@neologist,
I read the article. I think I posted that LIDAR map from the archive. Thats how the one geologist had given the pre slide warning. "politics always leads science in the US", that way, when something happens the politicians can blame the scientists for not letting them know. The lying sacks o ****.
YOU say that youre not a Creationist? I thought you were a Witness?
I know of no Witnesses (and Ive known several) who were not Biblical inerrancy fans about the Earth and its Biblical Age.
It matters not to me, I just ask that Organized Creationism stay away from our public school science programs and have them STOP trying to hve "Creation Science" accredited as biology for their own colleges. Live and let live as long as they stay on thir side of the fence and stop trying to undermine real science.