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The Lost One
Going back to Little Nipper’s original post I hadn’t responded to the link from Answers-in-Genesis website that Nipper posted:
in the article’s first claim, there are fossils of marine animals, giving the Himalayas & Everest as example:
There are many errors and misinformation in that single paragraph.
For one, Dr Andrew Snelling, a professor in geology, clearly have no understanding how fossils work, particularly how long it take for remains to turn into fossils.
There are no fossils that younger than 10,000 years. It take over tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
if Noah’s Ark and the flood did happened, then those fossils should be less than 5000 years old. No such young fossils exist.
If Snelling bothered to read any data provided, then he sh have known the layer of limestone where those fossils were found, were not 4500 years old or less, the limestone are about 450 million years old. That means those fossils were in the Ordovician period.
those fossils would have form when the limestone have been forming.
which leads me to the 2nd point.
the Himalayas were never under water during human history, certainly not during later part of the Early Bronze Age (EBA started 5100 years ago to about 2000 years ago, or c 3100 to c 2000 BCE).
The limestone being 450 million years predated all land animals, including humans.
More importantly, no mountains (eg Everest) can grow to 8800 metres in less than 5000 years...especially not the uplift at the rate of Indian plate pushing against the Asian plate.
So I think is Snelling dishonest geologist, and a moron.
in the article’s first claim, there are fossils of marine animals, giving the Himalayas & Everest as example:
There are many errors and misinformation in that single paragraph.
For one, Dr Andrew Snelling, a professor in geology, clearly have no understanding how fossils work, particularly how long it take for remains to turn into fossils.
There are no fossils that younger than 10,000 years. It take over tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
if Noah’s Ark and the flood did happened, then those fossils should be less than 5000 years old. No such young fossils exist.
If Snelling bothered to read any data provided, then he sh have known the layer of limestone where those fossils were found, were not 4500 years old or less, the limestone are about 450 million years old. That means those fossils were in the Ordovician period.
those fossils would have form when the limestone have been forming.
which leads me to the 2nd point.
the Himalayas were never under water during human history, certainly not during later part of the Early Bronze Age (EBA started 5100 years ago to about 2000 years ago, or c 3100 to c 2000 BCE).
The limestone being 450 million years predated all land animals, including humans.
More importantly, no mountains (eg Everest) can grow to 8800 metres in less than 5000 years...especially not the uplift at the rate of Indian plate pushing against the Asian plate.
So I think is Snelling dishonest geologist, and a moron.
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Maybe you'll learn something. Anything is possible in this case, (your case) I'll give you the credit.
