Fast-Growing Coral?

My home country of Australia is well-known for the Great Barrier Reef, a massive coral reef. It’s over one thousand three hundred miles long. The thickest reefs are over one hundred and eighty feet thick.

Now, coral grows slowly, so how did such a massive reef form in just over four thousand years since Noah’s flood?

Evolutionists often throw this challenge at creationists. But we know, under certain conditions, corals can grow quickly. For example, one part of the reef is thirty feet thick and grew in only six hundred and sixty years. At even half that rate, the Great Barrier Reef could’ve easily grown to where it is today in just a few thousand years.

Dig Deeper

• Giant Coral Reefs—Too Old for a Young Earth?
• Massive Modern Reefs—Finding Time to Grow