Jim McGrady <> wrote:

> Rod Jackson <s32170> wrote in article

> <>…

> > Chris Ho-Stuart <> writes:

> >

> > >The literal flood was shown to be mythical long before the time of

> > >Darwin by Christian geologists, some of whom explicitly set out to

> > >use geological science to prove the existence of the flood but ended

> > >up setting the foundations of modern geology instead.

> >

>

> Christian geologists since then would disagree.  Many Christian scientists

> believe that the flood (worldwide) was responsible for:

Not “Christian geologists”
You could say “A tiny fraction of Christian geologists” — but far

and away the vast majority of Christian geologists accept a great

age of the Earth and a lack of a world wide deluge. You could

count the exceptions on your hand; and that’s being generous.
> – The majority of the fossil record.

> – The majority of oil and coal reserves.

> – many landforms such as the Grand Canyon and other rapid erosion

> artifacts.

>

> I’d say there seems to be a great deal of geological evidence pointing to a

> global flood.
All of these are powerful evidence against a world wide flood.
The fossil record is nothing like a flood deposit.
Oil is collected in geological traps as it percolates upwards.

It is often very deep. Floods do not generate oil and then lay

down miles of rock above.
Coal formations require many many years of forest growth to be

accumulated — one layer of forest that you would get from a

flood would not give enough to be worth mining.
The grand canyon *is* relatively recent — and we can see this

is so because it cuts through millions of years worth of rock

layers. The canyon is long and thin because it was cut by a river;

and the river is still there cutting away.
Cheers — Chris

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