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→Points of view: It's about the rock systems, not the current timescale
::::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)
::::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)
:::::Whilst you are basically correct that the evolutionary timescale serves no purpose within a YEC framework, these articles are not about the timescales per se, but about the distinct rock systems that go by various names, such as Cretaceous. The geologic system was originally devised within a non-evolutionary paradigm, and many flood geologists accept the legitimacy of the different systems, although not the ages assigned to them by evolutionists. (And those ages have changed a number of times over the last couple of centuries.)
:::::Thus those rock systems ''are'' relevant to someone researching in a YEC framework, and it is therefore appropriate to mention the YEC viewpoint on them. In any case, to mention only the uniformitarian viewpoint as though it was correct would be misleading. Finally, flood geologists do also "divide geological time up according to events in the Earth's distant past". It's just that it's done within a different framework and with different timescales.
:::::[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 12:14, 9 August 2007 (EDT)