To be posted in Geology/Flood forum if accepted.
I won't profess to be a christian, though I do lean in that direction and I don't want to get into an argument about who's right or wrong, but I was reading the Grand Canyon thread and would like to know why the layers of the earth require such great breadths of time.
Is it really so unrealistic that hot rock could cool within years/centuries? Maybe I'm missing something (and with only a Highschool education I'm sure I'm missing a lot)but if laboratories can simulate the formation of layers in a human lifetime, then what evidence is there that millions of years are a requirement for the formation of the Earth's layers?
Is there any direct evidence available?
My greater concern is that, once you get past the details in Cosmology, Geology, and Evolution, one is left with what appears to be an assumption of great breadths of time required to see what we see. We can scarecly deduce what has occured even 5,000yrs ago, let alone millions or billions.
I suppose the greater question here would be, are the great breadths of time considered Fact in science, or is it simply the Model that best defines our universe, such that scientists are actually open to other ideas, so long as the evidence makes sense and the "anti scientists" are simply making assertions under a misunderstanding?
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