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GEOLOGICAL ANOMALIES AND OTHER ANOMALIES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY HYPOTHESIS


PREFACE

Falsification is an important principle in science because it is very useful in eliminating pseudoscience from science and shifting paradigms in the scientific community.

Here is a portion of a essay written on the topic that I recommend written by the philosopher of science Karl Popper:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper...sification.html

(I do not necessarily agree with all that this site says but I do agree with the inofrmation at the URL I cited above)


Now when a number of anomalies or even a very series anomalies challenge some scientists views or the scientific consensus of course this can point to scientists believing something that is not at all valid.


ANOMALIES AND THE MACROEVOLUTIONARY VIEW

Here are some anomolies which challenge the views of some evolutionary scientists:


ANTARCTICA

New Scientist regarding Antarctica:
http://www.geocities.com/aleph135/antarctic20.html



EXCTINCTION OF THE MAMMOTHS

http://www.geocities.com/aleph135/mammoths17.html


CREATIONISTS ON THE MAMMOTHS

Here is an creationist explanation for the ice age and mammoths:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i2/mammoth.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/mammoth.asp




WILLIAM CORLISS AND GEOLOGICAL ANOMOLIES

I have read that William R. Corliss is a non-creationist who has spent considerable time searching for scientific anomolies:

Here is a brief biography of Mr. Corliss:

QUOTE
Science Frontiers and the Catalog of Anomalies are produced by William R. Corliss. Corliss has degrees in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1950) and the University of Colorado (M.S., 1953). He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Scientific Exploration. He resides in Glen Arm, Maryland, USA, where the Sourcebook Project is headquartered.

taken from: http://www.science-frontiers.com/




Here is a purported quote from William Corliss:

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"Potentially more important to geological thinking are those unconformities that signal large chunks of geological history are missing, even though the strata on either side of the unconformity are perfectly parallel and show no evidence of erosion. Did millions of years fly by with no discernible effect? A possible though controversial inference is that our geological clocks and stratigraphic concepts need working on." William R. Corliss, Unknown Earth (Glen Arm, Maryland: The Sourcebook Project, 1980), p. 219.

taken from: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/flood.html



Here is what New Scientist said about Mr. Corliss:

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"All I can say to Corliss is carry on cataloging". New Scientist

taken from: http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm





I am particularly interested in the following two books if anyone wishes to do any research:

1. Anomalies in Geology: Physical, Chemical, Biological by William Corliss

Here is an overview of this book:

QUOTE
Typical subjects covered:

Biological extinction events * Musical sands, ringing rocks * Anomalies of oil's origin * Ice caves, frozen wells * Natural fission reactors * Marine organisms and fossils found far inland * Siberia's frozen mammoths * Radiometric dating problems * Anchor ice, frazil ice * Violent lake turnovers * Flexible rocks * Origin of ocean water * Skipping in fossil record * Valleys of death * Prismatic sandstone from Missouri
335 pages, hardcover, $18.95, 55 illustrations, 5 indexes, 1989. 1260 references, LC 89-90680, ISBN 915554-23-2, 7x10 format.

taken from: http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm



2. Neglected Geological Anomalies by William Corliss (1990), (Glen Arm, MD: The Sourcebook Project).


Here is an overview:

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Neglected but far from insignificant are the anomalies cataloged here....

Typical subjects covered:

Concretions and geodes * Tektites and microtektites * Erratic boulders and gravels * Polystrate fossils * Bone caves and bone beds * Giant basalt flows * Natural glasses * Surging glaciers * Driftless regions * Stretched pebbles * Crystal inclusions * Rarity of fossil meteorites and tektites * Elevated erratics * Stone rivers and rock glaciers
333 pages, hardcover, $18.95, 80 illustrations, 5 indexes, 1990. 1030 references, LC 90-60568, ISBN 915554-24-0, 7x10 format

taken from: http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm




ADDENDUM


I thought I would add this information which I believe highlights that the creationism makes a more compelling case:

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SINUOUS, MEANDERING RIVERS AT CANYON BOTTOMS

"The canyons in these plateau regions present another mystery, for which uniformitarian explanations have proved inadequate. Many of them are strongly sinuous and meandering in their courses, looking very much like the typically meandering mature rivers winding across alluvial plains, except that the canyons are hundreds of feet deep and the meander patterns are even sharper than in alluvial rivers. These are called incised [carved] or entrenched [eroded downward], meanders, in view of their presumed 'entrenchment' in the regional bedrocks during the process of uplifting. That is, it is supposed [by evolutionists] that the entire area was once near sea level, with an alluvial blanket [of sediment] on its surface. [Evolutionists go on to say that] On this surface flowed typical alluvial rivers with typical meandering patterns.

