Where did God step in?

Recently I was asked where, in the process of evolution, did God step in.  This question, however, assumes that (at least physically speaking) God would need to “step in” and fundamentally alter some aspect of creation in order to make it His.  However, physically it doesn’t appear as though God needed to step into the process […]

Why Knowing and Teaching the History of the Universe Matters

David Christian: Big History

Radiometric Dating, Mysterious Variables, and Sock Gnomes

This is taken from an exchange at the end of the longest thread in recorded history on the subject of faith vs. science in which virtually every subject imaginable was covered.  We had strayed into radiometric dating, with the thrust of the objections being that the consistent results from multiple independent dating methods (both radiometric […]

Part II: The Earth Is Really Old

Usually I don’t like to mix geological arguments for an old earth with evidence for the theory of evolution as anti-evolutionists have a tendency to conflate the two as both part of some grand evolutionary cabal of evil instead of as two very separate disciplines that happen to independently support each other. However, in this […]

Helium Diffusion

The argument that there is too much helium “in the rocks” is primarily based on the findings of the RATE group and most commonly associated with the work of Russell Humphreys.  Before we get into why Humphreys is wrong let’s take a look at what the actual finds are. The RATE group examined evidence from […]

“The Creation Model” Slides (Snelling)

Sixth International Conference on Creationism.

Fossil Forrests

I’m wondering how YE geology explains the fossils forests of Yellow Stone National Park? “That is to say, after the first forest grew and was entombed, there was a time without volcanic outburst—a period long enough to permit a second forest to grow above the first. This in turn was covered by volcanic material and […]

Formation of the Chalk Group (Dover Cliffs)

The Dover Cliffs are part of the Chalk Group which is exposed in a number of locations around the UK. http://www.chalk.discoveringfossils.co.uk/…0LOCALITIES.htm The fossils we do find are consistent with a non-turbulent and stable sea floor instead of the convoluted aftermath of a global flood. Things like crabs, lobsters, and Goose barnacles If the chalk group […]

Vertical Dinosaur Tracks

Another problem for the YEC model for uplifted strata are fossilized dinosaur tracks in vertical strata such as we find in Argentina: How does YEC geology explain dinosaur tracks made in sediment that was being laid down during a global flood? Additionally, if the sedimentary layers hadn’t solidified into mud when they were uplifted quickly […]

Angular Unconformities

Another question for the YEC uplift model used to previously explain vertically uplifted strata is how does this deal with angular unconformities? If sediments were uplifted in a quasi-mud state and were pliable enough to allow this to happen quickly and subsequently turned solid after the flood how do we get explain formations like this: […]