Archer Opterix, message 22 writes:
If one postulates a YEC time frame for the total age of the earth, wouldn't mountain ranges display a similar appearance?
When I posted my message, I was thinking a recent massive flooding event superimposed on the geology and terraine of an old Earth. A YEC time frame for the total age of the Earth brings up another question (did I long ago start a topic on it? I'll have to check up on that.) - What was the nature of the earth at the end of the creation week and prior to the flood?
I think the earth looks very old. It has a three-dimensional complexity that can only be from a very long time period of many, many different processes. Or God created an Earth with apparent age.
But much of the above is off-topic, so don't respond to it. I need to find that old topic, if it exists, or a new topic needs to be started.
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obvious Child, message 21 writes:
Wouldn't mountain ranges be affected by the runaway subduction necessary to produce Everest after the flood?
I was working the idea that God did a "miracle flood", that does not have any sort of rational real world process behind it. Runaway subduction would cause a LOT of things, probably the least of which would be the sea level rise. But again, isn't this getting off-topic?
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anglagard, message 19 writes:
Maybe it's the difference between the overall "jagged" appearance of the Sierra Nevada relative to the "rounded" appearance of the Appalachians. I feel I see a difference in the erosion and I am sure I am not alone in this observation as I have heard several others familiar with the geology of both ranges make similar comments.
You're proposing that the flood would have caused all mountain ranges to be like the Appalachians? I say, no flood event, however extreme, is going to turn the Sierra Nevadas, the Rockies, the Alps, or the Himalayas into the Appalachians.
Bottom line - I think that 40 x 24 hours of the hardest rain possible (requiring a miracle) would strip existing mountains of all soils and other sediments. The effect on hard rock? I don't think that much.
The affect of the flood waters running off? Running off to where? Again, a miracle is needed to get rid of the water. What's the erosional and depositional effects of a miracle? I haven't a clue.
I leave you with a link to an old topic I started (6/2/2002):
YEC Geologic Column - Created with apparent age?. Now I'll have to get back and re-read that sucker myself.
Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
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