Re: Worldwide Flood


Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:12:25 -0700, Frank Sullivan wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > However, what do you say to a person who a) believe that the earth is
> > old, b) believes in evolution in some form, and c) believes that there
> > was a worldwide flood at some point in man's history?
>
> [snip]
>
> > Is there any evidence against a worldwide flood of this type, which
> > occurred on an old Earth at some point while humans were on it?
> > Anything that we would expect to see, but do not see? Anything that we
> > would not expect to see, but do see?
>
> One would need to see sedimentation layers world wide that could be dated
> to the very recent past. We don't see this.

I've thought about that, but honestly I don't know how much "play" they
would have with this. In other words, you would probably expect some
sort of worldwide sedimentation, however it wouldn't necessarily be
uniform across the globe. You might have one sort of sediment in on
place, and another somwhere else. Also, you would see thicker
sedimentation in valleys than you would on mountaintops. Someone who
believes in a catastrophic, worldwide flood, even on an old earth,
might also believe in catastrophic mountain-building too, which would
mix things up further. Then, you have the problem of not being able to
date pure sediment directly, like you can lava flows (for example). You
can bracket the sediment in between dated strata (such as lava flows),
but you might also include other layers of sediment in that bracket,
which are themselves unrelated to the flood, and so it gets even more
confusing. As you can tell, I've found the sediment "angle" to be sort
of problematic, although this guy's beliefs are so damned plastic that
I will probably run into similar problems with any other type of
explanation.

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