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The Origin of Specious Nonsense. Twelve years on. Still going. Answer soon.
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... and do you have any evidence that a horse's skull, that looks like it could have been Shergar's ... is 700,000 years old??:)
Well, yes actually.
The horse bone from which this DNA was recovered was taken from a dig in Thistle Creek in Yukon Territory
The bone was buried in permafrost in a region of tephra, fragmentary material resulting from volcanic eruptions. Using fission track dating, the researchers were able to date the find to 560-780,000 year ago.
Gold Run tephra: a Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenviromental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada
Ancient Permafrost and a Future, Warmer Arctic
So, that's how we know that the horse fossil is 700,000 years old. So where's your evidence that its only 70 years old.I have a serious question here, which is more historically accurate - Noah's Ark, or Santa delivering all those presents?
Santa, by a mile.
At least in the Santa story we have a core element which we can verify historically. The modern Santa Claus is largely based on Sinterklaas, the Dutch figure.
Sinterklaas is, in turn, based on the figure of Saint Nicholas, albeit a heavily modified account of his life. Saint Nicholas or Nikolaos of Myra as he was originally known was a 4th century bishop in Turkey. He was known for secret gift-giving which is the essential element of Santa Claus. His existence and works are well attested by multiple independent sources. He was an attendee of the First Council of Nicaea as documented in Philip Schaff's "The Seven Ecumenical Councils". His early life is chronicled in Scott Ingram's "Greek Immigrants".
By contrast, the story of Noah's ark is not supported by any historical evidence. No remains of the ark have ever been found. Noah is not attested to anywhere outside the bible and is instead an homage to Ziusudra, hero of the Sumerian myth. As I have detailed previously, most of the story of Ziusudra and its parallel tales Atrahasis and Gilgamesh were used as the basis for creating the Noah story in the first place.
So, ultimately, the Santa Claus story is one which is heavily exaggerated but built on a core historical truth, whereas Noah is a myth at every level.0 -
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So, ultimately, the Santa Claus story is one which is heavily exaggerated but built on a core historical truth, whereas Noah is a myth at every level.
Ah here now, credit where credit's due. I'd imagine people built boats that worked in the rain for transporting animals, so there's probably a small kernal of truth in there somewhere.
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I don't believe a word of it. ... and this is what one of the abstracts that you linked to says :-Well, yes actually.
The horse bone from which this DNA was recovered was taken from a dig in Thistle Creek in Yukon Territory
The bone was buried in permafrost in a region of tephra, fragmentary material resulting from volcanic eruptions. Using fission track dating, the researchers were able to date the find to 560-780,000 year ago.
Gold Run tephra: a Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenviromental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada
Ancient Permafrost and a Future, Warmer Arctic
So, that's how we know that the horse fossil is 700,000 years old. So where's your evidence that its only 70 years old.
"Gold Run tephra has been found at Thistle Creek, Sixtymile River, and the Klondike goldfields of west-central Yukon, Canada. It is a hornblende-bearing rhyolitic tephra with thicknesses of up to 10 cm at each site, suggesting a widespread distribution across interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory, given the long distance to the nearest volcanic centre. Old Crow, Flat Creek, and TA tephra beds are stratigraphically associated with Gold Run tephra at our study sites and have distinctive compositions. Gold Run tephra is not accommodated by the current classification scheme for late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory — a scheme based on the physical and chemical attributes — so that its provenance is unknown."
Which basically says that conventinal science hasn't a clue about how it formed or where it came from (or when it was laid down) ... using conventional geological assumptions.
However, the widespread distribution of the gold tephra is consistent with the wordwide scale of Noah's Flood ... and it's accompanying widespread volcanicity and ability to move vast quantities of material and distribute it evenly over equally diverse areas ... ans so the provenance of the Gold Run tephra is known to Creation Geologists.:cool:0 -
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