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In summary: Nothing it knowable and reality is unreliable.

Had a quick look regarding replenishing of wells and I see no indication of that replenishment of "new " oil. Rather, it is more likely that the extraction of the main oil bearing trap is subsequently refilled from other oil bearing strata due to pressure differential. Also, with the advent of newer methods and technologies such as fracking, formerly producing areas could be revisited to access previously non recoverable resources.

I'll have a look. (Edited to add - I see the heading, but I don't see an article) I don't accept Gap as a literal historical narrative of the early earth. I think there is some potential value when viewing the Genesis narrative as an early cosmology held by the Hebrews. @FreeGrace, while I don't embrace his view, brought up some interesting textural use of the "formless and void" which further convinces me we are dealing with story-telling and worldview building first and foremost, rather than a treatise on the how and when of these things - theology before all else.

This is not an either/or proposition. There are alternative interpretations that honour the text, while not conflicting with the general revelation. Creationists create ad hoc solutions to problems, but rarely take the next step of ensuring their solution does not conflict or contradict their other solutions to other problems. Right now, biological evolution is the best explanatory framework for the diversity of life on earth. That does not mean it is right, but that it's the best current one. There are creationists scientists working on potential models (ICR is into something called continuous environmental tracking). AiG and CMI both accept natural selection and mutation as mechanisms for adaptation and speciation, both part of the suite of known evolutionary mechanisms. I assume they also accept the other mechanisms as well since they are well evidenced and observed.

If your view that Creation and the Flood were wholly supernatural events then I don't have much argument with you. But here you are making testable claims of ark capacity to hold all of the created kinds (which are rather arbitrarily designed, likely to get the conclusion needed - to fit on the ark), that then somehow speciated into the orders of magnitude more species, while also having even more species going extinct in the last 4400 years. So it's not just about populating, but also extinction.

Other than teaching that the Bible describes a great Flood (true), any of their suggested mechanisms are grossly inadequate ad hoc explanations of what we see in the world around us.

Young or old, the earth contains all the resources it has (excepting the occasional meteor impact). That's not really up to debate. Concentration of the these metals and minerals into economic resources for extraction is another matter. Would not a mature creation view essentially say that every copper deposit, gold deposit, lithium deposit was created in place, as-is? But we see the processes that concentrate and create mineral deposits in action today (black and white smokers, hydrothermal activity at Lihir/Ladolam gold deposit).

That source seems like a lot of different voices making various claims including the ones you included, but many others contrary so I'm not sure that is a particularly great source.

This is why I said earlier that it is a literary symbol or allusion. It does not represent an actual historical state of the universe or earth. This is language that is consistent with the cosmology of the ancient Hebrews, as well as their contemporaries. Bringing and applying any modern concept to this language is adding to the text.

I'm not sure I follow what you are seeking to clarify. The chaos is the starting condition, nothingness, if you will.

Or maybe is a literary allusion to primordial chaos...

No ice age mentioned in Genesis 1. Or anywhere else recorded in the Bible.

Funny how back in the Bill Clinton days, the cons were all about character.

As I recall, Mar-a-Lago has a series of covenants or restrictions on it that forbid development, hence it will never be as valuable as land that can be redeveloped or repurposed.

This number is a "statistically likely" event value. It's not a cycle that occurs every 284,000 years. Here's the Live Science article from which the OP was drawn. I cannot seem to locate anything like a source paper.

And now with the red herrings. As I said earlier, tribe over truth.

I am not making accusations. We have judgments against him by a court of law. He probably should have realized that becoming such a public figure would bring much greater scrutiny and exposure to all his dealings.

Or he could have not used shady business practices. And been a molester. Character was everything, so they said back in the day. Now it does not matter at all. Tribe over truth.

Resurrecting this with some new info. So True the Vote was in court recently, the ones behind much of the assertions of the "2000 Mules" documentary cannot provide the court any evidence of their allegations. (here)

A couple thoughts: Some would argue that Christians behave a certain way because of the threat of hell. If that is how someone regards their faith, then yes, that is actually going to be a miserable way to live. The church has been known to not allow for much "fun" behaviour because of verses like "avoiding all appearance of evil". My parents, who grew up in the Reformed churches of Netherlands in the 40's and 50's, really hated Sundays because you could do nothing. My mother was not even allowed to read a book because of the "day of rest". It sucked the joy and made religion a burden. It was a case of "Sabbath made for man, not man made for the Sabbath".

The Bible directly states that pi is 3. It's right there in the instructions for the Sea. It's about as prose as language gets. Since it was given a diameter, even if fractions were unknown, the circumference should be 31 cubits - that's an integer, not a fraction. The point is, you don't read the Bible literal like you claim to do (and demand everyone else should), or you make allowances for all sorts of things. No, you read as a modern 20th-21st century person does.

Is pi exactly three?

Interesting that dispensationalism seems to be on the way out with the younger generations. Also interesting that the survey data is from 2021 and the drop was that pronounced over the period. I would suspect with the latest war with Hamas, that might be dropping even more.

That's fine. I don't have a problem with "I don't know, but this is what I think". YEC as used typically implies a young earth. You might better fit under the Old Earth Creationist (OEC) group, but there is likely various definitions under there as well. Generally, these discussion are typically rooted in the hypotheses and interpretations put out by the major creationist organizations like Answers in Genesis, Institute for Creation Research and Creation Ministries International. Since they make testable claims, then they are subject to scrutiny. Unfortunately much of their explanations are on an ad hoc basis and they rarely consider implications of one explanation on another process or interpretation.

I have read that slavery was on the decrease prior to the war. Ironically, perhaps, the development of the cotton gin led to an increase in the amount and value of slaves as it made cotton a much easier crop to process and led to the rise of the wealth of the South. The failure of the South to diversify it's economy was a contributor to its decline (and Britain also sat out, despite being the primary export country for cotton).