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Scientists Prove Limestone Can Form Quickly
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 6-7-18 | Tim Clarey, PhD

Posted on 06/08/2018 8:08:27 AM PDT by fishtank

Scientists Prove Limestone Can Form Quickly

BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. * | THURSDAY, JUNE 07, 2018

Many environmentalists are concerned with the anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. Research projects are being funded across the globe to find ways to sequester the “extra” CO2 produced by these processes in an effort to save our planet.

These results show that the primary minerals that compose limestone can rapidly form—easily within the timeframe of the global Flood in Genesis.

One of these projects was discussed recently in an article by Valeria Perasso of the BBC News Service.1 She detailed the efforts of a company called CarbFix, a consortium consisting of Reykjavik Energy, the French Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Iceland and Columbia University.

(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...


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KEYWORDS: co2; creation; envirowieinies; flood; gorebullwarming; hoax; limestone
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To: pepsi_junkie

Was He incompetent in telling Moses how much time it took Him? As you even stated, God has a better understanding of time than even we do. If He meant millions of years, He would have told Moses as such.

Your idea makes it seem like we are capable of something God is not capable of doing. I for one believe God could tell you exactly what you were doing and thinking, 5 weeks ago at 1:34pm... without a clock. He is going to judge us one day, for all our deeds.


21 posted on 06/08/2018 10:37:04 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: fishtank

Isn’t that what’s on the inside of every tea pit? So what kind of discovery is this.


22 posted on 06/08/2018 10:40:53 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: Just mythoughts

I would encourage you to read the rest of 2 Peter 3. Perhaps you will see why you are misusing that verse. God is not some old foolish man that has an issue counting his days apart.... ironically, it is exactly the opposite.


23 posted on 06/08/2018 10:42:53 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: dirtboy

It’s going to take more than you saying that.

I see exactly the opposite. Such as the lack of erosion between layers.


24 posted on 06/08/2018 10:52:09 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: pepsi_junkie
I don't really understand the desire of some to say the earth is young.

Scientific knowledge grounded in what is true is wisdom given by God. In my observation of the earth, I don't see millions of years of aging but rather thousands. I'm not challenged in my faith when claims are made to the contrary, but in my pursuit of what is true the evidence to me just isn't there.
25 posted on 06/08/2018 10:56:45 AM PDT by RushingWater
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To: Buttons12

Sparkletts?


26 posted on 06/08/2018 11:13:10 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“There is nothing in the bible that says how long a ‘day’ for god is, since he’s timeless and the 24 hour day is a human invention based on rotation of a planet around a sun, both of which didn’t even exist before God made them. For all we know a ‘day’ in God’s immortal terms is 10 trillion years as we understand time.”

A 24-hour day is not based on the earth going around the sun. That is how a year is defined. A day is defined by the earth’s rotation on its axis.

The Genesis creation story describes a seven day period of God’s creation and rest (on the seventh day). Genesis, like the book of John, begins with “In the beginning...”. This is an indication that time itself had a beginning. Jesus specifically identified this time, in which Adam and Eve were created / formed as “the beginning”.

Matthew 19:8
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.”

We can easily trace and count the unbroken genealogies of people in the Bible starting with Adam along with events which took place at known times historically to give us a fairly precise measure of time since the “beginning”. And that time frame is approximately 6000 years.

There are a lot of people who will do mental backflips to accommodate the Bible to the assumptions of modern science. And yes, it is possible to misread the Bible and foolishly ignore scientific observation. Asserting the earth is flat and does not move around the sun because the Bible talks about the four corners of the earth and that the earth can not be moved is an example of this.

On the other hand, modern science stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the Biblical record. Science will take other historical records into account, and for more recent events in history will consider the Bible. But for what science considers pre-history it is considered unscientific to consider the claims of the Bible. Endless speculations are ok, just not the Bible.


27 posted on 06/08/2018 11:26:52 AM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: hopespringseternal
t’s going to take more than you saying that. I see exactly the opposite. Such as the lack of erosion between layers.

Look up the term unconformity and get back to me.

28 posted on 06/08/2018 11:43:09 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: fishtank

Creation happened “in the beginning”. There is no way to know how long ago that happened. God also created all the races, so there were other humans on the Earth when he created THE Adam, and Eve. They were special circumstance from which the Savior would be brought into the Earth through a line of ancestors stretching from Adam and Eve, to Jesus Christ. How else can you explain the land of Nod where Cain was banished to?


29 posted on 06/08/2018 11:46:28 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Not saying we are clones, but if limited man can discover and produce clones, how much faith does it take to believe that the Creator of EVERYTHING, including physics, all matter, and life, can create plant life, animals, and people, in as short as six days? How is it possible? How do I know; I’m not God. But one thing’s for sure, assuming that we are NOT evolved from animals, there’s no way an embryo (implanted in whose womb?), can be born (of whom?), and grow from a baby into a functioning adult, without another adult present to feed, clothe, and nurture it. Therefore, God had to have created the first human beings, as fully formed and functioning ADULTS. The only other way to explain it, is by evolution, which is never Scriptural. And even if it were, into whose womb were the first mammals, those closest to our way of growing, and our environmental needs, etc., implanted, and by whom? The earth MAY have been created over time, as the Bible says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”, so that there could have been a long period between that being done, and bringing forth life, except that it describes the water, land, moon and stars being brought forth on certain days, and there is nothing to indicate that the first 4 days, was any different a time period, than the next 2 days, when life forms were created. If a person acknowledges God as Creator, there’s really no way to argue that the creation is anything other than what the Bible describes it to be. So that either God is God, or He is NOT. That settles it for me. God can do ANYTHING. I have seen a very small, yet profound creative miracle. I watched a man’s short leg, grow out to match the normal leg. I was there, in person, and saw this happen right in front of me. I saw a blur appear between the end of his foot, and the lower part of his leg, as it grew out to be even with the other leg. This was many years ago, before anything but basic computers were invented, and decades before any special effects had been invented. It was real, and unexplainable, other than God doing the impossible. “For with God, nothing shall be impossible”. Luke 1:37


