Rapid Island Formation Shows Youth
by Owen Borville
February 18, 2019
Geology
Many islands around the world are claimed to be millions of years old by mainstream uniformitarian scientists. However, observational evidence indicates that new islands can form much faster. The island of Surtsey, located 32 kilometers south of Iceland in the North Atlantic, was formed in a few days from an underwater volcanic eruption in 1963. This 346-acre island contains geologic features that scientists claimed would take much longer to form such as a lava dome, wide sandy beaches, steep and rugged cliffs, gravel banks and lagoons, crater pit hollows, valleys, wavy surfaces, fractures, fault scarps, channels, broken rock fragments, and rounded boulders (1) (2). Within several months life appeared, including moulds, bacteria, and fungi, vascular plants, invertebrates, and birds. Seeds were observed by scientists to arrive by ocean currents, giving evidence of how plant life could emerge on the island, which has been protected from human interference. (3) Scientists hypothesise that insects could have rafted there on vegetation or come by air. The rapid emergence of life on Surtsey implies that life on a new land can emerge quickly and the emergence of life does not need long periods of time. Tuluman Island formed from a series of catastrophic volcanic eruptions north of Papua New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands from 1953 to 1957. Several years after formation, visitors observed cliff faces, sandy beaches, pebbles and boulders. (4) If this island was not known to have formed suddenly, scientists would likely have identified this island as forming millions of years ago. Many volcanic islands around the world are identified as millions of years old simply because their formation was not observed by humans and mainstream scientists assume old ages. Also many continental volcanic areas are mistakenly identified as millions of years old when the material was volcanically created within human history but was not observed.
(1) Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Surtsey: The New Island in the North Atlantic (English translation by Viking Press in 1967, now out of print), pp. 39–40.
(2) Surtsey, the Young Island That ‘Looks Old.’ Creation 17(2):10–12—March 1995.
(3) Surtsey, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
(4) Tuluman–A Test of Time. Creation 21(2):54–55—March 1999.
by Owen Borville
February 18, 2019
Geology
Many islands around the world are claimed to be millions of years old by mainstream uniformitarian scientists. However, observational evidence indicates that new islands can form much faster. The island of Surtsey, located 32 kilometers south of Iceland in the North Atlantic, was formed in a few days from an underwater volcanic eruption in 1963. This 346-acre island contains geologic features that scientists claimed would take much longer to form such as a lava dome, wide sandy beaches, steep and rugged cliffs, gravel banks and lagoons, crater pit hollows, valleys, wavy surfaces, fractures, fault scarps, channels, broken rock fragments, and rounded boulders (1) (2). Within several months life appeared, including moulds, bacteria, and fungi, vascular plants, invertebrates, and birds. Seeds were observed by scientists to arrive by ocean currents, giving evidence of how plant life could emerge on the island, which has been protected from human interference. (3) Scientists hypothesise that insects could have rafted there on vegetation or come by air. The rapid emergence of life on Surtsey implies that life on a new land can emerge quickly and the emergence of life does not need long periods of time. Tuluman Island formed from a series of catastrophic volcanic eruptions north of Papua New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands from 1953 to 1957. Several years after formation, visitors observed cliff faces, sandy beaches, pebbles and boulders. (4) If this island was not known to have formed suddenly, scientists would likely have identified this island as forming millions of years ago. Many volcanic islands around the world are identified as millions of years old simply because their formation was not observed by humans and mainstream scientists assume old ages. Also many continental volcanic areas are mistakenly identified as millions of years old when the material was volcanically created within human history but was not observed.
(1) Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Surtsey: The New Island in the North Atlantic (English translation by Viking Press in 1967, now out of print), pp. 39–40.
(2) Surtsey, the Young Island That ‘Looks Old.’ Creation 17(2):10–12—March 1995.
(3) Surtsey, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
(4) Tuluman–A Test of Time. Creation 21(2):54–55—March 1999.