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Nonsense. The plutons may form relatively quickly but the magma will not cool that quickly. crystal formation does not equate to cool granite on top of the Sierras. Rock is a good insulator. I worked in a mine where the rock temperature at the 2,000 foot level was 140-150 degrees, much hotter than the country rock surrounding the magma intrusion. Erosion had had the time to expose the volcanic plug situated some miles away completely down to its core. We can only assume that the rate of erosion is the same now as it was 6,000 or 100 million years back. Limestone was perched on top of this intrusive pluton suggesting that it was undersea at the time it formed.

Any basis in knowledge about geology or evolution on my part is due to interest and reading an no formal education. It is however my belief, corroborated by reading and observation.

Now< I notice you are swinging a "Jim Robinson" club. If you are so certain that your views are the only truth surely you can get me banned as a heretic for doubting the nonsense you spew.

==If you are so certain that your views are the only truth surely you can get me banned as a heretic for doubting the nonsense you spew.

LOL...and here I thought you were one of the few long-age evos capable of carrying on a good natured difference of opinion. I find that the one area that I am wrong more than any other is when I give evos (who appear friendly at first, but are seething Temple of Darwin fanatics just below the surface) the benefit of the doubt.

==Nonsense. The plutons may form relatively quickly but the magma will not cool that quickly.

Ah, but you digress. Or should I say that you are changing the subject? Or should I say you are deflecting attention away from the ignorance and outdated assumptions displayed in your first statement/question? This was your opening salvo, remember?:

"How did the granite get to the top of the mountain range in the first place under a young earth format, granite is intrusive igneous rock, meaning it came in beneath other rocks in the crust initially. It must have taken a day or two to get up at the high elevations."

Then I pointed out to you that modern science has determined that the very same granite that the long-agers assumed (without evidence) took millions of years to form, can in fact melt, segregate, ascend and emplace within a “geologically extremely rapid—perhaps even catastrophic” timeframe, well within the traditional biblical chronology.

But now you want to pretend that knew all along that granite could form quickly--even catastrophically--and now you wish to change the subject to cooling. Ok, I'll bite. Why don't you put up the best argument you can muster for the long-age cooling of granite, and I'll give the creation science argument for rapid cooling, and we'll see which one is favored by the available evidence, shall we?

==We can only assume that the rate of erosion is the same now as it was 6,000 or 100 million years back. Limestone was perched on top of this intrusive pluton suggesting that it was undersea at the time it formed.

Another typical evo/long-ager mistake. Surely you must know by now that Lyellian gradualism is being rapidly replaced by catastrophism by all sides of the origins debate (to include granite formation)?

Finally, I was really looking forward to a cordial discussion/debate with you, but my hopes were dimmed by your concluding remarks. Perhaps we can both let bygones be bygones and agree to conduct ourselves like gentelmen for the rest of the discussion? Just a thought--GGG