Geological Fingerprint
Three scientists — Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli — and their assistant Igor, who work at NASAL, start taking an interest in creationism. Their superiors, alarmed, send them to see a psychologist, Professor Faggioli — a shady character determined to get them fired by making them seem insane.
We’re in Professor Faggioli’s office, where Ravioli is undergoing an evaluation.
Meanwhile, Papaia and Banani continue their discussion about a book Banani found in his garage. It belonged to his grandfather and talks about the geological evidence for Noah’s flood.
Ravioli: We were talking about the sandstone near Zion National Park.
Papaia: Inside this sandstone there are grains of the mineral zircon, which are relatively easy to trace back to their origin.
Ravioli: You said easy? How?
Papaia: Because zircon usually contains radioactive uranium. Dating these zircon grains using the uranium-lead (U-Pb) radiometric method led to the hypothesis that the sand grains in the Navajo Sandstone originated from the Appalachians of Pennsylvania and New York, and from even older mountains farther north in Canada.
Ravioli: If that’s true, the sand grains must have been transported at least 1,800 miles (3,000 km) across all of North America.
Igor:
The flood? A recent tale, so to speak… just a few thousand years, all packed into a single grain of sand. Poetic, really.
Papaia’s story at NASAL? A little less epic: it starts with a reasonable idea — that the Bible might be right… and ends in the psychologist’s office.
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…Though that grain of sand speaks for itself, Papaia, maybe you should’ve just kept your mouth shut!
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