Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
Description: This is a historic argument by Creationists used by Henry M. Morris in The Genesis Flood. Walter Lammerts in the 1960’s documented a long list of out of order strata that didn’t fit the traditional geologic column proposed by evolutionists. In 2001, we set out to explore the scope of the strata mix-up in Glacier National Park. First identified by Willis in 1901, the rock strata on top are identified as Precambrian, but the layer underneath is Cretaceous. The Cretaceous has dinosaur fossils, but the Precambrian is supposed to be the age before life evolved. Geologists call this an “overthrust” but the evidence for rock movement doesn’t exist Many years ago, John Read produced a film strip called Rocks, Strata and Evolution, showing the research done at Glacier National Park by Clifford Burdick. They excavated the contact between the two layers and found that it was like a knife edge. If there was a substantial amount of movement that shoved the Precambrian mountain on top of the Cretaceous rock, there would be evidence of that movement. That evidence would be slickensides, fault gouge, breccia, and rubble resulting from movement. One of the prominent features of the park is Chief Mountain, where the out of order sequence is clearly visible all around the mountain. To move an entire set of mountains 300 miles long 50 miles to the east would take tremendous earth forces. These layers instead appear to be water deposited on top of each other with no signs of movement.