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| | '''Devils Tower''' is a monolith and popular tourist attraction in the state of [[Wyoming]], rising 1267 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River, with its summit 5,112 feet above sea level.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/deto/</ref> It was declared America's first national monument by [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in 1906. | | '''Devils Tower''' is a monolith and popular tourist attraction in the state of [[Wyoming]], rising 1267 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River, with its summit 5,112 feet above sea level.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/deto/</ref> It was declared America's first national monument by [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in 1906. |
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| − | The top of '''Devils Tower''' is flat, which is strongly suggestive of having been formed by a flood that submerged it, despite its summit being over 5000 above sea level. The walls are almost perfectly vertical; the top is about the size of a football field. | + | The top of '''Devils Tower''' is large, flat, and filled with wildlife despite its summit being over 5000 above sea level. The walls are almost perfectly vertical; the top is about the size of a football field. Chipmunks, snakes and other wildlife live on the top, over 1200 feet above the ground, defying any evolutionary explanation of how or why they originated there. |
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| − | Chipmunks, snakes and other wildlife live on the top, over 1200 feet above the ground, defying any evolutionary explanation of how or why they originated there.
| + | '''''All this is strongly suggestive of its having been formed by a flood that submerged it'''''. |
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| | There are two implausible [[atheist]]ic theories about the origin of Devils Tower: | | There are two implausible [[atheist]]ic theories about the origin of Devils Tower: |
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| | *the other theory is that Devils Tower is the remains of a volcano, though no other evidence of volcanic activity has been found in the area. | | *the other theory is that Devils Tower is the remains of a volcano, though no other evidence of volcanic activity has been found in the area. |
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| − | '''Both theories are baseless and absurd because there is no extrusive igneous activity in the area, and there is no evidence of volcanic activity in the area either'''.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/deto/sec3.htm</ref> | + | '''''Both theories are baseless and absurd because there is no extrusive igneous activity in the area, and there is no evidence of volcanic activity in the area either'''''.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/deto/sec3.htm</ref> |
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| − | Intelligent design explains the rock well: it is a work of art worth seeing, and does not require fictitious, irrational "explanations" of the origin. | + | [[Intelligent design]] explains the rock well: it is a work of art worth seeing, and does not require fictitious, irrational "explanations" of the origin. |
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| | The formation's official name contains no apostrophe due to a never-corrected clerical error.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/deto/naturescience/index.htm</ref> | | The formation's official name contains no apostrophe due to a never-corrected clerical error.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/deto/naturescience/index.htm</ref> |