03/23/2026
THE VOLCANO THAT BUILT A NEW ISLAND IN FOUR YEARS
In 1963, the ocean off the coast of Iceland burst open with fire as a brand new island began rising from the deep. Its name is Surtsey. In less than four years, volcanic forces built beaches, sea cliffs, caves, layered formations, and even soil. What textbooks claim needs millions of years happened while modern scientists stood there watching with clipboards in hand. Surtsey looked ancient even though it was younger than many people alive today. Creation was showing its hand.
A similar process happened after the explosive destruction of Mount St Helens in 1980. Forests flattened. Landscapes erased. A wasteland where life should have taken ages to return. Yet within a single decade, the area burst back with plants, animals, insects, and complex ecosystems rebuilding themselves with stunning speed. The world God made does not limp along slowly. It rebounds with force. It restores. It heals. It renews.
This is exactly what Scripture describes after the Flood. The Earth had been torn apart, reshaped, and wiped clean. Yet everything God created was equipped to replenish quickly. Landforms, soils, forests, and ecosystems do not need deep time. Surtsey and Mount St Helens are two modern visual sermons shouting the same truth: rapid formation and rapid restoration are built into the design of the world. That kind of resilience only comes from an intelligent Creator who made the Earth to flourish after catastrophe.