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Author Topic:   Geological question. (Sea floor sediment accumulation)
Buzsaw
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Message 16 of 38 (400266)
05-11-2007 8:30 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by CanadianBiologyGeek
05-05-2007 3:36 AM


About That Refute
CBG writes:
I'm now determined to refute it
So after reading all this, what is your refute going to look like in a nutshell, so to speak? My question is why aren't the river valleys deeper as is the Grand Canyon? Logically it seems the catastropic Global flood suddenly cut the Grand Canyon somewhat like the Mt St Helens canyon and there wasn't a similar sudden break through condition to cut the other rivers so they didn't get cut deep.
Secularists are trying to say the Grand Canyon is a couple of billion or so years old and yet the Mississippi is a mere 10000 years old. What gives here?? It appears they are trying to have it both ways so as to cover for both the deep GC and the relatively shallow Mississipi Valley as well as the relatively nonpronounced and small Mississippi Delta. I see there's quite a dispute at the GC Park Service about allowing the sales of an AIG book so as for both arguments to be available to the public.

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crashfrog
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Message 17 of 38 (400267)
05-11-2007 8:46 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Re: About That Refute
Secularists are trying to say the Grand Canyon is a couple of billion or so years old and yet the Mississippi is a mere 10000 years old. What gives here??
What gives what? Who says rivers all have to be the same age?

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Message 18 of 38 (400268)
05-11-2007 8:49 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Re: About That Refute
Buzsaw
Logically it seems the catastropic Global flood suddenly cut the Grand Canyon somewhat like the Mt St Helens canyon and there wasn't a similar sudden break through condition to cut the other rivers so they didn't get cut deep.
So why does soil like the rock of the Grand Canyon dig so deep while a river such as ,say, the Ganges does not since the same flood hit each.
How about the Nile or the Mississippi as well whose soil is soft in comparison and easier to erode?

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Message 19 of 38 (400269)
05-11-2007 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Re: About That Refute
Logically it seems the catastropic Global flood suddenly cut the Grand Canyon somewhat like the Mt St Helens canyon and there wasn't a similar sudden break through condition to cut the other rivers so they didn't get cut deep.
Well no, logically that is simply bullshit. Only someone totally ignorant of the facts would think such a thing. There is NO evidence there ever was a "catastropic Global flood" and there is absolute evidence that the Grand Canyon formed over time long periods of time.
See Message 1 for absolute refutation of the lie that the Grand Canyon formed quickly.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Dr Adequate
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Message 20 of 38 (400276)
05-11-2007 9:14 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Geology: A "Secularist" Writes
Secularists are trying to say the Grand Canyon is a couple of billion or so years old and yet the Mississippi is a mere 10000 years old. What gives here?? It appears they are trying to have it both ways so as to cover for both the deep GC and the relatively shallow Mississipi Valley as well as the relatively nonpronounced and small Mississippi Delta.
The average "secularist" will also tell you that it's the COLORADO river which flows through the bleedin' Grand Canyon, not the freakin' MISSISSIPPI river. It's this peculiar secularist ritual we have called "getting the frickin' facts right".
Sheesh, you guys.
This particular "secularist" would also like to remind you that there is a difference between the age of the rocks at the Grand Canyon site and the age of the canyon.
Some of the rocks are indeed 2 billion years old, but the canyon started being carved mere millions of years ago.
In the same way, a Renaissance scultor can carve a Jurrasic rock: the rock is millions of years old; the sculpture is centuries old; there is no contradiction here, as you'd have figured out if you'd spent ten seconds thought on the subject. But I guess thinking is a "secularist" thing.
I see there's quite a dispute at the GC Park Service about allowing the sales of an AIG book so as for both arguments to be available to the public.
Creationist rubbish about the Grand Canyon is already available to the public. If there is any dispute, it is over whether the Park Service should promulgate this trash.
If it's all up to the standard you've set here, then the answer is "no".
Can you give me any links referring to this dispute?
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AdminCoragyps
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Message 21 of 38 (400277)
05-11-2007 9:17 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by bdfoster
05-11-2007 6:38 PM


Re: California's Coast Range
Hello, bdfoster, and welcome to EvC! We hope you enjoy it here - we're always needing clarification on matters geological.

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Coragyps
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Message 22 of 38 (400278)
05-11-2007 9:22 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Re: About That Refute
Secularists are trying to say the Grand Canyon is a couple of billion or so years old and yet the Mississippi is a mere 10000 years old.
Which "scientists" try to say that? My limited geology suggests that the Grand Canyon is some tens of millions of years old, though the rock down deep in the gorge is a couple of billion. And the Mississippi is at least fifty million years old, if the sediments down below it in its delta are any indication.
Where are you getting your info?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 23 of 38 (400283)
05-11-2007 9:41 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by Coragyps
05-11-2007 9:22 PM


Age Of "The" Mississippi.
There's a site here which says: "the Upper Mississippi River as we know it has been in existence for 10,000 years".
Do you know the riddle of the philosopher's axe?

