Posted: Apr 22, 2011 12:59 am
Net Traveller wrote:Hi I just want to say that I know the real reason that clams and sea shells have been found on mount everest is due to plate tectonics, everest was once under the sea. But we all know creationist like to use the sea shells on mount everest argument as evidence that Noah's flood was real. anyway I saw one creationist post that when clams die they open up and that the clams found on everest and other mountains are all closed therefore he reasons they died under pressure (from a global flood) and rejects plate tectonics. what is the answer to this? how can i rebut this claim?
This is an old standard of Kent Hovind (and of course his son Eric who does little but parrot is old man.)
It is not true that all clams open when they die. Nor can I find any support for the assertion that all the clams fossils on those mountains are closed anyway.
Furthermore; the assertion that this is evidence for Teh Flud is just question begging nonsense. All they are doing is saying "See this could have fit within our flood story, therefore it is strong evidence for it." Rubbish; merely fitting within an idea does not count as anything close to positive evidence.
If it is true that there are a mass of closed fossil clams on Mount Everest, then all this would infer is that for some reason (of which there could be many, including disease, any manner of rapid burial etc.) they died that way. Not that this particular physically impossible global flood of myth actually occured! Or even that those kinds of fossils at that period of history didn't tend to open on death.
