If there was a great flood then erosion would have prevented the Grand Canyon.?

Question

The grand Canyon was formed over tens of thousands of years. Yet the bible depicts a great flood more recent than that. The bible specifically says that the highest mountain tops are covered in the flood for 40 days.

"At the time of the flood the world was flatter then it is now"

Wow, is there not a more ignorant statement? Mt Everest is over 60,000 years old. When did the flood happen? haha

PS, look at Franks answer before answering, so true!

Answer 1

God did it, god did it!


Or, you could also look at this:

The Egyptians were in the middle of their 5th dynasty at that time. There is no evidence of them all having been wiped out. In fact not even of a mild swelling of the Nile. Their own historical records and hard physical evidence (reference to which is available to anyone) show them to have continued on as they had been for another 2000 years after that time had come and gone.

or

The radius of the Earth is approx. 6370km
The height of Everest above sea-level is approx. 8.8 km
Therefore, the volume of the Earth is approx. 1,082,696,932,000km³, or 1,080 billion cubic kilometers.
The volume of the earth to the height of Everest is 1,087,190,293,000km³
Subtracting the first volume from the second gives approx. 4,493,361,000, or four billion, five hundred million cubic kilometers of water!
Also, this rain is supposed to have fallen within about 40 days. That means that there would have been about 220 meters of rainfall every day over the entire planet (8800/40 = 220)! A few centimeters in a day is considered to be extremely heavy rain.
( Note: volume of sphere = 4/3 pi r³, and I use the American billion of 1,000,000,000 here )
Where did all this water go?

Answer 2

The Grand Canyon could not have been formed over tens of thousands of years.
1. If it was worn down by the river at the bottom, where are the thousands of other Grand Canyons in the world. Surely thousands of other rivers should have also formed canyons during all that time.
2. On the one hand we say the parallel layers along the canyon walls were deposited over millions of years. On the other hand we believe in erosion. You can't have it both ways. Remember that the layers of rock extend over hundreds of miles. Where did all that dirt blow in from? How did it blow in to form neat, orderly layers over millions of years? It doesn't make sense. Now, if you filled a milk bottle with stuff and sloshed it around, then the heavier elements would sink lower and the lighter would rise to the top. That's what happened with the Grand Canyon layers during the flood. The elements were still liquefied enough for the river to make its way south and carve deep; the river at bottom did not erode the canyon through hard rock!
3. There is what the geologists call the "geologic column." it is imaginary. It does not appear anywhere on earth. Even the Grand Canyon is missing 150 million years of this column.
4. The Grand Canyon was most likely carved over over a shorter time, after the Flood, because the ground was still somewhat waterlogged (liquefaction) from the flood. When a Grand Lake north of the Grand Canyon (water trapped there from the Flood) emptied south, the water carved its way down to form the Grand Canyon. It's possible there was already a river trickling down from the lake, but a natural dam may have broken, causing much water to surge and carve the chasm. We'll never know the whole story.
5. Before the Flood, there were no high mountains as we have them now. The mountains were formed by other mechanisms during and after the Flood.

Answer 3

The cliffs of Dover disprove the flood story. The Egyptian pyramids do not show any signs of being under water for a year. Another fact that disproves the flood. The geological column shows no signs of a world wide catastrophic flood. One more tidbit that disproves the flood story. The Chinese and Egyptians have written records that start before the supposed flood time and continue un-interrupted. More facts that disprove the flood story.

Religion is all bunk when stood up to the facts.

Answer 4

At the time of the flood the world was flatter then it is now. God caused the mountains to push up and caused geart ravines and valleys to drain off the earth to bring about dry land. The water from the flood is still here. Of course, you don't really care to hear the truth, your just here to mock God and be sarcastic. Let's say you try this again when Armageddon arrives. Oh, by the way to those who say that it could not rain enough in forty days and nights to cover the earth. Read the account. There was a circle of water around the earth that was obviously put there by God as a protective barrier for the earth and life on it. God caused this barrier to burst forth, the flood gates of the heavens were opened, and all the springs burst forth so that all the waters from underground rose up as well. We of course don't know the full intensity of this, but it was enough to cover the earth. You do know that your thumbs down are solid evidence that Christians are right don't you? Only a few will survive compared to the population of the world. Remember, only eight people survived Noah's day because they mocked God and Noah then, and Jesus compared our time to Noah's day. And there is all the proof that anybody should need. Jesus mentioned the flood of Noah's day and Jesus is mentioned in historical documents, Jesus was an eye witness of the flood from heaven.

Answer 5

Long lengths of time are not required for erosion.

While the ground is soft, a canyon that size can be created in a matter of about 10-100 years.

There's a smaller one near Mt. St. Helens that formed in between 5-10 years along a river between the mountain and Spirit Lake. All you have to do is get USGS contour maps from before and maps from after to see the difference.

The canyon was cut into fresh volcanic ash, not rock.

(It's the rock that takes a long time to form, not the canyon.)

Answer 6

Hey Mashiy- you need to look at other answers than that website. There is NO way... NO WAY in HELL that the Noah's Ark story ever happened. Not enough space. Not enough food. Not enough water. Not enough population to sustain predator vs. prey dynamics once all the animals were to repopulate the earth. Ex: What did the leopards eat when they came off of the boat? Did they not eat for years and years so that the population of the prey they eat could have grown large enough to absorb the loss of a kill? No. Impossible. All of your Christian answers are wrong. Consult an ecologist, a biologist, a historian, a geologist, an archaeologist... ANY SCIENTIST. YOU ARE WRONG.

NOAH'S ARK NEVER HAPPENED.

Answer 7

God's Word tells us that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. Not that the mountains were covered for 40 days.

It says in Genesis 7:11, In the six hundredth year of Noah's life on the seventeenth day of the second month-- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

It is speculated that tsunamis and volcanoes were activated .

Answer 8

The Bible says alot of things, for instance that God created man in His own image, but science proves that homo sapien is the fourth evolutionary stage of its species. If He created man in his own image, then God would look like a monkey. I am religious and believe that the Great Flood did have a major role on the creation of the Grand Canyon however.

Answer 9

The methods of depicting time, has been proven scientifically, and specifically to have errors. So, try again

Answer 10

Of course the flood tale is fiction; there are at least half a dozen independent lines of evidence which show that it never happened. For some of these, see: