Earth science curriculum tailored to fit wavering fundamentalists

Liar.

Yes we've done it to death and I never agreed with you that science that interprets the past has the same explanatory power as science has that can be replicated in the present over and over and over.

See, the problem is that when you get me to move off the thread you then continue the same discussion without allowing me to answer you. Is that fair?

If you take 10 pennies and toss them on the table we know that theoretically they land with 5 heads and 4 tails ...

Yes, the question is as you expected and the Lewis Overthrust is an example of my question.

It is probably the best description of science that I have ever seen.

Would someone be so kind as to remind this YEC of what exactly makes it eas6y to tell the strata were progressively deposited over long long periods of time?

And I suppose the weight of a few miles of sediment isn't really necessary for lithification; a few feet will do it over a million or so years or something like that?

Oh yeah, all that minuscule "sub-aerial" erosion. Compare it to the massive erosion that we can see occurred after all the strata were laid down, the cutting of canyons, the scouring of huge flat surfaces of particular layers, such as the Kaibab plateau, the cutting of steppes, the tilting and folding of whole depths of layers, and so on. Claims of internal erosion are ridiculous by comparison. Where are the huge canyons in the internal layers, filled in by the upper layers, and so on.

I'm sure the origin of arkose is part of the actual work of Geology and not the Geologic Time Scale assumption.

There is no evidence for the Geo Time Scale,

it's all assumption based on theory,

so it makes no sense to expect a YEC to challenge it on evidentiary grounds.

We challenge it all the time on logical grounds but that you'll never accept.

For instance it IS clear that the Time Scale has come to an end and I've given all sorts of good reasons why that is the case, that is even really evidence, that you'll never even understand let alone accept.

What is the "obvious" evidence of the "erosion" you are referring to "before the Cambrian" and "prior to the Cretaceous" that you say is "in addition to the modern erosional surface on which we live?"This last phrase, however, inspires me to use it to generalize my argument. The "modern erosional surface on which we live" is indeed what I keep coming back to as the evidence for all kinds of things I've been saying. This erosional surface is MASSIVE and UNLIKE anything you all call erosion to be found within the Geologic Column. In the Grand Canyon arguments I keep trying to get someone to notice that the scale of the "modern erosional surface on which we live" includes the massive canyon itself, includes the massively scoured-off surface of the Kaibab Plateau, includes the massive cliffs that make up the Grand Staircase, and yet everybody keeps claiming there is "erosion" between the layers of the walls of the Grand Canyon itself. NONSENSE.Whatever is going on geologically with that thrust under the State of Tennessee it still remains true that the surface of the state, that is, the"modern erosional surface on which we live" is clearly indicated on the map to involve a series of terraces formed from the eroded remnants of the layers of the Geologic Column.The idea that this Geologic Column, and therefore the Geologic Time Scale, continues into the present, beyond the so-called Quaternary, or the Holocene or whatever the most recent time period is supposed to be, when all the previous "time periods" are represented by mere SLABS OF ROCK, is LUDICROUS. The "erosional surface on which we live now" is composed of MASSIVE MOUNTAINS, DEEP VALLEYS, RIVER GORGES, BUTTES, MASSIVE TEPUI, ENORMOUS RIVERS LIKE THE AMAZON AND THE MISSIPPI, and yet the claim is that whole eras of past time in chunks of hundreds of millions of years on this planet are collapsed into slabs of rock. Wny isn't the blatant absurdity of this OBVIOUS?

The idea that a topographically varied surface like today's would end up buried under slabs of rock is absurd.

And after the bag / the sediment slab luggage gets packed it all just stops and stays that way until another earth landscape develops. But ya know that raises more problems. We've got this flat rock that extends across the continent. Where's the sediment going to come from to create the next time period / landscape?