This week's podcast will be a discussion and criticism of the claims made within Richard Milton's book
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism". The claims covered in this week's episode deal with abiogenesis, the geologic column, and polystrate fossils.
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism Part 1EDIT: I had made the podcast before I received a reply about the Geologic Column from the USGS. Today I received a response which confirmed what I had said in the podcast: the complete geologic column depends on the presence of the layers, and NOT the thickness of the sediment because the thickness will be different in places with different sedimentation rates.
Richard Milton's WebsitePolystrate FossilsResponse by Talk.originsInformation about the Joggins "Fossil Forest" FormationDavies S.J.1; Gibling M.R.
Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: the Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern CanadaSedimentology, Volume 50, Number 3, June 2003, pp. 415-439(25)
Abiogenesis ClaimsZircon: evidence of early oceansJohn W. Valley, William H. Peck, Elizabeth M. King, and Simon A. Wilde
A cool early EarthGeology (Boulder) (April 2002), 30(4):351-354
Criticism of Murray Eden's paper *My own access to the article was denied; I didn't feel like paying around $30 to have access to it for a day.
Geologic ColumnGeologic Column In North Dakota, etc.Counter-claim by Trueorigin.org (its.org, not .com)*note, their claim was disproven by the USGS, as I discovered via e-mail this morning.