Many of us remember the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May, 1980. The initial explosion formed distinct layers. Giant cross-beds and fine, flat layers both formed fast.

The Mount St. Helens events only needed hours and months to form the same features found in sedimentary rocks around the world.

Common features include:

• Sharp, flat contacts between layers
• Larger particles toward the bottom of a rock bed
• Cross-beds
• Steep-walled canyons
• Drainage systems
• Material moved far away before becoming part of new rock

• De-limbed, sorted, and reburied logs

• Volcanic ash mixed with mud and hardened into rock

Within six years of the eruption, a new lava dome in the crater atop Mount St. Helens had hardened. 

The standard radioisotope methods pointed to an isotopic age of around 350,000 years for the 10-year-old rock.

At Mount St. Helens, there are 200 geologic layers that formed in three hours. Entire canyon systems were carved in a matter of months. Trees are still collecting at the bottom of nearby Spirit Lake. They mimic ancient petrified forests.

“A quickly forming layer of peat presents an amazing testimony of how quickly nature has been designed by the Creator to recover,” indicates the Mount St. Helens Creation Museum. “All of these demonstrate processes that would have been working during the Worldwide Flood. They challenge the idea that geologic processes like these happen gradually and prove an old Earth. Instead, the evidence is consistent with the idea that the Earth is young, as indicated by the Bible.”

By volcanic standards, even in historic times, the Mount St Helens blast was relatively small, ejecting some 0.2 cubic miles of ash.

• The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD was three times larger.

• The Krakatoa eruption in 1883 was 18 times bigger.

• The Tambora eruption in 1815 was 80 times larger.

The volume of lava in the Deccan Traps in India is some 5 million times more. These indicate that volcanic eruptions during Noah’s Flood were millions of times larger.

In just 9 hours on May 18, 1980, this mountain unleashed the force of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs, flattening 230 square miles of forest, carving massive canyons, and laying down finely-stratified layers hundreds of feet thick.

Here’s why this matters:

1. Secular geologists point to layers of rock and deep canyons as “proof” of millions of years. Yet, at Mount St. Helens, we observed those very features form in hours and days.
2. The “Little Grand Canyon” was carved in a single afternoon mudflow — a mini-version of the Grand Canyon itself.
3. Forests were buried, lakes were reshaped, and life bounced back far faster than scientists predicted — powerful evidence of God’s design for resilience.

Mount St. Helens stands as a stunning confirmation that catastrophe, not deep time, is the key to Earth’s history. What we see here is a small-scale echo of the worldwide judgment recorded in Genesis — the global Flood. And just like then, God’s Word got it right all along.

We should consider the true immensity of the biblical cataclysm. It impacted the whole earth. Mount St Helens helps us envisage this. It explains how Noah’s Flood accounts for the geology of the world. It also shows how it happened so quickly.

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