you are writing?

Even if the entire volume of "flood water" (the amount that would have had to magically be created) were fresh the dilution is still quite saline. Fail, again. I can also demonstrate that given the resulting waters would have been quite saline (brackish even), that the flood was not global. There is a type of lake called an endorheic basin. That is any lake whose waters don't drain to the ocean. Now, that alone is not significant. However, what is significant is that some of those lakes are not saline at all. See, water evaporates, but salt doesn't. In fact the endorheic lakes would become MORE saline with evaporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endorheic_basins

Elk? Dude, you still haven't provided a plausible explanation for how the Inaccessible Island Rail made it to Iraq/Turkey. Or the Kiwi. Your only explanation for any of it is that your "magic book" said so. Basically you are claiming the bible is true because the bible says it is true!!!! HUGE FAIL!!!

Hey, here is a news flash for you. "Scavengers" DON'T EAT BONES!!!! Or human artifacts, like clothes/jewelry/etc!!!!

No matter what the life expectancy was (archaeologists and other science professionals say it was more like 40 years, based on EVIDENCE!), the fact remains that with over a million people stumbling around in a very barren desert some would have died. Some being many! And not one burial site has been found. I didn't say they haven't found 50,000 but only 49,999 so it is false. No, I stated and it is a fact, that NOT ONE BURIAL SITE HAS BEEN FOUND.

Learn to read. Then learn how to think.

The rest is blather, especially your silly arithmetic of bible chapters being somehow (?????) meaningful!!!! By the way, your numbers are inaccurate since there are 10 (yes, TEN) different Canons with different numbers of "books".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Canons_of_various_Christian_traditions

Never mind the Mormons! They also worship Jesus and are ''christian"! LOL!

You are quite silly, frankly.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno "the Giant Palouse earthworm would have had to get to the Ark in order to be bird food. And bird food doesn't survive."

A heap of bird food worms, some certainly survive, especially if they multiply on board.

"Do you even bother to note what you are writing?"

Do you even bother to note what you are objecting to?

"Even if the entire volume of "flood water" (the amount that would have had to magically be created)"

Well, Oxygen + Hydrogen layers meet, explode in torrents (diminishing both, so now there is a distance), and there were also waters from the deep.

Magically? Not really.

"were fresh the dilution is still quite saline."

Sorry, but that presupposes that pre-Flood seas were salty. What if they weren't or what if they were only slightly brackish?

"Fail, again. I can also demonstrate that given the resulting waters would have been quite saline (brackish even), that the flood was not global. There is a type of lake called an endorheic basin. That is any lake whose waters don't drain to the ocean. Now, that alone is not significant. However, what is significant is that some of those lakes are not saline at all. See, water evaporates, but salt doesn't. In fact the endorheic lakes would become MORE saline with evaporation."

Yes, and most of these are post-Flood.

Big seas have also become more saline with exact same mechanism in post-Flood era, which is now 5000 years.

"Elk? Dude, you still haven't provided a plausible explanation for how the Inaccessible Island Rail made it to Iraq/Turkey."

Who says that is where the Ark was taking off, anyway? That's where it landed.

"Or the Kiwi. Your only explanation for any of it is that your "magic book" said so."

Where is exactly your evolutionist explanation of the kiwi? Your only explanation is that Darwin's Origin of the species says so ...

"Basically you are claiming the bible is true because the bible says it is true!!!! HUGE FAIL!!!"

Your talents in analysing logic seem temporarily clouded by your bias.

I am saying the Bible is history, because that is how audiences as far back as traceable have taken it.

Precisely as I am saying Lord of the Rings is fiction, because that is how audiences as far back as traceable have taken that.

While this doesn't prove the Bible is totally correct history, per se, there are blunders which are incredible to make, if not actual fact. And fact of Flood is strengthened by lots of other traditions too.

"Hey, here is a news flash for you. "Scavengers" DON'T EAT BONES!!!! Or human artifacts, like clothes/jewelry/etc!!!!"

