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$\"\"$ Ian Millington recently drew my attention to an article about NASA\u2019s Mars rover<\/a>, and pointed out to me an interesting implication for young-earth creationism.<\/p>\n

If young-earth creationism is correct, and geological strata we see on Earth result from a global flood, then why do we find such strata in\u00a0<\/em>rocks on Mars?<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, one can always come up with some sort of ad hoc \u201cexplanation\u201d for anything if one is determined to. Indeed, feel free to propose outlandish suggestions for how to account for the Martian evidence from a YEC perspective in the comments section, just for fun.<\/p>\n

But when young-earth creationists add such ad hoc justifications (as they must time and time again), it inevitably involves not merely departing further from what the scientific evidence indicates, but also adding additional extrabiblical scaffolding to buttress the young-earth creationist view of \u201cwhat the Bible says,\u201d making the young-earth system as a whole resemble \u201cwhat the Bible says\u201d even less than it does now.<\/p>\n

Click through to read a BBC article about<\/a>\u00a0 the Curiosity rover\u2019s investigation of the Shaler outcrop.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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