Daily Devotional – November 3
How do Bible-affirming geologists and evolutionary geologists differ as they interpret the rock layers of the Earth?
|Biblical Geologist (global flood)||Geologist (NO global flood)|
|Time to form geological column||Sedimentary rocks formed mostly during and subsequent to the year-long Flood||Over 500 million years|
|Oldest fossils||Made by the Flood (~2400 BC)||Millions of years old|
|What are “first” and “last” fossils||First = Buried earliest or before Flood Last = buried late in /or after the Flood||First=early in evolution history Last = final survivor|
|Dinosaurs||Alive at same time as people||Died 65 million years ago before people evolved from monkey-people|
Flood geology and evolution have two VERY different ways of looking at the geological column and the fossils. Originally, the geological column explained the Flood of Noah’s time; later, evolutionists changed the meaning.
Scientists routinely find fossilized pollen, spores, and wood from land plants in the Cambrian rock layer (which is at the base of the geological column). Evolutionary geologists are surprised because land plants were not supposed to have evolved until much later in time. Flood geologists are not surprised at finding pollen and spores in the Cambrian layer because the geological column represents the order in which creatures and plants were buried by Noah’s Flood. Spores and pollen can blow from one place to another, but not from one time to another! The Bible’s description of a worldwide flood fits the fossil evidence much better than the evolutionary explanation.
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
~ Psalm 124:4-5
Source: "Pearls in Paradise" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett
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