Christian scientists are claiming that manganese balls discovered by explorers in the Atlantic Ocean may provide evidence of Noah's Great Flood.
The Flood is an event in the Book of Genesis in which God brought huge judgement upon the Earth as a result of the sinfulness in mankind.
According to the Christian News Network, German scientists last month accidentally discovered dense clusters of manganese nodules three miles below the surface of the Atlantic. Similar clusters of manganese nodules have been discovered in the past, but last month's discovery is the largest patch of manganese nodules ever found in the Atlantic.
Although the team that discovered these nodules are unsure of their origin, creation scientists think that they could be evidence of Noah's Flood.
"These metallic pellets provide strong evidence that most seafloor sediments were deposited rapidly, not slowly and gradually over millions of years," Dr. Jake Hebert, a physicist with the Institute for Creation Research, said.
Secular models claim that underwater manganese nodules form gradually over millions of years.
"Are these nodules evidence of the Genesis Flood?" Dr. Herbert mused in an article he wrote this month.
In the article, Herbert argued there were flaws in the secular model and that manganese models have been observed to develop very quickly in lakes and man-made reservoirs, as well as on debris fragments from World Wars I and II. The creation scientist then claimed that this points to serious problems in radioisotope dating methods.
Herbert claimed that the models used by creation scientists can better explain the origin of the nodules and their location.
"In the millennia after the Flood, sediment deposition would have eventually slowed to today's 'slow and gradual' rates," the scientist explained.
He added that the nodules formed on the upper sediment layers because they were deposited "slowly enough to allow nodules to grow."
The scientist concluded that the origins of the manganese nodules are no longer a mystery if the story of Noah's Great Flood is taken into account.
