May the 18th 1980 should have wrecked uniformitarian geology for all time. This is the idea that all the rock and land formations we see today MUST have taken millions or even billions of years to form. For years, geologists have insisted that:- Coal formation takes considerable periods of time.
- Stratified layers a few millimetres to many metres thick take massive amounts of time.
- Erosion is a lengthy, gradual process.
Well the eruption of Mount St Helens has blown all three of these ideas out of the water. 27 years on, there are significant coal deposits in Spirit Lake made from the trees destroyed post eruption. A mini Grand Canyon (one fortieth the size of the original) has been formed on Toutle River indicating the means by which the more famous one was formed. Stratified layers of considerable depths were formed in minutes. Most interestingly, laboratories asked to date rocks formed in the eruptions have come up with dates of millions of years! I have checked out the responses of darwinian geologists. So. Have the uniformitarian evolutionists backtracked? - No. Of course not! Never let the facts get in the way of a good theory.
LINKS: http://www.trumpetmin.org/nature.htm http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v6/i1/mtsthelens.asp http://www.creationism.org/articles/swenson1.htm
