Latest Articles by Dr. Andrew A. Snelling

  • Research Paper
    Saturn’s Rings—Short-Lived and Young
    April 1, 1997, pp. 1–2

    Creationists have long argued that the rings of Saturn are less than 1 million years old, in spite of evolutionists’ claims that the planet is 4.5–5.0 billion years old.

  • Magazine Article
    A “165 Million Year” Surprise
    March 1, 1997, pp. 14–15

    A “mysterious network” of mud springs on the edge of the ‘market town’ of Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has yielded a remarkable surprise.

  • Research Paper
    “Rapid” Granite Formation?
    Aug. 1, 1996, pp. 175–177

    Contrary evidence pointing to relatively rapid, even catastrophic, formation of granites is now beginning to surface.

  • Research Paper
    Microscopic Diamonds Confound Geologists
    April 1, 1996, pp. 1–2

    Diamond grains discovered in high-grade metamorphic rocks (gneisses) from Norway may force geologists to rethink ideas about the Earth’s crust and processes.

  • Magazine Article
    ‘Instant’ Petrified Wood
    Sept. 1, 1995, pp. 38–40

    ‘Instant petrified wood’—so ran the heading to the announcement in Popular Science, October 1992.

  • Research Paper
    The “Principle of Least Astonishment”!
    Aug. 1, 1995, pp. 138–139

    Prévot and Coe (and colleagues) reported evidence they found of extremely rapid changes of the Earth’s magnetic field recorded in lava flows at Steens Mountain.

  • Technical Research Paper
    The Failure of U-Th-Pb ‘Dating’ at Koongarra, Australia
    April 1, 1995, pp. 71–92

    As with other radiometric ‘dating’ methods, the U-Pb and Pb-Pb isochron methods have been questioned in the open literature.

  • Magazine Article
    Creating Opals
    Dec. 1, 1994, pp. 14–17

    Today we admire and enjoy the beauty opals and opalized bones. But when we realize their formation resulted from catastrophic judgment, we worship God for His salvation in Christ at the cross.

  • Magazine Article
    Forked Seams Sabotage Swamp Theory
    June 1, 1994, pp. 24–25

    Most geologists believe the process of coal formation was slow and gradual, but this is denied by the field evidence.

  • Technical Research Paper
    Towards a Creationist Explanation of Regional Metamorphism
    April 1, 1994, pp. 51–77

    The ‘classical’ model for regional metamorphism presupposes elevated temperatures and pressures due to deep burial and deformation/tectonic forces over large areas over millions of years.

  • Technical Research Paper
    Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Beds?
    April 1, 1994, pp. 11–15

    By working from what is known to occur today, even if rare and catastrophic by today’s standards, we can realistically calculate production of thick chalk beds within the conditions of the Flood.

  • Magazine Article
    Beginning at the Writings of Moses
    March 1, 1994, pp. 18–22

    The Lord has so mightily used this chronological approach to the teaching of His Word to animistic tribes that the lessons have been formalized in print.

  • Magazine Article
    Diamonds—Evidence of Explosive Geological Processes
    Dec. 1, 1993, pp. 42–45

    Diamonds have been highly prized throughout history, being regarded as symbols of wealth and power.

  • Magazine Article
    Yet Another ‘Missing Link’ Fails to Qualify
    June 1, 1993, pp. 40–44

    A fossil truly ‘in-between’ the crucial fish and amphibian characters is not only hard to conceive, but has never been found.

  • Technical Research Paper
    Moon Dust and the Age of the Solar System
    April 1, 1993, pp. 2–42

    One of the evidences for a young earth that creationists have been using now for more than two decades is the so-called “dust on the moon” problem.

  • Magazine Article
    Australia’s Burning Mountain
    March 1, 1993, pp. 42–46

    For as long as anyone can remember Mt Wingen has been burning, with an acrid smell of sulphur in the fumes issuing from cracks along its summit.

  • Magazine Article
    Startling Evidence for Noah’s Flood
    Dec. 1, 1992, pp. 46–50

    Footprints and sand ‘dunes’ in a Grand Canyon sandstone provide startling evidence for Noah’s Flood.

  • Magazine Article
    Special Report: Amazing “Ark” Exposé
    Sept. 1, 1992

    What is the massive boat-shaped formation that rests at 6,300 feet above sea level in Eastern Turkey, about 12–15 miles from the summit of Greater Mount Ararat?

  • Magazine Article
    The Case of the ‘Missing’ Geologic Time
    June 1, 1992, pp. 30–35

    Traditional evolutionary geology maintains that the deposition of sediments to form major rock layers often takes long periods of time.

  • Magazine Article
    Radioactive Dating Method ‘Under Fire’
    March 1, 1992, pp. 43–47

    In most people’s minds today, the radioactive dating of the earth’s rocks by geologists has supposedly proved that the earth is billions of years old.

  • Magazine Article
    Where Are All the Human Fossils?
    Dec. 1, 1991, pp. 28–33

    We can be satisfied that there are reasonable explanations, consistent with Scripture, for the seeming lack of human fossils in Flood rocks.

  • Magazine Article
    The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Age of the Earth
    Sept. 1, 1991, pp. 44–48

    Dr. Thomas G. Barnes drew attention to the fact that the strength of the earth’s magnetic field was decreasing. On this basis he concluded that the magnetic field was less than 10,000 years old.

  • Magazine Article
    Fossil Magnetism Reveals Rapid Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field
    June 1, 1991, pp. 46–50

    Fossils with magnetic properties demonstrate the rapid reversals of the Earth's magnetic field in the past.

  • Magazine Article
    How Fast Can Oil Form?
    March 1, 1990, pp. 30–34

    Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated.

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