Changing the way you look at the world
The remarkable whale fossils found in the desert in Chile are in the news again (e.g. BBC News) following a paper published in Proceedings B of the Royal Society, by Nicholas Pyenson and 13 other authors.1 These whales are one … Continued
Mike Oard reports in Journal of Creation: Provenance studies suggest the sand in the Navajo Sandstone on the Colorado Plateau in western USA originated from the Appalachian Mountains in eastern USA. The Navajo Sandstone is one of the largest supposedly … Continued
Biblical geologists have long demonstrated that opals form rapidly, as revealed in this 1994 article by Andrew Snelling, Creating opals: Opals in months—not millions of years! Another example is on this DVD Raging Waters, which has a section with … Continued
Bioturbation is the stirring of sediment by burrowing organisms such as worms, crabs and shellfish. Their feeding and burrowing disturbs the bedding and lamination fabric in the sediment, and with time destroys its structure. Geologist Carl Froede reported, in … Continued
Our coach driver snapped this photo at the final stop of CMI’s geological field trip, which I hosted in Brisbane last Saturday. We are standing in front of and on top of some large granite boulders extracted from a disused … Continued
After the waters of the 2011 Brisbane flood receded, residents discovered a blanket of mud covering everything. Brown and smelling vile, the mud found its way into flooded homes and settled onto tables, chairs, floors, power outlets, doors, light fittings … Continued
When we visited the Blowhole at Kiama, south of Sydney in New South Wales, the huge waves were making it erupt with a “whoomp”. People would stand for ages watching the action. It was fun seeing some little kids (and … Continued