Hovind: Lies in the Textbook

i'll bite. Hydrologic Sorting

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See, just the earth turning under the moonthe moon causes the tides, and if the earth were totally covered by water the tides would become harmonic. You music folks understand that. People have calculated that the tides would go [through a] 200-foot tidal change. If the earth were covered with water, there would be no continents to stop them. And with a 200-foot tidal change every 6 hours and 25 minutes, you would get reshuffling of the sediments down at the bottom for thousands and thousands of feet. You would get over a mile of sediments down there in finely stratified layers.
You can get a jar [of mud] out of your yard here, put some water in it, shake it up and set it down it will settle out into layers for you. Hydrologic sorting. They say those layers are different ages, I have a hard time with that because don’t you think if each one of those layers laid there for millions of years waiting for the next one there would be a few erosion marks in-between the layers? Why are there no canyons and gullies and cricks in-between the layers? I mean, why is it all stacked up like pancakes? Those layers are not different ages and the Grand Canyon did not take millions of years to form.
this would suggest (by elementary physics) that dense objects would sink and less-dense objects would float. why then do we have great big elephants and whales and such hich up in strata and little itty bitty trilobites way way way down in the strata? don't tell me they have lead for blood.i heard the guy talk once at my middle school's chapel service. he's shit nuts (note how he equates communism as an evil, godless system... yet it was practiced by jews for like ever[scripture says to give to your brother and the alien in your gates according to his need... that's communism in it's purist. not the authoritarian states.]. that's how they survived ww1 and why the germans hated them).This message has been edited by brennakimi, 12-02-2004 11:26 PM

the tides wouldn't be higher. they'd prolly be lower without land in the way (if the planet were just water... perhaps you mean dry land).

or just a fundie from pensacola and thus raised like he's from backwoods alabama and believes everything he's told based solely on the statement that it supports what he "knows" to be true. i know the type. i lived there for ten years.

yeah. 36 cm. that's a trilobite. pft. yeah fuckin right.

i used to be a bio major... i know the separation of the two... i just haven't studied fossils since i was like 10 so i forgot that they got big...