Erosion of millions of years
Uniformitarians believe that the layers of the geologic column was formed over millions of years at a gradual and slow rate points to an earth age of 4.5 billion years. However, erosion rate dating show a younger age of the earth as well as pointing to the Genesis flood.
According to Larry Pierce in his article "Niagara Falls and the Bible: One of the World's Greatest Natural Attractions has Some Profound Lessons About the Age of Things" Niagara Gorge was used by Charles Lyell in his quest to push the uniformitarian ideology. Lyell calculated that the Niagara Gorge eroded at 1 foot per year and since the gorge was 35,000 feet long that made the gorge 35,000 years old. That sounds reasonable and it was an accepted age for many years. Unfortunately, the figures Lyell used were not accurate and he knew it. Mr. Blackwell, son of an eminent geologist, informed Lyell that residents of the area had observed an erosion rate of a little more than three feet per year; however, Lyell disregarded this data and used his one foot rate. The three feet per year would have reduced the age to a little less than 12,000 years. The story gets better (not for the uniformitarians) because measurements taken from 1842 to 1927 came in at four to five feet per year erosion rate placing the age of the gorge between 7,000 to 9,000 years. This is much lower than the age Lyell arrived at.
This of course is assuming the erosion rate is constant through time and this can not be verified for lack of observable accounts. Pierce lists seven factors that affect the erosion rate of the Niagara Gorge.
1. The different thickness of the limestone strata found in the gorge. Lyell knew this but did not include this in his calculations.
2. The water flow was greater in the past. Lyell knew this but did not include this in his calculations.
3. The gorge was narrow in the past increasing water flow over the falls. Lyell knew this but did not include it in his calculations.
4. After the flood there would have been more sediment in gorge increasing erosion rate.
5. The limestone would break off in huge pieces as observed by local residents of the area. Lyell knew this but did not include this in his calculations.
6. The shape of the falls will affect erosion. The notched crest observed from 1875 to 1886 saw faster erosion rates (18 feet per year).
7. Ice causes faster erosion during the melting of the glaciers. However, without eyewitnesses the rate can only be assumed.
Pierce incorporated these factors in his calculations and came up with an age range of 3800 to 4300 years ago. This age range fits in very well with the global flood recorded in Genesis and the young age of the earth.
According to an article entitled "Some Questions about Geochronology" written by Ariel Roth the uplifting that happens with the mountains and an erosion rate at 1000 cm per 1000 years (this is the rate held by geologists) the mountain would have to been 45 km high. This means that mountains are uplifting to fast for evolutionary geochronology. However, Roth points out:
"The challenge to standard geochronology is that if mountains have been uplifting at current rates or even much slower, the lower parts of the geologic column which are many hundreds to thousands of millions of years old should have been uplifted and eroded away long ago. Yet these older sections are very well-represented in our mountain ranges, a cursory field study or examination of geologic maps will reveal."
Tas Walker's article "Vanishing Coastlines" points out three of many erosion problems that are happening on coastlines. The one that stuck out the most was the Belle Tout lighthouse built in 1832 at a distance of 30 meters from the edge of the "White Cliffs of Dover." In 1998 they had to move the lighthouse because the cliffs eroded to within 3 meters of the lighthouse. The cliffs are supposedly 65 million years old with one meter per 6 years 10,000 km of coastline should have eroded by then. As the article points out it would be the distance from Los Angeles to Sydney.
The eroded material is deposited at the bottom of the oceans as sediment at about 20 billion tons per year. Currently there is about 400 meters of sediment in the oceans. Subduction, the ocean floor slowly sliding under the continents, is responsible for removing this sediment. According to the article "Evidence of a Young World" written by Russell Humphreys scientific literature claims subduction can only account for removing about one billion tons of sediment per year leaving 19 billion tons still accumulating down there every year. This means that erosion is not happening fast enough. If the earth was as old as evolutionists claim there would be dozens of kilometers of sediment smothering the oceans.
RSB
References:
http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/276/
http://www.grisda.org/origins/13064.htm
http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_m...s/99/cm9907.htm
http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5612/
http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4958/
http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/230
http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5612/
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