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Nice mantra. But before you can think outside the box you need to understand the box. You're sitting on a bicycle and fantasizing about how to fly a 747.

If it erodes 5 feet in ten thousand years and it's five feet in radius, we'd expect it to be gone in ten thousand years. We can extrapolate backwards to estimate how long it's been eroding. I don't know why you think you can tell that there "shouldn't" be any left. You don't know when it started eroding.

And it will be gone in a few thousand years. How do you get that it "should" be gone already?

It eroded at a certain (average) rate for a certain period of time . It has been eroding long enough to be almost gone but not completely gone. What aren't you getting here?

I will.

They're really not, though, are they? All they're doing is speculating what coulda/woulda/shoulda/mighta happened, to reverse-engineer a Flood from evidence that doesn't support a Flood.And you're telling us that those speculations can not be tested, so there's really no "exploration" involved, is there? You're drawing a map of what could/would/should/might be there and at the same time you're telling us that there's no way to go there to confirm your map.

I recall somebody suggesting that birds are higher in the geological column than dinosaurs because they might have been riding on dinosaurs.
Henny Youngman must be spinning in his grave.

The key word there is "do". You have to DO science. Science isn't sitting in your armchair dreaming up scenarios that might match the Bible. It's testing scenarios and rejecting the ones that don't work.

How is that clear? It sounds like you're saying, "Black is clearly white."

When I look at a set of books and notice that volume 6 is not there, I don't conclude like you do that the number 6 has ceased to exist. I conclude that the book has been removed. So if we have layers 1 to 12 elsewhere in the geological column but layer 6 is missing here, I likewise conclude that layer 6 has been removed here, say by erosion. Everyday logic. How is sediment being deposited on top of the geological column not part of the geological column? How is the present time not part of geological time?

I don't see how reading through your befuddled posts again will make them clearer. Can't you just answer the simple question? How is sediment deposited on top of the geological column not part of the geological column? How is the present time not part of geological time?The deposition didn't stop. Time didn't stop. What stopped?Edited by ringo, : Added a silent but not invisible letter.

How is that possible? Where is sediment deposited if not on top of the geological column?

Is the Holocene on the top of the column? All deposition is on the top of the column, regardless of when the last layer on the top of the column was deposited. The Mississippi delta is being deposited on top of whatever was there when the Mississippi started to flow.So where is the "stop"?

The geological column was there. It doesn't matter which specific layer was there. Anything that deposits will deposit on top. How else could it be? Forget about time for the moment. Do you or do you not understand that everything that deposits must deposit on top of what is already there?

Why? Why on earth? Why by any stretch of the imagination?