Catastrophism
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Catastrophism is a load of religious bullshit that essentially says, "Because of various interventions by God, there is no reason to believe laws of physics are the same as before. As a result, dating method with such an assumption is invalid."
[edit] Criticisms
[edit] Assumptions involved
The assumption is that that the history of the earth is faithfully recorded in the Book of Genesis, and therefore all scientific evidence that does not fit in with this credo are to be dismissed. The process is called rationalization (start with the conclusion and trying to come up explanations and evidences for such conclusion)
[edit] Other things
If the Global Flood can interfere decay rates (DNA decomposition or Radioactive decay) of things, then one cannot deny that any other flood will be able to have a similar interference on a smaller scale (). We have yet to observe such occurrence. One of the ways to validate Catastrophism would be for the creationists to come up with a recipe to produce fossils of arbitrary species in a somewhat short period of time (up to decades, because there is no additional global events that interfere the global rate of fossil formation)
