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What do you do with missing evidence? Like the global dirth of mid Jurassic fossils

Astrophile

Astrophile

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sooda said:
  1. Jurassic Period Facts: Dinosaurs, Mammals, Plants
    www.livescience.com/28739-jurassic-period.html
    The Jurassic Period was the second segment of the Mesozoic Era. It occurred from 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, following the Triassic Period and preceding the Cretaceous Period.

  2. Jurassic Period - Image Results
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Your links do not say that the white cliffs of Dover are Jurassic. The cliffs consist of chalk, and The Penguin Dictionary of Geology defines Chalk as 'Strictly, the very fine-grained pure-white limestone found in the Upper Cretaceous of Western Europe.' The British Regional Geology handbook for The Wealden District describes the Chalk under the Cretaceous System in Chapter 4. 'Strata Exposed at the Surface - Mesozoic Systems'; on page 43 it says, 'Good sections in the Middle Chalk are to be seen in the Dover cliffs'.

According to Cretaceous - Wikipedia , 'In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the White Cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.'
 
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sooda

sooda

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Astrophile said:
Your links do not say that the white cliffs of Dover are Jurassic. The cliffs consist of chalk, and The Penguin Dictionary of Geology defines Chalk as 'Strictly, the very fine-grained pure-white limestone found in the Upper Cretaceous of Western Europe.' The British Regional Geology handbook for The Wealden District describes the Chalk under the Cretaceous System in Chapter 4. 'Strata Exposed at the Surface - Mesozoic Systems'; on page 43 it says, 'Good sections in the Middle Chalk are to be seen in the Dover cliffs'.

According to Cretaceous - Wikipedia , 'In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the White Cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.'
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DISCOVERING FOSSILS | What is chalk and how does it form?
www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/chalk_formation_fossils.htm
Chalk is composed of planktonic skeletons and is therefore made of micro-fossils. In fact, the coccolithophores that comprise chalk are small even by planktonic standards and are therefore termed nanno-fossils. Chalk is an excellent material for fossil collecting and palaeontological studies.
 
Audie

Audie

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ecco

ecco

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tas8831 said:
*oh, for the wickedness of computers - had that and hundreds of other YEC gems archived, only to lose them all during a syncing operation gone wrong....
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Ha. In your materialistic mind you choose to believe it was "a syncing operation gone wrong".

Open Your Eyes! It was clearly an act of GOD to prevent you from further ridiculing HIS faithful.
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
whirlingmerc said:
I admit being wrong quite frequently
However in this case there is a documented global dearth of evidence in the mid Jurassic of fossils
despite the great claimed length of time and agreed on by many non creationists
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So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Flood to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom
 
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Audie

Audie

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columbus said:
So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Food to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom
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Now now, them bible-archaeologists have definitely
confirmed a lotta bible-stuff. Dead Sea; even Egypt.
And locusts.
 
sooda

sooda

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columbus said:
So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Flood to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom
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While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
sooda said:
While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?
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No, not really.
I just think that they were primitive people doing the best they could with what they had.
It wasn't much.
Tom
 
ecco

ecco

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sooda said:
While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?
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If the stories in the unimpressive Bible are idiotic and the people who wrote them probably had an agenda, why do you believe in God and Jesus?
 
sooda

sooda

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ecco said:
If the stories in the unimpressive Bible are idiotic and the people who wrote them probably had an agenda, why do you believe in God and Jesus?
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Because if you strip away the lies and legends and political agendas, there is something.
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
sooda said:
Because if you strip away the lies and legends and political agendas, there is something.
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I think that's true.

I think that one of the critical meta-messages of Jesus is "Don't believe the nonsense that religious authorities want you to believe. It doesn't matter if scriptures claim that God said something. Do what you know is Right."

But then, a Roman Emperor took control of Christianity and now we have what we have.
Tom
 
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