Deep Time and Geological Toys

Quark-to-quartermaster evolution requires deep time for the propagation of its stories, and also to make evolutionary stories seem plausible in the first place. Geological evolution provides whatever billions or millions of years that biological evolutionists require.

One serious limitation in these fields is that secular scientists have been taught to think in evolutionary paradigms. Maverick thinking beyond uniformitarianism is rare. Many scientists are willing to fit in with the crowd and play with chunks of time to make Darwin smile. Doing lazy research while restricting interpretations of data to yield expected results are not uncommon.

Geological interests at Colorado Springs, Unsplash / Taylor Burnfield

Those canyons in central Colorado? Carved out by rivers over millions of years, they insist. Other explanations are neglected, and the expected conclusions are supported by limited attempts at empirical research. Dating methods based on assumptions and circular reasoning make the insertion of deep time seem reasonable. Also, while secularists accept some instances of catastrophic flooding, creation science models of the Genesis Flood are rejected out of hand — even though they provide explanations that are superior.

Geology storytellers have learned the same methods as Darwinian storytellers: weave a story in the form, ‘How the [something] got its [something].’ This is the classic Kipling Just-So Story form, and it works just as well for telling stories about earth history as it does about how the camel got its hump, or how the elephant got its trunk.

The rest of the article contains examples and discussion, and is located at "Evolutionary Geologists Imagine Mythical Histories."