Then, according to the [evolutionists'] theory, the process of regional uplift was initiated. The rivers, which before had been eroding laterally, now began to erode vertically, but in the process maintained their same meandering course, thus incising the pattern deep into the rocks of the plateau.

Much study has been devoted to the subject of the mechanics of meandering rivers, since it involves engineering problems of considerable importance [for the defense of the evolutionary models]. In particular, extensive model tests have demonstrated that the phenomenon of meandering is associated only with non-resistant banks...

[Ref: Joseph F. Friedkin: 'A Laboratory Study of the Meanderings of Alluvial Rivers' (Vicksburg, U.S. Wa@ays Ecperiment Station, Mississippi River Commission, 1945)]

...If the bed is subject to down-cutting at all, it will be eroded rather than the banks, since the greatest tractive [= drawing, pulling, adhesive friction] stresses are directed along the bed rather than at the sides of a stream. A stream which is degrading its bed tends to straighten its course, with sharp-radius bends being eliminated by 'cut-offs.'...

[So water tends to erode river bottoms first - straightening the river's course until the river bottom becomes relatively resistent to erosion, THEN the water tends to cut laterally into the sides of the river forming a meandering course whenever the banks are soft and susceptible to erosion. But the problem with claiming that canyons are caused by years of erosion is that there are innumerable and highly winding deep canyon rivers which have always had extremely resistant river banks - these banks being composed of solid rock all the way down! Thus, how the courses of these deep canyon rivers got to be so winding cannot be explained by the uniformitarian principles of years and years of erosion. Picture an immensely large flat area - a plain covering thousands of square miles, completely covered with water. This immense plain is then uplifted by unimaginably great underground forces causing the water to rush off with immense force, taking with it loosely packed sediment deposits wherever it flowed. This sudden and massive draining away of an immense amount of the loosely packed sediment left behind a newly formed canyon of hard rock with erosion resistant, winding canyon sides and a meandering river at the bottom. On a smaller scale, picture a slope of loosely packed dirt which is heavily rained upon. After the rain there remains many miniature canyon shaped grooves carved into that slope where streams of water tore away the loosely packed dirt. Some areas of the slope remain untouched while others have deep grooves worn into them shaped similarly to a canyon - some having straight courses, some meandering]:

..This would happen [the causing of a meandering river course], in fact, even before the alluvial blanket [the blanket of loosely deposited sediment] was eliminated and, certainly, no substantial amount of lateral shifting could be initiated once the stream had cut down into bedrock. Intense meandering, when slopes and velocities are high, would require that the bed rock be extremely resistant to erosion, so that excess energy could be dissipated in no other way than by lateral cutting. But if this be so, then the deep meandering gorges could never be cut... [Underlining mine]

..The familiar meandering pattern of streams in alluvial valleys primarily results from a small stream gradient, inhibiting further down-cutting, and weak banks, permitting side-cutting by local curvilinear water motions. Occasionally, however, strong meander patterns are found in valleys of steep gradients and strong rock banks, such as in the San Juan River in Colorado... ...This anomaly is commonly [and falsely] attributed by geologists to a former alluvial blanket [of water deposited sediments] that supposedly once overlaid the rocks and since has been eroded away; the meander pattern is said to have developed in the normal way on the alluvium [water deposited sediments], and then 'entrenched' in the underlying rocks when the region was uplifted. However, such an explanation is highly questionable in terms of known principles of stream mechanics. It would seem that the only way in which such strong lateral cutting could take place simultaneously with down-cutting would be for the banks to be less resistant than the bed, and this implies that most of the meander formation must have taken place when the horizontal beds were still soft and unconsolidated, soon after deposition during the Flood period...
[Underlining mine]

Nevertheless, such incised [carved] meanders are a common phenomenon in uplifted plateau or other mountainous regions. It would seem that some sort of avulsive [flood] origin for them must be postulated. Great systems of vertical fissures might be imagined, which have been widened, deepened, and rounded by subsequent drainage through them. If erosion processes must account for the complete excavations, however, then it would seem necessary to postulate much greater volumes of water in the streams than now present, together with much less resistant walls than the rocks of which they now consist."

[Ergo, we are back to a catastrophic flood of immense, worldwide proportions]

taken from: http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/k31.htm



Here is another resource regarding meandering rivers from a creationist perspective and it has to do with the speed of meandering rivers:

http://www.wordsight.org/links/sci/001_flood-evidence.htm


I have not read Morris's book yet although I do intend to shortly. But here is what one person wrote:

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Has anyone a creditable long age explanation for two thousand foot deep entrenched river meanders in hard rock?(flood geology does!).......

