The Geologists' Dilemma
Geologists have long taught that the soil and rocks of the continents are gradually being eroded and washed into the seas.
That is why geologists have decided that the land has been first rising above the level of the seas and then sinking down again below the water — time after time. What geologists postulate is hundreds, or even thousands, of floods occurring over and over again in eons of time.
Somehow they assume such a process repeated again and again would enable the sedimentary layers of rock to become deeper and deeper.
According to this theory, if sedimentary rock layers were ever laid down in the bottoms of seas in the past, they would also be LAID DOWN NOW! For they claim that the way the forces of nature lay down the sedimentary layers now, explains how they were laid down in the past.
But they also know sedimentary rocks are not being laid down now except perhaps in limited deltas at river mouths.
There is no way out. Something happened in the past that is not happening now, a fact quite contrary to the theory scientists profess to believe. The doctrine of uniformitarianism, the theory that the "present is the only key to the past," is a fiction!
In other words, rather than admit that a universal Flood deposited the earth's sedimentary layers, atheistic evolutionists invent a long series of little floods. They conveniently concoct the theory that the continents first rose above the seas and then sank below them so sedimentary rocks could settle slowly to the bottom of these illusive oceans.
In order to explain the many different kinds of sedimentary rock layers, they say this process repeated itself over and over again, causing first a dry land condition, and then a condition of flooding — again and again — but of course over long eons of time. Somehow long ages of time are supposed to make the impossible — the evolutionary theory of long geologic ages — possible.
Notice this astounding proof that sedimentary layers are not being laid down today in the bottoms of the oceans — or anywhere else for that matter!
Modern Geologists Know Better
Recent geologic discoveries have given geologists a profound shock! They have found conclusive evidence which totally contradicts and refutes their cherished doctrine of uniformitarianism. They are finding that ALL that is being deposited on the ocean bottom is a soft layer of ooze, which could not form a layer of sedimentary rock.
What is even more astonishing — scientists are finding that the thickness of this ooze on the ocean floor "is much less than was anticipated." Geologists admit, "Why this is so is an UNSOLVED PROBLEM at the present time" (Edwin L. Hamilton, "The Last Geographic Frontier: the Sea Floor," Scientific Monthly, Vol. 85, Dec. 1957, p. 296).
The layer of soft ooze on the ocean floor is much, much thinner than it would be if the ocean had existed for long geologic ages.
They were even more astounded to find that when this ooze is pressed into hard stone, it forms a flint-like rock which is largely chert, formed from siliceous remains of microscopic sea life. This chert is VERY UNLIKE sandstone, shale, and limestones that form the sedimentary rocks found throughout the earth (Harold W. Clark, The New Diluvialism, p. 15).
Evolutionary geologists have been forced to confess that "no continent has yielded a sedimentary rock proved to be a solidified deep-sea ooze" (A Textbook of Geology, Part I, Physical Geology, p. 220).
In other words, evolutionary geologists can't find PROOF that any of the continents have ever been at the bottom of the sea, for if they had been, they would today be covered with chert instead of with limestone, sandstone and shale.
These facts prove that sedimentary rock layers have not been formed on ocean floors over eons of time, as the inventors of the false doctrine of uniformitarianism — who themselves know better — want us to believe.
The very fact that sedimentary rock layers of shale, limestone, and sandstone are not being formed today on the bottom of the oceans is PROOF positive that these layers never have been deposited on the bottom of the sea, and then later risen above the water to become the continents of today.
Since sedimentary layers are not being laid down at present, on the ocean bottoms or on the continents, a sound mind can come only to the conclusion that at some time in the past they were laid down by the violent action of a world-wide agent. The very nature of the sedimentary rocks themselves proves that this universal agent was the monstrous tidal waves of a world-wide flood!
If each sedimentary layer had been laid down gradually over a long period of many thousands of years — as geologists claim — then erosive agents such as frost, rain, windstorms and other natural forces would have washed gullies and holes in whatever layer was then on top — long before it had time to harden and long before the next layer could have been laid down.
Look carefully at sedimentary layers and note for yourself that each layer was laid down smoothly on top of another before ANY erosion took place, with not a SINGLE SIGN of erosion anywhere between. It could not have taken millions of years to lay these layers down!
Realize that a single thunderstorm can wash out deep gullies in a few minutes. How could each layer have been exposed to the rains of thousands of years and still be very flat and smooth, not showing a single sign of erosion?
Common sense dictates the answer.
As huge tidal waves and powerful currents swept across the continents, the raging Flood waters swept up the soil, plant and animal remains.
As the Flood waters were pulled forward over the continental land masses by the gravitational pull of sun and moon, similar materials such as limestone or sandstone settled down to the bottom in layers.
Then as the tides rolled back and forth, layer after layer was laid down as the sediment settled out of the muddy waters.
As the Flood waters became calmer, great sheets of sediment — mud and silt, animal and plant remains — were constantly settling to the bottom of the waters in clearly defined layers, one on top of the other in rapid succession.
Do you now realize that only the tidal wave action of a universal Flood could SUDDENLY lay down the sedimentary layers as they are found from one end of the earth to the other?
Yes, the Flood stands proved!
