I challenge anyone to watch this video, and then contradict it's findings as to the age of life on earth...

[video=youtube;5bTLuyCd9G8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTLuyCd9G8[/video]

 

He's talking about coal, not rock, coal behaves differently then rock. Coal wont flow under high pressure, it simple turns to diamond, or crushes like he said.

You countered the idea that coal doesn't flow under pressure by saying rock flows? I'm not sure I see where your going here.

Please define...

 

The majority of diamonds are created in volcano's. The heat and pressure created is more then enough to create diamonds in a very short time. We know this because the largest diamond mines in the world are extinct volcano's.

The whole point is we can create diamonds and oil synthetically. The reason it is the whole point is we can do it very rapidly. So if we can create a diamond in a matter of hours, a volcano deep in the earth can create them on a very short time table as well.

The PDF you posted here approaches the idea that life is only 6000 years old, and the flood only lasted a year. When you add 40000 years to that timetable, things can change, and as well, the flood waters could have flowed through that area for several thousand years cutting the Grand Canyon, not just a year.

I believe Jehovah could have folded rock layers during the flood, I think he's capable of that.

 

You know, none of this really matters, and there's probably no reason to go back and forth about it, we can both present studies to back up our arguments until the end of time.

 

"Sedimentary Layers in Rapid Succession!"'

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How could a series of sedimentary layers fold without fracturing? The only way is for all the sedimentary layers to be laid down in rapid succession and then be folded while still soft and pliable.



If the global Flood, as described in Genesis 7 and 8, really occurred, what evidence would we expect to find? Wouldn’t we expect to find rock layers all over the earth that are filled with billions of dead animals and plants that were rapidly buried and fossilized in sand, mud, and lime? Yes, and that’s exactly what we find.

How about on top of the highest mountains in the world, do we find fossil life there? Yep...

The fossil-bearing geologic record consists of tens of thousands of feet of sedimentary layers, though not all these layers are found everywhere around the globe, and their thickness varies from place to place. At most locations only a small portion is available to view, such as about 4,500 feet (1371 m) of strata in the walls of the Grand Canyon.

Uniformitarian (long-age) geologists believe that these sedimentary layers were deposited and deformed over the past 500 million years. If it really did take millions of years, then individual sediment layers would have been deposited slowly and the sequences would have been laid down sporadically. In contrast, if the global cataclysmic Genesis Flood deposited all these strata in a little more than a year, then the individual layers would have been deposited in rapid succession, one on top of the other.

Do we see evidence in the walls of the Grand Canyon that the sedimentary layers were all laid down in quick succession? Yes, absolutely!

Solid Rock Breaks When Bent​

Solid Rock Breaks not Bends (Figure 1)
When solid, hard rock is bent (or folded) it invariably fractures and breaks because it is brittle.

When solid, hard rock is bent (or folded) it invariably fractures and breaks because it is brittle. Rock will bend only if it is still soft and pliable, like modeling clay. If clay is allowed to dry out, it is no longer pliable but hard and brittle, so any attempt to bend it will cause it to break and shatter.

When solid, hard rock is bent (or folded) it invariably fractures and breaks because it is brittle (Figure 1).1 Rock will bend only if it is still soft and pliable—“plastic†like modeling clay or children’s Playdough. If such modeling clay is allowed to dry out, it is no longer pliable but hard and brittle, so any attempt to bend it will cause it to break and shatter.

When water deposits sediments in a layer, some water is left behind, trapped between the sediment grains. Clay particles may also be among the sediment grains. As other sedimentary layers are laid on top of the deposits, the pressure squeezes the sedimentary particles closer together and forces out much of the water. The earth’s internal heat may also remove water from the sediment. As the sediment layer dries out, the chemicals that were in the water and between the clay particles convert into a natural cement. This cement transforms the originally soft and wet sediment layer into a hard, brittle rock layer.

This process, known technically as diagenesis, can be exceedingly rapid, It is known to occur within hours but generally takes days or months, depending on the prevailing conditions. It doesn’t take millions of years, even under today’s slow-and-gradual geologic conditions

Folding a Whole Strata Sequence Without Fracturing

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The 4,500-foot sequence of sedimentary layers in the walls of the Grand Canyon stands well above today’s sea level. Earth movements in the past pushed up this sedimentary sequence to form the Kaibab Plateau. However, the eastern portion of the sequence (in the eastern Grand Canyon and Marble Canyon areas in northern Arizona) was not pushed up as much and is about 2,500 feet (762 m) lower than the height of the Kaibab Plateau. The boundary between the Kaibab Plateau and the less uplifted eastern canyons is marked by a large step-like fold, called the East Kaibab Monocline (Figure 2).

It’s possible to see these folded sedimentary layers in several side canyons. For example, the folded Tapeats Sandstone can be seen in Carbon Canyon (Figure 3). Notice that these sandstone layers were bent 90° (a right angle), yet the rock was not fractured or broken at the hinge of the fold. Similarly, the folded Muav and Redwall Limestone layers can be seen along nearby Kwagunt Creek (Figure 4). The folding of these limestones did not cause them to fracture and break, either, as would be expected with ancient brittle rocks. The obvious conclusion is that these sandstone and limestone layers were all folded and bent while the sediments were still soft and pliable, very soon after they were deposited.





