Re: Something for the Fundies...

walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> >> walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> > aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> >> >> walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> >> > aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> walstib77 <buckeyedaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> > No, but what percentage of the current land mass was previously under
>> >> >> >> >> > water?
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Basically none. There was a super continent that had all the current land
>> >> >> >> >> mass combined in one continent.
>> >> >
>> >> > So you still think that "basically none" of the current land mass was
>> >> > previously under water?
>> >> >
>> >> > That's going back to how this started, and you cannot admit you were
>> >> > wrong. Almost ALL of the current land mas was under water.
>> >>
>> >> Almost all maybe pushing a bit - more like about 60%...
>> >
>> > Wrong; at one time, the earth was almost entirely covered by water.
>>
>> Well, you pointed out the Archaean Era. The earth wasn't almost entirely
>> covered by water then (only about 50% of the current land mass was under
>> water).
>
> Well, which is it? 50% or 60%?
>
> My understanding is that the oceans preceded the continents. Here,
> maybe this will help:

Fact #1: Oceans preceded continents
Fact #2: Land != continent


> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/archaean.html
>
> "As Earth cools, a crust forms over it. Mounded bacterial formations
> called stromatolites appear in shallow waters of the early oceans, and
> small land blocks collide with one another to produce the first
> continents."

Small land blocks collide...

>
> http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/cambrian.html
>
> "Most water vapor in the air has cooled and condensed to form a global
> ocean. Even most of the carbon dioxide is gone, having been chemically
> changed into limestone and deposited at the bottom of the ocean. The
> air is now mostly nitrogen, and the sky is filled with normal clouds
> and rain.
>
> "The lava also is mostly cooled to form the ocean floor. The interior
> of Earth is still quite hot and active, as shown by the many erupting
> volcanoes. The volcanoes form lots of small islands in long chains. The
> islands are the only land surface. The continents have not formed yet."

Now you are up to the Cambrian - skipping billions of years in between...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/paleoz.html

"Cambrian Period (543-490 mya)

Land, which now covers about a third of the planet..."


>> >> and it was all
>> >> "under water" after it was all "above water".
>> >
>> > How can the molten earth be "above water" when there was no water?
>>
>> There was always some water - at least in miniscule quantities.
>
> You continue splitting hairs; "above water" connotes a body of water,
> not a miniscule quantity.
>
> Considering that I am arguing *against* Genesis being definitive, these
> simple differences are not relevant to the larger point, and in
> actuality, aren't based in science anyway.

The account in Genesis does a rather poor job even as an allegory for what
evidence shows happened.

--
Aaron
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