Archeology, paleontology and the forensic aspects of geology attempt to tell us of the past. Science is about facts, however, not fancy. The facts of the sciences we’re discussing are the data they produce, be it archeology from ancient ruins, paleontology from the fossil record, or geology from the rocks and formations of the earth. The facts here are hard physical evidences, not interpretive spins.
Since the 1800s’ infidelic hijacking of geology, there have remained through the decades some rather glaring conflicts within the revised version of the science. Facts and fancy don’t mix. Prior to its undoing, geology was a deluge-based science. Its pioneers were mostly all diluvialists holding to some concept or other of a great flood. Some even referenced the Genesis flood. But since those days up until now, we have been fed another story involving great extensions into a deep past. The cardinal question is, whether the modified revision has proved itself better at addressing the facts and data.
Paleontology: Space prevents in-depth treatment of the irregularities of this discipline beyond point form notations. As a branch of geology, paleontology is also encumbered with the deep-time dogma. However: fossils of man and dinosaurs have been found together (S. Carolina 1844, Colombia 1971, Peru 1993); fossil tracks of the same have been found together (Turkmenistan, Australia, OK, TX & UT, USA); many artifacts including human remains have been found in coal; unfossilized remains of varieties of extinct animals have been found through the years; we even have the discovery of nonmineralized dinosaur mummies (1908 & 2001, USA); unfossilized dinosaur bones (over 6000 of them representing “all of the common major groups”) have been recovered from northern Alaska; we also have (as early as 1962) organic soft-tissue dinosaur remains from supposed millions of years ago!
Perhaps the great ages of the dinosaur (“Jurassic”) and coal (“carboniferous”) periods are of much more recent time than speculated. This–not deep ages–appears to be the consistent testimony of paleontology as a science.
Geology: So too with the irregularities of geology: in the attempt to establish deep ages, the fundamental precepts of the “geological column” and the “geological cycle” are in profound contradiction; the belief of the sedimentary layers covering the continents being an ages-long process of erosion and deposition without catastrophic flooding; the idea that the great erosional scars of earth are not the work of great volumes of water; that neither were the geomorphical phenomena made of the same; that folded rocks, hills, even mountains all testify to earth’s material having been once made soft… (How so?); and that the mountain ranges of earth “very recently rose” rather than having taken millions of years to form.
The points alpha and omega of this list alone sound the death knell of the deep-time concept of geology. To the first–How can there be any order or any “geological column” of chronology at all if all through the ages the said “geological cycle” was eroding and redepositing those imagined layers hither-skitter and yon? And how did the dinosaur fossils, articulated ones at that, survive such a geological recycling? To the last–In the early decades of the 20th century, geologists found that most of earth’s mountain ranges contained the more recent strata of “geological history.” They concluded that “the mountain ranges over most all the globe are astonishingly young” (Price, 1923).
The implications of recent orogeny (mountain-building) are horrendous for geology’s deep-time. When we consider that sedimentology’s “geological cycle” has been stated to have been at least 80% fueled by “earth’s surface that is mountainous,” it goes without saying–which they certainly don’t–that the bulk of the earth’s sedimentation could only have “very recently” occurred! In turn, “very recently” could be said to have been some 44 centuries ago.
