>... <SNIP> ... . The global flood model holds that the preflood earth
>was catastrophe free, yet these sediments contain evidence for a pre-flood
>catastrophe and they contain evidence of an energy release during the
>global flood which would kill everyone and everything on earth.
>
>According to the periodicities of the two precambrian rhythmites the rates
>of earth rotation and the lunar orbital period was drastically different
>from now, and there was a major change in those parameters DURING THE
>PRECAMBRIAN (or Preflood). Between 900 myr and 600 myr ago (or if the
>global flood advocate prefers, between the Elatina and the Big Cottonwood
>time), the length of the day changed from 20.9 hours to 21.9 hours/day. The
>lunar orbit also changed. ....
Glenn, why do you take these results as evidence for a great catastrophe
rather than just the normal (uniformitarian) tidal braking of the Earth's
spin rate coupled with the recession of the Moon's orbital radius as the
lunar orbit gradually acquires the Earth's spin angular momentum? Are the
results somehow inconsistent with all possible tidal braking models, or
what?
David Bowman
dbowman@georgetowncollege.edu