Petrified Wood accent pieces for the home are elegant and luxurious. They're expensive, rather uncommon as they're not mass produced at will in factories, not easily crafted, and of course, very heavy. As with many luxury or premium products, a heavy weight communicates thorough design and engineering, an uncompromising selection of materials, and solid construction versus beautiful facades with hollow interiors. With natural petrified wood where organic material is replaced by minerals and turned into stone, these pieces are very heavy indeed!
Petrified wood pieces from the Celestina store in Greenbelt 5, Makati, Philippines. The piece in front is a huge item weighing 234 kgs!
Why their popularity? Many people who see petrified wood and know they're story quickly develop a liking for them. Conversation pieces, they definitely are! Famous British interior designer Kelly Hoppen often would have a piece as an accent side table in her design works, and this has undoubtedly added to their being prized buys. And who wouldn't want an added luxury item in their home? Especially one that is rock solid (it really is)! It's a statement that you can appreciate finer things. They make stately side tables, ultra sturdy stools, or interesting coffee table stands when fitted with a glass top.
So what's their story? In Arizona, USA there is a Petrified Forest National Park. The park contains thousands of fossils, including some huge petrified logs measuring 190 feet long. In their National Parks website, they explain that the petrified wood is 200 million years old, which is given as an authoritative, official and scientific statement. And it may sound right because, well - how does wood turn into stone anyway? It must take a long time! So even if it's difficult to comprehend 200 million years, and no scientist has ever lived, seen or made any documentation over such a period, few people will question this assigned age for the fossils.
Photo and text on petrified wood from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA website.
Current facts on petrified wood.
The assigned age of millions of years for petrified wood is the output of historical science or origins science, from a naturalistic (an assumption that there is no God) bias. It is not the output of operational sciences - dealing with testable, repeatable, reproducible results, such as with the classical sciences.
What has operational science, laboratory testing and recent discoveries revealed about petrified wood?
1. Wood can be petrified "instantly", in as little as a day, given the right environmental conditions and exposure to the right compounds! And no, extremely high temperatures and pressures are not necessary to get the process started! Natural rapid petrifaction has been documented at the Yellowstone National Park in the USA, and also at the outbacks of Queensland in Australia. Rapid petrifaction if wood has been repeatedly tested and verified in laboratories. And there was even a U.S. patent granted for a special solution for wood petrification as early as 1986! Read fascinating details from this link. So operational science tells us that petrified wood is not necessarily millions of years old, but quite possibly just a couple of hundreds or thousands of years old, consistent with Biblical history.
2. The 1980 Mt. Saint Helens eruption in the U.S. has given the world a living laboratory to demonstrate the natural formation of petrified wood as well as key geologic features.
Rapid formation of rock strata. The photo on the right shows a 25-foot section of thin rock layers, and this type of formation would typically be explained in a Grand Canyon tour to have been formed over millions of years. But this section was observed to have been formed in only 3 hours during the 1989 eruption! Today there is more than 600 feet of layered rock as a result of that sole geologic event. In fact, there is even a "Little Grand Canyon of the Toutle River" that is a 1/40th scale of the actual Grand Canyon of Arizona, with 600 for canyon walls, and these formed in a day at the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens! The photo and more fascinating info can be found from the Answers in Genesis article via this link.
Rapid formation of fossil deposits. In the late afternoon of the1980 volcanic eruption, a million logs were floating on Spirit Lake. The result of the eruption "clearing" a forested section of the mountainside. A large percentage of the logs were floating upright. These logs were then deposited to the bottom of the lake, many retaining their uptight position, as verified by underwater scuba diving and sonar studies. This discovery has thus provided a previously unimagined mechanism for starting a petrified forest. More info from the AiG article. Better yet, get one of the great books on Mt. Saint Helens.
Polystrate or multiple strata petrified wood. With many discoveries of polystrate fossils embedded across strata that are supposedly thousands or millions of years apart (which is not realistic - how can a tree be covered gradually over a span of millions of years and the exposed parts not erode in the process), and seeing the evidence from the Mt. Saint Helens eruption on vertical deposition of tree logs, it is not reasonable to believe that petrified wood is 200 million years old. More logical, as observed from the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, these fossils are the result of volcanic eruptions and flooding in the not-so-distant past, consistent with the Biblical history of the Earth. More info on polystrate fossils from this link.
Now back to Petrified Wood accents. Having these insights into petrified wood makes them even more interesting. They have a truly unique history. If you're a Christian, petrified wood can be a conversation opener. If you're not a Christian petrified wood can confront you and challenge traditional thinking and cause you to re-evaluate Biblical authority.
And one great thing is that for a limited time, the Celestina store in Greenbelt 5 is selling their Petrified Wood from Indonesia at 50% to 60% off! However, there are only a few more pieces remaining. I purchased my selected piece last Sunday, but you may still have the opportunity to buy if you are in Metro Manila.
