RE: The rate of geological processes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Michael Roberts
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:11 AM
>
> Gary has made a very good and serious point. It means that Uniformitarians
> like me must repent and become young earth catastrophists as it
> is now clear
> that the Grand Canyon was eroded in 84 years, meaning an annual rate of
> erosion of over 5o feet per year.
>
> This means that I am now in total agreement with Bill Payne and think that
> Glenn Morton is barking up the wrong fossil tree in the Precambrian at the
> bottom of the Grand Canyon.
>
> Gary are you willing to help me write this up as a scientific paper for Ex
> Nihilo or the CRSQ.

Far be it from me to try to stop Michael from gloriously marching off to
become Great Britain's 4th living young-earth creationist, but you might
want to look at this USGS photo taken 100 years apart of Bowknot Bend on the
Green River in Utah.

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/ErosionGreenRiverUtah.jpg

 Close examination shows that some of the rocks look like they haven't
eroded at all in the past 100 years. But, of course, evidence wouldn't stop
a true YEC, so Michael, I would advise you to ignore this troublesome piece
of data. You need to start practicing this skill for your new life. Wish
you well, your historically challenged, theistic evolutionary friend, Glenn
:-)
Received on Thu Dec 4 19:38:12 2003