Talk:Neptunism

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The last thing that I want to do is to start the flood geology thing all over again in a new place. However, some of them apparently see themselves as heirs to the old theory, since they agree that everything that we now see was essentially the result of water, precipitation of chemicals out of water into rocks in the case of Neptunism, all shaped into its current form by the action of water in "flood geology". Rlquall 17:11, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As a creationist, I have never heard of flood geology being likened to Neptunism, nor of flood geology arguing for precipitation of chemicals out of water into rocks. However, what you may be confusing things with, is the idea that the earth was created as a ball of water (certainly the Bible talks about it being totally covered with water when first created), and then some of this being converted to rock ('and God caused the dry land to appear', to paraphrase). But even with that, I haven't heard a creationist argue for any particular method such as what you describe for Neptunism. Philip J. Rayment 11:43, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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This addition by User:72.38.231.234 lacks sources and needed drastic formatting, so I've taken the article back to an earlier version with modifications. Vsmith had reverted it as at copyvio from http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/darwin/sect2.htm but as that "is in the public domain and may be used without charge and without permission, released May 2000" there should be no problem given proper attribution, and rewording where appropriate. ... dave souza, talk 09:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)