MSH: Spirit Lake Coal

Dr. Steve Austin presents the idea that peat on the bottom of the lake could eventually turn into coal, given the right conditions.

This segment is from the DVD "Mount St. Helens: Modern Day Evidence for the World Wide Flood" produced by Awesome Science Media. It is part of a series of documentaries in the "Flood Geology Series".

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[laywip]

No dead dinosaurs or millions of years! Awesome video. I understand why you have so few views, this is not the narrative promoted.

[shable]

Dr Steve, your awsome and i love your research

[letsgobrandon]

Be interesting to dive where Harry Truman’s cabin used to be. Might be at the bottom in pieces since the blast was strong enough to maybe take the cabin up onto the hill with the water and wash back down with it.

[AwesomeScienceMedia]

If coal layers were made over millions of years in peat swamps, they should be laden with roots and other material.  But the major coal beds we find around the world are very flat and absent of roots.  Only a Flood could explain the vast coal beds.  In addition, coal has been created in the lab in less then a year.  The Flood provided the right conditions for coal formation.  With over 70% of the earth's layers being sedimentary, this speaks that there WAS a Global Flood.  Even Mt. Everest is made up of sedimentary layers and sea shells are in the top layers.  The evidence for the global Flood is all around if you choose to see it.

[lawilson]

I shake my head, everytime I see Austin advance this claim and I read Austin's PhD dissertation from Penn State.

The conditions needed to develop coal at St Helens simply does not exist and if Austin was being intellectually honest, he would state this.  Among the factors needed to form peet is anaorbic activity.  The current average temperature at the bottom of Spirt Lake is 1 degree C.  This is simply too cold for the microbes need to generate the heat required to form peat.  For someone who claims to know how coal developed, he is being awefully misleading with his St Helens argument.