Ham and Uluru
Paul Blake
Paul completed his Bachelor of Science in
1989 at the University of Queensland majoring in geology, and
his Honours in 1990 majoring in geology
and palaeontology.
KEN
HAM ON EDUCATION: Uluru - a testimony to Noah's Flood!
Home Education Weekly News - 28 February 2003
Question: What is Uluru?
Answer:
You probably have heard of Uluru as Ayers Rock (in Australia). It is the
biggest rock in the world. Uluru is its aboriginal name!
This
enormous rock - rising over 1000 feet above the desert sands - is really a testimony to
the Flood of Noah's day. The evidence indicates that the four-miles-thick sandstone layer
making up this rock had to be deposited quickly. Evolutionists, though, insist that
this formation formed slowly over millions of years.
But, the
sandstone making up this rock, called Arkose, is composed of grains that are of many
different sizes and are very jagged. This indicates that the grains were deposited
catastrophically. If the grains had been transported slowly over millions of years,
they'd be rounded and sorted—the opposite of what scientists find.
This is the usual misrepresentation of scientific processes.
Geologists say that the sandstone built up over millions of years, not that the sand
grains rolled around for millions of years. The amount of rounding is correlated to
the distance the grains travel. The grains would have been eroded out of their
original rock and travelled a relatively short distance to where they accumulated in the
sandstones. The process of erosion and depostional would have been continual with
new grains being eroded all the time and added to the pile of sand in the basin.
Nothing about the grain shapes and sorting in the sandstones at Ularu
conflicts with the standard geological processes.
Also, the
feldspars in the rock are fresh and shiny - if the rock was millions of years old, they'd
have turned into clay!
Feldspars do not turn into clay just because they get old. Like most
chemical reactions this requires water. Studies in Precambrian terrains indicate
that feldspar preservation in sandstones is a result of how quickly and completely the
sandstone became cemented. Sandstones that quickly become completely cemented
prevent water flowing through them and thus preserve their feldspars. Sandstones
that take a long time to become cemented, or do not become completely cemented, have lots
of water flow through them and their feldspars are converted to clay. The sandstone
at Ularu must have been one of the types that cemented quickly, preventing water from
flowing through them, and preserving their feldspars.
Determining which sandstones allowed fluids to flow through them and which
did not has become an important feature in understanding how base-metal orebodies formed
in the Precambrian rocks of Australia. However, since creation "science"
has no practical applications it is not surprising that creationists do not know about
these studies and their implications for the preservation of feldspar in sandstones that
are hundreds of millions of years old.
There is
so much evidence such as this from around the world that fits with the explanation from
Genesis about Noah's Flood. That is why creation geologists believe Uluru was formed
quickly, fitting with the answers in Genesis.
Creation
geologists are a strange breed of scientist. For the most part they have bona
fide degrees but somehow are able to cast aside their scientific training and even
the expertise gained in the field working for bona fide oil exploration companies
in favour of such crackpot ideas as "Flood Geology".
For
a further insight into the strange minds of creation geologists see the following pages:
Flood
Geology: a house built on sand
Will the Real Dr
Snelling Please Stand Up?
Dr
Tasman Walker's Flood Geology Model
A Response
to a Dubious Diluvium: A Tas Walker Creationist Fantasy
