KFC POSTS:
I'm not saying water but catastrophe. For instance if you have a continual dripping of water it would take years and years and years to wear away rock to any huge degree but if you had a great force of water all at once, what would have taken thousands of years could be caused by one main event. That's what they found at Mt. St Helens. Have you ever really really looked into that from a Scientific POV? Better yet, have you ever visited there? Fascinating stuff that went on there.
Zoo posts:
This catastrophe was a flood though.
At first glance, it might not be so easy to understand similiarities between the geologic work that was accomplished by the Mt. St. Helens eruption and that by Noah's Flood. The former was a volcanic event; the latter a hydraulic one. Evidence reveals that volcanic activity was the common catalyst at both. When Mt. St. Helens volcano erupted in 1980, it exploded with a force of 400 million tons of TNT in one day. In the aftermath, 600 feet of strata sequences formed in just a matter of months. Later, on March 19, 1982, a giant mudflow broke through a blocked canyon on the north fork of the Toutle River and in one afternoon formed a new canyon system over 1oo feet deep with features similiar to those of the Grand Canyon, but about 1/40th scale size. Now, just reflect upon the great damage that can be caused by tidal waves to see that a flood of world-wide proportions could result in formations such as the Grand Canyon.
Zoo posts:
One huge flood would not wear away hard rock very much...especially considering that it was only caused by rain...once the initial water levels rose it would have minimal effect on the rock unless it tumbled down a stream or was tossed violently in a current. Even then it takes quite sometime. Erosion is very slow and not sped up into super mega erosion by floods. Floods take loose debris easily...solid rock, not so much. Even sitting underwater doesn't propel erosion to such an extent.
Soft rock may be affected greatly...like sandstone, but stuff like granite? Hardly.
Several evidences in the sedimentary rock strata indicate that it was laid down rapidly all at once. It seems the deep ones even down to the Cambrian have not been pressed together into solid rock. (Yet if they've been there under millions of tons for billions of years they should be!!)
The fossils found in that rock strata over thousands of cubic miles indicate rapid deposition rather than being slowly laid over a period of long eons of ages.
Geologists know well that rivers only cut through hard materials when they rush quickly straight down surfaces and slow moving rivers can only cut through softer materials. Interestingly enough, evidences shows that the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, and the San Juan River cut through thick rock. It wasn't over millions of years, but instead were quickly cut through while they were still soft and there strata had only recently been laid down.
What do you know of the Flood?
Scripture teaches a flood, a world-wide actual event...and we certainly have renditions or legends of a Flood from ancient cultures all over the world...which is expected if the Flood was an actual event.
The Babylonian tradition tells of a great flood in Utrapishtim. Storytellers from the Mesopotamian civilations tell of a flood epic of Gilgamesh, the Assyrian culture as well...Anthropologists have collected 59 Flood legends from the aborigines of N. AMerica, 46 from S. America, 31 from Europe, 17 from the Middle East, 23 from Asia, and 33 from the south Sea and Australia. All accounts hold 3 features in common...world wide flood destroyed both people and animals, a vessel of safety, and only a small number of people survived....there are many of the features of the Flood found in other forms of literature from other ancient and much older periods.
Genesis 7:11-12 "....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth for 40 days and for 40 nights." "All the fountains of the great deep broken up" indicates that the process God used to bring about the flood was predominantly volcanic and tectonic. What do they think happened in reference to this? The fountains of the deep are probably sub-oceanic or subterranean sources of water which involved a series of volcanic reactions with prodigious amounts of water bursting up through the ground. We know that 70% or more of what comes out of volcanoes is water, in the form of steam. Anyway, one theoretic model of the plate tectonics is at the onset of the Flood, the ocean floor rapidly lifted up to 6,500 feet due to increase in temperature of the as hoirizontal movement of the tectonic plates accelerated.
According to Scripture from beginning to end, the Flood with its vast and unique consequences, lasted for 371 days, it's waters deep enough to cover every mountain then on the planet...But keep in mind before the Flood it's believed not any really high mountains existed...they were formed as a result of the flood and volcanic action and breaking up of the tectonic plates. All the continents bear evidence of having been submerged by sea water. Evidently, scientists have determined that Mt. Ararat's lava was deposited under water.
Geologists explain continental indunation as due to the depression of the land, and there is good reason to couple this with the bottom of the sea elevating as it heaved to great volcanic eruption and earthquakes. Along with the volcanic action, terrible storms raged from the skies and immense quantities of water engulfed the land flowing, grinding away at every surface. Massive wave action took its toll too. All this resulted in an astounding rate of erosion which produced sediments which resulted in the 1,000's of feet of sedimentary rock strata which we see today and upon which we've found fossils galore.
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