Proof The Bible Is True

Researchers on the deep-drilling ship Glomar Challenger made a startling discovery back in the early 1970s. They discovered that the Mediterranean Sea is underlain by a thick ‘evaporite’ below hundreds of metres of sediments or sedimentary rock. This ‘evaporite’ is around one kilometre thick and covers about 2.5 million km², based on seismic data. In the middle of the deeper basins, it could be as thick as 1.5 to 1.8 km. This ‘evaporite’ is one of many examples of ‘saline giants’ that have long been a problem for uniformitarian geology because of the lack of a modern analogue.¹ For a while, there was considerable controversy over the meaning of Mediterranean deposits, but Kenneth Hsü and colleagues concluded that the ‘evaporites’ were formed when the Mediterranean Sea dried up in the past.^2,3 This is called the late Miocene Messinian salinity crisis. It is very well accepted by uniformitarian scientists today. Hsü has even bragged that future generations of school children will be taught the Messinian salinity crisis as gospel truth.⁴

Another “catastrophic” uniformitarian event

What especially made the Messinian salinity crisis controversial was that Hsü and colleagues considered the event rapid. In fact, the dreaded term “catastrophic” was applied:

“The almost synchronous onset and termination of the Mediterranean salinity crisis implies catastrophic changes of environments in a region over two and half million square kilometers in extent. This fact did much to throw doubts on Lyell’s substantive uniformitarianism.” ⁵

The Messinian salinity crisis postulates that the Mediterranean Sea essentially dried up, depositing the salts in the water on the bottom. However, such an event would result in an average of only 20 m of salts with 60 m in deeper basins.^6,7 This would require that the full Mediterranean Sea would have evaporated 50 times! Supposedly, these events were controlled by tectonics at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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