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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 34)
Message-ID: <603@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:05:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 13:05:07 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:24:13 EDT
References: <388@iham1.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Does anyone not see the contradiction between #63 and #67 repeated here?

In article <388@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes:
>        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.
> 
>             a)  ''We are only kidding ourselves if we  think  that  we
>                 have  anything like a complete succession for any part
>                 of the stratigraphical  column  in  any  one  place.''
>                 [Derek  V.  Ager,  THE  NATURE  OF THE STRATIGRAPHICAL
>                 RECORD, 2nd edition (New York: John  Wiley  and  Sons,
>                 Inc., 1981), p. 32.]
>             b)  John Woodmorappe, ''The Essential Nonexistence of  the
>                 Evolutionary-Uniformitarian    Geologic    Column:   A
>                 Quantitative Assessment,'' CREATION  RESEARCH  SOCIETY
>                 QUARTERLY, Vol.18, No.1, June 1981, pp. 46-71.

>        67.  Since there is no worldwide unconformity  in  the  earth's
>             sedimentary  strata,  the entire geologic record must have
>             been deposited rapidly. (An UNCONFORMITY is  an  erosional
>             surface  between two adjacent rock formations representing
>             a time break of unknown duration.)  CONFORMITIES  imply  a
>             continuous  and  rapid  deposition.  Since one can trace a
>             continuous path from the bottom to the top of the geologic
>             record  that  avoids  these  unconformities, the sediments
>             along that path must have been deposited continuously [a].
> 
>             a)  Henry M. Morris, KING OF CREATION (San Diego: Creation
>                 Life Publishers, 1980), pp. 152-153.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh