This is from a secular geologist that does not accept the Biblical Flood and he says this about the formation of rock layers: “The realization that much of the geologic record, particularly in shallow water environments, actually accumulates as a series of catastrophic events (as expressed in Derek Ager’s eloquent analogy to the lives of soldiers: “long periods of boredom and brief periods of terror”) goes a long way toward explaining the persistence...
Read MoreWIDESPREAD Layers!!!
“The layers you see in the Grand Canyon are very widespread. The top formation, the Kaibab, is also found in California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. The Redwall layer that forms the vertical cliff half way up is spread over the top half of Arizona, well beyond the Grand Canyon Plataeu. The layers had to be spread over incredibly flat areas to produce such widespread relatively thin layers of sediment. There is no way you could deposit these widespread flat layers...
Read MoreTurning to Stone – Fast or Slow?
“It would appear that contrary to the common thinking on the subject of petrification the process does not take millions of years but rather a particular set of circumstances including acids, minerals, and hot and/or dry conditions. This explains how the wood grain is so perfectly preserved in the petrification process. If the process took millions of years the wood would have long since deteriorated and therefore the material which replaced it would not have the look and...
Read MoreSouthwest Geology Tour Sights- Upheaval Dome
On the college field trip that Mary Jo & I are leading, we see many great sites, several of which leave us with more questions than answers. One such example is: what caused the unusual formation called Upheaval Dome? Was it a meteor that slammed into the earth at this spot? Perhaps it was a fluid like bulge of a salt dome pushing it up from below? Is it a volcanic outburst? Perhaps there were giant gophers in the past that dug this immense mile wide hole? All of...
Read More42 Years – Refusing to See!!
J Harlen Bretz first started studying the Pacific Northwest in 1922. In 1923, he developed a flood model for the cause of the geological formations in that area. “Bretz was openly and vigorously ridiculed for presenting such a ludicrous notion as a flood model for the scablands since this region had obviously been carved out over millions of years by uniformitarian processes.” (http://www.detectingdesign.com/harlenbretz.html) “Before a theory that requires a seemingly...
Read MoreGhost Craters and the Moon’s Black Eye!
The surface of the Moon is pocked-marked by craters, but what is possibly the most interesting are the Ghost Craters! The moon’s black spots are the part of the surface that is made up of the rock – basalt. Basalt is a volcanic rock – formed due to lava flows. As you can see with the naked eye, those are huge regions across the surface of the moon that must have had huge lava flows. Based on observations, it looks like the black spots or marias have formed due to huge...
Read MoreDrifting Plates or Flying Saucers?
A frequently asked question at our seminars is, “Do you believe in continental drift?” This is the idea that all the land masses on our planet were originally one large continent which is referred to as Pangaea. Pangaea then supposedly broke up over millions of years to give the present distribution of our continents. What about this and what about the time frame? In 1859, creationist Antonio Snider suggested the idea of a super continent based on a biblical passage. Gen 1:...
Read MoreOut of Order Fossils
Some rock layers contain fossils that are found out of the supposed evolutionary order, i.e. older fossils on top of younger fossils. This is usually explained by a concept called “overthrusting.” In this process, rock layers break up and one section is uplifted. Forces push the one layer containing the older fossils over the top of the younger layers. In some cases, there seems to be evidence of this, and at other times there is absolutely no evidence. But we...
Read MoreFine Line Between Colored Layers and Polystrate Fossils
Frequently, one colored geologic formation is tightly stacked upon another formation. If there were really millions of years of gradual deposition (as normally assumed), wouldn’t the water saturated with the chemicals responsible for the coloration have seeped into the formations below? This would result in unclear boundaries between formations, but we see razor sharp boundaries. Perhaps alternating currents during the time of the Flood quickly stacked one layer on...
Read MoreThe Great Unconformity
Throughout the world, there is a sharp break between ancient rock and the sedimentary or volcanic material on top of it. This is called the “Great Unconformity.” In many places just above this break, large deposits of rock debris including very large boulders are found. It appears like a major water catastrophe planed off the existing landscape leaving the large boulders behind. This is considered by many Biblical geologists to represent the time of the initial...
Read MoreUndersea Canyons
Far out on the continental shelf below hundreds of feet of water are very large canyons. How did they get there? Perhaps the ocean level was much lower in the past allowing canyon carving offshore. This fits nicely with the Biblical Flood. During the Flood, the whole earth was covered by water. According to Psalm 104 (NAS), the mountains rose up and the valleys sank down. Water filled the oceanic trenches to a great depth lowering the global sea level. Other large bodies...
Read MoreOld Mountains – Young Mountains
How do young earth, Flood geologists explain different age mountain ranges? ANSWER: Because of the violent nature of the Flood waters, mountains that existed before the Flood or that raised up during the early part of the Flood would have been planed off leaving what appears now to be an ancient mountain range. Those mountains rising during later stages of the Flood would have been greatly eroded, but not totally planed off. They would appear today to be mid-age mountains....
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