Other reasons why the
Genesis Flood destroys
the Theory of Evolution
(4,500 – the magic number)
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HBJ Earth Science, 1989, p. 277
The oldest trees in the world are about 4,500 years old.
(Evolutionists say other trees are over 9,500 years old. We will disprove that
under the carbon-14 dating section.)
The world’s oldest individual
tree lives 10,000 feet above
sea level in the Inyo National
Forest, California. It is
thought to be a staggering
The Baobab trees of Africa
4,500 years old.
are over 4,000 years old.
Scientist have determined that it takes about 4,500
years for the oceans to be as salty as they are.
The Great Barrier Reef along the eastern coast of
Australia is figured to have taken about 4,500 years to
grow to its current size.
Canadian and
Greenland Ice
Sheets are about
4,500 years old
Origins of Major Writing Systems
from 4,500 to 5,000 years ago
Why is the line flat for 7,000 years?
The Americas alone grew to
about 10 million Indians
at this time.
Merrill Earth Science 1993 p. 503
Notice the flatness at about the time of the Flood, 3000BC.
Billions of souls
Human
Population
Chart
Erosion - 6 feet per 1,000 years; as mountains erode, orogeny
pushes the mountains up; but all the layers are still there.
Mt. Everest is 29,000 feet. It should take 4,833,000 years to erode.
But there are fossils all the way from the bottom up to the top.
Plus at the top are fossils of shell fish.
Turbidity Currents
Turbidity currents
in a laboratory flume
Underwater landslides driven by gravity,
which pulls sediment rich water downward.
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Catastrophism vs
Uniformitarianism
• Catastrophism - Prior to the 19th
century it was largely assumed by
geologists that catastrophes such as
the Biblical flood were responsible
for the majority of the earth’s
fossiliferous rock.
Is the Grand Canyon
evidence of a
catastrophe or
millions of years of
erosion?
• Uniformitarianism - Around 1850
the non-catastrophic view of
earth’s geology began to develop,
which suggested that gradual
processes and uniform intensities
were instead responsible.
Mount St. Helens
The eruptions at Mt. St. Helens
were an important geological
event for creation science.
Rapid deposition and erosion
occurred providing a model of the
type of activity taking place during
the great Biblical flood of Noah.
Note three stratified and different layers up to 400
feet thick. How many millions of years old?
March 19, 1982
Rapid Strata Formation
at Mt. St. Helens.
ONLY TWO YEARS.
June 12, 1980
May 18, 1980
Toutle River, Mt. St. Helens
A result of landslides, air fall tephra, pyroclastic flow, and
mudflows, during the Mt. St. Helens eruptions.
Rapid Erosion at Mt. St. Helens
Little Grand Canyon
Toutle River, Mt. St. Helens
On March 19, 1982 a small eruption melted the snow causing a mud
flow, which eroded a canyon system up to 140 feet deep.
Rapid Erosion of Burlingame Canyon, WA
In 1926 the
Burlingame
Canyon was
observed to
have formed in
less than six
days.
Burlingame Canyon
It measures
1500 feet long,
up to 120 feet
deep, and 120
feet wide.
Grand Canyon
Do you understand that the layers in the Grand
Canyon did not need millions of years to form?
Major Questions
• Why are millions of years (socalled) of sediment layers flat
(no erosion)?
• Where are the layers
homogeneous (ONLY one type
of rock) ?
• What were the continents
made of that eroded to make
the homogeneous layers (only
sandstone and then only
limestone, etc.)?
• Why reject the Genesis Flood
answers?
Grand Canyon layers
A stunning sandstone formation called The Wave.
Located near the Arizona and Utah border.
Time to reflect