Posted on 11/10/2009 8:45:14 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Probably you have heard the expression, ‘Seeing is believing’, but is that always true? In fact, quite often it’s the other way around: ‘Believing is seeing’. This is true of geology, for example. Geological evidence does not speak for itself, and so it must always be interpreted. And how we interpret that evidence is always influenced by our beliefs.
A good example of this is found on a roadside interpretive sign near the Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon. This is where the John Day River flows through a water gap[1] called Picture Gorge. It’s about 300 m (1,000 ft) deep, with nearly vertical walls of basalt.
According to the standard uniformitarian interpretation, the basaltic lava flowed over this area about 16 million years ago. After that, the river slowly cut down through these lava flows over millions of years to form the gorge. But how could a river flow through a long range of hills? You would expect water to flow around.
The creationist interpretation, however, does not have these sorts of problems...
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Ping!
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Wrong question. The entire region started to uplift about 2 million years ago. The river cut down through the basalt as the area uplifted. The same king of process created the Colorado river canyons as the Colorado Plateau uplifted, complete with entrenched meanders in the Canyonlands region - meanders typically only form in areas of low gradient - the uplift entrenched the meanders that were in place when the uplift started.
“Wrong question.”
Wrong area! I would have used the example of the Columbia River Basin in eastern Washington and the huge floods from ancient Lake Missoula when the ice dam(s) failed. Pretty amazing stuff. “Ripple marks” that are 5 miles long and 100’s of feet tall. Of course doesn’t say anything about the young earth creation version, but does show that not everything in geology is gradual.
And geological science is coming around to that point of view. Especially with massive forces such as glaciation involved. However, that is not a violation of uniformitarianism as many YEC types like to claim, it just means that we are still learning about geological processes, because we haven't been studying such for very long (long as far as the Earth is concerned). We'll discover new processes going forward as well. But the new processes also happened in the past (there are records of glaciation from hundreds of millions of years ago, for example), so uniformitarianism is not violated - uniformitarianism simply states that geological processes that are happening now also happened in the past.
Interesting creationist commentary on the San Juan River here (you will have to Control F “San Juan” if you want to find it fast):
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/GrandCanyon5.html#wp16843079
Did you know about this?...esp. the part about the bottleneck downstream of the Goosenecks region???
What a suprise, it completely ignores the documented uplift of the Colorado Plateau over the last few million years.
However, it does mean that uniformitarian geologists are being forced by the evidence to move closer and closer to catastrophism, which, as you well know, has been a creationist prediction all along.
See post 7 - you are abusing the concept of uniformitarianism to make your point.
Creationists have no problem with evidence of uplift, but they often differ on what caused the uplift, and of course the timescales involved. Having said that, you still haven’t answered my questions.
The attempted points in the link were pointless because they ignored the role of uplift.
LOL!!
Let’s start with the bottleneck. Did you know about that, or not?
Sorry, I read through the section about the meanders and it was bad enough. I don't waste my time with creationist pseudo-geology.
So what you’re saying is that you and the rest of the YECers have absolutely no freakin’ clue how water gaps are created.
OK...
Dang, the 200 million year claims completely ignore the problems with dating methods, and apparently anyhtign that doesn’t assume millions of years is to be labelled ‘psuedoscience’ (ah, the pesky facts about science)
Superposition
Not a valid dating method- too manyvariables must be taken into account- too many suppositions
http://www.fbinstitute.com/powell/evolutionexposed.htm
Stratigraphy
http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/bulletins/135/home.html
Dendrochronology
Up to 10000 years tops
Radiometric Dating Methods
problems with radiometic http://www.specialtyinterests.net/carbon14.html
Obsidian Hydration Dating
Many obsidians are crowded with microlites and crystallines (gobulites and trichites), and these form fission-track-like etch pits following etching with hydrofluoric acid. The etch pits of the microlites and crystallines are difficult to separate from real fission tracks formed from the spontaneous decay of 238U, and accordingly, calculated ages based on counts including the microlite and crystalline etch pits are not reliable.”
