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To: hopespringseternal
“Missing” layers beg more questions than answers and say nothing about the rest of the column. There should be gullies and channels throughout the column.

Eh, no. You keep making demands that do not meet geological realities. Just as there can be lack of deposition for millions of years, so can there also be continuous deposition for millions of years.

81 posted on 06/11/2018 6:32:46 AM PDT by dirtboy
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So you are expecting that for tens or even hundreds of millions of years, the surface remains unchanged? Through hundreds of ice age cycles?

Science advances most through questioning, not defending. Unfortunately science has now become “settled”. Beyond questioning or reconsideration. It has become dogma, not to be investigated and revised, merely accepted. Scientists have become invested in religious debate rather than scientific debate.

They are too afraid of questioning their own models because they fear ceding any ground to religion more than they fear the stagnation of science itself.

Science that isn’t changing is dead because it is not advancing.

“All models are wrong, but some models are useful.” You should always be open and accepting of challenges to your models, knowing beforehand they are incomplete and wrong, not confusing their utility with absolute truth.


82 posted on 06/11/2018 7:40:15 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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