Posted by Jaypeeto [Jaypeeto] on April 01, 1999 at 20:49:21 {feW1wc1uNQ0hi4VK0MIQHq/lZhRVmk}:
In Reply to: No 'grey area' in Flood? posted by WW on April 01, 1999 at 19:47:50:
I, too, have wondered about the formation of the Grand Canyon by one little river. I do not, on the GC issue, know both sides of this argument.
Nor will I pretend to know.
Nor do I know ***all*** the arguments in the
Flood
controversy. Nor do I hold that there was no flood.
I have simply stated that AF and others have done a masterful job at bringing forth conclusive evidence ***against*** the particular catastrophe put forth by the YECs, including THEIR
claim
that the geologic column and all fossils were formed by this flood/global volcanic hellhole/
many-miles-wide Meteortie conglomeration of catastrophes which they claim occured
around 4,000 years ago.
There is LOTS of
evidence that this scenario
is patently ridiculous.
Are you aware, WW, that these folks (the YECS)
also hold that there was no death of any sort whatsoever prior to the FALL of Adam and Eve,
none, of ANY life-forms, except
maybe PLANTS (after all our First Parents had to EAT).
This UNIQUE interpretation of THEIRS is
what is the driving force behind THEIR insistence that all these things (Grand Canyon, Geologic Column, Dinosaur fossils, etc. etc. etc. ad
nauseum) are the result of this multifaceted
catastrophe just 4,000 years ago.
THEIR "private" interpretation that NO ANIMALS
EVER DIED prior to Adam's fall, again I repeat,
is what drives this theory of theirs.
There is
nothing to substantiate this theory.
No physical evidence. THEY are the ones, WW, who brought forth the MISleading accounts of
herds of SUDDENLY-FROZEN woolly mammoth herds in Siberia. The key being SUDDENLY-FROZEN while
in
mid-chomp on a delectable buttercup.
The very sources they MISquote from do NOT read according to the quotes you find in their literature.
That is not AF's fault, or Jan's fault, or
some atheist's "fault" whatsoever.
YEC's, like the WTS, frequently grab at any tidbit that appears to back them up, yank it out of it's context, and print it.
Best to you,
Jaypeeto