Geology

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.

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

Age of the Earth

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

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.

Catastrophism

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

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?

Geologic Time Scale

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

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?

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.

Natural Features

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

Plate Tectonics

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

Radiometric Dating

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

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?

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.

Sedimentation

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

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

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 Article

Petrified Forest National Park—Painting A Different Picture

July 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine

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

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.

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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.

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Stumped by Forests in Antarctica

Jan. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

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

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Jade—Beauty Under Pressure

Sept. 16, 2018 from Answers Magazine

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

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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

Caves—Underground and Upside Down

May 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine

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

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God’s Provision for Pottery

May 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine

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

Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

Mudrocks in Minutes

April 29, 2018 from Answers Magazine

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

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.

Semi-Technical Magazine Department Article

Clues from Creation Week

Jan. 1, 2018 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

Jan. 1, 2018 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

Sept. 1, 2017 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

July 1, 2017 from Answers Magazine

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

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.

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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.

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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 Research Paper

Intraformational Parabolic Recumbent Folds in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) and Two Other Formations in Sedona, Arizona (USA)

Jan. 21, 2015 from Answers Research Journal

The hypothesis that Schnebly Hill and Coconino were deposited by marine sand waves on a shallow continental shelf is strengthened in light of these new data.

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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.

Technical Research Paper

The Petrology of the Coconino Sandstone (Permian), Arizona, USA