Grand Canyon... millions of years with a river or...?

Question

a few days/weeks with the flood??

Answer 1

Because of fossils that have been found..it has been determined that at some point..the entire Arizona desert surrounding the Grand Canyon was underwater except for a few of its highest platteaus and mountians which would have appeared as islands. So indeed if the water receded quickly then the canyons would have been formed within a matter of days...not millions of years. Same thing wtih the Bad Lands canyon system in Wyoming and the Dakotas. The rock strata even resembles the layered effect of various ocean sediments as they shift and settle over and over to change the underwater landscape every day. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><

Answer 2

The flood happened historically, not just in the Bible and scientists have found evidence that it was likely a part of the Black Sea collapsing, causing a massive amount of water to move... somewhere. But it didn't cover the entire world -- the story of Noah and the Flood is meant to get across the point that God loves His creations, and is not the cruel kind of God who would destroy everything. It's kind of a weird story, if you think about it, because it claims that God actually *did* flood the whole world to drown the sinners and all the other poor animals that couldn't make it. Check this link out! It's got the whole theory from National Geographic!! --> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html

Anyways, it was definitely millions of years with a river, or whatever scientists have most recently cooked up with the Grand Canyon.

Answer 3

river

Edit mthtchr05 is full of crap. That Drdino.com site states that the river could not have possibly done it because it would have to flow upwards. That is very true that water does not defy gravity, but that is about it. What it fails to take into account (either out of ignorance or malice) is that the landscape has changed drastically since the Grand canyon began forming. Land rises and falls, folds and streches; because of techtonic forces. The complete look of the southwest American landscape was much different several million years ago. The moral is don't believe any so-called "scientific evidence" on a religious site. Most of the time they are outright lies.

Answer 4

I don't have any answer to the time question but I read that it (The Grand Canyon) was carved out by glaciers at the end of the ice age and became a mighty river that eventually dried up. Also the same sceanario for Salt Lake City but it left a big inland sea.

Answer 5

Since it is practically the only river that flows up (not North), I would have to say a few weeks with the flood.

Check out www.drdino.com for more information on that.

Answer 6

A flood wouldn't do that beautiful canyon. Years of rivers carving the stone, eons and eons. Mother natures earth is beautiful.

Answer 7

Millions of years with a river.

Answer 8

River.

Before you can even begin to contemplate whether it was a global flood, you need to prove a global flood occured.

And as there is already a river there, slowly etching out the caynon even today, why do you need any other explanation?

Answer 9

Why can't fundamentalists realize that God doesn't live by a 24 hour clock. I go for the rivet concept.

Answer 10

A few giants with a shovel and a couple of hours.