In his post #650 Kalamata takes another detour off-topic, this time to defend his, ahem, unusual opinions on evolution.
To save time & space I think we can compress his arguments down to one key point:
Kalamata: " I have been a Christian for most of my life, but I was also an evolutionist until about 8, maybe 9 years ago (after I retired,) when a friend asked me to take a look at the geologic column.
If you understand fluid mechanics, and sedimentology generally, you cannot miss the FACT that those sedimentary layers were deposited rapidly.
I had no reason to doubt the text books and literature, until I saw contrary evidence for myself."
This story does not sound to me like the workings of a mind with any kind of real scientific education.
How does a true scientist reach his seventh decade without ever having studied a geological column, or understood how it's layers are dated, or noted the evidence of prehistoric plate tectonics, or even considered the evidence used to estimate astronomical distances?
Only if such knowledge were totally blank could someone even entertain the notion that sedimentary layers were deposited "rapidly", or more importantly all at the same time, in one global flood event?
Now, back to the Civil War...
Only if such knowledge were totally blank could someone even entertain the notion that sedimentary layers were deposited "rapidly", or more importantly all at the same time, in one global flood event? Wait. Whut? You don't believe in a global flood event? And you think you are scientific?
What rock have you been living under not to be aware of all the evidence demonstrating a global flood?
Are you aware that during the last ice sage, the ice sheet above Kansas was a mile thick?
What do you suppose happened to all that water?
>>Kalamata wrote: "I have been a Christian for most of my life, but I was also an evolutionist until about 8, maybe 9 years ago (after I retired,) when a friend asked me to take a look at the geologic column. If you understand fluid mechanics, and sedimentology generally, you cannot miss the FACT that those sedimentary layers were deposited rapidly. I had no reason to doubt the text books and literature, until I saw contrary evidence for myself."
>>BroJoeK wrote: "This story does not sound to me like the workings of a mind with any kind of real scientific education."
In Joey's scientifically-challenged mind, if you do not believe you evolved from an ape, and the earth is a gazillion years old, you cannot be a scientist. LOL!
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>>BroJoeK wrote: "How does a true scientist reach his seventh decade without ever having studied a geological column, or understood how it's layers are dated, or noted the evidence of prehistoric plate tectonics, or even considered the evidence used to estimate astronomical distances?"
Let me take a wild guess: those scientists who did not work or study in any of those fields, and had no reason to challenge their professors, or the propaganda?
Again, that is just a wild guess.
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>>BroJoeK wrote: "Only if such knowledge were totally blank could someone even entertain the notion that sedimentary layers were deposited "rapidly", or more importantly all at the same time, in one global flood event?"
Only a scientifically-challenged dunderhead could believe a mile, or so, of thick, homogeneous, sedimentary rock layers, most containing almost no erosion or bioturbation, and many loaded with marine fossils (even the top layers,) were deposited gradually over half-a-billion years. Earth scientists, such as geologists and hydraulic engineers, would have to be severely brainwashed to believe such nonsense, after seeing the evidence.
It gets worse for the evolutionist. The following photo of the Grand Canyon points to 100+ million years of missing sedimentary rock:
Why is that a problem for the evolutionist? Imagine rock layers sitting there for over 100 million years without experiencing any erosion in, or organisms boring into, the top of the layer. It remained flat until another layer formed on top of it more than 100 million years later. That is impossible. The only possibility is, both layers were deposited by hydrological sorting via a huge flood.
Mr. Kalamata