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To: dirtboy

“Wrong question.”

Wrong area! I would have used the example of the Columbia River Basin in eastern Washington and the huge floods from ancient Lake Missoula when the ice dam(s) failed. Pretty amazing stuff. “Ripple marks” that are 5 miles long and 100’s of feet tall. Of course doesn’t say anything about the young earth creation version, but does show that not everything in geology is gradual.


6 posted on 11/10/2009 9:03:19 AM PST by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: 21twelve
Of course doesn’t say anything about the young earth creation version, but does show that not everything in geology is gradual.

And geological science is coming around to that point of view. Especially with massive forces such as glaciation involved. However, that is not a violation of uniformitarianism as many YEC types like to claim, it just means that we are still learning about geological processes, because we haven't been studying such for very long (long as far as the Earth is concerned). We'll discover new processes going forward as well. But the new processes also happened in the past (there are records of glaciation from hundreds of millions of years ago, for example), so uniformitarianism is not violated - uniformitarianism simply states that geological processes that are happening now also happened in the past.

7 posted on 11/10/2009 9:08:56 AM PST by dirtboy
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