The geologic index? do you believe its reference for time?

Question

I think that the geologic index is bogus, because it uses sedimentary rock for its reference, what do you think?

Answer 1

Yes.
Do you have a better idea?

Answer 2

I like it. It is a useful gauge for what has happened. It is cross referenced so much by so many, there must be something to it. Getting a group of humans to agree on anything is a sign the it must be of value, acturate to some degree. Humans of this educated level will not use faulty tools. Too much depends on acturate data.
Sedimentary rock can be cause for caution, but with the other tools to back up a statement, it seems to work.
Keep the heat on the community to be honest and we'll learn something. I am glad people are sharing data more, and cross referencing other fields of study for a different angle to a problem.

Answer 3

And I quote: "Because current scientific evidence clearly contradicts beliefs held by Christian fundamentalists, there have been ongoing efforts, particularly amongst proponents of Dominionism, to support Young Earth creationism using selective reading of religious texts and argument via creation science. Proponents Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb built on fundamentalist Christian work done by George McCready Price in the United States to contend that radiometric dating is not reliable enough to accurately measure long time spans. They provide alternative explanations through flood geology, which is a theory based on biblical inerrancy that ignores evidence from meteorites, the Moon and Mars and has been rejected by scientists. The scientific community characterises such efforts as pseudoscience."

Answer 4

There's only one place on earth where the geologic column exists.

The textbooks.

Everywhere else it's topsy turvy, trees cross "millions of years" of strata, fully formed birds are found underneath index fossils for earlier "epochs". Coal seams supposedly "millions of years apart" actually flow together as if laid down by a worldwide flood.

When the smoke clears, we're all going to laugh about evolution. It's the biggest practical joke ever perpetrated on mankind.

Answer 5

I think that anyone with an argument as weak as yours probably doesn't believe that birds can fly, or dogs can bark, or penguins can swim.

Answer 6

I might agree as well.

Here are some sites which may elaborate:

http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/index.htm
http://www.halos.com/
http://www.grisda.org/