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주장 CD102.1:

At the Lewis Overthrust in Alberta and Montana, Precambrian limestone rests on top of Cretaceous shales, which conventionally are dated much later. The evidence, and common sense, do not support the explanation that the discontinuity is caused by a thrust fault.

알버타와 몬타나에 있는 루이스 충상단층에서는 일반적으로 나중에 만들어졌다고 생각하는 백악기 세일층 위에 선캠브리아기의 석회석이 놓여있다. 이 증거는 일반상식으로는 이러한 비연속성이 충상단층에 의해서 생겼다는 것을 지지하지 않는다. 

Source:

Price, George McCready, 1913. The Fundamentals of Geology. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc., pp. 7-8, 86-101.
Whitcomb, John C. Jr. and Henry M. Morris, 1961. The Genesis Flood. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., pp. 185-195.

답변:

  1. Contrary to the claim, geologists do find convincing evidence of a thrust fault between the strata. This is true even of Young Earth Creationists with geology training. For example, Kurt Wise said,
    A close examination of the contact between the Cretaceous and Precambrian rocks leaves no doubt that the contact is a fault contact. [Wise 1986]



주장과는 달리, 지질학자들은 지층간에 충상단층의 확실한 증거를 발견했다. 이것은 지질학적 훈련을 받은 젊은 지구 창조론자들에게도 사실로 받아들여진다. 예를들어 Kurt Wise는 다음과 같이 말했다.

 

 




 

  1. The strata on either side of the discontinuity are well ordered and have the order one would expect from a thrust fault.

  2. The photo in The Genesis Flood showing the "Lewis Overthrust contact line" (Fig. 17, pg. 190) is not really a photo of the contact line, but of rocks 200 feet above it. The photographs which Whitcomb and Morris used were taken by Walter Lammerts, a botanist and geneticist, on his vacation. [Numbers 1992, 216-219]


  3.  discontinuity의 양쪽 지층에서 잘 순서화되어 있으며, 충상단층으로부터 예상하는 순서로 되어 있다.
  4.  The Genesis Flood의 사진에 나타난 "Lewis Overthrust contact line" 은 실제로는 contact line의 사진이 아니며, 그보다 60m나 높은 곳의 암석의 사진이다.  윗콤과 모리스가 사용한 사진은 월터 렘머트라는 식물학자겸 유전학자가 휴가중에 찍은 사진이다.

 

윗콤과 모리스는 루이스 충상단층을 단층을 따라서 암석이 아무런 교란당하지 않은 것 같은 인상을 주도록 문맥에 맞지 않은 인용을 했다. 그들은 Ross and Rezak의 글을 인용했다.

그러나 인용구는 다음과 같이 계속된다.


  1. Whitcomb and Morris [1961, 185-195] quote a description of the Lewis Overthrust out of context to give the impression that rocks along the fault are undisturbed. They quote Ross and Rezak [1959],
    Most visitors, especially those who stay on the roads, get the impression that the Belt strata are undisturbed and lie almost as flat today as they did when deposited in the sea which vanished so many million years ago.
    The quote continues:
    Actually, they are folded, and in certain places, they are intensely so. From points on and near the trails in the park, it is possible to observe places where the Belt series, as revealed in outcrops on ridges, cliffs, and canyon walls, are folded and crumpled almost as intricately as the soft younger strata in the mountains south of the park and in the Great Plains adjoining the park to the east.

References:

  1. Numbers, Ronald L., 1992. The Creationists. New York: Knopf.
  2. Ross, C. P. and Richard Rezak, 1959. The rocks and fossils of Glacier National Monument. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 294-K.
  3. Weber, C. G., 1980. Common creationist attacks on geology. Creation/Evolution 2: 10-25.
  4. Whitcomb, John C. Jr. and Henry M. Morris, 1961. The Genesis Flood. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co..
  5. Wise, K. P., 1986. The way geologists date! In: R. E. Walsh, C. L. Brooks, and R. S. Crowell (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Creationism, 1: 136.

Further Reading:

Weber, Christopher Gregory, 1980. Common creationist attacks on geology. Creation/Evolution 2: 10-25.
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