Comment on Radioactive Clocks – and the “True” age of Life on Earth by Victor Marks.
This all sounds good, but I think many of us are putting our confidence in the writer and not in the evidence itself. The simple reality is that there are two sides to any story. The author is clearly very biased in his approach to presenting facts, and the average reader is unwilling to examine, untrained to interpret, and unable to even access much of the very substantial original literature that bears on the topics in this essay. In sum, we become cheerleaders and champions for a cause–indeed, a crutch–we understand very little about. Confidence comes from knowing Jesus firsthand, not from examining secondhand evidence of his existence and claims.
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Recent Comments by Victor Marks
Dinosaur Nests and Tracks – During a World-Wide Flood?
Victor Marks:
@Sean Pitman:
Okay, let me be more clear.1. I’m struggling with dinosaurs surviving “months,” as you’ve proposed, which describes a period that goes far beyond the 40 days of rain that supposedly covered every inch of the earth’s surface. You haven’t addressed this.
2. Forget the “relatively normal behavior,” bad word choice on my part. And don’t put words in my mouth; I never brought up anything about trackways, though I’d say the conclusions go well beyond the evidence.
3. The arrows in Chadwick’s talks and paper DO go many ways. I have a bigger issue with any interpretation that explains the supposed unidirectional current flow. The notion that “huge tidal waves thousands of feet tall traveling at hundreds of miles per hour around and around the globe” explains nothing. The earth is spherical. How could waves that go around and around the globe be unidirectional? That’s totally absurd, Sean. And it would be more so if there was any dry land to deflect the waves, as you’ve suggested with the tides that go in and out, creating dry land for dinosaurs to lay eggs that are then washed over with sediment. In my mind, the only way globally unidirectional flows could happen would be if the globe was rotating faster than the waves progressed–like a basketball spinning on the tip of the finger of a Harlem Globetrotter. But maybe you’ve got this trick figured out. Please tell!
Dinosaur Nests and Tracks – During a World-Wide Flood?
@Sean Pitman:
Data. Data regarding tourist effects. That’s all I’m asking for. Data.
Dinosaur Nests and Tracks – During a World-Wide Flood?
@Sean Pitman:
Yes, I have seen Dr. Chadwick speak, and his maps had arrows pointing every which way. How could you have not seen that? It would also be nice to see Chadwick’s work subjected to peer review by those who have actual expertise on paleocurrents. Let’s be clear: your faith is in Chadwick, not the evidence.
Okay, so we had lengthy periods of calm, with relatively normal animal behavior, and then sudden deluges from massive tsunamis that animals somehow survived such that they could return to their relatively normal behavior, until the next deluge struck. Very curious reasoning, but this is your show.
Dinosaur Nests and Tracks – During a World-Wide Flood?
@Sean Pitman:
I was referring to the impact of **tourists** on egg deposition. I was unable to find any published data regarding that, and am skeptical. One of your links went to a Guardian News story that is no longer available–and is hardly a credible source.
Dinosaur Nests and Tracks – During a World-Wide Flood?
“The Flood was complex, not a uniform increase of water all over the globe. It seems to me at least possible that land animals, like dinosaurs in particular, could have survived the initial months, or even the majority of the year-long Flood.”
If it rained 40 days and covered the entire planet, how could the dinosaurs survive “initial months?” This hardly sounds like the cataclysm portrayed by Ellen White, in which Lucifer feared for his life. Nor does it resemble other comments in your subsequent paragraphs.
“continental, or even worldwide paleocurrents, all pointing in the same general direction for a given series of layers (Link)”
All pointing in the same direction? I don’t think so. This statement in no way resembles the many arrows pointing in many directions that I have seen in Dr. Chadwick’s presentations. I don’t believe he would claim they all point in the same direction.
Consider these two statements: “huge tidal waves thousands of feet tall traveling at hundreds of miles per hour around and around the globe” and “As the tide “went out” from a particular location, there would be periods where dry ground would be exposed for a short while before before returning yet again and again with more and more sediment.”
The two statements couldn’t be more contradictory. Think about it.
Pardon my saying so, but your assessment of flood events comes across as incohesive. I suggest revisiting this section.
