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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
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 18:00:26 1985
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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)

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