Biblical Flood? Fish, squid, and shrimp fossils in the mountains of Lebanon and Peru

[welshdean]

They're homophones.

Homo-Phones?

 

[godless dave]

Ever heard of geology??
. They run courses at your local college

And they're supposed to cover it in high school, if not earlier.

 

[GlennB]

I'm in.

Me too.

Can I reserve Jesus feeding the 5,000 for my special interpretation? (it won't be complimentary about human nature).

 

[Correa Neto]

I believe you may be headed for Disappointment City, but you've got me thinking about the great service we here could do for future generations by collaborating on a JREF Revised Version of the Bible.

Well... Uhm...

It would be compilation of textbooks on Geology, Evolutionary Biology, Cosmology and History. Lots of the original parts would be missing...

 

[sackett]

They're homophones.

They are if you're talking in tongues.

 

[DOC]

If that's so, here's evidence that the top of the Himalayas was covered by the flood long enough to allow coral reefs to form! http://www.palmbeads.com.au/blogs/our-blog. Or it might be that, as proposed by modern geology, these mountains were created when India collided with mainland Asia, pushing the intervening sea bed thousands of metres upwards. Plate tectonics again.

From your link

"High in the Himalayas the early Tibetans found and treasured naturally occuring Turquoise. But also, rarer and intriguing, they occasionally came across fossilized Red Corals, shells and Ammonites.These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

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So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

 

[Lucian]

If that's so, here's evidence that the top of the Himalayas was covered by the flood long enough to allow coral reefs to form! http://www.palmbeads.com.au/blogs/our-blog. Or it might be that, as proposed by modern geology, these mountains were created when India collided with mainland Asia, pushing the intervening sea bed thousands of metres upwards. Plate tectonics again.

From your link

"High in the Himalayas the early Tibetans found and treasured naturally occuring Turquoise. But also, rarer and intriguing, they occasionally came across fossilized Red Corals, shells and Ammonites.These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

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So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

I think you might have missed an important point in Craig B's post, so I've embiggened and enreddened it for you.

 

[Dinwar]

I think you might have missed an important point in Craig B's post,

Forget that, DOC missed an important part of HIS OWN QUOTE:

These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

The called-out text invalidates everything DOC said after it.

I need someone to refresh my memory: What's the fallacy where you argue that because a part of X did Y, all of X did Y?

 

[Kid Eager]

From your link

"High in the Himalayas the early Tibetans found and treasured naturally occuring Turquoise. But also, rarer and intriguing, they occasionally came across fossilized Red Corals, shells and Ammonites.These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

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So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

One *could* make such a conclusion if one wanted to demonstrate a complete absence of rational thought processes. Obviously, using this logic, the earth used to be a watery ball, but it dried out....

Of course, for this to work, one would also have to ignore the final sentence of one's quoted piece of text.

 

[DOC]

I think you might have missed an important point in Craig B's post, so I've embiggened and enreddened it for you.

Yes, but the evidence shows that the area of those plates that created the Himalaya mountains was at one time under water. So if this area was under water at one time, as well other mountain ranges, one can conclude that there is a distinct possibility that the whole world was under water at one time.

 

[Dinwar]

So if this area was under water at one time, as well other mountain ranges, one can conclude that there is a distinct possibility that the whole world was under water at one time.

Nope.

Some areas have never been underwater. And there's never been a time when all the continents were underwater at the same time.

Of course, for this to work, one would also have to ignore the final sentence of one's quoted piece of text.

After ignoring several whole fields of science, this hardly seems difficult.

 

[Elind]

From your link

"High in the Himalayas the early Tibetans found and treasured naturally occuring Turquoise. But also, rarer and intriguing, they occasionally came across fossilized Red Corals, shells and Ammonites.These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

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So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

You can clearly conclude anything that comes to your little mind.

 

[Kid Eager]

Yes, but the evidence shows that the area of those plates that created the Himalaya mountains was at one time under water. So if this area was under water at one time, as well other mountain ranges, one can conclude that there is a distinct possibility that the whole world was under water at one time.

Just because one can do something doesn't mean one should. Your statement above is the geological equivalent of yelling YOLO! before drunkenly embracing a large cactus.


ETA - and it doesn't explain the land squids, either.

 

[DOC]

One *could* make such a conclusion if one wanted to demonstrate a complete absence of rational thought processes. Obviously, using this logic, the earth used to be a watery ball, but it dried out....

Well the bible does say God was above the surface of the waters before he created land.

But if you don't believe that, then I guess you don't think some of the water could have seeped into the inner parts of the earth.

Here is a link that says 70% of what comes out of volcanoes is water. It also points out places where the water from the worldwide flood might have come from. In the bible the waters did not just come from the rain but from the "fountains of the deep".

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c010.html

 

[joobz]

Yes, but the evidence shows that the area of those plates that created the Himalaya mountains was at one time under water. So if this area was under water at one time, as well other mountain ranges, one can conclude that there is a distinct possibility that the whole world was under water at one time.

Nope that is not possible because it disagrees with all other evidence we have of geology.

 

[Dinwar]

Here is a link that says 70% of what comes out of volcanoes is water.

Except that that's a lie. If there was that much water in magma it'd explode like a nuclear bomb. Water in lava creates steam, and any lessening of pressure would cause explosive decompression--ie, an explosion.

It also points out places where the water from the worldwide flood might have come from.

I don't give a rat's tail where it came from, I want to know where it WENT.

 

[smartcooky]

From your link

"High in the Himalayas the early Tibetans found and treasured naturally occuring Turquoise. But also, rarer and intriguing, they occasionally came across fossilized Red Corals, shells and Ammonites.These on the highest mountain ranges, linked back to when the Himalayas were under the Oceans. Before they began to be thrust up by tectonic plate movement, as the continents collided."

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So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

There are theories that state just that....

http://metro.co.uk/2008/12/31/early-earth-was-covered-in-water-274995/

...but it was 2.5 billion years ago.

Noah wasn't around then; nor was God, since man hadn't come along yet to dream him up as a convenient way of keeping the masses in line.

 

[joobz]

Well the bible does say God was above the surface of the waters before he created land.

The bible also says that God is the source of all evil AND the bible condones slavery. So, I am not sure why you still reference it as a reliable source of anything.

 

[fuelair]

or could it be evidence of plate tetonics?

Nah, for the fools and noodlers and a number of the "faithful" it's just their pet dog wha' dunnit!!!

 

[John Jones]

So if at one time the land that now makes up the world's highest mountain range was under water, one can make a conclusion that at one time the entire planet could have been under water.

No.

I know you've been told this before, but any time you start a sentence with "So..." what follows is complete bollocks.