Hope you find this article helpful. If you've discovered other great places for buying petrified wood, do comment and share the info.
Bye for now!
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Petrified wood pieces from the Celestina store in Greenbelt 5, Makati, Philippines. The piece in front is a huge item weighing 234 kgs!
Why their popularity? Many people who see petrified wood and know they're story quickly develop a liking for them. Conversation pieces, they definitely are! Famous British interior designer Kelly Hoppen often would have a piece as an accent side table in her design works, and this has undoubtedly added to their being prized buys. And who wouldn't want an added luxury item in their home? Especially one that is rock solid (it really is)! It's a statement that you can appreciate finer things. They make stately side tables, ultra sturdy stools, or interesting coffee table stands when fitted with a glass top.
So what's their story? In Arizona, USA there is a Petrified Forest National Park. The park contains thousands of fossils, including some huge petrified logs measuring 190 feet long. In their National Parks website, they explain that the petrified wood is 200 million years old, which is given as an authoritative, official and scientific statement. And it may sound right because, well - how does wood turn into stone anyway? It must take a long time! So even if it's difficult to comprehend 200 million years, and no scientist has ever lived, seen or made any documentation over such a period, few people will question this assigned age for the fossils.
Photo and text on petrified wood from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA website.
Current facts on petrified wood.
The assigned age of millions of years for petrified wood is the output of historical science or origins science, from a naturalistic (an assumption that there is no God) bias. It is not the output of operational sciences - dealing with testable, repeatable, reproducible results, such as with the classical sciences.
What has operational science, laboratory testing and recent discoveries revealed about petrified wood?
1. Wood can be petrified "instantly", in as little as a day, given the right environmental conditions and exposure to the right compounds! And no, extremely high temperatures and pressures are not necessary to get the process started! Natural rapid petrifaction has been documented at the Yellowstone National Park in the USA, and also at the outbacks of Queensland in Australia. Rapid petrifaction if wood has been repeatedly tested and verified in laboratories. And there was even a U.S. patent granted for a special solution for wood petrification as early as 1986! Read fascinating details from this link. So operational science tells us that petrified wood is not necessarily millions of years old, but quite possibly just a couple of hundreds or thousands of years old, consistent with Biblical history.
2. The 1980 Mt. Saint Helens eruption in the U.S. has given the world a living laboratory to demonstrate the natural formation of petrified wood as well as key geologic features.
Rapid formation of rock strata. The photo on the right shows a 25-foot section of thin rock layers, and this type of formation would typically be explained in a Grand Canyon tour to have been formed over millions of years. But this section was observed to have been formed in only 3 hours during the 1989 eruption! Today there is more than 600 feet of layered rock as a result of that sole geologic event. In fact, there is even a "Little Grand Canyon of the Toutle River" that is a 1/40th scale of the actual Grand Canyon of Arizona, with 600 for canyon walls, and these formed in a day at the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens! The photo and more fascinating info can be found from the Answers in Genesis article via this link.
Rapid formation of fossil deposits. In the late afternoon of the1980 volcanic eruption, a million logs were floating on Spirit Lake. The result of the eruption "clearing" a forested section of the mountainside. A large percentage of the logs were floating upright. These logs were then deposited to the bottom of the lake, many retaining their uptight position, as verified by underwater scuba diving and sonar studies. This discovery has thus provided a previously unimagined mechanism for starting a petrified forest. More info from the AiG article. Better yet, get one of the great books on Mt. Saint Helens.
Polystrate or multiple strata petrified wood. With many discoveries of polystrate fossils embedded across strata that are supposedly thousands or millions of years apart (which is not realistic - how can a tree be covered gradually over a span of millions of years and the exposed parts not erode in the process), and seeing the evidence from the Mt. Saint Helens eruption on vertical deposition of tree logs, it is not reasonable to believe that petrified wood is 200 million years old. More logical, as observed from the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, these fossils are the result of volcanic eruptions and flooding in the not-so-distant past, consistent with the Biblical history of the Earth. More info on polystrate fossils from this link.
Now back to Petrified Wood accents. Having these insights into petrified wood makes them even more interesting. They have a truly unique history. If you're a Christian, petrified wood can be a conversation opener. If you're not a Christian petrified wood can confront you and challenge traditional thinking and cause you to re-evaluate Biblical authority.
And one great thing is that for a limited time, the Celestina store in Greenbelt 5 is selling their Petrified Wood from Indonesia at 50% to 60% off! However, there are only a few more pieces remaining. I purchased my selected piece last Sunday, but you may still have the opportunity to buy if you are in Metro Manila.
Hope you find this article helpful. If you've discovered other great places for buying petrified wood, do comment and share the info.
Bye for now!
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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