Flood Versus Evolutionary Interpretations of the Rock Layers (TOP TEN)

How do Bible-affirming geologists and evolutionary geologists differ as they interpret the rock layers of the Earth?

Time to form geological column

Biblical Geologist (global flood): Sedimentary rocks formed mostly during and subsequent to the year-long Flood

Geologist (NO global flood): Over 500 million years

Oldest fossils

Biblical Geologist (global flood): Made by the Flood (~2400 BC)

Geologist (NO global flood): Millions of years old

What are “first” and “last” fossils

Biblical Geologist (global flood): First = Buried earliest or before Flood; Last = buried late in/or after the Flood

Geologist (NO global flood): First=early in evolution history; Last = final survivor

Dinosaurs

Biblical Geologist (global flood): Alive at same time as people

Geologist (NO global flood): Died 65 million years ago before people evolved from monkey-people

Flood geology and evolution have two VERY different ways of looking at the geological column and the fossils. Originally, the geological column explained the Flood of Noah’s time; later, evolutionists changed the meaning.

Scientists routinely find fossilized pollen, spores, and wood from land plants in the Cambrian rock layer (which is at the base of the geological column). Evolutionary geologists are surprised because land plants were not supposed to have evolved until much later in time. Flood geologists are not surprised at finding pollen and spores in the Cambrian layer because the geological column represents the order in which creatures and plants were buried by Noah’s Flood. Spores and pollen can blow from one place to another, but not from one time to another! The Bible’s description of a worldwide flood fits the fossil evidence much better than the evolutionary explanation.