Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Young Earth Today 2034 – Pioneers of Geology

No, we don't have two thousand episodes yet... we named our episode from FEB 2022, Young Earth Today 2024 in honor of the Total Solar Eclipse.  This reminds us of the fantastic film, The Privileged Planet, which also has a book version.   

https://youtu.be/m76XfpLnYm0?list=PLbffU3foCZmaIKcM3yn9ki_0B4KBBW_Wc

Today, in Young Earth Today 2034, we’re going to tag our comments off of  Pioneers of Geology: Discovering Earth's Secrets by Margaret Carruthers & Susan Maloney Clinton:

https://www.amazon.com/Pioneers-Geology-Discovering-Secrets-Science/dp/0531113647

 

The book highlights James Hutton, Charles Lyell, G.K. Gilbert, Alfred “Got Drift” Wegener, Harry Hess, and Gene Shoemaker of Shoemaker-Levy 9 fame.  Carruthers has an M.S. in Geology and worked for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  Clinton has a Doctorate in English and lives in New Jersey.  This tome came from Franklin Watts which is a division of Scholastic.  The folks @ Scholastic do some fine work, here’s their study guide for A Wrinkle in Time (which is significantly more profound than the film):

https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/activities/migrated-files-in-body/a-wrinkle-in-time-bookfile.pdf

 

On page 7 of Pioneers of Geology, in the Intro, we read …

 

Different cultures had different stories about Earth's origin and its features land and sea; mountains and rivers.  In the Western World, the Bible was the most important source of ideas about Earth. Right up until the nineteenth century, people believed in an unchanging Earth that was about six thousand years old.

Actually (speaking of Actualism), different cultures had the same story.  For example, the hundreds of Flood Legends from around the globe:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8hc4JZTvmVg/maxresdefault.jpg

Not exactly “an unchanging Earth”!

 

Even non-creationists admit to the global tales of the Babel dispersion:

https://visionariaapp.com/blogs/tower-of-babel-myth-of-languages

The Mikirs, of Tibet & Burma, say that long ago the descendants of Ram were mighty men and aspired to conquer heaven.  So, they built a tower to reach the sky.  The gods and demons feared lest these giants should become the masters of heaven, as they already were of earth.  They confounded their speech and scattered them to the four corners of the Earth.  This explains the origin of the various human languages.   

(Folklore in the Old Testament – Frazer, p. 150)

https://creationism.org/books/FrazerFolkloreOT/FrazerFolkloreOT_5.htm

There is a growing geomythology trend connecting ethnic traditions and actual geologic events.  A number of accounts of geological events (eruptions, earthquakes etc.) may be found in various myths throughout the world.  There is even an entire book on the subject published by the Geological Society of London.

(Is a Young Earth Possible? by Jay Hall, pp. 13-16)

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

 

Nathan Jeanson (Ph.D. Cell Biology – Harvard) has demonstrated in his book TRACED that cultural traditions and genetics supports the “Genesis 5-11” chronology (humanity is just thousands of years old).  If Mainstream (Legacy) Science is wrong about the Age of Man, then maybe they’re off on dating the Earth too.

https://www.amazon.com/Traced-Human-DNAs-Big-Surprise/dp/1683442911

 

The sages of old had some odd geological theories.  Aristotle held that subterranean winds fan the flames of underground fires.  These violent winds in compressed spaces produce shockwaves (EQ’s) and occasionally this inferno bursts forth in a fiery explosion (volcanism).

https://www.academia.edu/37071563/playing_the_volcano_prometheus_bound_and_fifth_century_volcanic_theory

 

Now we go back to Pioneers of Geology.  On pages 13-16 Carruthers details Hutton’s interest in granite.  It has long been assumed that granites take millions of years to form, but Dr. Tas Walker provides a corrective:

 

So how long does it take for magma to ascend 20 km in the crust? With typical magma and crust properties it could be anywhere between five hours and three months. Clemens says [ in a paper from the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association in 2005]:

“Such rapid ascent rates are clearly negligible on the scale of geological time. This would make granitic magma ascent effectively an instantaneous process …”

What sort of time would it take to build a huge pluton? According to Clemens, a dyke 3 m wide and 1 km long … could build a batholith of 1,000 km^3 in 1,200 years.

https://creation.com/en/articles/granite-formation-catastrophic-in-its-suddenness

 

This timescale could even be shortened with variations in dyke dimensions, magma viscosity and fluid content.  During ascent magma viscosity can go lower (due to resorption).  Thus, rising magmas can potentially accelerate rather than slow down!

