The Defeat of Flood Geology by Flood Geology

Seems fair enough.

The sort of flood envisaged by the fundamentalists should in fact have left an identifiable trace in the geological record, if it ever happened. The initial flood would sweep over the land, carrying all before it; great boulders would bounce along, and come to rest as soon as the velocity of the water slackened. Slightly smaller debris would still move along, and come to rest on top of it, and so on; the sediments would get steadily finer until a top layer of mud or fine sand fell out.

This is a well-known type of deposit known as a graded bed, and Noah’s flood should have produced one on the grand scale, to be found, at the same geological horizon, all over the Earth. It ain’t there.

I have to comment on one point in the article. “The continued denial of the implications of their own findings is an example of what I call the gorilla mindset: the attitude that if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but religious dogma says it is a gorilla, then it is a gorilla.” I understand the point. But why insult gorillas? They are vegetarian, don’t kill, don’t murder their own kind, don’t engage in war, don’t commit fratricide, and don’t engage in cannabilism. They live as close to a garden-of-Eden life as possible. Maybe “chimpanzee mindset” is a better description, since they kill, murder their own kind, engage in war between bands, kill their own band’s children when another dominate male takes over, and sometimes eat their rival when they murder. Wait a minute, humans are are closer genetically to chimps than gorillas. “Human mindset” is the best description. We are more sucessful at all the mentioned activities.