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Monday, January 2, 2012

Tri-City Man Proves Noah's Flood Was Real!

Posted by on Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:32 AM

It's a good thing we still have daily newspapers to inform the public about important things like scientific facts. I mean, how else would the readers of the Tri-City Herald know that, contrary to popular myth, there's clear, irrefutable evidence that the Earth is only thousands (not billions) of years old, just like the Christian Bible says it is, without the neutral, objective, well-researched, fair and balanced reporting of journalist John Trumbo?

A swirling, twisting sandstone formation in northern Arizona is evidence of Noah's flood, says a West Richland man who recently visited the unusual geologic phenomenon.

Greg Morgan, a nuclear safety engineer at Hanford, said he was amazed to see sandstone resembling waves, whirlpools and reversing currents that appear to have been frozen in place.

Morgan's photographs of The Wave and his article, "Flood Currents Frozen in Stone," are in the latest issue of Answers magazine, a quarterly publication of Answers in Genesis, a Christian creation research organization based in Petersburg, Ky. The nonprofit organization's 70,000-square-foot facility also houses the Creation Museum. Mike Matthews, editor of Answers, said the way the layers of sandstone came to rest at Paria Canyon "fits with the viewpoint that these are flood layers."

See, we can trust Morgan's geological expertise, because he's a "nuclear safety engineer" (just like Homer Simpson), and besides, that guy from the Creation Museum concurs! And in case you're still not convinced, Trumbo also consults an actual geologist (who also happens to work at the Creation Museum), and he agrees that this is convincing evidence of Noah's flood.

There, then. It's settled. No need to give ink to any of those fringe "old Earth" geologists, as Trumbo rightly disparages them.

Thank you, Tri-City Herald, for keeping your readers so well informed.

 

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Lurleen 1
He's a nuclear safety engineer? We're doomed.
Posted by Lurleen on January 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM
2
Really? Did you have to tell everyone this was in our newspaper? I'm so embarrassed.
Posted by idaho on January 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Asparagus! 3
... and those two round depressions in the Burgess Shale are proof that god teabagged the Cambrian.
Posted by Asparagus! on January 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Vince 4
Why do they need any "proof" at all? They are clearly going to believe what they want, what they were taught as children, no matter how absurd. That they find some rock somewhere that "proves" their nonsense is even more ridiculous than the nonsense they believe.

Posted by Vince on January 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM
5
I feel so safe knowing that men of this intellectual caliber are handling the safety of our nuclear power plants.
Posted by I have always been... east coaster on January 2, 2012 at 10:02 AM
treacle 6
I just LOVE incontrovertable evidence! W00t!
Posted by treacle on January 2, 2012 at 10:06 AM
BLUE 7
Wow. Some news article in the TCH. Read it hoping that it was more of a profile of a local nut and would be peppered with some references to reality. No such luck. It's one thing for individuals to be irrational and anti-reality but I thought journalists were supposed to be on the opposing side. Oh well.
Posted by BLUE on January 2, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Steven Bradford 8
Its odd that he had to go all the way to Arizona to find his proof, since there's plenty of evidence of massive apocalyptic flooding in eastern washington.

https://www.google.com/search?aq=2&oq=wa…

Posted by Steven Bradford http://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ on January 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Teslick 9
Why do engineers think they're experts in fields way outside their expertise?
Posted by Teslick on January 2, 2012 at 10:19 AM
aardvark 10
i used to live there. its bent rock. its really cool. it gives geologists hard-ons. they explained the process in my geology class. geology and astronomy 101 were both awesome classes.

this is the kind of person that calls you closed minded for laughing at his fantasies, er ideas.
Posted by aardvark on January 2, 2012 at 10:34 AM
aardvark 11
@8 yes, that was a good flood too. sort of like the Great Flush. Whoosh...that was alot of water.
Posted by aardvark on January 2, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 12
This man should never be allowed to hold a job that requires critical thinking for the rest of his life.

Hey, maybe he could work for The Stranger. . . .
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on January 2, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Roma 13
I'd never heard of The Wave until about a year ago. I was at a small non-profit and the controller had some framed photos in her office, which she had taken while hiking there. They were stunning (check out these photos at the LA Times.)

