Evidence for and against Flood theories

Hey Edge, I was thinking of the same area though a little lower in the section. Coincidence??? lolThis message has been edited by roxrkool, 12-16-2004 01:41 AM

I recently read a new paper by Karl Kellogg on the geology of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison (*.PDF document).Although it's a professional paper from the USGS, it is a very easy, non-technical read and perfect for the interested layperson. It reads more like an in-depth park brochure.What it does nicely, I think, is go through the geologic history of an area, starting at the bottom of the strat column with the oldest rocks, and moving up through time to the youngest rocks at the top. It paints a nice picture of the processes that formed each group of rocks and the canyon itself. Looking at the strat column and reading the descriptions of the rocks shows the complexity of the rock pattern. It's not simply a straight forward depostion of generic sediment from a column of water.One thing you never see in YEC literature is what exactly the rocks mean. To YECs, a shale is a shale, limestone is a limestone, and sandstone is sandstone. But to the rest of the geologic world, these rocks represent dynamic and ever-changing environments, and the relationship between the rocks is just as important as the rocks themselves.A rock is a single frame in time - geologic columns are movies!This message has been edited by roxrkool, 12-16-2004 01:41 AM

Literalist, are you aware that limestone is currently being deposited and it requires specific temperatures, depth, biota, and time?What creationists need to do is explain how exactly flood waters can deposit and form limestone, shale, sandstone, siltstone, dolomite, diatomite, evaporites, volcanic layers, lithified sand dunes, conglomerates, mega-conglomerates, tuffs, etc., and all these rocks are intercalated throughout the entire rock record.Not only that, creationists also have to explain how these flood-deposited rocks can have animal tracks, nests, paleosols (ancient soil horizons), roots, paleokarsts, eolian deposition (cross-bedding in dunes), red beds (required oxygen), and a whole host of other things.Today, we can see all of these sediments being deposited and the environments in which they occur (except for maybe dolomite) - NONE of which involve flood waters.