Creationist Wolf in Cheap Clothing

Yes, I am, and I will. "Consider" doesn't mean "accept at face value".

As far as people not wanting to discuss anything with me because I'm closed off and don't listen, that's news to me. I promise I'll work on that.

Got a source to back you up on what 3 billion people believe about Genesis?

 

No, it isn't. It's relatively easy to identify the rate of saturation geologically, and the Mediterranean shows a gradual expanse rather than a rapid filling.


hasbeen99:
Fine. Every geologist in the world and everyone approaching the issue with anything approaching rationality disagrees with you. But you're right, no one can force you to be reasonable. Some people still believe we never went to the moon or that space aliens are controlling the government. Every single legitimate publication out there concurs that there was no worldwide flood. It's not even a question that is debated anymore. You believe whatever you want to believe, regardless of the evidence, and in the meantime you'll consign yourself to uselessness in terms of discussion, because you're completely incapable of actually considering anything except what you wanted to believe all along.

 

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The creation story is not one of those "brief poems." As I said, try reading Genesis at some point.

 

Sure I have. Abundant and excess both refer to high volumes. Inundate refers to being overwhelmed, but is not limited to rate.

If the body of water increases in size, especially significantly, then yeah, that's flooding. Like Kozel referenced, if the area affected is "normally dry", that would indicate a flood to me.

 

Fixed.

 

A lake gradually expanding inches at a time over a period of millions of years is not flooding, but like I said, you see exactly what you want to see and nothing else.

 

No, you're right. It doesn't look to be one of the "brief poems" referenced, but it does appear to be in lyrical format, similar in style to some psalms. It doesn't appear to me to be straight prose.

 

Why wouldn't it be?

 

Not to sound like Clinton, but define gradual. It's almost a million square miles and it is being filled through an area only a couple of miles wide. The point is that it was dry before the area holfing back the Atlantic broke, and then there was nothing that was going to stop it from being flooded until the water levels were the same.

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but this is absolutely not the way that the Med became filled with water. Nor was it already a lake or sea. It was dry land (there were some smaller lakes in its area)