 

On page 16, Carruthers claims that Hutton said the Earth was millions of years old.  This is #Fake_News

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a8baf51-ed60-83ea-8c09-97a69e2a12d9

Sadly, Hutton’s father died when he was three years old (p. 17).  Are you aware of the book Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism

by Paul Vitz?  In the book’s description, we read this:

 

A biographical survey of influential atheists of the past four centuries shows that this "defective father hypothesis" provides a consistent explanation of the "intense atheism" of these thinkers.  A survey of the leading defenders of Christianity over the same period confirms the hypothesis, finding few defective fathers.

https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Fatherless-Psychology-Paul-Vitz/dp/1586176870

 

On page 18 of Pioneers of Geology, Hutton observes folded rock layers.  Soft-sediment deformation actually confirms the Global Flood! 

https://answersresearchjournal.org/geology/carbon-canyon-fold-arizona/

 

Aussie Geologist, Dr. Andrew Snelling (Earth’s Catastrophic Past) sought permission to collect 53 rock samples from the Grand Canyon.  He had to file a lawsuit to get the approval.  He filed the suit in 2013 and finally got his research OK’d in 2017 due to the influence of #TRiUMPh

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/03/a-young-earth-creationist-just-sued-the-grand-canyon-over-religious-discrimination-and-won/

James Hutton never married.  Hutton’s illegitimate son, James Smeaton Hutton was a post-office clerk in London and had five children.  His father gave him financial assistance, but apparently, they never met.

https://james-hutton.org/james-hutton/the-person/

 

There is also a James Hutton who was a leader in the Moravian Church who died in 1795.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hutton-4296

James Hutton the Geologist died in 1797 (go figure!).

 

Hutton claimed that the layers on the ocean bottom today will become the sedimentary rocks of tomorrow:

 

We are led to conclude that all the strata of the earth have had their origin at the bottom of sea by collection of sand and gravel, of shells, and of earths and clays… consolidating those collections in various degrees and either elevating those consolidated masses or lowering the level of that sea.

https://james-hutton.org/james-hutton/the-geologist/

 

But what if the 7 Seas are truly young?  The ocean floor in many places is covered with Manganese (Mn) nodules which are somewhat like pearls and grow from small bits of basalt, pumice, shark teeth or clay.  The measured growth rates of these nodules indicate an age of only thousands of years.

(Is a Young Earth Possible? by Jay Hall, pp. 66-68)

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

Jack Repcheck, author of The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity, admitted that in the late 1700’s,  

 

The Scottish Presbyterian Church, the English Anglican Church, the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church - indeed, all Christian churches, their clergies, and their followers - believed that the earth was not even 6,000 years old.  This belief was a tenet based on rigorous analysis of the Bible and other holy scriptures.  It was not just the devout who embraced this belief; most men of science agreed that the earth was young.

https://creation.com/en/articles/book-review-man-who-found-time

 

Although often overlooked, Hutton did realize that there had to be an ultimate beginning [beg …

 

As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun.

https://creation.com/en/articles/book-review-man-who-found-time

 

Hutton did not speak of Millions Of Year Ago #MOYA

Rather he guessed that, “Since deposits usually settle at a modest rate, perhaps only an inch a year, it took hundreds of thousands of years for enough sediment to build up…”

Hutton did not live long enough to see the Turbidite Revolution.  Turbidity currents form deposits rapidly and are often 6m thick with some up to 12m.

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a8ce954-f038-83ea-9f7e-e95beefda718

 

Turbidites 101:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/turbidite

 

Here is my paper on Hutton’s view of biological stasis and how that relates to #Catastrophism and a Young Earth:

https://app.box.com/s/d3mt6h3tizsb80bo7zfof80ygujtmjwy

So much for the “Founder of Modern Geology.” … Maybe we should go back to Aristotle.