Egyptian jewellry was spent in Golden Calf. Bones left to dry in the desert will disintegrate.

"No matter what the life expectancy was (archaeologists and other science professionals say it was more like 40 years, based on EVIDENCE!),"

Exactly how many graves from those times?

Does "40" refer to life expectancy at birth, which means that children dying at 5 are included in the mean?

"the fact remains that with over a million people stumbling around in a very barren desert some would have died. Some being many! And not one burial site has been found. I didn't say they haven't found 50,000 but only 49,999 so it is false. No, I stated and it is a fact, that NOT ONE BURIAL SITE HAS BEEN FOUND."

How much burial do you think people were given if they could dry? Cover with sand, that is it.

Where are the Israelite Burials From the Wilderness Wanderings?
Non-Technical - juin 18, 2009 - by Gordon Franz MA
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2009/06/Where-are-the-Israelite-Burials-From-the-Wilderness-Wanderings.aspx#Article


"Learn to read. Then learn how to think."

Did both already ....

"The rest is blather, especially your silly arithmetic of bible chapters being somehow (?????) meaningful!!!!"

680 chapters of Bible books mainly history is at least showing the Bible MEANS to be history, means to be taken as historical.

"By the way, your numbers are inaccurate since there are 10 (yes, TEN) different Canons with different numbers of "books"."

As a Catholic I am obviously using the 73 book canon, meaning I included chapters for Tobit, Judith and I and II Maccabees in the total.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Canons_of_various_Christian_traditions

"Never mind the Mormons! They also worship Jesus and are ''christian"! LOL!"

They'd have a problem with Matthew 28:20. They claim God RESTORED His Church through Joseph Smith, contrary to the "all days" promise.

"You are quite silly, frankly."

I am also used to people like you taking me to be so ....

Days later
perhaps over a week, even, this is St. Thomas' Day, 21.XII.2018:

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl You sure ran out of steam. What happened? LOL! Quitter/loser.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno What happened is, I answered every major point from what I can verify with a quick glance, and you answered none of mine.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl Claiming the bible is factual and historical is problematic if you don't bother to show OTHER sources, ones that can be checked.

Your whole argument is "the bible is true because the bible says it is true".

Pathetic.

And you are a heretic.......

LOL!

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno "Claiming the bible is factual and historical is problematic if you don't bother to show OTHER sources, ones that can be checked."

What do you mean the Bible "can't be checked"?

It's the best checkable source for any event previous to first millennium BC, except the Trojan War.

And now that Homer can be checked after Luwian and Hittite were deciphered, it seems Homer did a few things wrong which the Bible cannot be shown to have done.

For one, Homer doesn't mention once that Troy was an Arzawa Kingdom, one of them, and that there were Hittites East of them, claiming that territory. Hittites aren't mentioned once in Homer, but more than once in the Bible.

You presumably mean, you won't bother to check its claims to historicity, rather than fabulosity, which is not a question of "other sources" about same events, but a question of how it was received.

So far, I haven't seen people treat siege of Gondor as being as historical as siege of Vienna. And we are close on when Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings.

While we aren't so with the times when Moses wrote Genesis, we can check the present situation, why it doesn't look like we will ever take Lord of the Rings as history : we know the history we had, before it was written.

So, if Moses had written a novel, it's not likely he could have gotten other Israelites to accept that novel, speaking of Genesis.

When it comes to Exodus, we cannot imagine Moses writing a novel about passage of the Red Sea and getting Israelites who had not and whose parents had not and whose grandparents had not passed through the Red Sea that this was fact.

But one could so to speak half and half imagine it was a later novel about Moses ... if so, you get the same problem as with Moses as author of Genesis.

Grand miracles are not likely to get tacked onto real and non-miraculous history and novels are not likely to get taken for history.

"Your whole argument is "the bible is true because the bible says it is true"."

So far, I haven't even made the point to you "the Bible" - as a whole - "is true". Second, my point would not be "because the Bible says it is true" but because the CHURCH says it is true.

