You left out one of my favorite examples geology Faith can't explain, the Hawaiian Islands. Only one "hot spot" and several islands, with the islands getting older and more eroded the further away they are from the hot spot. I would like to see Faith explain that!
Just to roll even further off-topic - this is similar to one of my favorite proofs of evolutionary methods.
In such a chain of islands (maybe the Hawaiians, not sure), several related beetle species were identified.
Geologic methods showed that the islands went from younger to older in one direction. Genetic analysis of beetle species on each of those islands, independantly, showed that the beetle species went from most-recently diverged to most-distantly diverged -
in the exact same order. The youngest island
geologically held the youngest
species of beetles.
Two different labs, two different fields, two entirely different means of dating predicated on entirely unrelated assumptions - both arrive at the same fact. That's proof that the tools of evolutionary study aren't just made-up scientific wankery but legitimate and accurate investigations into physical reality.
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