Latrobe Valley

And it came to pass after seven days,

that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Genesis 7:10

"South-East Australia’s Latrobe Valley has some extremely thick deposits of brown coal which are mined to fuel several huge power

stations.

The coal seams occur within thick layers of clay, sand and basaltic lava, which together form a 2,300-foot sequence of rocks, known as the Latrobe Valley Coal Measures.
Latrobe Valley coal consists of a mass of very fine plant debris containing partly-decomposed plant remains. It is clear that a great quantity of plant material accumulated in the past to produce such huge deposits of coal.
Q: How would such a great amount of vegetation collect together in one place?
A: It is consistent with the devastation of Noah’s Flood, which would have uprooted the entire pre-Flood biosphere and buried it with huge quantities of sand and mud. Large broken tree trunks are found randomly distributed through the coal in many different orientations.

If ever there was a geological phenomenon that should remind us of Noah’s Flood, it is coal. 

Coal points to a global catastrophe, because 

--huge quantities of vegetation have been uprooted, 

--transported, 

--and buried by water under great volumes of sediment all over the world. 

Coal is a stark memorial to the Flood of Noah." 

CMI

Evidence for Fountains of the great deep?

 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,

 in the second month,

 the seventeenth day of the month,

the same day were all the fountains 

of the great deep broken up,

and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:11

"Two recent articles in Nature Geoscience may provide important validations of the global Flood. Did researchers find evidence of the “fountains of the great deep” that started the deluge?
Timothy Paulsen, from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and co-authors from Michigan Technological University and ETH Zurich,

found evidence of a spike in volcanic activity and a rapid release of massive amounts of carbon dioxide just prior to the deposition of Cambrian rock layers.

Cambrian rocks are considered by many creation geologists to represent the first extensive Flood deposits. Cambrian sediments are the bottom-most layer in the Sauk megasequence and contain fossils of the so-called Cambrian Explosion—the first sediments with prolific numbers of hard-shelled organisms.

Paulsen and his colleagues conducted trace element analysis on zircon crystals from Antarctica and compared them to previous studies of global magmatism. 

They determined there is evidence of a massive outpouring of carbon dioxide and associated volcanic activity just before the deposition of the Sauk megasequence in a system called the Ediacaran. The Ediacaran is what secularists call the latest Precambrian or Neoproterozoic.

In another paper in the same issue of Nature Geoscience, Sascha Brune, and co-authors report:

“CO₂ behaves as an incompatible element and is readily transported to shallow crustal levels during melt migration. Although a certain fraction is released to the atmosphere during volcanic eruptions, recent studies indicate that much higher CO₂ release occurs due to circulation of hydrothermal fluids and degassing along normal faults without eruptive volcanism.”

These scientists claim that spikes in CO₂ are associated with continental rifting that produces normal faults and conduits for hydrothermal minerals like copper.

In North America, there is ample evidence of pre-Sauk volcanism and rifting down the middle of the continent—the Midcontinent Rift. Here, the pre-Sauk produced a tremendous outpouring of basaltic lava that split open central North America. 

This north-south fracture extends over 1,800 miles across what is now Lake Superior all the way to Kansas, and produced nearly 500,000 cubic miles of lava.

The Midcontinent Rift contains far more than lava flows—over 11

billion pounds of copper were mined from the Rift in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula alone. Tremendous volumes of superheated groundwater (~430ºF, or 220ºC) followed the eruption of lava and placed the huge copper deposits within the flows.

So, whether by increased volcanic activity or increased hydrothermal activity, there appears to be significant evidence of a spike in global volcanic action and associated rifting prior to the deposition of the Sauk megasequence. 

Could this be evidence of the breaking up of the “fountains of the great deep” mentioned in Genesis 7:11?" 

ICR

The Difference between Evolutionists & Creationists

 He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.....

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

"Evolutionists find order in chaos, fire and destruction. 

Creationists find it in Mind: the omniscient, omnipotent mind of a good Creator who loves to make beauty and display His glory to creatures He made in His image." 

CEH

A Very Strong Wind (yes it was)

The "Carboniferous period" is known as the Flood period to Christians... and yes- it was a "very strong wind".... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"The fossil trackway covers a boulder that rests along the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park.
The two blocks display part and counterpart surfaces containing a conspicuous vertebrate trackway consisting of 28 tracks, preserved as impressions on one block and natural casts on the opposing block.

The trackway extends about 3.3 feet across the width of the fallen blocks.

The Bright Angel Trail trackway dates to the Carboniferous period when one massive supercontinent called Pangaea dominated the world, and is unusual for several reasons.
“It’s the oldest trackway ever discovered in the Grand Canyon in an interval of rocks that nobody thought would have trackways in it, and they’re among the earliest reptile tracks on Earth.”

Professor Rowland said.

