BTS,
No matter how you slice it, Jesus and other bible writers like Peter thought the Flood to be actual history. I make it a practice to believe God first, then if the evidence is overwhelming I'll look for some "spiritualized" explanation.....not the other way around. I am quite comfortable with that approach to life having done the opposite for so long with the WT and then in pop culture.
The fact is that there are mountains of evidence to question the standard uniformitarianism "millions of years" (UMOY) explantion of things trotted out for mass consumption. Gap Theory may hold some answers for an old earth and young living things....everything may be very young ..... I don't really know. It's all very interesting reading. One thing for sure to me is that there is less evidence of a UMOY paradigmn than biblical models.
More and more dinosaurs are being found with soft tissue, blood fragments, and unfossilized bone that can now be carbon dated. .... like this Triceritops bone below: This fact alone destroys evolution theory. I know that you've gotten very angry in the past when facts like the ones below are presented. It's nothing personal, no need to get angry about a bunch of bones.
| Material Tested Triceratops,MT Triceratops,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,MT Hadrosaur,AK Allosaurus.CO Allosaurus,CO Acrocanthosaurus,TX Acrocanthosaurus,TX | RadioCarbon age 30,890 +/-200 33,830 +2910/-1960 22,380 +/-800 22,990 +/-130 25,670 +/-220 25,170 +/-230 23,170 +/-170 2,560 +/-70 31,050 +230/-200 16,220 +/- 220 31,360 +/-100 23,760 +/-270 25,760 +/-280 | Fraction measured Collagen, modified Longin Method, AMS Organics, pretreated acid, alkali, acid,CL Organics, pretreated acid, alkali, acid.CL Organics, pretreated acid, alkali, acid,AMS Bioapatite, AMS Charred bone,AMS Collagen Modified longin method.AMS Humic acid alkali fraction,AMS Purified organics Bio-apatite,C Bio-apatite (purified with HAc),AMS Bio-apatite,AMS Bio-apatite,AMS | Sample from Internal bone material Outer bone material Internal bone material Outer bone material Internal bone material Internal bone material Internal bone material Internal bone material ------------- -- ----------------- ----------------- bone surface scraping very large sample size |
Conclusion of Aticle on Carbon 14 dating of things.
The careful investigations performed by scores of researchers in more than a dozen AMS facilities in several countries over the past twenty years to attempt to identify and eliminate sources of contamination in AMS 14 C analyses have, as a by-product, served to establish beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of intrinsic 14 C in remains of living organisms from all portions of the Phanerozoic record. Such samples, with ‘ages’ from 1-500 Ma as determined by other radioisotope methods applied to their geological context, consistently display 14 C levels that are far above the AMS machine threshold, reliably reproducible, and typically in the range of 0.1-0.5 pmc. But such levels of intrinsic 14 C represent a momentous difficulty for uniformitarianism. A mere 250,000 years corresponds to 43.6 half-lives for 14 C. One gram of modern carbon contains about 6 x 10 10 14 C atoms, and 43.6 half-lives worth of decay reduces that number by a factor of 7 x 10 -14 . Not a single atom of 14 C should remain in a carbon sample of this size after 250,000 years (not to mention one million or 50 million or 250 million years). A glaring (thousand-fold) inconsistency that can no longer be ignored in the scientific world exists between the AMS-determined 14 C levels and the corresponding rock ages provided by 238 U, 87 Rb, and 40 K techniques. We believe the chief source for this inconsistency to be the uniformitarian assumption of time-invariant decay rates. Other research reported by our RATE group also supports this conclusion [7, 23, 42]. Regardless of the source of the inconsistency, the fact that 14 C, with a half-life of only 5730 years, is readily detected throughout the Phanerozoic part of the geological record argues the half billion years of time uniformitarians assign to this portion of earth history is likely incorrect. The relatively narrow range of 14 C/C ratios further suggests the Phanerozoic organisms may all have been contemporaries and that they perished simultaneously in the not so distant past. Finally, we note there are hints that 14 C currently exists in carbon from environments sealed from biospheric interchange since very early in the earth history. We therefore conclude the 14 C evidence provides significant support for a model of earth’s past involving a recent global Flood cataclysm and possibly also for a young age for the earth itself.
Now:
I've stated a few of the reasons I reject the UMOY you accept. So, in fairness you really ought to stop ignoring my questions below: Why not just answer my questions regarding your Catholic faith?
Explain how you can believe that Jesus is God and at the same time God could: a.) deliberately tell a lie about Noah's Flood b.) not know that the story was a lie c.) knew that the story was a lie and deliberately deceived his listeners with the story anyway.
Now:
I've stated a few of the reasons I reject the UMOY you accept. So, in fairness you really ought to stop ignoring my questions below: Why not just answer my questions regarding your Catholic faith?
Explain how you can believe that Jesus is God and at the same time God could: a.) deliberately tell a lie about Noah's Flood b.) not know that the story was a lie c.) knew that the story was a lie and deliberately deceived his listeners with the story anyway.