1. I am saying quite the opposite. Evolutionary geologists have been
forced kicking and screaming (witness the antipathy to Derek Ager) to
become more the catastrophists than creationists ever were, by the data.
My only question is "When are they going to wake up to the significance of
their conclusions?"
2. There could not be a better example of a global catastrophe than the
so-called Terminal Cretaceous Event". So what are they waiting for? Most
geologists I know give lip service to catastrophism so long as it is on
someone else's turf. The particular deposit they have spent their life
studying doesn't show anything except slow aggradation, etc. We are facing
this full force on our Tapeats work right now. "Oh, maybe the water was
deep in that little region you have studied in the bottom of Grand Canyon,
but it can't be true where I have studied, a few miles south (or north,
etc.) of there." To me this indicates a general unwillingness on the part
of these geologists to rethink the ideas they learned in school. I think
that problem extends not just to geologists but of many academicians in
every discipline.
Art
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