Creation Moment 9/3/2025 - God's Global Phosphorus Delivery System

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? 

declare, if thou hast understanding. 

Job 38:4

--Even in a sinful fallen world, God designed a mechanism out of the chaos of the flood's aftermath to spread needed phosphorus.

--Even a an evolutionary model would have to come up with a mechanism from before Pangea came apart forming our current volcanic systems.

--As for by what mechanism God did it pre-flood, pre-volcanos who knows.

"Based on the profusion of life in every habitat we know here on earth, whether in oceanic, polar, desert, rainforest, or montane ecosystems, ... somehow “solved” this supply chain problem. 

Indeed, vast coal seams and fossil fuels speak of even richer ecosystems in the past. 

Fossils show that each species was well supplied with phosphorus for its ATP, membranes, and DNA. New research indicates surprising ways that our planet distributes phosphorus where it is needed and conserves existing supplies.

“The role of volcanoes and orogenic processes in keeping phosphorus plentiful throughout Earth’s history, deserves elaboration by design theorists.”

Though phosphorus is only a trace component of most lavas its effect must match supply to demand. Observations show that volcanic ash can promote life. 

This year, news from the University of Hawaii announced that “Kilauea volcano’s ash prompted [the] largest open ocean phytoplankton bloom.” Study co-author David Karl included phosphorus as one of the essential elements delivered by the volcano:

“The waters in the open ocean of the Pacific are nutrient depleted

and the addition of volcanic ash, especially iron in the ash, and to a lesser extent other trace elements and possibly phosphate, can stimulate the growth of marine phytoplankton, especially the so-called nitrogen-fixing microbes that can growth in the absence of additional nitrogen,” said Karl."

They mentioned two delivery mechanisms. 

One was lava flowing into the ocean, warming the deep waters and making them more buoyant. 

Another mechanism is wind.

"The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes offshore of Hawai’i Island. Volcanic ash can be transported much farther distances by winds, especially during explosive eruptions that inject materials high into the atmosphere."

The wind “supply chain” had reached 1,200 miles to the west of Hawaii in this instance. If a small volcano like Kilauea could produce the largest known phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific, then surely larger volcanoes throughout earth’s history have had the potential to distribute phosphorus worldwide.
Wind also delivers phosphorus in fine dust particles high up in the atmosphere. 

Q: Would anyone imagine that dust from the Sahara could supply phosphorus to the Amazon rainforest? 

That was the surprising conclusion of a NASA report from 2015. Researchers monitored dust plumes from the Sahara with the Calypso satellite, supplementing the orbital images of the plume with ground studies in the Amazon Basin.

Q: But where did the Sahara get its phosphorus? 

Dr. Hongbin Yu from Goddard Space Flight Center explains that it has been stored within dead microbes that are “remnant in Saharan sands from part of the desert’s past as a lake bed.”

"This trans-continental journey of dust is important because of what

is in the dust, Yu said. Specifically the dust picked up from the Bodélé Depression in Chad, an ancient lake bed where rock minerals composed of dead microorganisms are loaded with phosphorus. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plant proteins and growth, which the Amazon rain forest depends on in order to flourish."

The Sahara now shares its bounty with the world, transporting phosphorus from one of the planet’s most desolate places to one of its most fertile.
Of the 182 million tons of Sahara dust lofted by wind annually, only a fraction reaches Amazonia. But remarkably, Amazonia’s shortfall is replenished almost perfectly through this intercontinental aerial delivery mechanism." 

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IN the NEWS - "curved, broken and stacked".... Wonder What Caused That?

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Genesis 7:19

"Greater Adria, depicted as it’s theorized to have looked years ago. Dark green areas represent land above water, while light green areas are submerged.

Researchers have discovered a continent that’s been hidden beneath Southern Europe. The landmass is as big as Greenland.
The only remaining part of this continent is a strip that runs from Turin via the Adriatic Sea to the heel of the boot that forms Italy.
During the continent’s aquatic migration, much of the landmass was scraped off when it was forced under Southern Europe’s mantle. These removed masses then formed parts of the Alps, the Apennines, the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey.
“It is quite simply a geological mess,” said van Hinsbergen. “Everything is curved, broken and stacked." 