Herein lies an insurmountable dilemma for uniformitarian geologists. They maintain that the Tapeats Sandstone and Muav Limestone were deposited 500–520 million years ago; the Redwall Limestone, 330–340 million years ago4; then the Kaibab Limestone at the top of the sequence (Figure 2), 260 million years ago.5 Lastly, the Kaibab Plateau was uplifted (about 60 million years ago), causing the folding. That’s a time span of about 440 million years between the first deposit and the folding. How could the Tapeats Sandstone and Muav Limestone still be soft and pliable, as though they had just been deposited? Wouldn’t they fracture and shatter if folded 440 million years after deposition?

The conventional explanation is that under the pressure and heat of burial, the hardened sandstone and limestone layers were bent so slowly they behaved as though they were plastic and thus did not break. However, pressure and heat would have caused detectable changes in the minerals of these rocks, tell-tale signs of metamorphism.8 But such metamorphic minerals or recrystallization due to such plastic behavior is not observed in these rocks. The sandstone and limestone in the folds are identical to sedimentary layers elsewhere.

The only logical conclusion is that the 440-million-year delay between deposition and folding never happened! Instead, the Tapeats-Kaibab strata sequence was laid down in rapid succession early during the year of the global cataclysmic Genesis Flood, followed by uplift of the Kaibab Plateau within the last months of the Flood. This alone explains the folding of the whole strata sequence without appreciable fracturing.

Conclusion​

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​Uniformitarian geologists claim that tens of thousands of feet of fossiliferous sedimentary layers have been deposited over more than 500 million years. In contrast, the global cataclysmic Flood of Genesis 7–8 leads creation geologists to believe that most of these layers were deposited in just over one year. Thus, during the Flood many different strata would have been laid down in rapid succession.

In the walls of the Grand Canyon, we can see that the whole horizontal sedimentary strata sequence was folded without fracturing, supposedly 440 million years after the Tapeats Sandstone and Muav Limestone were deposited, and 200 million years after the Kaibab Limestone was deposited. The only way to explain how these sandstone and limestone beds could be folded, as though still pliable, is to conclude they were deposited during the Genesis Flood, just months before they were folded.

THERE IS ONLY ONE EXPLANATION FOR THE FOLDED ROCK LAYERS IN GRAND CANYON—NOAH’S FLOOD. UNIFORMITARIAN EXPLANATIONS CANNOT ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN THESE FEATURES.

In this special geology series we have documented that, when we accept the Flood of Genesis 7–8 as an actual event in earth history, then we find that the geologic evidence is absolutely in harmony with the Word of God. As the ocean waters flooded over the continents, they must have buried plants and animals in rapid succession. These rapidly deposited sediment layers were spread across vast areas, preserving fossils of sea creatures in layers that are high above the current (receded) sea level. The sand and other sediments in these layers were transported long distances from their original sources. We know that many of these sedimentary strata were laid down in rapid succession because we don’t find evidence of slow erosion between the strata.

As expected, the evidence in God’s world totally agrees with what we read in God’s Word. “Thy word is true from the beginning,†the psalmist tells us (Psalm 119: (160))." Source

 

With all do respect brother, I believe you are wrong. With such a great volume of water there would be suspended debris. This debris would have settled at different rates.

Mason Jar Soil Experiment

If you put different types of soils into a jar of water and shake it up, the layers will form because the different materials will settle at different' rates, explaining the sediment layers.





If I didn't know you better I would say you argue against a world wide flood, and the ability of Jehovah to move mountains.

Regardless, the science is valid for young life on earth...

 

My point didn't have anything to do with what any geologist thought, but that simply you apparent hadn't thought about it in your statement below. Which of course is completely wrong;

I'm not engaged in this conversation with a geologist, I'm engaging this conversation with you. Do you think this debate is new to our discussion?

 

Yes, very good points. If you read the discussion on Gen 1:1, "In the beginning" was not part of the first creative day and could have taken billions of years to create the heavens and earth, but the creative days themselves were only as it pertains to this planet, and contrary to what Satan's world wants to stuff down our throats, there is much evidence that in fact life on this planet is quite young compared to the age of the planet itself.

This all stems from the 7th day rest, one either believes that Jehovah is consistent and the 7th day is the same length as the other 6, or they believe it is not. Then if we believe those days were equal and consistent as Jehovah always is, then all of the supposed geologic evidence in the secular world is irrelevant, that's if we want to believe in the Bible, and God. Besides brother, the evidence for a world wide flood, (just as the Bible says) is evident all throughout the planet as you have beautifully pointed out. As you said, "how do you get fossil life on top of mountains?" lol...

