[in answer to the post about redwood trees growing in the Arctic circle]
Even before the Flood there probably wouldn’t have been enough sunlight to grow those trees at the poles. The answer to that is that the earth rolled, beginning at the end of the Flood.
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Tectonic shift, dumbass. And guess what? If the earth 'rolled', even by a degree, a lot of ecosystems would perish, and thus organisms die because, by fundie logic, they can't evolve.
Y'know, for all the Creationist arguments used to explain today's world (Global flood, earth moving, Hovind's Ice Sheet theory), I'm surprised anything's still alive.
silly atheists think about it for a bit
How would that rolling crust thing work, anyway? I'm pretty sure if that had caused the interaction between the North American and Farallon plates, there'd be rather more rubble than Rocky Mountains. (Not to mention that by the time the Farallon started subducting, North America was pretty much on top of it already anyway.)
TrueBeliever:
Well, if the Earth was built less like a cracked Cadbury Creme Egg and more like your weighted balloon, I'd think you had a point... but then again, do you have any idea how thin the oceans are in comparison to the crust, and furthermore how thin the crust is compared to the rest of the planet? I doubt it.
@Truebeliever: Uh, no. The Earth is not a balloon, it's a wet, bumpy rock. And if one side is more damp than the other, it's STILL just a damp rock.
...double fail points for listening to your not-a-geologist pastor. You might try asking a SCIENTIST about science. Till then, you're just making an argument from false authority and totally missing what theology is.
True believer, has it never occurred to you the weight would go right through the bottom of the balloon and ruin any attempt at this experiment(which I'm not sure would prove anything except a weight sinks in water, anyway)?
True Believer may be a Poe but his reasoning is every bit as stupid as that of Hovind and his followers.
You have to remember that most of these people never learned science past the sixth grade level and most of what they "know" comes from people just as ignorant as they are.
I don't think logic works quite that way.
That's like saying that since my car can drive, there must be thousands of small Asian children inside it, drinking gasoline and turning over the engine.
Theology =/= geology.
They rhyme, that's all.
I personally feel that a PhD in theology is the biggest waste of time, energy, and intellect, for in the end, it means bullshit.
The way I heard it, the earth rock and rolled.
TrueBeliever: A real PhD in theology? So his nonsense is often multisyllabic, right?
TrueBeliever sez...
OK...do you have ANY clue how stupid you are?
A "theologist" studies "theories?!?"
Do you have any idea how stupid that is?
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"Even before the Flood there probably wouldn’t have been enough sunlight to grow those trees at the poles."
The poles get the same amount of sunlight in a year as the equator or any other latitude. It is a little less intense because of the angle, and it's arranged differently (months of darkness followed by months of daylight), but it works out the same.
Your theology professor is obviously not qualified to make pronouncements on much outside his chosen field.
"The answer to that is that the earth rolled, beginning at the end of the Flood."
(*Sings *):
'You gotta roll with it...!'
[/Oasis] X3
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Okay, you know what, enough. Just...enough. Do these people realize the amount of devastation that something that would have caused mountains to spontaneously erupt, carve out the Grand Canyon in one swoop and ROLL THE FUCKING EARTH OFF IT'S AXIS would cause? Noah's Ark? Splinters. There is NO WAY that boat could have survived. God protected him? Why bother with the boat in the first place.
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