Yellowstone & Catastrophe (General)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 00:31 (3621 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


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> Tony: This is what I am talking about. Earlier in the same article it mentions changes in terms of meters in months, not centimeters in years. The article does not even agree with itself!!-We can have meters of drop in one major earthquake, but the continental drift is demonstrably slower overall.-> dhw: If geological change is happening in some areas of the earth at rates that do not fit our current geologic conception, is the reality wrong, or is our conception wrong? If a few earthquakes and volcanos can do this in miniscule time frames (geologically), what could enough water to cover the earth do?-We do know in the time of 'snowball earth' it roughly did happen, but not to the extent of water as high as Everest.
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> Tony: Agreed. However, Uniforitarianism has only been the mainstream ideology for what, 100 years, 200 tops? Less than .1% of Human history. Do we discount 99.9% of observations when not even all of our .1% agree? -How do we know how valid are the stories.-> Tony: Literally 230 Civilizations from around the globe share a virtually identical accounting of the flood event. So, 230 Civilizations that were thousands of years closer to the original event are less reliable than our speculations based on our .1% of observations?-Again, we know floods are everywhere in the world. We do have strong evidence of the Black Sea flood in Noah's area of life and where the many folks who wrote the OT lived. Jewish Hebrew scholars think about six folks wrote Genesis. Moses is no longer accepted as a single author. I see no reason wrong with accepting the Black Sea flood and multiple authors as two probable facts. -> Tony: I am not saying that we should throw science out with the bath water, but what good is science if we refuse to ask questions and seek out all possible answers and test them? Why should we arrogantly reject and discount anything that doesn't fit our extremely limited and narrow world view?-I agree. My world view got me to believe from my research.