Grand Canyon and the flood of Noah . . . ?

Question

Will we ever know the truth and will we believe after reading the following::

http://www.canyonministries.com/ind...

Answer 1

Anybody can "devise" an "explanation" for how the Grand Canyon got there, using plausible sounding scenarios. For example, I can claim that a giant comet smacked the Utah plains, scratching out a huge track through NW Arizona, and then all the ice of the comet being liquidfied by the force of the impact created a vast flash flood that finished the job, carving out canyons along the original track. Why not?

Hypotheses aren't established as fact simply because they sound reasonable to the ear. For example, string theory today sounds EXTREMELY reasonable to both mathematicians and physicists, and yet everybody understands that it's not "an established hypothesis" until backed by experimental evidence. The current Grand Canyon hypothesis, being the result of 1) billions of years of sedimentary formation and 2) periods of geological uplift and river erosion, is backed by numerous corroborating evidence, and hydrological studies of how rivers erode canyons. For example, through actual experimentation (as well as computer simulations), it can be shown that no sudden flash flood can ever create a vast canyon of such deep complexity, only the steady erosion by a river with tributaries can produce such a result. There have been other cases of stupendous flash floods in geological history, and very different features have resulted, such as the "scablands" of western Canada, caused by sudden release of glacial moraine lakes.

Under critical analysis by peer review in other branches of science, such as tectonics, hydrology, paleotology, paleoclimatology, radioisotope dating, mechanics of solids, hypotheses based on a sudden creation of the Grand Canyon fail to stand up, which is one reason why many "young Grand Canyoneers" end up just rejecting the whole of science as being "biased".

Answer 2

Okay 87GN but you're not really helping the cause by saying the top of the canyon is below the entrance. If you look at the physical map from http://maps.ask.com or the National Atlas then you'll see that the canyon starts out very shallow and then gets deep and finally the highlands end and it flows into a plain the same height as the bottom. There's nothing uphill, only diagonally down.

So if it happened that way uphill is not an argument.

(Don't worry about the lakes, they're man-made)

Answer 3

The top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the Colorado River enters the canyon. Do I have to be a geologist to understand how a river miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to cut the groove deep enough so it could flow downhill? I guess the whole Noah's flood is more preposterous to the "learned". Perhaps for proof they would need to see tons of unexplainable geological anomalies all over the world along with billions of dead things buried in sedimentary layers across the planet?

Answer 4

NOTAH --Noah took a piss after the drunked stuper of 4482 BC and then cursed the son of a son who became the Africans -- His piss came across the Atlantic and landed in the Americas before they ever knew the Americas existed -- And BOOM --Grand Canyon --Dispute that Knower of scripture

Answer 5

No.but try Black sea,and the flood of Noah

Answer 6

They have found parts of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat in th Middle East.