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I read your link.

And you're STILL going to defend it?! Awesome.

The person to whom you refer does not make mention of "a sort of calcified concrete mixture" that "shot up from below." He believes hot waters from below had the effect of creating the greater part of what we call the fossil record, and in so stating makes use of the word "cementation" in connection with the release of carbonates. This may be an assertion worthy of question, but it does not merit the misrepresentation and petulant carping that tends to shoot up from below your keyboard.

Come now. Is that assertion REALLY "worthy of discussion." That the global genocidal flood in the bible was a worldwide event where hot water "from below" was forced to the surface in such volumes as to flood the world? His calcification/fossilization assertions were ancillary. But regardless, are you also prepared to defend his later assertions in the thread?

Here's two more gems:

Surely you are at least somewhat aware of the exhibit known as the 'limestone cowboy?

Surely you are, Fester. YEC at its worst.

Very little animate life exists around most hot springs, due to the sulfur. Geysers tend to be almost sterile.

Except, y'know, when they're not.

You certainly don't have to defend this silly ideas, but I'm always fascinated how the YECs stick together no matter what nonsense they spew. You seem different and I"m curious.

And you're STILL going to defend it?! Awesome.

The biblical text indicates that the "fountains of the deep burst forth," so it would not be unreasonable to infer the activity of molten rock flowing from beneath the earth's surface as having a large part in the flood. The resulting volcanic ash, if on a large enough scale, would also be sufficient to generate more precipitation than the earth's surface had previously experienced. Volcanic activity obviously happens to this day, and when it does, fossils result as they have, for example, at Mt. Saint Helens.

The bottom line is the the geologic record could easily be understood in terms of a global deluge. No need to invent pink unicorns or spaghetti monsters.

Surely you are at least somewhat aware of the exhibit known as the 'limestone cowboy?

I've been trottin' out these boots so long

Singin' the same old song

I know every trick in the dirty hoodwinks of Creo-Lore

Where hustle's the name of the game

And fossils get washed away like the snow and the rain

There's been a load of ossifyin'

On the road to my surprizin’

But I'm gonna be where the nuts are pointin' at me

Like a limestone cowboy

Rotting out in a boot in a creo-mangled rigmarole;

Like a limestone cowboy

Foolin’ folks on school boards that just don’t have a clue,

And suckers thinkin' this is a bone…

[pace Glen Campbell...]