Past GHCA Meetings and Events

November 1, 2018      7 pm,  map

Geology, Isotope Dating and the Flood, Pt 3

 

In the last two months in our yearlong study of geology and the Flood, we have concentrated on radioisotope dating. We have seen that the presence of fast decaying radioactive carbon C-14 in all parts of the fossil bearing rock layers of the geologic column has been thoroughly documented in the scientific literature. Some presume this is a result of contamination although no one can present a viable contamination mechanism. Since C-14 decays completely away in less than a hundred thousand years we must conclude that the fossil bearing rock layers are less than a hundred thousand years old.

Last month  Dr. Andrew Snelling’s lecture examined the slow decaying isotopes like uranium with half-lives on the order of a billion years. These isotopes are the ones used to “prove” that rock layers with fossils go back 540 million years and the age of the Earth is about 4.7 billion years. We also saw that different isotopes in the same rock commonly produce very different ages. We also so saw that there are at least  three error sources that fool even the most sophisticated isochrone dating methods.

However, this presents a mystery: how can there be an abundance of both fast decaying and slow decaying isotopes in the same rocks, indeed all of the rock layers bearing fossils. Join us for the adventure of solving this mystery. You will be amazed how well this solution confirms our hypothesis of a young supernatural creation as described in the first chapters of Genesis.

October 4, 2018      7 pm,  map

Geology, Isotope Dating and the Flood, Part 2

In our year long study of geology we have seen that the intercontinental extent of many rock layers and the discontinuities between them. These indicate that intercontinental geologic events generated most of the rock layers, not local processes. Also many aspects of the fossil content of these rock layers indicate that the destruction and redeposition of a previously existing and very diverse ecology is the best explanation for the observed fossil record.  Last month we looked at the substantial radiocarbon content of the fossil bearing rock layers. Since radiocarbon is know to decay away in less than a hundred thousand years, its near universal presence in these fossil bearing rock layers indicate that the fossils, rock layers, and the processes that put them in place are less than a hundred thousand years old. Some will challenge that this radiocarbon is due to contamination but they will in turn be challenged to explain how that contamination could happen in a hundred thousand years – no one has been yet able to do so.

On October 4 we will look at the slow decaying isotopes in the rock layers. These also exist almost universally in the rock layers and given the standard conventional assumption they produce dates that are very old, hundreds of millions or billions of years! This isotopic content of the rocks is in sharp contrast with all of the data in the paragraph above. Could some of the conventional assumptions be faulty? Might there be even more to it than that? Come join us for this fascinating dating mystery. It is sure to be an adventure in learning!

 

September 6, 2018      7 pm,  map

Geology, Isotope Dating and the Flood

We will extend our year-long study of creation geology into the important area of isotope dating. Up to now we have seen that conventional slow and gradual geologic theory ignores or brushes aside a number of lines of observational evidence in the areas of physical geology and the fossil content of the rock layers. When these lines of evidence are taken into consideration it becomes evident that world scale catastrophic processes must play an important or possibly dominate role in Earth history.  Over the last two decades great strides have been made toward developing a creationary theory of Earth history. At this meeting we start dealing with the isotope content of the rock layers. Here again there is much evidence the conventional slow and gradual framework brushes aside because that data does not fit into the conventional system of thought. But there is slow and gradual evidence also. Join us for the adventure of searching how to fit all of this into one theory consistent with the Biblical narrative. You will be challenged and amazed!