Past Features

December 2005: You have heard of the amazing rocks at Giant's Causeway. Newly published web article shows there is abundant evidence that the causeway was deposited during Noah's Flood.

Check it out and see that we are talking about evidence, not wishful thinking. It is something that anyone can appreciate, not something that we have to take the words of experts for.

December 2005: Two early articles that classify the rocks of eastern Australia are now available. One tackles the basement rocks of the Brisbane area. It was the first project I attempted and it turned out to be the more difficult. The other classifies the rocks comprising the Great Artesian Basin. This project was much more straightforward, and it ended up being significant for our understanding the geology of eastern Australia.

November 2005: Visitors to these curious domes, which emerge from the horizon in central Australia, are astonished.

How did these rocks form? Something happened in the past, unlike anything we can even imagine happening today. Find out what.

July 2005: Here are two A4 pdf charts of the biblical geological model that you can download, print and put the side by side on the wall. Or you can print them on each side of one sheet for a hand-out.

Front Page (29kb)

Back page (165kb)

These colourful charts explain the basics of the biblical geological model and will help you apply the model for yourself. Please let me know if you find them helpful.

July 2005: Modern geologists often don't want to know about it. But the scientific principles of stratigraphy were first formulated by a biblical creationist. Attempts to revise history cannot escape the force of Steno's original writings. More.

July 2005: If you have completed 40 Days of Purpose you are probably excited about your faith and God's purpose for your life. But questions and doubts will inevitably come. Is it real or just imagination? We all run into disturbing challenges in our daily life, at university, through the media, in the workplace and as we talk to our neighbours. That is why it is important to dig deeper and get solid answers.  See here.

June 2005: I've prepared a field guide that covers four sites in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. This field trip is suitable for a family, a school class or a youth group. Learn how to 1. read geological maps; 2. understand how geologists work; 3. use common geological terms; 4. work out a geological cross-section; 5. work out a geological history of an area. More.

May 2005: Doesn't carbon dating prove the world is millions of years old?

No. You are probably thinking of radioactive dating, not carbon dating. More.

C-14 has a half-life of 5730 years and so can only measure ages in thousands of years, not millions. In fact, carbon-14 is strong evidence that the world is not millions of years old.

Wood from Sydney Sandstone (supposedly 230 million years old) was measured to contain carbon-14. If it really was that old, none should be left. Details.

It is impossible to measure the age of something directly. We measure isotopes in the present. We can only calculate an age after we make assumptions about the isotopes in the past. The age you get depends on the assumptions you make.

No geologist will accept a radioactive age if it doesn't agree with what he thinks it should be. See the way it really is, here.
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2 May 2005: Compelling evidence for Noah's Flood. The size of the sandstone deposits and the the basin wide extent of the rock formations point to catastrophe. All these sediments (the sandstone layers of the Three Sisters and the other sedimentary deposits underneath) were deposited rapidly as the floodwaters were rising on the earth. More.

The wide valley was carved late in the Flood as the floodwaters were receding from the earth in wide channels. The river in the valley today is a trickle compared with the volume of water that carved it. Valleys containing relatively small rivers are called underfit valleys. Almost all valleys on earth are underfit valleys.