Noah’s Ark Found!!

[hyzer]

Thus fossils visible “on the top” of a mountain aren't generally shells deposited on an already-existing mountaintop by an extraordinarily high ocean. They're fossils inside former seafloor rocks that became the mountain.

I always find these ideas intriguing as answers, which could be various explanations mentioned in posts, - being curious about the bit (the viewpoint), before there were mountains. It will be an interesting conversation..me thinks.

How to say "I don't know anything about geology" without saying "I don't know anything about geology". Forget the whole "English language" thing about how the sea life is fossilized, in the bedrock.

In my life, I have uncovered a few fossils (trilobytes), deep in shales (100+ feet of shale rock). Fissile deposits that took a long time to settle out, and then an even longer time to become rock. Most things in geology indicate a very very painfully slow process of time and pressure. Anything in geology that involves significant in the moment forces stick out like a sore thumb and are not common.

I love how the creationist opinion is that all the types of shellfish climbed all the mountains on earth during the flood and somehow burrowed into the mud that somehow covered all of the mountains during the flood only to become fossils from the non-existent weight when the mud and water receded . . . . and they all lived happily ever after. The End.

 

[bilby]

The idea that Noah's Ark could still be in one piece despite being exposed to the atmosphere and insects is just yet another "I have no idea what I'm talking about" aspect to people who insist the Global Flood as told in the Jewish scriptures happened.

It's not the "I have no idea what I'm talking about" that really grinds my gears, it is the implied corollary "but I just make shit up to fill in the gaps, so probably that's what everyone else does, so therefore they are just as full of shit as I am, and hence I can believe whatever I like, because no claims are better than any other claims, except the ones in the Bible which must be true because, duh, they are in the Bible".