Geology: Lack of Strata Disruption

If the geological rock layers had been slowly laid down over millions of years of Evolutionary processes, we would expect to see much erosion and surface change between them. There is hardly any at all.

Evolution alleges that the rock layers (also known as strata) are the product of uniformitarian year-to-year soil buildup and/or sedimentation. These layers were each formed one by one and placed upon each other. The layers were originally mud or silt, but eventually hardened.

Why then do these layers show almost no sign of surface activity, erosion, or other shape change? In Evolutionary long-age uniformitarianism, there should be very much of such indeed, because there was sooooooooooo much time for it to have happened!

Do we ever observe three layers with a fourth layer laid down into the third, as if a small stream or river channel had briefly existed at that location? No. Do we ever observe layers strewn out of the way and pushed around, as if for instance an animal fight had taken place at that location? No. Do we ever even observe layers with slight ups and downs and smoothed-out sections, as if a short rain had passed over that location? You guessed it... we don't. Rock layers are almost always laid down in completely flat, regular strata.

A uniformitarian visitor from Mars looking at the rock layers without seeing fossils would probably have to assume that there was no life on Earth during the time that the layers were produced.

Just for clarification, there are several places on Earth where a great deal of surface disruption has taken place. One example is the "Great Unconformity" in the Grand Canyon. Evolutionists often point to these places as evidence, but they forget that these few places which have been eroded or disrupted are the exception, not the rule.

If the long ages of Evolution had occurred, every rock layer should be completely disturbed and tossed about. In other words, there would in that sense be no rock "layers" today! We would simply see a mess of debris and eroded rock.

In short, if Evolution were true, rock layers would not exist as we know them. Rock layers had to have been deposited quickly and in a pressurized situation in order to maintain their flat, orderly state. Furthermore, the event in which they were deposited would have had to be worldwide in nature, as rock layers exist everywhere. The Genesis Flood seems to fit this description quite well.


-R. Josiah Magnuson