Flat Earth Society.

[uppi]

Is the problem that it has gone, or the timing of such loss?

Both.

Is that the difference in reading a book and writing one?

No. If the book was a mystery novel, the normal approach would be to read the book from beginning to end. The YEC method would be like looking at the book, deciding that the gardener is the murderer, then skipping until the somewhat sinister description of the gardener is reached, then thinking "I knew it" and then shutting the book. I don't know what to call that approach, but it neither reading nor writing.

 

[timtofly]

Then you are saying that the author was supernatural and did know the beginning from the end?

It does not seem that it is implausable, but improbable.

We imagine a lot of singularity events, but we cannot imagine one where the earth was more level and that water covered more of the surface. Even when it is in "recorded" history, we have no explanation of where the water went, and it is plausible that such an event could have pushed up mountains in a short period of time?

We did have the movie 2012, which did show us such an event, but of course like anything else it is regarded as fiction. I never said that we have to accept what happened in the past. We can just as easily make it up as we go along.

 

[uppi]

Then you are saying that the author was supernatural and did know the beginning from the end?

It does not seem that it is implausable, but improbable.

No.

We imagine a lot of singularity events, but we cannot imagine one where the earth was more level and that water covered more of the surface.

That we could imagine. But that is a very different story than there being more water in total.

Even when it is in "recorded" history, we have no explanation of where the water went, and it is plausible that such an event could have pushed up mountains in a short period of time?

No. The amount of work required to push such large masses around requires extremely large timescales. If there was so much energy to shape the landscape in such a short time, everything would start to get extremely hot and there wouldn't be any water any more, just steam.

We did have the movie 2012, which did show us such an event, but of course like anything else it is regarded as fiction. I never said that we have to accept what happened in the past. We can just as easily make it up as we go along.

In that movie, physics ran out of the room, crying, in the first five minutes. It cannot serve as a reference at all.

 

[Silurian]

No. The amount of work required to push such large masses around requires extremely large timescales. If there was so much energy to shape the landscape in such a short time, everything would start to get extremely hot and there wouldn't be any water any more, just steam.

Scandinavia is rising but this is taking place far to slowly to support the YECs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound