t has been claimed that the geological column as a
faunel succession is not just a hypothetical concept, but a reality, because
all Phanerozoic systems exist superposed at a number of locations on the
earth. Close examination reveals, however, that even at locations where all
ten systems are superposed, the column, as represented by
sedimentary-thickness, is mostly missing. In fact, the thickest local
accumulation of rock is only a tiny fraction of the inferred 600-million
year’s worth of depositions. The global ‘stack’ of index
fossils exists nowhere on earth, and most index fossils do not usually
overlie each other at the same locality. So, even in those places where all
Phanerozoic systems have been assigned, the column is still hypothetical.
Locally, many of the systems have not been assigned by the index fossils
contained in the strata but by indirect methods that take the column for
granted clearly circular reasoning. Thus the geologic
column does not exist and so does not need to be explained by Flood geology.
Only each local succession requires an explanation and Flood geology is
wholly adequate for this task.
Does the geologic column exist? If so, to what extent? With geological
periods and epochs extending for hundreds of millions of years the column
clearly contradicts the biblical time scale. Thus for many people, the
geological column is an obstacle to their accepting a recent Creation and a
world-wide Flood as recorded in Scripture.
Creationists have shown that the geological column presents no problem to
Flood geology. It is nothing more than a hypothetical classification scheme
based on selected rock outcrops in Europe, and used flexibly to classify
rocks around the world.[1],[2] Anti-creationists have responded that the
column is valid, having been built up in a thoroughly logical way long
before the theory of evolution was invented, and that many of those who
contributed to its building were creationists.[3] One unanswerable argument for the hypothetical
character of the column is that nowhere in the world does the complete
column exist. The majority of the geological periods are missing in the
field. Although anti-creationists usually have not disputed that the column
is mostly missing, they have argued that we should not expect the entire
column to exist in the field. Erosion, they argue, is why the complete
column is never found.3 Hence they claim that rocks deposited during one
period would be eroded away during a later period. So, while those
defending the column have invented ad hoc reasons to explain the
missing geologic periods, they did not deny the hypothetical nature of the
column.
Recently however, there have been a number of recurrent claims that the
geological column is more than a hypothetical concept and that it actually
exists.[4] Some of these claims
have been made on the Internet and, as an active creationist scientist, I
don’t have the time to fan the windmills of debate on this totally
unregulated, unrefereed medium. Anyone can say anything on it, no matter
how untrue. However, the claims made on this medium should not be ignored
completely. We must provide responses from time to time so the critics and
their readers don’t think their claims are unanswerable.
It is on the Internet that a number of geographical localities have been
nominated where it has been asserted that the entire column is actually
superposed period upon period in the one place.[5] This is one of the few intellectual-sounding
arguments on the anti-creationist sites that some people may mistakenly take
seriously. Thus I address the bogus arguments of some of these articles
relating to the geologic column. I want to examine these claims closely,
first correcting common misrepresentations of creationist literature on this
subject, then delving into the geologic issues involved.
How is the Geologic Column Defined?
Anti-creationists have distorted what creationists have
actually written about the geologic column, and created one huge ‘straw
man’ of creationist research on global stratigraphy. Others have cited
one or two popular-level creationist books and misrepresented them as the
definitive thought of all creationists. For example, Glenn Morton writes in
his Internet essay, The Entire Geologic Column in North
Dakota:
‘A detailed examination of the young earth
creationist claim that the geologic column does not exist. It is shown that
the entire geologic column exists in North Dakota.’[5]
Morton’s claim is very misleading. The unsuspecting visitor to
Morton’s website gets only a small part of the story. Yes, Morris and
Parker,[1] whom Morton attacks, are not strictly
accurate when they say there is no place on earth where all ten geologic
systems are superposed. (I combine the Mississippian and the Pennsylvanian
into the Carboniferous system, and omit the surficial Quarternary deposits.)
