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I was puzzled why you did not understand Wise's explanation, so I revisited his video lecture, and found this that may help explain some of your statements:
"we have we have evidence here of five humongous surges of water five humongous I mean depositing hundreds of feet of sediment crossing the entire continent of North America depositing sediment of that and that magnitude across the continent.
Wise was not referring to every square inch of the continent on each surge, even though it may have sounded that way. He was not using his own data, but Sloss's, as he continually referred to. He also said this, which explains the previous statement:
"The Sauk mega sequence is very thick in the Eastern United States; it's very thick on the western United States; it's very thin halfway in between in the Mid Continent. So we have a sequence of rocks very thick on the coasts and thins to the center of the continent."
That surge, and the others, covered the coastal and interior low-lying areas first, while the high ground, such as what came to be known as the "dinosaur peninsula", were covered last, possibly in a later surge. The sediment deposition maps tend to bear out that interpretation.
He knows exactly what he is talking about on both the transcontinental layering and the fossil record, which he explains on another video. I admit the concept is a little difficult to understand from a 90 minute lecture, and probably more so if one has a gradualism mindset. It made no sense to me the first few times I watched it, but eventually it began to fall into place.
Where did Wise say he would denounce the evidence? This is from his own mouth, and recently:
"As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turned against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate."
Kurt P Wise, geology (In Six Days) - creation.com
Kurt P Wise, geology (In Six Days) - creation.com
Some creationist criticize him for being too "lenient" to evolutionists.
Wise, like all scientists, makes assumptions:
"Dr Wise believes that most of us have been trained to be biased towards thinking in an evolutionary way, which unfortunately is not along the lines of God's thinking. So he encourages his students to look at their starting assumptions, and to think about whether those assumptions are correct, or whether there are other options they need to consider."
But your statement about evidence also applies to many evolutionists, according to Wise:
"For evolutionists, he says, one of these is the conventional evolutionary assumption that all living things are descended from a common ancestor. Such beliefs are non-negotiable for the evolutionist. 'I would say that if you investigated any scientists in any field you would find issues they assume at the beginning that are unchangeable for them.'"
Kurt Wise, Steve Austin, and those on the same page will eventually turn the geology world view upside down. Count on it.
Dan
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