tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post2243556485953033295..comments2024-03-16T21:32:23.088-04:00Comments on A Sure Word: Wouldn't there have been a Grand Canyon on every continent?RKBentleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00566375018731000081noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-23342660691321572792016-03-08T19:41:05.094-05:002016-03-08T19:41:05.094-05:00Well, there's always Homo erectus. And the va...Well, there's always <i>Homo erectus</i>. And the various australopithecines, and the early <i>Homo</i> specimens which are not always sharply distinct from australopithecines. And of course the pseudogenes for vitelligenin (the main protein in egg yolk) in humans, in the same place relative to other genes as they are in chickens. The most obvious prediction of flood geology -- mammoths buried alongside duckbill dinosaurs, whale fossils found along with pliosaurs and mososaurs -- clearly aren't met. In point of fact, the Grand Canyon doesn't seem to me to be at all the sort of drainage feature that would be formed by a flood that covered the entire continent, so multiple such canyons are not better evidence.<br />Steven J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15638850493907393069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-32653042308943710652016-03-07T08:30:41.173-05:002016-03-07T08:30:41.173-05:00Steven J,
Are you saying Nye lost just that point...Steven J,<br /><br />Are you saying Nye lost just that point? Aren't you embarrassed that his only example of a strong prediction made by evolution was Tiktaalik? I think it's rather hilarious that his canyon-on-every-continent comment turned out to be a better prediction for our theory than Tiktallik was for yours. If evolution has made any predictions more successful than Tiktaalik, I wish you guys would start talking about them. I'm still convinced that the theory of evolution is the trivial-pursuit branch of science.<br /><br />I'm sure you'd like to walk back Nye's inadvertent endorsement of flood geology but it's rather obvious to everyone that an abundance of enormous geological formations carved by water would be expected had there been a global flood. Besides the ubiquitous canyons I discussed in my post, there are also large cave systems – like the Mammoth Cave in my beloved state of Kentucky. Oh, and there are the 2,000 square miles of channeled erosion which you've pointed out in the Eastern US.<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. God bless!!<br /><br />RKBentleyRKBentleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566375018731000081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-77929495368757113992016-03-05T03:00:14.044-05:002016-03-05T03:00:14.044-05:00Okay, Bill Nye lost that point. But note that str...Okay, Bill Nye lost that point. But note that strictly speaking, his claim was that <i>if</i> a global flood explains the Grand Canyon, it predicts such canyons on every continent. That's not quite the same thing as asserting that such canyons are, in fact, a prediction of such a flood. I myself would expect, instead, channeled scablands like those in eastern Washington, along the rims of the immediately post-flood continents (which might not be identical to our present continents, since young-earth creationists often believe in warp-speed continental drift to go along with their warp-speed "microevolution").<br /><br />Note also that such canyons, even if they are a prediction of flood geology, are equally explicable in terms of conventional geology, so don't support Noah's Flood more than they do uniformitarian processes operating over millions of centuries.Steven J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15638850493907393069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-35952871080475715122016-03-04T11:17:38.513-05:002016-03-04T11:17:38.513-05:00Yes, unfortunately Ken Ham might not have had this...Yes, unfortunately Ken Ham might not have had this information you shared, or the time to look into it. It would have been nice to see Nye's response to this argument Live.<br /><br />God Bless you too.<br /><br />JosueAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07669836050398714309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-49944036347606171232016-03-03T12:03:36.628-05:002016-03-03T12:03:36.628-05:00Josue,
Nice to hear from you. It's been a wh...Josue,<br /><br />Nice to hear from you. It's been a while Thanks for the encouragement! <br /><br />Nye should have been embarrassed by his performance given the number of goofs he uttered. The problem is, neither he nor his fellow believers see their error. No worries, though. It's just more material to blog about. <br /><br />God bless!!<br /><br />RKBentleyRKBentleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566375018731000081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030110973061875792.post-78378299110946128712016-03-02T13:50:30.200-05:002016-03-02T13:50:30.200-05:00Ouch Nye!!Ouch Nye!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07669836050398714309noreply@blogger.com