Henry Morris covers the hydrology problems of entrenched meanders in his book "The Genesis Flood"--it involves lateral versus downward erosion rates as a function of rock resistance.Of course meanders are common and constantly form in soft sediments--ie Miss.river types.

Although evolution believers ignore or scoff at Morris,his credentials as Civil Engineer,educator,and river hydraulics/erosion textbook author are worthy of respect.

27 Posted on 03/28/2001 05:19:34 PST by IGNATIUS

taken from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac1a5570272.htm
gregg
Little Girl, 3 Million Years Old, Offers New Hints on Evolution

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Published: September 21, 2006

If the fossil Lucy, the most famous woman from out of the deep human past, had a child, it might have looked a lot like the bundle of skull and bones uncovered by scientists digging in the badlands of Ethiopia.

This skull is part of the earliest well-preserved fossil of a child.

A Juvenile Early Hominin Skeleton From Dikika, Ethiopia (Nature)
Geological and Palaeontological Context of a Pliocene Juvenile Hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia (Nature)

Scientists say this skull, and the rest of its skeleton, has clues on a little-known period of early human origins.

The same region of Ethiopia has been a source of fossil discoveries.
The paleontologists who are announcing the discovery in the journal Nature today said the 3.3-million-year-old fossils were of the earliest well-preserved child ever found in the human lineage. It was estimated to be about 3 years old at death, probably female and a member of the Australopithecus afarensis species, the same as Lucy’s.

An analysis of the skeleton revealed evidence of a species in transition, the scientists said in interviews yesterday.

Isn't that nice, though. They say she was probably covered by the sediment from a flood.
Chloé
Checked out a couple links...I will have to go back and read the rest.

Thanks for posting them.
THE SEVEN THUNDERS
Thank you, kendemyer, for this fascinating data, job well done!

Yes, much in geological reality is not adequately explained by the Evolution/Uniformitarian Model, i.e. rift faults and perpendicular fracture zones that riddle the surface of the Earth and the oceanic floors glazed over by the Evolutionary Model as just “magically” materializing upon Earth, though at closer examination these are obviously “recent” post-percussion fracturization features, the direct result of “mass celestial bombardment”.

I have theorized since the 70’s that the continent of Antarctica was actually the mythological “Atlantis”, a historical reality recorded in subsequent myth by post-catastrophic survivors, which I postulate was the “Cradle of Man”, being “Paradise” or “Ancient Edhena” (Eden: “Edhena” is the ancient spelling inclusive of the “h” as an indication of the Edhenic Covenant with God, as the “h” also represented in the name changes of “Abra‘h’am” and “Sara‘h’” for the Abrahamic Covenant with God), where the “Garden of God” was originally located. This is where Noah lived and built the Ark in preparation for the onslaught of the Great Flood. The ancient Chinese called it “Hosang” (Land of Women [Witches]), which conveys the epitome of the Ancient Edhenic Culture’s degenerated state at the time of the Great Flood. Atlantis did NOT sink, as erroneously assumed, for according to the Plato account “the sea rolled over” Atlantis. This indicates oceanic inertia due to a sudden and radical catastrophic pole shift, a transterrestrial event, where the seas displaced out of their basins and overran the continents. The Native Indians of central Oklahoma have recorded in their folklore the Pacific Ocean tumbling over the Rocky Mountains from the west in a huge “mountain high” wave two thousand feet high.

The continent of Antarctica was originally oriented in the tropic belt in which the equator ran through its southern section. The current axial pole orientation was not the original axial or cardinal orientation of the Earth. The Brazilian Highlands, which has a glaciated past explaining its compressed topography as the oldest mountains on Earth, was the site of the original North Polar Ice Cap, and the Philippines of fragmented islands was the site of the original South Polar Ice Cap in Noah’s age. Once one orients a globe of the Earth into this original position, then SUDDENLY everything makes sense:

1)The equator would have ran eastward from Edhena through South Africa and parallel the Nile River as Africa would have been turned on its side and the Nile would have ran from west to east spilling into the Mediterranean to the east.

2)Satellite X-ray photos of the Arabian and Sahara Deserts by Landsat reveal images penetrating the sand cover, and indicate countless dried lake and river beds pointing to a tropic to sub-tropic wet climate once prominent for this region, which is also confirmed in the water erosion of the rock-cropping that was carved into the Great Sphinx (before the Flood) as determined by Catastrophist Geologist Dr. Robert M. Schoch in collaboration with Egyptologist John Anthony West (http://www.robertschoch.net/).

