Flood explanation
It seems that the only way to explain Devils Tower is to allow for the rapid erosion of the High Plains sedimentary rocks by a wide sheet of flowing water, leaving behind an erosional remnant of the lava conduit. This is consistent with sheet flow erosion as the floodwater was draining off the continent.9,10 The Tower remained tall after the Flood probably because the rock from the Tower was more resistant and/or the current erosion rates were reduced in the area.
This is a GREAT EXAMPLE of a favorite propaganda technique for which Creation.com is famous. [Gradyll doesn't use quotation marks or in any way indicate that this is a copy-and-paste from a website. The reader only figures this out when he realizes that not the numbered FIGURES in the text are not shown *and* when he moves his mouse over the link at the bottom of the post. Notice also that Gradyll uses the title "Flood Explanation" at the top of the post---setting up in the reader's mind that this is about NOAH'S Flood when in fact the only relationship between the formation and the article and Noah's Flood is that WATER MOVEMENT (of some sort) does the eroding, including rain, snow, and water freezing in cracks. Yes, much like sea-shells-on-mountains, to a creationist the "proof" of a global flood is considered anything that involves WATER! Yes, they set the bar extremely low.]
Notice how virtually EVERY creationist article, website, and forum post includes the requisite "evil conspiracy theory" and "Danger Will Robertson!!!" strategy. Gradyll's beings with: Devil's Tower, another tool of the Devil to explain away the Flood. Of course, all of the "creation science" industry entrepreneurs discovered long ago that the best way to solicit money from donors was to scare them with stories of how SATAN is behind the enemies machinations and "genuine Christians" will invest their dollars in stopping those fiends who conspire to destroy us! As the title explains, the DEVIL HIMSELF is behind Devil's Tower because those evil conspirators want to "explain away" the flood---even though Genesis never claimed that the flood was global! (Doesn't matter. After all, TRADITION is more important than what the Bible says.)
Geologists have a number of theories about HOW the Devil's Tower formed but to my knowledge almost all of the theories involve water in some form gradually eroding the sediments AROUND the igneous column which is the tower. And in the "creation science" world, that [conveniently] ALWAYS means the waters of Noah's Flood draining away---despite the absence of evidence for such. Indeed, there are MANY other explanations for why waters would be eroding the sedimentary rock around the tower. But what I find particularly humorous is that creationists employ this easy "It was the flood of Noah!" solution even while failing to point out to the reader that the various formations involve DIFFERENT rock strata around the world. (That is, they don't line up as consistent strata.) And that is why creationists RARELY identify the rock layer which represents the flood "era". They KNOW that their "evidence" is inconsistent---and the reader will ONLY be told the information that HELPS the young earth creationist case, not the data which debunks it. Creation.com also avoids telling the reader how OTHER creationists come up with contradictory theories. (So they like to make it look like those "atheist scientists can never agree on anything but "creation science" has the answers.)
And readers who have some basic geology in their backgrounds (especially if they know how creationists abuse terminology) will notice that, as usual, the creationists have their own "pet definitions" for UNIFORMITARIANISM and CATASTROPHISM. These make convenient straw men which they can set up and then pretend that those conspiring geologists have backed themselves into some imaged corner where they are in a terrible quandary.
There's a lot of great Youtube videos which shred these kinds of Creation.com pseudo-science articles. These "flood geology" articles all follow similar scripts. But they NEVER tell their readers that many of the men who pioneered the modern science of geology started their field work fully expecting to confirm their personal religious presuppositions that Noah's Flood had created the landscapes we see today. Of course, this was understandable, seeing how such a HUGE flood only a few thousand years ago would be sure to leave abundant evidence virtually everywhere we look. So those Bible-toting early scientists were baffled that not only did they find ZERO evidence of a global flood, what they DID find told a VERY different story! Yes, water often play a prominent role but they soon realized that a flood environment leaves completely different remnants and land-forms then did various kinds of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and glaciers, just to name a few. Creationists like to pretend that every sign of water in the past must have been NOAH'S floodwaters. But modern geology was the result of those early field scientists seeing their presuppositions totally destroyed.
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