So what about SILT and dating????

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Buz: My understanding is that the average crust thickness of the ocean floor is around three miles, whereas the average for the continents is around 20 miles. I read this some place and have no verification for it, so if I'm mistaken, likely someone will correct me. My hypothesis was that much of the water was in the atmosphere as a vapor canopy effecting a terrarium like atmosphere over the earth and the flood brought most of it down upon a relatively smooth surfaced planet. The weight of all the water sank down i.e. sheared the thinner crust and as you say uplifted the mountain ranges, most of which tend to be along ocean shores.

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Literalist: Near the end of the Flood there was a shear event (i.e., the oceanic crust sheared from the continental crust sinking down forming a place to hold the Flood waters ~ in other words, the ocean basins formed)

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The shear event, which was global, caused corresponding uplift in the continents (in various directions or axis) causing not only mountains to form but also major river vallies from which the Flood waters and the fresher, soft sediments generally ran off into the new basins and rapidly so.

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This is a rather fanciful notion regarding oceanic and continental crust. Do either of you have an explanation how the earth became so smooth with continental and oceanic crust existing at the same level in the first place? Isostatically speaking, this is virtually impossible.I also find it amazing that an equal depth of water would place differential stress on the oceanic crust so that it would sink relative to the continents.These are just a few questions I'd like to raise regarding this idea of a smooth earth and formation of the ocean basins. There are plenty of other questions where these came from.

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YECs believe that nearly ALL of the sedimentary rock layers and their fossils (as well as most igneous rock and any fossils they might contain) are a direct result of the Flood. I, for one, can certainly see some fossils/layers/igneous deposits having been made in the intervening years due to catastrophes in the intervening years between the Flood and today, but I think these would be a very small percentage compared to those laid down by the Flood itself.

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THen you need to explain why there are evaporite deposits and dessication cracks occurring in the middle of what you call the flood.You also need to tell us why there are the footprints of various creatures in strata supposedly deposited by a global flood.I would like to hear why there are eolian sand dunes interbedded with the flood rocks.It would also be good to tell us why there are erosional unconformities and paleosoils found in the middle of a section created by a global flood.And what about the nests of dinosaurs and other creatures such as termites? How did these get to be formed during a global flood catastrophe?And what about coral reefs? Why did they survive a flood that covered the mountains?Why are there river deltas formed during the flood? Where did the erosional sediment come from to form these deposits?(section edited out to remain roughly on topic).This message has been edited by edge, 12-13-2004 10:27 PM