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Similar Worldwide Rock Layers
a.
Folds and Bends that
indicate the rock layers were soft all at once.
b.
Jumbled fossils, full mass
fossil beds are evidence of a large flood.
c.
Large layers spread across
continents.
d.
Evidence of large strong
water currents (cross-bedding) throughout rock layers
e.
If rock layers formed
slowly over long periods of time, why are they as consistent as they are? Rock
layers would not have formed this nicely and completely over long periods of
time, if they did, we ought to see more erosion in the layers. A quick burial
and formation of layers makes more sense than ancient seas at different times
all over the world.
f.
Creation Resources:
1.
Follow this intro to the other articles.
vi.
Geology examples and overview - http://creation.com/geology-and-the-young-earth
g.
Evolution Resources
Title: Similar Worldwide Rock Layers by Brian Mariani and others
Introduction:
Rock layers are levels of sediment that build up over time. They
look like bands and they usually run horizontally, but can sometimes be slanted
or vertical due to its compaction and formation being on an angle like sand
dunes or due to seismic activity. In rock layers, fossils can be found giving
evidence of the past. How did the rock layers really form? How fast did they
form? How many rock layers are there? How do the rock layers compare all over
the world? What causes their deformation?
Naturalistic/Evolutionary
Answer:
Rock layers are formed by many seasonal flood deposits, by
volcanic deposition, and by sediment deposition, especially at the bottom of
lakes or large ancient seas. Volcanic material and/or sediments build up and cover
the earth and rock layers are created by wind or by water when enough sediments
are built up creating pressure on lower layers.[i] A rock layer will cover dead and living
animals and plants.
The amount of lime or cementing agent is used in the
sediment mixture will determine how long it will take to turn into rock. If
there is a lot of lime it may take only a few years, if there is little to
none, then pressure and hot water have to pack the sediment into rock and that
might take “many thousands of years.” This is part of why different rocks have a
higher or lower hardness.[ii]
Volcanic rocks could form within minutes.
The age of the fossil can be determined by its depth below
the surface, the deeper the fossil, the older the age. Older rock layers have simpler, less evolved
organisms than higher, younger rock layers.[iii]
This is not “an abstract diagram: this is the actual record of the
earth's crust, recorded in rocks around the world…Since fossils progress from
fish at the bottom to humans at the top, we have clear evidence that life
evolved through time.”[iv]
Occasionally in the
fossil layers, there are unconformities where there are missing layers in one region.
Those missing layers may not have formed in that area at that time or they did
form, but were consequently eroded away.[v]
Creation Answer:
“Evolutionists and creationists agree: the ideal
conditions for forming most fossils and fossil-bearing rock layers are flood conditions. The debate is just whether it was many “little floods” over
a long time, or mostly the one big Flood of Noah’s time.”[vi]
Go out and find a piece of concrete and try bending it. This
is one of the problems for old rock layers all over the world in that hardened
rock will crack and break when pushed or pulled. But we see smoothly bent rock
layers all over the world.[vii]
This could be done if the layers (millions of years worth)
were soft all at the same time or if the layers were under extreme heat and
pressure their shape could deform without breaking. The problem with the latter
view is that the pressure and temperature would have metamorphosized and
changed the rock, but these examples of bent layers are still sedimentary rock
layers. The best explanation is that they were soft at the same time and laid
down nearly at the same time and uplifted at the same time. This is a massive
geological event consistent with a global flood.[viii]
Rock layers are different from each other based on their
composition, temperature and how fast or slow their flood current is. In some
layers, you have very fine grains of sediments and in other layers, there large
boulders as big as cars, which means that a fast current would have had to
carry those huge boulders. From their view, evolutionists can’t explain these
boulders.
As different currents are swirling during the time of the
flood, you would have different layers (think of them like pancakes) formed
even in different places (offset pancakes). This is why there are often missing
layers in one region but there in order in a different region.
Ph.D. Geologist Steven A. Austin says that “Every continent contains layers
of sedimentary rocks that span vast areas. Many of these layers can even be
traced across continents.”
There are “six
megasequences (very thick, distinctive sequences of sedimentary rock layers)
that can be traced right across North America.”[ix] Some
of these sequences include layers like the Tapeats Sandstone that covers most
of North America and even beyond, and chalk beds that stretch across a large
part of Europe and into the Middle East, and the Coal Bed that stretches
through much of North America as well.[x]
Other evidences that point to a global flood are the rapidly
buried fossils (some even “misplaced” or “out of place” fossils with reference
to the evolutionary timeline[xi]),
jumbled-up mass fossil beds, sea creature fossils high above sea level, rapid
or no erosion between strata, sediments in rock layers have been transported
long distances, and the layers appear to be laid down in rapid succession
(polystrate fossils lie vertical through “millions of years” of deposition).[xii]
The global flood would have been perfect conditions for making rock
layers.
What the Bible
Says: Genesis 6-7
“Rocks
and Layers” accessed 5:14 P.M. 10/24/12 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/rocks-layers.html[i]
“CEM
Research and Polystrate fossils” accessed 8:06 P.M. 11/11/12 http://www.creationevidence.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49
[i] Shlomiya
Bar-Yam, Fossil Layers, New England Complex Systems Institute, http://www.necsi.edu/projects/evolution/evidence/layers/evidence_layers.html,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[ii]
Bob Avakian, Time to Form Sedimentary Rocks, February 2009, Newton: Ask a
Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env99396.htm,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[iii]
Rock Layers: Timeline of Life on Earth, Prehistoric Planet, PaleoClones, LLC, http://www.prehistoricplanet.com/news/index.php?id=48,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[iv] Rock
Layers: Timeline of Life on Earth, Prehistoric Planet, PaleoClones, LLC, http://www.prehistoricplanet.com/news/index.php?id=48,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[v] David
J. Leveson, Relative Age: Determining Relative Age From The Rock Record, 2006, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/topics/time/froshlec8.html,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[vi]
Dr. Gary Parker, Creation: Facts of Life, How Fast?, January 1, 1994, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cfl/how-fast,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[vii]
A Pocket Guide to…Best Evidences: Science and the Bible refute millions of
years, Answers in Genesis – US, 2013.
[viii]
A Pocket Guide to…Best Evidences: Science and the Bible refute millions of
years, Answers in Genesis – US, 2013.
[ix] Andrew
A. Snelling, Ph.D., Transcontinental Rock Layers: Flood Evidence Number Three, May
7, 2008, Answers in Genesis, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n3/transcontinental-rock-layers#fnList_1_1,
accessed October 10, 2013.
L. L. Sloss, “Sequences in the Cratonic Interior of
North America,” Geological Society of America Bulletin 74 (1963): 93–114.
[x]
Andrew A. Snelling, Ph.D., Transcontinental Rock Layers: Flood Evidence Number
Three, May 7, 2008, Answers in Genesis, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n3/transcontinental-rock-layers#fnList_1_1,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[xi] Dr.
Gary Parker, Creation: Facts of Life, How Fast?, January 1, 1994, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cfl/how-fast,
accessed October 10, 2013.
[xii] Andrew
A. Snelling, Ph.D., Geologic Evidences for the Genesis Flood: Part 1: An
Overview, September 18, 2007, Answers in Genesis, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n4/geologic-evidences-part-one,
accessed October 10, 2013.
CEM Research and Polystrate Fossils, Creation Evidence
Museum of Texas, http://www.creationevidence.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49,
accessed October 10, 2013.
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