Case 16: Rapid Ice Formation

During World War 2, six P38 fighter planes and two B17 bomber planes had to make emergency landings in Greenland.  All of the pilots and crew survived and were rescued but the planes abandoned in the remote area.  In 1988 private salvage hunters (United States citizens) funded a salvage operation to dig out the planes.  Surprisingly, they found the planes were now buried under 250 feet of ice and snow.  This is 250 feet of snow (hardened to ice) accumulation in less than 50 years (5.4 feet per year).

Cores through ice in the north arctic and in the south Antarctica have been falsely characterized as "millions of years" or "hundreds of thousands of years" or "tens of thousands of years" of accumulation.  A 3000-ft long ice core could represent just 2,000 years of snow deposition in perennial cold climates based on the empirical evidence.  The photograph below is from the ice cave excavated around one of the planes.  Parts were hauled up through a vertical shaft to the surface and planes reassembled elsewhere.

Evidence of Catastrophic Geology: Case 15

2011 Japan Tsunami

In 2011 a large tsunami hit Japan and caused significant damage and loss of life.  One of the amazing photographs is presented herein.  There is also video available online.  After the flooding, borings in the interior 1.6 km inland revealed the tsunami deposited 40 cm of soil in a matter of several days.  The height of the flood wave reach 26 feet in some areas.  The 40 cm deposit (almost 1.4 feet) is a single layer produced in a couple of days, not tens of thousands of years.  The flood deposit layer varied in thickness which was controlled by topograhy and the bedload in the water.  Multiple energy pulses (waves) produced different layers or seams within the overall deposit (i.e. a two day 1.4-ft layer with a varved appearance was not the result of dozens of deposits placed over tens of thousands of years).  This is just one more example of empirical evidence that proves the sedimentary deposits we find across the planet are not the result of imaginary slow ("millions of years") deposition.

"Radiometric Dating" is a misnomer

Some articles explaining the fallacy of "radiometric dating" of soil and rock:


Volcanic lava proving radiometric dating does not work (Andrew Snelling, PhD Geology)

The-fallacies-of-radioactive-dating-of-rocks (Andrew Snelling, PhD Geology)

Radiometric-dating-breakthroughs (Carl Wieland, MD)

Problems with the U - Pb Radioisotope Dating Methods (Dr. Andrew Snelling, PhD Geology)

Little Known Facts About Radiometric Dating (Tas Walker, PhD Mechanical Engineering; BS Earth Science)

Radiometric Dating and the Age of the Earth (Ralph Matthews, PhD Radiation Chemistry)

Diamonds are a Creationist's Best Friend (Jonathan Safarti, PhD Chemistry)

More Bad News for Radiometric Dating (David Plaisted, PhD Computer Science)

Catastrophic Geology: Case 14 - Vredefort Impact Crater

In the area southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, is evidence of the largest impact crater on the planet.  Although the origin of the Vredefort structure has been uncertain for many years, until the 1990's when consensus was reached.  The impact feature is only visible from geology mapping information and satellite imagery.  The crater has a diameter of 50 miles !  An outer ring is 200 miles in diameter !  A prevailing model is that a 10 km diameter asteroid within the overall asteroid shower of the great catastrophe, punched into the earth, and rebounding rocks thrust up and out forming the inner ring composed of hills of metamorphosed rock (gold bearing quartz and conglomerate rock).  As reported by Tas Walker (geologist):

"The area inside the ring is granitic rock which forms the basement of the area.  Before the granite rebounded, it sat more than 20 km beneath the surface.  The force of the impact deeply fractured the granite, and partly melted it.  Some magma was rich in iron and magnesium and filled the cracks, enveloping chunks (clasts) of broken granite, and solidifying into a black, glassy rock called pseudotachylite (soo-do-tacky-lite).  Because it has been found at a number of impact sites around the world it has been taken as evidence for the asteroid [shower] impact.  Leeuwkop Quarry near Parys shows magnificient exposures of pseudotachylite enveloping large, rounded chunks of granite."

"Other magma was rich in silica and aluminum.  This flowed into other cracks forming a light colored rock called granophyre, which is exposed as a number of long dykes in the area.  These dykes and the pattern they form are also evidence for the impact."

Widespread and deep geologic changes occurred within minutes.  Not "millions" of years.  The asteroid penetrated sedimentary deposits (water borne deposits) and the underlying bedrock.  Subsequent rapid sedimentation (the Karro Supergroup geologic formation) occurred after the impact.  Tremendous erosion then occurred as the water level receded, forming the Great African planation surface and exposing the Vredefort dome.  The patterns of drainage erosion around the dome through the tilted ring of mountains are evidence of receding water, not slow erosion along drainage valleys.