YES - the Young Earth Science podcast 2082 (Who’s SERGA? - contra Deep Time)

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The character Sheldon in one episode of The Big Bang Theory said “Geology isn't a real science.”  What did he mean by that?  Historical geology paints a picture of what happened during the vast eons of Deep Time. 

There was supposedly an Age of Trilobites and an Age of Dinosaurs.  But we did not learn about these by direct observation - the TimeTunnel has not yet been invented.  Basic chemistry experiments are repeated every day, but we can't recreate the Grand Canyon in the lab. 

Does the Geologic Column really tell us the story of the transformation of life from simple to complex through time?  Or, does it primarily give us the record of a significant environmental failure that destroyed the Earth just thousands of years ago?  Learn more by clicking here to hear our engaging podcast.  

Many claim that the fossil record shows an order in the life forms that supports Darwinism, but you'll see in our podcast that this is not the case.  We propose that most of the sediments in the rock record are part of one catastrophic episode – a Singular Epoch of Rapid Geologic Activity (SERGA).  You can learn more about this in chapter five of our book YES - Young Earth Science.

The Cambrian Explosion refers to the sudden appearance of multiple phyla in the fossil record with no prior ancestors that have been found.  There is a Great Unconformity at the Pre-Cambrian/Cambrian boundary which points to a global catastrophe.  Evolution predicts a gradual increase in the number of phyla such as arthropods, chordates and brachiopods.  The Cambrian Explosion contradicts this.

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Turbidity Currents, Turbidites and You

Turbidites are gravity flow formations often generated by earthquakes. [1]  The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake (off Newfoundland, M=7.2) and turbidity current caused telegraph cables to break and thus record its speed.  The current deposited at least 175 km³ of sediment and formed a bed more than 1 m thick (gravel to coarse silt).  A significant portion of the rock record is made up of turbidites.  If much of the Geologic Column was formed rapidly, then maybe this is a young planet after all.  Young Earth Science?  YES you can!

The Cambrian Burgess Shale is a significant challenge to evolution.  Multiple phyla are found in the earliest rocks and no transitional forms are found in Pre-Cambrian layers.  This conundrum, known as the Cambrian Explosion, is delineated in my book. [2]  The Burgess Shale is considered to be a turbidite!  So we find more evidence that the rock record was formed quickly.  So the next time you bring up the Cambrian Explosion in a conversation, be sure to point out that it favors Young Earth Science (YES).

A classic turbidite follows the pattern of the Bouma sequence.  Turbidites are very common.  As Stéphanie Girardclos et al point out in Marine Geology, “Gravity flow deposits, and particularly turbidite deposits, are ubiquitous in the sedimentary and rock record, and are economically important as potential hydrocarbon reservoirs.” [3]  GerardMiddleton (Geology Dept., McMaster Univ., Canada) concurs:  “Beds deposited from turbidity currents (called turbidites) are one of the commonest types of sedimentary rocks … the majority of sandstones in the geologic record were deposited either from rivers or from turbidity currents …” [4]

Even some gypsum beds, often thought to be the result of a long process of evaporation, have been interpreted as turbidites. [5]  Actually, gypsum may form directly as a precipitate from hot volcanic springs. [6]  So the next time you look at your wall (gypsum board), know that it supports Young Earth Science (YES).

Notes:

1) YES – Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), p. 130.

2) Hall, pp. 84, 85, 116.

3) “The 1996 AD delta collapse and large turbidite in Lake Brienz” by Stéphanie Girardclos et al, Marine Geology 241 (2007) 137–154, p. 138, emphasis added.

4) “Sediment Deposition from Turbidity Currents” by Gerard Middleton, Annual Review Of Earth And Planetary Sciences, Volume 21, pp. 89-114, p. 90, emphasis added.

5) Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons by John Warren (Springer, 2006), p. 350.

6) Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals by Annibale Mottana et al (Simon & Schuster, NYC, 1978), entry 122 (gypsum).