Seismites Support the Genesis Flood
One benefit of writing up these here posts is that I get a prairie schooner-full of education on all sorts of sciences. It is actually rather fun. In this case, a couple of new words to describe rapid geological deposits — and they do not appear in older geology dictionaries.
If you think on it a spell, you can see the roots of these words. One is tempestites, because deposits were made by storms (tempests), and the other is a word for what we're going to look at right here, seismites (shaped by earthquakes).
Secular and creationist geologists agree that plate tectonics occur. However, secularists are married up with deep time and uniformitarianism, so they cannot explain how plate tectonics even began. Creation science can tell them, but secularists don't like the concept of catastrophic plate tectonics, even though the Genesis Flood is the best explanation for plate tectonics.
Continents get to careening down the expressway, texting while driving, and smash into other continents, which results in damage and lawsuits. Okay, so it's not quite the way it works. What we do see with tempestites is that sediment that is still wet and the earthquakes influence the rock layers before new sediments are laid over them.
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| Seismite photo from Wikimedia Commons / Mark A. Wilson |
Secular and creationist geologists agree that plate tectonics occur. However, secularists are married up with deep time and uniformitarianism, so they cannot explain how plate tectonics even began. Creation science can tell them, but secularists don't like the concept of catastrophic plate tectonics, even though the Genesis Flood is the best explanation for plate tectonics.
Continents get to careening down the expressway, texting while driving, and smash into other continents, which results in damage and lawsuits. Okay, so it's not quite the way it works. What we do see with tempestites is that sediment that is still wet and the earthquakes influence the rock layers before new sediments are laid over them.
A seismite would make a great “marker bed.” It’s like a vast sheet that is different from every layer below it and above it. If geologists could identify this sheet, they would know whether dinosaurs were buried earlier than the earthquake (below it), or later than the earthquake (above it), or maybe even as a result of the earthquake. That’s important to reading history from the rocks (to geologists, anyway).To read the entire article or download the MP3 version, click on "When Continents Collide".
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What catastrophe could cause an earthquake big enough to disrupt 30 feet of the earth’s surface? Secular geologists don’t have an explanation. Not even an asteroid impact can explain such huge seismites, especially in rapid succession. Asteroid impacts are the most powerful geologic processes known to conventional geologists, who often postulate that one killed off the dinosaurs!