Geology

From The New Answers DVD 3

Radioisotope Dating of Rocks

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.

Folded Rock Layers

In the walls of the Grand Canyon, we can see that the whole horizontal sedimentary strata sequence was folded without fracturing. The only way to explain how these sandstone and limestone beds could be folded, as though still pliable, is to conclude they were deposited during the Genesis Flood, just months before they were folded.

The Mineral Carbon

Carbon is found in all living things. Like a Swiss Army knife, carbon is extremely versatile. Add carbon to iron, and you get steel. Add carbon to hydrogen and oxygen, and you can produce everything from alcohol to sugar and gasoline.

Creation and Geologic Layers

In one day, our infinitely wise, all-powerful Creator laid down some dirt layers 30 miles thick that are now deep in the geologic record and foundational to the landmasses we live on. These provide us with an abundance of resources, which we use to worship and serve Him for His purposes and glory.

Geology Topics

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  Age of the Earth

  How old is the earth? How can anyone know for sure unless a trustworthy eyewitness was there in the beginning?

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  Carbon-14

  Carbon, which dissipates in just tens of thousands of years, is present in diamonds and fossils! Carbon-14 calls the whole old-earth paradigm into question.

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  Catastrophism

  Are current, slow geologic processes the key to understanding earth’s past, or was history marked by a global, earth-shaping catastrophe?

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  Caves

  The eerie darkness of caves hosts strange growths called stalagmites and stalactites. Caves, and their features, take millions of years to form—don’t they?

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  Geologic Time Scale

  How should we interpret the geologic time scale, traditionally associated with millions of years, in light of the Bible’s history?

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  Grand Canyon Facts

  Was the Grand Canyon formed with a little bit of water over a long period of time or a lot of water over a little bit of time? What are the facts?

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  Mount St. Helens

  Mount St. Helens violently erupted on May 18, 1980, rapidly dispelling many false long-age notions about the formation of canyons, rock layers, and coal.

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  Natural Features

  The world of geology is filled with beautiful and awe-inspiring natural formations. How did these formations get there?

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  Plate Tectonics

  How do plate tectonics and continental drift fit with the Bible’s history? Can plate tectonics help explain the global Flood?

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  Radiometric Dating

  How does radiometric dating work? Does radiometric dating prove rocks are millions or billions of years old?

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  Rock Layers

  Do rock layers prove the earth is billions of years old? How does what we see in the world match what we read in God’s Word?

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  Rocks and Minerals

  The hidden beauty of rocks and minerals, such as diamonds, rubies, and gold, praises the creativity of the Designer and reminds us of His Flood judgment.

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  Sedimentation

  Under what circumstances do sand, mud, silt and clay deposits turn into rock? Could the Bible’s history shed light on this process?

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  The Flood

  Geology overwhelmingly supports the historicity of the global Flood. Sediments were rapidly deposited, forming most of the fossil-bearing rock layers.

Articles About Geology

• Magazine Department Article

  Stumped by Forests in Antarctica

  

  Nov. 29, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Forests in Antarctica? This frigid, forbidding continent is full of surprising evidences for the worldwide flood.

• Soil’s Unique Mineral Fingerprints

  

  Nov. 15, 2023

  Examining a critical part of the earth’s surface.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

  Mudrocks in Minutes

  

  Aug. 27, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Conventional wisdom assumes the mud in earth’s mudrocks took millions of years to settle. What do new experiments suggest?

• Magazine Department Article

  God’s Provision for Pottery

  

  Aug. 13, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Unlike soil and dirt, which crumble when you pick them up, God created clay with plasticity, the ability to be molded.

• Magazine Article

  Caves—Underground and Upside Down

  

  July 16, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Revolutionary new thinking has turned the accepted story of cave formation upside down and confirmed the Bible in the process.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Petrified Forest National Park—Painting A Different Picture

  

  March 15, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Looking at this landscape through biblical glasses, we see a rainbow of evidence confirming the global flood.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

  Clues from Creation Week

  

  Jan. 28, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Even today you can touch rocks that date all the way back to God’s original creation. What do they tell us about that lost world?

