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To: Servant of the Nine
Geology is earth science, not evolutionary science.

Sedimentation, volcanic upheaval, etc. are very different than the evolution of species.

Hey...I was a geology student once. My sister is a PHD in the field and has worked studying earthquakes for a long time. She's very good. I respect science a lot.

750 posted on 12/20/2002 8:31:42 PM PST by Windshark
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To: Prentice
Hey...I was a geology student once. My sister is a PHD in the field and has worked studying earthquakes for a long time. She's very good. I respect science a lot.

Hey, so was I. I grew up in a household of Petroleum Geologists. My dad was President of several Oil Companies, and a visiting Fellow of th AAPG. He gave graduate lectures at Universities all over the country. Petroleum geology is a very different thing than conventional geology because you are looking for organic materials. Stratigraphy is dated and defined by micropaleontology, which is grounded in evolution.

In both Geology and Evolution gradualism is the theory of the early 20th century. Catastrophism and punctuated equilibrum have carved huge exceptions out of those theories.
Continents do collide, climates do change rapidly and unpredictably, asteroids do impact, whole ecosystems are destroyed.

So9

753 posted on 12/20/2002 9:43:57 PM PST by Servant of the Nine
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