Granite Formation Confirms a Biblical Time-frame (February 24)
Everyone loves a granite countertop. Going through a granite factory is like walking through nature’s art gallery. The variety, colors, and patterns of natural granite are breathtaking and beautiful. It is routinely accepted that coarse-grained granite (the kind coveted for kitchen countertops) formed slowly over millions of years. It is believed that magma that cools quickly produces fine grains. This premise is based on the false idea that grain size depends solely on the cooling rate. No geologist has ever seen a granite pluton form, so field clues have to be used.
- Rhyolite bodies are often large but have fine-grained volcanic texture in the middle. The middle, if it cooled slowly, should have large-grained texture.
- Evolutionists believe thin dykes would have cooled quickly, thereby producing no visible crystals. Yet, they are observed to contain crystals.
- The presence of the short-lived polonium radiohalos (half-life of 164 micro-seconds to 138 days) in biotite or muscovite crystals in granite should have all disappeared if it had cooled slowly. Their presence tells us these rock layers formed and cooled rapidly.
- When crystals form rapidly, they trap some surrounding liquid, forming fluid inclusions inside the crystal. Many of the granite’s mineral crystals contain fluid inclusions – meaning they must have formed quickly.
- If granite crystals form over millions of years, crystals would settle into layers. We do not see layers in granite; granite is mostly homogenous that indicates that the crystals formed rapidly and the granite cooled rapidly.
Crystal sizes in granite depend on many factors, not solely on cooling rates. Crystal size depends on nucleation rates, pressure variation, the original composition of the melt, the amount of volatiles, and fluid viscosity. It doesn’t take millions of years of cooling to produce coarse-grained granite – just the right conditions. Granite formation confirms a biblical time-frame, not millions of years of earth history.
Deuteronomy 32:3
NKJV: For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.
NIV: I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
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