The eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980 blows big gaping holes in your views of uniformitarianism - the bigger the catastrophe the more impossible for evolution to explain these non-conformities.
Incidentally this free online book was also fist published in 1980. Maybe you should read the ‘other’ side of these arguments if you want to improve your debating skills?
Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html
Mt. St. Helens was a rather common explosive volcano. The “stratification” that creationists point to was the result of repetitive pyroclastic flows in a short period of time. Pinatubo had similar flows without the lahar mud flows causing “instant” erosion. St. Helens does nothing to advance the creationist arguements. Been there, seen that.