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Did the flood actually happened?
Yes, it was global 16%  16%  [ 9 ]
Yes, it was not global 18%  18%  [ 10 ]
Yes, and it killed all the dinasours 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
Yes, and the flood story falsifies evolution 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
No, it's just a rip-off of older mythology 18%  18%  [ 10 ]
Yes, and it's a rip-off of older mythology 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
No, the world is younger than that 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
No, the world is older than that 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
No, it was something else 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The rainbow is the irrefutable proof that a flood happened 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
I don't care 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
I do care 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
What's the question again? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
All of the above 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
See the results 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
Total votes : 56

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02 Jul 2010, 2:13 am

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I bet you'd be quick to assert that you have a real, meaningful opinion on that subject, but as far as I can tell the issue of global warming is just as intractable as quantum mechanics or string theory to a layman.


Here you go once again using baseless assumptions with which you then choose to throw insults. From memory I think this is the only reference I have made to climate change on this site (They are growing up in a world that is ruled by natural laws which is presently undergoing massive changes caused in no small part by human activity)

So why have I ignored this subject???? Because I know sweet f**k all on the subject. I do believe that the climate is changing, and the weight of scientific opinion would suggest that it is anthropomorphic, therefore it would be wise to hedge our bets and clean up our act just in case they are right. So in this instance I happily admit that I am deferring to the weight of scientific opinion without a great deal of knowledge on the subject. Is such deference luck, of course it bloody well isnt.


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02 Jul 2010, 11:25 pm

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And evolution isn't a very complex subject? How about climate change? I bet you'd be quick to assert that you have a real, meaningful opinion on that subject, but as far as I can tell the issue of global warming is just as intractable as quantum mechanics or string theory to a layman.

Now that you mentioned global warming, I remember reading a religious magazine, which is creationist, and there was a guy who wrote an article saying something like this: "How come everybody accepts Evolution and there is still controversy for Global Warming?" the guy argued that global warming was an easier task to prove than evolution.


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03 Jul 2010, 12:01 am

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About five thousand years ago, the volcano Thera erupted explosively, sending a tidal wave through the Mediterranean basin and destroying the Minoan civilization, the most-organized protonation in the region at the time. This event is credited as the origin of both the Atlantis myth and the Great Flood legend which recurs in the folklore of so many Mediterranean peoples.

A little over a thousand years earlier, a natural dam on the Tigris apparently crumbled during an earthquake, sending a flood through the Tigris-Euphrates river valley. This could also have been the origin of the tale of the Biblical flood.

However, physics, geology, hydrology, and oceanography all combine to tell us that there was never a "worldwide flood". There have been no major extinction events for tens of millions of years. Sorry, True Believers - maybe you need to take the lesson about holding faith in the face of those who jeer at you, rather than trying to take all the stories literally...


I think the global flood stories were exaggerations of these historical events and passed on as folklore with casual changes and embellishments over the hundreds of years. In that time, the "World" was the Mediterranean region so any major event that occurred effected the entire "World" to people back then.


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04 Jul 2010, 6:49 pm

I believe it happened.

That aside, creation.com is a stupid website, I figured that out at 15 years old and threw the magazines in the garbage. YEC's never cease to amaze me with their ignorance of science.