mount st. helen's

last night hizazzle and i went to hear a scientist speak about mount st. helen's.

he titled the program 'explosive evidence for creation'.

i had heard the evidence that the st. helen's eruption had presented for creation before but this time i heard it from the horses mouth and it was great.

dr. steve austin has a doctorate from Penn State in geology (he did his doctorate about log mats floating bodies of water stripping bark by friction and the bark falling to the floor and becoming peat then coal in a process that would take thousands of years and not millions).

the really cool thing, i thought, is he was an evolutionist when he did his studies and doctorate and then st. helen's erupted in 1980 and what he saw changed his mind and heart.

he talked about how the eruption created stratified layers of rock just like the grand canyon in three hours, not millions of year.

how a canyon were formed (in a day i believe) by mudslides caused by the eruption and the canyon guides the creek, the creek/river does not form the canyon in millions of years which was a note to the grand canyon (he also talked about the fact that the colorado river is not having it's predicted affect upon boulders in the river and even secular scientists are re-thinking the formation of the canyon).

he talked about how the forest floated in the lake after the eruption and then sank into the bottom at different layers and will eventually look like many different petrified forests because of the levels at which the logs sank but indeed were one.

this led them to investigate the petrified trees in yellowstone which were thought to be 27 different millions year old forests but upon further investigation all had the same short severed root system as the mount st. helen's trees and the evidence from the ring patterns etc. pointed to the fact that they were actually from the same forest and that some catastrophic event had placed them and led to their petrification. 

it's just super cool nerd stuff.

amazing God stuff.

i loved hearing the evidence from the actual research scientist (he's been studying this for thirty years) and to hear him talk about God's creation changing his heart was super cool.

he said that if you would have told him any of these things before the eruption he would have disagreed with you and said it was impossible.

he likes to say now:

God specializes in doing things that man thinks are impossible.

oh and his thesis about the logs which was ten months before was proved in that eruption.

he talked about a lot of science stuff (intelligent description right? science stuff) and there were a lot of good questions.

he talked about how even the secular world his listening to his research on mount. st. helen's.

nerdy hizazzle and i just soaked it all up.

hiz thinks he isn't a nerd but i say anyone who gets excited over physics is a nerd.

i know i'm a nerd.

there is a book that i plan to get but i didn't have any cash with me that night... i'll be ordering that a.s.a.p.