LOL except for, you know, carbon dating. But I'll let him have this one, just this one time.
Ha ha. Yes, let him have it. There is no literal time stamp.
Don't get into the carbon dating discussion with a creationist. Don't ask questions you don't want to hear the monologue to.
To summarize it though so you guys don't have to go through the whole thing...
Noah's flood. Lots more water than normal on top of fossils. Water is heavy. Carbon would be compressed a lot more than normal. Carbon dating is inaccurate. World is couple thousand years old.
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That's pretty cool and great for the province. Alberta continues to keep delivering on things like this.
I think the biggest surprise is that there is a Creationist museum there. It would actually be interesting to see what they have there. When I was a kid, we had neighbours that were creationists. I pointed out that the limestone rocks in their house had fossils in them and the father got kind of mad and told me that fossils were put there by the devil to try and lure people away from God.
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Yeesh, why can't we just focus on the fossil find instead of the fact the guy is a creationist? I don't like creationists as much as the next guy, but come on.
Is washed out by... actually, never mind. I'm not going to quote the above. Why bring more attention to something I deem dumber than the flat earth society?
I would like to know what that evolutionary puzzle is though.
The articles go into that a touch. The fossils are from a time just after the dinosaurs died off, giving insight into a period not much is known about. Obviously after a mass extinction the rremaining species have new opportunities they didn't have before and can thrive and evolve and change the direction of the biosphere.
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Ha ha. Yes, let him have it. There is no literal time stamp.
Don't get into the carbon dating discussion with a creationist. Don't ask questions you don't want to hear the monologue to.
To summarize it though so you guys don't have to go through the whole thing...
Noah's flood. Lots more water than normal on top of fossils. Water is heavy. Carbon would be compressed a lot more than normal. Carbon dating is inaccurate. World is couple thousand years old.
Mathematically speaking, how much water would you get if it rained for 40 days/nights without pause and how much would it weigh?
I think the biggest surprise is that there is a Creationist museum there.
I had no idea either. Gee, my poor mother, having to travel all the way to the one in the US, to see that 'great great' place. Someone needs to call the Duggars too.
It would be really difficult to figure out the weight of the water. You would have to consider that for the rain to keep coming, water would need to keep evaporating, form new clouds, and then repeat. There couldn't just be rain without a source.
Unless the answer is simply that it was a miracle and God provided new water and then removed it from the water cycle after the flooding. But that comes down to a matter of faith and not science, therefore making any math calculations moot and unnecessary.
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Isn't the theory that if there was only a supercontinent at the time of the flood, that it wasn't just rain but a shift in the crust which allowed the water level to rise, or something along those lines?
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Isn't the theory that if there was only a supercontinent at the time of the flood, that it wasn't just rain but a shift in the crust which allowed the water level to rise, or something along those lines?
Some people might claim that is the theory.
Of course, aside from not knowing anything about plate tectonics, those same people don't know what the word "Theory" means.
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Some people might claim that is the theory.
Of course, aside from not knowing anything about plate tectonics, those same people don't know what the word "Theory" means.
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