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Quote: 'Chariots of the Gods' which was apparently a sensation in its time.
It was. I was surprised how many people read it and took it seriously. There was also Velikovsky, with "Worlds in Collision".
A more useful (heavy) read would be A History of God by Karen Armstrong.
Wiki backgrounder at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_God
Review at http://frimmin.com/books/historyofgod.php
There is a pdf copy of A History of God here http://images.hitungmundur.multiply.multiplycontent.com/attachment/0/Sch8EAoKCEA...
( I don't know how legal that copy is)
Quote: By the way, if you are proposing that the upright trees were caught in a single cataclysmic event, would not the trees be embedded in a single 40-foot sediment and not multiple layers?
The point they are trying to make is that the these upright trees are NOT found in a single sediment layer, but pass through several. The idea that these separate layers each took millions of years to be deposited seems a bit difficult to comprehend when a single trunk passes through all of them. The proposal that there was a flood would mean debris would be washed back and forth, and so it would be much easier to bury several layers in a short space of time, if a trunk or trunks were trapped in an upright position then those layers would build up around it. I do believe the sand particles in such layers are quite sharp, which would again mean rapid movement as millions of years of wave motion would render those particles smooth.
If debris were washed back and forwards by a single event it would not leave distinct layers in 40 days because the silt first put down would not have accreted enough to resist the turbulence.
So just because you do not understand the process for the multiple layyers does not mean a single event is the answer - you just need to read more and understand it better.
Quote: The idea that these separate layers each took millions of years to be deposited seems a bit difficult to comprehend when a single trunk passes through all of them
True, but not all rock layers took millions of years to be deposited. Some of these trees are found within layers comprising of rock formed from a series explosive volcanic events, but most of these trees grew in coastal planes where various processes resulted in relatively rapid layering, see here. The trees buried within layers of volcanic origin could not possibly have been caused by a flood and radiometric dating shows these volcanic layers to be millions of years old, and whatever AiG says about radiometric dating is a desperate lie that they get away with because most people can't grasp the science behind it.
Quote: I wonder if anyone on here has read the Bible from start to finish?
I have it in ebook form and started to read it on my Kindle..................... but I didn't get beyond the "begats". 
I skipped the begats when last read the Bible. I didn't make it all the wy throught the Old Testament though. I got bored towards the end. One day I shall attempt the New Testament.
Billlee:
Adam and Eve begat Cain and Abel. Where did their wives come from???
When you say very close..
OBG! (Oh Billlee's God!)
Surely you're not talking about a henious and ungodly act that only some kinda sick, twisted m-----f----- would indulge in??
Yep.This site gets into all sorts of logistical knots trying to explain it
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c004.html
And don't forget about when Noah and his family survived the flood.
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I'm starting to wonder if begat isn't some sort of euphemism...
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