Yosemite National Park and the Genesis Flood

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If you ride toward the left coast of the formerly United States, go through Nevada, then comes California. Yosemite National Park has its eastern boundary bumping up against the Nevada border. Yosemite has Sam, wildlife, mountains, waterfalls, and all that good stuff. Lots of wilderness in its 1,200 square miles.

There are many aspects of geology to be studied at Yosemite. Although conventional scientists are mostly locked into deep time and uniformitarianism, there are clues that the granite mountains were formed rapidly. They also display signs of the Ice Age.

Yosemite National Park valley, Unsplash / Mick Haupt
Worldviews are important. Secular scientists view evidence and try to interpret data through their deep time evolutionary glasses. Biblical creationists believe the Bible is true and it teaches recent creation and the Genesis Flood, so we reject deep time interpretations. If conventional scientists would cowboy up and look at the data without evolutionary presuppositions, they would likely see that the evidence supports a young earth.
Yosemite National Park in California is a sure source of stunning scenery. It’s no wonder that American naturalist John Muir persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite Valley. But how and when did this park’s dramatic peaks rise? Two clues in particular should clarify the origins of Yosemite’s mountain granites.

The rest of this first article is found at "Yosemite National Park, Part 1: Tiny Clues of a Grand Picture." Be sure to come back for the second part!

Creationists and secularists agree that there was an Ice Age. Then the disagreements begin. The shape of the valleys at Yosemite show that glaciers moved there. There are cliffs and waterfalls, but the glacial ice is gone. Also, there are boulders were moved by the ice. Uniformitarian beliefs (slow and gradual processes; the present is the key to the past) are unable to show how the Ice Age began, nor can they show how it ended. Genesis Flood models in creation science show how both of those things happened.

To learn about these two Genesis history-confirming features, look at "Yosemite National Park, Part 2: Glaciers, Seeds, and Biblical History."