 

Our Creation Study (via Midwest Christian Outreach) – 10 episodes!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdelscNsYMszOH6dhLx4-CRMqGKfU6-z

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us/

 

But ask the animals, and they will teach you,

    or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;

or SPEAK TO THE EARTH, and it will teach you,

    or let the fish in the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know

    that the hand of the Lord has done this?

In his hand is the life of every creature

    and the breath of all mankind.

Does not the ear test words

    as the tongue tastes food?

Is not wisdom found among the aged?

    Does not long life bring understanding?

      (Job 12:7-12)

 

** kudos – graphic sources:

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a8dc458-d4e0-83ea-96f3-1bc37353bf8f

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https://lnkd.in/p/g4sEnBJ2

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/The_memorial_to_James_Hutton_at_his_grave_in_Greyfriars_Kirkyard.JPG/960px-The_memorial_to_James_Hutton_at_his_grave_in_Greyfriars_Kirkyard.JPG

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Maths, Category Theory and The Bio-Catalog

What is Category Theory?

Before we get to our key question, what makes #Mathematics an Apologetic?

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674009707

 

What is Category Theory? (INTRO):

https://youtu.be/eXBwU9ieLL0

Can you say “morphism”?

You can use #Rings #Halos or #Slanted_Loops to transform a circle into a donut (torus).  Circle → Torus (@ 6:00 mark):

https://youtu.be/eXBwU9ieLL0

 

Category Theory with #Stick_Figures 🕺 

https://youtu.be/FQYOpD7tv30

A #Category consists of a group of objects (e.g. topological spaces), morphisms (maps or arrows) and composition s.t. the Associative Property [(fg)h=f(gh)] and Identity Property (Ia=aI=a) hold.  If you take your #Hyundai_Palisade and drive it thru the #Car_Wash it does not turn it into a Mercedes (which are popular w/ ladies in their 80’s).   The same goes if you driver ur car backwards through the car wash!

Here are some examples of Categories and their morphisms: groups* → homomorphisms, vector spaces → linear transformations, Posets → Orderish Functions and “DJ Smooth Man’s” → smooth maps. 🕺

A #Poset is a Partially Ordered Set.  For example, the Real Numbers along with the relation “less than or equal to” ≤ #LTE

https://math.libretexts.org/Courses/SUNY_Schenectady_County_Community_College/Discrete_Structures/12%3A_Boolean_Algebra/12.01%3A_Posets_Revisited

 

Here are two examples in lattice form …

Categories have common structures, hence #Category_Theory

Inventor (Discoverer ♫) credits go to Eilenberg & Mac Lane (1945) and their paper “General Theory of Natural Equivalences.”  The key idea was natural transformation.  “Functor” comes  from Carnap and “category” from the philosophy of Aristotle, Kant, and C.S. Peirce (see below), but redefining it mathematically.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/

Speaking of Aristotle, what about his #Biology ?

Let’s switch gears to #Natural_Transformations Categories of Life, The Biological Catalog and #TrueTruth

This is Aristotle's Biology - limited variation within Essential Types of Life (ETL's) - horses, hydras and humans, for example.

Here is my paper on Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/40897603/Biological_Essentialism_A_Minority_Report_Jay_Hall_

I've written a whole book on the topic that came out two years before Devitt's work (Oxford Univ. Press):

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

If your Father was a turtle and your Mother was a turtle, then you are a turtle.  In addition, all your children will be turtles.  The entire group is of the same Natural Kind (ETL).  Some scholars are #Brave enough to stand up against #Big_Science and oppose evolution.  Nathan Jeanson (Ph.D. Cell Biology – Harvard) for example:

https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/replacing-darwin/

Mathematician David Berlinski also opposes the standard narrative on origins.  An example closer to Darwin's time is Charles Sanders Peirce (d. 1914), who was a pioneer of symbolic logic, set theory, probability theory, semantics, and semiotics.  He rejected #Darwinism and contrasted the “Gospel of Greed” (Survival of the Fittest) with the “Gospel of Love”:  

 

The movement of love is circular, at one and the same impulse projecting creations into independency and drawing them into harmony.  This seems complicated when stated so; but it is fully summed up in the simple formula we call the Golden Rule. … [It is not] Act for the greatest good of the greatest number.  Love is not directed to abstractions but to persons; not to persons we do not know, nor to numbers of people, but to our own dear ones, our family and neighbors.  "Our neighbor," we remember, is one whom we live near, not locally perhaps but in life and feeling.

