Entire geological column doesn't exist

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Response 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Links 6 References 7 See Also 8 Acknowledgements

Claim

The geological column is a fiction, existing on paper only. The entire geological column does not exist anywhere on the earth.

Source

• Scott M. Huse, The Collapse of Evolution, Chick Publications, 1984

Response

1. Jack Chick simply does not understand the meaning of the Geologic Column. It is the union of all local sequential rock columns. It is a hypothetical entity like the "Tree of Life" of evolutionary relationships. There is no such tree either. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/
2. In point of fact, there are at least 30 locations where the entire geological column can be observed.
   Glenn Morton's web page The Entire Geological Column in North Dakota provides a detailed decription of the whole column as it appears in North Dakota's Williston Basin, and he also lists the 30 places in the world he is aware of at which the entire geological column can be found:
   • The Ghadames Basin in Libya
   • The Beni Mellal Basin in Morocco
   • The Tunisian Basin in Tunisia
   • The Oman Interior Basin in Oman
   • The Western Desert Basin in Egypt
   • The Adana Basin in Turkey
   • The Iskenderun Basin in Turkey
   • The Moesian Platform in Bulgaria
   • The Carpathian Basin in Poland
   • The Baltic Basin in the USSR
   • The Yeniseiy-Khatanga Basin in the USSR
   • The Farah Basin in Afghanistan
   • The Helmand Basin in Afghanistan
   • The Yazd-Kerman-Tabas Basin in Iran
   • The Manhai-Subei Basin in China
   • The Jiuxi Basin China
   • The Tung t'in - Yuan Shui Basin China
   • The Tarim Basin China
   • The Szechwan Basin China
   • The Yukon-Porcupine Province Alaska
   • The Williston Basin in North Dakota (Haimla et al, 1990, p. 517)
   • The Tampico Embayment Mexico
   • The Bogata Basin Colombia
   • The Bonaparte Basin, Australia (above this basin sources are Roberston Group, 1989) [Trendall et al, 1990]
   • The Beaufort Sea Basin/McKenzie River Delta(Trendall 1990)
   • The Parana Basin North, Paraguay and Brazil( (Wiens, 1995, p. 192)
   • The Cape Karroo Basin (Tankard, 1995, p. 21)
   • The Argentina Precordillera Basin (Franca et al, 1995, p. 136)
   • The Chilean Antofagosta Basin (Franca et al, 1995, p. 134)
   • The Pricaspian Basin (Volozh et al, 2003)
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Suppressed Evidence

Links

Morton, Glenn, 2001, The Geologic Column and Its Implications to the Flood, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/ or http://home.entouch.net/dmd/geo.htm

Matson, Dave E., 1994. How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-gc.html#G3

References

1. Trendall, A.F. et al, (ed.), 1990. Geology and Mineral Resources of Western Australia, Memoir 3. Geological Survey of Western Australia. State Printing Division, Perth, p. 382,396.

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgements

-- Cubist