The Flood, fossils, & the geologic evidence

Erosion.

He is The Administrator with a capital A, just not speaking from his administrator account.I'm not an administrator, but you'd get a lot farther if you could be less of an asshole. Anyone is allowed to call your attention to the forum rules that you are flouting on a regular basis.Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

I see you've chosen to increase the a-hole coefficient rather than decrease it. Pity.I'm looking forward to seeing how you're going to kick my butt over an Internet connection.ETA: I am also interested why you care whether a user named Admin with the title of Director is The Admin. He is an admin. FYI he is The Admin. He posts as Admin when he's speaking ex cathedra and as Percy when he's speaking as a user.Bet this post gets hidden ... :-)Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

It's been alluded to, but the big problem with condensing events such as plate tectonics into a short time period is that there are certain characteristics of the events that cannot be scaled. E.g., radioactive decay releases heat and radiation, and X amount of radioactive decay releases Y amount of heat and radiation no matter the time period, so accelerated nuclear decay would leave subtle traces such as a molten Earth and all life destroyed twice over.Similarly, mountain building by plate tectonics is inefficient (thermodynamically speaking) and releases heat, and creates earthquakes and tsunamis. It's difficult if not impossible to quantify the effects of catastrophic plate tectonics but it's pretty certain no life could survive it. And that's not even considering the extreme silliness of the scenarios that have been proposed for catastrophic plate tectonics.IOW, the fact that we are here is strong evidence that plate tectonics and nuclear decay and other process have taken place over time scales many orders of magnitude greater than YEC time scales.