However, it is wrong to state or imply that most creationist scholars
believe this to be true. Back in 1968, Harold Clark[6] made it clear that there are many places on the
earth with most or all of the ‘complete’ column in place. In
1981, I re-examined this fact, and quantified it.[2] More on this later.
But does the presence of all ten superposed Phanerozoic systems
positively establish the reality of the geologic column? Hardly! Yet
Morton (and others who repeat what he says) present it to their readers as
if it did. As a start, let us examine more fully what Morris and Parker
actually said about the geologic column:
‘The column is supposed to represent a
vertical cross-section through the earth’s crust, with the most
recently deposited (therefore youngest) rocks at the surface and the oldest,
earliest rocks deposited on the crystalline “basement” rocks at
the bottom. If one wishes to check out this standard column (or standard
geologic age system), where can he go to see it for himself? There is only
one place in all the world to see the standard geologic column.
That’s in the textbook! ... almost any textbook, in fact, that
deals with evolution or earth history. A typical textbook rendering of the
standard column is shown in Figure 44. This standard column is supposed to
be at least 100 miles [160 km] thick (some writers say up to 200 [320 km]),
representing the total sedimentary activity of all of the geologic ages.
However, the average thickness of each local geologic column is about
one mile (in some places, the column has essentially zero thickness, in a
few places it may be up to 16 or so miles [25 km], but the worldwide average
is about one mile [1.6 km]). The standard column has been built up by
superposition of local columns from many different localities.’ [7] (Emphasis in
original.)
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Figure 1. The presence or absence of all ten Phanerozoic systems
in a 'stack' is not the only issue concerning the reality or otherwise of
the geologic column. The column to the left represents the maximum
thickness of sedimentary rock attributed to each geologic period (100
miles). The column to the right represents to the same scale the thickness
of sedimentary rock in North Dakota. Clearly the geologic column is far
from complete in North Dakota. |
Note that Morris and Parker are not saying that the
presence or absence of all ten Phanerozoic systems in a ‘stack’ is
the only issue defining the reality or otherwise of the
geologic column. What they are saying, as is seen in the part
usually not quoted by anti-creationists, is that nowhere on earth is the
geologic column complete in the sense of having the maximum thickness of
sedimentary rock attributed to each geologic period. It is time
anti-creationists stop misrepresenting Morris and Parker.
As for Morton, although he mentions the thickness-of-sediment issue, it
is in a completely distorted manner:
‘In point of fact Morris and Parker define
the geologic column in a silly fashion. There is no place on earth that has
sediments from every single day since the origin of the earth. No geologist
would require this level of detail from the geological
column.’[5]
Morton’s comments have no semblance to reality. Creationists do
not say that every single day’s deposits must be preserved! The fact
is that Morris and Parker are not talking about a little of the daily
sediment being missing. If we read the Morris and Parker quote again, we
can see that the 100- or 200-mile column is not the presumed
product of daily sedimentation. Rather, the 100- to 200-mile column
represents the sum of the thickest sections from the field of each of the
ten Phanerozoic systems and/or their major components.
Now what does all this mean? Common sense teaches us that 16 miles (at
most) which exists, out of a total of 100 or 200 miles, is a
very incomplete column! It remains primarily an invention of
the uniformitarian imagination, and a textbook orthodoxy. So, although
there are places where lithologies referable to all ten of the Phanerozoic
systems can actually be seen superposed, creationists remain more than
justified in highlighting the essential non-existence of the standard
geologic column. And we have not even touched such matters as overlapping
fossil ranges, non-superposed index fossils, and many other things, which
expose the non-reality of the geologic column. That is, most fossils found
are for only one geologic system (e.g. Devonian), and most index fossils do
not actually superpose at the same locality. In other words, most locations
with Devonian fishes are not overlain by rocks bearing Cretaceous ammonites,
and most locations with Cretaceous ammonites do not overlie localities with
Devonian fishes. The same can be said for all the index fossils of all of
the geologic systems.
Can the Geologic Column be Found?
Sometimes the motives of creationist researchers are
challenged in an attempt to defend the concept of the geologic column.
