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https://www.amazon.com/Pioneers-Geology-Discovering-Secrets-Science/dp/0531113647
I definitely recommend this
book - it goes in-depth and is well written.
However, I oppose their bias against Young Earth Theory. Where can we find the Origins of Old Earth
Fallacies #OEFs ?? Of course, the major
influence of James Hutton’s Deep Time notions in the Scientific Community was a
disappointment for Deluge advocates.
Hutton claimed that his
theory, “… does not in any respect interfere with chronology of the Old
Testament.”[1] Genesis chapters 5 and 11
provide an accurate chronology that validates Young Earth Science (YES).
The Great Lisbon Earthquake
(1755) occurred in Hutton’s time. The
earthquake and the associated tsunami almost destroyed Lisbon and the
surrounding regions. Seismologists
estimate a magnitude 8.5 to 9 for this quake.
Despite such events, Hutton veered away from catastrophism.
Catastrophism is now in a Renaissance. Victor
Baker wrote Megaflooding on Earth and Mars (Cambridge Univ. Press) that
came out in 2009. Warren Allmon, writing
in Science in a review of Derek Ager’s book The New Catastrophism, said,
“… this volume may mark the arrival of catastrophism as the status quo”
(10.1.93, p. 123).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.262.5130.122.b
After Hutton, we have to focus
on Charles Lyell for the beginnings of the rejection of Young Earth Theory
Intelligence #YETI
Lyell was born on November 14th,
1797 in Kinnordy, Scotland.
He could have taken the path
of the Scriptural Geologists defending the Global Flood from the Bible and
observational evidence.
https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/great-turning-point/
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And because Lyell rejected the
straightforward reading of Genesis, that made him a real Theological “Oathlaw”‼
;°) It would have been better if Lyell
had wound up in the circus … as a kid, he trained mice to pull matchbox
chariots![2] While at Oxford, Lyell
attended eight geology lectures by William Buckland.
Buckland held that there was a
series of global floods. Georges Cuvier had connected the last of these global
catastrophes with Flood Legends:
https://chatgpt.com/c/6aeef81b-61b4-83e9-bcc4-931dcb7d7dfb
Whence the Origin of Old Earth
Fallacies (OEF’s)? Lyell was a barrister
for 7 years and so made for an ideal proponent of “Millions Of Years Ago”
(MOYA). Have you ever tried to win an
argument with a lawyer? According to
Carruthers and Clinton, Lyell’s trip with Gideon Mantell, who discovered
Hylaeosaurus, to a
quarry in England convinced him that sandstones and mudstones took millions of
years to form.[3]
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https://creation.com/en/articles/sandstone-iron-concretions
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branches, and bark, lies on
top of a coal layer near New River Gorge in West Virginia. Polystrate trees point to the rapid burial of
the surrounding sediment.
https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af2611.pdf
MOOORE examples of polystrate
fossil trees:
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af5c00c-bdfc-83ea-bdac-90ea8eec8538
Lyell rightly concluded that
Mount Etna, which last erupted on August 7th, 2026, was of
relatively recent origin.[4] In 1829,
Lyell started writing his Principles of Geology which went into 12
editions during his lifetime! Lyell
taught biological stasis for many years, but gradually warmed to Darwin’s
transformationist ideas later in life.
https://chatgpt.com/c/6aef01b1-55b4-83e9-ba78-d7a9b9ff08e3
🐟→🐟→🐟
The fundamental alternative to
Darwinism is Biological Essentialism.
Cats are cats, bats are bats and apes and people do not have a common
ancestor. Horses, hydras and humans are
examples of Essential Types of Life (ETL's).
Bio-essentialism is basically Aristotle's Biology or the Genesis Kinds
(Gen. 1:12).
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320
Lyell’s mantra was “the
present is the key to the past,” but is that really true? Edgar Heylmun, stated in the Journal of
Geological Education that,
We find certain rock types in the geologic column that are
not being seen form, at least in quantity, anywhere on earth today. Where can granite be observed forming? Where can dolomite or siliceous iron
formations be seen to form in quantity? Yet
we have thousands of cubic miles of these rock types in the crust of the earth.
https://thecreationclub.com/uniformitarianism-versus-reality/
In 1832, Lyell married Mary
Horner who is not related to the famous Jack Horner of Jurassic Park fame.
Where can we find the Origins
of Old Earth Fallacies?? #OEF #OEF
You know what *they* say …
“Follow the Money” $$
In 1841, Lyell received $2K
for a series of lectures in Boston – that was three times 3x the going rate for
his talks in England![5]
Lyell estimated that Niagara
Falls took 35K years to form!