The Catholic CHURCH says the NT is its early history with its Divine Founder and soon after His Ascension.

So, apart from being heretical, you are also illogical, since you do not achieve a correct analysis of WHAT it is I am backing up with WHAT.

My points to you have been:

  • the Bible hasn't been shown to be wrong on this or that or other point you brought up
  • the Bible is historical in its specific type of truth claim.


I didn't even say "historically correct every time" even if I believe that, because that was not what I was arguing for.

gsundiszno
@Hans-Georg Lundahl
Zero evidence for Garden of Eden/origin of man/earth/universe.

Zero evidence for Exodus.

Zero evidence for Noachian flood.

Zero corraborating evidence for Jesus.

Yeah, just those few 'details'.......

And you argued for Atlantis. Zero evidence for that as well.

You are a silly child.

@Hans-Georg Lundahl The bible is manifestly wrong about the creation of the universe, the earth, life in general and mankind specifically.

The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming the Israelites were in Egypt and made an Exodus to Canaan.

The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming a global flood as per the Noah fable.

The bible is manifestly wrong in almost every single claim that can be tested, whether scientific/historic/ethical/etc.

The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming that a Jesus lived and/or was 'god in human form'.

It is all a myth developed (and often plagiarized from neighboring cultures) over some few thousand years in a mediocre region of the earth.

The sad part is the huge amounts of damage that the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism/Christianity/Islam) have wrought upon humanity for several thousand years. It has done some good, but only equal to many other cultures that haven't done as much damage.

And it still remains a myth belief system. FAERY TALES!

ps. Atlantis never existed.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@gsundiszno
Before answering in detail, each item, I'll have to say first that you are elaborating on a point already answered without taking account of my answer.

When a text makes a historic claim that is at least some historic evidence about that claim.

When a text is taken as making a historic claim by the community it is read by, that is at least very good evidence it was meant to make a historic claim in the first place.

This doesn't mean every text is inerrant or infallible and is therefore not sufficient to argue the Bible is, but I haven't felt like arguing that one with you yet. You still have some "beginners' difficulties" to get over before perhaps coming to that one.

"Zero evidence for Garden of Eden/origin of man/earth/universe."

Except Adam and Eve recalled having been there and told this to their offspring. Except if they hadn't been the first men, their offspring would sooner or later have come across non-Adamites.

As to origin of the universe, prophecy is at least as good as your pseudo-science.

"Zero evidence for Exodus."
"The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming the Israelites were in Egypt and made an Exodus to Canaan."

Except the book of Exodus taken as historic by Israelites AND except Ipuwer papyrus, which details part of plagues of Egypt.

Yesterday I went on wiki to look for sth and found Jewish chronology counts Exodus event as having been around 1450 BC. Now, I did a wiki on 1450 BC and found 1460 BC is when a battle of Megiddo, a great Egyptian victory in Canaan, is supposed to have happened.

I actually believe Exodus was more like 1510 BC and battle of Megiddo could have been somewhat later than 1460 BC, unless it's Egyptian appropriation of Joshua's victories.

"Zero evidence for Noachian flood."
"The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming a global flood as per the Noah fable."

Except repeopled continents after Flood, giving a Flood date as 40 000 to 30 000 BP in terms of carbon dating (in case you were going to cite Australia as 65 000 BP, no, that's another method, roughly same items carbon dated give more like 21 000 BC)

"Zero corraborating evidence for Jesus."
"The bible is manifestly wrong in claiming that a Jesus lived and/or was 'god in human form'."

Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and the CHURCH.

And if you claim these are not contemporary, well, there are no Roman historians (except Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) writing between AD 31 (strategically just two nyears before AD 33) and AD 96, whose writings are preserved to us.

It would seem Romans weren't too talented in overflattering writing and Emperors suppressed (or allowed supporters to suppress) critical ones.

