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Ernie,
I, too, have enjoyed the discussion/debate/interaction. My week has been busy but since I woke about 2 I figured I would try backing up some of the other points I made, and maybe even ‘spout off’ a little.

Regarding the deserts and when they began – you were wise (to choose that one first) because that was my weakest point.

The Sahara Desert: this one does seem to expand at a pretty consistent rate and if you take that rate and go backwards – it seems to have begun between 4k and 5k years ago. Since we were not there, assumptions are made (depending on looking at facts through evolution or special creation eyes) when determining the age of a desert. From a creationist viewpoint how much sand was in the Gobi Desert, or in the mid-east, etc when the waters of Noah’s time receded? No one knows for sure. By the way, I do believe that the north and south deserts had ice/glaciers that were far greater than they are today. The northern glacier, when the waters receded, probably extended down near the Canada and US border. Genesis also tells me that ‘PELEG’ lived when the waters were divided. I think that the melting caps raised the ocean levels and one place the effect was drastic was between Spain and Africa where the ocean flooded to the east and created the Mediterranean Sea.

Dinosaur bones: When a massive pile of bones in northern Alaska were finally investigated (because it was assumed that it was a musk ox graveyard) the archeologists realized that the bones were from dinosaurs. They have viable blood and marrow where they have tried to clone a dinosaur. Here, too, the scientists were baffles because the blood/marrow could only remain in a viable state for thousands of years. This state could not be maintained for tens of thousands of years let alone millions of years in the artic conditions.

The silt in the ocean shows a relatively short time of accumulation. The ocean also gets saltier each year (like the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake) and 10k years ago it would have been pretty much salt free water.

One additional hindrance to millions of years is the magnetic effect in the north and south. It is decreasing exponentially. 20k years ago nothing would have been living, or maybe rather breathing, on the earth. Scientists have a hard time with this truth when they try to account for millions of years. Also, check out the ‘Roche limit” the moon has not been out there, in our orbit, for very long.

[Now for the spouting.]
My worldview determines how I look at the facts. Evolutionists have tried to answer the “bios” or physical body. But, they have no answer for the “psyche’ or the mind and how humans have the ability to think and reason as we do. They have no answer for the breath of life, or the “zoe” the soul, personality, spirit of our lives and how we differ so much from the animal kingdom. (I realize I am using some Greek words here but they all point to man and his life.)

I have a neighbor that goes digging up fossil prints in the surface layers of the earth. When they cast a dinosaur footprint the evolutionists want it, but when they cast a human print right next to it (at the same layer of earth) the evolutionists do not want it. They say to Paul: “You keep it. It does not fit our theory.”
I fear that their worldview closes their eyes to the truth for the sake of money, prestige, or otherwise. It appears that they are like the manmade global warming advocates who take just the facts they want and ignore other facts that contradict the conclusions they already have.

I am sorry that I have been so long in answering but I could not just drop this discussion.