The Flood, fossils, & the geologic evidence

From the Fossil Museum website: What compelling evidence do you have to support the contention that all of these layers were - despite all appearances - laid down in a single event rather than over a timespan of millenia?Admin, might I suggest that we make something like this a focal question for the discussion, rather than getting dragged all over the map again?Edited by ZenMonkey, : Adding a plaintive question.

Any explanation of multiple layers of sedimentary rock separated by layers of igneous rock? All laid down in a single event over the course of a year?

By what mechanism can a single flood event deposit discrete layers of sedimentary rock? And how would you interpret the existance of discrete sedimentary layers separated by layers of igneous rock?

This is what people are asking about, Buz. You have never provided any explanation of how rain and flooding can somehow alter the atomic structure of matter. Never mind providing evidence that such an alteration of reality ever happened. I'd like to just see the explanation, even if there's no evidence to support it.Whether or not you realize it, what you're really saying, when you say that we can't make any assumptions about the pre-Flood world because the Flood somehow altered the atmosphere, is that rainwater has the magical power to alter the nature of matter itself. The only real "assumption" that the dating methods you don't believe in are making is that the carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, etc. that we see today is the same thing as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen of 10,000 years ago, or 2 million years ago, or even 10 billion years ago.I for one think that that's a pretty safe assumption to make.

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I'll add that if you'd like to read a careful and lucid explanation of why we can have confidence in the accuracy of current dating methods, please take a look at RAZD's Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1 thread. Very informative.Good learning!

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

Hi Chuck77,You now have three forum participants - myself, angalgard, and RAZD himself - suggesting that you go read RAZD's Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1 thread to get up to speed on the topic of dating methods and how they work. Please let us know what you think after you've done so.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

If you don't mind me saying so, Chuck, this would be a terrible time for you to quit. Feeling like you're in over your head just means that you're ready to learn something, and the best learner is one who's willing to look like a fool when exploring something new. Sometimes painful, but true.