Tim Helble

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  • Work Hydrologist at National Weather Service
  • About "Intellectual rigor annoys people because it interferes with the pleasure they derive from allowing their wishes to be the fathers of their thoughts." - George Will

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    Tim Helble commented on Were Most of Earth's Fossil-Bearing Sedimentary Rock Layers Deposited by Noah's Flood? A Look at the Cononino Sandstone
    Martin, You’ve certainly hit on the gist of the problem for young earth creationism. However, I prefer to say things a bit more diplomatically. Adherents to young earth creationism can be very bright people. I’ve met some who actually do have PhD degrees, just as it is claimed by the folks at Answers in Genesis. The point I’m making in the presentation is that they just haven’t thought through their beliefs about the Flood and considered whether it is even realistic for enough sediment to be transported laterally in a matter of days to form a single rock layer. I think it’s understandable for someone to step back and say ’Oh, all these rock layers were deposited by the Flood,’ because most people haven’t been taught how to think quantitatively. Even if a young earth believer realizes that transporting all the sediment to form a rock layer in a matter of days is physically unrealistic, there is still a major stumbling block in the form of a particular interpretation of Genesis 1-11. Many Christians are afraid that their whole values system will come tumbling down if they decide that young earth creationism and Flood geology in particular is false. As an old earth believing Christian, I believe this fear is unnecessary, but it does keep a lot of people trapped in a system that has no support in the physical world.
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    Tim Helble commented on Were Most of Earth's Fossil-Bearing Sedimentary Rock Layers Deposited by Noah's Flood? A Look at the Cononino Sandstone
    Hi James, Could you be a little more specific about what you mean by other possible explanations and interpretations? Are you referring to some kind of alternative to Austin and Snelling's subdivision of S.W. USA sedimentary layers into pre-Flood, early-Flood, and late Flood layers? Does your explanation/interpretation assume that the Grand Canyon layers aren't Flood deposits at all? So far, all I've seen in your Youtube videos are qualitative assertions -- nothing quantitative at all, but I'll keep watching.
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