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There are various type of sandstone and shale. As long as it is not a hard rock, it will work.
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Now I am not sure how would the meandering process work on hard rocks. I don't know. I have never thought about this question before.
 
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The global Flood only happened ONCE.
I know you don't have any evidence for the idea that a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour).

You can admit it. No one will think the worse of you for admitting you have no evidence.
 
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I know you don't have any evidence for the idea that a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour).

You can admit it. No one will think the worse of you for admitting you have no evidence.

The evidence is the water, the seawater.
 
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There are various type of sandstone and shale. As long as it is not a hard rock, it will work.
Sandstone and shale may not be hard compared to granite but they are certainly hard when it comes to erosion via catastrophic flood waters.
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Now I am not sure how would the meandering process work on hard rocks. I don't know. I have never thought about this question before.
It would work just like it works right now, by taking a very long time to form incised meanders.
 
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Sandstone and shale may not be hard compared to granite but they are certainly hard when it comes to erosion via catastrophic flood waters.

No. There are various grade of induration in sandstones. Some sand"stones" are pretty soft. It would crumble in your hand.
 
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No. There are various grade of induration in sandstones. Some sand"stones" are pretty soft. It would crumble in your hand.
Are those in the Grand Canyon incised meanders "pretty soft"? What about the layers above and below them that are not sandstone but are eroded away the same way?
 
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Because the earth has a lot of it.
Seriously? I ask for how seawater is evidence of a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour) and this is your response?

The only possible way for "a lot" of seawater to be evidence of a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour) is if you knew how much seawater was here before the rift broke open. Do you know that?
 
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Are those in the Grand Canyon incised meanders "pretty soft"? What about the layers above and below them that are not sandstone but are eroded away the same way?

No. They are hard.
But, limestone would be a different story.
 
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We have a mechanism to provide water and we have the water. That is pretty complete.
 
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No. They are hard.
Then I guess all this talk about soft and crumbly sandstone is just a diversion?

But, limestone would be a different story.
Why? The layers of limestone in between layers of sandstone in the Grand Canyon are all eroded the same as the sandstone.
 
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We have a mechanism to provide water and we have the water. That is pretty complete.
No, it isn't. You have no evidence of the mechanism and no way to compare the before and after amounts of water. Therefore the simple existence of seawater cannot be used as evidence of a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour).
 
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Then I guess all this talk about soft and crumbly sandstone is just a diversion?

Why? The layers of limestone in between layers of sandstone in the Grand Canyon are all eroded the same as the sandstone.

No. Limestone is very different.
 
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Evidence is evidence.
How do we qualify an evidence?
 
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No. Limestone is very different.
I agree that limestone is different than sandstone but in the Grand Canyon the limestone is eroded away in the same way as the sandstone above and below it.
 
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Evidence is evidence.
And no evidence is no evidence.

How do we qualify an evidence?
You really love these little words games, don't you? Time scales, qualifying evidence, you just never met a scientific term you could accept at face value, have you?

Here you go.

Scientific evidence is evidence which serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis. Such evidence is expected to be empirical evidence and interpretation in accordance with scientific method. Standards for scientific evidence vary according to the field of inquiry, but the strength of scientific evidence is generally based on the results of statistical analysis and the strength of scientific controls.

So what evidence do you have for a tectonic rift zone where movement unleashed hundreds of trillions of gallons of water (per hour)?
 
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