NWCN Field Trips

Channeled Scablands Tour

Saturday July 21, 2007
6:30AM - 6PM

The Northwest Creation Network is leading a 1-day educational bus tour of the Channeled Scablands in Eastern Washington. Join us to learn about the flood that transformed the Northwest landscape, and which baffled geologists for decades. The tour will be guided by instructors Stan Lutz and Chris Ashcraft.

PowerPoint presentations and videos will be used during travel to provide the basis for the significance of the Channeled Scablands, and how this region relates to Biblical flood geology and history of uniformitarianism.

Along the way, we will stop at multiple points of interest for short excursions and to discuss the regional geology. The day should be entertaining and enlightening, and provide much opportunity for fellowship with fellow Christians who share an interest in creation apologetics.

Cost: $80 per person
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What is included?

A seat on a chartered Executive Minicoach.

A picnic lunch at the Sun Lakes State Park or Dry Falls.

Meeting time and location?

6:30 AM
Bellevue Church of Christ.
10419 SE 11th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004
map and directions

What to bring?

Dress comfortably, with walking shoes and prepared to be outside in warm weather.

Money - purchase a copy of Michael Oard's book: The Missoula Flood Controversy, (provided at a reduced cost).

Tentative Trip Itinerary

6:30 Meet at Bellevue Church of Christ. 10419 SE 11th St. Bellevue, WA 98004. (map and directions)

7:00 am. We will leave Bellevue and head west on I-90.

At about 9:30 we will stop at the Gingko Petrified forest at Vantage for about an hour. There are about 22 petrified logs to view on well marked trails.

10:30 we will board the bus and head east on I-90; we will get off at Murphy’s Corner and head toward Ephrata. We will head north at Ephrata up the Sagebrush Flats Road and view the Moses Coulee.

At about 12:00 we will reach State Hiway 2 where we will head east to State Hiway 17 and head south to Sun Lakes State Park. We will eat lunch here at about 1:00.

After lunch we will go back up to view the Dry Falls and the museum there.

At about 3:00 we will head down Hiway 17 toward Moses Lake and then on toward Othello. We will cut off and go down to the O’Sullivan Dam Road and cross the dam and view the Missoula Flood damage done there.

We will then head across the end of the Frenchman Hills to a viewpoint and look down into the Othello Potholes.

We will head toward Seattle after eating and be there around 6pm

History

Modern geologists attempt in desperation to explain the surface of our world through uniformitarianism, and without a major catastrophe such as the global flood that's described in the Bible.

Harlen Bretz proposed in the 1920s that the topography of eastern Washington State was the result of a massive catastrophic flood. He named this devastated area of eastern Washington the Channeled Scablands. The idea that sites, such as the Palouse Falls Gorge or Dry Falls, were the results of floods was thought to be outrageous, and described by some as near lunacy since the area receives very little rainfall today. It took many decades for Harlen Bretz to finally receive the credit he deserved. In fact, it wasn't until the area was observed from the air that many of the Scabland features were accepted as flood deposits, such as the giant ripples that are up to 30 feet high and 250 feet apart.

Almost fifty years following his original proposal, Bretz was hailed as a hero, and in 1979, at the age of 96, he was given geology's highest honor — the Penrose Medal, which rewards one researcher each year for exceptional contributions to geology. The Channeled Scablands have now been dedicated to Harlen Bretz, and it is commonly known that this area was destroyed by a massive flood catastrophe. The flood was caused when a large glacial lake, called lake Missoula, broke through its natural dam and destroyed the majority of eastern Washington. During the Missoula flood stratified layers and canyons were formed rapidly. These features are common to our world and geologists are quick to interpret them as the result of slow and gradual processes because they cannot accept that the Biblical global flood was responsible.

Cost $80
For more info: Call Chris Ashcraft
206-465-1635

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The Missoula Flood Controversy

Michael J. Oard. 2004. CRS Books, 133 pages (8.5 x 11 inches)

One of the most spectacular floods in prehistoric times, besides the Genesis Flood, was the great Lake Missoula flood, which left its mark in the Channeled Scabland of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. However, the evidence, which is now considered to be overwhelming and irrefutable, was the subject of intense controversy for 40 years before being accepted. In this book Michael Oard discusses not only the abundant evidence, which at the time was considered to be “too biblical,” but also the circumstances surrounding the controversy. Given such prejudices, it is not expected that mainstream geologists will ever see evidence for the largest flood of all time — the Genesis Flood.

Once the concept of a Lake Missoula flood was accepted, geologists soon saw what they thought was evidence for anywhere from 40 to 100 floods at the peak of the last ice age. However, Oard shows that the evidence is strong that there was only one major flood, with possibly a few minor floods. A chapter is dedicated to other ice age floods, including John Shaw’s paradigm-busting subglacial flood hypotheses. Evidence for the Genesis Flood is also presented, consisting generally of new information from the field of geomorphology. Another chapter is devoted to a defense of the short time scale of Scripture. And finally, Oard demonstrates that the Lake Missoula flood also provides analogs for the catastrophic formation of mysterious geomorphological features, such as water and wind gaps.

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23208 55th Ave W.
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
206-465-1635
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