While the earth was under water for a full year, it did not stop rotating which scraped off all the vegetation. This is why we have oil and coal as the plant and animal matter was pulled down into the earth to compost. We have found silver thimbles, spoons, etc that were hundreds of feet down in the coal deposits and are in the Smithsonian.
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Wrong, wrong, WRONG! If the earth stopped rotating the damage caused to the crust would have been unimaginable. Also if the earth was under water for a year, then ALL plant life would have become extinct, CO2 levels would have gone through the roof as CO2 was released from decomposition, O2 levels would have plummeted due to increased biological oxygen demand increasing as cyanobacteria died due to inability to photosynthesize. This would have not only rendered all biological life extinct but would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect similar to on Venus!
That may just be the stupidest thing one of you've yet said about your flood myth. The rotation of the planet stripped all vegetation from the earth? Just being under water wouldn't do that. Hell, when they drained the local dam the trees were still there and rooted to the ground even after being totally submerged for some 40+ years. How fucking fast was the planet spinning and how did your old naval zookeeper keep his ark from being torn apart (or flung into orbit)? If it could uproot all plant life on the planet then just imagine what it would do to a free floating boat.
And then there's the issue of the fresh olive branch that was supposed to be his sign that the waters were receding. What, did one single tree survive? And where did all the new plant life come from? I don't recall him gathering seeds and spores from every flower, tree, bush, grass, fern, mushroom and mold. God apparently couldn't just poof the animals back into existence when he was done so that cop-out is already off the board. And of course there's the question of what all those herbivorous animals were supposed to eat. You should have quit picking at this scab. You already had the mystery of what the carnivores ate. Now you've only made things worse for yourself.
(Yes, I know mushrooms and molds aren't technically plants. Given that this is the book that's authors didn't even know birds from bats, however, I very much doubt that they knew this.)
" We have found silver thimbles, spoons, etc that were hundreds of feet down in the coal deposits and are in the Smithsonian."
Right next to the Paluxy footprints.
...wait. umm.
I think I understand what he's trying to tell us. Which is so crazy I'm amazed I got it while sober.
"While the earth was under water for a full year, it did not stop rotating which scraped off all the vegetation."
seems to imply he thinks the world's oceans don't spin with the rest of the planet. So when it was underwater the water coursing over what was dry land at hundreds of miles per hour ripped up all the plant matter...
Like I said, I'm amazed I got this while sober. the Idea that water doesn't spin with the rest of the planet is retarded. But it's a necessary premise for his 'scraped off all the vegetation' bollocks.
@Darkevilme
"...wait. umm.
I think I understand what he's trying to tell us. Which is so crazy I'm amazed I got it while sober".
Can you tell us how this non-rotating water pulled everything down into the earth? Or do you have to start drinking for that?
This OP is just throwing out random words. Any semblance of sense is a coincidence.
The Earth hasn't been under water for about a billion years or so. The Earth rotating is the natural state; things continuing as usual does not scrape off vegetation.
How was it pulled down into the Earth, if all was covered with water for a year? It would have dissolve most of the soil, making the water a brownish sludge.
Citation for silver objects, found in coal deposits, being stored in the Smithsonian, please.
We have found silver thimbles, spoons, etc that were hundreds of feet down in the coal deposits and are in the Smithsonian.
You seem to be confusing the Smithsonian with the warehouse in the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
@Darkevilme
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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