Wollomombi Gorge and the Genesis Flood

Slow and gradual uniformitarian processes are the secular standard used to explain geological formations, but they often have prairie schooner-sized holes in them. Creationists use the catastrophic activities of the Genesis Flood to better explain what is observed, and these would leave distinct signatures.

Wollomombi Falls with two rivers, image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Yuanchen Chen (CC by-SA 4.0)

Basically, scientists get a notion and want to see if their model is supported by observed evidence. Secular scientists want to give Darwin millions of years to work his wonders, but the facts are not cooperating. The landscape at Wollomombi Gorge (Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, New South Wales, Australia) is an excellent example of Flood geology. The size, scope, rock debris, and other details are compatible with biblical creation science Genesis Flood models and recent creation.

The Wollomombi Gorge is quite narrow at the bottom but nearly a kilometre wide in places at the top. It is much narrower than the wide valleys further east that are used for farming and which can be many tens of kilometers across. This narrowness indicates that the gorge was cut quite late geologically. Is it possible for the gorge to have been cut by the Wollomombi and Chandler rivers in the approximately 4,500 years since the Flood? That seems unlikely to me considering the volume of material removed from the gorge. It seems more likely that the gorge was cut very late in the Flood when the flow of water was much reduced but still flowing with significantly more energy than the present rivers can muster, even after heavy rainfall.

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