http://trueorigin.org/dating.asp
http://www.scientifictheology.com/STH/Pent3.html
Paleomagnetic/Archaeomagnetic
Very little info on this method
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/tecto.htm
Luminescence Dating Methods
http://karst.planetresources.net/Kimberley_Culture.htm
Amino Acid Racemization
http://www.creation-science-prophecy.com/amino/
Fission-track Dating
http://www.ao.jpn.org/kuroshio/86criticism.html
Ice Cores
Varves
At best- the two methods above are only accurate to about 11,000 years due to numerous conditions and environmental uncertainties
Pollens
Corals
Highly unreliable- you’d need constant temps to maintaIN reliable growth pattersn http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v14/i1/coral_reef.asp
Cation Ratio
Fluorine Dating
http://www.present-truth.org/Creation/creation-not-evolution-13.htm
Patination
Known times only throuhg analysis of the patina
Oxidizable Carbon Ratio
Electron Spin Resonance
Cosmic-ray Exposure Dating
Closely related to the buggiest dating methods of Carbon dating
why it’s wrong:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/dating.html#Carbon
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3059
RaDio helio dating disproves:
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/369
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/
http://www.rae.org/
Hey if you find anything else on the San Juan River, be sure to drop me a ping. The fact that the evos won’t answer any questions about the river that they themselves put forward suggests I need to learn more about its formation!
Then you say the gorge was cut before any uplift?
No, I am saying the river flowed over the buried formation, and then the region was uplifted. Softer formations eroded away, but the Picture Gorge basalt was more resistant to erosion, so it formed a high aread. The river cut downwards through the formation as it was uplifted, forming the gorge.
No, the issue is that the YEC theories about the formation of the region's landforms is the same kind of nonsense we've come to expect from your movement.
as opposed to hte nonsense you put forth declaring the earth billions of years old?
Nonsense as compared to declaring the earth to be six thousand years old? The theories behind an old Earth, such as the rate of radioactive decay, can be proven by research. Your theories are attempts to shoehorn natural phenomenon into your own preconceptions.
instead of ismpyl saying “we have a different opinion about hte age of the earth’ your side ALWAYS hasto get your little digs in by calling anyhtign that doesn’t jive with your ASSUMPTIONS abotu the age of the earth as ‘psuedoscience’- IF your theory is strong enough to stand on it’s own- then simply let the evidence speak for itself- IF there are problems, cede those problems- your case isn’t bolstered by ad hominems agaisnt htose that oppose your viewpoint- infact, it just goes to point out you feel your evidence is so weak that you must prop it up by ridiculing your opposition
[[Nonsense as compared to declaring the earth to be six thousand years old? The theories behind an old Earth, such as the rate of radioactive decay, can be proven by research.]]
Beyond aboput 9000 years- the dates are built on nothign but assumptions- carbon dating can be measured and verified with other means of known ages, yet anythign beyond known ages is nothign but assumptions and has problems associated with hte methods as the links I provided point out- please refer to my previosu post- it would be nice to have a civil conversation for once.
Carbon-14 dating is not used to classify the Earth as billions of years old. Try again (this time with, say, potassium/argon dating.
yet anythign beyond known ages is nothign but assumptions and has problems associated with hte methods as the links I provided point out- please refer to my previosu post- it would be nice to have a civil conversation for once.
Sorry, but there is no point having much of a conversation with those who engage in bad science, whether it be global warming believers or young Earth believers - they both start with preconceptions and then craft theories to match those preconceptions.
It does. That's the point.
There are various causes for uplift.
Yellowstone has uplifted 7 inches over the last 30 months, due to magma upwelling.
The Himalayas is currently rising by about 5 mm per year, due to plate tectonics, namely the Indian plate hitting the main Asian plate, with mountains rising at the collision zone.
Plate movement is widely recorded, year to year, in a wide number of places by sensitive GPS measurements.
Fairy tale nonsense! - What was the rest of the river bed doing while this cut was made through this very selectively uplifted hard material?
As usual we're expected to accept fanciful explanations in place of common sense.
Doing what rivers do - erode and send out tributaries. The tributaries eroded away the softer rocks on both sides of the basaltic formation. Just as in Pennsylvania, the ridges are resistant to erosion and the valleys are softer rock that eroded away due to tributaries. The underlying geology drives the result of erosion.
This is some of the most obvious and basic stuff in Geology, and applies around the world. The fact that you are even debating it points out the futility of bothering to engage you in such. Later.
The “Lake Misoula” flood used to be called the Bretz Flood after pioneering geologist J. Harlan Bretz who was the first to use aircraft surveying in the 1920’s to analyse large geological land forms. He hypothesized a wall of water 1/4 mile high scouring the Washington/Idoaho/Montana scablands and pouring into Utah to create the Great Salt Lake. For his troubles he was ridiculed and vilified by his peers, refused access to journals, forced from his job and generally made a pariah in his profession. It wasn’t until the 1970’ was his work given formal recognition by academia, but ONLY after the fantasy of a “glacier lake Misoula” presumably broke through its fantasized “ice dam”
and traveled East to West.
