QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

... You know I only mentioned a global flood right? Nothing about any deity or anything else.
You know I( only mentioned creationism, right? Nothing about a deity... Just saying, that sword cuts both ways. But hey, you show me someone who espouses a global flood and NOT creationism, and I'll concede that one point. I, for one, have never met such.
QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

1) A prior environment on earth had 50% more oxygen and two to three times more air pressure. This causes hyberbaric chamber-like conditions, causing creatures to grow much larger, live longer, and have more efficient gas exchange.
In the vernacular: [citation needed]
QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

2) There are fossils of winged creatures with wingspans ~16 feet. Apparently there are also fossils with wingspans of 33-35 feet, as someone else has linked (I was not aware of/remember those).
Yeah, that was me. I linked that.
QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

There are actually more than 700 flood legends the world over, many having similar parallels (six people on a boat with two of every kind of animal). And please do not mix your religion with good science. I understand many people believe it, but that simple fact alone does not make it fact. In fact, abiogenesis has been proven wrong for the last 150+ years.
...and there are even more legends of the world being created from nothing by a deity. Legends are not facts. They're not evidence. They're legends. Nothing more.
Oh, and you clearly misunderstand that the word "abiogenesis" is not the same as "spontaneous generation." However, as the only alternatives to abiogenesis are life eternal and no life at all, I'm curious as to which you think is true, given that it has been proven for over a hundred and fifty years that life never began.
QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

I don't know, I think alligator scales are a little tougher than human skin, for instance. Make that alligator ~10 times bigger...
Rhino hide is tougher than alligator scales, what's your point?
QUOTE (Neraph @ Jan 26 2010, 01:10 AM)

Isn't that with normal pressure? What if this gas is super-pressurized inside special reserve organs? Theoretically that should grand enough lift, if it is pressurized enough. (Please note I do not like this theory either, just that with enough pressure it is feasible. Now, containing a gas with that much pressure on the other hand leads to its own problems...)
If the gas is pressurized, it becomes heavier, not lighter, as it has become more dense. You'll notice that helium tanks do not float away under the super-lifting capacity of the compressed gases within.