Again, thank you for the links. After spending some time reading the provided links as well as reading several other web site and sources on the subject of the Geologic Column
from both young earth and old earth perspectives I am intellectually honest and humble enough to state on this forum
on this particular issue I raised (wheather or not the entire labeled geologic column can be found at any one place on earth) that
I was wrong. :foot: I must say that I was surprised at some of what I found, even some of the better documented young earth creation sites admit that the column can be found in some places. One thing that surprised me the most however was to learn (
as documented from both evolutionists and creation sites) that
the geologic column was created in the 1800's by committed Bible believing creationists. Here is an excerpt from one of Dave Matson's sites:
"...Perhaps Dr. Hovind is not aware of the fact that
by 1815 the broad outlines of the geologic column from Paleozoic times onward had been worked out by people who were mostly creationist geologists. The relative order of the strata was first determined by the principles of stratification. (The principle of superposition was recognized as early as 1669 by Steno.) By 1830 Lyell's famous textbook, Principles of Geology, came out. The captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, a very strong Bible believer, made it a point to have a copy of Lyell's book for the ship's library. That was the age of the great creationist geologists!
The principle of faunal succession in the geologic record was established by direct observation as early as 1799 by William Smith. By the 1830's Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison established a correlation between the various types of fossils and the rock formations in the British Isles. It was found that certain fossils, now referred to as index fossils, were restricted to a narrow zone of strata. Studies done on the European continent soon demonstrated the universal validity of index fossils. That is, an index fossil corresponded to a very specific point in the geologic column. Once the worth of index fossils had been established on the basis of stratification studies, they could logically be used to extend the correlation of rock formations to other continents. At this point in time they were simply a useful tool for correlating rock formations.
One can hardly accuse these pioneers of evolutionary prejudice. Nearly a half-century would yet pass before Darwin's book, The
Origin of Species, was published! By then, the relative ages (order) of the geologic column had already been worked out in some detail. Later, the relative ages of the strata were confirmed and made absolute by radiometric dating. Thus, it became possible to date strata directly from index fossils. Note that, in principle, evolution has nothing to do with the use of index fossils to date strata! Rather, evolution should be seen as an explanation of the faunal succession, a succession which as worked out long before evolution dominated the scene..."
You can read the entire entry from the following site:
MATSON v HOVIND by DAVE MATSON GEOLOGIC COLUMN you might find it of some interest.
- From what I can determine after reading many sources on the topic, one of the main debated points
is not wheather or not the column can be found, but rather, how the dating of the column is determined (which is also discussed in the above link).
- Finally, here is one of the better young earth responses
to the Dakota Column that I could find, thought you might want to read it as well:
Geological column - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science you will have to scroll down to the
"claims of existence" section and then "
The Williston Basin in North Dakota" subsection of the web page.