30 posted on 06/08/2018 11:57:57 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Secret Agent Man

So, then, God thinks we’re too stupid to understand the concept of years? What -— do we wake up every morning, like a goose, to a new world?


31 posted on 06/08/2018 12:01:56 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: dirtboy

It only takes the simplest study of stratigraphy to demonstrate the Flood is not represented in Geology in any manner.


Not at all. See Mt. St. Helens, and creationism.


32 posted on 06/08/2018 12:04:03 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative
Not at all. See Mt. St. Helens, and creationism.

Wow. Comparing the deposition in a single localized volcanic eruption to the sweep of documented stratigraphy. Perhaps you'd like to try and use your theories to explain angular unconformities in sedementary rock.

33 posted on 06/08/2018 12:08:17 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Just mythoughts; Nifster; ShadowAce; pepsi_junkie; VaeVictis; unlearner; fishtank; RushingWater
Just mythoughts quoting 2 Peter 3:8: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

But Peter's words come originally from Psalm 90:4

Note the Psalm does not make a strict equation of 1 Day = 1,000 years, but rather makes the time period indefinite -- 1,000 years might be a full day for God or just a four hour "watch in the night".
So God's experience of time is clearly different than ours, and cannot be strictly equated.

Nifster: "My larger concern is the idea that carbon dating has validity in the long scale."

Note the ending of verse 4:

Along with the existence of Deep Time, this is another key assumption of modern science which the Bible can be said to confirm: physical processes we see today -- i.e., radiometric decay -- operated the same in the past.

Carbon dating is only one of dozens of different methods for determining ancient materials' ages.
Carbon dating covers periods back to about 60,000 years ago, but other radiometric dating methods go back billions of years.
One key question is whether radioactive decay worked the same in Deep Time as today, and the Bible seems to tell us, yes it did.

Another key scientific discovery was also predicted many times in the Bible when, for example:

I take this to mean that thousands of years before Friedman & Hubble, etc., the Bible tells us God's universe expands.
34 posted on 06/08/2018 12:13:49 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: Flaming Conservative
Start out with this one:

Please explain how a single flood could deposit the lower layers in different depositional environments, fold the layers, erode into those folds, and then deposit on top of the erosional surface. BTW, there is a person in that photo to give a sense of scale here.

35 posted on 06/08/2018 12:18:08 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: BroJoeK; Just mythoughts; Nifster; ShadowAce; pepsi_junkie; unlearner; fishtank; RushingWater

Oh my word.... I honestly am unsure if you are twisting the word intentionally, or are just missing things...

The end of verse 4 does NOT say as you claim. In fact, 2 Peter 3 is a condemnation for all of you promoting man’s ideas over the word of God.

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. - 2 Peter 3:3-5

You quoted just what the scoffers at the end will say as part of your proof.


36 posted on 06/08/2018 12:32:06 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: dirtboy

Your picture shows mud layers laid rapidly and in a plastic state were pushed up and bent. If you think in terms of long periods of time for each layer, then no bending could occur. It is easier to see that massive continuous flooding would lay down layer by layer. The fossil record is a record of sudden death not of a slow evolution. A young earth and a global flood explains the sedimentary and fossil record.


37 posted on 06/08/2018 12:55:10 PM PDT by UpInArms (without failure there's no success only slavery)
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To: VaeVictis
I would encourage you to read the rest of 2 Peter 3. Perhaps you will see why you are misusing that verse. God is not some old foolish man that has an issue counting his days apart.... ironically, it is exactly the opposite.

I would encourage you to check out my post number 16. I cut and pasted the whole chapter of II Peter 3. I did not misuse any verse. Peter was quite clear in how God marks time.

38 posted on 06/08/2018 12:57:27 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: BroJoeK
2 Peter 3:8: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

But Peter's words come originally from Psalm 90:4 "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." Note the Psalm does not make a strict equation of 1 Day = 1,000 years, but rather makes the time period indefinite -- 1,000 years might be a full day for God or just a four hour "watch in the night". So God's experience of time is clearly different than ours, and cannot be strictly equated.

We each get to account for what we individually claim the Scripture says and means. Apparently God did not see fit for Peter to add your particular disclaimer on how He marks time.

39 posted on 06/08/2018 1:03:28 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: UpInArms

Those layers were deposited, lithified and then pushed up by continental collision. They did not have to be in a ‘plastic’ state prior to the folding - they were compressed and heated by the collision. And then eroded, and a sandstone deposited on top of the unconformity. No way a single geological event such as a flood can do all of that.


40 posted on 06/08/2018 1:06:38 PM PDT by dirtboy
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