It seems to me that imagination plays a far greater role in Faith's own attempted explanations.
To go over her explanation of the strata described in this
link it isn't hard to see assumptions that ought to be supported by further investigation - and some of it is beyond what might be considered reasonable speculation.
Stump Formation:
This apparently represents the end of the flood. But how this can be told without examining earlier strata is hard to say - what if another stratum indicating a terrestrial instead of marine environment were found ? How would that be explained ?
Worse the assumption is still that the Flood waters are churned up quite seriously - another reference I have found makes reference to a plesiosaur fossil being found in this particular stratum (
here - about halfway down).
Morrison Formation:
Windy Hill Member - still in the last stages of the Flood
The remaining members supposedly represent a post-Flood environment, with water rushing off the highlands.
Since the area is a basin obviously there is higher land nearby. However this should have drained first unless something prevented it - and there has been no check for any evidence.
Worse if the flood was violent enough to keep the pelsiosaur remains near the top, then why wouldn't the dinousar bones have already moved - shouldn't we be finding some of them hem in the lower, marine levels ?
Cedar Mountain Formation. Still after the Flood only for some reason the flood waters which somehow got trapped in the highlands are now bringing down bones from Cretaceous era dinosaurs. No reaonable explanation for that has been offered - the more so since this order is consistently found. Why aren't dinosaurs more mixed up ? And found in post-Cretaceous strata ?
Dakota Sandstone. High tide part one. Well to call this a "high tide' is just daft. Obviously we are talking about a major flooding event at the least especially as it is not just this stratum..
Mowry Shale: More "high tide" with fossils including fish scales, giant ammonites and oysters. Well I've seen fossilised oyster beds from the Jurassic and they are pretty solid - and in life they would have been anchored to the bottm. I'm certainly not convinced that they could be carried about by a "high tide" - and why are we getting this mix of small and light with larger and heavier objects ? Shale is produced from very fine particles, and I can't think of anything much lighter than fish scales, but the rest of it doesn't fit that.
Frontier Sandstone: Presumably MORE Flood waters coming down from the highlands. No dinosaurs, though.
Mancos Shale (main body): Another "high tide" ?
Does anyone other than Faith find her scenario even remotely plausible ? If you do then please explain why.
This message has been edited by PaulK, 03-28-2005 02:49 PM
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