but your last post is so full of errors I'm overwhelmed. I find it impossible to address so many, many mistakes in any real way.
The only possibility is to try to take one basic error and deal with it. Maybe if we can deal with some of the basics it will be possible to move on.
If we gan get the very basics down on what happens and how it happens we will be able to make some progress on the rest.
Let's start with this one.
I gather that this was during the time of their formation, during the millions of years during which the dinosaurs supposedly roamed? Somehow ONLY those layers were eroded away, and ONLY those layers? And they were eroded away PERFECTLY, leaving no trace of their prior existence in the stack, none whatever, no lumps to disturb the parallel profile, not an errant stubborn rock or an embedded dinosaur bone the erosion couldn't dislodge? AND despite all that severe erosive activity over millions of years that totally erased multiple thick layers lumpy with dinosaur carcasses, the erosion left the underlying layers completely intact?
This is truly miraculous!
Never have I see so many misconceptions squeezed into one small paragraph. It is truly astounding, even more than seeing the clowns emerge from the Volkswagen.
I gather that this was during the time of their formation, during the millions of years during which the dinosaurs supposedly roamed?
In the particular case of the Grand Canyon, it may have been during that period, after that period or over the extended period from somewhere during or even before the period and continuing through to today.
Somehow ONLY those layers were eroded away, and ONLY those layers?
A prodigious leap of faith. Somehow you have concocted a whole new interpretation that was not even HINTED at in anything I wrote.
What makes you think only those layers were eroded. In places the layers that should be above them are gone as well. Part of the layers beneath them, even earlier layers are missing as well.
And they were eroded away PERFECTLY, leaving no trace of their prior existence in the stack, none whatever, no lumps to disturb the parallel profile, not an errant stubborn rock or an embedded dinosaur bone the erosion couldn't dislodge?
I'm sorry but that sentence is just juvenile. It has so many errors I need to break it down and deal with them individually.
And they were eroded away PERFECTLY...
They were eroded away, gone, kaput, finished, Elvis has left the building. That's what eroded means. GONE!
...leaving no trace of their prior existence in the stack, none whatever,...
Of course there traces of their prior existence. First, they are missing. In one place we see ABCDE and in the Grand Canyon area we see ABC and in a few spots ABCE.
But the evidence is not just there. The traces are spread out over other areas, what gets eroded here gets deposited there. That's how it works. That's how over millions of years, beaches form. Every beach was once a mountain.
...no lumps to disturb the parallel profile ...
There IS no parallel profile.
... not an errant stubborn rock or an embedded dinosaur bone the erosion couldn't dislodge?
And the Grand Prize Winner!
We are looking at a whole section being eroded away. If there was a rock that couldn't be eroded when everything around it was gone it too would get moved and deposited somewhere else.
Let me summarize.
A whole section is missing.
What should be above it is missing.
Part of what should be below it is missing.
There are NO neat parallel layers.
What was once there is now somewhere else.
This did not happen over a large area, if we go up to Utah or Montana, or down into Arizona and Mexico, we see different results.
AND despite all that severe erosive activity over millions of years that totally erased multiple thick layers lumpy with dinosaur carcasses, the erosion left the underlying layers completely intact?
Of course not. No one has said that. There are signs of the exact same processes in every layer at every location in the world. The underlying layers that are now exposed are being eroded as we speak and in other areas the very, very oldest layers are being eroded away, AND covered up with new deposits.
It is an ongoing process. The very things that happened over the BILLIONS of years of records (not mere millions of years) that are exposed by the Grand Canyon continue today. Parts that are exposed wear away and others get covered.
Faith.
Please accept this as constructive criticism.
The problem is that your basic knowledge and understanding of the world and what goes on is so completely lacking that you are bound to have difficulties accepting the obvious.
You're tackling a subject without even the most basic tools need. As a fellow Christian, I have to tell you the best course is for you to step back and first get the minimal amount of knowledge needed to understand the question.
This one paragraph is an example. It's taken me about a thousand words to address the errors in a one hundred word paragraph. And I have only scratched the surface. When it comes to geology your ignorance is near complete.
That ignorance is not a problem; it's an opportunity for you. Before you try to carry this any further, can I suggest that you go back and read some of the works from a couple hundred years ago on the subject? Look at the evidence through the eyes of the geologists of the time, those who finally put the question of whether or not there was a world-wide flood to rest. These folk were mostly Christians and it was the evidence that forced them to conclude that the Bible was simply in error.
You are not stupid. You are though, blinded by your ignorance. That can be cured. But it is a difficult task.
Go back to them. They began their journey in exactly the same position you now occupy. They wanted to believe the Biblical Myth of the Flood, but what they found, the evidence written by GOD himself in the rocks of the earth, said it was just a story.
The Flood, as described in the Bible is but a morality play. It simply never happened. Period!
And also understand, once you have learned enough to begin reading what GOD wrote (the universe we live in) as opposed to what men wrote (the Bible) you will find your Faith strengthened and a vastly increased awe and wonder at the miraculous world we live in.
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