Posted on 09/05/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT by Central Scrutiniser
It's a STORY....Kinda like what moms gonna do if she catches you swearing again.
Have you ever heard of dried eucalyptus leaves? I have an arrangement of it on my sunporch. Nope the dead animals would just be getting "aged" and ripe, you know how the Chinese man in "Shogun" hung a duck upside down on a tree limb to age for several days so that it would be nice and tender? Lions and tigers would probably get hungry enough to eat some nice tender drowned wombat meat. The three-toed sloth, if it was even in its present form at that time, could have been deposited by an eagle perhaps on a huge pile of driftwood where it later crawled onto the first trees that started to grow. The eagles thought they had caught themselves a couple of fat sloths, but "accidentally" dropped them close to the earth on the pile of driftwood, perhaps.
Fossil records? Man isn't all that smart actually, as wise as he is generally in his own eyes. Things were washed so far and wide and buried so deep in the violent turbulence of the flood that things aren't as cut and dried as scientists so-called are frustrated. The flood was not just a gentle downpour, but a violent breaking out of all the waterspounts and springs under the earth with a force of great magnitude.
Good for you. Really! Aren't the RX-3s in H Production? It's been a long time.
Ah well if "an eagle might have done it" is one of the reasonable explanations for how this all worked, I think you can pretty much admit you're just making stuff up now.
As someone with a bit of experience in animal husbandry, feeding and caring for all the animals while they rode this ark has been the point I've always pondered, and never been successful at. It's not as easy as stacked cages and a few vases of leaves borrowed from Twinkie's sunporch :~)
"There are many here at FR I wish would fall off the end of the earth."
Bump
"the vegetarian animals would have eaten the vegetable contents from the stomachs of the many drowned animals as animals still do to this day."
Name one herbivore that eats the vegetable matter from carcasses. Just one will do. BTW, animals are not "vegetarians." They are herbivores. Vegetarianism is an abberant behavior only among human beings. All other omnivores eat both meat and plant foods.
Koalas won't eat dried eucalyptus leaves. It's a real problem for zoos.
As for the rest of your post...well, never mind.
shine on.. you crazy.. diamond. :-)
This topic is important to many of us because we believe that modern conservatism, as a reality-based political position, should be stongly on the side of science.
As Barry Goldwater put it:
I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who - unafraid and undaunted - pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology.
We feel this issue is critical to future national compeditiveness, and we object to anti-science notions becoming associated with conservative politics.
Furthermore, many of us believe that creationism/intelligent design is not only bad science, but bad theology as well.
100% correct. So why is he claiming that science has done exactly that?
it's up to people who say it existed to prove it did.
To whom? Why?
You have got to be kidding! Eating stomach contents of year-old drowned critters?
Can you cite some evidence of any kind for this?
It has been a year since Katrina; anything laying around down there in the areas not yet cleaned up that you'd want to eat?
rotten placemarker
Was there a trail of dried eucalyptus from Ararat to Oz? There isn't even a continuous land track over that projected route.
Okay, I'll bite. What are those things in the picture?
Very seriously, it comes down to whether I believe the scriptures are the inspired Word of God. Since I do, I accept that when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, their clothing "waxed not old and did not wear out" for the 40 years they were in the wilderness, and that the Lord also fed them and gave them water from a rock. Believing this, it is not so much of a stretch for me to understand that the Lord was perfectly able to render the animals on the ark in a state of either partial suspended animation or hibernation for many days as well. No poop, no problems.
A very hungry one. Of course, vegetable matter and seeds were plentiful and didn't wash off the earth altogether. Oh, and I do like to name animals, so I would call him "Herb".
Dehydrated vegetable matter must be soaked in water to get hydrated again.
However, the idea that the Lord was perfectly able to put the animals in a state of suspended animation or hibernation so food wouldn't have been a problem isn't out of the question. He was able to keep the Israelite's clothing from wearing out in the wilderness for 40 yrs.
As for the rest of my post, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths, Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear God and depart from evil, It shall be health unto thy navel and marrow unto thy bones."
Hold on, hold on...I understand. Fine, fine. I get the picture...from you. I had rather been hoping to hear from CS, however.
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