Science isn't a God and no-one has suggested it is. However, surely being contemptuous about its "assumptions" isn't as productive as questioning its "assumptions"? Heck, even if you'd taken the time to find out that these supposed "assumptions" aren't, in fact, assumptions, but are based on evidence, I don't think contempt is productive.
I'm no expert in the geologic column, but in reading your posts you appear to be suggesting that water can't cause layers to form, but a flood can. A flood of what? Water? What, that wet stuff that can't cause layers to form? And it forms layers?
I see layers forming all around me every day. Crashfrog got it spot-on when he brought up soil. In my garden I see the layers build up every year. In my compost heap I see layers build up in under a year and they don't get washed away, mashed by earthquakes, blown away by hurricanes. They stay where they were put. My garden stays where it is, my plants stay where they are, the soil level is slightly higher than when I first moved in because of all the leaves that have come off the trees in that time and built up (I'm not a very tidy gardener). I've found an old path, buried under six inches of soil - its no more than 50 years old. Not only that, but I could actually see the layers in the six inches of soil because of the changes in colour, each layer representing the start of another autumn. Now, leaves aren't one of nature's heaviest things and they have a large surface area for the wind to catch. If they can manage to form a layer, why can't sand or silt?
In all the time that I've watched these layers forming around me I've never noticed a world-wide flood and from that I have to conclude that layers can happen without a world-wide flood. The only other conclusion to draw is that the layers I see aren't really there and they haven't formed because there has been no world-wide flood. There's a problem with that second conclusion - I've seen the layers.
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