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Explosive volcanoes ended Earth's time as a snowball: Huge eruptions broke our planet's deep freeze
MailOnline ^ | 01/18/2016 | Ryan O'Hare for

Posted on 01/18/2016 9:00:01 PM PST by BenLurkin

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...spewed carbon dioxide..... rich in calcium, magnesium and phosphorus...
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21 posted on 01/19/2016 12:52:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Show me anything modern that is fossilized. When we blow ourselves up and the next advanced civilization rises there will be a great amount of evidence of a previous civilization.


23 posted on 01/19/2016 1:00:29 AM PST by Eaker (The Bates Motel. Ain't nuthin' like it.)
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To: Fungi
It is based upon a “religious” faith, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise.

Say what?!?! What does that even mean?

24 posted on 01/19/2016 2:49:59 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: UCANSEE2; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv

UCANSEE2: “The existence of tropical forests under the miles of ice sheets might mean that those areas were part of the ‘tropics’ along the equator and Canada/North America might have been the ‘south pole’.”

Remember, the time frame for “snow ball Earth” was hundreds of millions of years BEFORE there were any forests, or other complex life of any kind.
We’re talking about Stromatilites and Algae under all that ice, not forests or critters.


25 posted on 01/19/2016 3:00:56 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Fungi; BenLurkin

Fungi: “Notice the basis for these time frames is never given, nor can be.
It is based upon a ‘religious faith’, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise. “

Total rubbish, there’s no “Religious faith” in natural-science, only the assumption that natural processes can have scientifically confirmable natural explanations.
In this particular example, it’s also assumed that natural processes operated the same in the deep past as they do today, so radioactive decay rates can tell us ages of various geological formations.
That’s where the estimates of “snow ball Earth” time periods come from.

Are such assumptions valid?
Well, they certainly seem to be, as more & more data from different sciences reconfirms, or falsifies, earlier conclusions.

Nothing “Religious faith” about it.


26 posted on 01/19/2016 3:54:53 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Alter Kaker

I’ve seen no evidence for God laughing at anything


27 posted on 01/19/2016 4:20:45 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: BroJoeK
Wow. Going back and rereading , today, the source article, I can see that you are correct. I got way off path likely because I focused on a 'concept' in my mind, and ignored the article.

My bad.

Now that there are more posts on the thread, I see others have some interesting theories, or arguments against theories. so it is becoming some interesting reading.

Thanks for straightening me out.

28 posted on 01/19/2016 7:52:35 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Eaker
When we blow ourselves up and the next advanced civilization rises there will be a great amount of evidence of a previous civilization.

i suppose that depends on your timeframe, but i tend to disagree. what evidence are you referring to? practically everything we have built would be gone in a few hundred years without upkeep. i think there will be very little residual evidence that we were ever here.. except maybe cigarette butts.
29 posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:57 AM PST by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: UCANSEE2

;-)


30 posted on 01/19/2016 12:23:51 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: SierraWasp; Alter Kaker

SierraWasp quoting King James, 1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

That term, here translated, “naural man,” is in other translations more appropriately rendered as, “non-spiritual” or “non-Christian”.
That’s because the term “Natural man” carries a suggestion of natural-science, which was certainly never the apostle Paul’s intention.
It might also suggest someone in a “state of nature” whom we could well expect to be highly spiritual.

So, Paul is talking about non-Christian, non-spiritual people who have no experience of the Holy Spirit, regardless of their other occupations or avocations.
Sure, they could be some of today’s scientists, but also anybody else matching the description.


31 posted on 01/19/2016 12:51:16 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: raybbr; BroJoeK

Ever heard of Lyell and uniformatarianism?


32 posted on 01/19/2016 1:44:59 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

Nope.


33 posted on 01/19/2016 1:47:44 PM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: BenLurkin
How the earth was Made showing what happened when the earth became "snowball earth".
34 posted on 01/20/2016 6:41:45 AM PST by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR.)
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additional:

Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash
By Lucas Joel
Apr. 2, 2019 , 10:50 AM
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/ancient-snowball-earth-thawed-out-flash


35 posted on 04/06/2019 8:40:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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