Over at my ConfrontingScienceContrarians blogspot I examined a recent exchange with a god fearing delusional - oh ..., is that rude? I would submit, it's not a fraction as rude as the ruthless malicious trickery and lies Faith-Blinded people have used to justify their total rejection of constructive learning and sober assessment of critical down to Earth physical facts - be they about our planet's Evolution, which is essential for understanding our planet's processes and this particular time in Earth's ongoing story - or Anthropogenic Global Warming, which people can't grasp without a fundamental understanding of the evolution of our Earth's global heat and moisture distribution engine.
I wrote up my observation regarding Psalm1Tree's fraud for a column in the July issue of Four Corners Free Press, which has now hit the newsstands. Following the column, I share links to four information packed footnotes that fill in details that I didn't have room for in my article.
Colorado's Grand Staircase's Geologic Column - Wayne Ranney
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Saying No To RealityFour Corners Free Press, July 2018
Recently, I was minding my own business listening to a fascinating talk on YouTube titled, “Rooted in Earth History: the Devonian transition to a forested planet.” It was about strategies that Earth’s first ground-hugging plants adapted to escape the confines of Earth’s surface. They did this in order to reach closer to our sun and further away from plant-eaters.
This led to Earth’s first forests, which in turn led to an explosion of new environmental niches for life to radiate into.
I learned some fascinating details regarding questions I’d been wondering about for a long time. The lecture increased my understanding of evolution on this fantastic planet of ours, which has been a lifelong passion for me.
But my pleasant reverie was shattered by a YouTube comment that blind-sided me. One ‘Psalm1Tree’ wrote in all seriousness:
“There never was a Devonian period, just as there never was a Cambrian, Jurassic, Triassic etc. period. That's because there never was a Geologic Column. That is a 19th century construct that has no data whatsoever to support it.”
