iT'S ESY TO GET DISCOURAGED AS A CREATIONIST BECAUSE THE EVOLUTIONISTS HVE SPENT SO MUCH TIME ELABORTING THEIR THEORY AND STUFFING THE LITERTURE WITH THEIR STUDIES OF ALL THE FACETS OF BIOLOTY AND GENETICS AND GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY SO THAT THE CONTRARY VISION OF THE CREATIONIST CAN'T GET A WORD IN EDGEWISE AS IT WERE.
iT'S EITHER AMUSING OR FRUSTRATING DEPENDING ON MY MOOD TO READ OR LISTEN TO THE USUAL DESCRIIPTIONS OF EARTHLY PHENOMENA FROM THE EVOLUTIONIST POINT OF VIEW, AS THEY GO ON AND ON CONJURING UP HISTORICAL SCENARIOS ABOUT OF SCANT CLUES AND JUST ABOUT NEVER EVER DESCRIBE THE CLUES THEMSELVES SO THAT A PERSON COULD APPLY A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION TO THEM. oR AT LEAST QUESTION THEIR EIINTERPRETATION.
sO WE HEAR ABOUT HOW A PARTICULAR CREATURE DEVELOPED A STRATEGY UNDER CERTAIN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, AND HOW THE CILIMATE WAS CHANGING IN THIS OR THAT TIME PERIOD FROM DRY AND HOT TO WET AND COOLER OR SOME SUCH, BUT IT'S THE STORY WE GET, NOT THE EVIDENCE ITSELF, NOT THE LITTLE CLUES ON WHICH THEY BUILD THEIR HISTORY. sO cOYNE FLATLY ANNOUNCES THT THIS OR THT EVOLVED FROM THIS OR THAT IN SUCH AND SUCH A TIME FRAME AND BRANCHED OFF OR WHATJOT AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AND THEN TELLS CREATIONISTS WE BETTER BELIEVE IT OR ELSE. cUZ HE BELIEVES IT, AND HE BELIEVES IT SO INTENSIVELY THAT HE DOESN'T NEED TO BOTHER TO TRACE OUT THE EVIDENCE THAT LED HIM THERE. sI GE;S GIT sO HE'S GOT A CREATURE THT IS FOUND IN DIFFERENT VRIATIONS IN LAYERS ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER, SOME LARGER AND SOME SMALLER AND JUT CDECLARES THAT THEY REPRESENT THE EVOLUTION OF THE SAME CREATURE AND THT IN SOME TIME FRAME IT WAS SMALLER AND IN SOME LARGER BECAUSE OF THE EINNVIRONMENT OF THE TIME, WHICH OF COURSE HE DOESN'T EXPLAIN IN ANYH CASE.
tHIS CAN BE AMUSING, SOETIMES EVEN MAKE ME LAUGH OUT OLOUD BEAUE OF COURSE i HAVE MY OWN PRETTY SOLIDLY FORMED IDEA OF HOW THINGS HAPPENED THAT IS DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM HIS. THOSE ARE DIFFERENT CREATURES IN THOSE LAYERS BY MIY LIGHTS, NOT THE EVOLUTION OF ONE SPECIES BUT ENTIRELYDIFFERE VARIETIES OF THE SAME SPECIES THAT ALL COEXISTED AT THE SAME TIME. THEYH KJUST HAPPENED TO GET BURIED IN DIFFERENT LAYERS. hE'SLL POINT TO OSMETHIHNG HE IS CERTAIN IS THE COMMON ANCESTOR OF TWO SPECIES BUT BASED AS FAR AS I CAN TELL ONLY ON THE FCT THAT IT SORT OF LOOKS LIKE IT MUST BE THAT ANCESTOR IF YOU BELIEVE THE THEORY BUT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE THEORY IT'S JUST ANOTHER CREATURE THAT EXISTED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE ONCES HE IDENTIFIES AS ITS DESCENDANTS.
aLL THESE GUYS FIND A LOT OF CTIVITY IN THE STRATA. i FIND A LOT OF DEAD THINGS THAT GOT WASHED UP ON THE LAND IN THE FLOOD.
