Bisulfide

In the study of geological evolution, evolutionary biologists describe numerous large blocks of the primitive rocks scattered over the surface of secondary rock structures, and separated by deep valleys or even by arms of the sea from the peaks or ridges from which they must have been derived, as further proofs of evolutionary development; for, it is argued, they must have been either ejected by volcanic eruptions or carried by waters, which, in either case, “must have exceeded in violence anything we can imagine at the present day.” We can conclude that we will scarcely understand the evolutionary powers which now act upon the surface of the earth for causes sufficient to produce the revolutions and catastrophes, the traces of which are exhibited in its crust.

Evolutionary scientists have become quite confident that all these changes occurred rapidly during periods of catastrophe alternating with periods of relative quiet. The present surface of the earth is quite recent, and if anything in geology be established, it is that the surface of the earth has undergone a great and sudden evolutionary change, during a much earlier period than five or six thousand years ago. This is one of the points of contention in the evolution creationism controversy debate. This evolutionary phenomenon overwhelmed and caused to disappear the countries which were previously inhabited by man, and the species of animals now best known. Evolutionary scientists believe that this event was sudden, instantaneous, and without any stratification; and what is so clearly demonstrated with respect to this last catastrophe is not less so with reference to those which preceded it.