“My first impression was that it looked very bizarre because of the sideways motion,” he added.
“It appeared that two animals were walking side-by-side. But you wouldn’t expect two lizard-like animals to be walking side-by-side. It didn’t make any sense.”
“One reason I’ve proposed is that the animal was walking in a very strong wind, and the wind was blowing it sideways.”
Sci-News

Male & Female

But from the beginning of the creation 

God made them male and female. 

Mark 10:6

Who Created the "geometry of human thought" & the "semantic web"?

Q: Who Created the "geometry of human thought" & the "semantic web" in the first place? [This level of sophistication could never arise from time + chance.....then interweave seamlessly together]

A: But now thus saith the LORD that created thee.... 

Isaiah 43:1

"In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the brain activity pulsing across millions of neurons. A few moments later, the machine produces a sentence: “A person jumps over a deep water fall on a mountain ridge.”

No one typed those words. No one spoke them. They came directly from the volunteer’s brain activity.

That’s the startling premise of “mind captioning,” a new method developed by Tomoyasu Horikawa and colleagues at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Japan. 

Published this week in Science Advances, the system uses a blend of brain imaging and artificial intelligence to generate textual descriptions of what people are seeing — or even visualizing with their mind’s eye — based only on their neural patterns.
As Nature journalist Max Kozlov put it, the technique “generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.”

To build the system, Horikawa had to bridge two universes: the intricate geometry of human thought and the sprawling 

semantic web that language models use to understand words.

The researchers also made a surprising discovery when they scrambled the word order of the generated captions. 

The quality and accuracy dropped sharply, showing that the AI wasn’t just picking up on keywords but grasping something deeper — perhaps the structure of meaning itself, the relationships between objects, actions, and context.

Even when subjects were only imagining the videos, the AI generated accurate sentences describing them, sometimes identifying the right clip out of a hundred. That result hinted at a powerful idea: the brain uses similar representations for seeing and visual recall, and those representations can be translated into language without ever engaging the traditional “language areas” of the brain.

The ethical implications of this technology are hard to ignore. If machines can turn brain activity into words, even imperfectly, who controls that information?" 

ZMEscience

Polar Dinosaurs

 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12

"Polar dinosaurs refer to dinosaur fossils found within the polar

latitudes. In the Southern Hemisphere, polar latitudes would also include southeast Australia, New Zealand, and the Chatham Islands where dinosaur fossils have been found. existence of polar dinosaurs has raised at least four conundrums for the evolutionary paradigm. 

For instance, climate models indicate the polar latitudes would have been very cold during the Cretaceous winter, while the paleoflora and paleofauna indicate temperatures had to have been above freezing all year around:

“Paleobotanical evidence clearly indicates that during much of the Cretaceous northern polar temperatures on lands surrounding the Arctic Ocean were above freezing during the polar night. … Evidence for very warm Arctic Ocean waters (15 to 20°C) has been presented by Jenkyns et al. (2004). Proxy data indicating ocean temperatures of 30°C at 60°S latitude (Bice et al., 2003) supports the idea of warm poles during much of the Cretaceous.”

Hay believes that lower topography, higher ocean levels, and greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, would have maintained above-freezing winter temperatures. 

He also erroneously thinks that, considering the average lapse rate of the atmosphere of 6°C/km, the lower topography would have resulted in warm polar night temperatures. Even if this lapse rate could be applied, it would not have warmed the Arctic much because the air was so cold to begin with. 

As far as lower topography is concerned, the continental areas of North America and Eurasia are relatively low anyway. Besides, the polar night causes a temperature inversion to which the average atmospheric lapse rate would not apply. 

---Despite all the possible variables that could be applied to cause polar warmth, the cold winter temperatures depend especially on one variable: the angle of the sun, and the evolutionary model cannot do anything about that for the Cretaceous.

Cold winter temperatures are one of several other conundrums. 

For instance,
Q: why would dinosaurs have even lived there, considering that most scientists believe dinosaurs to have been warm-climate animals? 

Polar dinosaurs have unleashed much speculation on Arctic coping mechanisms.

Q: With long periods of darkness and photosynthesis cut off—and the resulting loss of vegetation—what would they have eaten?

The Creation/Flood model has the most plausible explanation for why

we find polar dinosaurs. 

The most likely explanation is the dinosaurs and the paleoflora were transported northward on Flood currents during the Inundatory Stage of the Flood.

In addition, very thick sediments, well over 10 km thick, are found on the Arctic margin, indicating immense northward erosion and transport of sediment from Alaska, pointing to northward currents at times during the Flood." 

CMI

Yellow Tomato Mystery Solved [Romans 8:22]

 As Paul says: For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22

Even tomato coloring which impacts nutritional value. Interesting how interconnected all these genetic pathways and mechanisms are....like a DESIGNED system breaking down, as if it "groaneth".

The Yellow ones are still nutritional....just not as much as the red ones.

