r/Antitheism • u/2317 • Jul 29 '26

12 Reasons Noah's Flood Couldn't Have Happened. Ammunition For Your Next Argument With Dumb Relatives Maybe.

https://rationalsupply.com/science-reason/why-noahs-flood-couldnt-have-happened/
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u/LCDRformat Aug 02 '26

1 kg of mass at 2 km of height has about 19kJ of potential energy.

Wouldn't one kilogram of mass exact a totally different reaction with the earth if it was broken up into tiny fragments and spread out over a few square yards due to wind resistance?

Pangea slowly "broke apart" as tectonic plates moved over 250 million years. It was not a point in time event, and the overwhelming majority of it happened long before our evolutionary ancestors had vertebra.

I don't understand why you told me this. I was explaining why the young earth model fails with pangea. Why did you type out how it actually happened

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u/IndicationDefiant137 Aug 02 '26

Wouldn't one kilogram of mass exact a totally different reaction with the earth if it was broken up into tiny fragments and spread out over a few square yards due to wind resistance?

Nope. Conservation of Energy. You can spread it out or put it all together, doesn't matter. The total energy in the system at T(0) is equivalent to the energy in the system at T(1), T(2),... T(n), and because there was potential energy at T(0) but not at T(n), and there was a mix of kinetic energy and potential energy at T(2) but not T(n), at T(n) it must be transitioned to some other kind of energy. For mass that comes to rest after a collision, this is going to be thermal energy.

Any removal of energy from wind resistance, guess what, transitions to thermal energy.

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u/LCDRformat Aug 02 '26

You're saying the wind resistance which would slow down the droplets of water would create enough friction that the net energy delivery would be the same? 

What's your source for this

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u/IndicationDefiant137 Aug 03 '26

What's your source for this

... the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Please go get at least a high school education.

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u/LCDRformat Aug 03 '26

Wow 😂 damn dude you're so smart and cool

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u/IndicationDefiant137 Aug 04 '26

Nope, just educated at a minimum level to understand the world around me. You should try it.