Late one summer’s afternoon in 1901, a cowboy named Jim White was riding through the arid foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains in south-east New Mexico. Suddenly he was startled by a huge black cloud rising from the ground in front of him. He reined his horse to a stop. This cloud was not like any he had seen before, so he decided to see what made it different.
As he galloped closer, Jim realized this funnel shaped cloud was formed by a massive swarm of bats! Millions of them were spiraling out of the sandy hillside. Jim was puzzled. What were so many bats doing here? Where did they come from? He resolved to find out.
With a battered kerosene lamp and a rope ladder, Jim descended deep into a hole he found in the mountain side. He found tunnels and passageways. Warily he followed one tunnel. Soon it led him to the bats’ resting place. The floor was slippery with bats’ droppings.
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Author: Doolan, Mackay, Snelling & Hallby
Keywords: Carlsbad Caverns, Caverns, Flood, Noah Flood, Limestone, Caves, Geology, Geological record, Geological, Age of the earth, How old is the earth, Young earth, Old earth, stalactite, stalagmite
Bible reference(s): Genesis 7, Genesis 8
Source: Robert Doolan, John Mackay, Andrew Snelling, and Dr. Allen Hallby, “Limestone Caves,” Creation Ministries.
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