Alessandro said:
I have university education if that is what you mean, not being aware that the reference site wasn't included in reply is another matter, of which I stand corrected. Thanks anyway.
Of course that site was full of nonsense. Mechanical Bliss has already shown how false most of it is while I was writing this but I going to post it anyway.
The earth's surface and sedimentary crust also bear strong witness to the historicity of a worldwide Flood, and the early geologists (Steno, Woodward, etc.) taught this.
Then why have you been totally unable to identify exactly where the flood deposited part of the sedimentary layers begins and ends. If they really bore strong witness to the historicity of the the worldwide flood this should be easy rather than impossible.
1. All the mountains of the world have been under water at some time or times in the past, as indicated by sedimentary rocks and marine fossils near their summits.
Leonardo Da Vinci first explained why fossils on mountaintops are not evidence for a worldwide flood. You are only 500 years out of date. Further it is simply false that all the mountains of the world have marine fossils on them.
Even most volcanic mountains with their pillow lavas seem largely to have been formed when under water.
Most volcanoes have pillow lava? I don't think so. Now consider all those huge volcanic provinces such as the Deccan traps that have no pillow lava.
2. Most of the earth's crust consists of sedimentary rocks (sandstones, shales, limestones, etc.). These were originally formed in almost all cases under water, usually by deposition after transportation by water from various sources.
Many sandstone deposits are eolian. That means they were deserts. Limestone takes time to form. The limestone layers of the world could not have formed during a worldwide flood. I am sure Mechanical Bliss can tell you more(He has already shown that the statement is false anyway). What about paleosols and massive evaporite deposits? How did they form during a global flood.
3. The assigned "ages" of the sedimentary beds (which comprise the bulk of the "geologic column") have been deduced from their assemblages of fossils. Fossils, however, normally require very rapid burial and compaction to be preserved at all. Thus every sedimentary formation appears to have been formed rapidlyeven catastrophicallyand more and more present-day geologists are returning to this point of view.
Of all the things that YECs talk about it seems to me most strange that they talk about fossils when the fossil record so clearly falsifies the flood myth. Yes much of the fossil record was deposited under water. In case you haven't noticed the majority of the earths surface is underwater.
4. Since there is known to be a global continuity of sedimentary formations in the geologic column (that is, there is no worldwide "unconformity," or time gap, between successive "ages"), and since each unit was formed rapidly, the entire geologic column seems to be the product of continuous rapid deposition of sediments, comprising in effect the geological record of a time when "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
This is just nonsense. There are unconformities and angular unconformites which falsify the flood myth. I also find it amazing that creationists will on one hand say the geologic column doesn't actually exist and on the other say it is evidence for the flood.
5. It is also significant that the types of rocks, the vast extent of specific sedimentary rock formations, the minerals and metals, coal and oil found in rocks, the various types of structures (i.e., faults, folds, thrusts, etc.), sedimentary rocks grossly deformed while still soft from recent deposition, and numerous other features seem to occur indiscriminately throughout the various "ages" supposedly represented in the column. To all outward appearances, therefore, they were all formed in essentially the same brief time period.
Mechanical Bliss has already explained to you why this is false.
6. The fossil sequences in the sedimentary rocks do not constitute a legitimate exception to this rule, for there is a flagrant circular reasoning process involved in using them to identify their supposed geologic age. That is, the fossils have been dated by the rocks where they are found, which in turn had been dated by their imbedded fossils with the sequences based on their relative assumed stages of evolution, which had ultimately been based on the ancient philosophy of the "great chain of being." Instead of representing the evolution of life over many ages, the fossils really speak of the destruction of life (remember that fossils are dead things, catastrophically buried for preservation) in one age, with their actual local "sequences" having been determined by the ecological communities in which they were living at the time of burial.
The is complete nonsense. The fossil record is not based on flagrant circular reasoning and the fossil record falsifies the flood myth as clearly as anything else. If you don't think so have a try at the coincidences thread.
7. The fact that there are traditions of the great Flood found in hundreds of tribes in all parts of the world (all similar in one way or another to that in the Genesis record) is firm evidence that those tribes all originated from the one family preserved through the cataclysm.
A combination of myths don't add up to reality. There are also widespread myths of the dead coming back to life and people changing to animals. This doesn't mean that Dracula versus the Wolfman was a documentary.
One can understand why atheistic and pantheistic evolutionists have to interpret Earth history in terms of great ages and evolution, rather than Creation and the Flood. They really have no other choice, once they have decided to reject the God of Creation and His record in the Bible. However, it is very difficult to understand why men and women who do believe in God and His word do this. The Bible is explicitly clear on the global Deluge, and sound scientific evidence supports it.
Except of course that is was a group of Christian Geologist who believed in creation who first discovered the unequivocal evidence that the earth was far older than the a strict literal interpretation of Bible allowed and that there never was a worldwide flood.
You have still not given any hint as to exactly which layers are flood layers and ignored the many flood falsifications that have been presented. All you can do is cut and paste nonsense and false claims from some web site put together by people who have sworn to uphold the young earth and flood myth no matter what the evidence.
The Frumious Bandersnatch