'ROCK LAYERS CHALLENGE ASTEROID THEORY, according to a report in Science Daily 28 April 2009. There is one thing in this report that most will miss, so let’s do some quick math on the rock layer central to this debate, which is claimed to have formed at a rate of “two to three centimetres per thousand years”. That’s between 0.02 and 0.03 mm per year(approximately 0.01 inches). According to the International Sand Collectors Society: “sand is an unconsolidated (loose), rounded to angular rock fragment or mineral grain having a diameter in the range of 1/16 to 2 mm (0.0025 to 0.08in.).” Therefore, if the scientists in the study above are - correct, the sandstone was laid down at the rate of less than the thickness of one sand grain per year. We find it hard to believe that the weather could be so quiet as to allow sand grains to collect in one place at this rate for one year, let alone 300,000 years, and in all that time erosion did not remove the sediments faster than they were being deposited. What wonderful faith evolutionary geologists have, and what a reminder of one of our favorite neo-catastrophist’s constant comment (Dr. Derek Ager), “If one attempts to calculate rates of sedimentation in the past, the results are usually ludicrous.” The New Catastrophism, p1,Cambridge University Press, 1993 International Sand Collectors: http://www.sandcollectors.org/What_is_Sandx.html (Ref. sedimentology, time, uniformitarianism)'Photo: A grain of sand.
