Re: Carbonate deposition (formerly oil, etc.)

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:46:46 -0500 <glennmorton@entouch.net> writes:

> And I see nothing in the geologic record to require water move
> faster so it can deliver carbonate to a marine bloom which is only
> required because someone wants a rapid depositional model for
> theological reasons. Theology should not drive our science because
> we then make God that superSanta I spoke of above.

You need to take your blinders off, Glenn. There is, as is often the
case, another possibility you haven't considered. Volcanoes can, and
often do, throw dust up into the air, which can move a little faster than
those serpentine oceanic currents. When Mt. St. Helens blew at 8:32 the
morning of May 18, 1980, it threw a cloud of dust and debris into the air
for the next 9 hours, which had traveled about 600 miles to the
east-southeast by that afternoon. That's somewhere between 60 and 100
miles per hour, or about 12 to 20 times faster than your 5 mph ocean
currents.

You typically make some assumptions in line with your model, and then
calculate some rather precise parameters, "proving" how foolish YEC is.
In this case you said I must claim that "God changed the friction and
viscosity values for water," which "is to make God dance to your whim."
"That too is a theological mistake the YECs make--calling on God to
change physical constants willy-nilly at the YEC whim." By focusing on
the ocean, you missed an obvious alternate method of transport for
nutrients able to sustain a marine bloom of phytoplankton.

The theological mistake the OECs make is to try, with limited
information, to construct a box to contain the infinite God. Sounds
kinda silly when you think about it.

Bill

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Received on Mon Dec 1 23:35:21 2003