iT'S INTERESTING TO HEAR ABOUT THE PHENOMENA NEVERTHELESS, A LOT OF THINGS DID HAPPEN IN THE PAST THAT i WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ALTHOUGH i HAVE TO IGNORE THEIR TIME FRAME, MAYBE USE IT TO SEE IF OSMETHIGN CAME BEROFORE OR ANFTER SOMETHING ELSE BUT OTHERWISE FORGET THE MILLIONS OF YEARS. aND SO ON. sO i'M INTERESTED IN WHAT THEY CALL sNOWBALL EARTH FOR INSTANCE. wHEN THE GLACIATION SPREAD FROM THE POLES TO VERY NEAR THE EQUATOR. VERY INTERESTING. tHEY THINK THERE WER EABOUT FIVE ICE AGES, i FIGURE THERE WAS ONE AND IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN FORMED SOON AFTE THE END OF THE fLOOD. THE PRE fLOOD WORLD WAS PRETTY TEMPERATE AND HUMID TO JUDGE FROM SCIRPTURE REFERENCES TO IT, THE THTHEN THE fLOOD OF COURSE WOULD HVE DEVASTATED THE ENTIRE PLANET AND LALAID DOWN ALL THOSE LAYERS OF SEDIMENTS WITH ALL THOSE DEAD CREATURES IN THEM. THEN AS I FIGURED IT OUT SOME TIME AGO, AND YEAH i KNOW YOU THINK i'M A NUTCASE BUT SO WHT, ANYWAY AS i FIGURED IT OUT IT WAS ABOUT THAT TIME THAT THE CONTIENTS SPLIT APRAT ND STARTED THEIR DRIFT WITH A BANG THAT HAS SLOWED OVER TIME TO ITS CURRENT HARLY PERSCEPTIBLE RATE. i WOUJLD ALWAYS GET A LOT OF OBJECTIONS TO SUCH A SCENARIO BECAUSE i HAVE IT ALL HAPPENING FAIRLY VIOLENTSLY AND THE CONTEINTENTS MOVING TOO FAST ACCORDING TO THEM AT THE START OF THE SPLITTING, BUT THEN , THANKS TO THE lORD'S PROMPTING i HAVE NO DOUBT, i REALIZED THT PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THE GREAT HEAT THAT MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED BY ALL THAT ACTIVITY WOULD HAVE RAPIDLY EVACUATED INTO THE \\\\SPACE BECAUSE THE CANOPY OF MOISTURE THAT HAD COVERED THE EARTH BEFORE THE fLOOD HAD FALLEN IN FORTY DAYS AND IGHTS OF RAIN AND WOULD HAVE LEFT THE EARTH EXPOSED TO SPACE. METEORS TOO, LIKE THE ONE THEY LUAGHABLY THINK KILLED THE DINOSAJURS. METIORS WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE UPHEAVAL. aNYWAY THE APID EVACULATION OF HEAT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT ON THE ICE AGE, one ICE AGE, THE "SNOWBALL" EARTH THAT EXTENDED SO CLOSE TO THE EQUATOR. hOW LONG IT LASTED i DON'T KNOW BUTG CERTAINLY NOT MILLIONS OF YEARS. i FIGURE IT'S BEEN GRADUALLY RETREATING EVER SINCE IT WS FORMED, IN SMALL INCREMENTS WITH OCCASIONAL ADVANCES FOLLOWING RETREATS AND SO ON UNTIL IT'S PRETTY MUCH OVER WITH BY NOW, NOT COMPLETELY SINCE WE STILL HAVE SOME GLACIATION AT THE POLLES OF COURSE, BUT ALMOST, AND IF YOU NEED A N EXPLANATION FO CLIMATE WARMING THERE YOU HAVE IT.
tHE SCIENTISTS ARE VERY DETAILED IN THEIR STUDIES OF THE FOSSIL RECORD , WHERE EACH FOLSSIL IS FOUND IN THE PARTICULAR SLAYER OF SEDIMETN AND SO ON, SO AS TO ASCERTAIN WHAT EVOLVED FROM WHAT IN WHAT TIME FRAME . THEY'VE AMASSESD AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF DATA. i THINKA LOT OF IT WOULD TURN OUT TO BE VERY USEFUL TO A CRETINIST BASED SCIENCE IF WE EVER GET THAT FAR BACK TO SANITY, BUT i SUPPOSE SOME OF IT WOULD REMAIN PECULIAR TO THE EVOLIUTIONIST FRAME OF REFERENCE AND NOT USEFUL. BUT IN A CREATINJIST FRAMEWORK WE'D STILL WANT TO STUDY ALL THE LIVING THINGS THAT LIVED BEFORE THE fLOOD ADN THERE WERE LOTS OF CREATURES THAT NO LONGER LIVE AMONG US. LL VERY INTERESTING STUDIES. J yOU KNOW, LIKE THOSE DINOSAURS THAT LIVED BEFORE THE fLOOD AND GOT KILLED OFF IN THE fLOOD, NOT BY A METEOR.
oH WELL.
