jhappel #fundie

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God could have accelerated nuclear decay during the flood as a mechanism for generating tectonics. He could have accelerated decay just from his creative process on forming the earth. Also the curse could have effected nuclear decay. The are ways of explaining the same data within a literal Genesis framework without resorting to ad hoc theories void of scriptural support.

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If what you say is true, then the Earth would have melted, the water would have vaporized, and eventually, Noah's ark would come to rest on the red-hot liquid "ground". He would have died either because of:
1. Burning to death in the heat, which would have probably been high enough to spontaneously ignite the ark
2. Exposure to massive amounts of radiation would have killed Noah and his family (water doesn't block gamma rays!)
3. Excessive heat may have been enough to decompose the water into hydrogen. This hydrogen would have risen above the water, cooled, and then ignited, resulting in a massive explosion engulfing the planet. Think of Fukushima on steroids. The hydrogen explosion there destroyed a building designed to contain the very same type of explosion; so how would a flimsy wooden boat withstand this? Especially when you consider that there would need to be trillions of tons of water in order to cover the earth. More water = more hydrogen = a bigger explosion.

“God could have accelerated nuclear decay during the flood as a mechanism for generating tectonics.”
Aside from the fact that the rate of decay doesn’t do shit for plate tectonics, every element ahs a different decay rate. So he’d have to be very selective about each one’s rate of decay so they all appeared in agreement.
Some elements decay into elements that also decay. So it’s less of a ‘turn the clock forward’ effect than a juggling act. He’d have to keep changing, say, Uranium 234 because that appears as a product of plutonium decay.

“He could have accelerated decay just from his creative process on forming the earth.”
Same juggling act, too complicated to just be a side effect.
And that much decay in a compressed amount of time would generate a lot more heat so every discovery of radioactive materials would be among burnt, melted, scorched materials.

“Also the curse could have effected nuclear decay.”
The curse? You mean the Fall?
Feel free to even describe the experiement you’d run in order to demonstrate that curses or god’s disappointment affects ALL THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN THE EARTH IN THE SAME WAY.

“The are ways of explaining”
I don’t think ‘explain’ is the term, here. Maybe more of a ‘justification.’ You’ve got the myth, and the data, how would the data have to be MAGICALLY different in order for the myth not to be entierly fucking impossible.

“the same data within a literal Genesis framework without resorting to ad hoc theories void of scriptural support.”
If you take Genesis literally, the Earth is a flat disk spread over teh Waters Below like a mud pie.

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