You and your creationist web sites are misrepresenting the geological column, ignoring the effects of plate movements and discontinuities resulting from faulting and erosion occurring due to plate movements. It’s easy to win a debate if you define your opponents position. I’ve yet to see a creationist paper or sermon that didn’t misrepresent geological or biological findings. It’s actually the discontinuity that gives evidence of deep time and the tectonics at work.
How did the flood neatly sort the more primitive fossils into the deepest layers of limestone and more recent fossils into the older layers of limestone. How did the flood cause ancient fossils to be found with ancient fossils and thus, you can’t find trilobites with ocean dwelling reptiles ever. Humans are never found with dinosaurs in spite of the newly made “footprints” the ICR claims but doesn’t allow reputable scientists to examine. Never do you find elephants with triceratops but you do find human fossils with now extinct elephants (mammoths). If the flood wiped out all but eight humans, you would expect to find human fossils everywhere in the rock strata all over the world.
There is money to be made by creation scientists and they don’t have to work nearly so hard. Think of it. No laboratories mor complex than high school science labs and that for photo ops. You can just go out and create a controversy over scientific findings or go back and pick at Darwin’s lack of causes in some areas and ignore Amy modern science in those subjects and then run out saying, “I’ve disproven Darwin and thus evolution is false.”
“No flood hypothesis I’ve seen claims there would be a ‘mishmash’ of rock layers”
Take a blender and toss in small rocks, pea gravel, sand fine mud along with enough water to fill to 3 or so inches above the solids. Run the blender a minute or so to simulate the flood. Stop it and wait for the solids to settle and what do you find? The larger rocks will be on the bottom with pea grave above followed by sand and the fines will be last to settle out and form the top layer. That’s not what you find in nature. Go out to a highway cut and see for yourself.