"Researchers have discovered that a single genetic change in the YFT3 gene disrupts a vital enzyme involved in producing carotenoids, the pigments responsible for tomato coloration. The gene encodes the isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase enzyme, which maintains the delicate balance between IPP and DMAPP, two

essential C5 molecules in isoprenoid synthesis.

When one amino acid (Serine) is replaced by another (Arginine) at position 126, this balance is thrown off, weakening enzyme performance, hindering chromoplast formation, and drastically reducing lycopene, the red pigment that gives tomatoes their color. The findings uncover a key molecular mechanism behind tomato pigmentation and pinpoint Ser126 as a critical site for enzyme function, suggesting new possibilities for enhancing fruit quality through genetic approaches.

The color of a tomato depends heavily on the buildup of carotenoids, natural pigments that support both 

--plant reproduction 

--and human health. 

These pigments form through the isoprenoid pathway, which relies on the precise conversion between two molecular building blocks, isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP). This conversion is carried out by the enzyme IDI1, ensuring a steady flow of metabolites for pigment production.

When this process is disrupted, it can alter chromoplast development and pigment levels, changing both 

--the fruit’s color 

--and its nutritional value. 

Although scientists have made great progress in decoding carotenoid biosynthesis, the specific amino acids that govern IDI1’s activity have been difficult to identify, prompting a closer look at how YFT3 contributes to this essential pathway.

Identification of the YFT3 Mutation

A research team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has identified a

single-point mutation in the YFT3 gene responsible for yellow fruit coloration in tomatoes. Their findings, published in the journal Horticulture Research, reveal that the mutation disrupts a critical enzyme in the isoprenoid pathway, impairing carotenoid accumulation. 

Through map-based cloning, molecular assays, and in vivo functional analyses, the team demonstrated that a Ser126Arg substitution in YFT3 undermines its enzymatic activity, providing new insight into the molecular control of fruit pigmentation.

The researchers discovered that the yellow-fruited tomato mutant (yft3) carries a recessive allele of YFT3, encoding a mutated version of SlIDI1, a plastid-localized isomerase responsible for converting IPP to DMAPP. 

The mutation—an A→C transversion at nucleotide 2117—leads to a Ser126Arg substitution. 

Despite unchanged protein levels and plastid localization, enzymatic activity was drastically reduced.

Functional complementation restored red color, while knockout lines mimicked the yellow phenotype, confirming YFT3’s essential role.

Molecular and Structural Insights

Detailed expression analyses showed upregulation of carotenoid

pathway genes (DXS, DXR, HDR, PSY1, CRTISO, CYCB, CYP97A, NCED) in yft3 and CRISPR knockout lines. However, biochemical assays revealed severely reduced lycopene and total carotenoid levels, indicating that the gene upregulation could not compensate for enzymatic deficiency. 

Molecular docking revealed that the Ser126 mutation alters the active site conformation, impairs Mg²⁺ cofactor binding, and diminishes catalytic efficiency. These findings suggest Ser126 is critical for the correct positioning and function of substrate-enzyme interactions in carotenoid biosynthesis. Moreover, the impaired chromoplast ultrastructure in yft3 and YFT3-KO lines further underscores YFT3‘s role in fruit color development and quality.

This discovery holds significant potential for agricultural biotechnology and breeding programs. Understanding the role of YFT3 in regulating the isoprenoid pathway offers breeders a precise genetic handle to enhance fruit pigmentation and carotenoid content—key traits for market appeal and nutrition." 

SciTechDaily

Valley of Fire

 ...because of the waters of the flood. Genesis 7:7

"Valley of Fire is located 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
The name Valley of Fire comes from the red sandstone formations in the valley, called the Aztec Sandstone, which often appear to be on fire beneath the rays of the sun.
Consulting the reinterpretation chart of figure 2 we can see that a

“uniformitarian age” of 150 million years is somewhere around the Jurassic. Alongside this age the green arrow indicates it is towards
the top of “Floodwaters rising”.
In other words, the sandstone was deposited during Noah’s Flood some 4,500 years ago as the floodwaters were rising and as they were nearing their peak. On this diagram, notice the blue arrow, which indicates that after the Cretaceous the floodwaters were falling. 

Also notice that there is some overlap on the arrows to indicate that the exact location (e.g. between rising and falling) can vary depending on the area we are considering.

Long-age geologists will automatically assume that these beds were deposited by wind, rather than by water, because it would take a flood of Biblical proportions to deposit such huge dunes from water.

However, this is no problem for a Biblical interpretation because we would expect to see lots of evidence of large-scale watery catastrophe.
And that is what we see.

The enormous beds of sandstone were deposited by great volumes of

flowing floodwaters. 

The Wikipedia article on the Valley of Fire reports that other important rock formations in the area include limestones, shales, and conglomerates (composed of large rocks). 

All these were deposited as the waters of Noah’s Flood were rising."
CMI