I’m sorry you feel you’ve had a bad experience. but there are plenty of questions that the current bad science does not answer.
for example the idea that layers accumulated over millions of years is a farce. the theory was thought up in the 1800s and should not be taught today. the layers are clearly the result of the sorting action of water. very many fossils and trees are found “polystrata”, sticking through the layers. and millions of years would not lead to ordered layers anyway. there would be events, animals, weather, that would churn the layers up before they even got a chance to settle. the sorting action of water is a MUCH more reasonable theory.
And the idea that the colorado river carved the grand canyon is LAUGHABLE. the top of the canyon is higher than the bottom! water does not flow uphill. there is no way that river carved that canyon. the canyon was carved very quickly by a large amount of water
the diomataceous earth mines near the san andreas fault have no explanation under the current bad science, but fit right in with the Bible’s account of water coming up from under the earth, which would be very hot, and instantly killing trillions of diatoms, and billions of fish. they even found a whale in the vertical position.
there is tons more. the fact is, there are huge, gaping errors in the earth sciences, errors which would be fixed, but for the fact that the real answer supports the Bible.
I saw a TV show years ago on a christian station. They were discussing the possibility of a small area of the ark floor on the inside being open. That would make it easy to shove any waste right into the water.
You get me wrong, it isn’t that I had a bad experience, I think I had a very good experience, being exposed to all sides and being able to look at history and make the decision. It is easy to look at these arguments on both sides with a skeptic approach. For example, the diatomaceous earth mines argument is very illogical because we see current buildup of diatomaceous elements (microorganisms, shells, corals, etc.) in many areas of the world, without the need for ‘fountains of the deep to burst’.
The layers argument due to the ‘sorting action of water’ isn’t logical counter argument because we see short period layers within time frames we can measure, such as the history of settlements. They provide us with a micro time view of what happens on a macro level. We can see these layers being created in our own history.
I haven’t seen a textbook (except maybe young elementary level) that states the Colorado alone created the Grand Canyon on its own. Most refer to the river, but also the uplift of the Colorado Plateau. At that much of what we see is actually the plateau uplift. These tectonics created cracks and fissures that helped the river carve out the sculpture of the canyon. Many of the features where also created from ancient seas rising and receding over and over. At that, even with the dam control of the river, we see carving going on to this very day. If we can see this in the short period of our observation, the nature of what would happen over greater time periods would be massive, especially considering that the river level greatly dropped when the Gulf of California opened.
But overall, saying a gap in knowledge damns the theory isn’t a good approach because much of our faith is filling in gaps in physical knowledge.