So what about SILT and dating????

Hi Literalist. I appreciate, very much, your input here and the commendable way you present your thoughts.I believe it was a year or so ago, but I did a thread with somewhat similar hypothesis as yours stated above. In Psalms 104 someplace, in reference to the flood it says something like "the mountains rose up and the valleys sank down.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.Of course, it is futile to try to present such an argument here on evc as one soon becomes accused by admin and others of breaking admin rules by unscientific argument. So like you are ending up doing in a nice way here, that's about all we can do is present it as "musings" and leave it at that. I believe it to be factual, but don't know enough to put up a substantial debate on it. Back when I tried it, we went many pages about how such a canopy could exist and all. I was using logic and they were using the math, so to speak. It definitely involves the supernatural and that's the crux. Anyhow, keep up the good work. Again, you're input is greatly appreciated here.

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The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz

I just finished re-reading this thread from beginning to end. Several thoughts come to mind in all of this:1) That the Biblical record does have it that there has been tectonic uplifting and that the oceans were once shallow as per scientific observation, though the interpretations of the PoVs do not agree.2) If indeed the Biblical model is true, perhaps it would be impossible to know the element and chemical makeup of a pre-flood atmosphere relative to current dating methodology.3) Since the Biblical record has it that significant underground water was released via the effect of the extraordinary volumn of water fallen from the atmosphere to earth on earth's crust, it would be difficult for creation floodists to verify data on how much this would factor in on the lowering of the ocean floors. Perhaps the reason the ocean crusts are observed to be much thinner average than the land crust is that the regions of the oceans were where the largest subterrain lakes (or small oceans) existed. Thus, perhaps, when they broke up, the earth surfaces in that region the lower ocean floors were formed. This would also account for, perhaps, some plate tectonic activity, a considerable amount of volcanic activity and account for some of the great volumn of ocean water observed presently.To put it in the words of The Literalist, some musings.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Hi Percy. It has been my understanding that during the Ice Age the oceans were shallow enough that all of the continents were connected above sea level and that animals could move about the planet. It is believed by many creationists that if the flood were reality that the makeup of the atmosphere and topography of the planet would be substantially different than post flood. Thus it would seem that evidence as to the chemistry of the atmosphere would be unknown. If, according to the Biblical record, the subterrain water was released, the implication is that the weight of the flood waters ollapsed the thin crust over those subterrain waters so as to deepen those areas of subterrain water. This may have been a factor in some uplifting and deep seas. Percy, with all due respect, why this personal attack? You are attacking me for reluctance to buy the mainline science view. I have tried to operate within the perameters of my knowledge in the threads. So far, since reactivating my account, for the most part my input has been as relevant as the average member. Most of what I have said has been within the Forum Guidelines equally as much as the average member.I have admitted in the above message that that message was musings relative to the flood in response to my reading of the entire thread.Unless you cite specific examples as evidence that I have been consistently posting contrary to guidelines, aren't your claims unsupported assertions?

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Hi Paul.1) I don't understand how anyone can conclude that life was uniform pre-flood to what is post flood as per the Biblical record. Surely you are aware that as per the Biblical record, men lived as long as 9+ centuries and that after the flood that life quickly digressed from 6 to 9 hundred years down to 300, then 200 and by the time of Moses, down to under 200 and that larger animals such as mamoths and dinos lived on the earth? If that be the case, then there had to be factors which would affect dating methology.2) The unique Buz hypothesis is in some respects, more compatible with the mainline science view than that of most fundi creationists.3) Science could only speculate on the properties of a pre-Biblical flood atmosphere and chemical makeup of earth's surface, etc, since the data would not be uniform to the the view which science has studied.All I intended by my original message here was a musing on some aspects of the thread, since what was discussed in the thread applied to some of what I said. I do not intend to further irritate Admin and you folks by continuing on this in this thread.Thanks to those of you who responded. I hope you will understand why I will not be commenting further.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.