Pete, this:

"and I see stu has returned already from refusing to engage me to go off and do science, with a distinctly unscientific put down !"

. . . follows on from a previous post containing this:

"and then there is the evidence for the catastrophic flood. there are millions of dead things preserved as fossils, and even soft tissue from creatures supposedly many millions of yrs old."

That me old mucker, is a statement that is simply wrong. I've engaged you over the years and quite comprehensively, but still you regurgitate dross like this.

Mind it was nice of God to sort all those fossils into a carefully stratified, logical order that allows us to construct a tree of life to disprove creationist mumbo-jumbo. Imagine if they were all mixed up, like they must have been in the swirling tempest of the flood? He must have made them settle sequentially on the seabed, from simple to complex. Now why the heck would he do that?