In your opinion, why isn't Flood Geology in text books or in peer-reviewed, scientific publications?
2007-04-26 09:39:55 · 18 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because science and facts have a known liberal bias.
2007-04-26 09:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Because it is so self-evidently nonsense. The Old Testament was written at time when people did not know the age of the earth, and thought that the world was a few hundred square miles flat. They did not understand weather or geology. Why on earth should they be taken seriously.
Geological science deals with explaining the known structures and origins of the earth, not with looking at 4000 year old mythological writings. There is no reason why "flood geology" should be in textbooks or scientific journals. "Flood geology" does not exist outside the realm of biblical fundamentalists -- it is certainly not geology.
2007-04-26 09:49:09 · answer #2 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's preposterous, that's why. Early geologists didn't run about looking for ways to prove the bible wrong, but they found them anyway. The bible does contain some historical facts- but it also contains some legends and myths that have little or no factual basis. There must have been major flood in the middle east at some point- but there was never anything on the order of the biblical deluge which "covered the entire earth".
2007-04-26 09:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by B SIDE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the excellent objective discussion on Wikipedia (see link below) and you'll understand more about why mainstream education and science does not consider Flood Geology to be an authoritative discipline.
2007-04-26 11:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by Mark J 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no evidence of the whole earth being flooded at one time. All parts of the earth have been under water at one time or another, but never all at once.
That aside, there is no way a human could survive a flood in that magnitude. They would drown from the moisture in the air. Much like people with pneumonia.
2007-04-26 09:49:50 · answer #5 · answered by QaHearts 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even allowing for the detectable tyranny of orthodoxy inhabiting scientific journals, unless Flood Geology has come on a long long way since I last looked at it, it's just too full of unwarranted assumptions and special pleading.
(I still have three volumes on my bookshelf, including the daddy of them all, Whitcomb and Morris' "The Genesis Flood")
2007-04-26 09:52:03 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no real evidence for a global flood, it is all made up, no facts, just a few die hards pointing to the bible and saying that the flood is in the bible so it must have happened. Basically the flood is a myth.
2007-04-26 09:45:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Hey now, that isn't fair. There was this giant flood across the northwestern states.
http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Module13/mod13.htm
Nobody built an arc or anything but it is flood geology.
2007-04-26 09:45:33 · answer #8 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because Flood Geology hasn't got a scrap of evidence for it. Because its proponents have to lie through their teeth to make it seem real-sounding, and they know it? Because the proponents of such nonsense know very well that their "reseearch" (AKA: soundbites) don't stand up to the light of day.
Lots of reasons.
2007-04-26 09:45:31 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an IT guy working in the mining business. Lots of geologists. I mention this site sometimes, and the various young earth creationist theories and the flood myth. We always have a good laugh.
2007-04-26 09:43:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because people don't even believe in the bible, so it would be a joke for them to believe that God destory the world in The Greatest Flood of all times. Just keep praying for them to get the understanding that they need.
2007-04-26 10:00:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