Posted on 06/30/2006 8:26:43 AM PDT by DannyTN
He fed them unicorns.
I think it's referring to petrified marine animals. Aparently when the cut open one of the "rock" samples that proved to be petrified wood, a marine fossil was found inside. I don't know what that would be. Could a small marine animal burrow into the wood? or find a crack or a knothole? Maybe it's just a shell.
2. How long does it take to petrify animals?
3. Was anything ever pertified without being buried in mineral soil?
I don't know. It depends on the conditions. Here are some articles on rapid petrification but they don't address animals.
Rapid Petrification of Wood: An Unexpected Confirmation of Creationist Research
Tarawera’s night of terror
Great flood? Sure....happens all the time. Load a ship with 2 animals of every kind (that you own?) or (in the world???)....yeh, that'll make you remember the story!! But clarify it....Two chickens and two goats??
And where would Noah's Ark be heading when the flood came??
The story is about as clear as documenting all the ships lost in the Caribbean so long ago. "Historical fiction."
There is the story. I didn't write it. There aren't many fables that follow all epistemological rules.
You may wish to believe that, but it is quite illogical. Most species of wood decompose fairly rapidly, say a hundred years at the very outside, but more likely much less, thus the preservation of grain patterns has to occur contemporaneously or it would not look like wood.
Petrified fence post bases are fairly common where fence lines cross streams in flat areas. They have been accepted in court in Nevada as boundary evidence.
Could be marine fossils. It was surprising to this kid to find the soil of some parts of the eatern US to be almost entirely marine fossils. Considering how slowly the land rises usually, it would be hard to even guess how long ago that was part of seabed.
You're still not explaining how the ark got buried.
*The Ark animals left but their kids went back. You know how kids are...
2. How long does it take to petrify animals?
*It is documented that at the San Diego Zoo an elephant went belly-up and became instantaneously petrified.when Barbra Streisand walked past. (Admittedly, that was unusual)
3. Was anything ever pertified without being buried in mineral soil?
*Yes. Lot's wife, who, by the way, is STILL more attractive than Barbra Streisand
How did those cute little koala bears get to and from Australia without getting eaten and without any Eucalyptus trees along the way for food? Or did the "flood" not reach Australia, North and South America, Antarctica? Not to mention anywhere in Asia, Europe, Africa, or anywhere else detectable.
That's just about the level that takes a doubling of the Earth's water to reach, assuming the mountain was as high 5000 years ago as now. Where did that much water come from? Where did it go?
Why bother? The usual sillies from the people whose thought balloons cannot be popped by any dose of reality whatsoever.
It's probable that instead of mature large animals that Noah took younger animals.
It's also possible that Noah might have only had one pair of "Cat" on board from which several large cats including Tigers and Lions descended.
And if you believe that "God brought the animals to Noah", instead of Noah scurrying around collecting animals. Then it's also possible that God caused the animals to go into some form of hibernation.
For a picture of lion cubs nursing at a mother sow, see the following. Lions and Pigs lie down together
The pillar of salt was still there during Roman times. It was a tourist attraction. It might still be there even now, but the location has been forgotten. It might have been in Persia, which doesn't narrow the search all that much.
In the photo, the formation is not really buried to any great extent, but it must be noted that there is considerable gravel, both fractured as well as round. The tectonic movements that were responsible for the recession of the water could likely still have been active enough to cause changes after the ark was abandoned.
Thanks a bunch. Ping me again when they find another Atlantis.
It's exceedingly common. You have to be doing some very funny mental gymnastics to be a YEC in the face of the evidence today. What you have observed is part of how they do it.
It's magic, magic!
Well, hell, why do you even need a boat then? Why not float them on a cloud and rain beer down on them?
Oh, wait, make that a beer volcano! Ramen!
*Famed Darwinist, and temper-tantrumist, Earl Weaver, mistaking the Ark for an intergalactic Home Plate, kicked sand all over it.
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