Claim CD101:
The geological column is a fiction, existing on paper only. The entire
geological column does not exist anywhere on the earth.
Source:
Huse, Scott, 1983. The Collapse of Evolution. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Book House, p. 15.
Response:
- The existence of the entire column at one spot is irrelevant. All of
the parts of the geological column exist in many places, and there is
more than enough overlap that the full column can be reconstructed
from those parts.
Breaks in the geological column at any spot are entirely consistent
with an old earth history. The column is deposited only in sedimentary
environments, where conditions favor the accumulation of sediments.
Climatic and geological changes over time would be expected to change
areas back and forth between sedimentary and erosional environments.
- There are several places around the world where strata from all
geological eras do exist at a single spot -- for example, the Bonaparte
Basin of Australia (Trendall et al. 1990, 382, 396) and the Williston
Basin of North Dakota (Morton 2001).
Links:
Matson, Dave E., 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-gc.html#G3
Morton, Glenn, 2001. The geologic column and its implications to the
Flood. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/
or
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/geo.htm
References:
- Morton, Glenn, 2001. (see above)
- Trendall, A. F. et al., (ed.), 1990. Geology and Mineral Resources of
Western Australia, Memoir 3. Geological Survey of Western Australia.
State Printing Division, Perth.
created 2001-3-31, modified 2004-9-8