For instance, Marcus Cluvius Rufus was consul suffetus in AD 45, twelve years after Crucifixion and Resrrection of Christ.

Now, if we had had a text of him which mentioned Jesus, that would have directly contradicted your point. We don't. So, should we concede your point?

No. The fact is, his history is only known in part, through later historians.

Citing wiki: "He was a contemporary of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, but little is known of the extent of his work except that it related to events during the reign of these emperors. Cluvius was one of the primary sources for Tacitus' Annals and Histories, Suetonius' The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, Plutarch's Parallel Lives and probably for later historians."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Cluvius_Rufus

And once this "gap of silence" between 31 and 96 is closed with a new history (Agricola, by Tacitus), we quickly do find historians mentioning Jesus.

"And you argued for Atlantis. Zero evidence for that as well."
"ps. Atlantis never existed."

Except an Egyptian tradition, confided to Solon as we read it in Plato ... and some submarine archaeology.

"You are a silly child."

Fine tactics of intimidation, if I were receptive to it ...

"The bible is manifestly wrong about the creation of the universe, the earth, life in general and mankind specifically."

Because you have a better historiography by a better historian?

Or because you consider the reconstructions of scientists to be "manifest" truth?

"The bible is manifestly wrong in almost every single claim that can be tested, whether scientific/historic/ethical/etc."

How exactly would an Atheist test an ethical claim ... ?

And when it comes to scientific, you seem to highly regard indirect reconstructions over direct testimony.

And when it comes to history, you seem to believe the chronology of the Turin Kinglist is immaculate and a good test for Biblical chronology?

Even if it is in some kind of variance with the Abydos Kinglist.

"It is all a myth developed (and often plagiarized from neighboring cultures) over some few thousand years in a mediocre region of the earth."

How do you define myth?

If "myth" is a guess of who or what created the universe, as in Hesiod, modern science is a myth and certainly took very much less than a few thousand years to develop.

Also, if Biblical creation account were a guess rather than revelation, this accounts for very little in the 680 chapters of history in a Roman Catholic Bible. Genesis 1 and some verses in Job.

If by "myth" you include things like Iliad and Odyssey, I think you are seriously 200 years behind the times in the debates on historicity of Trojan War.

As literature goes, they would be fair comparison to some parts of the 680 chapters of history, but only little of it can be shown to be historically wrong or misleading.

It can be shown to go back to Hittite times, to not at all mention Hittites and therefore leaves the guess open some of the large scale political implications like alliances with Egypt and Ethiopia could reflect other wars conflated with Trojan war, like battle of Kanesh.

"The sad part is the huge amounts of damage that the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism/Christianity/Islam) have wrought upon humanity for several thousand years."

Such as?

"It has done some good, but only equal to many other cultures that haven't done as much damage."

In other words, abolishing slavery over the Middle Ages was "not good"? Because it is certain, there are NOT many cultures that have done that.

"And it still remains a myth belief system. FAERY TALES!"

As said, you need to think over how you define the word "myth". As to "faery tales" they are usually novels. There is about one Greek myth that can be called a faery tale, namely Eros and Psyche. Novels don't claim historicity. In fact, Eros and Psyche is a backdrop in Apuleius' novel The Golden Ass, just as references to Beren and Luthien are a backdrop in Lord of the Rings.

Take away Eros and Psyche, which is novel writing, and take away Hesiod's Theogony, which is a bad guess about why the universe is here, unless it's a false and diabolic revelation, what remains of what is labelled as "Greek mythology" is usually historical.

II

Hans-Georg Lundahl
0:51Grand canyon ... you seem to overdo segregation of marine invertebrates a bit.

How many of them are unknown from other places so they are considered as "their layer" bc they come between this or that layer?

In a Flood scenario, how much sorting of marine invertebrates could occur by currents overflowing the place from different directions?

Ricahrd P'Brien
You obviously need to have your meds adjusted.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@Ricahrd P'Brien So where you live, psychiatry is used as a Commie "inquisition"?