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The surprising contemporary relevance of the Noah flood story : Comments

By Keith Mascord, published 8/6/2012

If the Bible is 'inerrant' it is in a sophisticated way where you have to read between the lines and within context.

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Regarding the big flood; I found what looked like sea shells in the desert in central Australia.
Posted by nohj, Friday, 8 June 2012 9:16:06 AM
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Yes nohj, you'll probably find dinosaur and icthyosaur skeletons as well...
Posted by Bugsy, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:03:41 AM
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“Regarding the big flood; I found what looked like sea shells in the desert in central Australia.’ - Just goes to demonstrate the power of evaporation in Central Australia over the past five or six thousand years.
Posted by colinsett, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:14:56 AM
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Nohj wrote:

>>Regarding the big flood; I found what looked like sea shells in the desert in central Australia.>>

Because of the operation of plate tectonics* the whole continent of Australia or parts of it would be bobbing up and down relative to contemporary sea levels. I do not know much about the geological history of Australia but it is possible that parts of central Australia were once underwater.

Table Mountain near Cape Town in South Africa is around a thousand metres high. It started life under the sea. In a few tens of millions of years it will have eroded away. Nothing is forever, not even mountains. Over geological time – tens to hundreds of millions of years – landscapes are surprisingly variable.

*See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:49:37 AM
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Dear Keith,
There’s plenty of geological evidence for Noah’s flood.

I don’t think you’ve looked into the issue deep enough (sorry for the pun).

I appreciate your describing creationists as consistent. They have a consistent and straight forward approach to the Bible. But you need to read a bit more of what they’re saying. Many of your questions listed in your dot points have been tackled and given solid answers, and have so for decades. The landmark book on flood geology that changed a lot of people’s thinking was Whitcomb and Morris’ ‘The Genesis Flood.’ That book goes back to the 1960s, and a lot of further insight has been gained since then.

Evidence for the flood is everywhere, if you know what you’re looking for. Many say there isn’t enough water in the world. Yet the average depth in any ocean compared to the average height of any point on land puts the average spot that you’re likely to stand on the planet right now as quite wet.

I live in Victoria and have seen the famous coastline called the 12 Apostles a few times (though I don’t think there were ever 12 of them in our lifetimes). They used to say that those limestone ‘stacks’ (there’s now only eight) took enormous lengths of time to form. Then when they started crumbling before our eyes, we made revisions on the speed in which erosion occurs. One stack collapsed in 2005 before stunned tourists. This eroding coastline and others like it point to a remnant geology of the world after the flood, and that world is young.

For one geologist’s approach to Biblical geology, I would invite you to the website of Tas Walker.

http://biblicalgeology.net/blog/carnarvon-gorge-australia-monument-to-noahs-flood/

Best wishes,

Michael V.
Posted by Dan S de Merengue, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:55:54 AM
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"Regarding the big flood; I found what looked like sea shells in the desert in central Australia."

I can only assume this is a troll, but it is remarkably similar to the "logic" used in arguing about global warming using "common sense". Whilst most have heard and believe in plate tectonics, very few understand why melting Arctic ice may make US winters more snowy, why warming will make both droughts *and* floods worse, why the ocean changes are so scary, etc.
When all you have is a room heater model then all of this is highly unlikely, even though completely uncontroversial in the field.
Highly trained religious minds find stuff logical that the scientific mind finds absurd...and visa-versa. This is why I believe religious primary schools are a form of child-abuse that society will pay dearly for. History is very unkind to those that ignore reality for long.
Posted by ozandyh, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:57:49 AM
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