Justice Frangipane said:Hello everyone.
There is a lot going on in this thread that is requiring way more of my time than I have available. With about 15 new questions to answer each day, I need to focus on specific things. That's fine, I enjoy the discussion. But Please be patient with the timeline I have available.
Mountains can form extremely quickly and we have seen islands and mountain ranges form this century due to volcanic activity and earthquakes. A world wide catastrophe would not only be able to create mountains and our current topography, it would be expected to do so.
Polystrate fossils are explained by the strata they are in created by rapid formation due to flood waters. With modern science explaining rapid layer formation and stratification by flood waters, there is logical to think that this could have happened on a much larger scale.
I, of course, do not have all the answers, but I do think that there is a possibility that this is what happened. And it should not be ruled out as an option.
There are many aspects to the theory of a Godless creation that leave questions unanswered. (origins of life, matter, space, time, laws, energy...)
While I won't pretend to have all the answers I do think that this is a reasonable consideration.
No worries about your timeline. We all understand.
I'm going to focus on the last couple of points. What mountain ranges have formed during the last century? That sure is news to me.
Back to the polystrate fossils, I don't know if you realize that there are soil horizons between many of the layers, meaning that for a time the water levels actually subsided before rising again, which implies smaller seasonal flooding. You simply cannot conflate any reference of seasonal and/or local flooding in the geological record to a giant global flood.