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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
Thanks's funny QS, becasue I actually ask the reverse: how could such neat parralel stacking that traverses sub-continental regions with so few unconformities have been generated gradually? This is especially difficult to understand for land animal/plant fossil bearing beds where one would expect a lot of erosion if it was a series of floods (not to mention how large the areas are).
Instead creationists understand that the vast beds that characterise the geological column were formed rapidly by hydrodynamic sorting. I presume you know that rapid layering has been proven (Mt St Helens, in the lab, polystrate fossils etc)?
I ask you instead. Why would gradual layering in vast beds form a 'red' layer over thousands of square miles and then suddenly 100 feet of white chalk? Hydrodynamic sorting on an incredible scale is a far better explanation than gradualism.
Hydrodynamic sorting does NOT explain the fossil sequence in
the geologic column at all.
If all creatures co-existed at the time of the flood, why are
creatures of similar size and mass evident in different layers of
the geologic column ? And consistently too.
Oh and take a look at::
Polstrate fossils::
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/polystrate_trees.htmlhttp://www.rtis.com/nat/user/elsberry/evobio/evc/argresp/lompoc.htmlhttp://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/mortensonresp2.htm"‘Polystrate Fossils. Unless one holds an extreme dead slow depositing Uniformitarianism, which neither Lyell nor Darwin nor
anyone else ever held, then local catastrophic deposition is no problem. These polystrate fossils — usually trees— are found passing
through a few strata especially at Yellowstone or in the Coal Measures. They only cut across beds of very similar age i.e. successive
beds of sandstone Rapid catastrophic deposition of some strata was known long before Lyell wrote in 1830. Perhaps the most
dishonest argument on polystrate fossils is the cartoon on p85 of Paul Ackerman’s It’s a young world after all with a fossil tree
passing through Cretaceous, Tertiary and Quaternary i.e. 100 my of rock. I am afraid I find that kind of deliberate misrepresentation
offensive and unbecoming of a Christian. It is important to follow the Ninth Commandment as well as the Fourth! (If I did find a
polystrate fossil like that I would be convinced of YEC and offer my services to AIG.)"
And this is interesting too (although quite a trawl and not ALL
on the current topic):
http://www.geocities.com/kenthovind/evolution.html
Mt St, Helens related ::
http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1995/102695/barren2.htmlhttp://www.doesgodexist.org/MarApr01/AVisitToMtStHelens.html
[This message has been edited by Peter, 05-15-2002]
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