Bad news, Bible-bashers – it seems unlikely that Noah actually ushered two of each species onto a giant ark a few thousand years ago.

In fact, ordinary rocks show that Biblical creationism is absolute piffle, a University of Washington expert has said.

David R Montgomery stirred up the hornet’s nest of true believers this week by claiming that ordinary conglomerate rocks prove that geological history is FAR more complex than one simple flood.

Writing for The Conversation, he says, ‘There’s a slab of polished rock on the wall outside my department office that refutes so-called Flood Geology: the view that a global, world-shattering flood explains geologic history after the initial creation of Earth by God. This eight-foot-long slab is a conglomerate – a rock made from water-worked fragments of older rocks.




‘Preserved in it, you can see the original particles of sand, gravel and cobbles made of various kinds of rock. And if you look closely you can see some of the cobbles are themselves conglomerates — rocks within rocks.

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‘A conglomerate made of fragments of an older conglomerate not only requires a first round of erosion, deposition, and burial deep enough to turn the original sediments into rock. It requires another pass through the whole cycle to turn the second pile of sedimentary rock fragments into another conglomerate.

‘In other words, this one rock shows that there is more to the geologic record than creationists describe in their scripturally-interpreted version of earth history. A single grand flood cannot explain it all. Embracing young Earth creationism means you have to abandon faith in the story told by the rocks themselves.’