What Strata does the Biblical Flood Begin & End?

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
--A somewhat coherent McFall Post, astounding!
--The TrueOrigin article, 'Assessing Creationist Stratigraphy', looks over this question quite well. I would disagree with the way Minnemooseus & Joe Meert (And others?) have deduced from the article. It rather discusses why there is a lack in consensus among creationists in stratigraphic depositions in regards to timing and periods thereof.

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'Lack of consensus' is one way of putting it. 'Monumental uninformed confusion' would be probably be more accurate. It seems that since the author cannot find any relationship between any YEC theory and the geological column, he would just as soon ignore the latter. Very convenient!

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"I fail to see the difficulty. I cannot understand why creationists are unable to predict & test where the flood deposits are. Shouldn't it be glaringly obvious? A global catastrophic flood followed by mainstream deposition/rock formation. Why isn't the line obvious?"

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--I don't think the representation should be obvious at all, it doesn't carry the same mechanical operations of deposition as mainstream explanation does.

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And that is exactly why the flood should be glaringly obvious in the geological record. It was an event that has no precedent or any modern analog. It was completely different and outside the uniformitarianist philosophy.... Well, at least that is what creationists tell me. So, why does it not leap out of the geological record?

Hi, Rox,Don't forget the recolonization theory. You know, the one where it's all over by the end of the Archean. This one has the incredibly convienient feature that all evidence of previous life and civilizations was comletely destroyed by a massively destructive event in the Archean. Life then began recolonizing the earth in the Proterozoic. This all makes a lot of sense and many find it intellectually satisfying. After all, an event that would metamorphose most of the existing crust would certainly have destroyed any evidence of its passing.