in 1830 the geologic column was erected.if there was such a column it would be world wide and it's simply NOT!!!

they say they date the rocks from the fossils and the fossils from the rocks.
huh? this is just stupid!!!

they try to use circular reasoning to confuse our students, so they don't question such a sacred chart.

where and how did they arrive at the dates that are giving? OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY!!!

durning this time period no forum of estimated dating was thought of.radiometric dating isn't even possible if this chart hasn't been MADE UP!!

IT'S TAUGHT AS A FACT IN SCHOOL BOOKS.

Those s, I will lose sleep over that one.

What You Talkin' 'Bout

THE GEOLOGIC TIME CHART IS SIMPLY MADE UP!!
that's what i'm talking about

Carbon dating???

He's talking about this and it has him all flustered and bothered.

read a book called, The Map that Changed the World..

It might lend some insight to your query..

He doesn't want to read any book. He wants to question science in the favor of religion (xtianity)

Exactly instead of gaining a vast curiosity which would propel any rational person to educate themselves, the true believer is willing to acknowledge vast sweeping conspiracies to explain scientific discoveries which put in stark contrast the ignorance of there doctrine.

maybe so but at least you can't say I didn't try. It's still a good read for anyone interested in the birth of modern geology..

Care to offer a summation? Generally that is helpful to people rather than just throwing a title out there. I make a point of offering at least a brief summary. That way we can discuss it if warranted.

it's kind of a long story but its about William Smith who was a glorified ditch digger in England working off and on for the coal mines inthe late 1700's and early 1800's.

In the course of his work he began noticing that the strata of the rock kept repeating in predictable pattern. Previously people had the notion that the earth was made as described in Genesis and that all fossils found in rocks got there by way of the Great Flood.

Anyhow, through years of working in coal mines and overseeing the digging of coal canals, he began to piece together the puzzle of the geology of Britain.

He came up with the idea of mapping out the distribution of lithologies across the British Isles..

He's credited with creating the first modern geologic map.. It was largely his work that from which the stratigraphic column the OP refered to is taken.

Thanks! Wow thats truly ironic.

I thought you might appreciate that but I was trying not to ruin the surprise for him...

"The first geologic time scale was proposed in 1913 by the British geologist Arthur Holmes. He greatly furthered the newly created discipline of geochronology and published the world renowned book The Age of the Earth in 1913 in which he estimated the Earth's age to be at least 1.6 billion years."

I found that on Wiki. Thats pretty close. Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years. So that was a pretty good estimate for 1913. It says at least so they probably realized that was on the under side.

There are a bunch of lies in our text books though.

History for one.

The history I was taught in school is not being taught to kids today. I wonder why?

I would agree with that. I have an interest in history and read books and biographies on the subject. Most of it is nothing like what we were taught in school. It may not always be bold inaccuracies (though sometimes it is) but very often certain topics are minimized while others are embellished to the point of absurdity.