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ORIGINAL: bluestone

Carico: where did you go to college?
have you ever even taken a basic theology or science class?

you spout personal opinions with nothing to back them up. NADA. Scientific observation is "made up stories"?? the entire scientific community is in cahoots against God?

and DNA, genetics, etc. are a joke? Geology by well educated people is a joke compared to your personal opinions??

Your exeggis of scripture is laughable. In fact, you are doing nothing more than showing a complete lack of comprehension of truth, scripture, and science. You are on a roll.

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ORIGINAL: Carico
And where are ancient accounts of snow coming down for more than 40 days that turned into ice all over the world?

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And you are in error. Millions of gallons of water can not only move rocks, but change terrain as well.

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Because you want to deny God even though the bible's explanation for the sedimentary rock layers all over the world, rocks being found in areas where they don't naturally belong,is much more plausible than the stories of science fiction writers that can't be documented by ANYONE IN HISTORY.

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But you can't do that because then you would be affirming that God exists and then be guilty of sin.

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So instead, you believe ridiculous made-up stories . . .

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[sm=purplelaugh.gif] So the unbelief of the secular world is deliberate since it takes much effort to invent such ridiculous stories. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: Method

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ORIGINAL: Carico
And where are ancient accounts of snow coming down for more than 40 days that turned into ice all over the world?

I have heard of snow coming down for many, many years and not melting in the mean time. It can still be seen in many, many places.

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And you are in error. Millions of gallons of water can not only move rocks, but change terrain as well.

I am not doubting you. However, the marks left by a glacier are quite different from marks left by rushing flood waters. Massive floods do cause drop stones, but they also drop these stone sin the middle of massive sediment beds like the one seen here:

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Also, floods do not produce the striations that I showed you before. Floods scour rocks smooth. They do not leave grooves.

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Because you want to deny God even though the bible's explanation for the sedimentary rock layers all over the world, rocks being found in areas where they don't naturally belong,is much more plausible than the stories of science fiction writers that can't be documented by ANYONE IN HISTORY.

The evidence denies it, and it has for 200 years. The first geologists actually went out in search for the evidence left over by Noah's Flood. They were quite disappointed. What they found instead were massive layers that could only have been produced over long time periods in relatively calm water. The fine grained shales in England are a perfect example.

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But you can't do that because then you would be affirming that God exists and then be guilty of sin.

Right . . . and you believe in Jesus just so you can eat pork sandwiches, right?

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So instead, you believe ridiculous made-up stories . . .

The striations caused by moving glaciers are not made up. The only made up story here is a global flood.

Here is another great picture of some massive striations caused by boulders caught in slow moving glaciers. No flood can produce these features.

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[sm=purplelaugh.gif] So the unbelief of the secular world is deliberate since it takes much effort to invent such ridiculous stories. [;)]

They aren't stories. We can observe glaciers making these features right now in the real world. What you are suffering from is called projection. You are the one who has bought into stories about talking snakes, women from ribs, and bit boats. Before you start accusing others of making up stories perhaps you should look at yourself first.

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ORIGINAL: Carico

Sorry, but the errors are yours. One can't believe God and not believe him at the same time. So if Agassiz was a Darwinist, he didn't believe that God created man out of the dust of the ground. That means that he rejected God's account of creation and the Flood since no one described an ice age after the Flood.

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Secondly, ice comes from water. So if he explained the European terrain by ice, he has to first acknowledge that the land was once covered in water.[;)]

Wrong. Glaciers move forward from one end as more and more snow is added to their other end. If the earth was once totally covered with water and this water froze during an ice age the water would have frozen in place- meaning that it would not have moved things like rocks to locations where they are otherwise out of place.

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And thirdly, ancient cultures talked about a Flood where one family survived. If there was an ice age after Noah survived, that would mean that it would have been recounted somewhere in history,since Noah had more brains than an ape. But unfortunately, it is conspicuously absent which makes it made up history. [;)]

Job 38:29-30 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Why would the book of Job, written for a people that live in a predominantly warm climate, mention the face of the deep being frozen, if it isn’t a reference to an ice age?

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So either Agassiz didn't think things through too well, or your details about his beliefs are incorrect, or both. [;)]

I’ve never heard any mention that Agassiz was a Deist. But I just found on Wikipedia that his family had a history of being Protestant clergymen.

