Saturday, November 14, 2026

Young Earth Today 2035 – Pioneers of Geology and Old Earth Fallacies (Lyell)

Welcome to Young Earth Today 2035, we’re going to tag our comments off of Pioneers of Geology: Discovering Earth's Secrets by Margaret Carruthers & Susan Maloney Clinton and their chapter on Charles Lyell:

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/

But that would have been a bridge “Forfar”! ☺

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.

https://creation.com/en/articles/british-scriptural-geologists-in-the-first-half-of-the-nineteenth-century-part-1

 

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] 

In contrast, vertical cylindrical Iron (Fe) concretions in sandstones validate Catastrophism and rapid formation #FAST

https://creation.com/en/articles/sandstone-iron-concretions

This polystrate tree, which has been catastrophically stripped of its roots,

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.

https://youtu.be/gh4zvQfDhi0

 

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] 

https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/lyell/2024/12/05/ideas-in-motion-mapping-lyells-transatlantic-lectures/

 

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 !

Here is the definition of “paraconformity” from the Geological Dictionary that I got while mudlogging:

 

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):

https://youtu.be/CTG472F4dJY

So, if each strata was formed rapidly and there is no great time interval between each layer, then the bulk of the Rock Record represents one massive disaster … the Global Flood!  The Weather Channel should run with that story‼

 

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:

https://youtu.be/iu3Byv3hErg

 

An Alternative to Lyell …

The Genesis Flood – Henry Morris:

https://youtu.be/CTG472F4dJY

 

Dr. Morris quoted David Kitts, my History of Science Prof, as the 20:30 mark.  Here is my interview with Dr. Kitts:  

https://youtu.be/TmF7Y3kpucU

A number of countries are rejecting Darwin and Old Earth Fallacies:

https://lnkd.in/p/gpEKMVFn

 

My site: https://totalyouth.us/

 

Paging Doctor YES:

https://lnkd.in/p/g87s6pJC

 

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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