Petrified logs have always been a mystery to scientists who believe in evolution and an old earth. They clearly indicate a single, world-wide catastrophic event of incredible power and destruction. Such logs are commonly found, for example, devoid of limbs and yet retaining thier bark, a very different method of decomposition than we are familiar with. While most claim that such forests of petrified wood took millions of years submersed in mineral-rich water to form, one must wonder how they remained so intact for the first thousand or so when "petrification" had barely begun.
Petrified forests can be found the world over in such countries as the United States, Greece, Argentina and Africa to name a few, and individual fragments can practically be found in your own backyard. All are believed to have formed over millions of years and to be as old as 10-200 million years. Yet, when we look at other instances of petrification we find this estimate suspect. Consider the case of the boot and leg found in a creek bed near the West Texas town of Iraan in the 1980's. This leg was completely fossilized, to the same extent as the logs found in your average petrified forest. And yet we know that few evolutionists believe that pre-historic man wore cowboy boots. In fact, when we examine the style and make of the boot we find that the person who died wearing it must have lived relatively recently. In fact, very recently - just a few years before his remains were discovered.
PARACONFORMITY
This term refers to the layers of rock above and below a "missing" set of layers. In other words, when geologists examine rock layers and discover a number of layers missing it is called a "paraconformity". Paraconformities are always found not with a few hundred or thousand years of rock layers missing, but with literally millions of years of rock missing that should be there. And in all cases none of the gullying and weathering of the rock can be found as you would expect from earth exposed to the atmosphere for any real length of time.
One example is a paraconformity found in the Baltic region where clays from the Pleistocene age sit directly atop clay containing Cambrian-age fossils. The age-gap presented there is in excess of 400 million years! According to the modern theory of the formation of the earth, this clearly represents a period of about 400 million years when no cosmic dust fell and no other form of sediment occured. And yet, when we examine these two rock layers, which seem to indicate such widely divergent times, we find that the clay composition of both is so nearly identical that in many places one layer cannot be visibly distinguished from the other. Imagine 400 million years without any new earth covering the old, as you would expect to occur as cosmic dust fell, plants and animals died and decomposed, or any of the other natural event which modern science indicates creates these rock layers. What could possible prevent this region's growth for 400 million years?!
Frankly, nothing. Such a length of time is far too long for new earth to fail to form. The only logical answer is that there was no such great length of time between the formation of these two layers of rock. And yet, most scientists disregard this obvious answer without even an argument. Go figure.
SOIL LAYERS
Yet another difficult-to-explain phenomenon for modern scientists is the lack of soil layers in the fossil record. With so many millions of years of the surface rock being exposed to the atmosphere one would expect to see a great many layers of soil. And yet very few can be found. In fact, in some areas none can be found within the rock layers at all. Consider that even in the Sahara Desert one would expect some kind of soil formation after millions of years, if only a different kind of sand. Few scientists would be willing to tell you that such selected areas of soil accumulation are exactly what one would expect after a quickly occuring global flood.
POLYSTRATIC TREES
Basically these are fossilized trees buried in and extending through several rock layers. Sometimes polystratic trees can be found running through rock layers representing "millions" of years. The most common explanation for these trees is that natural disasters or unusually powerful natural events caused these trees to be buried in pre-existing rock layers. And yet, when you examine the layers and how they lay against the trunk of these fossilized trees we find that there are almost never any signs of disturbance in the rock of the kind that one would expect had these trees been "buried" there. The only other explanation is that such rock layers do not take nearly as long to form as we thought, or that the fossilized trees simply appeared there magically.
OIL PRESSURE (pardon the pun)
The fluid pressure that we can measure within oil fields is far, far higher than scientists say it should be. It is has been determined by geologists that such underground pockets, or specifically the rock layers containing them, cannot hold the kind of pressure found in your average oil well for more than about 100,000 years. While geologists freely admit this "puzzling fact", none seem to have any reliable theory as to how oil fields all over the world are still under such incredible pressure after "millions" of years.
