Questions:

Questions:
Remember—There are ONLY two theories for the formation of Sideling Hill. These theories are very different. Shouldn’t we be able to tell which theory is more feasible?
		If the evolutionary theory is correct, we would expect to see evidence of the millions of years that it “took” to form the mountain. There should be evidence of the years between the layers and disturbance of the sediments before it solidifies. We would also expect to see evidence of the solid rocks being bent into the present condition, e.g. stress fractures (after all, rocks really don’t bend well). So a couple of questions to consider are: 1. How did the rain fall to erode away two mountains and leave the valley “standing as a mountain?” What we observe today is that rain falls and erodes the valley, making it wider and deeper. 2. Why is there a nice smooth dome? The signs say that a hard layer formed a protective “cap” that protected the softer layers underneath and kept the valley from eroding deeper. Engineers and geologists know when there is erosion with a hard protective cap (like one of the signs claims) the softer “unprotected” rock erodes more quickly which forms much steeper sides. And why did the rest of that same hard layer erode away and leave only a “protective cap”?
3. If each layer was laid down one at a time like they claim, why do we see only one fault? If you visually draw lines perpendicular to the strata, the red line is twice as long as the blue. Therefore you should see compression fractures in the top several layers, which would mean the layers, would buckle and break into each other and we wouldn’t have such clear strata layers. Or we should see stress fractures at the base big enough to drive a Semi-Tractor-Trailer through.
Visually and logically it is easy to see that the rocks had not solidified before being bent. Can we mathematically prove that the rocks were not completely solidified before being bent? Engineers have documented very carefully the strengths of rocks and how much pressure, stress and strain they can withstand before breaking. After all, who would construct a building only to later discover that the ground can’t support the weight? To calculate the strain required to bend a single rock layer to the syncline that we see, we’ll examine a very visible single layer.
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Mathematical Proof for Rapid Deposition and Folding:
The Method Used: Normally to determine rock strengths, samples must be taken and sophisticated tests performed in order to determine how much stress the rock can take before breaking. The method used here is a little unorthodox, but still valid because of the very obvious and dramatic folding of the layers. Tests are not required because determinations and limitations can be made by the physical measurements and estimations alone.
Strength of Materials Primer: q Modulus is an expression of how “flexible” something is (The units are in Kips which stands for “thousand pounds per square inch”). q Strain is “Length as a result of stress” divided by “Unstressed Length.” (Strain has no units, but is often designated as inches/inch or feet/feet.) q Stress is a measurement of the load applied (the units are in “Kips”). § The amount of stress can be calculated by observation/measurements by the following formula: Stress = Strain x Modulus q Compressive Strength is how much load can be applied before the rock starts to crumble (also measured in Kips). q Tensile Strength is the amount of tension that can be applied without failure. § Rocks have lower tensile strength than compressive strength. Failures due to tensile strength result in large gaps in the rock strata. Determining rock strength parameters requires very sophisticated tests, and even then, the results are quite elusive. Due to fracturing, larger samples provide weaker strength data than small samples of the same rock. Fortunately, we can use general rock “compressive strength” and “modulus” relationships to solve our equations. Generally, the stronger the rock, the higher the modulus (the stronger the rock the less flexible it is). However, this ratio does vary significantly. Key Point: The compressive strength of a rock can range between 0.003 to 0.001 times the same rock’s modulus. In the best case, Stress = 0.003 x Modulus. In other words, rocks can be bent a very little bit before they break. The question is: is a syncline like Sideling Hill possible after the rock solidifies without multiple cracks or crumbling?
Calculations:

q Referring to the diagrams, the 38’ thick strata close to the highway is 77’ longer at the bottom of the strata than it is at the top. § Lt – length of top layer § Lb – length of bottom layer q (The arc angle is approximately 117⁰. The arc length is Radius x Pi x 117⁰ / 180⁰.) q Thus, Strain = 77’ / 741’ = 0.1 q Therefore, the “apparent” Stress = 0.1 x Modulus Results: The apparent stress is over thirty times the maximum (0.003) compressive strength allowable without failure!
Other Assumptions: These calculations also assume that each strata layer can “slide” along the next layer without major damage at the interface. Although this is possible, it is ridiculous to assume that ALL of the interfaces could slide without failure. All the mountain strata appear to have been bent together in which case the actual strain would have to be 10 times the assumed strain in these calculations. The point (that all of these layers were laid down quickly) is still valid – all assumptions have been made in favor of evolutionary long periods of time. Yet – all results of these calculations still show that the strata had to have been still plastic (non-solid) at the time of the folding/bending!
Conclusion: The 20 million year bending of solid strata is a bold-faced evolutionary lie intended to deceptively propagate evolutionary dogma.

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