Psalm1Tree: "Fossils are jumbled, in no pattern whatsoever.”
Have you met William Smith?
William Smith's Map, completed 1815, decades in the making.
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“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."
No data? Seriously? Has Psalm ever looked? I ask because it’s easy to track down when our understanding started in the late 1700s. That’s when a handful of curious observant individuals struggled to make sense of what they saw laid out across their country. In my previous post I shared James Hutton's legacy. Here I introduce another leading pioneer, William Smith a colorful mapper of coal mines, a canal, railway and road surveyor, a man who spent a life time dedicated to comprehending the landscape and creating the first modern geologic map that visually distilled hundreds (soon to be thousands) of land surveys into a form all could learn to read and comprehend at a glance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUf1-_Lp54
From all I've read, William Smith was a might saltier than this nice gent. Still a good summation.
