RE: Carbonate deposition (formerly oil, etc.)

Bill, if this (below) mechanism worked so well, we should see an algae bloom
everytime an Indonesian volcano erupts. I don't recall ever hearing of such
a thing in the literature. Can you point me to these reports?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bpayne15@juno.com [mailto:bpayne15@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:26 PM
> To: glennmorton@entouch.net
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: 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 Tue Dec 2 07:09:08 2003