Does geological and paleontological data prove ?

Question

the entire fossil record and all oil and coal reserves were formed during the Genesis Flood?

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Answer 1

I haven't heard for sure one way or the other on this. It would probably take radioactive dating to help prove this. But then you could know the age of the coal and oil, but it would be hard to date the flood. If all of the oil and coal was the same age, this would probably make a better case.

Answer 2

Nope. That isn't reasonable for so many reasons that I couldn't even list them here.

Just for starters: There are millions of years worth of tidal layers in rocks. They guys that do that for a living noticed that the day used to be longer and the tides more extreme. They predicted that the Moon was moving further away. Since the Appolo missions we have a reflective mirror and can directly measure that. It is true.

There is no quick way to make oil or coal. If there were we would be doing it.

There are too many craters on Earth that have been identified for the Earth to be very young. If this were the case we would all be extinct.

Radiological decay of elements indicates an old age. I am not just talking carbon 14 either. There are at lest 4 decays that I know of that indicate the age of the Solar System is somewhere in the 4-5 billion year range. (and none of those is carbon)

We can back calculate the amount of hydrogen in the Sun and tell that it is about 4.5 billion years old since it has gone through a little less than half of its fuel.

There is no way the flood matches fossil succession. The major problem with the flood is that fossils would be all jumbled up. They aren't. They are pristienly sorted into layers with thing less like modern life deeper than the things most like modern life. You may want to argue about a thing or two that is rumored to be out of order, but if you were right it would be COMMON. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/succession.html

Answer 3

Well, first of all, take neither the Rev. Albert Einstein’s avatar name nor his supposition seriously; both are erroneous.

The fossil record, as sparse as it is due to the abuses of time and weather, is not only valid it refutes all that the misnamed “reverend” holds dear. It is, nevertheless, valid.

There was actually a flood in the general area of Mesopotamia, well what can be considered to be far eastern Meso, so to speak; that is the Black Sea. This is not the biblical flood but surely must be the actual historical event from which it and other folk-lore versions of a great flood are taken.

At the time of the recession of the last glacial period of the current ice age (generally misspoken to be the “last ice age”) about 11 to 13,ooo years ago, there was a small fresh water lake just north of what we now call the Bosporus.
The ice that had bolstered the narrow land bridge between what is modern day Greece and Turkey was obviously comprimised by the release of the stabile ice leaving a weak bit of land holding off the Med.
The ice began to recede and left the land bridge weakened. The pressure from the Mediterranean Sea overcame the narrow bit of land connecting the Middle East with Europe and …”Bob’s your Uncle”!

The small fresh water lake became the Black Sea. It was a gargantuan geophysical event like few others, but there are some very impressive ones worth investigation. Anyway, stories regarding the event abound in Mesopotamian literature and more importantly…folk lore because when it happened, mankind did not have the advantage of written language so, folk lore is all we have.

The “Saga of Gilgamesh”, eventually put to written word, is but one story regarding the great flood although a major one. You might find the description of Gilgamesh, an imaginary folk hero and super human and Jesus, of the Christian bible, very interesting. Remember that Gilgamesh predated the Jesus account by more than 2,500 years and was eventually elevated, by his followers, to deity status. Ahhh, people and their penchant for worshiping anybody who will stand still for it. lol.

Science, a nasty word, to many true believers, is currently using the supposedly “invalid” fossil record to better understand the days and weeks immediately after the Bosporus land bridge was overcome by the Mediterranean which is a sea but it is connected directly to all the world’s oceans. You want to talk about pressure…!
Jim D

Answer 4

If there was no flood as enormous as that described in Genesis, how will you explain the underwater civilizations?

Don't know what your exactly pointing at when you mentioned the oil and coal reserves but I agree with Rev.Einstein regarding the fossil records. Some people would just buy the idea of evolution saying it has been proven not realizing that the missing links are still missing and the fossils are either a real ape or a real man.

These are evidences of the flood:
> Noah's ark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5ORpMTebI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7nN80dIw8&mode=related&search=

Hope you have time to watch the videos.

Answer 5

No. In fact, the stratigraphic correlation and paleoecological reconstruction of the environments of deposition of most strata are wholly incompatible with an interpretation that they were all formed at the same time in a great, global flood (a flood for which there is also no geological evidence).

There is a sequence of varves (seasonal depositions in a quiet lake - with visible differences with each spring thaw) in South Dakota that show an unbroken sequence of over a million seasons of continuous, non-catastrophic deposition. This sequence alone is incompatible with both a Young Earth and the biblical flood account.

UPDATE: As for Rev Einstein and others who are misquoting evolutionary scientists - this question does not reference evolution at all. You can't even get straight which scientific theories you don't agree with.

Answer 6

Only the greatest part of the fossil record, coal and maybe oil.

There is lots of evidence that oil is still forming, such as in Bass Strait in Australia.

Answer 7

The answer is BIG NO!!!!Why don't you take this question over to the science and mathematics section where you can really get beat up?

You are looking for an answer that agrees with your religous indoctrination instead of a scientific one. So why bother asking since you are going to pick that answer do it. Pick Rev Al even though he is as wrong as you can get. He's the only one here who does agree with you.

Answer 8

lol. In no possible way does science prove anything about religion. I spent years studying this. Did you know that China has never seen a mass flood? Some areas have never really been flooded at all, much less as deep as has been claimed.

Answer 9

Nah... my sister is a Christian and believes the fossil record to be accurate scientifically. She laughs at people who do the "earth is 5000 years old" thing. Many Christians can retain their faith and follow science logically.

Edit: I'm talking about my real-life biological sister... don't take things so personally...

Answer 10

Did U KNOW that the whole of evolution is FALSE and even TOP evolution sciencist AGREE?????!!1

Even DARWIN said he was WRONG. ANyone with sence can see that there ARE NO transnational fosils. Everythin that U see is what God spaked into being. If U dont belive there is still time.

Answer me that, ppl???!1