Deseret News Article: Proof of the Flood

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Drifting wrote:Did Deserted News get rid of all the proof readers or something?


They pretty much got rid of most of their staff reporters. Other than "values" reporting, news is left to a skeleton staff that produces content for KSL and the Deseret News. A lot of what you see in the DN these days is a news summary article with links elsewhere. The rest is stuff submitted by freelancers (DCP's son and the mayor of West Valley City, for example).
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It's settled then. Time to return to church everybody!
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Had to be Water. Couldn't be the Wind. Dumbass.
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Having worked at Hanford for more years than I should have, I can tell you that a "nuclear safety engineer" working there would be an "engineer" in name only. If Morgan really is a licensed mechanical engineer, then he is sorely underemployed. Nuclear Safety Engineers normally have no special education or qualifications. They mainly operate and maintain radiation counting equipment. It is extremely unlikely that he would have any qualifications in geology.

Living in the Richland Washington area, Morgan should be very familiar with geographically widespread "wave patterns" in soil and sediments caused by catastrophic flooding, not only in sand and sandstone, but in any number of soils. Richland lies in an area that was periodically flooded catastrophically by waters from Glacial Lake Missoula.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_Lake_Missoula

The channeled scablands and huge soil wave patterns that were created by these floods can only be appreciated from the air. Since such flooding events were widespread in an area of well over 1000 square miles after the last ice age, Morgan should know better than to ascribe these kinds of geological deposition patterns, whether in Utah, Arizona or Washington State, to a global flood.

These patterns are created by flowing water as in a catastrophic flooding where great amounts of soil and debris are transported. They can also be formed on a lake beach or at a seashore by constant wave motion. Problem is, they don't look anything like the formations that Morgan is talking about.

Morgan's claim that only a "tsunami" 200 feet high could have created the patterns as shown in the article is pure bs. The formations are ancient sand dunes that and the patterns seen were formed primarily by the action of wind on the ancient dunes.

There is no reason to expect that these patterns would be found everywhere on Earth as a result of a global flood. Yet the article indicates that the young Earthers believe this is the case.
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What is the issue being discussed here?
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Hoops wrote:What is the issue being discussed here?

Evidence for lack of rudimentary reasoning capacity among Young Earthers.
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DrW wrote:Evidence for lack of rudimentary reasoning capacity among Young Earthers.


And the capacity for the DesNews to publish a one-sided article from young earthers.
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Hoops wrote:What is the issue being discussed here?

Another man's bias confirmed that all land on earth was covered in water using his own absurd personal subjective observations.

Care to add your personal subjective observations which confirms your bias about how the global flood did occur?
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Darth J wrote:
Darth J wrote:I swear the creationist museum people have said that the six-inch serrated teeth on Tyrannosaurus were for eating coconuts. I am going to find where I saw that.


http://fishfeet2007.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... onuts.html

http://digitaljournal.com/article/177963


I wonder how many coconuts a T. Rex would need to eat every day? No worries, though. Those big teeth and massive jaws would do a good job cracking walnuts and pecans, as well.
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DrW wrote:
Hoops wrote:What is the issue being discussed here?

Evidence for lack of rudimentary reasoning capacity among Young Earthers.


:D!
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