To: Michael J. Wendell who wrote (571 ) 2/2/1998 11:13:00 AM From: Lee Bush Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Mike: At the risk of going somewhat off track, I would like to tell you about a series of lectures given by a Dr. Kendall at my church in support of creationism. I would like to bounce a couple of things he mentioned off of you. Of course, in their view of creation, God created the heavens and the earth in just 6 solar days. (I prefer to believe that He was not in that big a rush and accomplished it over a considerable period of time, say 5 billion years.) So, they must disprove the geologic time series. Also, the great flood is seen as being responsible for a sudden world-wide deposition. This view claims that the Kaibab formations (1 mile thick) were laid down in a brief period and not during the various Mesozoic intrusions of the sea into the southwest. What basis to they have for such a view? First, concerning the 6 day scenario, they claim that there is a record of rapid geomagnetic reverse in polarity in a volcanic flow in Oregon. also that magnetic orientations beneath the ocean floor are chaotic, not in neat lines that we see from the Scripps Oceanographic data. As you know, the common belief is that the earth magnetic polarity dies out and resumes in reverse polarity only about every 200,000 years. What could explain reverse polarity within a matter of days, as seen in the Oregon example?
