Do you doubt that weathering and erosion slowly and steadily removes the top layer of a given section of bedrock exposing older and older rock layers?
Yes, sort of. Do we see erosion? Of course. But then we reason from a minor to a major, and I don't think that works. I look around and I see all of these remnants of past civilizations that we have to dig to expose. What's going on with that?
Also, are you aware that marine fossils are found in many mountain locations
Of course. They're all over the Grand Canyon, and supposedly the Himalayas too. But I'm not so sure what they mean or how they got there. I'm not even sure what fossils are. I mean fossils supposedly take a long time to form but we don't seem to find things that are partially fossilized. Pompeii would seem to have been a perfect place for fossilization to have occurred but it hasn't so far as I know.
Your weathering and erosion is a mystery to me too, because wherever I see what I recognize as the erosion of hard rock, the hard rock is worn smooth. You want me to believe that all this erosion occurred to the rocks on top of the Grand Canyon, but it left all those little impressions that leaves and sea creatures made a zillion years ago for me to see now.
How do you think they got there, if not for geologic uplift?
I have no idea. I'm not going to pretend that I do. I also do not know where life came from, but I do know that the enormous variety of magnificent reproducing systems we observe did not just occur by some random process. Isn't it funny that the geologic uplift occurred primarily in the non-basaltic regions of the earth? I'm not the one who has to explain contradictions because I have offered no explanation, but for you to have some theory of what happened here, it either has to be consistent or that theory must be rejected.
Your picture is a perfect example of what I was referring to earlier. And please note also, the areas of slight folding in the strata. I wonder if you think this folding occurred before of after the hardening of that layer.
ML/NJ
Your questions are ridiculous! And you say you actually own books on geology?? I don't believe it.
You forgot my question about the pressure at the center of the earth.
Here is the 'question' you asked:
"Let's start with what you think the pressure is at the center of the earth. Then let's move to the highways cut through stratified rock."
You expect me to make head or tails of this? I have no idea what you're talking about. And I'm sure no one else would either.