Evolution, Morowitz and here we go again!
One commenter asked if I had quit posting about evolution versus creation because of the "Morowitz fiasco." I don't think it is really a fiasco for Morowitz, just an embarrassment. He made calculations that made evolution look highly unlikely and later on tried to back away from the obvious conclusions. Uncomfortable would be a better word, I think.
No, I didn't quit because of that...I just got sicker and sicker and about that time realized that arguing over probabilities was rather useless. Those who reject God as creator can also postulate infinite universes in which infinite possibilities could exist. So the debate needs to center around evidences extant in the real world.
Once again, studying the rock formations of the Western UP I was impressed by how obvious it was that the layering had been formed by massive flows of water. The picture shows Nathan standing on an outcropping of sandstone/mudstone in which are buried rounded rocks like the mixture of granites/igneous rocks found along the shores of Lake Superior. You can see clearly that depths of rock that supposedly represent millions of years were actually one layer of some kind of flood event, with the rock and the buried megabraccia consistent throughout. The buried stones are all rounded like those found along the lakeshore, rounded by the action of the water. I cannot see a likely evolution-friendly scenario for these layers.
We have collected rocks from the Pacific Islands, both oceans that border the continental United States, and from the US and Canada. Many are fossils but most are various sedimentary and igneous rocks that were simply interesting and many of them pretty large. This trip we collected more smaller ones and intend to begin rock tumbling and polishing the smaller ones.
We determined that a vibratory rock tumbler, which polishes faster without overly rounding the rocks, was the way to go and we ordered one right after arriving back home. I'll be sure to keep you posted about that.
Anyway, evolutionists out there, how in the heck did stones ranging from fist-to-thimble sizes get suspended within sandstone flows, sometimes in layers several feet thick? How did such rocks get rounded without the action of water? I await answers...
No, I didn't quit because of that...I just got sicker and sicker and about that time realized that arguing over probabilities was rather useless. Those who reject God as creator can also postulate infinite universes in which infinite possibilities could exist. So the debate needs to center around evidences extant in the real world.
Once again, studying the rock formations of the Western UP I was impressed by how obvious it was that the layering had been formed by massive flows of water. The picture shows Nathan standing on an outcropping of sandstone/mudstone in which are buried rounded rocks like the mixture of granites/igneous rocks found along the shores of Lake Superior. You can see clearly that depths of rock that supposedly represent millions of years were actually one layer of some kind of flood event, with the rock and the buried megabraccia consistent throughout. The buried stones are all rounded like those found along the lakeshore, rounded by the action of the water. I cannot see a likely evolution-friendly scenario for these layers.
We have collected rocks from the Pacific Islands, both oceans that border the continental United States, and from the US and Canada. Many are fossils but most are various sedimentary and igneous rocks that were simply interesting and many of them pretty large. This trip we collected more smaller ones and intend to begin rock tumbling and polishing the smaller ones.
We determined that a vibratory rock tumbler, which polishes faster without overly rounding the rocks, was the way to go and we ordered one right after arriving back home. I'll be sure to keep you posted about that.
Anyway, evolutionists out there, how in the heck did stones ranging from fist-to-thimble sizes get suspended within sandstone flows, sometimes in layers several feet thick? How did such rocks get rounded without the action of water? I await answers...