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Geology Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Genesis and catastrophe
• Shifting sands
• Geology and the Young Earth
• The earth: how old does it look?
• What about continental drift?
• The origin of old-Earth geology and its ramifications for life in the 21^st century

Was geological uniformitarianism the result of dispassionate scientific enquiry?

• Charles Lyell’s hidden agenda—to free science “from Moses”
• Mineral evolution: What’s next? Geobiology or biogeology?
• Hutton’s a priori commitment to materialism
• The man who made the wedge: James Hutton and the overthrow of biblical authority
• St Hutton’s Hagiography

Can geological structures that we see today be explained by a global Flood?

• A classic tillite reclassified as a submarine debris flow
• Seeing Noah’s Flood in geological maps
• Can Flood geology explain thick chalk beds?
• The collapse of ‘geologic time’!
• Devils Tower can be explained by floodwater runoff
• Fluidisation pipes: evidence of large-scale watery catastrophe
• Paleosols: digging deeper buries ‘challenge’ to Flood geology
• Peperite: more evidence of large-scale watery catastrophe
• The Yellowstone petrified forest
• Three sisters: evidence for Noah’s Flood
• Uluru and Kata Tjuta: Testimony to the Flood
• Many arches and natural bridges likely from the Flood

Can canyons be formed quickly?

• Canyon creation
• Canyon in six days!
• Grand Canyon: startling evidence for Noah’s Flood
• Grand Canyon strata show geologic time is imaginary
• How old is Grand Canyon?

How were the earth’s coal beds formed? How is coal a problem for belief in long ages?

• Coal: memorial to the Flood
• Forests that grew on water
• The salinity of a floating forest
• Too much coal for a young earth?

How were limestone caves formed? How long does it need?

• Rapid cave formation by sulfuric acid dissolution
• Limestone caves: a result of Noah’s Flood?
• Caves for all seasons
• The age of the Jenolan Caves, Australia

How does the Flood explain stalagmites, stalactites and other speleothems?

• Caving in to reality
• Instant stalagmites
• Rapid Stalactites

Is there evidence that rocks and gems formed in the biblical timeframe?

• Granite grain size: not a problem for rapid cooling of plutons
• The rapid formation of granitic rocks: more evidence
• Granite formation: catastrophic in its suddenness
• Keys to rapid rock formation
• Rapid rock
• Sandy Surprise
• Mud experiments overturn long-held geological beliefs
• Creating opals
• Microscopic diamonds confound geologists
• Warped earth

How do petrified man-made objects support the biblical timescale?

• Petrified waterwheel
• That Choking Feeling …
• The Clock in the Rock
• Fascinating fossil fence-wire

How did many fine layers of rock form?

• Green River Blues
• Sandy Stripes: Do many layers mean many years?
• Sedimentation Experiments—Nature finally catches up!
• Experiments on Lamination of Sediments
• Experiments on stratification of heterogeneous sand mixtures
• Soil formation and the age of the earth

What other evidence is there of geological structures forming quickly?

• Surtsey, the young island that looks old!
• Surtsey still surprises
• Niagara Falls and the Bible
• Rivers, rocks and … Shakespeare
• The story that won’t be told
• Tuluman—A test of time

What is ‘catastrophic plate tectonics’? Is it consistent with the Scriptures?

• Forum on catastrophic plate tectonics
• Probing the earth’s Deep Places
• The Wilson cycle: a serious problem for catastrophic plate tectonics

Related Q&A pages

• Flood
• Fossils
• Radiometric Dating
• Young Age Evidence