What about Dating Methods and Over-thrusts?

Today we shall be taking a look at Geology in order to show the problem's with relying on dating methods when determining the age of the earth.

I will start of by mentioning the research done by geologist Steve Austin from the  Institute for Creation Research. He took samples of the lava dome formation in Mount st. Helen's way back in 1986  and had them radio date the sample using potassium- Argon, can you guess what ages he got?  He got ages of three-hundred and forty thousand to 2.8 million years old on rocks that were only ten years old at the time.

Next we shall be examining what scientist call over-thrust. So what are they? There are hundreds of places on Earth where the geologic order is reversed; allegedly older rock layers resting on top of the younger ones. The rescuing device that evolutionist will use is that they claim the older rock was thrusts on top of the younger one, which they call an over-thrust.

So are there any problems with this theory? There sure are. Sliding an enormous rock over another would have produced scratch marks on the rocks, that are named slickensides. There would also be heating and/or melting as well as rolling and balling of the rocks into mylonite.

One example of an "over-thrust"  is the Coleman over-thrust, the rocks there are claimed to be a whopping five hundred and twenty million years old. What makes them an over-thrust is that they on top of seventy five million year old shale. Yes it's true that they found slickensides and heating on the vertical cracks in the rocks due to plate tectonics; but none was where they should have been located if the older truly did slide on top of the younger layers.

Concerning the Empire mountain thrust Fault, Burdic and slusher documented it in 1969 and it was verified by Juby in 2009 that there was no slickensides. The rocks from the permian layer haven't been heated and what's more is that they are locked together in a gear mesh fit. Some may assert the rocks didn't heat up when the one layer was thrust atop of the other because it happened very slowly. I will now demonstrate why this is not the case.

We see that static friction is stronger than moving friction therefore whatever force was that could move the mountain would have to be strong enough to overcome the static friction. There would be much elastic force that would get stored up in the force, so when it finally started to move it would be in huge jumps not very slowly over a long time.

So in conclusion we see that even the rocks themselves testify to the validity of scripture, and at the same time refute evolution-ism as well. An interesting passage of scripture that is relevant to this topic is Luk 19:40.


References: Crevorant 100 and Genesis Week season 2 Episode 32  by wazooloo