Consider, for instance, Glenn Morton’s tale of how I ‘set out to prove that the geologic column did not
exist’, and then was forced to admit that it did.[8] This fantasy has been picked
up and repeated by other anti-creationists on the Internet without first
checking what I actually wrote. The fact of the matter is, I in no sense
tried to prove that the geologic column did not exist. The truth is that I
already knew it didn’t! Nor was I in any way surprised to find that
there are some places where lithologies attributed to all ten geologic
periods can be found. I had known that long before. So had other informed
creationists,[9] as pointed out
earlier. In fact, I said so plainly on the first page of my article.[10]
So, why did I do the work? As I said on the first page of the article,
the aim was to measure the degree of incompleteness of the
geologic column. That is why I set up the maps, tables, and graphs to show
the percentages of the earth’s surface that have various combinations
of the ten Phanerozoic systems in place. I thus had considered the
sedimentary Phanerozoic systems not only as single, unrelated entities, but
also in terms of stratigraphically consecutive combinations.
There are other ways in which Glenn Morton’s criticism of my work is
without foundation. Morton[11] has led his readers to believe that I had only
mentioned Poland and Bolivia, and that, furthermore, I was claiming that
those are the only locations on earth with the ten geologic
systems in place. Actually, I specifically mentioned other potential places
with the ‘complete’ column (e. g., Cuba, Indonesia, and the
Himalayas).[12] Morton is
saying nothing new at his website when he cites additional locations where
the ‘complete’ column is found and shows them on a
visually-attractive world map. Note that most if not all of the locations
that Morton mentions can be found on Map 15 of my article.[13 These locations appear as
white spots on Map 15, and include such places as northwest Russia, Siberia,
the Caspian-Sea region, parts of China, the Williston Basin in the western
USA, Bulgaria, Chile, Tunisia, central Mexico, and Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan.
It is of course, possible that some smaller locations with ten superposed
geologic systems have been lost in the level of resolution afforded by the
Alexander Ronov et al. maps used in my study.
But where does Morton get his information? He cites as his source the
work of the Robertson Group, a London-based oil-consulting company. I have
been unable to secure a copy of this work, as it is not listed in either
WorldCat or GEOREF. Thus I cannot comment on the accuracy of this source of
information, nor discern whether or not its portrayal of sedimentary basins
is overly schematic. Evidently, Morton is citing a proprietary source not
subject to public scrutiny. But let us, for the sake of argument, grant the
complete validity of what the Robertson Group states, as represented by
Morton. Even then the claims are overly generalised. For example,
Morton’s does not say how given strata had been ‘dated’.
Which ‘geologic ages’ had been identified according to the faunal
content of the strata, and which had simply been ‘guesstimated’
according to lithological similarity and/or comparable stratigraphic
position with faunally-dated sedimentary formations at adjacent locations?
All this is moot, however. As noted earlier, since most of the sediment is
missing, Morton’s arguments are completely specious even if the
Robertson Group work is thoroughly accurate and not excessively schematic in
its depiction of the world’s sedimentary basins.
Finally, the number of different locations on earth with the
‘complete’ column is completely irrelevant. After all, regardless
of whether there are 10 or 20 or even 50 locations on earth where all ten
geologic systems are superposed, there is no escaping the fact that this
still totals less than 1% of the earth’s surface. Even this 1% does
not include ocean basins. When the ocean basins are included (none of which
have more than a few of the ten geologic systems in place), the global
figure falls to less than 0.4%.[14]
If this were not enough, the situation gets worse when we include the
faunal basis for separating and correlating the lithologies into
‘geologic periods’. As mentioned earlier, only a small fraction
of index fossils are superposed at the same location on Earth. This has
been documented in my Diluviological Treatise.[15] Therefore, all things considered, scientific
creationists are more than justified in concluding that the standard
evolutionary-uniformitarian geologic column is, in fact, essentially
non-existent.
