Originally posted by wasteofo2
There are stacks of evidence in many many cases showing highly abnormal burning, like someone burning to ashes in 15 minutes, or fire spewing from someone's mouth as he was talking with his brotehr and father at home etc.
Please produce evidence, or links to said evidence.
However, the only actual support of SHC, besides debunking it's attacks, is this:
Note: I didn't come to these conclusions on my own, this is merely something presented to me, I make no claims that any of this is right.
-Phosphorus and molecules containing it are commonly found in food.
Only elemental white phosphorus burns spontaneously, certainly phosphates, such as in the body and food, cannot burn - they are already oxides. Elemental phosphorus is highly toxic, it won't normally be found in food.
Phosphorus burns at a very low temp, it's not going to consume a body, volitilize the ~70% of water, and burn the flesh down to the bone.
-There are some digestive acids (I think in the stomach) which can digest phosphorus down to individual atoms.
Sorry, but this is crap. Phosphates, exposed to acids, form phophoric acid.
-Some Diphosphate atoms form from free floating phosphorus
Diphosphate? Various phosphorus oxides exist, but I've never heard of Diphosphate (as an independant molecule/chemical). As a radical, such as calcium diphosphate or magnesium diphosphate, but these not flammable.
-When oxygen gas and diphosphate come in contact with each other they can combust.
Aside from the fact that diphosphate doesn't exist - the fact it's called diphosphate indicates it's an oxide - i.e. already burned. While some incomplete oxides can burn, the will produce much less energy than a completely unburned fuel.
-If o2 and diphosphate come in contact with each other in the presence of methane gas or some other gases which are combustible in your body, you ignite. This explains why often it's only the torso and head which are burnt and why in eye witness accounts flames come from the mouth.
I realize you have a poor grasp of chemistry, so I will try to be kind. This is yet more pasture fertilizer. First, methane forms in the gut. O
2 doesn't exist in the gut. Second, they would explode, but not burn much, assuming they did combine in the correct explosive limits of methane and oxygen
and met with an ignition source.
Burning a body takes a lot of energy because it has to drive all that moisture off. The number of BTU's expended in a cremation is quite large.
The slow combustion, with death occurring from smoke inhalation and the body allowed to burn slowly, in a moderately enclosed environment, using the bodies fat and the clothes as a wick is the most logical and most straightforward explanation of the confirmed cases of human combustion of unknown origin.