• Magazine Article

  Sculpting a New Home

  

  Nov. 13, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  We can only imagine what happened after the Flood! Consider five major examples of catastrophes that reshaped the planet.

• Magazine Department Article

  Stromatolites—Rare Reminders of a Lost World

  

  Aug. 14, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  In a few rare spots, geologists find fossils of strange eight-foot-tall “mushrooms.” What do they tell us about the mysterious world they came from?

• Magazine Article

  Grand Canyon—Nine Days Below the Rim

  

  April 3, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  You can see the photos, hear the stories, and read all about the Grand Canyon, but nothing compares to being there.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  The Origin of Oil

  

  March 8, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  For more than 100 years oil has been the “black gold” that has fueled transport vehicles and powered global economic growth and prosperity. So how does oil form, and what is its origin?

• Magazine Article

  Yellowstone

  

  Sept. 19, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  Beneath the surface of Yellowstone’s beauty lie fearful clues to the past—and a possible future.

• In-Depth Article

  Mountain-Building Quiescence in Earth’s “Middle Age”

  

  March 19, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  Uniformitarian storytellers aim to interpret earth’s “Middle Age” while ignoring the only eyewitness to our planet’s catastrophic past: God.

• Large Gem Crystals Grew within Hours: Consistent with Rapid Granite Formation on a Young Earth

  

  Nov. 3, 2020

  Evidence of rapid gem formation in California clashes with the old earth model but supports the biblical timescale and a young earth.

• Noah’s Flood: a Historical, Global Catastrophe

  

  Oct. 10, 2020

  Examining the immense biblical data for Noah’s flood as an actual, year-long, worldwide, and catastrophic flood about 4,500 years ago

• Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

  Why Are Mountains High and Oceans Deep?

  

  Oct. 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine

  The high and deep landscapes of earth give insight into the Creator’s wise design of rocks.

• Semi-Technical

  Four Lessons from the Mount St. Helens Eruption

  

  May 18, 2020 from Answers in Depth

  Forty years later, Mount St. Helens still teaches us lessons about the powerful forces the Creator uses to shape the earth.

• Book Chapter

  What About Creation, Flood, and Language Division Legends?

  

  Jan. 18, 2020 from The New Answers Book 4

  Nearly every culture around the world has a legend regarding creation and a worldwide flood. How do these legends compare to the Biblical accounts in Genesis?

• Book Chapter

  Layers of Sedimentary Rock Deposited by Global Flood

  

  Jan. 8, 2020 from The New Answers Book 4

  How could neat uniform sedimentary rock layers be deposited during the Flood cataclysm with all the fast-moving waters?

• Geology and Paleontology: The Year in Review—2019

  

  Dec. 31, 2019

  The biggest stories in 2019 in geology and paleontology: includes how diamonds can take weeks to form in a lab, fossilized insects in gemstones, mass extinctions, and more.

• Magazine Department Article

  Mica, Mica in the Sand, Tell Us Something Really Grand!

  

  Aug. 25, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Sometimes skeptical scientists just need to listen to what the rocks are saying.

• Magazine Department Article

  Sometimes a Rock Is Just a Rock

  

  March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Scientists are now suggesting that what they once thought to be the world’s oldest fossils may just be deformed rocks.

• Magazine Department Article

  How Could Geology Possibly Affect Spiritual Truth?

  

  March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  You can’t separate the truth about God’s work in the physical world from spiritual truths without drastic consequences.

• Magazine Department Article

  Jade—Beauty Under Pressure

  

  Sept. 16, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  Forming the coveted qualities of jade requires unique conditions unlike anything on earth today.

• Magazine Department Article

  When Continents Collide

  

  Aug. 18, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  When geologists assume the earth changes slowly, they overlook astonishing evidence of Noah’s global Flood.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

  Global Catastrophe—Anywhere but Earth

  

  July 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  Secular scientists see evidence of global catastrophe on Venus and Mars. So why can’t they admit the evidence on earth?

