you ever read bible scripture / or do you always judge things before reading. ? And how did fossils get to the top of such high mountains ?
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Read it, was repelled by it, rejected it, as would anyone who read it with an open mind. Next question?
Oh, that's an easy one. Fossils deposited in lower strata, then the whole mass uplifted when more matter was forced beneath it when the continents collided, like islands of solids floating on a molten core. You can see mud cracks and ripple marks and the flat layers of water-deposited mud, no longer flat, but tilted and uplifted from beneath so some pieces are on the top of the mountains. Pretty neat, how geology works!
"And how did fossils get to the top of such high mountains?"
The fossils are simply older than the mountains. Life has been around on the earth for a long, long time.
how did fossils get to the top of such high mountains
Google "orogeny". Mt. Everest is said to be growing about 4 mm a year. That doesn't seem like much, but if that rate were constant, it would work out to about a mile in 400,000 years.
not only have i never read the bible (cover to cover, anyway; snippets here and there were quite enough), but i've also never read the vedas. yet i still don't believe in hinduism, either.
atheism, expert level: not believing in shintoism, despite being unable to not read shinto holy books! top THAT!
And how did fossils get to the top of such high mountains ?
Not by a global flood. Where did all that water go, then?
I've read parts of the Bible, and I usually judge things using experience, not preconceived notions.
During the ice ages, ground was pushed together to form mountains, by the force of the ice layer. Also, there is life on top of mountains too; how did Ötzi's remains get to the top of such a high mountain.
I actually HAVE read the Bible but I'll argue that you CAN judge something before reading the whole thing. I didn't have to read the entirety of the dictionary to know that it's a good reference book for words. I didn't have to read the entire works of Shakespeare to know he's a great writer. And (even though I did) I didn't have to read the entire Bible to realize it read like a book of myths. I didn't have to get through GENESIS to realize that. Talking animals, people with convenient names, the one and two dimensional characters, the fact that there's always a lesson to learn, the incessant symbolism, etc. This is how humans write fiction. There is nothing unique in the Bible that hasn't been done before or since in other holy books or in other books of myth, fable or legend.
And how did fossils get to the top of such high mountains?
Those mountains weren't always mountains. The Sahara wasn't always desert. The Atlantic Ocean didn't always exist. The Earth changes over time. Hell, we've observed entire islands that were never there appearing due to volcanic activity. Call it tectonic activity or call it Jesus sitting in the middle of the planet but the fact that the surface of the Earth is in a state of constant change is indisputable.
I now have a picture in my head of Satan, two Sherpa's and five-six Yaks struggling up some snowed-over mountainside, carrying sacks of fake fossils.
Satan: "Stupid fossils...mumble-mumble...stupid mountains....mumble-mumble.....stupid Yetis....mumble-mumble....freezing my nuts off....mumble-mumble".
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg
So, the theory is that the Great Flood covered all the mountains, right? And these marine animals managed to migrate up these mountains...in seven months. Seven months to colonize mountain tops during the violence of the Flood.
I mean, also, this Flood built the mountains up? Most violent water events break mountains down and wash away the erosion as silt, but okay.
THIS flood magically pushed a whole ecology into shallow waters... Then they died when the waters receded. And fossilized.
Under the pressure of a few inches of mud, waaaaaaaaaaaaay up in the mountain?
And these fossils would be indistinguishable from the fossils formed at the bottom of the sea, under incredible pressures, over centuries...?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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