“Raindrop imprints can also tell us the location of the pre-Flood/ Flood boundary. They have been reported in the Precambrian from the Uinta Mountains, India, Norway, and South Africa. Some of these locations have multiple stratigraphic levels of raindrop imprints. The latter site was in the late Archean Ventersdorp Supergroup. Some creationists have questioned whether Precambrian raindrop imprints really are raindrop imprints. However, the size distribution of Archean raindrop imprints in South Africa has recently been favourably compared to raindrop imprints today and from experiments of falling water drops of known sizes and fall velocities. So, it is likely that these Archean examples are really raindrop imprints. Since rain did not fall at least until after man was created, as clearly stated in Genesis 2:5-6, and possibly until the Flood, raindrop imprints indicate that the sediments were laid down either between Creation Week and the Flood or during the Flood. ... The raindrop imprints can be explained the same way as dinosaur tracks, eggs, and scavenged bone beds can be explained, early in the Flood. This is by the BEDS (Briefly Exposed Diluvial Sediments) hypothesis in which rapid sedimentation followed by a drop in local sea level can expose flat bedding planes for brief periods. Precambrian sedimentary rocks are normally thousands of metres thick, so it makes sense that they can be briefly exposed after heavy deposition. Raindrop imprints have to be rapidly buried in order to be preserved, which would have happened during the corresponding rise in local sea level. Multiple levels can be explained by this mechanism repeating several times.” “Raindrop imprints and the location of the pre-Flood/Flood boundary,” Creation magazine, Aug. 2013 Comments are closed.
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