Latest Articles by Dr. Andrew A. Snelling

  • Magazine Article
    Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon
    June 1, 2005, pp. 44–49

    The radioisotope methods, long touted as irrefutably dating the earth as countless millions of years old, have repeatedly failed to give reliable and meaningful absolute ages for Grand Canyon rocks.

  • Book Chapter
    Andrew Snelling, Geology
    Jan. 1, 2001 from In Six Days

    As a geologist I continue to find scientific investigation of God’s world very satisfying and exhilarating.

  • Magazine Article
    Iceland’s Recent “Mega-Flood”
    June 1, 1999, pp. 46–48

    Icelanders will long remember November 5, 1996.

  • Magazine Article
    Thundering Burial
    June 1, 1998, pp. 38–41

    This fossil graveyard on the Lake Huron coastline of Michigan is thus just another example of the devastation resulting from that catastrophic global Flood.

  • Magazine Article
    Uluru and Kata Tjuta: A Testimony to the Flood
    March 1, 1998, pp. 36–40

    No visit to Central Australia is complete without seeing two of Australia's most famous landmarks-Uluru and Kata Tjuta.

  • Magazine Article
    Radioactive “Dating” in Conflict!
    Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 24–27

    When miners were sinking a ventilation shaft for the new Crinum Coal Mine in Central Queensland in 1993 (see map below) they unearthed a rare find.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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
    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
    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
    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.

  • Magazine Article
    Growing Opals—Australian Style
    Dec. 1, 1989, pp. 10–15

    In a dusty old wooden shed on a side street in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, a bush scientist trying to discover the origin of opal has been able to ‘grow’ opal.

  • Magazine Article
    The Bear That Isn’t!
    Sept. 1, 1989, pp. 16–20

    The all-knowing and wise Creator designed the lovable Australian koala to be what he is: unique!

  • Magazine Article
    Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos and the Birth of Their Young
    Sept. 1, 1988, pp. 8–13

    They’re Australia’s best-known marsupials - and they display all the evidence of planned, purposeful creation.

  • Magazine Article
    Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
    June 1, 1986, pp. 20–21

    Coal beds formed from plant debris catastrophically buried by Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago? Evolutionists believe that the material in coal beds accumulated over millions of years.

  • Magazine Article
    In Brief—Mt. Isa Metal Ores and Noah’s Flood
    Feb. 1, 1984, pp. 17–18

    Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia, is one of the world’s largest (and richest) metal deposits, with silver-lead-zinc and copper ore bodies in the same beds.

  • Magazine Article
    Darwin, the City
    June 1, 1982, pp. 27–28

    Even the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao knew about this city located on the hot, isolated northern coastline of the Australian continent.

  • Magazine Article
    The age of Australian Uranium
    June 1, 1981, pp. 44–45

    The objective of this study is to examine the published U/Pb dating results obtained from mineral samples from the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory.

  • Magazine Article
    The First Atmosphere—Geological Evidences and Their Implications
    Nov. 1, 1980, pp. 46–47

    In Ex Nihilo (v3n3, August 1980) David Denner discussed the composition of the Earth’s primitive atmosphere as advocated by evolutionists.

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