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Back in 2016 Shirley and I took a long trip around the Outer Hebrides
and up to the Orkneys. That required us to travel the Scottish 500 up
the west coast of Scotland and we discovered that a substantial chunk of
that route is designated as a "geo-park" because of its interesting geology.

At one point we stopped to investigate a site known as Knockan Crag
where, allegedly, old Moine rock was pushed over the top of younger rock layers. As the signboard informed us, "The slow, jolting movement of the
Moine rock along the thrust fault ground the younger rocks beneath it."
There was also a marked trail which would take you to this Moine Thrust
so that you could see these remarkable rocks for yourself.

We duly set out along the trail and sure enough, soon came to an area
which showed clear evidence of broken rock separating two different
layers. The layers were separated by a clear band of shattered stones
and gravel and I duly photographed it before we returned to the van.

However I stopped at the information hut and re-read the boards and they seemed to indicate that we had not gone far enough. Shirley was tired
and retreated to the van, but I clambered up the path again and this
time went further. I was rewarded by signs telling me that I had indeed reached the Moine Thrust and I was urged to "Feel 500 million years of
time" with my own hands.

It was all very dramatic, with the gray coloured Moine rock clearly
overlaying the pinkish younger rock. The only problem was that the
interface between the two layers was as smooth and unbroken as the
stones cut and placed in a wall. No shattered rock, no gravel, nothing.
In fact, I took out my Swiss Army knife and balanced it on a protruding
bit of the younger rock and it was about double the height of the layer
of moss which separated the two layers - yet the upper layer had,
allegedly, been forced 75 km (why they can't use proper British miles I
don't know) sideways and 2 km upwards to reach its present position.

In another thread Madhu posted the URL of a Wikipedia article about
Whitcomb and Morris' book "The Genesis Flood", in which it pointed out,
as a criticism, that the men questioned the idea of thrusting as an explanation for non-comformities like the Moine Thrust. I don't claim to
be a geologist, but if ever there was evidence for an older rock being desposited on top of younger rock instead of violently forced across its surface, the Moine Thrust is it.

Perhaps if I had the time and expertise, I might have traced the Moine
Thrust further through the countryside and somewhere else found evidence
of thrusting, but all I can say is that in the place selected by others
as the ideal illustration of thrusting, there is no evidence whatsoever
that any "thrusting" has ever taken place.

Knockan Crag, according to the information panels, "changed the way we understood our planet - and some believe it was as crucial to science as Charles Darwin's discoveries on evolution! See what you think."

I would certainly urge readers to travel to Knockan Crag. The scenery is stupendous and well worth the trip - and if you have an open mind you
will find yourself questioning the basis on which geologists date rock,
the theories about how rocks formed, and the assertions that this, and
this alone, is the true explanation for what we see. You might even find yourself wondering whether St Charles was right after all?

God bless,
Kendall K. Down
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