Scientific Evidence does not support a Great Flood

Thank you, Muted, for your swift response to bring forth your opening statements. I look forward to your rebuttals to the arguments against a Global Flood. I. Plate Tectonics Please forgive me if I misunderstand anything. I had a difficult time understanding your argument here. Therefore, I will summarize the rebuttal given by Talk.Origins. [1] In the next round, please be a bit more detailed and specific. I would like you to better structure your arguments (refer to the PM). First, the Theory does not work without miracles – The thermal diffusivity of the earth would have to increase ten thousandfold to get the subduction rates proposed, and something would have had to cause the advance of the retreat of magma. A divine intervention would have also been necessary to cool the new ocean floor and raise sedimentary mountains in months. Secondly, Bamumgardner’s own modeling shows that during the Flood, the currents would be faster over continents than over ocean basins. Therefore, sediments should be removed from continents and deposited in ocean basins. However, the sediments on the basins are on average 0.6 km thick, while on continents, they are an average of 2.6 km thick. Finally, the Cenozoic sediments are actually post flood according to his model. Yet these fossils show 65 million year record of evolution – certainly not something that was flash flooded in the deluge. II. Fossil Conditions I could not find anything in your sources to show this. In your eighth source, I read this [2]: Fossilized impressions of soft-bodied organisms are exceptionally rare in coarse-grained strata. Fossilized mass-stranding events of soft-bodied organisms are even rarer. The Upper Cambrian Mt. Simon–Wonewoc Sandstone in central Wisconsin contains at least seven horizons characterized by hundreds of decimeter-sized impressions of medusae; these represent one of only two fossilized mass-stranding deposits. Medusae exhibit features nearly identical to those observed in modern scyphozoan strandings, including impressions of subumbrellar margins and gastrovascular cavities. This deposit provides insights about soft-tissue preservation in Phanerozoic marginal marine sediments, and suggests that large soft-bodied pelagic organisms were abundant in Cambrian seas. What this has to do with a Global Flood is beyond me. Your seventh source stated this[3]: Bone bed 43 is one of at least eight paucispecific Centrosaurus bone beds located in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. It long has been used as a case example for evidence of herding and social behavior in dinosaurs, but a detailed analysis of the site has not been presented until this study The bone bed is dominated by the disarticulated, mostly fragmentary and slightly abraded remains of Centrosaurus apertus, with minor occurrences of other taxa, notably teeth from the large tyrannosaurid Albertosaurus libratus. Fossils occur in a stacked to amalgamated succession of lag deposits, deposited and reworked at the erosional base of a paleochannel. The most parsomonious scenerio suggests that Centrosaurus material represents part of a large aggregation of animals (possibly numbering in the thousands) that died by drowning on the alluvial plain. Disarticulation occurred at a point upriver from the bonebed site. Scavenging by theropods, primarily Albertosaurus, at or near the original site of death is suggested by the high number of shed theropod teeth. A subsequent event prior to fossilisation moved the material to its present location removing many juvenile-sized and hydrodynamically light elements from the original death assemblage. Evidence for distinct size classes amongst the preserved elements is not supported by the data, but the size range of elements preserved are representative of living individuals that would have ranged from small juveniles to mature adults. The large data base of specimens from bone bed 43 allows for the illustration of the ontogenetic changes that occurred in the diagnostic cranial elements of Centrosaurus. Once again, what does this have to do with what you are saying? III. Strata The sorting of sediments into laminae according to particle size and density in a turbidity event is known as a Bouma sequence, and it is well known that such a sequence can be deposited in a short period. In addition, volcanic pyroclasts are known to form laminae rapidly. My opponent’s source is unique amongst what I found in claiming that his valid, but limited, laboratory findings are equated to a fundamental revolution in geology. Finally, my opponent’s source fails in his work to demonstrate that the major stratigraphic groups, which are hundreds of meters thick, could possibly have been, or were laid down rapidly. [4] Back to you. [1] http://www.talkorigins.org... [2] http://geology.gsapubs.org... [3] http://www.jstor.org... [4] http://www.evolutionpages.com...