My Layering Challenge

[Larniavc]

A world wide flood that covered everything to a minimum depth of 50 feet would create enormous tidal forces and currents. Thes swirling across the globe would errode thousands of feet of mateial and deposit it else where.
The geological colum shows what would be expected after a global flood. Layers of different typews of rock sort according to its different weights and containing those creaters whose lack of mobility limited there options to escape the flood water.

No it doesn't.

 

[Dave RP]

So then why don't we see our nearest common ancestors sticking up out of the ground, if they are only covered up gradually as the earth erodes to dust?

And for that matter, what will happen once our tallest mountain turns to dust and buries its last cadre of bones?

Sorry ... I'm not buying this evolution stuff.

Teacher: Okay, kids. Today I'm going to show you how evolution works. Get out a piece of paper and draw 13 horizontal lines. Good. Now, starting at the bottom, write "trilobites," then "nautiloids," then "sea scorpions," then ... "mankind." There you have it. That's an overview of evolution. Remember: each layer got buried under its own layer of dirt as time went on. And all that dirt came from big rocks, which came from big mountains.

Johnny [rolls eyes]: Only on paper.

Teacher: What did you say!? Another remark like that, and you'll go to the principal's office and die there.

Natural processes carried out over millions of years account for all you can see when you go out and about, without the need for a magician (or God). Try reading and learning instead of reverting to the bible every time you don't know something.

 

[DogmaHunter]

If you drop dead right now and left your body to nature, you won't end up underground like fossils. Scavengers will pull you apart and eat you, you will rot and the rains and ravages of time will remove all traces of you. Even if you were buried at a funeral, you won't become a fossil.

The conditions needed for you to become a fossil are very specific and thus rare. You need to die in a way that scavengers can't reach you, you'll be left alone, and you will be covered by silt or sediment before your bones decompose. This is easier on the bottom of the sea than on land, but sometimes there are places, such as a river delta where erosion and rains wash down the right amounts of the right kinds of silt, and the right kind of geology where the land is sinking so that the sedimentary system will continue for a long time, and a bunch of other factors.

As silt and sediment continues to build up above, and your layer continues to sink, the layers below get squeezed, and over ages become sedimentary rock. If all the variables are perfect (extremely rare) your bones can mineralize as they degrade, leaving behind an impression of their shape, made out of a kind of rock that is different from the surrounding rock - a fossil.

Over more ages, geology might change (continental plates push into reach other, etc) and start pushing those layers of rock up, or sideways, or pushing up ocean floor, including layers of rock below it that once were the floor.

Basically, the rock above and below is sedimentary and was being formed when you wandered into it in such a way that your shape was cast like a mold. Then geological forces over eons can shift areas of the Earth's crust, including pushing up those layers of rock formed out of ancient sediments

I did not expect an interesting an informative post in this particular thread!

Good job

 

[TLK Valentine]

From Mexico.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Take a look at this picture:

Where did all the dirt come from that covered up each layer of representative life?

Aren't you the one who has God clean up His messes when He's done?

 

[AV1611VET]

Aren't you the one who has God clean up His messes when He's done?

That's right.

God did it.

Not evolution, not sediment, not this and that; but God did it.

Line upon line, decently and in order.

In my opinion.

 

[Nithavela]

That's right.

God did it.

Not evolution, not sediment, not this and that; but God did it.

Line upon line, decently and in order.

In my opinion.

Do you think that erosion does not exist and that the earth never changed significantly since the flood and will not do so until the end of the world?

 

[TLK Valentine]

That's right.

God did it.

Not evolution, not sediment, not this and that; but God did it.

Line upon line, decently and in order.

In my opinion.

One rarely gets to see such tidy omnicide.

 

[SkyWriting]

Take a look at this picture:

Where did all the dirt come from that covered up each layer of representative life?

Historically, when people sweep out their house, they dumped the dirt and dust outside.
This might account for the layers over time. The fossils were likely all pets at one time or another. People often start with smaller, simple pets when they are young.

 

[Dave RP]

That's right.

God did it.

Not evolution, not sediment, not this and that; but God did it.

Line upon line, decently and in order.

In my opinion.

An opinion you're absolutely entitled to hold

 

[AV1611VET]

Do you think that erosion does not exist and that the earth never changed significantly since the flood and will not do so until the end of the world?

I think erosion exists, but it has only been going on for some 6000 years.

 

[AV1611VET]

One rarely gets to see such tidy omnicide.

Science is myopic.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Science is myopic.

I suppose to a religious mindset, one would see God commit many more tidy omnicides.

After all, every plague, drought, flood, famine, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, avalanche, etc.... was all God wiping out (or at least attempt to) some segment of His creation. All attempted omnicides -- the most recent one occurring in Puerto Rico -- though not nearly as tidy.

I suppose it's out fault for surviving... clearly God's trying to get us off His planet.

 

[AV1611VET]

I suppose it's out fault for surviving... clearly God's trying to get us off His planet.

You subscribe to the Gaia Hypothesis, do you?

Or maybe the more scientific Malthusian catastrophes?

 

[Nithavela]

Or maybe the more scientific Malthusian catastrophes?

I think that the pill put a definite end to that hypothesis.

 

[TLK Valentine]

You subscribe to the Gaia Hypothesis, do you?

Or maybe the more scientific Malthusian catastrophes?

Actually, I'm asking whether or not you believe that so-called "acts of God" are indeed that.

 

[Nithavela]

Actually, I'm asking whether or not you believe that so-called "acts of God" are indeed that.

Shouldn't you know better?

 

[AV1611VET]

Actually, I'm asking whether or not you believe that so-called "acts of God" are indeed that.

Only if God did it.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Only if God did it.

That's a yes, then -- unless God's not in control of nature.

 

[AV1611VET]

Shouldn't you know better?

Well if someone gets struck by lightning while installing solar panels during a storm, I'd say chances are it was Mo'nacha what did it.

But if someone gets struck by lightning while deep sea diving, chances are God did it.

(Or Satan, if God let him.)