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:12

"Nestled next to Medora, North Dakota, and 45 miles east of Glendive, Montana, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). TRNP consists of a vast badlands landscape of flat-topped hills and isolated buttes. The sedimentary rocks in the park are members of the late-Flood (Cenozoic) Fort Union Group and contain mudstone, volcanic ash, sandstone, and lignite (low-grade coal).

Four observations testify that the receding waters of the global Flood were instrumental in the creation of the rocks and the landscape at TRNP.

1. Extensive Pancaked Bedding
The stacked sediments in the park are beautifully colored individual beds that extend as far as the eye can see. 

Q: What river system today spreads thin layers of sediment, many a few feet thick or less, over such vast areas, stacking them like

pancakes? 

--Rivers carve channels, but we don’t see many channels cut into these layers.
Only broad and extensive flows of water can spread the thin layers we observe in TRNP. 

Plus, many of the beds contain ripples, cross-beds, and evidence of soft-sediment folding and slumping. All of these features tell us the sediments were deposited quickly by fast-moving water. A better interpretation is that these rocks were laid down during the receding phase of the Genesis Flood.

2. Flat Coal Beds Proclaim the Flood
Along the South Unit’s scenic loop trail are sites like Coal Vein Trail and Scoria Point Overlook. These reflect the many thin lignite (coal) beds within the sedimentary deposits of the park. Scoria, sometimes called clinker, is a term used for rocks altered by the heat emitted

when adjacent coal layers get cooked underground. Many lignite beds were ignited by lightning strikes. Scoria is often dark red or black and is bubbly-looking.
The conventional interpretation says the coal in TRNP was deposited millions of years ago when this area was a swamp. But the near perfectly flat tops and bottoms of the coal beds tell a different account that supports the Biblical Flood.

--Real swamps, where plants grow in place, show roots protruding downward, disrupting the bottom of the layers. 

--Instead, these flat-bottomed lignite beds were caused by the transportation of massive vegetation mats torn loose from pre-Flood lands by the Flood. They were immediately buried and compressed by mudflows, volcanic ash, and sand slurries into the flat layers we observe.

3. Petrified Forest, a Biblical View
The Petrified Forest Trailhead sign tells visitors that
"Sixty million years ago, this land looked similar to today’s Florida Everglades. Abundant water and a warmer climate promoted the growth of large trees. Giant petrified stumps and logs are remnants of this ancient wetland."
As with most park interpretations, the sign gets some things right, but the Genesis Flood is a better explanation. 

Trees that are very similar to today’s bald cypress, magnolia, and sequoia are found as rootless stumps and branchless logs all along the trail. Many are in a near-upright position. But the trees were clearly transported by water, like the material that makes up the lignite beds was. They did not grow in these positions or they would still have their roots embedded in the layers below.
--Instead, these trees were torn loose from where they grew, transported by floodwaters, and deposited rapidly. Gravity pulled the heavier ends down when they settled. These tree remnants were likely carried by massive sediment flows draining off the pre-Flood uplands to the north.

Dissolved silica in groundwater from the volcanic ash layers led to their fossilization, replacing the original tissues and making petrified wood." 

ICR

IN the NEWS - Earth's Lava Lamp? Reserved?

"Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings.
These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear to be hotter and older than other structures nearby that are known to be sunken tectonic plates.

This indicates that the Earth's mantle might not work the way we think ....
These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the surface of the Earth.
They were discovered after geophysicists analyzed the waves of earthquakes traveling through these regions of the Earth. As ultrasound can reveal structures deep within our bodies, so can measuring subtle changes to the speed and direction of seismic waves reveals what lies deep beneath our feet.
However, the hot temperature of the LLSVPs cannot fully explain the properties of the seismic waves they were hearing emanating from these regions deep within the Earth.
The researchers suggest that the buried supercontinent regions must also be made of much larger mineral grains than the buried subducted crust, which would explain the difference in the waves they observed.
Subducting tectonic plates that end up in the slab graveyard consist of small grains because they recrystallize on their journey deep into the Earth. A small grain size means a larger number of grains and therefore also a larger number of boundaries between the grains.
he Earth's mantle is the engine that drives all these phenomena. 

Take, for example, mantle plumes, which are large bubbles of hot material that rise from the Earth's deep interior as in a lava lamp. When these plumes reach the surface, they result in volcanoes forming, spewing forth lava.

