Posted on 03/21/2009 1:02:49 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The Permian Extinction: Good Science, Bad Assumptions
by Brian Thomas, M.S.*
Ninety percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial creatures perished suddenly in an event variously called the Permian extinction, the Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction, or the Great Dying. The calamity’s cause, referred to as the K-T event, remains unknown, even though asteroid impact has been in vogue.
At least, this is the account that has been repeated for several decades. Now, a recently-published study is showing that evidence of the Permian extinction is not limited to a single rock stratum.1 The whole story must be rewritten...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
Ping!
I’m gonna go with asteroid on this one. Second choice is global warming.
==I’m gonna go with asteroid on this one. Second choice is global warming.
Why not a global flood?
1. Asteroid.
2. Global Warming.
3. Great Flood.
4. Lack of Regulation.
They had it right the first time. The k-t event was the cretaceous-tertiary and is a different extention event than the Permiam-Triassic. The k-t was 65ma and ended the reign of the dinos.
Oh, after reading the source it is apparent why they don’t distinguish between events that occurred almost 200ma apart.
Oh, after reading the source it is apparent why they don’t distinguish between events that occurred almost 200ma apart.
"Ninety percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial creatures perished suddenly"
Marine creatures would have survived, and land critters would have died.
This killed plenty of both, indeed even more marine creatures than land creatures died. This is opposite of what anyone who thinks it through would expect from a flood.
Native global flood stories are documented as history or legend in almost every region on earth. Old world missionaries reported their amazement at finding remote tribes already possessing legends with tremendous similarities to the Bible’s accounts of the worldwide flood. H.S. Bellamy in Moons, Myths and Men estimates that altogether there are over 500 Flood legends worldwide. Ancient civilizations such as (China, Babylonia, Wales, Russia, India, America, Hawaii, Scandinavia, Sumatra, Peru, and Polynesia) all have their own versions of a giant flood.
For more, plus very interesting table (a little further down), see:
http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html
So does New Orleans.
The Flood was so violent and so much more massive than most conceive of, let alone accept, that the sudden burial of sea creatures beneath muddy waves of gargantuan proportions is nearly impossible to understand unless one understands the dynamics of the Flood.
Isn’t the Chinese pictograph for “flood” a boat (or vessel) plus the symbol for eight people (literally “mouths”)?
Were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed in a flood?
I pity one who worships an all powerful God, while blandly insisting that he can only function in one narrowly defined way...
Dunno. I only know a few characters.
Let me ping a native speaker...
==So does New Orleans
Not just flood stories, but flood stories that closely match the biblical flood story, complete with warning from God, ark, global flood, etc.
Oh, come on now! New Orleans was warned by NOAA!
That's so true - don't mess with hydraulics! Drive a Prius through 3 - 4" of fast moving water and see what happens...
I have no idea. If you have a link for that, it would be most appreciated!
You get it in the shorts?
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