"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Thomas Borchert wrote:
Matt,

There is recent science from studies of both the Grand Canyon and Mt. St. Helens

Care to point us to a source?

Dr. Steven Austin, who received his doctorate from Penn State. He conducted much of the
research on the area at and around Mount St. Helens after the eruption.

http://www.creationism.org/sthelens/MSH1b_7wonders.htm

You know where it is going right from the opening blurb - pretentious religious rot
masquerading as science.

He has taken the outcomes of limited, rare catastrophic events and claimed that this
disproves the well-accepted theorems about topological formation under every variety of
more common circumstances. That's like saying that the forward movement of an aircraft in
a vacuum doesn't create lift, therefore the whole theory of lift is wrong. Or claiming
that the fact that we can create diamonds from carbon in hours means that the ones found
thousands of feet below the surface were created in an eyeblink by divine intervention and
not through the commonly accepted scientific explanation.

Even if he's partially correct about some things, revising the conventional explanations
about those specific events doesn't mean that the whole topological house now comes
tumbling down, taking evolution down with it.

And as we know from the various conspiracy groups, having a PhD doesn't prevent you from
being a blinkered fool.

And some interesting information regarding the formation of the Grand Canyon.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/dr...yon/2848553338

More of the same bogus "scientific conclusions" from the same moron. Dickering over
details when either view is consistent with or irrelevant to the overarching theory
doesn't even come close to disproving the theory.

Whatever it is, it won't shake evolution and the age of the earth. There is simply NO
debate about that in the scientific community. I'll admit there is a debate about it
well outside the scientific community, but pretty much exclusively in the US.

Of course it won't as the mainstream scientific community has preconceived ideas and
fits their "data" to their ideas rather than their ideas to the actual data.

Damn straight. I can't get even one lousy media story to alert the public to the fact
that we are surrounded by invisible Zygorthians who are the true cause of all evil on
Earth. And I can show them as an incontrovertible fact that there is absolutely *no* data
that can disprove my theory - but do you think that the media is going to take note of
that or even care about the implications? No, they're stuck in their preconceived notions
about this, too.