Q: Is this reserved for the Time of Trouble on earth? And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, 

by the same word are kept in store, 

reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

2 Peters 3:4-7

The Carved out Nile

"From Aswan in the south to Cairo, the Nile occupies a long, reasonably flat valley generally12 to 18 miles wide. 

Typically, it was carved some 500 ft deep into the limestones of the desert plateau that covers most of Egypt. 

The Valley of the Kings sits along one of the limestone cliffs.

On top of the plateau was a scattered deposit of gravel and cobbles, both of chert. 

Chert is a form of quartz, but with very fine-grained texture comprising microscopic crystals. It is incredibly hard—impossible to scratch with a steel knife.

Some chert cobbles were more than 6 in long. 

They were well rounded, indicating they had been transported by

water. Some cobbles were broken, and dented with circular marks, called percussion marks. These indicate that they smashed into each other as they were carried along by the torrential water flow that rounded and broke them. Significantly, percussion marks are not forming on such hard rocks today, even in the most powerful modern flood events.

The chert would have originated from chert layers and nodules within the limestone when massive water flows catastrophically eroded the valley. 

While this sort of erosion creates a wide valley in rapid time, some portions of the limestone originally deposited during the Flood’s Ascending Phase remain. These are called erosional remnants—such as the Giza plateau near Cairo.

This erosional remnant in a broad valley 

---with water-rounded hard rocks on top that are broken 

---and contain percussion marks indicates that the Nile River Valley was carved by an extraordinarily torrential water flow. 

The Recessive Stage of Noah’s Flood would produce just such a flow, as the floodwaters that covered the whole of the African continent drained from the landscape." 

CMI

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

Creation Moment 11/10/2024 -Decaying Field

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22

"Historical measurements indicate that Earth’s magnetic field experiences a loss of approximately 50% of its energy every 1,400 years. Even if past reversals of the field are disregarded, which would have further depleted its energy, the maximum age of the Earth’s magnetic field is about 20,000 years. Any older, the electrical current needed for such a strong field would have been large enough to melt the whole earth.

But a decaying field is consistent with God creating the earth about 6,000 years ago, with an electrical current that generates magnetism. And this current decays exponentially as per standard electrical theory.

Evolutionary geophysicists must claim that Earth has maintained a magnetic field for billions of years. However, they lack a comprehensive understanding of how this could happen.

To sustain such a current, an electrical generator—a dynamo—operating within the interior of the Earth would be necessary. 

Q: But how could such a generator spontaneously form? 

Despite a century of investigation, conventional scientists continue to be unable to develop a functional dynamo theory." 

CMI

CPT

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"Geophysicist Samantha Hansen and colleagues may have just

strengthened evidence for catastrophic plate tectonics (CPT), the leading theoretical model for explaining the Genesis Flood. 

Almost 40 years ago, creation scientist and geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner suggested that the entire pre-Flood ocean floor logically must have been rapidly subducted into the earth’s mantle during the Flood cataclysm:

"Placing the beginning of the Flood at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary implies that dramatic tectonic change including the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea, the subduction of all the pre-Mesozoic oceanic lithosphere, and the formation and cooling of all the present-day oceanic lithosphere must have occurred during and since the Flood."

--Because of their worldview, uniformitarians ignore in their theories and models the experimental finding that silicate rocks can weaken by factors of billions or more under the levels of shear stress that can arise in the earth’s mantle. 

As a consequence of this rapid runaway subduction, new ocean floor is rapidly formed. Because this hot ocean floor is buoyant, it rises and forces enormous amounts of seawater onto the continents, causing catastrophic flooding on a global scale. 

However, as this new ocean crust cooled, it shrank and caused the height of the ocean bottom to decrease and allowed the floodwaters to drain off the continents. 

Furthermore, the resulting warmer oceans and volcanoes associated with the rapid subduction would have been prime triggers for the post-Flood Ice Age.

In 1994, Baumgardner pointed out that spectacular geophysical evidence for this recently subducted ocean floor exists today near the base of the mantle:

"In regard to the fate of the pre-Flood seafloor, there is strong observational support in global seismic tomography models for cold, dense material near the base of the lower mantle in a belt surrounding the present Pacific Ocean. Such a spatial pattern is consistent with subduction of large areas of seafloor at the edges of a continent configuration commonly known as Pangea."

