Hi ,
According to Webster, to conform means "to be obedient or compliant", or "to be in agreement or harmony with", or "to act in accordance with prevailing standards", or how about more plainly, "to do what other people do".
So the opposite would be non-conformity, or perhaps, unconformity.
This is exactly the name given to a strange geological feature found around the world. And, to secular geologists, it is also a great anomaly, a huge problem. The problem is so vast and obvious that it has even been given an equally obvious name - the "Great Unconformity".
What is this feature? Basically, it is a divide between one type of rock and another. Below that divide, or line, there are no fossils. The rock below is igneous rock ~ made when molten rock solidifies. The rock above is sedimentary ~ layered, and almost always deposited by water. There are often fossils in these rocks. In the image below, the yellow line shows the divide. Below that line is igneous
rock, and immediately above it are the sedimentary layers. So, what's the issue?
The issue is that the evolution model of origins claims that over billions of years, life very slowly appeared, and originally, in the simplest of forms. Slowly, creatures evolved, and the "tree of life" began to grow, as different types of creatures evolved into other types. More varieties appeared as eons passed. The theory claims that the sedimentary layers, as they slowly grew, too, trapped the living creatures
alive at the time, preserving the record in what is now known as the "Geological Column". So, Darwin reasoned that if a person simply dug down through all of the sedimentary layers, right down to the original igneous rock, you'd see all these creatures in their various forms, fossilized and preserved in the rock at the time they appeared. So, you'd find more "recent" creatures at the top, and the simplest creatures at the bottom. Also, way down there, the once-living creatures
would be very sparse.
Therein lies one of the many problems. Immediately above that line, there are a HUGE number of very varied creatures! There are so many that it has become known in geological circles as the "Cambrian Explosion" - a vast array of complex creatures all basically buried together in the sediments. This does not "conform" to the theory. This, in fact, testifies against it! So, the only way for them to attempt to
explain this great unconformity is to develop many and varied theories as to where the sediments (representing some 1.5 billion years) bearing the "missing links" to these complex creatures, went ~ and how!
The truth is far simpler, and doesn't need any theories full of contradictions and anomalies: Basically, the igneous layers were pre-flood, or at least, "basement" rocks. The sediments produced by the horrific destruction during the global flood settled out of the flood waters, trapping billions of creatures in the stratifying mud, producing the fossils we find today. Liquefaction (the sorting of
fossils by density during the flood event and tidal action) produced the fossil record as it appears.
The Bible's account is simple, evident, and trustworthy!
