The Genesis Site - Geological strata

Genesis 7

One of the pillars evolution theory relies on is the existance of the so-called geological strata. These layers should be built up in millions of years, each stratum indicating some period. But for at least two good reasons these strata don't proof anything.

1) Hydrodynamic laws explain how during a worldwide flood sediments could be deposited in horizontal strata such as found today. Specific gravity and rounding of the particles in the saturated waters are playing an important role in the sequence of the deposits. Remember the flood wasn't just a shower. Tons of powerful waters terrorized earth. The ground eroded; stones and mud were dragged away; trees and plants were pulled out and swept away; stones and boulders were swept away and ground to gravel and sand; hills and mountains were cracked and crushed.
Earthquakes, seaquakes and storms caused enormous tidal waves. Imagine how one tidal wave layed down her sediments and upon this another wave, coming from another direction and carrying other materials, deposed her sediments too. In this way within a few months many strata could be formed, sometimes higher than a kilometer. Millions of years aren't needed at all!

About one hundred years after the flood again enormous tidal waves would sweep over the world! See the Genesis 11 section, or visit "The Days of Job", part 2 of "The Trilogy".

2) Perhaps it will surprise you, but the succession of strata as showed on the geological time table is hardly found on our world! In fact strata are found in all kind of succession as well as young strata deep beneath the earth's surface and old strata close to the surface.
But what then makes a stratum old and what makes it young? It is not the material of the strata, because old and young strata can consist of the same kind of material. In fact it is what is found in the strata what determines their age. So now we reach the point: simple life forms found in a stratum are making it old, more complex life forms are making a stratum younger. (Let us not discuss the strata in which both life forms are presented. Although found, according to the geological time table these should not exist.)
There is one question left. How do we know if a life form is old or young? What makes a simple life form old, what makes a complex life form young? Why are trilobites about 300 millions of years old [1] and dinosaurs about 150 millions of years? And why is human life (also when traces of them are found in the same stratum as traces of dinosaurs) only about 4 millions of years old? There is just one answer to this question: it is because the geological time table tells it so!
I hope you see the impossibility of this circular reasoning. But still many people rely on this vision. Or better: they believe in it. Because they don't know better or they don't like to know better. Perhaps you are one of them. If so, be honest. Try to figure out why you cann't accept a worlwide flood about 4500 years ago, destroying many life forms and depositing strata.

Another result of the flood must be mentioned. As said before life on earth was once subtropical. Imagine all these plants and trees! In fact these flora can still be seen today. Tons of waters pressed it down to coal beds, found all over this earth. Coal layers don't need thousends of years to be formed. Experiments showed that, if conditions are favorable, coal can be formed in a short period. Pressure of flood waters is such a favorable condition!

The existance of a worldwide flourishing plant and tree life caused another ratio of atmospheric ordinary carbon to radiocarbon than at present. This influences the Carbon 14 dating method. All calculations of radiocarbon dates have been made on the assumption that the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide has remained constant. So the conclusion is that the C14 method of dating is only reliable on dates not older than about 4000 years.
  
[1] Trilobites are said to be extinct but a living creature very simular to it has been found. Some other examples of life forms which should become extinct but found alive today are the fish Coelecanth (in 1998 e.g. a Coelecanth was found on an Indonesian fish market), the reptile Tuatara (a beakhead), the deep-sea mollusk Neopilina galatheae, the crustacean Lingula and the tree Metasequoia. They are alive, not found in the last dozens of millions of years in the geological time table and not or hardly changed by appearance!

Remember there still are unexplored regions on our earth, especially in the deep oceans!

More study on the subjects of this page:
W.J. Ouweneel, De ark in de branding,
J.C. Whitcomb and H.M. Morris, The Genesis Flood.

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