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In southeastern Utah is a nice spread of 337,598 acres called Canyonlands National Park, hosting canyons (obviously), spires, and buttes. Conventional uniformitarian geology says that rivers carved the canyons of millions of Darwin years. Evidence is against Grand Canyon being carved by the Colorado River , and similar logic applies here. Secularists evosplain that the pancake-like layers that are seen were made by a series of deserts over vast amounts of time. However, deserts today do not act like those supposedly did in the distant unobserved past. Canyonlands National Park by Matthew Dillon at Flickr ( CC BY 2.0 ) There are thousands of canyons on this here planet Earth. Biblical creationists see a great deal of evidence not only against the conventional views, but in favor of the Genesis Flood in Grand Canyon and at Canyonlands. Were any of the other canyons made slowly? Mayhaps some, but most had to be done by a lot of water in a little bit of time, not a little bit of water...

The common story about fossilization told by believers in universal common descent is, to be blunt, absurd even on the surface. In water, a critter dies, sinks to the bottom, gets covered by sediment, and becomes fossilized over many years. The Master Engineer made a cleanup crew that gets rid of the clutter, which includes scavengers, microorganisms, and so on. Owners of aquariums have seen that when a fish dies, it is often eaten by other fish. Scavenging and decomposition happen very quickly on land as well. Forensic toolkit and marked evidence, Pexels / cottonbro studio Television shows and movies about forensic science  have become very popular. This is the historical science where investigators use information in the present to reconstruct what may have happened in the past. Worldviews, presuppositions, evidence degradation, contamination and other things put limits on forensic science . The study of fossilization (as well as scientific views involving creation science, evol...

Although it raises hackles on secularists, geology is a historical science. Scientists use what is observed in the present to try and determine what went on in the past. Ken Ham and other biblical creationists have famously pointed out that if there was a global Genesis Flood, there would be obvious evidence. This evidence include trillions of fossils buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth, geological strata, and more. Conventional geologists have some stories, but there are some experiments that support creation science models. Grand Canyon image credit:  USGS / Alex Demas (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Geological strata and formations span continents, which in itself is evidence for a global Flood. Many layers were deposited horizontally. Some went sideways. Using repeatable science and applying it to the past, flume experiments help explain vertical deposits and provide other evidence for the Flood — and fly in the face of uniformitaria...

Yesterday morning I was talking with my prospector friend Stormie Waters and her fiancé Roland Meadows, and the topic strayed from their upcoming nuptials to the Genesis Flood. God brought the animals to Noah, some other things, then we pondered Genesis 6:3. I picked up my Bible and read, "And the LORD said, 'My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years'". It looked like a countdown to me. Roland said that the key word can also be translated "abide." The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark , WikiComm / Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1613 When considering the meaning of a word or phrase, it is helpful to see how it is translated in other places. Aside from Genesis being an ancient text, the Hebrew word in question is used only once in the Old Testament! Is it strive  with man, or abide  in man? This is not a vital point of Christian doctrine so there's no need to stand and defend a ...

The formerly United States had a surprisingly bad winter in 1970s, so scientists began prognosticating that another ice age  was on the way. In fact, there was no stopping it. This notion was suddenly left to chill and the scaremongers instead came up with global warming caused by humans. Conventional geologists and astronomers presuppose millions of years and that there were many ice ages. They invoke the fundamentally-flawed Milankovitch Cycles to explain that changes in Earth's orbit caused ice ages. Glacier sliding down a mountain, FreeImages /  Ainhize Barrena Is there evidence, Cowboy Bob? For multiple ice ages? Not really. The evidence is assumed, and what little they have can be explained by other processes. There is a passel of evidence for the  single Ice Age, though. Sheets of ice still exist in Antarctica and Greenland, mostly. There is physical evidence that ice sheets had intruded further south than they are today. A problem with the unavoidable coming ice ...

The word badlands  is often used to mean that an area is not good for living in, growing crops, and so forth. South Dakota has badlands. The Badlands National Park  takes up the area of three counties. Also in the badlands area is a National Historic Site involving deactivated nuclear missile silos . Nuclear missiles make good days go bad.  So why make a national park? A passel of wildlife call the area home. It also has geologic formations, and the study and removal of fossils needed to be regulated. Badlands National Park, Unsplash / Wesley Sharp Geologists and paleontologists who presuppose millions of years interpret what they observe into an interesting story. It does not hold up. Biblical creationists also has presuppositions, the main ones being that the Bible is true about recent creation and the devastating global Flood. Using Flood geology and models, the formations are explained in a way that makes sense. The eroded cliffs of the Badlands terrain of west centra...

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, t...

