Greater Houston Creation Association
Creation News
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Acquiring and Distributing Knowledge Regarding God's Creation
Webinar Meeting: May 20, 7 pm
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Megasequences and Giant Evidences for the Flood
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Megasequences are a second way
that professional geologists use to organize the geologic rock layers across continents for classification and study. Instead of using fossils as the primary means of classifying rock layers, megasequences primarily use the characteristics of the rock layers themselves to organize and understand earth history. In 1963 Dr. L. Sloss found that the rocks across North America could be organized into a stack of six “megasequences” that are consistent across the continent.
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The driving force and unifying factor is the slow rise and fall of sea level over presumed long ages. This rise and fall is driven by tectonic forces acting on ocean floors change sea levels everywhere. However tectonic forces also act on different continents in different ways as it drives continental drift, collisions, mountain building, ocean floor subduction and the rise of mid ocean ridges. As the sea level rises and falls on a continent, and the shore line moves inland and back again, a great deal of erosion and deposition takes place in that process. So over time the sea level will cover substantial portions of continents, leaving behind sediments from the seas or eroded from the land. Some portions of the continents will experience calm placid inland seas that produce lime or mud stone, while other continent portions harbor deserts with sand dunes, producing sandstone over large areas. All the while evolution was filling the new rock layers with progressively more complex fossils.
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The uniformitarians see this as a beautiful picture with high explanatory power; and in many ways it is. But if we look closely and ask serious questions we find that there are a number of quite contrary evidences as well. For example, today’s observed average erosion off the continents will cut them down to sea level in just a few million years, not a few hundreds of millions of years. The fact that we still see an abundance of fossils suggests the time of this process has been going on is much less than a million years.
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Also, there are marine fossils mixed with land fossils where ever they are found. Yes, there are marine fossils in the big and famous dinosaur bone beds! So, should one mot ask if all fossil beds have been laid down by ocean waters not so very long ago?
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GHCA has just looked at recent research by the Whitmore team that show many lines of geologic evidence that the Coconino sandstone (conventionally attributed to desert sand dunes) was actually deposited under water – water deep enough and fast enough to move and deposit that huge amount of sand.
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Another interesting fact is that the plate subduction that drives tectonics can theoretically go into a “runaway” process that will subduct the entire ocean floor at something like one meter per second. Then as the gravitational potential energy is consumed the subduction will slow to the very slow motion we see today. Modern imaging of Earth’s internal structure indicates this very un-uniform tectonic action is what happened only a short time ago.
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On May 20, we will present the high level big picture of the two contrasting pictures above. This presentation will provide a foundation for the next few months to support our examination of the ongoing research of Dr. Tim Clarey and Dr. John Baumgardner and the work of the RATE research team. This will be an exciting picture of the great progress being made in young creation science today.
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Special Announcement:
Dr. Pete Moore three part series on Daniel’s 70 Week Prophecy
Tuesday evenings: April 20, 27, and May 4th at 7 PM
Grace Bible Church 13700 Schroeder Road Houston, TX 77070
Video Recordings available Here
WOW, This is the best I have ever heard on this important topic !
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Whitmore Team Free Access Publications:
For geologist and other technical people here are links to the most recent free access publications from this research:
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Sincerely,
Frank Mayo, President
Greater Houston Creation Association
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Houston Science & Culture Network
Houston chapter of the Discovery Institute's division of Science and Culture.
Tour calls out false claims. See also the link to Tour's response to critics.
The Science & Faith Podcast by Dr. James Tour
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San Antonio:
The San Antonio Bible Based Science Association (SABBSA) usually meets the second Tuesday of each month, 7:00 p.m., at Faith Lutheran church just south of the corner of Thousand Oaks and Jones Maltsberger. More info is at www.sabbsa.org.
Dallas-Ft Worth:
The Metroplex Institute of Origin Science (MIOS) meets at the Dr. Pepper Starcenter, 12700 N. Stemmons Fwy, Farmers Branch, TX, usually at 7:30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
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Examples of Important YEC Scientific Evidences
Some major examples of physical evidence we point to include:
- Remains of original soft tissue still found in dinosaur bones. Along with that tissue is C-14 that would decay completely away in less than a hundred thousand years, a tiny fraction of the dinosaur fossil's supposed age.
- For many years geologists have found C-14 in fossil carbon throughout the fossil record. So, the entire fossil record is less than 100,000 years old.
- The origin of the information and molecular machinery in the first living self-reproducing cell remains a complete enigma for biologist and biochemists.
- In the origin of the universe, big bang theory is being recognized as a dead end by increasing numbers of secular scientists. The hypothesized inflation has nothing to start it, drive it forward, or stop it. Without inflation fatal flaws appear with the absence of predicted antimatter, magnetic monopoles, or any means for the whole universe to come to the same precise background temperature. Then the formation of the first stars is as enigmatic as the origin of the first biological cell. Dark matter and dark energy are as enigmatic as the galactic motions they are needed to explain.
At the root of all standard science are many assumptions that may be quite incorrect. At the top is that there is no God. Another is that present process can be used to explain everything in the past. When we look at a canyon we are taught to assume the river at the bottom cut the canyon. But perhaps tectonic events made the canyon and there is a river at the bottom because water always flows downhill. At the root of big bang theory is a pure assumption that has been named the "Cosmological Principle". Perhaps inaccuracies there are responsible for the big bang's multitude of problems.
There is more about the role of assumptions in science found on our website here. There are many more resources on young earth and young universe evidences here.
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