EPHEMERAL MARKINGS
Ephemeral markings are those marks left behind by such natural activity as puddle-ripples, worm and slug trails, animal tracks and the imprints of raindrops, falling leaves and debris. Such markings are very fragile, especially in the context of geology. For such markings to be found in the fossil record they would have to buried at least to the depth of the imprint itself or the rock above would certainly obliterate them. They would also have to buried very quickly or the next hard rain would likely destroy them. Considering the incredibly fragile nature of such markings you wouldn't think to find any at all in the fossil record, right? Certainly there were not enough such marks preserved against the elements for any to be found by archeologists "millions" of years later.
And yet, when you examine the fossil record you find that ephemeral markings can be found in great numbers, in fact they are quite abundant. So much so that even geologists admit that there must have been some great catastrophic "high deposition" event in the area to explain them. Such as a great flood. Of course, using such methods of radiometric dating as we have discussed earlier, or geological methods which are equally unreliable, it is easy to assign different dates to each such occurance of markings.
The magnetic field of the earth has been shown to have a "half-life" of 1400 years. Extrapolating back over several half-lives we find that we can quickly reach a time when the magnetic field of the earth was far too powerful to allow life to exist. The maximum age is, in fact, about 10,000 years. For the earth's magnetic field to have had a different half-life at some previous time directly violates known physical law, much less to the extent that would allow the millions of years of abundant life that evolutionists would have us accept.
THE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE OCEANS
Scientists have determined fairly accurately what amount of each element is deposited into the oceans each year by rivers. They also have a pretty accurate assessment of how much of each of these elements the oceans actually contain. Even accounting for such variables as dissipation and sedimentation, it can be accurately determined how long it has taken the oceans of the world to accumulate thier current levels of each of these elements. Not one element exists in such abundance in any ocean to suggest that the earth is anywhere near the billions of years that we have been taught that it is.
THE POYNTING-ROBERTSON EFFECT
Consider the incredible power of the sun's gravity to draw in and destroy particles of dust and other debris that venture too close, as well as the force of it's radiation to push such debris and dust that are farther away completely out of the system. If this system were truly as old as it is said to be (billions of years), then the entire system would have long since been swept clean and the abundance of such particles we witness today would not exist.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
It has been shown that, if the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe holds true for our solar system, as it is supposed to for the entire physical universe, then the Sun should possess angular momentum in excess of 700 times that of all it's planets combined. And yet, the planets of this system cleary have 50 times more angular momentum than it does! There is simple no explanation for this phenomenon that does not directly contradict the popular notion of our galaxy's origin. While we can only guess at the values of the bodies of other star systems in our galaxy, or any other galaxy for that matter, it is clear that ours was not formed in the manner that the "Big Bang" demands.
INCLINED ORBITS
The orbits of each of the 63 moons in our solar system should lie in the equatorial plane of it's planet. But many, including our own, are found to be in highly inclined orbits. Again, no reliable theory is advanced my modern science to explain this.
SUPER NOVAS
When stars burn out, assuming they are big enough, they explode. If our galaxy were as old as "Big Bang" theorists tell us it us, there should be visible remains of about 7200 such exploded stars. However, if creationists are correct in determing the age of the galaxy there should be something between 150-200 such remains. The actual number has been found to be 205, much closer to the creationist's estimate.
STAR CLUSTERS
When we examine particular star clusters we find that many have stars moving so fast within them that they could not have held together for the billions or even millions of years that astronomers say they have. Such clusters can conclusively be shown to be only thousands of years old. And as no new star clusters could have recently been created by anyone or anything but God, we have evidence that the popular notion of the age of the universe is far off the mark.
THE EARTH'S SPIN
The earth's spin is gradually decreasing at a rate of 1/3 second per year. Extrapolating back from the current rate we find the earth spinning at a ridiculous rate by the time we reach the age of earth that evolutionists depend on.
THE ROTATION OF SPIRAL GALAXIES
The rate and force of rotation of the spiral galaxies should have long since distorted them out of thier current spiral shape, if we assume the billions-of-years age attributed them by modern science. As they could not possibly have held this shape with the spin-rate they possess, they cannot possibly be billions of years old.