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80,000 tons of mud wash down the Mississippi River every single hour and deposit into the Gulf of Mexico.
Based on the flow rate and the thickness of the Delta Mud which has been repeatedly drilled into in search of oil, they have determined that the Mississippi Delta formed less than 30,000 years ago.
Therefore, if the earth is billions of years old, how come the entire Gulf of Mexico is not full of mud by now?
I think the reason is because about 6,000 years ago, God created the heavens and the earth.
4,400 years ago there was a worldwide flood that destroyed the world.
As the Flood waters came rushing off a soft land surface that had no trees or grass to impede it, probably half of that mud washed down into the Gulf very quickly within the first hour or so.
Therefore, just like the earth, moon, stars, sun, comets, geomagnetic field, supernovas, spiraling galaxies, Red Giants, the Sahara Desert, earth’s oldest tree, erosion rates, moon dust, the Great Barrier Reef, and Niagara Falls, the Mississippi Delta also indicates a Biblical Timeline for the earth of thousands, not billions of years.
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If it was caused by a flood why does the distribution of sediment follow the course of the modern river. Would not floodwater break its banks, depositing sediment everywhere? Where did all that extra sediment go?
As I point out above, you are the one who has a sediment displacement issue.
The distribution of sediments follows the course of the river because the course of the river follows the lowest place. Its the same reason that opposite ends of most rivers run parallel. Water seeks the lowest place.
So what, the flood didn’t alter the height of the river?
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I think the assumption you are making is that the geography before the Flood was the same as we see today. I believe the geography was radically different. We don’t know that any of the rivers today existed pre-Flood.
Apologies, I seem to have confused myself. I look at that picture and see that the delta seems to be related to the course of the river, suggesting that it was deposited by that river. Whilst we might disagree on the timescale this happened, does your position fundamentally differ from that? If so, how?