There’s no possibility that you could “cut off every escape,” and ‘devastate’ my understanding of history!
I presented too much evidence, supporting my view of the global deluge...
to the hundreds of Flood legends showcasing many similarities,
to the Greek, Roman, Hindu, Norse, etc., myths’ parallels that depict life as described before the Flood @ Genesis 6:1-4,
to the geologically-young-looking high altitude mountain ranges w/ very little erosion evident,
to those ideal ratios of the Ark outlined in Genesis producing a very seaworthy vessel,
to the Chinese character for “ship”,
to the “Day of the Dead” and similar celebrations held by various cultures around the world at the same time of year that Genesis says the Flood occurred, Jewish calendar!
“You keep avoiding that, for obvious reasons.”
What are “obvious reasons” for me to avoid the suggestion of scavenging before burial? (BTW, the discoveries indicate some were scavenged, not all...and comparatively few have been found.)
That is no fact...the scavenging could have happened after burial, as I stated...during a warmer-than-usual period, or a few warmer periods! Some remains have been found in, and dredged up from, the Bering Sea.
Perhaps you dont understand the principle of falsification.
One could gather all manner of "evidence", plausible,
feasible and
specious-such as yours, there, for flood,
but no theory is safe from being disproved.
Say you are accused of murder in Boston whilst
you were demonstrably having tea with the Queen,
at Buckingham.
The existence of polar ice deeply predating your "flood"
is an easily understood disproof of flood theory.
There is is. Not much you can do about it.
Still-
I must insist on sticking to the immediate topic, of
your mammoths, not being distracted with your
(specious) Chinese character argument etc.
From the millions of mammoths and other animals which died catastrophically encased within the permafrost and ice fields all across the extreme northern latitudes,
....and comparatively few have been found.)
Even you will note that you are trying to have it
both ways. So we can let your "millions" be
quietly dropped.
Next, to the "catastropohnically encased".
The "catastrophe", being something
only to be found in woo woo, is similarly
discounted.
Further, you strongly imply that these
"millions" died as a result of being buried
or in your quaint terminology, "catastrohically
encased". No science, no research will agree
with this. It is simply made up to force fit to the bible
story as you choose to interpret it.
Now, we are in agreement that some few frozen carcasses
have been found, a long horn bison here, a mammoth
there, for a total of I believe, about fifty mammoths.
(not "millions"). The "millions" and "vast herds"
is made up hyperbole.
Now, apparently it is your claim that the ones
(all of them) that are decayed, and the ones
scavenged (most of them) were somehow
brought to the surface, thawed sufficiently
to have been scavenged and start to
stink tho quite fresh when flash frozen.
THEN they were reburied and refrozen.
I trust you can see the absurdity of this
notion and appreciate too that your explanation
is simply ad hoc, made up to suit the facts.
That the weather / climate has changed and keeps
changing is not in dispute.
If you care to dispute the research which shows the
permafrost has stayed in its current frozen condition
for tens of thousands of years, you are doing so
from a position of zero knowledge, zero research,
but an abundance of ideology.
Likewise if you wish to dispute the age of the ice on
Greenland and Antarctica, you are welcome to do so.
Many of our creationists do claim to know more than
any scientist on earth. They only lack data, for a Nobel!
Perhaps you have a way to show that all the work by
all the researchers is phony; a Nobel awaits.
Unless you can find fatal flaw if the research that
disproves the flood theory, no amount of specious
similarities in flood stories, or silly misunderstanding
of how Chinese characters are formed, or day of the
dead celebrations is of the slightest consequence.
It is as valuable as saying that the murderer in Boston
had brown Bruno Mali shoes... just like yours!! Guilt,
beyond a doubt!
For a summary-
-polar ice disproves flood theory
-freeze / thaw, uncover / rebury as an
explanation for the rot and scavenge is too silly
even for you
