Fossils, strata and the flood

There are. Cosmic rays make radioactive chlorine and boron in the surface layers of rocks, and these can be used to date, say, when boulders were laid down by a glacier. And quartz grains fluoresce for several millenia after being exposed to sunlight, which can be used to see how long grains have been buried.

Which evidence shows that, Faith?Take just one spot I'm familiar with, the southwest corner of Oklahoma. The present evidence there, from surface geology and several thousand oil and gas wells, shows that a major range of mountains grew there about 500,000,000 years ago, and slowly got eroded, with debris largely going into a body of water to the northwest, to deposit a big layer of sediment now called the Granite Wash. Rivers later cut into this sediment while it was dry land. Maybe 300,000,000 years ago it was submerged again under a different sea, and covered with a couple of miles of sediments. Rinse and repeat a couple of times....and we have the Granite Wash far beneath the surface up past Amarillo today.Or did I misunderstand what "they" refers to in the quote from you above?

Faith:While you are off, give a little thought to this: are sediments accumulating today in an identical fashion out by the oil blowout near Louisiana as they are in Iowa? Doesn't it seem possible that there were places being eroded in Iowa and other places collecting those erosional products, off Louisiana, a thousand years ago? And if so, why not some different places eroding and collecting a million years ago? A billion?

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD