Sandy surprise
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Scientifically, it has never been a problem to explain that hard rock can form quickly,
given the right conditions. However, the problem is that when most people look at
huge sandstone cliffs, for example, they are conditioned in today’s culture
to think in terms of millions of years.
Creation magazine has given many photographic
examples to show that solid rock can form quickly—e.g. a huge ‘frozen’
waterwheel encased in solid limestone in 65 years,1
fossilised modern fencing wire2 and
pliers,3 a sizeable gasfield pipe
clogged in months with solid calcite,4
and huge stalactites in just a few decades,5
to name just some. Here is one more.
The contents of the wheelbarrow all came out of the pool filter in the background—the
sand at the bottom had hardened into the sandstone, which has been chiselled into
the fragments seen here.
Mike Miller of Ohio, USA explains that his father recently opened the drain cock
on their ordinary swimming pool sand filter and nothing came out. Upon checking,
he found to his surprise that the sand in the lower part of the filter had turned
to solid rock since it was put in around five years ago. Mike says, ‘Not soft,
crumbly stone, either—hard rock, indistinguishable from “normal”
sandstone. My dad spent a long time with a chisel breaking up the stone into the
pieces you see in the wheelbarrow [photo 1]’.
A close-up of the sandstone fragments. Note the cylindrical imprints where it has
conformed to the shape of the plastic tubing inside the bottom of the filter, and
the curved surface at bottom right matching the interior curve of the filter canister.
Mike says that their pool is fed with underground water with a slightly higher than
normal content of iron oxide, which would help the sand to harden into rock. Photo
2 shows a closeup view of the sandstone.
The Creator of the world has clearly shown in His Word, the Bible, that a global
watery cataclysm was responsible for much geologic work, only a few thousand years
ago. Today, most scoff at the Genesis flood, preferring instead to believe in millions
of years of slow and gradual processes. Such scoffing was actually predicted in
the Bible (2
Peter 3:3 ff.)—people are ‘willingly ignorant’ of God
having judged the world with water.
A worldwide flood would of necessity dissolve a lot of minerals, and deposit huge
amounts of sand, as well as other sediments. Given the right chemicals in the water,
hardening into the sandstone deposits we see today would take place quickly. Graphic
demonstrations of rapid rock formation should remind us to think realistically (i.e.
biblically) about the past, unclouded by the fog of fashionable worldviews which
place millions of years of death and suffering before sin.
References
- Petrified waterwheel, Creation
16(2):25, 1994. Return to text.
- Fascinating fossil fence
wire, Creation 20(3):6, 1998. Return to
text.
-
‘Fossil’ pliers show rock doesn’t need millions of years to form!,
Creation 14(1):20, 1992. Return to text.
- That choking feeling …, Creation
20(4):6, 1998. Return to text.
- Stalactites
do not take millions of years!, Creation 20(2):27,
1998. Return to text.
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