--The apparent coolness of the subducted slabs at the base of the mantle today is an argument that the subduction occurred in the quite recent past.

Recent research simply affirms this earlier finding, based on research published last year, that the remains of ancient ocean seafloor indeed are present in the southern hemisphere’s lower mantle just above the outer core:

"The most high-resolution map yet of the underlying geology beneath Earth’s Southern Hemisphere revealed something we previously never knew about: an ancient ocean floor that may wrap around the core."

Geophysicists can infer clues about Earth’s composition from the way earthquake waves travel through the interior. 

Sound waves move especially slowly in areas called ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs). Hansen and her colleagues found “anomalous” ULVZs in the deep mantle above the Core Mantle Boundary (CMB). These ULVZs were between a few kilometers and tens of kilometers thick:

"According to the researchers, these ULVZs are most likely oceanic crust buried over millions of years....It’s tricky to make assumptions about rock types and movement based on seismic wave movement, and the researchers aren’t ruling out other options. However, the ocean floor hypothesis seems the most likely explanation for these ULVSs right now."

This interpretation of the data is yet further affirmation of creation science and catastrophic plate tectonics (CPT)." 

ICR

Lessons from Mount St. Helens Eruption

"Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington State, north-west USA,

would be one of the most studied volcanoes on earth. On 18 May 1980, at 8:32 am, a surge of magma deep underground triggered an avalanche on the mountainside. Like a cork popped from a bottle of soda, the pressure inside the mountain unleashed the deadliest and costliest volcanic disaster in the history of the US: 57 lives were lost.

One remarkable effect of the Mount St. Helens eruptions is that geologists are now more accepting of catastrophic geologic processes. 

---Previously they were wedded to the idea that geological features

formed slowly over millions of years. But their ideas changed after they saw that thick beds of ash, deposited in less than an hour, displayed fine laminations. That proved that long periods of time are not essential for fine layers to form.
---Radioactive dating of rock that formed since the 1980 eruption gave ‘ages’ of hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, showing that the fundamental assumptions behind radioactive-dating were wrong.

During Noah’s Flood, 4,500 years ago, water not only rained from the heavens but also burst from underground from “the fountains of the great deep” (In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. Genesis 7:11). These fractures and upheavals in the earth’s crust caused great volcanic activity. It was many hundreds of years after the Flood ended before the earth settled down.

During Noah’s Flood some volcanic eruptions covered enormous areas, such as the Columbia River Basalt Group in north-western

USA. Here, as many as 300 individual lava flows engulfed some

63,000 sq. miles of the countryside to a depth of more than 1.1 miles.

The lava gushing from the earth was so hot and runny that it flowed across the landscape for vast distances. The flood waters were still around when the eruptions took place, and they deposited sediment, as well as wood (now petrified) and gravel, between some of the lava flows. The individual flows followed each other so quickly that there was not much erosion between them. But when the lava finally stopped, as the waters of Noah’s Flood receded into the ocean they eroded deep valleys into the basalt complex.

Molten rock, while it is inside the earth, is called magma, but once it erupts onto the surface is called lava. Rocks that harden from magma are called plutonic (after the Greek god of the underworld, Pluto), and usually have large crystals, while rocks hardening from lava are called volcanic, and usually have very fine crystals. The composition of the magma depends on the source rock and how much of it melted.

Magma that is rich in magnesium and iron is described as mafic. It is highly fluid (thin, runny) and gushes out of fissures in the ground at

over 1,000 °C. This lava solidifies into a black rock called basalt (if the magma cools inside the earth, it forms gabbro). Like a fountain, basaltic eruptions in Hawaii and Iceland spray red-hot lava into the air, which then flows in glowing red streams into nearby valleys or the ocean. These eruptions are placid and predictable, and popular as tourist attractions. The lava forms large, flat cones called shield volcanoes.
Magma with less iron and magnesium is less fluid, and can solidify into a grey rock called diorite. If this type of magma becomes lava, it will solidify into andesite.