Anti-Logic “1% is More Significant Than 99%”
To rescue the situation, anti-creationists have argued that
the 1% of the earth’s surface where the lithologies of all ten geologic
periods can be found simultaneously is somehow more significant than the
remaining 99% where they are not superposed. Consider the contortions of
facts and logic this entails. Morton makes an enormous leap when he claims
the 1% means the geologic column exists.[16] Of course, as noted earlier, this
misrepresents Morris and Parker, myself, and other creationists. And,
again, it completely ignores the fact that only 16/100 to 16/200 of the
column are actually present in any one spot not to mention
the palaeontological factors which, as discussed above, make the geologic
column even more artificial than appears at first.
Glenn Morton also made the extravagant claim that the finding of ten
superposed Phanerozoic systems is ‘an
important prediction’. Actually, as everyone who has
studied the development of the geologic column knows, the geologic systems
were constructed on an ad hoc, deductive basis. Nowhere in the
19th century geologic literature, at least to my knowledge, is
there a hint of a claim that an eventual find of ten superposed systems is a
necessary phenomenon for validating the (presumed) reality of the
geologic-age system. If such a citation from the early geologic writings
exists, I would gladly be corrected. Until and unless such a citation can
be produced however, I think that we best treat this claim with the
proverbial grain of salt.
Let us consider this claim in a different way. Assume for a moment that
it had been established that there was no geographic location on earth where
ten geologic systems were found superposed in a quasi-complete column.
Would the failure of this supposed ‘prediction’ have caused
uniformitarians to reject the validity of their geologic column? Not
likely! The claim that finding ten superposed geologic systems is ‘an important prediction’ is clearly
false.
Some anti-creationists have calculated the extreme improbability of ten
such systems ever being deposited by chance during the Flood. Such a
calculation is patently absurd, because creationist scientists do not
believe that the order of fossils in the stratigraphic record (and hence the
ten-named geologic periods) is entirely (or even primarily) the result of
chance processes during the Universal Deluge. And, of course, any mixing of
organisms during the Flood has already been accounted for by evolutionists
by such things as long-ranging fossils (which are thereby not used as index
fossils), and ‘reworking’ rationalizations, etc.
Measuring Lithological Succession Globally
Some readers of both my Essential Nonexistence and
Diluviological Treatise articles10 have questioned the relevance of
overlays to measure the lithological succession of Phanerozoic systems (in
the former), as well as the succession of types of fossils (in the latter).
Their objections revolve around the fact that strata are three-dimensional
and interlayered with other strata.
To begin with, I had taken the three-dimensionality of the strata into
account by tacitly accepting, as a given, the superposition of lithologies
ascribed to different geologic periods. That is, when I considered a map of
Ordovician strata and one with Cambrian strata, I assumed that, where the
two systems occur in the same geographic locality, Ordovician strata always
overlie Cambrian strata (and never the reverse).
As for the lateral continuity of strata, it had been argued that, since
strata overlie each other not only directly, but also through a series of
overlaps (much as the tiles of a gabled roof), therefore strata should be
counted as stratigraphically superposed. This would be analogous to the
uppermost tile on a gabled roof being reckoned successionally higher not
merely over the immediately-underlying tile, but also over all of the
successively-shingled tiles going down to the base of the roof. However,
strata change in character laterally, and so cannot be treated as tiles on a
roof. This is why long-distance correlations of strata should not
empirically count as superposition.[17] I later addressed this perennial objection in
more detail in my Clarifications Related to the ‘Reality’ of
the Geologic Column article,[18] focusing on such things as so-called
time-transgressive lithologies, so-called facies changes, etc. That is,
presumed horizons of geologic time cut across lithologies, and,
reciprocally, different adjacent lithologies can be ascribed to the same
geologic age. Thus, for instance, the same sandstone can be partly Cambrian
and partly Ordovician. Conversely, a Cambrian sandstone can grade laterally
and/or vertically into a Cambrian shale. Since lithologies are not
consistent with presumed units of geologic time, their shingling
relationships cannot count as an evidence for time-based stratigraphic
successions.
