Folded Rock Layers: The Result of Noah's Flood
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Bent, curved, folded rock layers are a common sight around the world. But, how did they get folded. If you try to bend rock... it doesn't bend, it fractures and breaks. And not only do we see folded layers, we see many layers all folded together. If it takes millions of years to lay down a layer of sediment, how can so many layers of rock (representing millions of years of deposits) all be folded together?
This Is A Difficult Question... Except...
Based on long ages, the folded rocks we observe have no reasonable explanation. They could not have happened.
Based on the reality of Noah's Flood, folded rock layers are very reasonable. The sediment layers are the result of a year-long global flood. When the fountains of the deep opened up (Genesis 7:11), that was the start of the continents moving apart accompanied by tremendous earthquakes and volcanoes. These would have continued after the flood, and we are still seeing the remnant of the continents splitting apart in continental drift today. The large movements of the earth during and shortly after the flood would have resulted in the rock folds we see today. At that time the sediment was still wet and soft, so it could bend without fracturing.
That we observe geologic folds today is further evidence that a recent (4,500 years ago) global flood did happen.
Rock Layers Folded, Not Fractured (AIG)
Soft-Sediment Deformation: Recent Flood Evidence (ICR)
Image and video credits:
James St. John - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folded_gyprock.jpg
Easchiff at English Wikipedia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folded_Chert_-_Glen_Canyon.jpg
Woudloper - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folding_Gasteretal.jpg
Ryan Lackey (octal on Flickr) https://www.flickr.com/people/octal/ - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folded_Sedimentary_Rocks_in_Oman.jpg
Rhum Hun - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fold_(210559741).jpeg
VIDEO: Jeffreyfung - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detachment_fold_demonstration.gif
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