>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).
Art, or Bill, I think this is yours so I will listen for a change.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm