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Oh, wait! I've got it! Your cryptic pseudo-rebuttal makes sense if you don't know that those underlined text areas are hyperlinks. You click on them and are taken to other web pages, then you can use the "Back" button to come back. If, for instance, you click on the underlined text in my earlier post, you see the following on a new page:

Claim CD101:
The geological column is a fiction, existing on paper only. The entire geological column does not exist anywhere on the earth.
Source:

Huse, Scott, 1983. The Collapse of Evolution. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, p. 15.

Response:

The existence of the entire column at one spot is irrelevant. All of the parts of the geological column exist in many places, and there is more than enough overlap that the full column can be reconstructed from those parts.

Breaks in the geological column at any spot are entirely consistent with an old earth history. The column is deposited only in sedimentary environments, where conditions favor the accumulation of sediments. Climatic and geological changes over time would be expected to change areas back and forth between sedimentary and erosional environments.

There are several places around the world where strata from all geological eras do exist at a single spot -- for example, the Bonaparte Basin of Australia (Trendall et al. 1990, 382, 396) and the Williston Basin of North Dakota (Morton 2001).

Links:
Matson, Dave E., 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-gc.html#G3

Morton, Glenn, 2001. The geologic column and its implications to the Flood. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/ or http://home.entouch.net/dmd/geo.htm
References:

Morton, Glenn, 2001. (see above)
Trendall, A. F. et al., (ed.), 1990. Geology and Mineral Resources of Western Australia, Memoir 3. Geological Survey of Western Australia. State Printing Division, Perth.

NOW you see there's nothing circular, right?