By Carla Estell 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The headlines abound with the news of yet another discovery of Antarctic forests, leaving scientists scrambling to explain how the South Pole was once a suitable environment for trees. Their answer is climate change. They claim that some glacial ice ages have cycles with millions of years of ice free \u201cinterglacial\u201d time when even Antarctica was forest covered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the older scientific literature, fossil forests were explained by plate tectonics.\u00a0 This idea states that as the major continental plates slowly moved about the globe, Antarctica spent some time closer to the equator and therefore was more suitable for life. Although plate tectonics has not been abandoned, climate change has become the new focus.\u00a0 You see, these recently discovered forests are dated in the “late Permian period 250 million years ago”, a time when even secular scientist believe Antarctica was firmly established at the south pole.\u00a0 But how could trees survive the bitter cold? They now say, “In between the many Ice Ages, earth’s climate was like a green house from pole to pole”. Hence the term -climate change. But even if it was so, how could trees survive 11 weeks of total darkness followed by weeks of growing twilight ending with 11 weeks of total, just over the horizon sun?\u00a0 Just because these tree trunks are upright and appear to be a forest, does that prove they grew where they are now buried?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can speculate on what we think happened in the past. But if it was not observed, nor repeatable in\na controlled experiment, then it must remain speculation. However, sometimes nature supplies its own\nexperiment. Take Mount St Helens, for\nexample. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 1980 eruption huge waves, caused by a landslide rushing into Spirit Lake, uprooted and washed millions of trees into the lake.\u00a0 Rescue teams flying in helicopters thought the lake was gone, but it was just totally covered with floating trees and ash.\u00a0 40 years later there is still a large log mat floating on Spirit Lake, although most of the trees have sunk to the lake floor.\u00a0 When Dr. Steve Austin went scuba diving, he discovered that many sank upright.\u00a0 If we were to drain the lake today, we could walk across the floor and say, \u201cWow look at all the trees, there must have been a forest here before it was a lake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mount St Helens shows that uprooted trees can float for a long time. It also shows that as trees become waterlogged they can sink upright coming to rest on the floor appearing as if that were where they grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now let\u2019s consider the Flood. First there was an observer, God. God saw the floodwaters covering all the land under the whole sky even the highest mountains. God inspired Moses to write of the historical account in Genesis 6-8. There were other observers, Noah and his family. They told their children and grandchildren about the Flood, who in turn passed on the account to their descendants. Today there are hundreds of Flood accounts from nations around the world. Of course, unlike the Biblical account, as these accounts were passed from generation to generation some accuracy was lost. Yet the similarities strongly indicate that the accounts were based on a true event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the Flood the earth\u2019s abundant vegetation would have been uprooted and transported in huge floating mats.\u00a0 These mats would have traveled the globe blown by the wind and carried by the currents. When and where the vegetation sank, it was buried in sediment and fossilized.\u00a0 Fossil forests tell us where logs were buried, but not where the trees had grown.\u00a0 Fossil trees found in Antarctica are a memorial to the Flood, not evidence of \u201cearth\u2019s long history of climatic change\u201d.\u00a0 The Creator God who caused the Flood as a way of ridding the earth of unrepentant, sinful man also promised a stable climate of summer and winter, seed time and harvest. We should trust God\u2019s Word, not man\u2019s speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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