Bretz’s hypothesis had the water rushing in from the Pacific Ocean to do it’s sculpting work. He also cites many strings of sediment in parallel lines as though a huge body of sediment and gravel carrying water sloshed back and forth while trapped in the Northwest scablands basin before draining into Salt Lake.
As long as the establishment geologists had a non-global catastrophist rationale for the glaring evidence that a huge flood did occur, they could relax and belatedly offer Bretz the Geological Association of America’s Penrose award of merit, which, I’m happy to say, Bretz told them to shove up their ass.
American Indian author and U. of Colorado professor of anthropology, Vine Deloria, in his later book “Red Earth, White Lies”, tells of Indian myths of the “day the OCEANS took the people away”, ie., a wall of water coming from the West. These Klingit and Kwakiutl myths also are part of the same story cycle that include the Mt. St. Helens like eruption of Mt. Mazama into the 3 Sisters peaks in Central East Oregon, a synchronous event that implies a more far ranging catastrophe that included great geological upheaval beyond flooding. Deloria also attacks uniformitarian ideas of the extinction of most animal species of North America being due to human hunting and predation as well as the central anthropological pillar of the so-called Bearing Straight Migration of peoples North through thousands of miles of inhospitable frozen wasteland before heading south through North America. Good book.
Also, the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies- http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/resource.htm, A british group of peer review journal academicians, has much new information on recent evidence for post-glacial period catastrophic events.
Comet Shoemaker-Levey gave uniformitarians direct non-deniable evidence that catastrophism caused by extra-terrestrial objects is for real and that the Biblical flood myth is but one of thousands from cultures around the world that tell of the same series of horrendous extinction events in recent times.
Suddenly you believe in 'trickle-up?'
Fantasy? Geologists have traced shorelines for the glacial lake.
You are so typical of the YEC types - you cherry-pick one aspect of the story that suits your agenda - catastrophism - and ignore the other aspects.
Any thoughts on this?
There's plenty of geological evidence to support big honkin' tsunamis along the Washington/Oregon coast - including one as recent as 1700. And that support of Native American legend somehow proves your young Earth theories exactly how? As does the collapse of Mt. Mazama to create Crater Lake thousands of years ago?
Given the uplift has been going on for about 1.5 to 2 million years, I'd say there has been plenty of time for such. Heck, the Rockies were buried up to their chins in debris and were exhumed over the last ten million years as the region rose about a mile in elevation.
BWAAAAAhahahahahaha....the rest of WHAT river bed? The river was already there, PRE-uplift...the basalt formation uplifted perpendicular to the river...very slowly. The river eroded the basalt formation as it rises up beneath the river...over a long period of time. Take a look at Pennsylvania and all the water gaps there.
Too difficult? Rhetorical question...the concept doesn't include Man walking with meat eating dinosaurs.....or pre-Fall vegetarian T rex
I know...I'm supposedly a liberal.
See that river that cut a water gap in that uplifted ripple of land? Fairy tales of vegetarian T rex indeed...
See the rivers that cut through the uplifting ripples of land?
I know that you’re not intelligent enough to realize that your first two sentences acknowledge my point! (amazing)
Obviously you need a brain!
Your picture proves my position, not yours.
An uplift would have realigned the river since erosion in the hard uplifted material would have been slower, thus forcing the river to the sides.
What else do we expect from someone who believes the sun goes around the earth (geocentrism)?
Ignorantly wrong again. An extremely slow uplift, you know....over a few million years....would allow the river to erode a water gap in the uplift. Problem with your brain is that you cannot accept anything that takes millions of years...or hundreds of thousands.....does.....not....compute (shut down).
To think uplifts like those happen so quickly so as to divert the river without eroding the ukplift is purely ignorant of the erosive power of water.
In need of a brain indeed...mayhaps you should educate yourself on water gaps and simple water erosion.
All the other routes out of the valley I live in have been cut by man in the last 150 years.
Very easy, no biblical flood needed to explain it.
This is a purely ignorant statement. AFTER the lava flowed in a flat sheet, the river existed. As the lava flows uplifted by being compressed horizontally...forming a ridge in the same manner as the same kind of ridges form all over the globe, the river cut through the lava as it happened using the simple erosive power of moving water. ONLY if the uplift happened rapidly would the river "flow around" or be diverted elsewhere rather than cut through. Seems these water gaps would prove an old earth.....as a quick catastrophic event WOULD HAVE diverted the river.
I'd LOVE to hear the YEC explanation of how water gaps are formed.....
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