Rock Formation Built in Millions of Years, Lost in Seconds?

Creation-Evolution Headlines ^ | 7/05/2005 | Creation-Evolution Headlines

[bondserv]

Rock Formation Built in Millions of Years, Lost in Seconds?    07/05/2005  
To the surprise of tourists, one of Australia’s seacoast rock formations called the “Twelve Apostles” collapsed into a pile of rubble before their eyes, reported CNN, ABC and other news sources.  The fall of the 150-foot high sedimentary formation was caught in before-and-after snapshots by a teenager.  Even though standard geology claims the rocks began to form 20 million years ago (see the BBC News story), the remains will probably be washed away by the waves within weeks.  Answers in Genesis took this event, and others like it, as evidence that such formations could not be nearly as old as claimed.

Let the evidence speak for itself.  Anyone infer millions of years with this kind of eyewitness testimony?
    Here is a candidate for Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week from a tourist, reported by News.com.au: “It’s pretty unbelievable; it’s history in the making today... It won’t be the same sort of photo any more, but it is evolution.”  Darwinism wouldn’t generate much of an edifice with this kind of process.  If the tourist meant that Darwinism itself is crumbling in a similarly rapid manner, well, then the remark would be rather astute.

[gdani]

"The stacks are not millions of years old. The limestone strata were deposited during Noah’s Flood, as the floodwaters flowed from the emerging Australian continent".

"That was just four and a half thousand years ago".

Oh brother. This is a stretch -- even for Answers in Genesis.

Which is saying a lot as they maintain dinosaurs existed a few thousand years ago & were on Noah's Ark.

[Publius6961]

Rock Formation Built in Millions of Years, Lost in Seconds?

D'OH!

Yes d*****s! It's a well known natural process called --- Tah Dah! erosion.

[Publius6961]

Rock Formation Built in Millions of Years, Lost in Seconds?

D'OH!

Yes d*****s! It's a well known natural process called --- Tah Dah! erosion.

[Publius6961]

Rock Formation Built in Millions of Years, Lost in Seconds?

D'OH!

Yes d*****s! It's a well known natural process called --- Tah Dah! erosion.

[Robert A Cook PE]

It's Bush's (earthquake) fault.....

All that global warming he's causing by not destroying the US economy by not signing the Kyoto treaty that the Clinton's democratic Senators rejected 99-0 ya know.

[dangus]

Whatever the idiot reporter said on the scene, this event has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. It does have to do with geological processes, but anyone who has ever seen a volcano or an earthquake cannot be surprised by a landslide.

And please don't say, "b...b..b..but it took 20 million years to form!" At this moment, there are billions of other rock formations on the Earth, changing as they are worn down or lifted up. This one, for perhaps a few thousand years of its existence, looked distinctive. But where it once stood, another "formation" now stands, just one that isn't as distinctive.

[dangus]

Whatever the idiot reporter said on the scene, this event has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. It does have to do with geological processes, but anyone who has ever seen a volcano or an earthquake cannot be surprised by a landslide.

And please don't say, "b...b..b..but it took 20 million years to form!" At this moment, there are billions of other rock formations on the Earth, changing as they are worn down or lifted up. This one, for perhaps a few thousand years of its existence, looked distinctive. But where it once stood, another "formation" now stands, just one that isn't as distinctive.

[frossca]

Gravity's a bitch.

[Izzy Dunne]

Even though standard geology claims the rocks began to form 20 million years ago (see the BBC News story), the remains will probably be washed away by the waves within weeks.

And what, exactly, does one have to do with the other?

Absolutely nothing.

[GLDNGUN]

Evolution in action, indeed. Disintegrating.

[highball]

Wow. That sort of willful ignorance never ceases to puzzle me.

It would be funny if there weren't so many people who believed that stuff.

[Strategerist]

Yeah, amazingly this is the dumbest thing Answers in Genesis/Creation-Evolution Headlines has ever written, I think.

It's as if, when some healthy 90-year-old guy dies suddenly in a couple minutes from a heart attack, that it proves he COULDN'T have been 90 years old, and must have been 9 days old.

[FreedomCalls]

Before.

During and after.

[dhs12345]

The Grizwalds strike again.

[linear]

This event is just another example of why I chose my tagline. ;-)

[Rebelbase]

They call that one on the back left the Little Rock of Levitra.

[absolootezer0]

maybe the namer screwed up and it was supposed to be the 12 disciples, and the one that fell is representative of Judas, and the whole thing is sign that the beginning of the end has come.

hey, my theory is as good as the reporters.

[sandydipper]

Glad we wern't around - my lovely wife would have insisted that I get a photo from the top as it started to crumble. She's just mean like that.

[bondserv]

Ping!

Shumaker-Levy and short-lived comets all over the galaxy, the “Twelve Apostles” tumbling in our short life spans, makes us wonder about the mantra "millions of years ago".