This is a topic that has been on my mind a lot recently and I will try to write more about this later. For the moment I will say that our understanding of what Time is, as well as our means of measuring it, both carry with them certain assumptions. In our common experience, these rules appear to get us through the day without calamity and so we quickly grow to trust them.
But then there are anomalies so contradictory to these assumptions, that they throw all our ideas of Time and dating into jeopardy, and in almost every case, the anomalous evidence is met with long practiced, frigid indifference.
Most academic Science and History have been built upon a foundational concept called the Principle of Uniformity. In a nutshell, this principle states (assumes) that
“geological events of the past must be explained by means of the same causes now in operation”.
This doesn’t sound too problematic at first. It allows things like erosion to wear down mountains and coasts, continental drift, earthquakes and volcanos to slowly thrust up new ones. But only in the way we see these forces acting today, therefore everything must have happened very slowly, over millions of years.
That’s why it is a massive unwelcome spanner in the works when something contradicts this principle, because it not only potentially invalidates the scientific works built upon this foundation (such as Darwin’s Origin of Species), the principle was also used to estimate the age and duration of the rock strata. There was no way to cut the Earth in half and count the rings, they estimated the lengths of geologic time to fit the principle!
This excellent Thunderbolts Project video shows some great examples of the Principle of Uniformity being blown out of the water!
30 Jun 2024
In Antarctica there's a petrified forest where today nothing bigger than bacteria grows. They look like Christmas trees that grew thick and tall—a thousand per acre, up to eighty feet—dating back to late Permian Period some 260 million years ago.
From the catastrophist's viewpoint, this raises many questions. How accurate is the system used to date these trees? Geologists consider this figure accurate, along with the “known” age of the Earth.
It's all backed by absolute radiometric dating techniques. Fifty years ago, mainstream science was equally confident of a different age, and another age fifty years before that. How do we know they got it right this time?
Author, EU advocate and narrator Matt Finn, describes how the electric force can flash freeze entire fields of flora and fauna, schools of fish, massive prehistoric trees, and even woolly mammoths.