Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh 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 Article-I.D.: cybvax0.603 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) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 39 Summary: 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. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh