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    • Darkard@lemmy.world
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      My guess is: “if evolution was real then why didn’t they evolve to survive like everything else? God drowned them all because they were evil”

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        No it’s stupider and more complicated than that.

        There’s too much proof evolution exists, so they had to pretend that is part of God’s plan too, but it doesn’t work like science says it does.

        The Bible says Noah got 2 of every “kind” of animal. So they made up a new label for the animal Kingdom. Animals fall into different “kinds.”

        Instead of getting 2 spider monkeys, 2 capuchin monkeys, two marmosets, etc, Noah got two chimpanzees. God killed every other primate species in the world with a flood. Then all the monkeys and apes we see today evolved in the 10,000 years (6,000? I forget) since they got off the ark.

        So all the fossils from the flood are the species whose “kinds” were accounted for elsewhere.

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          Only somewhat related, but can you imagine what the smell must have been like from the trillions of human and animal corpses after that flood? I’ve thought about that plot point for years, but no one else seems to.

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          One of the go-to talking points is to try to differentiate “macro-evolution” and “micro-evolution.” So they can claim to be okay with things like wolves becoming domesticated dog breeds, etc…while still opposing “the lie” of evil-lution.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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            That’s always a fun one. Any observable examples of transitional species is “micro-evolution” and anything they can handwave away is “macro-evolution.”

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I think I love Bill Nye’s response about the Grand Canyon during the evolution vs creation debate.

    Basically he said if the Grand Canyon was created due to the flood, why aren’t there more canyons that have similar depths? If the flood truly occurred at the same time everywhere, surely we’d see evidence of the same water erosion patterns in more places but only one exists.

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      6 months ago

      Facts and logic aren’t necessary when you’re religious so this question will go straight over their heads.

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      6 months ago

      And Ken Ham’s entire argument was “were you there?” which he never applied to himself.

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      Gotta love that they went with a snail, which already has a calcified shell, and whose soft parts are only very rarely preserved as fossils. It’s a really bad example.

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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      The buffaloes shot by cowboys 150 years ago never turned into fossils.

      Really makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?

      Should be a butt ton of fossils in southern Brazil soon.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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    Some large geologic structures can actually form relatively quickly. e.g. The Great Lakes were created from meltwater of retreating glaciers 10-12 kya (although the underlying rift basin could be more like a billion years old).

    But the Grand Canyon is not among those.