With even less iron and magnesium the magma is thick and tacky. It is called felsic magma because it is rich in elements that produce feldspar and silica minerals. Felsic magma can erupt explosively or ooze like toothpaste to form a blob. The lava solidifies into a yellow, pink or pale-grey rock called rhyolite (the plutonic equivalent is granite). Mt St. Helens erupted into a lava dome of dacite, between andesite and rhyolite in composition." 

CMI

Creation Moment 6/23/2024 - GOE = GOM

Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Isaiah 42:5

"Once upon a time, 2.4 billion Darwin Years ago (give or take 100 million), oxygen levels in the oceans were very low. Slowly, bacteria and algae found ways to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen escaped, but the oxygen accumulated in the oceans and the atmosphere. This dramatic turn of events is called the Great

Oxidation Event (GOE, also called the Great Oxygenation Event). As oxygen became available, microbes found it useful for more efficient metabolism. Millions of years later, when oxygen reached near modern levels, an explosion of life resulted! Oxygen kickstarted the evolution of complex body plans. Then larger animals were able to live on land, and eventually the oxygen-enriched atmosphere led to the emergence of human brains that figured all this out.

Sound familiar? This useful scenario has died and come back to life repeatedly (8 March 2021) after being dealt a death blow as far back as 2013 (2 Sept 2013). That was after it was “dethroned” in 2009 (17 April 2009). It should be called, therefore, the Great Oxidation Myth (GOM), repeated uncritically by evolutionists (see 16 March 2017). Articles and papers this month show again that this Zombie Science is back up, denying it was ever dead. But as we will argue, The GOM creates more problems than it supposedly solves.

What the geologic record reveals about how the oceans were oxygenated (University of Utah, 12 June 2024). Chadlin Ostrander gets his 15 minutes of fame in a press release photo. He performed divination on shale rocks, announcing that stable isotopes of thallium have spoken to him about the rise of oxygen in the rocks. But it’s complicated. It wasn’t a smooth rise. The spirit of the shales told him that, contrary to earlier beliefs about the GOE, oxygen went up and down on a teeter totter for some 200 million Darwin Years! Imagine that! Isn’t it better to have multiple GOE zombies walking around than just one?

"For the first half of Earth’s existence, its atmosphere and oceans were largely devoid of O2. This gas was being produced by cyanobacteria in the ocean before the GOE, it seems, but in these early days the O2 was rapidly destroyed in reactions with exposed minerals and volcanic gasses. Poulton, Bekker and colleagues discovered that the rare sulfur isotope signatures disappear but then reappear, suggesting multiple O2 rises and falls in the atmosphere during the GOE. This was no single ‘event.’

"Earth wasn’t ready to be oxygenated when oxygen starts to be produced. Earth needed time to evolve biologically, geologically and chemically to be conducive to oxygenation,” Ostrander said. “It’s like a teeter totter. You have oxygen production, but you have so much oxygen destruction, nothing’s happening. We’re still trying to figure out when we’ve completely tipped the scales and Earth could not go backwards to an anoxic atmosphere.”

Algae to Earth: ‘We’re not ready! We need more time to evolve! The Stuff Happens Law is too slow!’ The Earth and cyanobacteria rode their teeter totter for 200 million more Darwin Years. Finally, the microbes were ready to evolve, and Earth allowed oxygen to accumulate so that something could happen. And happen it did! Almost 20 new complex body plans emerged without transitional forms in the geological blink of an eye." 

CEH

"Where did the Flood Waters go" people ask......well......

....the same day were 

---all the fountains of the great deep broken up, 

---and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:11

"It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as 'ringwoodite'.

Scientists previously discovered that water is stored inside mantle rock in a sponge-like state, which isn’t a liquid, solid or a gas, but instead a fourth state.

The scientific paper titled ‘Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle’ laid out the findings. "The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water, there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water," said geophysicist Steve Jacobsen at the time.

"This mineral can contain a lot of water under conditions of the deep mantle,” added Jacobsen. He added: "I think we are finally seeing

evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades."

From that, they were able to establish that the water was being held in the rock known as ringwoodite.

If the rock contained just 1 per cent water, it would mean that there is three times more water under the surface of the Earth than there is in the oceans on the surface.

It’s not the only significant discovery made by scientists recently, either. In fact, researchers found an entirely new ecosystem when turning over volcanic crust with the aid of an underwater robot, showing that even now, nature has many more secrets to unearth." 

