Yellowstone & Catastrophe (General)

by David Turell , Monday, December 22, 2014, 15:46 (3410 days ago) @ dhw


>dhw: Secondly, a personal note to David, who wrote: “Dhw thinks I'm closed-minded. I'm not, but I can't know everything, and I work to conclusions I've had time to cover.” I don't think you are closed-minded in general - on the contrary, having worked closely with you for so long, I find you extremely tolerant and open on many issues. However, in the context of your anthropocentric view of evolution, I do find you surprisingly intransigent. .... I remember vividly your acknowledgement that he might well have created earlier universes. If your mind was closed, you would have abandoned us long ago, and I for one am deeply grateful that you haven't.-A long time ago it seemed logical to me that humans were God's end point. I have seen no evidence or argument since then to change my mind. WE are different in kind, against all odds. 'Nuff said.-As for other universes. Of course God might have done this before. He has eternities. But we are here now. Let's just discuss this one. we can't learn anything about past ones before the BB.
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> dhw: On the subject of Yellowstone, with trees from Asia, there are many similar anomalies, such as fish fossils being found on the tops of mountains, and as I'm sure you know, one theory that explains them is catastrophism, -I know you love Catastrophism but fish fossils on mountain tops are easily explained as mountains rising up from sea bottoms. The theory of continental drift says pressure between plates pushes up the mountain range. Since the 1960's this is first year geology 101.