She said you have to get a permit to go there and that the permits are quite difficult to get.
Posted by Roma on January 2, 2012 at 11:10 AM
eclexia 14
Stranger: Per @12, please dispatch Charles Mudede to cover this story immediately. We need to know what some obscure German philosopher would have thought about these rocks.
Posted by eclexia on January 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM
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@14:

Even obscure German philosophers are (usually) reality-based. Particularly about scientifically-confirmed subjects that are outside their own areas of expertise.
Posted by N in Seattle http://peacetreefarm.org on January 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM
bedipped 16
A few weeks ago I thrifted a Mid-80s VHS titled "Mount St. Helens: Explosive Evidence for Catastrophe" from the Institute for Creation Research.
Geologist Steve Austin, Ph.D., shares with you the exciting results of his explorations on Mount St. Helens and its adjacent Spirit Lake

* Relive the 1980 eruption.
* Observe geologic structures formed rapidly (strata, canyons, log deposits, etc.)
* Apply what is seen to understand the origins of other geologic features (Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, coal deposits, etc.)
* Contemplate the significance of the volcano to our views of Earth, Noah's Flood, man and God. Approx. Time 58 Min.

Appx time it took me to turn the sound off 58 Sec.
Excellent helicopter footage, unfortunately no dinosaurs.
Posted by bedipped on January 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM
17
Apparently Goldy and a few readers here are shocked, shocked I tell you, that there are young-earth creationists in Washington State. Believe it or not, there are far more than you might have realized and they have regular, yearly conferences in the area.

Evil(tm) Evolutionist
Posted by Evil(tm) Evolutionist on January 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Cynic Romantic 18
Real name: Homer Simpson?
Posted by Cynic Romantic on January 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM
19
Christian bible, Goldy? The Christian bible talks about the fantasy of the murdered god, not the fantasy of the earth being 5,8xx years old. Not that the latter is anything to be proud of.
Posted by sarah70 on January 2, 2012 at 4:32 PM
20
5,772 years old, to be exact.
Posted by sarah70 on January 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM
21
@13: You need a permit to go there BECAUSE THE ATHEIST LIBERALS WHO RUN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT ARE TRYING TO HIDE IT FROM GOD-FEARING REAL AMERICANS!
Posted by Joe Glibmoron on January 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM
stevema14420 22
The guy looks like he could be Homer. Seriously...white, fat, bald, stupid... I'm surprised that god is such a micro-manager. He'll probably need Moses to come in on Saturday. But Moses is still pretty pissed off about god taking his red swingline stapler.
Posted by stevema14420 http://www.aebn.net on January 2, 2012 at 8:19 PM
stevema14420 23
Doh!!! Gotta stop watching movies on my phone at church. The memories get crossed in my small mind and I start believing in really stupid shit like Scientology, Mormonism, or that Mary was a virgin and not a filthy whore.
Posted by stevema14420 http://www.aebn.net on January 2, 2012 at 8:23 PM
venomlash 24
As a geo major, I raeged a little at this.
Posted by venomlash on January 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM
25
Jim,

What our intrepid engineer has "found" is the well-known Jurassic sand dunes so beautifully exposed at Zion National Park.

The proof of the sand dune origin is in the distribution of the size of the sand grains.

Well sorted grains indicate a smaller range of the energy (wind) that sorted the grains. Water laid material has a wider distribution of the grains sizes.

To head off thase that will ask "Are you a geologist"

Answer Yes, 35 year's worth.
Posted by Rujim on January 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM
26
Try the agiweb site for lots of great geology pictures. Search on Navajo and you will get goodies like:

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images/…
Posted by Rujim on January 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM
venomlash 27
@25: I concur with most of what you said.
This isn't entirely relevant to this issue, but you can get well-sorted marine sediments from, say, a river delta, where the current slowly dissipates, allowing the heavier particles to settle out first, followed by the smaller and smaller grains as you get further from shore. A better way to put it would be that poor sorting tends to be the result of sudden and violent transport, such as storm or landslide deposits. At least that's the way I learned it. (Geo/bio student, 3rd year undergrad.)
Posted by venomlash on January 3, 2012 at 3:51 PM
28
Thanks for your reply.

As to the poor sorting resulting from violent transport, Not only would the sorting be poor, but the sand grains would also have cobbles and boulders mixed with it.

None of that is seen in the Navajo.

As to the pictures, the first URL seemed to be cut off. Try

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imageba…

and search for Navajo. The best offering is of Checkerboard Mesa. If you can, read the sign there.

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imageba…

Another good one is:

Photo ID: ho7gru

You will have to go to the third collection unless you can find a way to go directly.

Regards,
Posted by Rujim on January 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM

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