> --snip--
> This is a public forum and a public discussion. Feel free to jump into
> the fray anytime.
>
I also will take a plunge... :-)
> To me the issue is trying to fit the tracks into the global flood
> hypothesis. I don't think it can be done. I am trying to goad (very
> unsuccessfully) my good friend Art into a discussion of how tracks are to be
> accounted for in a model in which most of the geologic column must be
> deposited in a single year or so.
>
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There are, of course, many other issues apart from tracks which need
explanation. I am not a geologist, and have very little knowledge of
the subject, but I remember reading (in "Creation and Evolution - the
Facts and Fallacies, by Alan Hayward - sadly, out of print at present
but I understand soon to be reprinted) about varves. I don't have the
book to hand anymore, but the author's argument went something like
this:
There exist large areas of very thin alternate layers of shale and
sandstone, sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands of layers in total,
sandwiched between fossil-bearing rocks above and below. According
to the recent creationist - global flood theory, these layers must
have been laid down during a year-long flood. For this to happen,
each layer has only a very few minutes in which to be formed!
He goes on to point out that shale is formed from compaction of fine
clay, which will only settle in very still water.
I, for one, would be very interested to know what explanation your
friend, or indeed, any "global flood" advocate, offers for this?
Especially so, as this was one of the significant arguments that
changed my views from YEC to becoming an "old earther" (OEC?)
(doubtless the geologists among you will know all about this, but
I still have much to learn).
regards,
Gary