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I took enough geology in college (NOT ENOUGH, OR ELSE YOU DIDN"T PAY ATTENTION) to know that prospecting has everything to do with probablility and nothing to do with evolution or so-called geologic time. (THIS IS NONSENSICAL. AND SOMETIMES DETERMINATION OF THE GEOLOGIC AGE BY IDENTIFICATION OF PALEO-FLORA AND -FAUNA IS ESSENTIAL TO EXPLORATION).

**Because the growth of coral reefs has been measured, no coral formaton need be over 3400 years old

Does that mean the coral reefs we see today would be the same coral reefs of a million years ago? Take Reefs through Time, with Dr. Gregg Webb.

**The geologic column exists only in text books. If the earth's layers were formed over millions of years, they should be relatively consistent everywhere.

Does that mean all seismic activity, structural events, plate tectonics, sedimentation rates and erosional events are the same all over the world? Take Physical Geology with Dr. Cory Conrad.

**Human artifacts have been found in layers dating back
millions of years.

Where is your evidence?

**Human footprints dating back 150 million to 600 million years ago have been found in Utah, Kentucky, Missouri, possibly PA and TX.

Where is your evidence?

**Since you claim to be familiar with the oil drilling business, you may know that gas, oil and water are trapped in relatively permeable rock. The pressure disappears somewhere between 10k and 100k years. There is no possible way for the oil to be trapped for 50 million years.I am talking about serious men (often Christian men) who raise their families based on tests which tell them where the oil, gold, copper, uranium might be due to geological movements of millions of years.

You seriously need to take Petroleum Geology, and Introduction to Petroleum Geochemistry. YEESH!!

**River sediment transport indicates a young earth

How much sediment is deposited in the Gulf Of Mexico each year? How many years would it take to fill the Gulf of Mexico? What about paleo basins? Take Dr. Elmore's Sedimentology.

Just calling evolution a theory is an overstatement . . .

only an idea // mood // feeling - - -

an ideology === perverse oddity ! ! !

To: f.Christian

Conjecture masquarading as science might be more appropos - I agree.

71 posted on 01/21/2003 12:04 PM PST by Havoc ((Evolution is a theory, Creationism is God's word, ID is science, Sanka is coffee))

DOGMA masquarading as science might be more appropos - I agree.

Main Entry: dog·ma
Pronunciation: 'dog-m&, 'däg-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural dogmas also dog·ma·ta /-m&-t&/
Etymology: Latin dogmat-, dogma, from Greek, from dokein to seem -- more at DECENT
Date: 1638
1 a : something held as an established opinion; especially : a definite authoritative tenet b : a code of such tenets < pedagogical dogma > c : a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
2 : a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church

Main Entry: 1con·jec·ture
Pronunciation: k&n-'jek-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conjectura, from conjectus, past participle of conicere, literally, to throw together, from com- + jacere to throw -- more at JET
Date: 14th century
1 obsolete a : interpretation of omens b : SUPPOSITION
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved