Re: [asa] yec clain (flood and oil)

 Ooops.? I totally meant half a million (not billion).? -Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: [asa] yec clain (flood and oil)

> But as another poster
> so astutely pointed out, the ice shelves didn't completely melt, did they?
> The record goes back half a billion years in some antarctic sites. So, I,
> er, uh... nevermind.

Ice cores track hundreds of thousands of years. Significant Northern
Hemisphere glaciation goes back about 3 million, though mountain
glaciers would have existed earlier. Antarctica started some
significant glaciation ca. 40 million, though there were still
significant non-glaciated bits up until 3 million or so. Evidence of
past glacial action is found here and there throughout the geologic
record.

A currently popular YEC model is to claim the end of the flood
triggered a single glacial pulse. Evidence of multiple pulses in the
present ice age and evidence of earlier glaciations is still denied.
Also a bit hard to justify putting a major glaciation within historic
time.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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