Giant’s Causeway

“Giant’s Causeway, with its unusual formations, attracts thousands of visitors each year to Northern Ireland. Some geologists claim that the Causeway was formed over 60 million years ago by intermittent periods of volcanic activity. But other geologists, who approach Giant’s Causeway with a biblical understanding of the past, state that this wonder was formed around 4,500 years ago as a result of a single, great catastrophe.

The Causeway basalts are made up of seven separate lava flows and vary in height from 330 feet (100 m) down to the water’s edge. These layers were produced as a result of the earth’s plates shifting. These movements created great openings in the earth’s crust, through which lava rushed out and covered the land. This intermittent tectonic activity generated the different layers of lava that are found in this area. Each layer of lava was hardened by water before being covered by another layer. The 40,000 or more, mostly six-sided, columns of Giant’s Causeway give evidence to this cooling. The columns formed as the lava began to cool from both the top and bottom of the lava pool. As these surfaces hardened, they contracted, creating deep cracks all along the surface of the lava pool. The lava then continued to cool and contract which, in turn, extended the cracks vertically until they finally connected, forming columns.

Evolutionary geologists have attempted to date rocks found in Giant’s Causeway by using a process called radiometric dating, and have obtained a date of about 60 million years. However, radiometric dating is known to be flawed and is based on many unproved assumption. One catastrophic event that gives more evidence to this faulty dating process is the explosion of Mount St. Helens in the northwestern USA. When rock that was formed from that eruption was tested, the results yielded “dates” up to several million years, when in reality the rock was just twenty years old.

The conditions of the Flood described in the Bible provide an explanation for the formation of Giant’s Causeway. Several months into Noah’s Flood, the sedimentary strata now found in Northern Ireland had been deposited by the violent currents of the Flood waters. Then late in the Flood, as the waters began receding, volcanic activity covered the sedimentary strata with thin layers of lava. This lava then hardened as it cooled. As the tectonic activity paused, the waters briefly covered the area again, depositing floating mats of vegetation and other sediment on the lava surface. Within days, the tectonic activity continued, resulting in the layers of lava and sediment being covered with another layer of lava. This rapid cycle of volcanic and tectonic activity with water surges resulted in the columns and cliffs we see in Giant’s Causeway today.

Scientists who accept the biblical record date the Genesis Flood to about 4,500 years ago, rather than believing the millions of years determined by the faulty radiometric dating methods. Giant’s Causeway stands as a testimony to a time when God judged the wickedness of mankind, but protected those on the Ark who obeyed Him.”  Full text:  Creation Road Trip  http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n1/creation-road-trip-more

Giant’s Causeway