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Students Surprised to Find Noah's Ark Feasible
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 4-11-14 | Brian Thomas

Posted on 04/14/2014 8:43:16 AM PDT by fishtank

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To: BrandtMichaels
I’m not arguing against empirical science nor the 6 constants of the physical universe

There are only 6? Which ones are they, and on what basis do you submit that they really are constant?

41 posted on 04/15/2014 12:28:06 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: BrandtMichaels

I have listened to the presentations of a couple of flood geologists and, frankly, they are spouting nonsense. Structural geology with its ties to plate tectonics gives a better understanding of the folds, faults, plutons, volcanos, etc. It also supports the age analysis radiometric dating gives us. The proof is in the use of this understanding in finding and exploiting oil, coal, gas and mineral deposits. In other words, it works.


42 posted on 04/15/2014 1:38:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: tacticalogic

6 constants - maybe you should google it for yourself - ehh?

How many constants do you think there are? Have you not considered that the radio-isotope decays rates all differ depending upon which father/daughter elements are used? Does that still qualify them as constants even when they differ from each other and carbon dating too?

Are you unaware of recent scientific disclosures of carbon-14 found in artifacts and fossils claimed to be millions of years old yet the presence of carbon-14 completely contradicts those ages too?

Growing weary and leary of answering questions w/o any responses in kind to my queries as well as statements I think you long age folks have not pondered before.

Majority opinion does not mean anything has to be right. The greatest scientific findings often go against the herd mentality and cause major paradigm shifts. just sayin...


43 posted on 04/16/2014 6:35:39 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
6 constants - maybe you should google it for yourself - ehh?

I did. there are lots of links and references, and many more than 6.

I'm not going to play this game with you.

If you say there are only 6, you should be able to name them, and explain why those are constant and none of the other of the myriad of things described as "physical contants" in various reference books aren't really constant.

Have you not considered that the radio-isotope decays rates all differ depending upon which father/daughter elements are used?

Yes. And I've considered that the masses of the atoms of different elements are all different. It never occurred to me to try to twist that into an argument that it means that the masses of atoms of the same element can't be constant.

44 posted on 04/16/2014 7:35:38 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Just saying constant decay rate if truly constant should but do not give the same age for the fossils and artifacts. Maybe there are more than 6 but not including any age-dating methods - none of which agree we each other.


45 posted on 04/16/2014 7:52:21 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
Maybe there are more than 6

IOW, you don't really know what you're talking about, and are just making stuff up.

46 posted on 04/16/2014 8:35:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Putting words in my mouth are ya? I know much more than you’ll ever give me credit for. And I know you still have not answered the majority of my questions yet somehow think yours deserve priority.


47 posted on 04/16/2014 9:05:01 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
Putting words in my mouth are ya?

Nope. Your own words:

the 6 constants of the physical universe

And I know you still have not answered the majority of my questions yet somehow think yours deserve priority.

I don't know how to answer questions that appear to be based on an irrational premise.

48 posted on 04/16/2014 9:14:12 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Just so


49 posted on 04/16/2014 9:18:13 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: tacticalogic

2 minutes to search:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Six-Numbers-Forces-Universe/dp/0465036732

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/29/the-fundamental-constants-behind-our-universe/


50 posted on 04/16/2014 9:20:40 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t care if it’s busted or plausible, as long as Kari does the story.


51 posted on 04/16/2014 9:21:59 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: JimSEA
How long would it take to repopulate the world with all the animals starting with one breeding pair?

As long as it took the first time, probably? It's not as if this is a problem unique to Creationism. There will be one breeding pair at the head of any species under any explanation scientific or otherwise.

52 posted on 04/16/2014 9:30:46 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BrandtMichaels
The first one is a book about forces, not constants. Granted, it does enumerate six of them, but that doesn't really help much.

I found the second one when I searched earlier. It lists 26 constants. I found other referebces that listed even more constants.

I could not find any reference the reduces the universal physical constants to six.

53 posted on 04/16/2014 9:58:56 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: RegulatorCountry

The carnivores might get pretty hungry waiting for enough deer to repopulate for a supply of food. Also, a “favorable” mutation is not necessarily a “one of” event. The change may well take some time of interbreeding to “take”. When examined, none of the worldwide flood propositions hold up. The proof of just what happened is literally in the ground you walk on.


54 posted on 04/16/2014 10:13:21 AM PDT by JimSEA
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The carnivores might get pretty hungry waiting for enough deer to repopulate for a supply of food.

Seven pairs of clean animals.

Also, a “favorable” mutation is not necessarily a “one of” event.

Oh, so the duck-billed platypus arose in different locales independent of other populations of duck-billed platypus?

When examined, none of the worldwide flood propositions hold up.

On the contrary, over the course of my less-than-five-decades on this planet, geology has moved from near lock-step uniformitarian to increasingly catastrophic. There are evidences of massive flooding worldwide. There are legends among every people on earth of a massive flood. That is no accident.

The proof of just what happened is literally in the ground you walk on.

What happened? You say you have proof in the ground we walk on. Lay it out for me.

55 posted on 04/16/2014 10:21:35 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: tacticalogic

Yep, my bad. Sorry. What I get for trusting in some of the books / authors I’ve read.

I still have no regrets though from reading the Bible and trusting God’s Word.


56 posted on 04/16/2014 10:29:25 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
What I get for trusting in some of the books / authors I’ve read.

so it was the books/authors fault that you claimed they purported 6 constants, when, at least with the Science Blog, there were clearly 26 presented? That's a problem with interpretation/comprehension - and why would that suddenly go away with your Bible?

57 posted on 04/16/2014 10:55:41 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: RegulatorCountry

Clean animals?

Of course the mutation my only occur within the species but it may be a common mutation which becomes favorable as climate changes.

Plate tectonics and specifically structural geology explain much of what we see in faults, folds, earthquakes, volcanos, etc. More is discovered, proven, disproven and observed as time goes by as is the case with science. In the presentations of flood geology, much is made of the discovery of fossil bearing sedimentary rock at the top of the Himalayan Mountains. Geology and plate collisions between the Eurasian and Indian plates will lead one to the conclusion that it would be surprising is there were not such sedimentary rocks on the peaks.

I’ve taken the time and watched some videos on flood geology. You should look at something on current geological thought. The flood geology videos encourage believers to confront and ridicule contemporary scientific theories. At least you should understand in some detail what you reject.

Also, flood geology is full of straw men and other logical fallacies. The definitions and premises that flood geologists attribute to contemporary geology and evolutionary biology often are total misrepresentation.


58 posted on 04/16/2014 11:00:09 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

Just saying I have no regrets from reading and trusting the Bible. Conversely I often have regrets when putting my trust in man [and I include myself heavily in the latter category].

Why do you seem to want to make more out of this - esp. as a 3rd party?


59 posted on 04/16/2014 11:12:59 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: JimSEA
Clean animals?

Versus unclean. Edible. You know, Old Testament stuff. Kosher.

Regarding geology, I'll repeat what I stated before. Over the course of my less than fifty years, I've witnessed geology move from a uniformitarianism that verged upon orthodoxy, to an embrace of the very catastrophism that was once ridiculed, and that ridicule was in large part based upon a rejection of any remotely religious connotation. There is evidence of massive flooding worldwide. There are legends of massive flooding among every people on the face of the earth and that is no coincidence.

60 posted on 04/16/2014 1:29:41 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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