He ignored the observation of
a Mr. Blackwell, the son of an eminent geologist, that the Falls had receded
~45m in 40 years, but instead used a much slower rate of erosion for his
calculated age. Considering all the
factors that destroy the limestone and shale beneath the falls, the date for the
beginning of Niagara falling fits well w/n the Scriptural timeline (Y6K):
https://creation.com/en/articles/niagara-falls-and-the-bible
Lyell also rejected the Ice
Age, which is nicely explained by the Biblical Model of a Global Flood >>
Extreme Volcanism >> Hypercanes.[6]
https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/frozen-in-time/
Now let’s turn to a basic
argument for the Global Flood. If each
formation was formed Catastrophically #CAT and there is no large time gap
between the layers, then the bulk of the Rock Record documents a single Mega-Event
… the #Deluge !
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paraconformity - An obscure or uncertain unconformity in
which no erosion surface is discernible or in which the contact is a simple
bedding plane, and in which the beds above and below the break are parallel.[7]
In a 2015 New York State
Geological Association paper, “Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the
Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group” the authors explicitly discuss the possible
paraconformity at the Keeseville-Theresa contact.
Furthermore, in the Western
English Midlands, Cambrian rocks overlay
Tremadocian strata which is Lower Ordovician.
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af03d44-8620-83ea-80f6-0aa293dad919
So, there is no great
time-break between the Cambrian and the Ordovician Periods.
On Manitoulin Island (Ontario),
the Lower Silurian Manitoulin Formation lies paraconformably atop Upper
Ordovician Georgian Bay Formation.
We find another example in the
Western Cincinnati Arch (Kentucky). The
Lower Silurian Brassfield Formation overlays Upper Ordovician strata. In some spots, the contact is extremely
difficult to recognize. Could it be …
continuous deposition?
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af0421e-2200-83ea-9577-de73d890fe6a
Thus, the Ordovician was
immediately followed by the Silurian.
In Kentucky, we see the Middle
Devonian Sellersburg (Beechwood) Limestone above Silurian Louisville Limestone
with no evidence of erosion. This
represents a time-break of around 38M years!
Maybe that “missing time” never existed and one rock layer was deposited
fairly soon after the first!
For a second example, we
travel to Precordillera, Argentina where the Talacasto Formation (Lower
Devonian) overlays the Los Espejos Formation which is Silurian.
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af045f5-770c-83ea-a550-c3dd5b86bc32
We see that the Devonian rocks
were laid down soon after the Silurian since we see no evidence of large-scale
erosion – river valleys, canyons, rock slides etc.
What about some other
boundaries …
Devonian/Mississippian
Mississippian/Pennsylvanian
Pennsylvanian/Permian?
DYOR !!! Go Ax the AI Guy! Use this prompt …
List examples of
paraconformities between ____ and ____ strata.
Henry Morris makes the argument
that unconformities (time breaks) have limited extent (@ 47:30):
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Even anti-YES writer Ronald
Bailey admits,
… modern [mainstream] geologists do acknowledge that there
have been essentially global catastrophes in the past. The extreme volcanism of the Siberian Traps
nearly wiped out all life at the end of the Permian period 251 million years
ago …
https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2013/06/young-earth-science-yes.html
What other recent research
supports the Young Earth perspective? In
the latest issues of Acts & Facts (NOV/DEC ‘26, pp. 14-17), we learn
that Polonium halos verify that radioactive decay #DK was faster in the
past. Amazingly, the half-life 218Po
is only around 3 minutes! This study
also points out that Polonium halos help to give a reasoned response to the
so-called “heat problem.”
https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af2611.pdf
https://www.icr.org/article/rate-review-unresolved-problems/
Here is our prior episode in
this series:
https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/young-earth-today-2034-pioneers-of.html
And the video:
An Alternative to Lyell …
The Genesis Flood – Henry
Morris:
Dr. Morris quoted David Kitts,
my History of Science Prof, as the 20:30 mark.
Here is my interview with Dr. Kitts:
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My site: https://totalyouth.us/
Paging Doctor YES:
Our Creation Study (via
Midwest Christian Outreach) – 10 episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdelscNsYMszOH6dhLx4-CRMqGKfU6-z
** kudos – graphic sources:
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af7bab4-0328-83e9-ac08-8dbb4b6b82b1
https://creation.com/en/articles/sandstone-iron-concretions
https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/af/af2611.pdf
https://chatgpt.com/c/6af5bb6e-8378-83ea-b28e-1195817df58e
Notes:
1) “James Hutton on Religion
and Geology: the Unpublished Preface to his Theory of the Earth (1788)” by
Dennis Dean, Annals of Science 32 (1975): 187-193, p. 190.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00033797500200241
2) Pioneers of Geology:
Discovering Earth's Secrets by Margaret Carruthers & Susan Maloney
Clinton (Franklin Watts – Scholastic, NYC, 2001), p. 31.
3) Ibid., p. 36.
4) Ibid., p. 40.
5) Ibid., p. 43.
6) Ibid., p. 46.
7) Dictionary of Geological
Terms ed. by Bates & Jackson (Anchor, NYC, 1976 ed.), p. 368.
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