Pangea

Watching geology videos lately. Watching them as a creationist means mostly that I have to ignore their dates or try to grasp the relative dates which may be accurate, that is, what preceded what. Their physical descriptions are pretty good I assume but interpretation is the problem. When they explain something tas caused by water it's not going to be the Flood so I have to think Flood where they are thinkinjg something else.

The idea of Pangea, the supercontinent that broke up from which all the current contine nts separated, is a useful idea. It was Alfred wegener who made the observations about how the continents had once been together, who came up with the idea of Pangea and that idea doesn't contradcit anything in the Bible so I'm good with it. I just have to reconsider the dating.

They usually have Pangea breaking up dsometime during the laying down of the Geological column, meaning the layers of sedimentary rooc,ls frp, from which they derive the order of the fossil record and evidence for evolution. Of course they have those layers forming over a few hundred mikllion years, but a creationist sees them as formed by the Flood of Noah in one year.

Because all the evidence I like to point to shows that all the layers wree in place before there was any appreciable disturbance on the Earth such as tectonic plate movement, volcanoes and so on, I put the splitting of the continents at the end of the Flood which is what laid down all those layers. There's room for discussion about the timing but it does have to be after ALL the strata were in place. It certqainly didn't occur during the laying down of the layers because there wouldn't be the neat stack of them we see in the Grand Canyon area, the Paleozoic in the grand Canyon and the Mesozoid and above in the Staircase to the north.

SCIENCE BAMBOOZLED

The whole Geological Time Scale is a farce. There are no time periods. There is no Cambrian time period, or Silurian or Devoniqan or Permian or Triassic or Jurassic. Years ago I drew a cartoon with several panels showing a straight horizontal line above which was a cartoon cloud and cartoon sun. I gave each the name of one of the time periods. They wree all identical, a straight line with a cartoon sky. The last panel was a cartoon picture of our own time showing hills and valleys rivers and mountains grass and trees with that same cartoon cloud and sun in the sky.

That's what the time periods are. Our own time is the only actual time period. All the rest are imaginative reconstructions fromn flat slabs of rock full of dead things that span gigantic areas of geography. that's it. It's all a farce. There is no Old Earth, it's a massive delusiohn.

tHE ONBLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE LAYERS OF ROCK THAT WERE FANASIZED INTO TIME PERIODS IS A WORLDWIDE WATER EVENT. gOLLY gOSH, THE fLOOD OF nOAH. iT KILLED ALL THE LAND LIFE AND MOST OF THE SEA LIFE AND THE EVIDENCE IS IN THOSE LAYERS OF ROCKI. tHAT'S WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO AND WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE.

eVOLUTIONARY bIOLOGY IS ALSO A bIG bAMBOOZLE, WHICH i ALSO PROVED YEARS AGO. tHE WAY WE GET DOMESTIC BREEDS IS THE SAME WAY WE GOT MOST OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES. iT'S ALWAYS FROM SOME KIND OF SELECTION ALTHOUGH PROBABLY RARELY THE CLASSICAL nATURAL sELECTION. aLL SELECTION IS IS THE ISOLATION OF A PORTION OF ANY POPULATION TO BREED ONLY WITHIN ITSELF. tHAT'S ENFORCED IN DOMESTIC BREEDING, IT HAPPENS BY TRAGIC ACCIDENT IN ENDANGERED SPECIES, BUT ITS ALSO HOW ANY VARIATION IN THE WILD OCCURS. sOME MEMBERS OF A LARGE GROUP OF CREATURES GETS ISOLATED AND OVER SOME GENERATIONS OF INBREEDING PRODUCES A NEW PHENOTYPIC APPEARANCE. tHAT'S HOW WE GOT THE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS OF WILDEBEESTS AND EVERY OTHER ANIMAL THAT IS FOUND IN DIFFERENT FLAVORS IN THE WILDE.

tO GET THOSE VARIETIES, AND THEY ARE VARIETIES, IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH EVOLUTION, IT'S ALL BUILT INTO THE GENOME OF EACH kIND O, THE WAY YOU GET THEM IS BY THE LOSS OF GTHE GENETIC STUFF FOR DIFFERENT TRAITS. tO GET A BLUE WILDEBEEST YOU LOSE THE ENETIC STUFF FOR BROWN WILDEBEESTS. iT'S A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION AND IT'S WHAT SELECTION DOES AND YOU DON'T GET VARIATIONS UNLESS YOU ELIMJINATE WHAT ISN'T SELECTED. ,BR> i'VE ARGUED THIS A BAZILLION TIMES HERE AND ON THE FORUM AND ELSEWHERE. iT'S OBVIOUS. eVOLUTION MASSIVE
Later: Mutations are assxumed to make the difference, in fact mutqations are credited with having ceated DNA itself, gene by gene or base by base. Utter and complete fantastic nonsense. Even t3they admit they are mistakesw and that beneficial mutations are rare. In fact most so called beneficial mutations are simply assumed, made up, there's no evidence for them. Most are just rare combinations not mutations at all. Anyhway even if there were such a thing as a beneficial mutation, in order to get a new population with its own unituqe characteristics, you still have to have selection and it's selection that reduces the genetic variability and that is a killer for evolution.