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[+] Geodad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Have you seen the heat argument?

In short, the Young Earth Creationist position is that all the plate tectonics and radiological dating issues happened because of the flood. This means the plates would have to have moved very fast, and the resulting friction creates heat. Incredible amounts of heat. Likewise, radioactive decay releases heat, too. To do all the changes necessary to do that in the space of about a year it would generate enough heat to turn the entire planet into a plasma.

This may actually be "checkmate, YEC!", at least in a sense. Not because they'll change their mind about God or anything, but because they prefer to have physical solutions if possible. It's easier to convince other people if you keep reliance on the supernatural to a minimum. But there's just no way around this one. You have to rely on the supernatural to fix it. There's just too much heat, otherwise.

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[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought that the Earth was molten rock, then cooled, then rained/flooded, and then sometime later, single cell organisms/life.

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[+] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

kagis

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/harvard-scientists-determine-early-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world/

According to a new, Harvard-led study, geochemical calculations about the interior of the planet’s water storage capacity suggests Earth’s primordial ocean 3 to 4 billion years ago may have been one to two times larger than it is today, and possibly covered the planet’s entire surface.

“It depends on the conditions and parameters we look at in the model, such as the height and distribution of the continents, but the primordial ocean could have flooded more than 70, 80, and even 90 percent of the early continents,” said Junjie Dong, a Ph.D. student in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who led the study. “In the extreme scenarios, if we have an ocean that is two times larger than the amount of water we have today, that might have completely flooded the land masses we had on the surface of the early Earth.”

They're saying that there isn't enough water on the surface today, but that an undetermined amount of water that used to be on the surface is now below the surface, and it's possible that that amount is sufficient that all land was at one point submerged.