Lionz wrote:Neo,
You just said this on page 30 maybe...
There has always been external usable energy added to earth.
I said this:
Neoteny wrote:Lionz wrote:Neo,
Did entropy decrease on earth without external usable energy added to earth?
No. There has always been external usable energy added to earth.
The sun is the external usable energy that has always been added to earth. It hasn't always been used, but its always been there (for as long as the earth has been there). I was talking about the sun.
Lionz wrote:Where did external usable energy come to earth from when there was nothing on earth that could harness energy from sunlight? If there was a time like that?
Most, if not all, of the external usable energy came from the sun.
Lionz wrote:If you were to check out five Shakespeare books from a library and the word gentlewoman showed up in each over twenty times, would that suggest to you that they evolved from eachother?
No, because Shakespeare works do not reproduce. There is a continuous lineage of genes, so we can expect that they would be passed down through the ages.
Lionz wrote:If genetics can be used to argue for common ancestry or common design, what really suggests wolves and roses have common ancestry?
Phylogenetic analysis of homologous genes links up all living creatures to a universal ancestor. I won't give you an exact list of the genes that go all the way back. But we do find that wolves share certain genes; wolves and cats share fewer genes; wolves and cats share fewer genes with snakes; wolves, cats, and snakes share fewer genes with starfish; wolves, cats, snakes, and starfish share fewer genes with roses. Similarly, roses share fewer genes with apples; roses and apples share fewer genes with pines; etc. etc. This suggests common ancestry. Additionally, you share genes with your father. You share fewer genes with your grandfather. You share fewer genes with your great-grandfather (not the best metaphor, but a simple one).
Lionz wrote:How would a lack of an intelligence make putting something together more simple if it would and would somehow?
Do you not think intelligence is more complex than no intelligence. Are our brains not more complex than a snail's? The existence of intelligence makes creation extremely complex.
Lionz wrote:When has a rabbit fossil been dated with a radiometric dating technique?
I dunno. The fossil rabbit bit was actually a famous saying. That's the main reason I brought it up. There have not been any rabbits in the precambrian to date.
Lionz wrote:Where does that site or whatever mention a dead tree being dated to over 5,000 years? People might have tried to link trees together by trying to find patterns in rings, but consider this maybe...
Tree-ring studies have been a staple of anthropological investigation in the American Southwest[2] since the early decades of this century and in Europe since World War II. The bristlecone pine chronology of the American Southwest now exceeds 8500 years with the possibility that up to 3000 floating years will be added in the reasonably near future. The European oak and pine chronology, a composite of work done in Germany and Northern Ireland, is now over 11,000 years long.
We have about 6000 years of chronologies spread out over the last 9500 years in a region bounded by the Turkish-Georgian frontier in the east, the mountains of North Lebanon in the south, including all of Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, parts of Bulgaria and (the former) Yugoslavia, and extending to the instep of the Italian boot at Mt. Pollino in Calabria.
That wasn't particularly convincing. Considering the source, I'd say the author actually did a pretty good job. He essentially conceded that dendrochronology is very difficult to argue against from a scientific perspective. Did you get a different feeling from that?
Lionz wrote:Is there a single tree anywhere, dead or alive, that has been dated over 5,000 years with tree ring dating? If trees have been growing on earth for hundreds of millions of years, then what's up?
The quotes I posted above discuss trees that lived over 5000 years ago that were dated via tree ring counting.
Lionz wrote:Do you theorize that humans found dinosaur bones hundreds of years ago and used them to portray dinosaurs in artwork?
I don't particularly know much about the details, but it's a hypothesis I've heard before, and I don't doubt the possibility of it's veracity. I do know that artistic depictions of dragons do not match up with dinosaur anatomy very accurately. It's a very superficial resemblance.
Lionz wrote:
95% of all fossils are marine invertebrates--clams, etc.
4.75% of all fossils are algae and plant fossils
0.2375% includes insects and other invertebrates
0.0125% includes all vertebrates, mainly fish. 95% of land vertebrate fossils consist of one bone fragment or tooth. For example, only about 1,200 dinosaur skeletons have been found as of 1994.
Dr. Morris points out that evolutionists say man has been on earth for one million years. Our present population growth is 2% per year. Starting with one man and woman, it would take only 1100 years to get 6 billion living humans, but if we have been around for one million years, the number of humans would have been 108600. [Morris, p. 70] That number is greater than the number of particles in the universe which is about 1080, according to Sir Arthur Eddington, a British astrophysicist. Of course, 108600 is a ridiculous example of uniformitarianism in this situation, but it does point out some difficulties for long ages.