Jehovah clearly tells us; "Mountains ascended and valleys descended To the place you established for them." (Psm 104:8)

We can choose to believe Jehovah has the power and has chose to mold this planet, or we believe he hasn't laid a finger on it. But come on, how did he destroy Saddam and Gomorrah? Were these cities just destroyed by coincidence, natural occurrences, or did Jehovah use the environment to kill them? How was the Red Sea split, was it not by Gods intervention? How did Christ kill a tree by cursing it? How did Christ calm the seas? How did Christ raise dead flesh, dead life? It's because these individuals had command over the natural world, and guess what, he even says lowly man will as well; Mrk 11:23 "Truly I say to you that whoever tells this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but has faith that what he says is going to happen, he will have it happen."

So, we argue Jehovah has on many times intervened on this planet by physically changing the natural world and matter within it. I happen to think that's a noble argument.

It is a fact that sediment can turn to stone rather quickly, within decades in fact, this is a well known fact even in worldly science.

Carbon 14 dating (as you mentioned Barry) is in error the further you go back in time and can be contaminated by any material touching the original piece. Even Mr. Libby (the discoverer) later retracted carbon 14's accuracy over time. One only needs to read Wikipedia and you will discover there are many ways the testing can be errored. As well, (as you said) we don't know what conditions there were before the flood on earth, such as why humans lived for so long, why there were different plants and animals, on and on...

Coal can be created rather quickly, even synthetically.

Oil can be created rapidly, and as well by man.

The large deposit of coal and oil show a sudden burial of life in a mass extension.

It is possible oil could be created without life as well.

The different layers we see can be explained by sediment suspended in water that settle at different rates.

This debate is nothing new, and anyone who claims one side is dumb or uneducated or just knee jerk reacts without reading evidence is only giving themselves ulcers, because this a very old debate that can go back and forth forever...

As for myself, I believe the creative days were all the same length, but that's just me. If I believed they could have been different lengths, I might be on the side of modern world science's beliefs on the age of life on earth, but I don't...

 

But as I said on the other thread;

In the end I have no idea who's right about the age of life on earth. I only present the other side of an argument because those arguments exist. To not at least read a counter argument means you could never confirm what you believe is fact. Therefore I look at all sides of a subject...

My stand all comes down to my belief in that the creative days were all the same length. Now if I believed they weren't then I may not feel the way I do, but such is the human mind. "Life is a paradox, a mirror of confusion." as our friend in the video I posted above said...lol

But to be honest, it's really not a big issue with me, it doesn't effect prophecy...

 

I ridicule God because I don't believe like you, because I don't believe life is millions of years old? Are you sure that's what you want to say?

Sir, let me make one thing clear (as a brother), you seem to be running head first without any regard for reality, let me give you an example with this statement you made below;

Everything you have presented, I have presented, and every idea in the world is a theory! Your not producing "science fact", there is no such thing. So when you persecute on the basis of your supposed ideology, you present to all your readers that what you say can never be questioned for it is without counterpoint. Sir, I'm here to tell you, you are wrong. Science is about theory, the theory of Evolution, the theory of light, the theory of our universe, they are all theory's, and unless you were around millions of years ago, you cannot present anything you say here as fact, as you are attempting to do.

Do you not realize you appear to be the minority here on this subject? Those that have spoke up agree more for young life on earth. Why is that, could it be that they also have a theory? Or could it even mean that you are in the smallest minority?



This poll was taken from teachers, and it says 47% believe humans have evolved over millions of years with Gods guidance. Now, you talk about how these scientist you quote present science fact, well they also teach that you came from ape like creatures, and they also teach life began in a cesspool of sludge hundreds of millions of years ago. So by association it would appear that you support those theories as well, or are you saying these scientist with science fact only have some facts, and the others false? What a tangled web we can weave...

Now less people at 28% believe that God had no part in human evolution at all but that humans still evolved over millions of years. Now is this science fact or theory?

Then we get to the idea that humans have only been around less the 10,000 years. So which is it Utuna, where exactly do you put your facts, you know, those facts you wholeheartedly believe in? Are you in the 47% facts, or are you in the 19% facts? Where on this chart do you fall? Now I am assuming here that you believe humans have been on earth less then 10000 years (I guess I could be wrong), but yet you believe life has been here millions of years. I would be willing to bet that the number of people who believe that idea would be extremely small. In fact I know of no one else who believes such a thing.

Therefore, do you feel your qualified to present your argument as facts above and beyond what anyone else says here?

You present me as feeding my faith by "convoluted lies and Disneyland fairytales" in the world. I say no, I say I consider a theory in the world that life is young. I have said the reason I believe life is less then 40000 years old is because of the length of the 7th day, nothing more, nothing less...

Yet you appear to hold a great deal of faith in the science of this world. You seem to be more worried about how I make those scientist, and facts (according to you) look. Should we not be more concerned with how our fellow believers look and less worried about a theory in the world?

You call lies what are theories? Is it your contention that any idea other then yours of how the strata layers and life became entombed on this planet are "lies and ridiculing believers and God himself"?

I present to you Gods own words on this subject, and I suggest as a dear brother you contemplate it;

Job 34; "Brace yourself, please, like a man; I will question you, and you inform me. Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you think you understand."