Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 34) Message-ID: <551@psivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 18:10:37 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.551 Posted: Wed Jul 10 18:10:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:18:24 EDT References: <388@iham1.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Distribution: net Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 39 Summary: In article <388@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes: > > THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE > >II. (Astronomical Sciences): THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND LIFE > WERE RECENTLY CREATED. > > B. TECHNIQUES THAT ARGUE FOR AN OLD EARTH ARE EITHER ILLOGICAL OR > ARE BASED ON UNREASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS. > > 63. Practically nowhere on the earth can one find the so- > called ''geologic column.'' [a] In fact, on the > continents, over half of the ''geologic periods'' are > ususally missing, and 15-20% of the earth's land surface > has less than one-third of these periods appearing in the > ''correct'' order [b]. Even within the Grand Canyon, over > 200 million years of this imaginary column are missing. > Using the assumed geologic column to date fossils and > rocks is fallacious. > Oh, great, in another section you clain that the absence of world-wide unconformities is argument agains uniformitarianism, now you are complaining about the *existance* of unconformities! You can't have it both ways, one or the other argument *must* be invalid. Please ask yourself how much of the Earth's surface is currently subject to sedimentation? Not a whole lot really! Like all those upland areas that are eroding instead of being added to! Of course there are going to be large segments missing locally, since the sediment must come from *somewhere*. Large, extensive uplands will be unrepresented for long periods, since they take so long to be eroded to the point of being low enough to retain sediment! I will not even grace #64 with a further response. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen