One thing that is interesting about the Mt. Rushmore example is just how much information we can actually gather by looking at it.
For example:
- we can find the tools marks left during construction.
- we can actually find many of the tools at the bottom of the cliffs.
- we can find the people that actually worked on it.
- we can see the modified Hall of Records as well as the designs for what was intended.
- we still use many of the anchor points initially placed to allow the human workers to descend to the faces during construction.
- we have the original models for the work as well as the funding documents.
- it requires constant maintenance and repair to maintain it.
- in case lots of time has passed for the imagined viewers of Mt. Rushmore, much of the records of its construction are duplicated and left in a titanium vault in the Hall of Records.
The only reason Creationists or IDists even use the Mt. Rushmore example is that they are as ignorant of what data is available there as they are about biology, genetics, geology and all other science.
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