Rethinking the Geological Layers

Creation-Evolution Headlines ^ | 3/5/2004 | Creation-Evolution Headlines

[bondserv]

Pingeology!

[Dog Gone]

This is pretty much horsepuckey. You can date the rocks with good consistency, and you can examine them for critters that were alive at certain geologic points of time within the rock samples.

There's no doubt that some deposits were laid out catastrophically and in unusual amounts. But that's on a local level.

That's not a new revelation. You have variations all over the world in sediments of a similar age. There's no challenge to existing geologic knowledge or theory here.

[PatrickHenry]

Young Earth PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[Junior]

You might enjoy this.

[ValerieUSA]

One need only see the instant canyons carved by the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens to know that eons are not necessary for amazing geological formations to appear.

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

“sediment architecture is largely scale invariant over a wide range of scales in time and space.”

Interesting! The more we know, the more complicated things get.

[aruanan]

The strata that make up the geological column have been found in every possible order (the youngest directly on the oldest, the oldest directly atop the youngest) as well as changing from one stratum to another laterally based on index fossils even though the physical stratum is undisturbed.

[bondserv]

The strata that make up the geological column have been found in every possible order (the youngest directly on the oldest, the oldest directly atop the youngest) as well as changing from one stratum to another laterally based on index fossils even though the physical stratum is undisturbed.

We just need to get these geologists off their golf course making/ oil discovering booties and get on top of this.

[Dataman]

He [Darwin] believed that the natural world was the result of constantly repeated small and accumulative actions, a lesson he had first learned when reading Lyell’s Principles of Geology on board the Beagle and had put to work ever since.

Evolutionists preach uniformitarianism but will accept catastrophism when it is convenient (as it happens to be when they try to explain what happened to the dinosaurs).

[happydogdesign]

[js1138]

short term memory loss placemarker. This is a good one to ignore.

[muleskinner]

Creationist's Colossal Waste of Time Ping

[CobaltBlue]

try to explain what happened to the dinosaurs

They're just being hidden by atheistic, communistic, God-hating secular humanistic scientists in order to destry the Constitution and the American way of life.

[Dataman]

They're just being hidden by atheistic, communistic, God-hating secular humanistic scientists in order to destry the Constitution and the American way of life.

Have you seen The Passion yet? It might open your eyes.

[Ichneumon]

[try to explain what happened to the dinosaurs]

[They're just being hidden by atheistic, communistic, God-hating secular humanistic scientists in order to destry the Constitution and the American way of life.]

Have you seen The Passion yet? It might open your eyes.

I must have missed the part in "The Passion" that dealt with the demise of the dinosaurs.

[aruanan]

We just need to get these geologists off their golf course making/ oil discovering booties and get on top of this.

No, I think discovering oil is a perfectly practical way to use geological knowledge. It certainly does a lot more for humanity than the satisfaction obtained by geologists shuffling strata based on the fossils and then classifying the fossils based on the strata in order to piece together a geological just-so story.

[bondserv]

No, I think discovering oil is a perfectly practical way to use geological knowledge. It certainly does a lot more for humanity than the satisfaction obtained by geologists shuffling strata based on the fossils and then classifying the fossils based on the strata in order to piece together a geological just-so story.

Good point.

[Ichneumon]

One need only see the instant canyons carved by the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens to know that eons are not necessary for amazing geological formations to appear.

But keep in mind that the "instant canyons" carved by volcanic lahars are distinctly and recognizably different from the "amazing geological formations" that do indeed take "eons" to form.

[Ichneumon]

Interesting! The more we know, the more complicated things get.

Indeed; too bad the YEC creationists always try to oversimplify it again. They keep trying to reduce all of the complexity of biology, geology, and cosmology to, "all it means is that God waved his hand,and a bit later there was a big honkin' flood."

If the evidence suggests the existence of more complex forces at work, they're not interested.