Should I gather then, that science has no business examining the geologic column and extrapolating from the evidence backward as to what might have happened to cause it's present condition?
This would be true if other lines of evidence were not available. This is forensice science, and no single line of evidence can be convincing in isolation.Pretty ironic that this is done by people who profess to believe in design.
Should I gather then, that science has no business examining the geologic column and extrapolating from the evidence backward as to what might have happened to cause it's present condition?
No, you shouldn't. Try rereading his comment (or better yet, all the posts on this topic) and try again. You're not only mixing apples and oranges, your doing apples and typewriters.