The Great Creationist Fossil Failure

The same could be said for aviation. You can't learn to fly a 747 by reading a few articles on the Internet - but even creationists don't go up to the cockpit and tell the pilot he's doing it wrong.

The geology professionals are busy doing geology just like the aviation professionals are busy doing aviation. They don't have much interest in dumbing down their expertise for you just so you can tell them they're wrong.

As a creationist, comprehensive information is not your friend. The deeper you dig, the harder it is to get out of the hole.And the bizarre irony of it is you complaining that the information that will sink your boat is not accessible enough.

So you're going with the old Tornado in a Junkyard scenario. It wouldn't be able to assemble a 747 but it would be able to sort every screw, rivet, etc. into neat piles by size and shape.

A little bit at a time.To see the processes happening, you can look out the window.

No. Of course not. Where would the extra material have come from?There's erosion happening at some places - e.g. mountaintops - and deposition happening at other places - e.g. valleys - at the same time. The mountains are flattened, the valleys are filled and - also at the same time - tectonic forces are building new mountains.

That's irrelevant to your question. The fact is that there is a certain amount of material and it keeps moving around. That accounts for the layers and the fossils in them. The original formation of the earth is not the topic. It's always hard for fossils to be formed and preserved. That's why billions of organisms only make thousands of fossils.Are you suggesting that most of the fossils were formed quickly by the Flood?

The earth grows a very small amount because of the occasional asteroid and much more frequent meteorites. It also shrinks from various causes. I don't know if there is a net growth or a net shrinkage but in either case the amount is very small and can not account for the vast majority of the earth's mass.

Remember the experiment we all did when we were nine? You can get strata in a peanut butter jar.

One of the differences is that the strata out in the real world are not all laid down in one water-related event like in the peanut butter jar. There's a water event followed by a volcanic event followed by another water event followed by an Aeolian event and so on.There is no way that all of those strata can be explained by one event. Your Flood can not explain the sorting of the fossils in the water events and it can not explain the non-water events between the water events. Those fossils have to represent organisms that were living peacefully on land during your supposed Flood.

I presume that in your scenario the Precambrian would represent the "bottom" of the Flood?If so, why are there no fossils of modern life-forms before the Flood? If fossilization can occur as rapidly as creationists claim, why weren't any cows, whales, etc. fossilized in the several thousand years before the Flood? Why are there none in the Precambrian?

But there ARE fossils in the Precambrian.The question is why aren't there any modern ones? Why couldn't something like a rabbit be fossilized before the Flood?

But not all birds are clean:

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Leviticus 11:13-19 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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And of course the Bible is also wrong about bats being birds.

As far as I know there's no Biblical reason to think the Bible is consistent.

I did provide facts. It's a fact that the Bible calls bats birds. It's a fact that bats aren't birds. All you've provided in rebuttal is, "Maybe the Bible didn't mean what it said when it said it."