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Originally posted by FeedingTheRat
reply to post by Gawdzilla
Thank you. There's a point where you just have to throw up your arms and let these people continue their bloody stumbling about in the dark. OK by me. I appreciate the link.
At least you wish it was. But scientists love to "one up" each other, so bad ideas get pounced on quickly. Hard to keep a dogma up like that.
As for the rock in the Grand Canyon, You have to have several thousand feet of sediment compressed into a few hundred feet of rock. That takes a bit more than a few thousand years.
Another point. The rock in the Grand Canyon is just the exposed bits. The rock layers themselves extend for hundreds of miles in all directions. So saying it got laid down, compressed, ossified, and then worn away is one flood is babblelicious.
AND, just for fun, why did the water cut so few "Grand Canyons"? The water covered the world, right? So where are the Grand Canyons in Kansas? (For that matter, where are ANY terrain features in Kansas? )
Your objections seem to result from a lack of scientific knowledge. You should look into correcting that before complaining that's its invalid.
The hardness of the rock layers are known. The amount of energy required to abrade them is known. Not very hard to figure out how long it would take.
As for the way it got hard, that's well known. Lots of pressure over long periods.
(Oh, and your thoughts on the scientific community were noted. However, as they're simply opinions, I won't try to dispute them.)
At least you wish it was. But scientists love to "one up" each other, so bad ideas get pounced on quickly. Hard to keep a dogma up like that.
You'll have to look that up for yourself, I'm not getting paid to teach you. And, of course, you learn more when you explore the field for yourself.
I'm made a note to read the rest of your post at some future date.
BTW, it is possible to cut rock quickly with water. You just have to pump it up to 20,000 psi or so. No problem then, it will cut steel. There is some doubt of such an event occurring during a flood of any size, however.
As for the way it got hard, that's well known. Lots of pressure over long periods.
I read the post. It was painstaking. Let me summarize. Orangutan doesn't care how old the Earth is and doest really consider scientific endeavors of value other than having contributed some nifty technological advances that help us with daily existence. Stuff like two ply toilet paper. He's confused in claiming that people who accept the scientific explanation for life, nature and stuff in general are practicing some sort of scientific religion. This is one of the key "Idiot-Design/creationism" trickeration points. Don't be fooled. Orangutan is a strange sort of numbskull parroting the bunk of Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlaffly and Jim & Tammy Faye Baker. Way to carry the torch Orangy.