I was curious has anyone attempted to answer this issue from a scientific perspective? I googled it and can find a few creationist and intelligent design sites but nothing from evolution oriented sites. Thanks in advance.
Some quotes from creationist/intelligent design sites forgive me if i got the citations wrong
Some quotes from creationist/intelligent design sites forgive me if i got the citations wrong
The continents are eroding at a rate that would level them in much less than 25 million years (a). However, evolutionists believe that fossils of animals and plants at high elevations have somehow avoided this erosion for more than 300 million years. Something is wrong.
a. Nevins, pp. 80–81.
George C. Kennedy, “The Origin of Continents, Mountain Ranges, and Ocean Basins,” American Scientist, Vol. 47, December 1959, pp. 491–504.
Roth, “Some Questions about Geochronology,” pp. 65–67.
“North America is now being eroded at a rate that could level it in a mere 10 million years ...” Dott and Batten, p. 133.
"Some of these rates [of erosion] are obviously staggering; the Yellow River could peneplain [flatten out] an area with the average height that of Everest in 10 million years. The student has two courses open to him: to accept long extrapolations of short-term denudation [erosion] figures and doubt the reality of the erosion surfaces, or to accept the erosion surfaces and be skeptical about the validity of long extrapolations of present erosion rates."
Sparks, B. W., Geomorphology. 3rd ed. Longman Group, London and New York, 1986.
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