Gorilla & Man

Scientific Evidence for a Worldwide Flood: Mt. St. Helens, Palouse Canyon, Observations at an Australian Beach

Mt. St. Helens: 
Three separate eruptions produced  sedimentary-type layers hundreds of feet thick.  One of these was a hurricane velocity deposit that produced thousands of thin  laminations up to 25 feet thick  ^10,11,12  The third eruption was a  lava flow,  which  turned into a hot mud-flow as it  crossed the Toutle River.  This hot mud flow not only diverted  the  river, but carved a 17 mile long  series of canyons (up to 140 feet deep)in a matter of hours.  They call it the Little Grand Canyon of  the Toutle River." ^20,21,22   And to this very day, the neither the mass media, nor any  popular  "science" publications have told the public what happened. ²³  For more on this see  Mt. St. Helens: Evidence in Support of Biblical Catastrophe.


Palouse Canyon:  
In Eastern Washington State there is a canyon that was eroded  through solid  basalt by Lake Missoula floods in 1-2 days. This canyon is  300 to 500 feet deep.  See references below for more information. ^{24,25,26,27,28} 


Observations at an Australian Beach:  At Greenmount  Beach on the Gold Coast of Queensland, an interesting thing occurred: "clear laminations, or layering, in the sand--formed  by  the separation of  normal silica-sand grains and smaller, denser mineral sand-grains such as rutile which are dark  in color.. The  layering was present along the whole sand mass exposed." ²⁹   Emphasis Added


"This was produced as a result of a beach restoration project (which involved) the dredging of  sand  from  (a) sand bar (on) the Tweed River and  carrying it  by ship several kilometres north to the southern  Gold Coast beaches, where it was pumped ashore as a water/sand slurry through a large pipe to the beach."  ²⁹  See also Talking About Geology / Varves. ³⁰  Emphasis Added


Tomorrow: Spontaneous Sorting of Layers and Turbidity Currents


Footnotes:

1. Berg, Randy S., Evidence for a Young Earth, #10: Axel Heiberg Island, www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for_a_young_earth.htm#Axel%20Heiberg%20and%20Ellsemere%20Islands:
2. Oard, Michael J., A tropical reptile in the 'Cretaceous' Arctic, https://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/reptile.asp
3. Rupke, N. A., Creation Research Soc. Quart.,  Vol. 3, 1966, p. 25.
4. Ham, Ken, "I got excited at Mount St. Helens!," Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol. 15, No, 3, June-Aug., 1993, pp. 14-19.
5. Austin, Steven A., "Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe," 1994, Institute for Creation Research, Santee
   CA, 92071, pp. 37-39,94, 97-98.
6. Morris, John D., Ph.D. (geology), The Young Earth, 1994, Creation Life Publishers, Inc., pp. 106-107.
7. Pendick, Daniel, "Return to Mount St. Helens," Earth, April 1995, pp. 22-33. This article shows a picture of the
   canyon taken from about a mile away. No mention is made of the finely layered laminations in the 11-page
   article.  With regard to the 600 feet of layered strata, the article says: "The very top layer contains the
   occasional falls of ash that rained down 15 years ago." p. 33. The 17 mile long canyon that rerouted to Toutle
    River is referred to as "the 17-mile-long landslide that filled the Toutle River Valley." p. 33.  NOVA also did a
   special on Mt. St. Helens, called: "Return to Mt. St. Helens;" however, their coverage was just as pitiful.
   Passing  mentions are made in "Mount St. Helens: Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano," by Rob Carson, 1990,
   2000, Sasquach Books, Seattle, WA, 160 pp.  See pages: 66, 72, 73, 102, 107, 109, 151, 152, 156.  Passing mention
   is also made in "Mt St. Helens--in pictures: The Continuing Story, by James P. Quiring, 1994, KC Publications,
   Inc., See pp. 34, 39 and 42. For more on this see: Mt. St. Helens: Evidence in Support of Biblical Catastrophe, at http://ww.nwcreation.net/mtsthelens.html
8. Austin, Steven, "Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe," 1994, Institute for Creation Research, Santee CA,
   pp. 94-97.
9. Morris, Henry M., and Parker, Gary E., What is Creation Science, 1987, Master Books, pp. 173-174.
10. "The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington," Free USGS Pamphlet.
11. Gould, Steven J., "The Great Scablands Debate," Natural History, Aug-Sept. 1978
12. Allen, John, and Marjorie Burns, with Samuel Sargent, Cataclysms On The Columbia, Timber Press, Portland, Or.
13. Batten, Don, "Sandy Stripes--Do many layers mean many years?"  Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol. 19, No. 1, Dec. 1996
    -- Feb. 1997,  pp. 39-40.  http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i1/sandy.asp
14. Talking About Geology: Varves; http://www.setterfield.org/geology.htm#Varves

Scientific Evidence for a Worldwide Flood: Fossils and Clastic Dikes

Fossils: 
Fossils don't form on lake bottoms today,  nor are they found  forming on the bottom of the sea. ¹⁵  Instead, they normally only form when a plant or animal is buried soon after it  dies. ¹⁶  Therefore, the fossils themselves are evidence of a catastrophe such as a  flood or volcanic eruption that took place in the past.  See also Rapid Petrification of Wood, by Andrew Snelling.


