From: Glenn Morton <glenn.morton@btinternet.com>
> >God directed and or altered the path of the asteroid's orbit to
> >intersect with the orbit of the earth.
>
> WOAH, WOAH!!!. You said no miracles and now you have God altering the
paths
> of the asteroids. You are contradicting yourself. Either the asteroids
> followed natural laws invented by God or they didn't. They can't do both
at
> the same time.
For God to alter the course of the path of asteroids would be no different
than for me to turn the steering wheel of my car to change it's path. God's
altering of the paths, perhaps by the influence of his power through his
thoughts, is no different. I use my hands, God uses his thoughts. No
difference but for capabilities.
> And a few months ago, I pointed out to you, I believe, that asteroid
impacts
> would over heat the earth and burn everything up. And you argued strongly
> that God would NOT follow natural law. When it is convenient for you, you
> try to follow natural law. When it isn't you proclaim a miracle and then
> claim you are following natural law (which of course you are not doing at
> all).
From what I remember of that previous conversation, I argued that the
calculations you presented were badly flawed and I present calculations
which showed that heat would not be anywhere near the temps you claimed. I
showed that the oceans could easily absorb the heat of a hundred or more of
the largest impacts just to reach a temperature of 30 degrees C which Oard
assumes in his theory on a "Warm" Ice Age. I also quoted a source that for
an increase in surface temperature of one degree C, the radiation out put
from the earth would also increase by one degree C.
> >
> >The Bible does not call the Flood a miracle, so why should we?
>
> So why are you calling it a miracle by appealing to God to alter the
course
> of the meteors and then ignoring the laws of energy set up by God which,
IF
> FOLLOWED IN A SERIES OF SHORTLY SPACED ASTEROID IMPACTS
> would burn up and kill everything on the planet?
See above, your calculations are flawed, which I pointed out before.
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