Not only have modern geologists uncovered conclusive proof that the only possible way the earth's sedimentary rock layers could have been laid down was by a universal Flood, they have also found proof in the fossils these rocks contain that a world-wide Flood occurred.
Then why don't they teach you the truth?
Remember that evolutionary geologists are the product of colleges and universities which reject God as myth.
In our colleges and universities atheistic professors scornfully claim that any student who believes the Bible account that the Flood occurred is untrustworthy, ignorant, superstitious, or the victim of hallucination or some other form of mental aberration.
Every young student respects and fears his learned professor who usually has a lot of degrees after his name. No student wants to be labeled as "ignorant," or "superstitious." To avoid such a stigma, the pliable, young college student usually rejects God and the truth of the Bible.
Rather than risk having his professors and fellow students accuse him of being "unbalanced," the young student finds it easier to accept the wild guesses of his evolutionary teachers as truth, and to reject the revelation of God as myth.
Then after the unsuspecting student has rejected the FOUNDATION of all knowledge — the Holy Bible — it is easy for atheistic evolutionists to teach him that all fossil records, all sedimentary layers are to be interpreted to fit the fallacious assumption that life evolved from the simple to the complex — over long eons of time. So the young geology student then assumes that a so-called simple fossil is hundreds of millions of years old and the sedimentary layer in which it is found is also just as old.
Do you also realize that the geologist offers the theory of evolution as proof for his long geologic ages. Round and round they go!
If the age of the rocks is determined by the remains or the age of the organisms they contain, how do they determine the age of an organism? Obviously the age of any fossil is interpreted according to the theory of evolution, a theory which leads them to make wild guesses that life evolved long, long eons ago.
Believe it or not! This absurd reasoning in a circle by basing the guess of long geologic ages upon the assumption that evolution is true, and then basing the theory of evolution upon the assumption that long geologic ages are true, is the only proof either the evolutionists or the geologists have that their theories are true. Furthermore they have no other proof that the Flood did not take place, than this reasoning in a circle.
The plain truth is that both the evolutionist and the geologist will not admit that a world-wide Flood took place. They cannot help but realize that just as soon as you prove that Flood waters deposited the earth's sedimentary layers in very recent times, you also prove that evolution could not possibly be true, for the theory of evolution cannot be true unless there have been hundreds of millions of years in which life could evolve.
How Are Fossils Formed?
It will help many to understand geology to learn that fossils are the hard parts of plants and animals which have been preserved by petrifaction. Fossils are not only the remnants of plants and animals that once lived, but also the imprints they have left in the rocks. The fossil imprint of a plant, an insect, or an animal was first made in soft mud before it hardened into rock.
It is common knowledge that any animal which dies today quickly decays and rots into dust. That is why scientists cannot prove there are any fossils being preserved today.
Before an animal can be preserved as a fossil, it must be quickly covered by a sudden catastrophe — such as a flood, volcanic matter, or preserved by sudden freezing.
An animal must be buried very suddenly to prevent decay.
Furthermore, scientists know that animals leave fossil remains only when they have been covered up with sediment almost immediately — before decay sets in.
A scientific article in the Encyclopedia Britannica makes this clear. "The remains of animals can only be preserved if they are deposited at a place where mud or sand is being laid down."
Not only that, but, "When buried in sand a shell is exposed to the percolating waters which if acid are capable of dissolving it." Notice then, "Its preservation is therefore dependent either on the sealing down of the sand by such a layer of clay as will prevent the circulation of water, or on a solidification of the sand by a cementing together of the individual grains, usually by calcium carbonate . . . " (Encyclopedia Britannica, "Paleontology," p. 102, 1946 Edition).
Likewise the geologist knows that if the theory of evolution is not true, then of course neither is his theory of long geologic ages.
Because they have been deceived into believing the false theory of organic evolution which teaches that life evolved over many hundreds of millions of years, geologists can't correctly interpret the evidence they have found.
The startling truth is, as the geologist Dunbar admitted, " . . . Fossils provide the only historical, documentary evidence that life has evolved from simple to more and more complex forms" (Historical Geology, p. 47 Emphasis ours).
When we understand how coal is formed we will understand why fossils cannot be formed except by some sort of sudden catastrophic action.
The Lesson for You
We need to understand that even more important than the knowledge of how to prove the Flood occurred is the knowledge of WHY God wants you to know the truth about the Flood!
First, God wants you to know that He is Ruler and Creator. The Apostle Paul revealed, ". . . he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that He is and that He is a REWARDER of them that diligently seek Him" (Heb. 11:6).
Second, the real message of the Flood is that just as in the days of Noah, all men who today refuse to acknowledge and obey God will also perish (Luke 13:3).
God inspired the record of the Flood to be written for our example (I Cor. 10:6) and as a warning to repent, a warning to turn to God with all our hearts.
In the third chapter of Revelation, God promises He will protect the faithful who are in this end-time backing the work of spreading His end-time warning and His end-time Gospel Message about the soon-coming rule of Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God.
The same God who used His power to destroy the world with a flood is also able to protect you from all harm and danger in the days ahead. Your Bible says Jesus Christ promises He personally will protect you. Jesus said to the faithful, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" (Rev. 3:10).