The number of marine invertebrate animals is rather startling, and they are found in oceans all over the earth. A key to their dispersion is their larval forms. Like many other living things, the youngest stages are markedly different from their adult forms. Most of the larvae are microscopic and can live in various conditions. This gives them the ability to travel great distances, often putting full development on hold until the right time. Biblical creationists note that these invertebrates were as diverse before the Genesis Flood as they are today. Rock-boring urchin, National Park Service (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Many times, creationists describe the way organisms adapt, grow, and other things to show that they are the products of design, not Darwinism. With marine invertebrate animals, another factor indicates the work of the Master Engineer: ocean currents. The critters are carried through the paths of the sea to all sorts of locations. Marine inverteb...

As people who have read or viewed creation science material know, the Genesis Flood is extremely important. One reason is that the Flood ruins uniformitarian (old Earth) geology. Scoffers dismiss it out of hand without learning even the basics of what is involved. Creationists have pointed out that there are questions raised in bad faith to trip up biblical creationists, but there are also people who sincerely want explanations. Today we examine two. The first is how Noah rounded up all those critters. The Animals Entering Noah's Ark , Jacopo Bassano ca. 1570 Noah saddled up a Compsognathus, put a cart behind it, made a lariat, and lassoed — "Don't be facetious, Cowboy Bob!" Actually, scoffers paint a similarly absurd picture through their prejudicial conjectures. When intelligently  debating opponents, it is necessary to learn their views and look for inconsistencies and logic flaws. Genesis 6:20, 7:8-9 tells us that the animals came to Noah at the Ark; they were gui...

Out Colorado way, if you mount up and ride west of Denver and a bit north of Morrison, you can find Dinosaur Ridge. It is a part of the National Natural Landmarks program administered by the US National Park Service. National parks and monuments are owned by the government, but not NNLs. Main tracksite on Dinosaur Ridge, National Park Service (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) It is famous for exposed sediments revealing dinosaur trackways. These are the top part of the Dinosaur Freeway, which extends southward hundreds of miles. Mainstream scientists attribute the geologic activity to rivers and beaches. Take a walk on the beach. Pay attention to the tracks your feet leave in the wet sand. Notice that the waves come in and erase the tracks. It requires special conditions to fossilize tracks, and the geology of Dinosaur Ridge and the formations involved do not support mainstream uniformitarian ideas. Instead, there are numerous facts that point to creation science Gen...

Sometimes misotheists ask questions of biblical creationists in bad faith, but some Christians may sit back, watching and waiting for an answer. Sometimes people just want to know. One of these is: Where are human fossils from the global Genesis Flood? Interesting that Darwin's disciples challenge creationists, but they act like deep time and evolution are settled. The Flood left many obvious evidences, including fossils and geologic sequences that span continents, but since there are no known human fossils, creationists need to explain why not. Puzzled chimpanzee is puzzled, Pixabay (AI) / olenchic While it is reasonable to ask creationists to back up our claims with physical evidence, it's a mite disingenuous to ignore problems in evolution. Also, secularists need to be consistent. The overwhelming majority of fossils are marine organisms. Several expected types of creatures for the evolution story are poorly represented in the fossil record. Also, evolutionists have problems...

Stevia Dolce, lead baker at the Darwin Ranch near Deception Pass, is not a fan of evolution. But she needs her job and keeps mum about her doubts around the ranch hands. Yesterday, when all my troubles seemed so far away, she visited me with a question. And a cheese Danish. "Sherwood Tellit was saying that if Noah's Ark was real, it would have gone up too high and everyone would have suffocated — why are you laughing? Don't choke on the Danish!" I swallowed, took a swig of coffee, and told her why. AI-generated Noah's Ark image, Pixabay /  dlsdkcgl This is one of the "Gotcha!" arguments made by atheists and other believers in deep time. For them, it is a scientific absurdity that the Ark was raised above the highest mountain peaks. There are mountains existing today where the summits are in the "death zone" because oxygen needs to be brought along. Flood deniers tend to ignore some basic science to make their accusations. They also ignore the t...

It is understandable for people to confuse sap with amber, as both are sticky and flow in trees. Sap is much thinner and transports nutrients within trees, while amber is found in cedar, pine, and other trees. It is much thicker and protects them from pests and damage. Several puzzlers were found in Japan regarding amber. It was found mixed with deep-water sediments, but the amber and sediments were on an island. The amber had varying thicknesses. Also found were tree trunks and other plant debris, plus other indicators of rapid deposition. Amber, Wikimedia Commons / Hannes Grobe ( CC BY-SA 2.5 ) To explain these things, uniformitarian researches speculate a cumbersome multi-step process involving several tsunamis washing debris to various points. Flood geologists from the Institute for Creation Research and others have more rational explanations. Yes, tsunamis were involved, but the Genesis Flood was extremely destructive with a great deal of water in a short time. A recent study pub...

