Mangroves buried fast, reef above it took a long time to form

ED: Catastophes include tsunamis, earthquakes, tidal
waves, volcanic eruptions, and portions of land rising
or falling. No geologist doubts such things happen.
Neither does modern geology deny such things. Modern
geologists are actualists, which includes catastrophic
explanations for certain strata, and long term
sedimentation for other strata, depending on the
nature of the evidence. So even though the mangroves
beneath the reef were flooded and died
catastrophically, the reef above it was formed slowly
over a lengthy period of time.

It takes a great deal of time for reef organisms to
extract enough calcium out of the water to form such a
large and thick reef, then you'd know that the great
barrier reef could not have been formed in a
young-earth time period. Dan Wonderly is an old-earth
creationist who has studied reefs extensively and
critiqued young-earth explanations in two books as
well as in some articles in the Creation Research
Society Quarterly. Even Henry Morris admits that
Wonderly raises good points, and Morris has included
Wonderly's books in the bibliographies to his own
works.

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-- Josh Bembenek <jbembe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This article just came out in Current Biology. What
> seems quite interesting
> is the date of the mangrove forest found beneath the
> great barrier reef.
> Any comments from geologists? What do you make of
> this and could it have
> anything to do with Noah's flood?

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Received on Wed Mar 30 23:51:09 2005