Clastic Dikes:  According to  Austin, a clastic dike is "a cross cutting body of sedimentary material which has been intruded into a foreign rock mass."  ¹⁷

"These dikes...(may) penetrate horizontal sedimentary strata (or) they may occur... in  igneous and  metamorphic rocks.  The process of  formation of a clastic dike is analogous to wet sand oozing up between ones toes, but on a much larger scale." ¹⁷

Clastic dikes present a problem to the "mythions of years" mindset of evolution in  that  massive "older" sediments are found intruding up into overlying younger strata.  This  must have occurred while the "older" sediments were still in a plastic state.

What took these "older" sediments so long to become hard?


One would  think that a million  years would be more than enough  time to turn massive sand laden sediments into sandstone,  yet we have an example of sediments which  are said to be  80 million years older than those above them, and yet they still had not become hard, but were in  a wet and plastic state when an earth movement  caused them to be forced  up into the (supposedly  much) "younger" sediments.  Such things not only present serious problems for the evolutionary  method of  "dating", but also tell us that something is wrong with the millions of years mindset of evolutionary theory itself, and thus cause strongly suspicion that we are not being told the truth by the mass media, nor the "Scientific" community of believers in evolution. ^17,18,19 


Tomorrow: Mt. St. Helens, Palouse Canyon, and Observations at an Australian Beach


Footnotes:

1. Whitcomb, John C., The World That Perished, Revised Edition, 1988, Baker Book House Co., p.76.
2. Von Fange, Erich A., Ph.D., Genesis and the Dinosaur, Living Word Services, Syracuse IN 46567, 1990, pp.
   159-160.
3. Roth, A., 1977, "Clastic dikes," Origins, vol. 4, pp. 53-55. Quoted from "Catastrophes in Earth History," Austin,
   Steven A. Ph.D. (Geology), Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, CA 92021, 1984, pp. 123-124; See also:
    Mt. St. Helens and Catastrophism, by Austin, Steven A. Ph.D.
4. Morris, John D., Ph.D. (geology),  The Young Earth, 1994, Creation Life Publishers, Inc., pp. 109-112.
5. Morris, John D., Ph.D., The Young Earth, p.111; Additional reference provided in book.

Scientific Evidence for a Worldwide Flood: Polystrate Fossils

One of the strongest pieces of evidence for a worldwide flood is the existence of what Rupke termed "polystrate fossils."  Such fossils are found all over the world.  They usually consist of fossil  trees that were buried upright, and which often traverse multiple  layers of strata such as sandstone, limestone, shale, and even coal beds. ^1,2,3,4  They range in size from small rootlets to trees over 80 feet long. ³   Sometimes they are oblique in relation to the surrounding strata, but more often they are perpendicular to it.  For example, at Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate  tree (and root) fossils are found at various intervals throughout roughly 2,500 feet of strata. Many of these are from 10-20 feet  long,  ^5,6 and, at least  one was 40 feet long. ^5,6,7  

Very few of these upright fossil trees have attached roots, and only about 1 in 50 ⁸  have both roots and rootlets attached.  Such trees, and their -- more often than not -- missing roots, are discussed in much more detail in The "Fossil Forests" of Nova Scotia. ⁹  Likewise, many (if not most) of the large, fragmented, and  broken-off  Stigmaria roots are also missing their rootlets. ⁹ 
Many of these roots and rootlets, are also buried individually. ⁹  This strongly  suggests that these trees did not grow in the same places where they were buried, but rather were  uprooted and re-deposited there.  

Similar circumstances occur at various other places in Nova Scotia, as well as in the United States, England, Germany, and France.  Another place where large tree stumps are preserved without their roots attached is Axel Heiberg ^10,11 Island in Northern Canada.


