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  1. Astrophile

    Life From Dirt?

    Naturalistic hypotheses for the origins of life and the universe are more than speculation if they make testable predictions about what should be observed if the hypotheses are correct. For example, the Big Bang hypothesis for the origin of the universe (published in 1948) predicted that there...
  2. Astrophile

    Learn how to diferenciate between MYTH and LEGEND

    You haven't given your definition of a myth. Until you do that, we can't say whether any part of the Bible is a myth or not.
  3. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    That means more than one varve per hour. Floods are common occurrences. Can you show any example of varved sediments deposited by ordinary floods? They have to be described as varves in a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal.
  4. Astrophile

    Evidence of NOAH's FLOOD

    What your link actually says is that a cloud with a volume of 1 km³ has a mass of about 550 tons. Even a million tons is insignificant by comparison with the estimated 13,000 km³ (about 10^13 tons) of water that is in the atmosphere at any time, and even that is insignificant by comparison with...
  5. Astrophile

    How many fossils would it take to "prove" the theory of evolution beyond a reasonable doubt?

    Of course the theory of evolution will always be a theory, in the same way that the electromagnetic theory of light and the thermodynamic theory of heat will always be theories. What alternative theory have you that explains the observed biological facts as well as or better than the present...
  6. Astrophile

    The circular reasoning of Evolution and billions of years believers.

    The new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope do not cast doubt on the fact that the universe began in a state of ultra-high density and temperature about 13.8 billion years ago. What they do show is that there is something wrong with scientific theories about the formation of galaxies...
  7. Astrophile

    The circular reasoning of Evolution and billions of years believers.

    The Book of Job was written about 2500 years ago (more precisely, between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE) - Book of Job - Wikipedia , not over 3500 years ago. Where, in the book itself, does it say when it was written? Anaximander (ca. 610-ca. 546 BCE) said much the same thing about the Earth...
  8. Astrophile

    Interesting discussion about religion and evolution

    All right. I apologise for going off-topic.
  9. Astrophile

    Interesting discussion about religion and evolution

    This is simply not true. Nobody looking at the geological and fossil evidence without religious presuppositions would conclude that the sequence of sedimentary rocks could have been deposited in a single flood, or even in a period of less than 100 million years, or that living things have been...
  10. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    If the data followed a Poisson distribution, the error range would be ±11 million years. If so, the fossil would be Lower Cretaceous.
  11. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    Who was this someone? What species was the fossil? Where was it found? What method of dating was used? Where is the reference for the published paper? Where is the link to your claim? As a second point, Brent G. Dalrymple, in table 5.6 (page 239) of his book The Age of the Earth (Stanford...
  12. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    During that argument, it was explained to you at great length that sedimentary material is derived from the erosion of pre-existing rocks (which can be igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary) and that this eroded material is transported by water or wind and deposited as loose sediment which is...
  13. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    This is another thing that puzzles me about the Genesis account. According to Genesis 2:18-20, God created all the animals and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. Presumably God knew enough to create male and female animals, even though it had not yet occurred to him to create a...
  14. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    That does not answer my question. A difference in chromosome number of only 2 can be explained by a single chromosome fusion event in one of two related lineages, whereas a difference of 40 or 50 would be compelling evidence that the human and chimpanzee lineages are not related. Of course...
  15. Astrophile

    Evidence of NOAH's FLOOD

    The shells are not on the top of Mount Everest and other mountains; they are inside the rocks that form the mountains. The fossil shells were not deposited on top of pre-existing mountains during a great flood; the mountains were formed by tectonic compression and uplift of fossil-bearing...
  16. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    Why should the Creator give humans and chimpanzees chromosome numbers that differ by only 2, thus creating the impression of genetic similarity? Why didn't He give chimpanzees 96 chromosomes and humans 46, or humans 92 and chimpanzees 48, so as to emphasise the difference between us?
  17. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    Since you claim to be well informed on this subject, perhaps you can explain something that puzzles me about the fossil record. Geologists have known for abut 200 years that there is a well-defined succession of fossils, and that they include index fossils whose presence in a sedimentary...
  18. Astrophile

    Challenge for those that believe in billions of years for the age of things. Give anything that is more than 6000 years old. NO ASSUMPTIONS ALLOWED.

    If we have millions of transitional fossils, and geologists have been seriously collecting fossils for about 250 years (say 91,300 days), on average at least eleven transitional fossils have been discovered every day during those 250 years.
  19. Astrophile

    How do you define SCIENCE?

    Everything that has ever lived was or is part of the process of evolution since it had parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. which were slightly different from itself, and these small differences accumulated from one generation to the next. This is why, for example, scientists don't...
  20. Astrophile

    Evidence of NOAH's FLOOD

    The fact that scientists don't agree on the origin of the universe doesn't invalidate all the rest of science, such as radiometric dating and the origin of igneous and sedimentary rocks.
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