Explanation of plate tectonics.

Jetboy2 · #1 10-12-2007, 03:13 PM

I would like the Christians to please explain the biblical interpretation of how fossils and rocks of oceanic origin end up several thousand feet above sea-level.

Quite frankly, I don't get it!

Thanks.

Borodog · #2 10-12-2007, 03:15 PM

Great Flood FTW LDO.

Silent A · #3 10-12-2007, 03:33 PM

Another variation I've heard is "a test of faith" either by god or the devil. Not sure if this was meant as a serious argument though.

I've also heard arguments to the effect of god created the universe/Earth as if it were billions of years old already. This argument is commonly used to explain how we can see galaxies that are billions of light-years away (god created the photons "in flight").

Jetboy2 · #4 10-12-2007, 03:36 PM

Thanks.

The "great flood" apparently lasted a few million years.

I guess Noah and his crew were floating around a bit?

Justin A · #5 10-12-2007, 03:39 PM

Are you directing this question at young earth creationists? There aren't all that many of them any more (relatively), and I don't know of any on this forum.

Borodog · #6 10-12-2007, 03:44 PM

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Thanks.

The "great flood" apparently lasted a few million years.

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6000 year old Earth FTW LDO.

Jetboy2 · #7 10-12-2007, 03:51 PM

Funny!

This forum is constantly debating jesus and god. And also, the theory of evolution.

Well, I suppose the theory of plate tectonics deserves a place in the discussion. The theory offers us a rational reason as to why there are oceanic fossils thousands of feet above sea-level. The christian thinking offers us absolutely no reasons as to why I can find an oceanic fossil 7000 feet above sea level.

jb2

Jetboy2 · #8 10-12-2007, 03:57 PM

I know....the xtians have a book.

They seem to forget, or not realize that there are libraries full of books.

jb2

CORed · #9 10-12-2007, 04:56 PM

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Thanks.

The "great flood" apparently lasted a few million years.

I guess Noah and his crew were floating around a bit?

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According to young earth creationists, the great flood deposited all of the sedimentary rocks that the grand canyon goes through, and then cut the canyon. It also sorted all the fossils so the most primitive organisms are at the bottom. Pretty amazing.

Jetboy2 · #10 10-12-2007, 05:25 PM

Well yeah,

How come some fossils and rock formations "of the same age" are at different elevations?

I suppose jesus and god sprinkled carbon here and there just to fool us?

La, la, la....let's give the advanced, logical monkeys something to think about. God said, we'll put some fossils at 7000' and some more at sea-level. See what the monkeys think of that.

Duh?