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Figure 2. It has been argued that strata should be counted as
stratigraphically superposed because strata can overlie each other through a
series of overlaps like the tiles of a gabled roof. However, strata change
in character laterally over long distances and the horizons of supposed
geologic time cut across lithologies. So regional overlapping cannot be
empirically counted as superposition. |
It was for these, and similar, reasons, that I had concluded that the
interlayering of strata, and lateral continuity of the same, do not
constitute independent evidences for the validity of the geologic column.
This fact also implies that the series of overlays, as performed for the
previous study, is in fact a valid approach for assessing the degree of the
non-existence of the geologic column. So does the superposition of fossils
instead of the superposition of time-designated strata.
Saving an Old Earth Non-Deposition and Erosion
‘Missing’ geologic periods are routinely blamed on
non-deposition and/or erosion, and I have already exposed the circular
reasoning used behind such premises.[19] However, since these arguments come up over
and over again, I will deal with them once more.
Periodically, we also hear the claim that ‘missing’ geologic
periods are expected because the earth was never ‘depositional’
everywhere at the same time. After all, it is said, even today the entire
earth’s surface is not undergoing deposition of sediment.[20] Such arguments, while
superficially logical, can only beg the question about the earth’s age
and the ability or otherwise of sedimentary environments to prograde all
over the earth within a given long-time period. Without first
assuming the validity of the geologic column, and using it as
a tool to find times as well as areas of non-deposition, there is no way of
independently knowing anything about ostensible long-term areal trends in
sedimentary deposition. That is, without the complete geologic column as a
reference, who can possibly know how much of the Earth’s
surface has been depositional simultaneously in any period of several tens
of millions of years (i. e. the average duration of a geologic period)?
Thus, having used the geologic column to determine the geographic regions
of non-deposition, the uniformitarians then complete the circle of reasoning
by arguing that non-deposition accredits the 99%-incomplete geologic column.
Clearly they are simply presupposing the great antiquity of
the earth because that is the answer they want. An analogous line of
reasoning holds for the presumed removal, by erosion, of
previously-deposited strata. Let us now more closely examine how the claims
of ‘missing’ rock do in fact beg the question. As Watson points
out:
‘Is it circular to think of a process that
would remove some rock, and then to use the absence of the rocks to argue
that the process was in operation in the past? No, not if the argument is
coupled with further evidence that the rocks were in fact once
there.’[21]
In most locations on earth, there is no independent evidence for
non-deposition and/or erosion of presumably once-existing strata. Usually,
erosional removal is simply assumed for a given geographic
region because rocks assigned to one geologic period (or more) are
regionally absent.
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Figure 3. (After Steven A. Austin,
Ed., Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe, ICR,
Santee, CA, p. 43, 1994). Four types of field evidences for periods of
erosion and nondeposition:
- The nonconformity where stratified rock rests on nonstratified rock
- The angular unconformity where stratified rock rests on tilted and
eroded strata
- The disconformity where parallel strata are present below and above but
where discordance of bedding is evident
- The paraconformity where no discordance of bedding is noticeable.
Paraconformities are proposed between strata for the sole reason that
appropriate index fossils are absent from the intervening geologic system.
Paraconformities usually show no evidence of subaerial exposure or the
supposed millions of years between strata.
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It is also important to realise that the maps in the Essential
Nonexistence article[22]
already account, to a considerable extent, for those locations on earth
where there is independent geologic evidence of the erosional removal of
rock. After all, these maps are not only lithologic maps but also
paleogeographic ones. The thinnest category of sedimentary lithologies
(0100 m) on the originally-redrawn Ronov et al. maps thus
includes the onetime coverage, by sedimentary rocks, of geographic regions
for which only outliers exist as evidence of the former coverage. For
example, the Ronov et al. maps show the City of Chicago covered by
Devonian and Carboniferous rock. This is in spite of the fact that there
are no Devonian and Carboniferous strata underlying Chicago at present, with
the exception of a few inliers, such as the Devonian and Carboniferous ones
in the Des Plaines Disturbance. These in fact demonstrate that the two
systems had in fact once covered all of Chicago but had subsequently been
eroded away. Thus, the maps, which I have used in the previous study,
already account for the empirical evidences of rocks of a given
‘age’ once having been present in geographic regions beyond their
present regular occurrence.