I've come across one or more format related issue and that's a misquote that should contain more for all I know maybe. Source here you can compare with perhaps...
http://www.creationinthecrossfire.com/d ... lMan1.html
Citing sources is always a positive thing. I don't think applying our current population growth to past population growth is an accurate depiction of history. For example, do you think human population growth was the same during the years the plague ravaged Europe? Would it be accurate to say that our population growth with our advanced medical knowledge and technology will compare to that of ancient Egyptians'? I think the simple answer is "no." I'm not able to do the math, but that seems like a fatal flaw in the author's math. Birth and death rates are hardly constant.
Lionz wrote:If someone comes across a root system that conflicts with a theory of theirs having to do with climatic conditions in the past, should they twist what they see to fit the theory? Is that not what happened with Pando? What if He can cause plants to grow in any climate? What if the flood is not make believe and He directly caused thousands of aspens to grow out west right after it?
Well, if a creator is deliberately messing with such events, he's making it very difficult to discover his truth, is he not?
Lionz wrote:What would I use a water canopy theory for in regards to explaining a helium-4 level? There's a level of helium-4 on earth that backs me up perhaps.
I don't know, and I don't know that it's worth going back over. We'll chalk this one up to a miscommunication somewhere.
Lionz wrote:I said non-organic earth meaning earth that was not organic maybe... maybe not sure if I was meaning earth free from things that have been alive or carbon-free earth or both or neither, but what's been used to date earth itself and not a fossil?
The same methods to date fossils can be used to date rocks. Instead of going back to the death of the animal, radiometric dating will go back to when the rock formed. Igneous rocks are particularly useful for this.
Lionz wrote:I was able to go to the pdf file or whatever without breaking out a credit card to do so perhaps. There might not actually be a source reference for 10,000 cubic miles there, but I don't guess someone made up 10,000 without there apparently being thousands of cubic miles of sediment perhaps. You refer to a quote by me that I have never trusted maybe.... maybe whether or not I even trust myself comes down to definition.
It's right here.
The Colorado River delta itself is quite extensive. It covers 3325 square miles
(8612 square kilometers) (Sykes, 1937), and is up to 3.5 miles (5.6 km) deep (Jenning
and Thompson, 1986), containing over 10,000 cubic miles of the Colorado River's
sediments from the last 2 to 3 million years. The sediments that were deposited by the
river more than 2 to 3 million years ago have been shifted northwestward by
movement along the San Andreas and related faults. (Winker & Kidwell, 1986)
It's good to always be skeptical, though, even of yourself. Plenty of scientists have fallen prey to thinking they are being objective when they really aren't. It just means that we all have to be careful and try to help each other out.
Lionz wrote:What would rising land rationally explain in regards to the grand canyon? Is the Kiabab Uplift not about 10,000 feet above sea level and does the Colorado River not enter the Grand Canyon at about 6,000 feet above sea level?
If the Kiabab Uplift started at 6000 feet when the Colorado starting cutting through it, and was then pushed up by geological activity, it could be raised up to look like it flowed uphill.
Lionz wrote:I have been suggesting that single floods can lay down multiple sedimentary layers perhaps. I'm not claiming that a non-global flood can't lead to there being polystrate fossils, but I'm also not claiming that it has ever taken thousands of years for a foot of sedimentary layers to form. Do you theorize that it has? Has a single flood layed down over a dozen sedimentary layers meters apart? If so, what can sedimentary layers really tell us about how old anything is?
I would say that in some areas, 1 cm/1000 years would be accurate. But it's not applicable to every local area. Well, sedimentary layers can always give us a relative date (top layers are younger), but the flood layering also looks a certain way, so we can often tell what layers were deposited by floods, and what layers were deposited by other phenomenon.
Lionz wrote:Fountains broke open in certain places and we should not expect to find a single identical layer of sediment across the earth by any means perhaps.
I disagree with you on this point. If you filled a bathtub with water from three spigots and then let dirt settle on the bottom, it would still settle in a certain form. This would change as it drained, sure, but it would still leave a very specific patter all over the bathtub.
Lionz wrote:Does that Geology page or whatever actually say that a single fossil is running through multiple layers of strata?
Yes. In geology texts, the term used is "upright fossils"
Lionz wrote:I'm not claiming there was a preflood earth with no mountains, but would a cubic foot of water not theoretically be able to cover a perfect sphere larger than the earth? Earth has even expanded in size and used to be smaller maybe.
I think you may have mistyped. A cubic foot of water is a little more than a gallon or two. A cubic mile would not be sufficient either. Do you mean a foot of water all over the earth?
Lionz wrote:Did the Mt. St. Helens eruption not produce one or more meandering canyon in 1980? Whether or not in ash and not water laid sediment? Also...
That is a different type of phenomenon, but I'm not familiar with that particular example. Do you have a link I can look at? Also, how would that translate to a large flow of water?
Lionz wrote:
That's derived from a slideshow thing and derived with the help of one or more copy screen and paste to Paint technique and cropping and should contain more for all I know and does not contains words of my own depending on definition at least maybe.
Geologically speaking, steep walls mean softer rock. Would that not make sense?