Message from @Amadeus
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Yeah, but that's the trick. It requires a lot of energy and high pressures to do so, which, geologically speaking, would take an extrmely long time to do due to how long it takes for the geology of a region to change.
It can take less than a week. With catalysts you can get it down to 2 or 3 days.
Also, we have the fortune to have nature providing us the already condensed material to use to make synthetic oil.
This is Biblically supported by the global flood. Uprooted tons of dirt/mud that piled on top of all the dead stuff.
Nature had to work with literally plant matter in order to produce coal.
Problem with that is that you need the equivalent of miles of sediment and stone to be shifted into place.
With the global flood, that happened.
It didn’t just rain a lot. The earth was literally separated.
Water exploded out from the ground.
But that would only shift the sediment in those areas, not the equivalent of mile-high mountain ranges.
Across the entire globe.
The religious theory I've heard is that there was an extremely thick layer of moisture/water in the atmosphere that was almost like another ozone layer that was brought down and flooded everything.
That one isn’t really supported by science. It technically could work, but isn’t supported as a possibility.
The plate tectonics thing likely was caused by the flood.
As in Pangea was real. Then the flood happened and shifted everything.
It wasn’t an easy thing where just rain fell and then just went like a smooth river out of the ground. We’re talking a cataclysmic event that shook the foundations of the planet.
It was so catastrophic that nearly every society has that story seared into their cultural memory.
Yeah, I'm not buying it.
The information is there. You just have to read it. Read the Bible parts mentioning the flood. Read some apologetics sources talking about it.
Yeah, I still don’t buy it mainly because the theories for the direct Biblical interpretation are less plausible.
i'd like to look more into that, it sounds interesting
Yeah. I’ll look for stuff and post it tomorrow.
Actually this didn’t take long. Each “heading” is another article. So just pore through these. And this is just the fastest one I could grab. If you want more I’ll have to dig.
okay, thnx, i'll look into it
Not really, no. Geology generally suggests that fossilization is a slow process that is circumstantial. Also, the Great Flood was most likely a reference to the last glaciation period, which was roughly around the time people were beginning to settle down and were domesticating crops. The flood heavily impacted the Black Sea and the modern-day Persian Gulf, which would have been mostly dry land with fertile river valleys where some of the first settlements could have existed. However, when sea levels rose, those regions were flooded and the fertile land would have been lost. In some cases, such as with the Black Sea, it would have been rapid flooding with the entire basin flooding within a year or less.
When you say fossilization, do you mean the process of dirt piling on top of a once living creature or do you mean the process of the once living creature turning to stone? So do you think the flood was a local flood then and not global?
Making diamonds is a full fledged industry now
I believe the flood was global and significantly altered the landscape, perhaps even the separation, joining, rise and fall of landmasses
Genesis 7:11 says something to the effect of all of the fountains/springs of the great deep burst forth/broken up, and that's not rain.
That kinda massive cataclysm and movement of the landmasses themselves would create a lot of pressure on whatever was caught between them
The Pacific Islanders were rocked a few years ago by that wave caused by an earthquake. I want to say it was the Philippines and/or Indonesia specifically. Imagine a continent breaking into like 5 pieces and the water displacement that would cause.
The global flood is also supported by following human migration patterns. We know that various groups of people migrated from around modern day Turkey outward. As they traveled, the people named geographic locations after Noah and his sons. Now the places aren’t called Noah Mountain or Ham River, but they’re derivations of their names in the language of the people group that named it. This isn’t necessarily proof of the flood, but it supports the Tower of Babel.
yea, you can even turn the ashes of your loved ones into diamonds
India got hit by that too, a lot of places did
The whole Pacific rim I think
Ah ok. I just remember the islands because of the news talking about how bad it was for them.
There isn't enough water in the world to cover every land mass, and if there was it would be higher than Mt. Everest, which means the water levels would be so high in altitude it would freeze.
However, there are accounts in various ancient religions about a great flood.
Which means Noah and his family weren't the only survivors.