Beyond this, with the exception of angular unconformities, there is
little or no solid independent evidence for an erosional removal of
once-deposited sedimentary systems. Thus, following the statements by
Watson above, most of the ‘missing’ ages, which are the rule for
the earth, are in fact based upon circular reasoning.
Conclusions
There are a number of locations on the earth where all ten periods of the
Phanerozoic geologic column have been assigned. However, this does not mean
that the geological column is real. Firstly, the presence or absence of all
ten periods is not the issue, because the thickness of the sediment pile,
even in those locations, is only a small fraction (816% or less) of
the total thickness of the hypothetical geologic column. Without question,
most of the column is missing in the field.
Secondly, those locations where it has been possible to assign all ten
periods represent less than 0.4% of the earth’s surface, or 1% if the
ocean basins are excluded. Obviously it is the exception, rather than the
rule, to be able to assign all of the ten Phanerozoic periods to the
sedimentary pile in any one location on the earth. It does not engender
confidence in the reality of the geological column when it is absent 99% of
the time.
Thirdly, even where the ten periods have been assigned, the way in which
they were assigned can be quite subjective. It is a well known fact, for
example, that many unfossiliferous Permian rocks are ‘dated’ as
such solely because they happen to be sandwiched between faunally-dated
Carboniferous and faunally-dated Triassic rocks. Without closer examination,
it is impossible to determine how many of the ‘ten Phanerozoic systems
superposed’ have been assigned on the basis of index fossils (by which
each of the Phanerozoic systems have been defined) and how many have been
assigned by indirect methods such as lithological similarity, comparable
stratigraphic level, and schematic depictions. Clearly, if the periods in
these locations were assigned by assuming that the geological column was
real, then it is circular reasoning to use the assigned ten periods to argue
the reality of the column.
Finally, the geological column is a hypothetical concept that can always
be rescued by special pleading. A number of standard explanations are used
to account for missing geological periods, including erosion and
non-deposition. Clear field evidence, such as unconformities, is not
necessarily needed before these explanations are invoked. Similarly a range
of standard explanations is used to account for the fossils when their order
is beyond what the column would predict. These include reworking,
stratigraphic leaking, and long-range fossils. Even if all ten periods of
the column had never been assigned to one local stratigraphic section
anywhere on the earth, the concept of the geological column would still be
accepted as fact by conventional uniformitarian geologists.
To the diluviologist this means, of course, that only the local
succession has to be explained by Flood-related processes. Very seldom do
all ten geologic systems have to be accounted for in terms of Flood
deposition.
There is no escaping the fact that the Phanerozoic geologic column
remains essentially non-existent. It should be obvious, to all but the most
biased observers, that it is the anti-creationists who misrepresent the
geologic facts. The geologic column does not exist to any substantive
extent, and scientific creationists are correct to point this out.
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[1] Morris, H. and Parker, G., What is Creation Science? Master Books, El Cajon,
1982. [RETURN TO TEXT]
[2] Woodmorappe,
J., The essential nonexistence of the evolutionary-uniformitarian
geologic column: a quantitative assessment, Creation Research Society
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[3] Hayward, A., Creation and Evolution: The Facts
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[8] Morton, Ref. 4. Does Morton repeat the same wrong
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[9] Clark, Ref. 6, p. 55. [RETURN TO TEXT]
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J., Studies in Flood
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Creationism in 1986 and 1990. In contrast to the spiral-bound 1993
1st edition, this new edition has a conventional cover, upgraded
drawings, common pagination, a list of study questions, and a comprehensive
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[13] Woodmorappe,
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[15] Woodmorappe,
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[17] Woodmorappe,
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