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Z-shaped coal seams

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Genesis 8:5

"The evolutionary millions-of-years ‘swamp forest’ storytelling about
coal’s origins cannot explain Z-shaped coal seams—because they can only have formed through the action of rushing water.
Noah’s Flood explains coal, the fossil-bearing rocks." 

CMI

Are you bemused like these geologists?

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Genesis 8:3

"Hidden ‘star’ sand dune mystery solved by ancient find

(Aberystwyth University, 4 March 2024). “Star” sand dunes are ones where ridges come together to a peak, forming a star pattern or pyramid shape. 

These are seen forming today around the earth, and even on other bodies in the solar system. 

But strangely, geologists can’t find any in Deep Time. 

Q: Why is that? 

Geologists at Aberystwyth went to Morocco to look for clues and took their divination tool with them.

"The research reveals the oldest parts of the base of the Moroccan dune are 13,000 years old. However, the discovery that it had formed rapidly in the last thousand years surprised scientists who had thought larger dunes were far older.

Believed to be the tallest dunes on Earth – with one in the Badain Jaran Desert in China reaching 300 metres high – star dunes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, on Mars and on Saturn’s moon Titan.

Despite being common today, star dunes have almost never been found in the geological record. Their absence has bemused scientists as past deserts are a common part of the history of Earth, preserved in rocks deep underground."

They observed an existing star dune, not any in the geologic record. 

Q: How does that solve the mystery?

“This research is really the case of the missing sand dune – it had been a mystery why we could not see them in the geological record. It’s only because of new technology that we can now start to uncover their secrets. These findings will probably surprise a lot of people as we can see how quickly this enormous dune formed, and that it is moving across the desert at about 50 cm a year. These fantastic star dunes are one of the natural wonders of the world.”

Just like in Darwinian biology, Stuff Happens at different rates at different times. The model required some radical time adjustments. No slow and gradual dune formation here! It’s more like punctuated equilibria in evolutionary biology:

"The scientists’ breakthrough research suggests the star dune formed at around the same time as the Younger Dryas event, an abrupt cooling period in Earth’s history. It also reveals that the dune stopped growing for a period of 8,000 years.

Pottery found at the site also suggests wetter conditions, perhaps an enlarged monsoon, that stabilised the dune before the onset of a great drought.

The study used luminescence dating techniques developed at Aberystwyth University to discover the last time minerals in the sand were exposed to sunlight to determine their age."

They are proud of their homegrown divination method, but have to

live with a strange notion that a dune formed very rapidly, and then stopped for 8,000 years. That’s a pretty long drought for a planet whose weather is constantly changing.

They never got back to why star dunes are not found in the geological record. Does their paper in Science Advances help? No; they just explain it away as something that’s hard to identify, but they have some futureware to sell.

"Individual sedimentary structures in star dunes are similar to those in linear or barchanoid dunes, likely leading to misidentification in the rock record. However, the suite of features described in this paper will permit identification of star dunes in future studies of the rock record. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shows that accumulation of the Erg Chebbi star dune post-dates the end of the African Humid Period (AHP). At the base of the dune, there is an ~ 8000-year hiatus in the record. Since then, the dune has grown rapidly to create a 100 m high dune within the past 1000 years and is migrating towards the west. Changes in the cross-strata support the idea that star dune construction was accompanied by a change in the wind directions."

Q: Is this plausible? 

---Their deep-time narrative goes like this: 

--A long time ago, a big erg (sand field) with a star dune forms in Morocco. 

--Then nothing happens for 8,000 years. 

--Then the wind shifts. 

--A world record star dune piles up within centuries, and it’s moving. Yes, stuff happens in strange ways.

Q: Are you bemused like these geologists? (bemused: bewildered, confused, lost in thought, preoccupied). 

No need to be. 

Read Genesis 1-12 to see what happened." 

CEH

Spanish Peaks tell us.......

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Genesis 7:19

"Geologists explore the hidden history of Colorado’s Spanish Peaks (University of Colorado at Boulder, 4 March 2024). A pair of isolated mountains in southeast Colorado is an anomaly. However they arose, these so-called Spanish Peaks didn’t follow current theory of orogeny (mountain building). Geologists at the U of Colorado tried to figure out what happened. It was something.

