You’re a load shy of a brick....
Magma that cools quickly forms basalt and is amorphous at microscopic level. Granites can be formed from the same combination of minerals, but have a very different appearance because of the size of the crystals that are formed during the cooling process. In relative terms, basalts cool quickly and granites cool slowly. But, the formation of both types of rocks occurs over a very short period of time compared to their longevity on the Earth. Both can be found today that were formed hundreds of millions or even a few billions of years ago. The decay of radioactive minerals within these rocks allows us to date them in their proper hierarchy within the Earth’s history.
This story is complete poppycock, nonsense, bull crap. And oh, by the way: nothing that what geology has to say about the formation and life cycle of the Earth is in any way contradictory to what God and Jesus tell us about creation. Some people try to convince others that the two are incompatible, but they don’t know what they are talking about.
Ignorance on this scale is really scary.
Lemme know when they can show me how to compress 4.5 billion years of radiometric decay down to one year, without releasing any heat.
Desperate times require desperate arguments, one supposes.
How this lunatic can look at himself in the mirror is beyond me.
Misleading the gullible for money just has to be a sin, imho.
It usually takes only a few months for pome-granites to fully form.
The enemies of conservatism couldn’t ask for more than to have articles like this posted on FR.
Of course granites can form (relatively) quickly. They’re non-metamorphic rocks. They form (as already noted) from magmas. It’s *sedimentary* rocks that take a lot of time to form.
Suddenly, granites.
Anti-Christian, Evolution Troll PING!
bmfl
On small scales, some of these “rapid geology” theories work. They’re nonsensical on global scales.
As I age I’m getting a perspective on what a century really is. Then I note that 10,000 years (typical “young Earth” timeframe) is just 100 hundred-year lifetimes back to back. Having seen what has happened in about half a century, and studied recorded history, it’s pretty easy to extrapolate what one could sensibly expect of geology in that timeframe. That leaves a ridiculously small period for a mind-boggling amount of geologic activity. Exponentiate that with the amount of energy required to make anything happen on that scale in that time, and you’re talking Earth-destroying levels of chaos and power, which have no hope of creating the nuanced structure we see layered within mountainous artifacts. It’s akin to expecting to assemble a building using a nuclear bomb; falling back on “well, if the bomb’s designer is really clever...” is not convincing.
Wow. There are quite a few hysterical responses.
Anyone who has unearthed very much rock (including sedimentary rock) with their own hands from under dry land and worked with it much (with their own hands) knows about the big academic lie.