Changing the way you look at the world
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
This graph shows the height of the Brisbane River at Jindalee Bridge during the floods that devastated thousands of homes and businesses last week over the 12th and 13th January. My daughter and her family live not far from the … Continued
The latest issue of Journal of Creation, volume 24(3), is now available. Creationist scientists have had to establish their own research journals because mainstream science journals are tightly censored and closed against creationist ideas. One of the first such journals … Continued
As I have previously mentioned, the Australian geological map series is most helpful for a first assessment of the effects of Noah’s Flood. The geological section shown here is from the Wollongong 1:250,000 sheet (SI 56 09, second edition, New … Continued
I was working with the electricity industry in Mineral House, Brisbane, when I first developed the biblical geological model. The library of the Mines Department was just one floor below my office and I would regularly pore over their geological … Continued
When I started developing the geological model based on biblical history I wanted to apply it to some real geology to see how it worked. One helpful resource I found was the 1:250,000 scale geological maps prepared in the 1960s … Continued
The black stuff at the top of this picture is oil sand, and it is sitting on a white limestone deposit visible at the bottom. These sands, which contain an enormous quantity of oil by world standards, are found in … Continued
For a panoramic view of the Glass House Mountains, north of Brisbane, the lookout on the escarpment of the Beerburrum State Forest is hard to beat. Quality interpretive signs by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services tell tourists what they … Continued
There is a certain mythology that has grown up in geological circles around James Hutton (1726–1797), the Scottish physician widely regarded as the father of modern geology. The legend that passes along the corridors of academia makes a good story … Continued
A geologist friend of mine told me recently that he is distantly related to James Hutton. That’s something of which a geologist would be proud since Hutton is widely considered the father of modern geology. Hutton’s big contribution was a … Continued