"According to the team’s results, the Spanish Peaks first formed when magma welled up from deep within Earth’s crust but didn’t

quite break through to the surface.

Then, something happened. In a very short span of time, geologically-speaking, huge tracks of land in southeastern Colorado vanished. Between roughly 18 and 14 million years ago, more than a mile of sedimentary rocks around the Spanish Peaks eroded away, then were swept into the Arkansas River.

The researchers suspect that as-of-yet-unidentified geologic forces were pushing up southeastern Colorado from below—exposing previously underground rocks to rain and flowing water."

Q: Did they see stuff happen? 

A: No. 

Q: Did they travel in a time machine 18 million years back? 

A: No. 

Q: Did they witness a mile of sedimentary rocks form? 

A: No. 

Q: Did they see them vanish? 

A: No. 

Q: Did they identify geological forces capable of doing these things? 

A: No. 

Q: Are any such huge tracts of land vanishing into rivers today? 

A: No. 

All they did was take samples at three sites and use voodoo dating on

them, called U-Th/He Thermochronology. This divination method supposedly reveals to their imaginations how many million Darwin Years ago the rocks were hot.

If more than a kilometer of material vanished without a trace, it sounds like something catastrophic happened over a wide region—not the nearby river. Floods happen; is that a cause for consideration?

Q: Where did all the sediments come from? 

Q: Why are those sediments filled with billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth?" 

CEH

Caspian Basin and a late Cenozoic Flood boundary

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; Genesis 7:18

"An examination of the rocks in the South Caspian Basin provides additional confirmation of a late Cenozoic Flood boundary. 

This area also shows continuous marine strata from the Cretaceous

level upwards through the Miocene, and even as high as the Lower Pliocene in the Middle Caspian Basin just to the north. 

Indeed, the Miocene marine rocks in the South Caspian Basin are the source rocks for much of the oil produced in the vicinity. These rocks have been studied by oil and gas companies and found to contain tremendous volumes of buried marine algae. 

The primary source rocks in the South Caspian Basin are the Oligocene to Lower Miocene Maykop Series and the overlying Middle-Upper Miocene Diatomaceous Suite, which collectively are

several kilometres thick. These strata were buried by upwards of 8 km (5 mi) of additional Cenozoic deposits, placing them in the oil generation window. Devlin et al. made special note of the maturity level of these sediments, stating:
“The ubiquitous nature of this source facies throughout much of the coastal and offshore regions of the South Caspian Basin is evidenced by prolific seepage of black oil.”

If we assume all of the Tertiary rocks deposited here were post-Flood, then the bulk of these strata would have had to have been emplaced without any Flood influence and in a limited window of time prior to the onset of the Pleistocene Ice Age. 

Recall, the conditions for the Ice Age would have only been in place

for a limited number of years after the Flood. The warm oceans from the creation of a new seafloor would have cooled and the prolific volcanic eruptions of ash-rich volcanoes would have begun to wane within a few centuries of the Flood cessation. 

As a consequence, the beginning of the Ice Age limits the window of time available for most of the Tertiary deposits to about 100 years, or at most 200 years. If we assume a thickness of 15 km, then an average of 150 m of sediment per year must have been continually deposited across the South Caspian Basin in the timespan of 100 years. This equates to 12.5 m (41 ft) per month across an area of 181,000 km2. This is no trivial volume in that short window of time. And even if we stretch the timeframe to 200 years, we still get an average of 6.25 m (20.5 ft) per month.

---It is difficult to imagine local catastrophes creating this volume of sediment across such a vast area in such a limited amount of time. Also, how could anything survive in an area with this much active deposition?

Stratigraphic data is not as biased as fossil data and is much less

subjective. It is a directly observable record of what has been deposited. Although some of the rock record has obviously been destroyed by erosion, what has been preserved is still telling. Indeed, the overwhelming strength of the global rock record needs to be acknowledged in any interpretation of the Flood/post-Flood boundary.

The sheer volume and global extent of marine rocks deposited during the Tertiary is what tips the scale in Favour of an upper Cenozoic post-Flood boundary. We suggest that this data set is so vast and complete that it is nearly inconceivable to argue otherwise." 

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