Layers and layers, check out Mout St. Helens and see how the layers that were layed down very quickly look just like the geological layers that scientists believe are millions of years old.
See, this is where three classes, three lousy classes, might help you!
1. Intro geology
2. Stratigraphy
3. Petrology
Now I know
appearances are important for Creationists, because
details are hard and scary.
The details of
pyroclastic flows or even
debris flows are not the same as various layers of other materials.
Just because something is a "layer" doesn't mean it got there the same way as a
pyroclastic flow. That is why it is important to understand things like, for example,
shale.
Shale is often largely made up of very tiny (less than 2microns often) particles of flat, platey silicate minerals called
clays. If you want an experiment you and your teens can do, try taking a jar full of water and put some mud into it. And shake it up.
Immediately the big chunkers will fall to the bottom. But you'll be left with a hazy muck suspended in the water itself. Now see how long it is before the water is perfectly clear. Just wait. If you wnt to make it even harder and more like the
real world try moving the jar around every day so it isn't really all that calm, not perfectly calm.
The fine hazy stuff in the water is suspended clay minerals. It will take a very long time under very calm conditions to deposit this stuff out.
How do I know this? Because I worked in a clay lab. In order to do clay analyses the scientists had to separate out the <2um segment of the sediments and they used big tall beakers (like >1.5feet tall) to settle out the clay fraction so they could analyze it using x-ray diffraction.
Now, that's just one tiny example of how vast this field is. So just because you see a "layer" doesn't mean anything. It's what you see when you do what geologists do and get right up on the material and look at it up close.
That's the whole idea here. You have to pay attention to the details. That's the stuff that makes all the difference in the world.
And, just because you have no interest in learning the difference between a pyroclastic flow or a debris flow and a shale doesn't mean
others don't.
But the best part of this whole scenario is you seem to act as if those folks who
do have this interest are somehow pointlessly doing this. You can come on and wave your hands around "layers" and think that says something of value. It doesn't.
Imagine if someone were to equally denigrate the effort you put into whatever it is you do for a living?
As for the closed mind being dead, my mind is not closed to learning and growing, just closed to learning and growing in the Theory of evolution.
...and geology. Don't forget geology. As you just showed.
Lots of other areas I am actively choosing to grow.
As are we all. But that doesn't make it "OK" to tell people who've dedicated the greater portion of their adult lives to a topic how they are wrong based on your ignorance of the field.
Ursie, I spent about as much time in university and grad school studying geology
as you spent in elementary through high school. Don't for one second think your personal ignorance of geology is somehow compelling.
Again I will ask the question that few Creationists will ever answer: what do you do for a living so that I might equally critique it.
Besides, LOL, I have 4 teenagers, who has time!?
Hey, that's a start. My wife and I don't have any kids but I'd be happy to critique your parenting skills! Wouldn't that be fun?
I mean, according to the words of your lord and savior in Luke 6:31 that is precisely what you
want me to do!