Every once in a while, a fundamentalist evolutionist will assert that the fossils are in order, showing primitive to advanced life forms. The most likely reasons for stating this are ignorance or dishonesty. That is because knowledgeable evolutionists are well aware that the fossil record is disrupted. Indeed, in Origin of Species , the Bearded Buddha himself lamented that the fossil record is incomplete and that transitional forms are missing. Unfortunately, when celebrities like Bill Nye the Propaganda Guy spread falsehoods, evolution believers tend to accept them without question. Trilobyte fossils, Freeimages /  Dave Dyet Non-scientist Nye made that assertion in the 2014 debate with Ken Ham. Bill is not a scientist, let alone, a paleontologist. Obviously, non-scientists make assertions, but such a strong claim should be examined by thinking people. Some wonder why Ham did not respond to that claim, but I suspect that since Nye was doing elephant hurling and the debate was nor f...

Every once in a while, a documentary about deep time or someone in the secular science industry talks about an extinction event . According to many mainstream scientists, catastrophic events led to the extinctions of major life forms. Extinction events are important to their paradigm. One of those is the story of the huge rock that fell out of the sky that was the Chicxulub impact. It was instrumental in dinosaur extinction and is taken as a tenet of evolution — but saturated with problems . There were supposedly five extinction events in the distant past. Credit:  NASA  (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Now we're supposedly in the sixth  extinction event. Surprise! It's being caused by humans, because humans are bad and there are too many of us. (A few of these secular sidewinders are calling for the extermination of multitudes of people .) The first five of these supposed extinction events are rescuing devices for gaps in geologic information — which a...

Although many people reject the Bible in its entirety, most attacks on it involve the first eleven chapters of Genesis. Biblical creationists present apologetics in both theology and various sciences regarding recent creation and the global Flood. Another subject that gets attacked is the tower of Babel. Many folks know the basics of the tower of Babel, but there is a bigger picture involved. (Again we see the importance of reading the context.) It was not that God was angry because people built a big tower.  People were in rebellion against God's command to spread out. Tower of Babel  by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594 While the Bible is an excellent historical record, I'll allow that details going so far back are a bit sparse. Even so, there is corroborating evidence from historical records and archaeology. The various languages testify to the dispersion at Babel. Study on this a spell: Think of "telephone game." You know, where someone has a description, quietly tells...

Biblical creationists believe what the Bible says about creation, which includes how the earth is young. The global Genesis Flood has many attributes that secularists avoid or try to explain away. Many times, questions are asked in bad faith; they think will destroy the belief system of creationists. Some of those questions resonate with Christians as well because they have wondered the same thing — but they genuinely want to know the answers. One of these is about how plants and fishes survived the Genesis Flood, since saltiness levels would have changed. NOAA Fisheries image of two sturgeons Keep in mind that people are starting from current knowledge about the world, but there are facts about the antediluvian world for which we can only speculate. Even so, there are characteristics of living plants and animals that can be examined and reach some possibly surprising answers. For several points to consider, click on " How did fish and plants survive the Genesis Flood? "

Biblical creationists have put a great deal of effort into researching Noah's Ark, and I reckon that the folks at Answers in Genesis have put extra work into it. After all, they built a life-sized replica based on what they understood from the Bible. Scoffers reject the Ark and the Genesis Flood out of hand. However, people who want to know if AiG (really, creationists in general) are being consistent with their stated worldview. There are controversies on how long Noah had to build the Ark in the first place. Noah's Ark, Pixabay /  Jeff Jacobs  (modified at  PhotoFunia ) The difficulties on the time it took Noah had to build the Ark include his age, the age of maturity of his sons, and interpretations of the biblical text. There are also questions about the technology available and use of animal power  — creationists believe (and history shows) that ancient people were very intelligent. In addition, Noah may have employed the locals to help with the construction; ha...

Although secularists often resent the distinction, there are two kinds of science . Operational  science deals with the here and now: analyzing, building, treating illnesses, etc. When science is used to attempt to explain what happened in the past, it is historical  science — for obvious reasons. When scientists propose ideas for what happened in the past, there should be evidence for their claims. Biblical creationists believe that the Genesis Flood was a global catastrophe. Two aspects of Flood geology include the runoff of the waters and the accompanying erosion. Rocks showing layers near Hurley, NY, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen Small areas of erosion are no big deal, but geologists know that there is continental  erosion. There are several ways of measuring it. Coal is important for this process in some areas. The lack of it in the Great Plains and the flatness of the area makes it very difficult to estimate erosion. Other areas have domes with erosion around them....

It is interesting to see articles and videos about various geological features, many of which are found in the formerly United States. Down 'Straya way, there are also some impressive formations. Consider the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. This popular tourist attraction presents strong evidence for the Genesis Flood , and Dr. Tasman Walker of Creation Ministries International wrote an article about it. This raised the ire of some Australian skeptics, and one wrote an article to refute him. It did not go well, Three Sisters, Wikimedia Commons / Diliff ( CC BY-SA 2.5 ) For some time, I have held the opinion that a skeptic is someone who is not convinced of something, but is willing to change his mind when persuasive evidence is presented. It seems that a skeptic today is someone who refuses to be convinced of something despite the evidence. Someone pointed out that these unyielding skeptics would more correctly be called cynics . These skeptics (atheists) d...