The Great Artesian Basin Australia

 Field Guide

I've prepared a field guide that covers four sites in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. This field trip is suitable for a family, a school class or a youth group. Learn how to 1. read geological maps; 2. understand how geologists work; 3. use common geological terms; 4. work out a geological cross-section; 5. work out a geological history of an area. More.

Biblical Geology:

Properly understanding the rocks

A simple, powerful model for classifying rock formations within a biblical framework.

This was the last major basin deposited as the floodwaters rose during Noah's Flood, just before the waters started to recede. More.

4353 years

 Give or take a few decades
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Where did all the water go? That's a question that stumps many.
Can we can find an answer?
Look at this image of the globe.

  Coal - Memorial to the Flood

Yallourn open-cut coal deposit. Some of the vegetation from the pre-Flood earth, which was ripped up in the first part of the Flood, was deposited in the late stages of the Flood. More.

  But it takes millions of years to form coal.

No it doesn't. The major controls on coal formation are temperature and chemistry. 

Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that the chemical reactions can procede quickly. Wood sealed in an air tight capsule along with water and clay was transformed into a coal-like substance in only six weeks. Coalification begins at relatively low temperatures (150 deg. C). The higher the temperature the more complete the coalification. For more see box here. 

 A local flood? 

Why would Noah keep birds - can't they fly away?

A year in an ocean-liner sized vessel, mountaintops covered... If Noah's flood was just a local event then God has broken his promise many times! More.
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What about carbon dating? 

Doesn't that prove the world is millions of years old?

No. You are probably thinking of radioactive dating, not carbon dating. More.
C-14 has a half-life of 5730 years and so can only measure ages in thousands of years, not millions.
In fact, carbon-14 is strong evidence that the world is not millions of years old.
Wood from Sydney Sandstone (supposedly 230 million years old) was measured to contain carbon-14. If it really was that old, none should be left. Details.

It is impossible to measure the age of something directly. We measure isotopes in the present. We can only calculate an age after we make assumptions about the isotopes in the past.
The age you get depends on the assumptions you make.
No geologist will accept a radioactive age if it doesn't agree with what he thinks it should be. See the way it really is, here.
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