[Scenic Sounds]

Geologists say the Grand Canyon is 5 or 6 million years old while creationists say it's only a few thousand years. Could a mediator help to narrow this difference betwen these parties?

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

If I remember my childhood years correctly, the Grand Canyon is just a furrow created by Paul Bunyan and Babe the Ox. There better be a book about this at the same Grand Canyon store!

[Wallaby]

According to the SF Chronicle website, this article was originally from the L.A. Times. Perhaps it could now be excerpted to satisfy the legal eagles.

[pdunkin]

Although I do believe that there is a creator (every little thing just fits together too perfectly)(except democrats), I do have some problem with some of the biblical stories such as Noah's ark. I really don't know the actual number but there are literally millions of different species on this planet when one takes into account mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, etc. The size of the boat needed to haul two of all of them around for the duration of the flood would have to be staggering (assuming that there would have to be fodder for each as well)! I believe that the flood was just a localized event that, through repeated telling, took on epic porportions. Anyway, that's my two cents' worth.

[tutstar]

bttt

[gcruse]

"Before I found the Lord, my mind was all messed up on drugs. Now it's all messed up on the Lord."

[ReagansShinyHair]

ping

[MississippiMan]

Could a mediator help to narrow this difference betwen these parties?

The truth is what it is, regardless of who believes it. The literal creationist side of the argument has been consistent. The evolution side changes its story regularly. In any event, trying to "mediate" such a thing is akin to mediating the truth--it's not possible. You can take up the notion with God one day, though, face to face. Be prepared.

MM

[HamiltonJay]

"For years, as a Colorado River guide I told people how the Grand Canyon was formed over the evolutionary time scale of millions of years. Then I met the Lord. Now, I have a different view of the Canyon, which according to a biblical time scale, can't possibly be more than a few thousand years old."

I see, so though you have no evidence, other than the biblical scriptures... but no hard physical evidence... all the physical evidence must be ignored.... Hmmm sounds like a Government employee to me.

[pctech]

I also heard this was reported about the Grand Canyon on PAX TV a while back. I wondered the same thing for a number of years and I convinced this is very possible. Of course no one wants to hear about anything that confirms bibical truth so that's why it's not mainstream knowledge.

[FormerACLUmember]

Noah's Flood may have been a historical event as the great Scandinavian glaciers melted 8000 or so years ago, causing rapidly rising ocean levels. This sea water broke through the Bosphorus bottleneck and spilled into the Black Sea region where vast amounts of land were below sea level. Noah's Ark landed in Turkey near the Black Sea.

Gigantic post-Wisconsin glacial lakes existed in North America. I have often wondered what happened as these finally drained.

[RobRoy]

Well, there is this quote:

"A week's study of the Grand Canyon should be a good cure for Evolutionary geologists as it is a perfect example of Flood geology with its paraconformities and striking parallelisms of the under strata.
The whole area was obviously laid down quickly, then uplifted and then the whole sedimentary area split open like a rotten watermelon." Albert W. Mehlert,
Paleoanthropology researcher "Diluviology & Uniformitarian Geology -- A Review"

[SunkenCiv]

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