3)Originally, the Western Sahara would have had the climate of Canada with great forests; hence, beds of laid down petrified titanic tree trunks from ancient deciduous forests exist in the Western Sahara.

4)The Lombard Sea between the northwest coast of Canada and the east coast of Greenland is the site where core samples from beneath the sea floor layer contained fossilized tropical marine diatoms (microscopic algae). Ironically, the original equator ran through this region and onward through the Arctic Ocean and through north Alaska, which also explains why palm tree fronds are pulled up during petroleum drilling operations from below the 2 miles of “alluvium” strata laid down over north Alaska at the time of the Great Flood. This also gives clue as to “why” Greenland is called “The Green Land”, for it was originally a lush green vegetated island in the midst of the original tropic belt.

5)From an older account retrieved from an Egyptian Priest, Plato described Atlantis as “west” of the “Pillars of Hercules”, being the Strait of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. Of course, west of the strait is the Atlantic Ocean, and beyond are the Americas; hence, the erroneous assumption was subsequently made that Atlantis must have “sunk” when the notion “the sea rolled over Atlantis” is added, since the mythical island-continent simply cannot be found “west of the Pillars of Hercules” in the midst of the Atlantic. The problem with this deduction all along has been the application of this data to our CURRENT global polar axial directions, and not the ORIGINAL polar orientation. With a globe of the Earth re-oriented into the original position when one travels westward from the Pillars of Hercules one will land on the eastern shores of the Antarctica continent (Atlantis/Edhena).

6)The account of the cursed Cain expelled out of Eden to “Nod” or the “Nodlands” due east of Eden, can be deduced that Cain, or the lineage of Cain, was expelled off the Antarctic continent to Africa located due east of Eden (Antarctica). With the original polar orientation of the Earth the former oceanic currents from the eastern Eden coast would have sent a sea vessel towards the Grain and Ivory Coasts of north-central Africa. Profoundly, north of this region in the African Savannah currently exists Africa’s oldest known tribe, the Wadiabi, which translates into “people under the taboo (curse)”.

7)Evidence of glaciation has been misinterpreted, and is actually produced by none other than the wandering poles during the pole shift process. The pole shift was a process precipitated by mass celestial bombardment. Science has an erroneous and misinterpreted history of our Solar System. The ancient records, the worldwide Mythocorpus (body of myth) confirm that the Sirius Binary (the Great Dog Star and the Eye of the Dragon) is the missing half of our former Osirian Trinary Stellar System which contained 14 celestial member (3 stars and 11 planets), and identifies Sirius B, originally a Blue Supergiant, a B-1 class star five times the solar mass of our current Sun, as our original paternal star. In its blue supergiant phase when the system was less that 9 million years old, Sirius B received a cometary impact in its equatorial region which sprayed out magmatic stellar debris that bombarded the Edhenic Earth with mass celestial bombardment, collapsing the Earth’s original hydrospheric shield (Prima Altohydrosphere) that encapsulated the Earth, ruptured the Earth’s seamless “perilithosphere” for the very first time creating fracturization into rift faults and perpendicular fracture zones particularly in the thinnest parts of the Earth’s crust, the oceanic floors, and consequently released the hyper-pressurized subterranean oceans, which precipitated the Flood of Noah. This hydraulic release is what created the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which was confirmed in the 1970's in a Pentagon Naval research analysis of the formation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The sea level rose to a maximum of 5,000 feet, and then subsided 2,000 feet. The mass celestial bombardment with material as large as Nova Scotia catapulted the Earth out of its solar orbit to reel violently causing the Poles to wander. Thus, the surface of the Earth wandered into the north and south Polar Regions creating a “cryo-arctic pathway” that caused sudden flash-freezing of the suspended moisture and land regions with its animals and life that rolled into the cryo-arctic zones.

8)This would explain the location of Russian-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist Dr. Paulina Zelitsky’s discovery off the west coast of Cuba (http://s8int.com/water27.html) of a massive ancient and pre-Ice Age city at nearly 2,200 to 2,800 feet below the current sea level. (http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b34ba6163f0.htm) The city covers some 20 square kilometers and features grid street-like systems, tunnels, “freeway-like” thoroughfares, massive pyramid structures sitting on square stone bases, and numerous geometric structures. This “advance” city is older than any known primordial civilization. What this appears to be is a seaport metropolis of a former global technoculture predating the Great Flood. Hence, the times of Noah possessed high technology as the Rabbinic Torah account of the Flood appears to indicate with references to the “tsoar crystal” that “powered” the Ark and caused it to “light up”.
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