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 36) Message-ID: <550@psivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 18:00:26 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.550 Posted: Wed Jul 10 18:00:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:42:25 EDT References: <391@iham1.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Distribution: net Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 45 Summary: In article <391@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. > > 66. In rock formations in Utah [a], Kentucky [b], Missouri > [c], and possibly Pennsylvania [d] human-like FOOTPRINTS > that are supposedly 150-600 million years old have been > found and examined by different authorities. There > appears to be a drastic error in chronology. > Well, well, well, the Paluxy mush shows up at last! Every report I have heard from reputable scientists about these so-called finds is that they are *not* what Creationists claim them to be. > > 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]. > This sounds completely absurd to me! There are *numerous* unconformities, so that the geologic column can *nowhere* be traced in its entirety. To produce a world-wide unconformity, it would be necessary for *all* sedimentation to stop world-wide simultaneously! As long as *any* sedimentation is going on there will be at least a local conformity! This so-called continuous trace involves shifting depositional environments to maintain "continuity". Utterly bogus, and based on a total misunderstanding of what standard sedimentary theory would predict! -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen