-Fast
flood:.From
CRI.(equip.org):."The
fossils actually show signs of rapid burial, not slow and gradual processes
as most people believe. For example, there are countless millions
of well preserved fossil fish, even showing scales, fins and eye sockets.
In nature, a dead fish is quickly ripped apart by scavengers and decomposes.readily.
Unless the fish were buried quickly and the sediments.(mud
and sand).hardened
fairly rapidly, such features would not be preserved."
Most of the flood waters
came not from above but from below:.Genesis
7:4,11.
An enormous amount of water
is in magma.(molten
rock).hidden
deep in the Earth. Once an opening develops in the Earth's crust there
is a tremendous pressure release, a volcanic explosion with its resulting
lava.
Article 'About the Grand
Canyon' from the book.Creation
Facts of Life.Gary
Parker, Master Books, P.O. Box 26060, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80936,
719.591-0800
"...after leading over 15
week-long backpacking trips for university students through the Canyon
and studying the rock layers and fossils close-up, I'm ready to stake the
place out with Bible verses! What I once assumed was a record of a lot
of time, now looks like evidence of a lot of water instead!...
"The first Flood current
in the area came with such tremendous force that it sheared off the tilted
Precambrian
rocks in virtually a straight line, producing the so-called 'angular unconformity'
diagrammed in Fig. 36.(in
his book). Science tells us that the
tilt-and-shear could not have happened slowly and gradually. One of the
tilted units.(the
reddish Hakatai Shale).is
so soft and crumbly you can dig it out with your fingernails. Another is
so incredibly hard.(the
Shinumo Quartzite).that
researchers can barely knock off a piece with a hammer. Had the rocks been
tilted up slowly and eroded gradually by rain drops and rivers, the crumbly
rock would be all gone, leaving valleys and the hard unit would stick up
in ridges and hillocks.(small
hills). The two different rock types
would result in a very wavy contact being formed at the angular unconformity
between the tilted layers and the first horizontal unit, the Tapeats Sandstone.
Instead, it looks as if the Flood current that eventually deposited the
Tapeats came in with such titanic force that the hard and soft rocks were
sheared off almost equally in a nearly straight line.
"Actually, the Shinumo Quartzite
is so hard that parts of it do occasionally stick up through the Tapeats.
But the force of the Flood was so great that it broke off huge boulders
of this incredibly hard rock, picked the boulders up and carried them miles.(kilometers).away
before finally dropping them! Wow! Many devastating floods have been observed
in historical times, but none with such power! So far as I know, there
are no evolutionary.(uniformitarian).theories
to explain how such huge boulders could be picked up and slowly and gradually
moved by ordinary river and raindrop erosion! Even the Colorado River today,
a classic example of strength and power, is unable to move lesser boulders
downstream from the mouths of its side canyons."
The major Roman Empire historian
Josephus
talks here of the Great Flood reports known in his day as he draws together
collaborative writings from numerous non-Jewish sources..Josephus,
Book 1:
"...And after seven days
he sent out a dove, to know the state of the ground, which came back to
him covered with mud and bringing an olive branch. Hereby Noah
learned that the Earth was become clear of the flood. So after he had stayed
seven more days, he sent the living creatures out of the ark and both he
and his family went out, when he also sacrificed to God and feasted with
his companions. However, the Armenians call this place 'The Place of Descent'
for the ark being saved in that place. Its remains are shown there by the
inhabitants to this day.
"Now all the writers of barbarian
histories make mention of this flood and of this ark, among whom is Berosus
the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood,
he goes on thus: 'It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia,
at the mountain of the Cordyaeans and that some people carry off pieces
of the bitumen, which they take away and use chiefly as amulets
for the averting of mischiefs'.
"Hieronymus the Egyptian
also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities and Mnaseas and a great many
more books, makes mention of the same.
"Also, Nicolaus of Damascus,
in his ninety-sixth book, has a particular interest, where he speaks thus:
'There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon
which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were
saved and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top
of it and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved.
This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote'."
Books
about the Flood ...Back
The Story of Coal
Ask any diehard evolutionist
who
adamantly
insists that there was not a global flood:.Where
did coal and oil
come from?, by what process were they created? They have no logical
answer. Yet oil and coal power our modern world, but should they, especially
so in the light of free
energy from space. Buried at all
sedimentary
depths, oil and coal exist! But in the case of coal, it can form very quickly.
When a drilling rig first
strikes oil it often gushes up, still under intense pressure from deep
below. Entire forests and jungles of life were crushed directly from life
into preserved complex carbon energy. We refine it a little to extract
fuel, fertilizer and plastics, then move on to the next deposit without
giving it much thought.
Discrete
pockets of preserved former life are separated by wide layers of muck and
rock. Then nothing grew there for millions of years?, then 'bam' a burst
of stored life, then nothing for millions more years, then another concentrated
coal or oil pocket. A million years is a long time. Where you live, can
you imagine that nothing grew there for one million or more years? Please
consider the fossil record itself.(as
it really does actually exist).when
pondering our ancient origins.
While the evolutionist postulates
that each subsequent
layer down indicates a different age or episode recorded in that region
and then believes millions of years of this or that, the creationist postulates
that these same sedimentary layers altogether record a
singular recent violent catastrophic flood.
Coal is a dangerous pollutant
in that it puts particulate
matter into the air we breath and is responsible for many respiratory illnesses
and subsequent
deaths.
From CRI.(equip.org):."Didn't
Coal Form Slowly In Swamps Over Millions Of Years?
"The evidence points overwhelmingly
to the rapid formation of coal as coal can form in as few as 28 days, as
vast forests were uprooted and deposited, then rapidly buried. At Yallourn
in Victoria, Australia, there are huge brown coal beds containing large
numbers of logs of pine trees, of types which today don't grow in swamps.
"Sorted, thick layers of
up to 50 percent pure pollen over vast areas unmistakably show the water
borne nature of these brown coal beds. Also, many Southern Hemisphere coal
deposits show no sign of anything which could represent the fossil 'soil'
in which the forests allegedly grew.
"Researchers at Argonne National
Laboratory, USA, have taken ordinary wood fragments, mixed them with some
acid-activated clay and water, heated the mixture for 28 days at only 150
degrees Celsius with no added pressure in an air free sealed quartz tube
and obtained high-grade black coal. It doesn't need millions of years!
Coal seams are known which fork; others connect with each other in a 'Z'
formation.
"In his 1907 report, famous
Australian geologist Sir Edgeworth David described upright coalified tree
trunks.(like
the poly-strate fossil shown on page 13 in his book).
In Newcastle, Australia, black coal seams that had their lower ends embedded
in one coal seam, then went right through the intervening strata to finish
up in the coal seam above!
"Think of trying to explain
any of this by means of slow growth processes in two separate swamps separated
by vast time periods. It is clear that the 'slow and gradual' bias has
prevented the obvious explanation for the origin of coal—rapid burial of
catastrophically ripped-up vegetation by massive watery catastrophe.
"Moving water, especially
a lot of it, can rapidly perform an enormous amount of geological work
that most people think must take millions of years. The right-hand photo
on page 16 shows more than seven meters.(25
feet).of
layered sedimentary rock built up in one afternoon! This was in association
with the upheaval caused by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the
state of Washington. When this mountain blew its top and following subsequent
eruptions, there were landslides, mud flows and other sedimentary phenomena.
Over 180 meters.(600
feet).of
layered sedimentary rock has built up since the initial explosion.
"Steve Austin has photos
of a canyon 100 feet.(30
meters).deep
and somewhat wider, carved in one day by one mud flow."
More compelling evidence
for Creation and the Flood.
