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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
I'm more and more convinced that there was no creation with 'appearence of age'. The bedrock was created, the day 3 emergence of landfrom sea generated the Precambrian layering, the flood generated the Cambrian to Cretaceous and the glacial melting generated the Cenezoic
In an attempt to try to drag this thread back on topic, I would like to ask TB a few questions. We have other threads devoted to explaining the "mainstream" geology POV. I would say TB is making a valiant effort at beginning a sound layman's education in geology, but he still has a long way to go. Conversely, I would wager that he believes I am sorely lacking in understanding the YEC model he proposes (and he would probably be right). So I would like to ask a few questions to help rectify that:
1. I understand TB pegs the Flood deposits at Cambrian to Cretaceous, with Tertiary being glacially influenced. So question one is... why are all the glacial evidences confined to the very end of the Tertiary?
2. To construct a silly little strawman for me to practice on... If the Cenozoic represents the post-Flood era, and if we use the conventional epochs, and if we assume a linear compression of the 4500 year YEC post-Flood timeframe...
then does that mean the Paleocene ended in 1736 BC
the Eocene ended in 628 BC
the Oligocene ended in 409 AD
the Miocene ended in 1655 AD
the Pliocene ended in 1877 AD
and the Pliestocene ended last August 31, 2001 at 11:34 PM, at which time we began the Holocene???
Obviously not... there must be some sort of massive compression of geologic time early in the Cenozoic, which slowed exponentially, perhaps, until we became sophisticated enough to measure it, at which time it locked into the current laws of nature we know and love today.
Does that seem right, TB?
Assuming that is a reasonable statement of your model, TB, the final question is...
How did massive, hot igneous bodies - like the Deccan Flood basalts, and spreading mid-ocean crust, and the batholiths of the Sierra Nevadas, etc - cool in only a few hundred or a few dozen years (assuming the massive time compression)??
Are you requiring the physical constants and such to change by a factor of millions, and then settle down to today's values???
I suppose if you extrapolate the decay factor back into the Flood year, then you might get 500 million years of radioactive decay, batholith cooling, erosion, etc in the one year Flood, and then the preCambrian billions of years would take only a few days. Does this make sense? Does it make your "1000 year CreationWeek days" unneccessary?
I think this would be a good thread to discuss in detail the YEC model, and avoid muddying the others.
Thanks in advance for clearing this up for me.