From: LARRY SITES                                      Posted: 24 Sep 94  10:28
To  : LANE LESTER
Subj: POSITIVE EVIDENCE

LANE LESTER to ROB FARGHER on 09-18-94 21:32 re: POSITIVE EVIDENCE

LL>Rather than "evidence" I prefer to think in terms of "observations"
LL>and how well or poorly they are handled by the respective models.
LL>Examples:

LL>1A. The sorting of different types of organisms into different
LL>geological systems fits neatly with the evolution model[sic], whereas the
LL>proponents of the creation model have to come up with explanations such
LL>as the sorting effects of turbulent sediments and biogeographical
LL>considerations.

Henry Morris wrote:

    "About three-fourths, perhaps more, of the land area of the earth,
     55 million square miles, has sedimentary rock as the bedrock at the
     surface or directly under the cover of mantle-rock. . . . The thick-
     ness of the stratified rocks ranges from a few feet to 40,000 feet
     or more at any one place. . . .The vast bulk of the stratified
     rock is composed of shallow-water deposits."

     "This is exactly to be expected if the waters of a universal Flood
     ever covered the earth." page 270 of " The Genesis Flood."

Where are Morris' details? How does he explain 40,000 feet of 
SHALLOW water deposits in a years time? Where are his 
topigraphical maps showing the source and movement of ANY major 
deposit in a single years time? Why is it that in comparison to 
his mere SPECULATION, we have tons of surveys, studies, and 
analsis of major geological formations that explain CLEARLY and 
IN DETAIL how their formation occured over, and only over, vast 
time frames? Morris' religiously motivated speculations remind 
me of ancient maps drawn in total from the mind of the writer, 
filled with notations of "there be dragons". Where's the map 
with details of how sediment was moved from place to place that 
I can use to go look at the land and confirm with my own eyes 
that his speculation makes sense? Where's the map? All else is 
puffery of the "there be dragons" variety. Dragons, baugh, 
let's go look.



 Peace, Larry