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:::Thanks for your additions to the article, although I will be modifying them a bit.
:::Thanks for your additions to the article, although I will be modifying them a bit.
::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:46, 9 August 2007 (EDT)
::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:46, 9 August 2007 (EDT)
::::I don't mind the modifications as long as the general information is kept (the KT boundary is important when discussing the Cretaceous Period).
::::Let me put it a little more clearly - some articles don't necessarily need to acknowledge all points of view. Despite your personal beliefs, the geologic time scale is inherently ''not'' a YEC topic. The timescale serves '''absolutely no purpose''' for those who disagree with evolution and and the old earth concepts. The Geological Time Scale is a way to group evolutionary leaps and geologic developments in a coherent, organized method. If one adopts the null hyopthesis that the world and life was created at a point in time about 6500 years ago, then they would have no use for the time scale whatsoever - it's not that they would disagree with various timings and dates of the scale, they would disagree with ''the premise of the scale itself.''
::::Philip, I respect your point of view. I understand the points you're trying to make. But please, you can surely see why it's unnecessary to discuss YEC in this article or any other article about geologic time (except, perhaps, an article on the geologic time scale as a whole, where you could discuss the point I brought up in the preceding paragraph). Someone who is researching a period of geologic time isn't going to care what YEC says about that period of time, because they're obviously researching under the assumption that the Earth is old and we can divide geologic time up according to events in the Earth's distant past. '''[[User:Stryker|ΨtrykeЯ]]'''<sup><small>[[User_Talk:Stryker| eh?>]]</small></sup> 11:59, 9 August 2007 (EDT)