rl quick footing , saidQuote:Your phrase 'the present mountains' ignores the fact that they weren't always mountains, which was what my statement addressed.
Coral and sedimentary rock on mountains gives us pretty good evidence that the real estate in question wasn't always a mountain. Dig?
Yeh, I dig that youve gotten yourself into a factual dilemma
Are you now saying that THE FLOOD occured before the Rocky mountains and the Himalayas were even raised? Wow, now we are really pushing the global activities calendar up a bit. Imagine all the mountains on earth are post Flood. (even though your original argument stated that the "marine deposits " on top of mpountains implied a flood. Ill let that original argument pass because this is even more interesting
You realize that the more you dance around , the more you lose credibility
For example , if we were to accept that the mountain ranges were "post Flood", there exist, Fault lines that are synchronous with the tectonic emplacement of the himalayas as India slammed into South Asia. These faults , extend westward into the Hindu Kush and the Afghan Highlands. These same large regional faults underlie building ruins of ancient civilizations and these civilizations (although several thousand years old)
were not affected by the tectonic forces that located them (The faults move sediments of the Oligocene and Pliocene, but not the later Pleistocene and Holocene) So, using the logic that your worldview dictates,(assuming that the Flood was a defining historical moment) The Flood would have occured while the Kush and The Himalayas were undersea deposits. Then, the were raised up and faulted post flood, Then all the sediments of the Plesitocene post glaciation had occured (because the fault lines are covered over). Then and only Then were civilizations located , lived in , and then gone to ruin.
When do you feel that all this tectonism had occured while still allowing all the rest of history to have passed unaware ? I think somebody would have noticed all these mountains being raised and India slamming into Asia (all the while the Indians were going about their daily chores seemingly unaware that their borders were gaining elevation at the rate of about 10 feet per year)
Whatever tack you take with these "oceanic sediments on top of mountains" argument, you dont add any credibility to your argument overall. Youre like a liar who must always keep track of your lies because its really difficult to avoid entrapping yourself. Im not calling you a liar, I truly believe that you believe this. However, you must try to keep all the points of your argument firmly in mind. The devils in the details.
