Re: A question to The Creationists, again

in article ng83635mm3c2qc8n1iqgi0bdfqjtnjdkt9@xxxxxxx, Ye Old One at
usenet@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 6/2/07 10:17 AM:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:50:08 GMT, George Evans
<georgee3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

<snip>

Also, I am engaged in more than wishful thinking. I thought about a sheet of
rock moving 50 miles over other rock compared to a fraction of an inch of
gouge,

You have never explained this "fraction of an inch of gouge". Why is that? Is
it because you are clutching a creationist straws?

Gouge is fine ground clay that builds up in faults as the rocks move against
each other.

and I compared that with the amount of gouge in the San Andreas fault,

not the same sort of fault.

However, it is rock on rock. But I'm not suggesting a quantitative
comparison with the San Andreas, it only started me thinking.

and I began to wonder if things all added up. It occurred to me that there is
a possibility that there could be quite a discrepancy here.

Scientists who have studied the evidence see no discrepancy.

You are such a sycophant.

<snip>

Look, the bottom line is this. It is I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E for 1,000,000,000
year old rocks to be deposited on top of 150,000,000 year old rocks. It just
can't happen.

It can if it all happens in the same month.

So, where we have older rocks on to of younger rocks there has to be a
mechanism. In the case of the Lewis Overthrust this is clearly plate
tectonics. It is not just the rocks of the Lewis Overthrust itself, it is all
the rocks for hundreds of miles around which help to show the plate movements.
It is rock cores taken over a vast field, including the Lewis Overthrust,
which show how the plates came together and interacted.

Go and learn so geology, look at detailed geology maps, study the real data
and above all - for once, use some bloody common sense.

If this is so ironclad then I have a hard time understanding why the thrust
fault paradox is still alive as recently as 2005. Why hasn't someone just
said give it up, it obviously happens.

George Evans

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