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Geology Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Using Bible history to interpret the rocks and landscapes
• The geology transformation tool
• Geology and the Young Earth
• What about continental drift? (from Creation Answers Book)
• 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?
• The man who made the wedge: James Hutton and the overthrow of biblical authority
• St Hutton’s Hagiography
• Analogy and geology—the ‘science’ of Charles Lyell

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

• “Giant coastal sand dunes”
• Seeing Noah’s Flood in geological maps
• Can Flood geology explain thick chalk beds?
• The collapse of ‘geologic time’!
• ‘Flat gaps’ in sedimentary rock layers challenge long geologic ages
• Warped earth
• Devils Tower can be explained by floodwater runoff
• Fluidisation pipes: evidence of large-scale watery catastrophe
• 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?

• Massive erosion on California’s Oroville Dam
• Canyon creation
• Canyon in six days!
• 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
• Too much coal for a young earth?

How does the Flood explain limestone caves, stalactites, stalagmites, and other speleothem formed?

• Rapid cave formation by sulfuric acid dissolution
• Limestone caves: a result of Noah’s Flood?
• Caves for all seasons
• Instant stalagmites
• Rapid Stalactites

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

• Granite formation: catastrophic in its suddenness
• Rapid rock
• Mud experiments overturn long-held geological beliefs
• Creating opals
• Microscopic diamonds confound geologists

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

What other evidence is there of geological structures forming quickly?

• Surtsey still surprises
• Niagara Falls and the Bible
• The story that won’t be told
• Tuluman—A test of time

Plate tectonics—is it consistent with Scripture? What is ‘catastrophic plate tectonics’?

• What about continental drift? (from Creation Answers Book)
• Empirical data support seafloor spreading and catastrophic plate tectonics (plus dialogue on this paper).
• Plate tectonics—inconsistencies in the model
• Is plate tectonics occurring today?
• 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