Catastrophism

The Power in a Lot of Water

Recent events have given scientists of an appreciation for the geologic power of “a lot of water in a little time”—which contrasts with the commonly accepted model of “a little water in a lot of time,” used to explain such formations as Grand Canyon.

Mass Extinction in the Fossil Record

Mass extinctions are apparent in the fossil record wherever some sort of organism virtually disappears from the geologic column above a certain layer. One of the most well-known mass extinctions is the disappearance of the dinosaurs and a number of other organisms at the K-T boundary.

What Made Britain an Island?

Scientists are pointing to a catastrophe to explain an event that changed not only the geological landscape, but the landscape of history as well: what made Britain an island nation.

Post-Flood Upheaval

Early post-Flood catastrophes had the power to cause enormous geologic change, including massive erosion, altered landscapes, and deposits of sediment layers thousands of feet thick.

Articles About Catastrophism

  • World's Longest Mud Slide
    Dec. 1, 2007

    A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature recently has described a catastrophic landslide that dumped 225 billion metric tons of sediment into the ocean in just a few days or less.

  • Megaflood Makes Britain
    July 21, 2007 from News to Know

    Recent research suggests that Great Britain was formed as the result of a megaflood.

  • New Theory Impacts Crater Site
    April 7, 2007

    The Silverpit structure is, according to University of Edinburgh geologist John Underhill, not the vestige of a prehistoric meteorite, but rather “probably the movement of salt rocks at depth.”

  • Magazine Department Article
    British Isles
    April 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

    Britain’s secular newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in its September 25, 2006 publication, has unwittingly given support to the reality of Noah’s Flood.

  • Birth of a Hill
    Feb. 3, 2007

    Rapid drumlin growth in Antarctica lends credence to Creationism.

  • Flood Cuts off Europe
    Sept. 29, 2006

    It is said that a British newspaper headline once announced “Fog Over Channel—Continent Isolated.” The headline aptly and amusingly sums up Britain’s ambivalent relationship with its neighbors.

  • How Could the Heart Mountain Slide Occur in Only 30 Minutes?
    June 21, 2006

    Despite more than 100 years of study, the Heart Mountain detachment remains among the world’s most puzzling geological structures.

  • The Story That Won’t Be Told
    Dec. 9, 2003

    Secular geologists believe that it a marked trail commemorating the Missoula flood’s path and explaining its significance needs to be set up from western Montana into northwest Oregon.

  • Research Paper
    Did 'Old World Early Paleolithic' People Travel to North America?
    Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 3–5

    For creationists, these reports of 'Early Paleolithic tools' raise questions that need further research.

  • Research Paper
    A Tropical Reptile in the 'Cretaceous' Arctic
    Aug. 1, 2000, pp. 9–10

    A century ago, a shock went through the scientific community when a whaling crew reported finding fossil wood on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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

    Icelanders will long remember November 5, 1996.

  • Magazine Article
    Sandy Surprise
    Dec. 1, 1998, pp. 56–57

    Scientifically, it has never been a problem to explain that hard rock can form quickly, given the right conditions.

  • Magazine Article
    That Choking Feeling ...
    Sept. 1, 1998, pp. 6–7

    Seeing such solid, layered rock forming in only three months shows that long time-spans are not necessary.

  • Magazine Article
    Fascinating Fossil Fence-Wire
    June 1, 1998, pp. 6–7

    The rock is a hard, dense, calcareous sandstone. The wire is ordinary 'Number 8' fencing wire of the type used at nearby Wallal Downs station between 1920 and 1970.

  • 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
    Bell-ieve It: Rapid Rock Formation Rings True
    March 1, 1998, pp. 6–7

    These ‘fossil’ ship’s bells (pictured in Creation magazine) were found recently about 50 metres (170 feet) off the coast of Victoria, Australia.

  • Magazine Article
    Green River Blues
    June 1, 1997, pp. 18–19

    The Green River Formation of Wyoming, USA, is familiar to geologists not only for its well-preserved fossils but also because it has come to the forefront of debate on the age of the earth.

  • Magazine Article
    The Clock in the Rock
    June 1, 1997, pp. 6–7

    The item shown in the photograph here is a striking example of the fact that rock can form quickly.

  • Magazine Article
    Folded Ferns
    Sept. 1, 1996, pp. 50–51

    Fossil fern fronds fly in the face of beliefs held by the majority of the most highly educated people in the world.

  • 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.

  • Magazine Article
    Tarawera’s Night of Terror
    Dec. 1, 1995, pp. 16–19

    Mt Tarawera is yet another testimony to the rapidity with which fossilization can occur, and that the evolutionary concept of fossils as being ‘prehistoric’ does not conform with the evidence.

  • Magazine Article
    'Fossil' Hat
    June 1, 1995, pp. 52–53

    This miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it had been covered with water for more than 50 years.

  • Magazine Article
    Keys to Rapid Rock Formation
    Dec. 1, 1994, pp. 45–46

    If you know anyone who thinks rocks and fossils must take thousands or millions of years to form, here's an example to show them they may need to revise their ideas.

  • Magazine Article
    Deluge!
    Dec. 1, 1993, pp. 46–47

    The fact of the biblical Deluge is the keystone with which the whole of the biblical history of life, man and the universe comes into line with the evidence of the real world.

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