Conventional geologists are still baffled by the Cambrian Explosion. Some try to deny that it was sudden,¹ but most admit that Cambrian rocks record the sudden appearance of fossils from nearly every animal group. And the glaring lack of ancestors in rocks below the Cambrian increases the mystery.¹

A team of scientists from Australia and the USA recently studied the ejecta from a subsea volcano, gaining new insights into how magma can explode to the surface from deep underwater.¹ This discovery also gives important insight into volcanic activity during the Flood year when many volcanoes originated while still underwater.

The Coconino Sandstone, famously exposed near the top of Grand Canyon’s splendid sedimentary layers, remains a controversial rock. Two counterclaims vie for its origin. If wind formed the Coconino’s now-hardened sand dunes, then the whole region must have been dry land exposed to the air—unlike the Bible’s portrayal of a worldwide Flood.

The Great Unconformity is one of the most baffling mysteries in the geological sciences.¹ It is marked by a massive surface of erosion that appears all over the world at about the same time. Many studies have tried and failed to satisfactorily explain its global occurrence.

A recent study has found that the destruction of plants preceded the destruction of many forms of animal life in the rock record.¹ This is exactly what was predicted in ICR’s Flood model.²