And although there is much data on buried trees in the geological literature, most of it is over 100 years old, and difficult to access.  One of the few articles on this subject was by Rupke, and in it he comments that:

“Personally, I am of the opinion that the polystrate fossils  constitute a crucial phenomenon  both to the actuality and the mechanism of cataclysmic deposition.  Curiously  a  paper on  polystrate fossils appears to be a  'black swan’  in geological literature.  Antecedent to this synopsis a systematic discussion of  the relevant  phenomena was never published.  However, geologists must have been informed about these fossils.  In view of this it seems unintelligible that uniformitarianism has kept its dominant position." ¹²

With regard to Rupke's observation, I suspect the reason why such is (still) the case has more to do with one's personal bias against the concept of a Creator / God to whom we might very well have to give account than to the ever-mounting evidence against the theory of evolution and the millions of years old Earth that it requires (to appear plausible).  However, T-I-M-E is simply not enough: not even BILLIONS of years of it.


See also The Organic Levels of the Yellowstone Petrified Forest ¹³ and  The Yellowstone Petrified "Forests"  ¹⁴ by Harold Coffin.


Tomorrow: Fossils themselves and clastic dikes


Footnotes:

1. Berg, Randy S., Upright Trees in Coal: www.earthage.org/What%20is%20Wrong%20with%20this%20Picture.htm
2. Berg, R S., The 'Fossil Forests' of Nova Scotia, Pt. Two: www.earthage.org/polystrate/Fossil%20Forests%20part_2.htm
3. Rupke, N.A., “A Study of Cataclysmic Sedimentation,” Creation Research  Society  Quarterly,  Vol. 3, 1966,
   p. 23.  
4. Bölsche, W., 1918, Im Steinkohlenwald, Stuttgart, Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, 16th impr. P. 34;  See also
   Price, George M., 1923,  The New Geology, Mountain View, Pacific Press, p. 462.
5. Dawson, John W., 1868, “Acadian Geology,” 2nd ed. Macmillan & Co., London, pp. 150-202.
6. Berg, Randy S., The "Fossil Forests" of Nova Scotia: http://www.earthage.org/polystrate/Fossil%20Trees%20of%20Nova%20Scotia.htm
7. Gessner, Abraham, 1836, Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. 272 pp.  See also: http://www.earthage.org/polystrate/slightly_modified_version%20of%20online%20post.htm
8. Berg, Randy S., The "Fossil Forests" of Nova Scotia, Part One: Extensive Root Systems, or Root Systems Extensively
   Missing? Or go to: www.nwcreation.net/wiki/index.php?title=Joggins%2C_Nova_Scotia and click on the 1 out of 50 Link.
   See also: http://www.earthage.org/polystrate/Early%20Mississippian%20lycopsid%20forests.htm
9. ibid. ref. 5 and 6.
10. Berg, Randy S., Evidence for a Young Earth, #10: Axel Heiberg Island, www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for_a_young_earth.htm#Axel%20Heiberg%20and%20Ellsemere%20Islands:
11. Oard, Michael J., A tropical reptile in the 'Cretaceous' Arctic, https://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/reptile.asp
12. Rupke, N. A., Creation Research Soc. Quart.,  Vol. 3, 1966, p. 25.
13. Coffin, Harold, G. The Organic Levels of the Yellowstone Petrified Forests,  www.grisda.org/origins/06071.htm.
    For a summary see www.grisda.org/origins/06055.htm#Coffin
14. Coffin, Harold, G. The Yellowstone Petrified "Forests", http://www.grisda.org/origins/24002.htm

Scientific Evidence for a Worldwide Flood

Two Vastly Different World Views, with Vastly Different Conclusions: Let's not kid ourselves.  What this is all about is whether or not the Old Testament book of Genesis (along with the rest of the Old Testament, and the New Testament) is an accurate account of what happened around 4600 years ago with regard to a worldwide flood, and about 6000 years ago, with regard to Creation itself.

Was virtually all of the sedimentary strata laid down by a single Worldwide Deluge in a short amount of time, or is the evolutionary scenario of slow change, acting over eons of T-I-M-E, and the associated Geological Time Chart (with its millions and millions of years) a more accurate account of Earth history?

It's also about God's future judgment of mankind.  That's because Jesus Christ, Himself, related the Great Flood of Noah's day to His own return to earth to reign over it and the people in it.  See Luke 17:20-27, 19:11-27; John 5:22-23, 12:32, and Rev. 22:12.

Let's Look at the Evidence:

Over the next few weeks we will be showing astounding evidence for a great worldwide Flood. I have 18 Evidences of either massive flooding and erosion, extremely rapid layering of strata, or direct evidence of a Worldwide Flood. Such evidences are found in numerous places on virtually every Continent. 

The first evidence coming tomorrow will be about polystrate fossils.