There is abundant proof the biblical "flood" was an actual event
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| Started: | 4/1/2008 | Category: | Politics | ||
| Updated: | 14 years ago | Status: | Voting Period | ||
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 Pro 1. Petrified Forest National Park Due to the catastrophic nature of the global Flood, millions of trees were swept away by the raging waters. Some of these are now seen as coal deposits, others as peat bogs, and still others as petrified wood. Probably the largest deposit of petrified wood is to be seen near Holbrook, Arizona. About 10,000 petrified trees are at this location The evidence does not indicate that these trees grew in this area. They were transported here by current action. Further, it is evident that they were buried rapidly and catastrophically but not slowly and gradually. Dr. Dale Russell comments, "Clusters of stumps were buried upright, with some penetrating as much as 3 meters of overlying sediment -- in evidence of the rapidity with which sediments accumulated. (Dale A. Russell, An Odyssey In Time, The Dinosaurs of North America P.31) In the past, one or more Indians built a shelter out of the various pieces of petrified wood. The size of these petrified trees tell us much about the grandeur of the forest which grew in the world before the flood. Present day erosion continues to reveal yet more petrified trees. I ask my opponent to explain this to me under the assumption the flood did not exist.  Con ~ 225,000,000 years ago. Petrification involves the dissolving of iron and silica (glass) which then, over an immense amount of time replaces the wood's cellulose etc. The trees of the Petrified Forest National Park were buried in volcanic ash (the source of silica, iron etc). They could well have been transported there by water; the area is after all a large floodplain. I don't believe this indicates the story of The Flood to be true because: a) the Bible suggests The Flood took place within the last 10,000 years - not enough time for petrification b) the dating of material, and the life held within it indicate the trees were laid down over 200,000,000 years ago c) this floodplain's sedimentation is localised, not worldwide, as one would expect from a global flood |
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Pro TheConservative forfeited this round.
Con Possibly he has misallocated his time. Hopefully things will be better next round... |
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Pro TheConservative forfeited this round.
Con It's a bit of a pity because it appeared that he was going to argue from scientific evidence, which could have yielded somthing interesting. Now his account has been cancelled... again. |
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Pro TheConservative forfeited this round.
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It looks like some people don't read at all, OR they're really biased... it's truly a shame.
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