Subject: Re: Dinosaurs and Job
Date: 17 Nov 1999 09:12:19 GMT
From: Chris Ho-Stuart < 
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

In this post I am using information supplied by 
Glenn Morton. Glenn is generally happy to discuss 
this matter with those interested; his email 
address is on his web pages. The URL for the 
relevant page is http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/geo.htm 

Rod Jackson > wrote:
> Sean McHugh < > writes:
[snip]
>>Considering, your obvious confidence, that Job/humanity and dinosaurs
>>were contemporary, perhaps you might like to explain how it is that
>>humans and dinosaurs are widely separated in the geological column.
>
> The geological column is a myth dude. - Name one location in the world
> where it can be seen in its entirity...

The entire geologic column is found in quite a 
number of places.

By the entire geologic column, I mean all twelve 
of the major geologic periods, set down in the 
appropriate order.  Here is a list of such locations, 
taken from Glenn Morton’s web page.

The Ghadames Basin in Libya 
The Beni Mellal Basin in Morrocco 
The Tunisian Basin in Tunisia 
The Oman Interior Basin in Oman 
The Western Desert Basin in Egypt 
The Adana Basin in Turkey 
The Iskenderun Basin in Turkey 
The Moesian Platform in Bulgaria 
The Carpathian Basin in Poland 
The Baltic Basin in the USSR 
The Yeniseiy-Khatanga Basin in the USSR 
The Farah Basin in Afghanistan 
The Helmand Basin in Afghanistan 
The Yazd-Kerman-Tabas Basin in Iran 
The Manhai-Subei Basin in China 
The Jiuxi Basin China 
The Tung t’in - Yuan Shui Basin China 
The Tarim Basin China 
The Szechwan Basin China 
The Yukon-Porcupine Province Alaska 
The Williston Basin in North Dakota 
The Tampico Embayment Mexico 
The Bogata Basin Colombia 

This is in contrast to the following remarks of 
Morris and Paker:

“Now the geologic column is an idea, not an 
actual series of rock layers. Nowhere do we find the 
complete sequence. Even the walls of the Grand Canyon 
included only five of the twelve major systems (one, 
five, six and seven, with small portions here and there 
of the fourth system, the Devonian.”

[Morris, H M. and Parker, G. 1987. What is Creation 
Science? p163]

Actually, all twelve of the major systems are found in 
many locations, in the correct order.

Glenn Morton is an evangelical Christian. I certainly 
do not endorse all his ideas, though I often find them 
challenging.  Glenn does a lot of work in this area, 
and has a unique perspective into the issues.  He used 
to be a very active young Earth Creationist, writing 
regularly for the Creation Research Society; and ghost 
writer for the evolution section of one of Josh 
McDowell’s books. In the meantime, his professional 
work in the oil industry involved analysis of seismic 
data, which lead to a crisis as he realised that what he 
was being taught by creationists was not consistent with 
his data. He underwent a long crisis, to the point of 
almost becoming an atheist. Check out his web page. It 
is most interesting.

Best wishes-Chris Ho-Stuart