https://www.academia.edu/21766227/On_Peirces_Theory_of_Evolutionary_Love

 

FYI: Physics vs. MetaPhysics …

https://www.magiscenter.com/blog/difference-between-metaphysics-physics-limits

 

*But Math never applies to the #Real_World ?? …

Lie Groups & Quarks: 

https://www.ckoerber.com/media/professional/Koerber-SU3-Physics.pdf

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us/

 

Note: The last chapter of my book Biological Essentialism makes the case that bio-essentialism naturally leads to the #Young_Earth view.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

** kudos – graphic sources:

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a79534b-8554-83ea-96bb-8a35bf054ff7

https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i?id=41e11153a2142a69e6b9f1333f83540fd3984a2f-5285349-images-thumbs&n=13

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https://people.math.osu.edu/cogdell.1/6112-Eilenberg&MacLane-www.pdf

https://calcworkshop.com/relations/lattices/

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.rCNQ9NLeKyZH_J6FHCVtXQHaFn?r=0&rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory

 

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026

LYCOS vs. Young Earth

LYCOS is a text-based search engine (no graphics or vids) that was started in 1994 by Carnegie Mellon University.  The name "Lycos" is short for "Lycosidae", which is Latin for "wolf spider".  Lycos was funded with approximately $2M in venture capital.  In April 1996, the company completed the fastest initial public offering from inception to offering in NASDAQ history, ending its first day of trading with a market value of $300M‼  It was the first search engine to become a public company, beating Yahoo! and Excite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycos

 

But what about Young Earth Science? … I’m glad you asked.

https://lycos.com/search?kw=%22Young+Earth+Science%22

 

#CAUTION #PELIGRO ♸♸♸

When I tried this on my phone, I got ads, weird sites and bad sites (PG-13, R+).

The search on my PC worked better, but was inconsistent.  Lycos provided just 5 results for the search “Young Earth Science” …

 

Young Earth Science Blog #YES

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com

 

Young Earth Science critique posted on #ASA

https://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/agescience.htm

 

Young Earth Creationism (Wiki) #YEC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism

 

The Young Earth System Scientists #YESS

https://www.yess-community.org/

 

Four Geological Evidences for a Young Earth (icr):

https://www.icr.org/content/four-geological-evidences-young-earth

My reaction to these links …

I run the YES (Young Earth Science) blog.  It’s been around since 2014 and there’s a helpful #Search_Box to find the topic that suits your fancy.

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/

Re: Craig Rusbult’s (Ph.D. Chemistry, UW-Madison) article on the ASA site.

Dr. Rusbult should consider the problem of the missing Stage 3 SNR’s (Supernova Remnants):

https://youtu.be/fTcfQKgcwfk

 

Here are two research projects he could initiate:

1) Go to your nearest coal mine and have a sample dated.  I predict that the coal will yield a date of less than 50K years. 

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/weasels-woody-and-yes.html

2) Find the missing tree rings (≥100M):

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/no-fossil-trees-with-thousands-of-rings.html

 

In addition, I think he’d find great edification from these works …

Is a Young Earth Possible? - How Science and History Point to a Youthful World and Why it Matters ★★★★½

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

 

YES - Young Earth Science ★★★★

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

Response to Wiki …

Here is my Young Earth Science Wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Young_Earth_Science_(YES)&oldid=641971056

 

The Young Earth System Scientists #YESS community strive to, “Particularly support and nurture a generation of early career researchers that envision and work towards transformations to more equitable and sustainable futures.”

https://www.yess-community.org/aboutus/

Give a thought to these pointers to a #Youthful_Planet

1) Erosion Is Too Rapid for an Ancient Earth

2) Shale and Limestone Are Deposited Rapidly by Moving Water

3) There’s a Lack of Time Between Layers

4) Cold Subducted Slabs Exist Deep in the Mantle.

https://www.icr.org/content/four-geological-evidences-young-earth

 

** kudos – graphic source:

https://chatgpt.com/c/6a725a8a-4e48-83ea-a908-5a3cd2f3bac2

 

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