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Making More of the Mountains

  

  June 24, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  The Smoky Mountains offer much more than breathtaking vistas and vacation getaways. The hills testify to God’s creation of the world and the global Flood.

• Magazine Article

  Supersized Landslides

  

  March 18, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  According to God’s Word, the great Flood of Noah’s day was the most devastating catastrophe in history. Noah’s Flood ripped apart the earth. We’re not talking about boulders but whole mountains. In some places, slabs the size of cities slid dozens of miles in minutes.

• Magazine Department Article

  Yellowstone Close to Eruption

  

  Jan. 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  The process of magma buildup, which evolutionary scientists thought would take centuries, can happen in mere decades or even years.

• Magazine Article

  Sifting Through Layers of Meaning

  

  Oct. 30, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  According to science textbooks, a series of rock layers covers the earth, representing many eras over “millions of years.” Are these charts accurate?

• Magazine Article

  Dazzling Diamonds by Special Delivery

  

  July 10, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  Diamonds are dazzling but definitely not “forever.” In fact, they wouldn’t exist without special conditions that God provided.

• Magazine Department Article

  Chalk It Up to a Global Flood

  

  June 19, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  At today’s rate of ocean-floor buildup, chalk layers would take millions of years to form. How do creationists explain them?

• Magazine Article

  Yosemite Valley—Colossal Ice Carving

  

  April 24, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  Mountains and breathtaking valleys adorn our planet. Each one speaks of God’s handiwork, but they were formed by water and ice in judgment, not creation.

• Magazine Article

  Coconino Sandstone—The Most Powerful Argument Against the Flood?

  

  Nov. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  The Flood is impossible because one of the Grand Canyon’s layers was deposited in a desert. Or so evolutionists claim. Do the facts back them up?

• Magazine Article

  Sand Pillars—Breaking Through Millions of Years

  

  Oct. 4, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Secluded in the canyon country of southern Utah is a beautiful but often overlooked state park called Kodachrome Basin.

• Magazine Department Article

  Beauty Beneath the Desert

  Oct. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Slot canyons, like this one in Arizona’s world-famous Antelope Canyon, are hidden just below the desert surface, waiting to delight our eyes.

• Basic Geology Disproves Creationism?

  

  Aug. 3, 2015

  Noah’s Flood is the key to explaining most of the geological record and as such it washes away millions of years.

• Magazine Article

  Lasting Lessons from Mount St. Helens

  

  April 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  The eruption of Mount St. Helens 35 years ago provided an amazing opportunity for scientists to study the effects of catastrophe.

• Magazine Department Article

  Encounter Geology

  

  April 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  The guides at Creation Encounter tours haven’t missed the opportunity God gave them in the Pacific Northwest.

• Technical In-Depth Article

  More Evidence of Rapid Geomagnetic Reversals Confirms a Young Earth

  Jan. 8, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Explore stunning evidence consistent with the young-earth model for the earth’s geomagnetic polarity reversal during the Flood and its aftermath.

• In-Depth Article

  No Hadean Hell on Earth

  Oct. 30, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Zircons may hint at a story about the early earth, but only with the help of God’s Word.

• Magazine Department Article

  Rainbow Mountains

  

  Oct. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  Like every other rainbow, China’s Rainbow Mountain was formed by water.

• In-Depth Article

  Space Rock Supposedly Spurred “Life’s Second Big Bang”

  

  July 10, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Swedish meteorite said to have triggered mass destruction and opened the way for life’s post-Cambrian explosion.

• Magazine Department Article

  Crystal Clear?

  July 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  Evolutionary scientists say they have confirmed that 4.4 billion years is the age of the earth’s earliest rocks.

• Magazine Article

  A Deeper Understanding of the Flood—A Complex Geologic Puzzle

  

  April 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  The details of the Flood have profound implications for explaining the geology of the earth today.

• Magazine Department Article

  Geology That Makes Sense

  April 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  Creation has been in the news a lot recently.

• Feedback Article

  Feedback: Is the Bible Silent on Geological Events?

  June 28, 2013 from Feedback

  Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds to a common misconception that the Bible is silent on geological events.