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Message 24 of 38 (400284)
05-11-2007 9:44 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by Dr Adequate
05-11-2007 9:14 PM


Re: Geology: A "Secularist" Writes
I read about the Grand Canyon dispute here - Richard Dawkings.net
This is the best part - "this is equivalent of Yellowstone National Park selling a book entitled Geysers of Old Faithful: Nostrils of Satan"
I hope to see the Noodley Appendage Theory published shortly. In all fairness.
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Coragyps
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Message 25 of 38 (400286)
05-11-2007 9:50 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Dr Adequate
05-11-2007 9:41 PM


Re: Age Of "The" Mississippi.
"the Upper Mississippi River as we know it has been in existence for 10,000 years".
Aha! Can you say "icecap," class? "Wisconsonian glaciation?"
Tell me the riddle!
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Dr Adequate
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Message 26 of 38 (400290)
05-11-2007 10:14 PM
Reply to: Message 25 by Coragyps
05-11-2007 9:50 PM


The Philosopher's Axe
The philosopher's axe has been passed down in his family from the days of his grandfather. Every now and then, it's been necessary to replace the handle; every now and then, it's been necessary to replace the blade. Is it still his grandfather's axe?
See also the "Ship of Theseus":
"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned [from Crete] had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same." --- Plutarch.
My point is that you could argue that a river is not the Mississippi unless it flows where the Mississippi does now, or you could say that it's always the same river, it just keeps changing its course.

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Message 27 of 38 (400292)
05-11-2007 10:16 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Buzsaw
05-11-2007 8:30 PM


Geological Nonsense
Buz writes:
My question is why aren't the river valleys deeper as is the Grand Canyon?
Logically it seems the catastrophic Global flood suddenly cut the Grand Canyon somewhat like the Mt St Helens canyon and there wasn't a similar sudden break through condition to cut the other rivers so they didn't get cut deep.
This is not logical! A river is only as deep as its outlet (ie Sea Level). One darn good reason the Mississippi is not as deep as the Grand, is because the total elevation change of the Mississippi is something like 1400 ft.
What is the heck is a "break through condition"?
Buz writes:
Secularists are trying to say the Grand Canyon is a couple of billion or so years old and yet the Mississippi is a mere 10000 years old. What gives here??
Those darn Secularist with their data, logic and reasoning!
Like any geological structure rivers have different ages. Rivers are temporary from a Geological perspective. BTW the Mississippi is older than 10k years, however note the character of the river changes drastically with time.
Buz writes:
It appears they are trying to have it both ways so as to cover for both the deep GC and the relatively shallow Mississipi Valley as well as the relatively nonpronounced and small Mississippi Delta.
Rivers are only as deep as they need be and no deeper.
Mississippi river sediments are *not* small! Nor shallow!
The Mississippi river sediments are measured in miles or kilometers.
Which by the way is shot to the head for a young earth argument. It takes long periods of time to compress, dewater, lithify, and sink huge amounts of sediments.
You are visiting too many evil fraudulent Creationist websites.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 28 of 38 (400293)
05-11-2007 10:23 PM
Reply to: Message 24 by Vacate
05-11-2007 9:44 PM


Thanks For The Links
Wow, falsifying history is getting popular, isn't it?
"This past October Park Service employees contacted PEER to warn us that the video display at the Lincoln Memorial would be removed and revised under pressure from conservative and religious groups ...
These groups asked to cut out footage of gay rights, pro-choice and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations ... Under pressure from these groups and a conservative Kansas congressman, Todd Tiahrt who sits on the Appropriations Committee, the Park Service promised to develop a “more balanced” version of the video. Park Service spokespeople indicated that they were considering inserting footage from the Christian group Promise Keepers rally and pro-Gulf War demonstrators even though these events did not take place at the Memorial.
"
The mind boggles.

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Message 29 of 38 (400295)
05-11-2007 11:23 PM


People - Manners please
Let's trim out the crankiness.
Also, how about staying a little more topic focused, as presented in message 1. The Grand Canyon sure seems to be off-topic, and some of the messages are getting way off-topic.
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Message 30 of 38 (400310)
05-12-2007 3:33 AM
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05-05-2007 3:19 PM


Re: Why do you ask?
Correct. Huge amounts of ancient sea floor sediment has been accreted to the continents. THat is why the continents are essentially growing in area with geological time.

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