From: bivalve (bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com)
Date: Sat Oct 18 2003 - 19:30:25 EDT
>All of it [the "explanations" above] are nothing but pure rationalization needed to try to save the fatally flawed methodology. As Woodmorappe says, "CMBN" -- If it works, Credit Methodology, it if doesn't, Blame Nature to save methodology. If it doesn't work here, why should it work somewhere else? Why trust it anywhere?<
Many people believe in a concept called time. They say that devices called clocks indicate its passing. However, one day I observed several clocks in the geology department at UNC. Most of them showed small differences in the so-called time. One showed a time consistently differing by a few hours from the majority. Another had a fixed "time". Obviously time is a fiction and my wife is deluded when she thinks I get home late. One clock had no batteries, another had not been reset after power outages, and no coordinated effort was made to get the exact time set on others, but this is merely special pleading.
On the other hand, I do admit that the fact that flood geology explanations inevitably fail any time I check them out does eventually lead me to doubt that the method ever works. In contrast, radiometric dating does work where we can check it and the requirement of a reasonably closed system is met. You may recall a couple of postings to the list this year regarding 14C studies that confirmed Biblical dates for archaeological finds, disproving skeptical postdating (Hezekiah's tunnel and Solomonic prosperity confirmed instead of Maccabean tunnel and Omride prosperity).
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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