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ORIGINAL: Carico

Sorry, but the errors are yours. One can't believe God and not believe him at the same time. So if Agassiz was a Darwinist, he didn't believe that God created man out of the dust of the ground. That means that he rejected God's account of creation and the Flood since no one described an ice age after the Flood.

The Bible doesn’t describe the eruption of Thera around 1500 BC or the eruption of Vesuvius in 79(?) AD, but does this mean that these events didn’t happen?

Also, the Bible doesn’t describe the death of Peter, Paul or John, but didn’t they die just the same?

Note that without a post-flood ice age, that created land bridges where sea water now lies, Creationists would have next to no explanation for explaining how humans and animals dispersed from Mount Ararat to populate the world’s scattered continents and islands.

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Secondly, ice comes from water. So if he explained the European terrain by ice, he has to first acknowledge that the land was once covered in water.[;)]

Wrong. Glaciers move forward from one end as more and more snow is added to their other end. If the earth was once totally covered with water and this water froze during an ice age the water would have frozen in place- meaning that it would not have moved things like rocks to locations where they are otherwise out of place.

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And thirdly, ancient cultures talked about a Flood where one family survived. If there was an ice age after Noah survived, that would mean that it would have been recounted somewhere in history,since Noah had more brains than an ape. But unfortunately, it is conspicuously absent which makes it made up history. [;)]

Job 38:29-30 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Why would the book of Job, written for a people that live in a predominantly warm climate, mention the face of the deep being frozen, if it isn’t a reference to an ice age?

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So either Agassiz didn't think things through too well, or your details about his beliefs are incorrect, or both. [;)]

I’ve never heard any mention that Agassiz was a Deist. But I just found on Wikipedia that his family had a history of being Protestant clergymen.

Notice that your quote from Job is in the present tense. So by your interpretation, then Job had to be sitting on ice when he wrote that passage. [sm=purplelaugh.gif]

But funny thing, Job's life is described as living in desert-like surroundings. [;)] So you have presented a perfect example of misreading the bible and making it say what scientists want it to say, not what it actually says and contradicting other passages in the bible in the process. [sm=purplelaugh.gif] So Job was describing the winters and God's majesty in His creation., not a global ice age. [8|]

many atheists had family histories of believers. what matters is that Agassiz made up stories that aren't in the bible, which is playing God himself. No one who believes Jesus rejects the bible and makes up a new bible. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: Carico
My beliefs come from historical verification.

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Your beliefs don't because they're made up in the 20th century.

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And most importantly, I agree with God.

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And one cannot have a better witness than God. Sorry. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: Method

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ORIGINAL: Carico
My beliefs come from historical verification.

No they don't. They come from the Bible in the absence of any verification.

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Your beliefs don't because they're made up in the 20th century.

Those fossils and deep striations caused by glaciers are not made up. They are very real.

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And most importantly, I agree with God.

No, you blindly follow a literal reading of Genesis. Not the same thing.

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And one cannot have a better witness than God. Sorry. [;)]

Then have God come on this thread and give His witness and we will see if the testimony matches the evidence.

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ORIGINAL: Carico
Notice that your quote from Job is in the present tense. So by your interpretation, then Job had to be sitting on ice when he wrote that passage. [sm=purplelaugh.gif]

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But funny thing, Job's life is described as living in desert-like surroundings.

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So Job was describing the winters and God's majesty in His creation., not a global ice age. [8|]

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ORIGINAL: Method
Those fossils and deep striations caused by glaciers are not made up. They are very real.

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ORIGINAL: Carico
So only those who believe God's Word as written are passing along what God says. But those who are here to argue with God's Word and claim that their words are more intelligent will have no one to turn to when they die because their words will pass away as quickly as they did.

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ORIGINAL: Carico

he is here because he speaks to us by His word through those of us who believe it.

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So only those who believe God's Word as written are passing along what God says.

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But those who are here to argue with God's Word and claim that their words are more intelligent will have no one to turn to when they die because their words will pass away as quickly as they did.

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And if you don't think His word matches the "evidence", then who will you believe: God or scientists?

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If so, then again, you'll be left all alone after you die because there will be nothing left of the scientists you worship either. Sorry.

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ORIGINAL: Method
Those fossils and deep striations caused by glaciers are not made up. They are very real.

