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Opinions, arguments, and beliefs all must depend on evidence. Some opinions, arguments and beliefs are supported by the evidence, while others are not. Not all interpretations are of equal value or accuracy!We know you are giving your argument and opinions, and have been doing so here for years, but your argument and opinions are not supported by the evidence. That does make them false, or in scientific terms, they are disproved.The fact that you can't accept this shows that you are doing religious apologetics, not science. Science relies on evidence not beliefs. In science, when hypotheses are disproved by the evidence they must be discarded or modified.

And of course that's the difference between those who do science and those who do religious apologetics.Oh, and it is incorrect to refer to scientists having "faith" or "belief." Scientists follow the evidence where it leads.Add: I see someone used the word "trust" for science upthread. That's a far better term than "faith" or "belief."Edited by Coyote, : No reason given.

Tree rings do just fine for this.There are several other very nice methods as well. Your objections are overruled by the evidence.

Your explanations for things are becoming increasingly divorced from reality.This is also a good part of why most folks pay no attention to the claims made by creationists.

I've actually seen archaeological reports that deal with buildings rotted away or destroyed by fire. If conditions are right, the patterns of nails in the soil can give a lot of information about the locations and sometimes even the types of buildings that were there!

That's easy!Anything that might, or might be construed, to support evolution or old earth.

That's easy to understand.Folks dust their houses and sweep their floors, don't they?When you clean your house most of the extra sediment ends up outside.That process of sediment accumulation, over long periods of time, can create quite a thick deposit if not disturbed.But you don't see massive die-offs with the steadily accumulating sediment in your back yard, do you?This is the exact process that forms the geological layers, but they had a considerable head start. The new layers forming from your kitchen floor dust will take a while longer...

The evidence disproved the flood story 200 years ago, and in the years since then the evidence disproving the flood story has just gotten stronger.There's more evidence for Santa Claus than the flood! (Why, I saw him at the mall just last year!)

This link, if you will only take the time to look at it, explains soil horizons down to bedrock.Soil horizon - Wikipedia

That's because the questions you're asking were addressed and answered 200 years ago--there was no global flood during historic times.Why should modern geologists address questions that have been settled for 200 years? Questions for which the evidence in the intervening 200 years has only confirmed those initial answers? There was no global flood during historic times!Face it: you are posting from religious belief, not real-world evidence. Your beliefs have been disproved for over 200 years and:

All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Nor could all your belief...

Your posts come courtesy of the blinders of belief, as you have told us so many times.You know nothing about real geology and strata and the rest, and you couldn't accept the evidence if you did know it.You really should not try and pretend what you are doing is science, as your posts clearly show otherwise and you have stated time and again that you are following the bible, not the real-world evidence.At least be honest about what you are doing!If you just admit that you are posting your beliefs quite pretending that there is any scientific evidence for those beliefs, I think you would be better off. You probably would be a lot happier as you are reaping a lot of grief in pretending those beliefs have scientific backing.That issue was settled over 200 years ago, and there's no putting Humpty back together again.

I don't think we find it insulting.Rather, I think most of us find it incredible that you can ignore so much evidence that says your ideas are flat-out wrong.Many of us are scientists, and we find there is no value in mistakes and errors. What's the use of something that's just wrong?

It is tempting, and pretty close to correct, to say that you have never been right about anything pertaining to science.

And when you reject evidence in favor of myth, you can't claim to be doing science.In fact, you are doing the exact opposite of science.

Faith isn't doing science, but apologetics.There's a whole different method involved in that, and it bears no resemblance to the scientific method.