False. I assume no such thing. Why would I? That would be stupid. It would be like...um...assuming the layers of rock surrounding fossil trees span millions of years. Dumb. They better have a dang good reason to regard them as annual layers, and they do. More on that later.
It would be dumb, since those layers were laid down by the flood in a matter of months..... It is simply their incorrect belief system which leads them to interpret other features exactly the same as having taken millions of years.
50? No. Who are these people? Are they people who actually understand what does and does not constitute an annual layer? Some layers have SEASONAL layers within them. Could your mysterious observers identify those seasonal layers? Could you? Do you even know how they determine whether it is an annual layer or not? Based on your responses so far, I'm quite certain you could not. Be honest, you thought they just counted every single layer as one year, right?
No, actually they count one dark as winter and one light as summer, so two each year......
Ice core - Wikipedia
"19 cm long section of GISP 2 ice core from 1855 m showing annual layer structure illuminated from below by a fibre optic source. Section contains 11 annual layers with summer layers (arrowed) sandwiched between darker winter layers."
When in reality it is just periods of snow and then warmth, followed by more snow, etc....
Perhaps you should do some studying first before trying to teach????
Um...wut? You realize, don't you, that you are arguing about planes which are buried many feet deep in ice because of heavy snowfall...without the aid of a flood, right?
Sure, it just falsifies your belief of age......
But that's ok, let's go with your hypothesis...how does the flood cause the layers? It's not enough to just claim that scientists' dating is wrong and the flood did it, somehow. You have to explain the layering. How does the flood account for the fact that some ice cores are 62k layers thick while others are 800k layers thick? How does the flood account for the fact that within each of those stacks of layers, volcanic ash from the same eruption (they have their own signatures) is present at the same layer? How does the flood account for the fact that at, say, 50k layers, each of those two stacks show common atmospheric conditions (which differ from current conditions, btw)?
Strawman. I said the flood led to glaciers because of increased snowfall.... Layers are formed simply by one snowfall, followed by a period of no snowfall, followed by more snowfall. Several winter storms happen every year. The glacier thickness is due to the flood because snowfall was increased dramatically in the years AFTER the flood. But your incorrect world view does not allow you to comprehend the truth.....
This I will have to save until the weekend. It is so epic in it's wrongness, it will take a couple hours to utterly dismantle it with citations and real data. But I have next week off from work, so I will put in the time.
If you say so, I'll be here waiting and will of course refute everything with ACTUAL science.....
Oh man, this is funny. I'll ignore the fact that you totally misrepresent what is meant by "uniformitarianism," and simply point out your double standard. In the last two conversations I have had with you, you have:
1. Compared 12 feet of rock in Wisconsin which spans 1 million years, to 12 feet of rock in Germany through which stands a tree fossil, and stated that therefore, the tree fossil must span through a million years of rock. Because, obviously, Wisconsin and Germany must have always been uniform.
You apparently failed to understand my argument there as well. Have you forgotten already I don't believe in millions of years? It is you all that claim 12 feet in one place means millions of years,
until trees stick up through the layers, then it is only a decade or so. So when confronted with evidence which falsifies your claims of age, you immediately claim it is just that one area, but everywhere else the layers are exactly the same except without trees......
2. Compared 5 ft/year of snow in one location to another location where they drill ice cores, and divide 9000 feet of ice by that 5ft/year as if it snows that much everywhere in Greenland.
Do you not see the irony?
I do indeed, since I provided you with the actual scientific documents to show the northern areas get 10 inches per year NOW. During global warming....
Which would equate with the current rate (not even factoring in increased snowfall before global warming) to 10,800 years to form the entire ice sheet.....
Ohh, did you want to discuss this instead?????
I never based the ages on today's rate...or any rate, for that matter. Because thickness of the ice (or thickness of layers) has nothing to do with how they count layers.
I know, they count repeated storms in one year making multiple layers as one year for each layer....
I'm sure the rates did change, perhaps drastically sometimes. Irrelevant.
It wasn't irrelevant when you suddenly needed to explain trees protruding through multiple layers, then suddenly the layers were laid down rapidly, except where there are not trees......
If you can't see that past rates would have been higher and therefore more storms deposited layers each year....... There is no hope....
It was YOUR claim. It was in the abstract that YOU posted.
Regardless, it isn't just a "claim." It is observable fact that the layers in many ice cores are centimeters thick.
because each snowfall deposits snow, which is compacted under weight.....
You don't expect 2 feet of snow to form a 2 foot layer do you?????
Got a calculation for that? You know that would entirely depend on how sloped the land is, right?
Are you claiming the entire glacier is interconnected but moves drastically different in various parts without fracturing large sections off from the rest????
I don't assume any age, and nothing about my "belief system" contradicts the data.
Whatever makes you feel better....
Not sure why you posted that source. Did you even study it? I could have posted it as support for MY position.
Not really, since as shown above even assuming today's snowfall rate the entire 9,000 feet could have formed in as little as 10,800 years. Add to that the increased snowfall in past colder periods....... But since you don't see how that applies as stated earlier..... it's really a lost cause.....
Why not? If you're so sure, why don't creationists core it? Why didn't the R.A.T.E. team do it? Why spend your money on a friggin model Ark, instead of using it for some actual learning?
We don't need to. Buried in 250 feet of ice when those that went to look for it only expected it to be covered by a few feet due to scientific models, is all the proof one really needs.....
But then that's why they brought shovels and ice picks the first go-around and found they had to use a machine to actually bore to it......
But all your responses have been expected.....
2 Peter 3:3 "First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation. 5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.…