Has any scientists ever seen a glacier in the process of making a striation in the rocks of the earth's crust? Has it ever been shown experimentally that glaciers can move boulders from one place to another?

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ORIGINAL: Method

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ORIGINAL: Carico

he is here because he speaks to us by His word through those of us who believe it.

So we don't have a witness. We have hearsay. When you get done confusing the Bible for a deity get back to me.

I also like the part where whatever you say all of the sudden turns into the very voice of God. Ego much?

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So only those who believe God's Word as written are passing along what God says.

No, they are passing along what the biblical authors wrote down. Writing something down does not make it true.

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But those who are here to argue with God's Word and claim that their words are more intelligent will have no one to turn to when they die because their words will pass away as quickly as they did.

So the words of Buddha have survived how? Confucius? Mohammed? The countless Hindu writings? Do you really think the Bible is the only religious text out there?

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And if you don't think His word matches the "evidence", then who will you believe: God or scientists?

I will believe the evidence. Don't you? Or do you ignore the evidence in preference for a literal reading of Genesis?

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If so, then again, you'll be left all alone after you die because there will be nothing left of the scientists you worship either. Sorry.

Actually, I have published my scientific work so it will last beyond my death. I, as a scientist, also stand on the shoulders of the scientists who came before me.

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ORIGINAL: Carico
Sorry, but one day, humans will be extinct and those shoulders won't exist. Then you'll be completely alone for all eternity and your being a scientists won't matter to a soul since there won't be anyone left to congratulate you. Then all you'll have for all of eternity is God's word to haunt you and show you what disagreeing with Him has cost you. How sad. [&o]

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ORIGINAL: Method
Actually, I have published my scientific work so it will last beyond my death. I, as a scientist, also stand on the shoulders of the scientists who came before me.

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ORIGINAL: Method

You would need to be directly under the glacier to observe it, so not directly. However, these features are found directly below melting glaciers such as those in Glacier National Park.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/geol370/lecture_notes/09_glacial_erosion_landforms.html

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ORIGINAL: Carico
Sorry, but one day, humans will be extinct and those shoulders won't exist. Then you'll be completely alone for all eternity and your being a scientists won't matter to a soul since there won't be anyone left to congratulate you. Then all you'll have for all of eternity is God's word to haunt you and show you what disagreeing with Him has cost you. How sad. [&o]

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ORIGINAL: jeafl

Has any scientists ever seen a glacier in the process of making a striation in the rocks of the earth's crust? Has it ever been shown experimentally that glaciers can move boulders from one place to another?

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ORIGINAL: jeafl
Where did you go to school? What degrees do you have?

How can you be such an important scientist and still have time to participate in internet arguments?

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ORIGINAL: Method

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ORIGINAL: Carico
Sorry, but one day, humans will be extinct and those shoulders won't exist. Then you'll be completely alone for all eternity and your being a scientists won't matter to a soul since there won't be anyone left to congratulate you. Then all you'll have for all of eternity is God's word to haunt you and show you what disagreeing with Him has cost you. How sad. [&o]

So is that why you believe in these stories? You are afraid of being alone? I prefer to the truth to convenient fantasies.

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ORIGINAL: Carico
So I then knew what Jesus was talking about and you don't have a clue since you think his words are nothing but stories.

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Has any scientists ever seen a glacier in the process of making a striation in the rocks of the earth's crust? Has it ever been shown experimentally that glaciers can move boulders from one place to another?

Actually, I think we do. Don't we have the real life example of a plane wreck in the Andes on a receding glacier? The wreckage of the plane was moved downslope and the metal crunched up, not unlike what would happen to boulders and bedrock if under more weight and with greater time duration. The pattern is also fairly evident on the Nisqually glacier and the Carbon glacier on Mt Ranier in Washington. I've seen both up close and personal. The amount of rock flour that is flowing into both the Nisqually and Carbon rivers is really quite voluminous and reasonably ironclad evidence of the ability of a glacier to scour out significant volumes of rock.

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ORIGINAL: Method

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ORIGINAL: jeafl
Where did you go to school? What degrees do you have?

How can you be such an important scientist and still have time to participate in internet arguments?

I have a bachelors in zoology and 11 years experience in infectious disease research. I am not an important scientist by any stretch of the imagination and I have free time just like everyone else.