I'd like to register a minor gripe.
Restricting topics (first to three and now effectively to one) actually favors the creationist camp because they love nothing more than to slice, dice, and Julienne what they call evolution, and having reduced some segment to its lowest common denominator, they then feel they can dismiss the item and claim a victory.
Evolution (especially under the all-encompassing creationist umbrella), is not a list of isolated and separated items, it is a whole, and it does an injustice to the whole, and to science to restrict the topic.
I read the header to this division as: "geology related to the great flood, and the great flood itself", not as: "geology as it relates to the great flood", which is what it apparently is intended to be. If there is a better division header under which this particular thread can go, and which would preserve my original intent, I would prefer to move it there.
The issue again is that slicing and dicing this topic plays into the hands of the creationists. When they make their case (such as it is) they do not separate it out, but include everything - from God right down to the mud at the bottom of the flood. They do not make a solely scientific case (or any scientific case at all, for that matter), but a "creation science" case which includes God and the Bible.
It was on these grounds - the creationist home turf, if you will, that I wanted to tackle this topic.
Is there a better location that the thread could be moved to, in which I could preserve my original intent?
Budikka