[hopespringseternal]

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.

[dirtboy]

Uh, no, only climate science claims being settled, for political reasons. And basic geology relies very little on models and more on scientists in the field mapping outcrops and collecting and analyzing samples. Your idea of science seems to be looking at formations from scenic overlooks and not even getting the basics right from that point of view.

You have demonstrated time and time again that you are abjectly ignorant on basic geology, and that is probably because you are chosing to be ignorant. I have demolished every opinionated strawman you have erected on this thread, and your continual response is to move the goal posts. Since you show no desire to learn anything, further discoure is useless.