{"id":981,"date":"2011-04-04T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/04\/to_the_ridiculous_answersingen\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T01:02:10","slug":"to-the-ridiculous-answersingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/04\/to-the-ridiculous-answersingen\/","title":{"rendered":"to the ridiculous (answersingenesis)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is a strange place &#8211; not least because it makes easier to stumble across such strange juxtapositions as PZ&#8217;s sublime posting on killling and a strange&nbsp;and ridiculous&nbsp;piece by AIG (Answers in Genesis) that lays the blame for the Noachian flood on earthquakes (&amp; I have to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencestandards.blogspot.com\/\">Ted<\/a> for pointing me at the latter).<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously. Apparently (in this strange parallel universe) &quot;Japan&#8217;s earthquake proves Noah&#8217;s flood&quot;. (The link is to <a href=\"http:\/\/sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/22\/icr-japans-earthquake-proves-noahs-flood\/\">the <strike>Serious<\/strike>Sensuous Curmudgeon&#8217;s post on this<\/a> &#8211; I have no wish to drive up AIG&#8217;s web traffic!)<\/p>\n<p>Inside this world-view the terrible March 11 quake (&amp; its associated tsunami) are &#8216;small&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the thought that it could have been much worse is comforting to those affected. Supposedly huge earthquakes leave behind the evidence of their own existence in &#8216;superfaults&#8217; &#8211; unfortunately most geologists would beg to disagree. (This &#8216;quakes cause faultlines&#8217; is eerily <a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/02\/20\/a-shaky-date-for-your-diaries\/\">reminiscent of a claim by our own &#8216;Moon Man&#8217;<\/a>.) And if one &#8216;small&#8217; earthquake-generated tsunami could do so much damage, think how much greater the harm from (&amp; I quote) &quot; the barrage of tsunamis generated by continuous, worldwide earthquakes during the year-long Flood of Noah&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And there was me thinking it was all due to 40 days &amp; nights of rain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>(Edit: &amp; I hope the Curmudgeon will forgive me for getting the name wrong. I blame the i-pad&#8217;s spellchecker running unchecked!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is a strange place &#8211; not least because it makes easier to stumble across such strange juxtapositions as PZ&#8217;s sublime posting on killling and a strange&nbsp;and ridiculous&nbsp;piece by AIG (Answers in Genesis) that lays the blame for the Noachian flood on earthquakes (&amp; I have to thank Ted for pointing me at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>to the ridiculous (answersingenesis)... : BioBlog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/04\/to-the-ridiculous-answersingen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"to the ridiculous (answersingenesis)... : BioBlog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The internet is a strange place &#8211; 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