Guests: Bruce Malone
Description: Bruce Malone is speaking at the West Michigan Creation Fellowship, which meets every third Tuesday at the Forest Hills Bible Chapel in Ada, Michigan. His topic is “How to Fold a Rock”, showing that the folded sediments found the the geologic record must have formed quickly and any sediments that are folded must have occurred while the sediments were pliable mud. He explains the history of how long periods of times, millions of years, became embedded in the thinking of geologists. Charles Lyell came up with the idea that if he could show that the sedimentary layers of rock were laid down over millions of years, he could subtly discredit the authority of the Bible and free geology from the timeline of Moses. For many years, this uniformitarian doctrine was what was taught in public schools and universities. It still is for the most part, but amongst themselves, geologists realize that catastrophe is the best explanation for the what we find in the geologic record. An example is the Chattanooga Shale, a formation that covers much of the North American continent, but is mostly flat, about 20 feet thick, with no evidence of eroded features in it. He shows many more examples how a world-wide flood is the best explanation for vast amounts of sediment laid down all over the world.
