Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <ju...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some translations of Psalm 104 (e.g. Psalm 104:8 NASV) imply that the
mountains may have been lower before the flood, or perhaps the mountain
and continents were lowered and the sea floor raised during the flood,
and then the mountains raised and the seafloors lowered after the flood.
If this is the case, it certainly could explain why we find such huge
biomass deposits that turned into coal and oil. Imagine the enormous
waves of ocean water, perhaps kilometers high, that would pour in over
the continents. They would sweep away everything in their path, washing
billions of tons of biomass against the sides of mountain ranges,

Actually, they would be washed into the basins of the lakes and
oceans. Receding water would have dragged the biomass back away from
the mountains.

covering them with silt, dirt, rocks and everything else. With such
extreme and rapid tectonic activity

Nothing to do with tectonics.

The water, no. The lowering of the continents and rising of the
sea floors to make the water overflow the mountains, yes. :-)

, there would surely be lots of volcanism as well.

No mention of that in the bible.

(Genesis 7:11)
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains
of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened.

The phrase "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up"
sounds like something under the oceans was breaking up.

The intense heat from volcanism and compression, and
the pressure from the water, could form enormous coal and oil deposits
very quickly.

It takes longer than 6000 years to form oil and coal.

They used to think the same thing about diamonds. Now they can
produce perfect diamonds quickly. Same with crude oil. In the
1990's the US DOE did a public demonstration where they placed
water and compost into a large drum, applied great heat and
pressure, and produced crude oil in about 40 minutes. They were
examining the feasibility and economics of producing crude oil
directly from plant material (compost) as an alternative fuel
source. I believe the problem was economics; it took too much
energy to be economical.

The blood and other liquids squeezed from the crushed
animal mass

Much of the biomass would have been rooted plant lifeforms. These
would not have been swept away but would have been fossilised in situ.
Where are they?

When hurricane Camille struck Mississippi and Lousiana in the 1960's,
there was a strip along the beach where *everything* was washed away,
including all vegetation, roadways, concrete foundations and underground
pipes for a mile or more inland. That was caused by ocean waves from a
big hurricane, which would be *nothing* compared to a 5 kilometer high
tsunami sweeping over the continent, followed by a flood of ocean water
thousands of feet deep, probably lasting for days, maybe weeks. That
would be sufficient to erode down to the bedrock, let alone remove all
vegetation. :-)

could have collected and risen to the top to form salt domes.

There would have been so little salt in the animal biomass that there
would not have been enough to form even a small salt dome.

According to wikianswers.com: "A 50 Kilo human has about 7 tablespoons
of salt within him." At that rate, several billion tons of dinosaurs in
an enormous pile several miles across and hundreds, maybe thousands, of
feet deep, is a lot of salt. There would also be salt in the plants too,
but I don't know if it would be enough to completely explain the salt
domes. :-)
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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