Actually, as shown by the Mount Saint Helens eruption and also the Washington State Scablands, large geological formations such as the Grand Canyon can form rapidly under the intense hydraulic pressure of floodwaters. If you think about it, isn't it a bit incredulous to believe that a canyon a mile in diameter was carved by that slender little blue strand of a river at the bottom? If this wasn't about creation-evolution, wouldn't the burden of proof be on those who argued that major flooding didn't erode it?
If the Grand Canyon is, say, forty million years old and Ice Ages occur, say, every forty thousand years, then the Grand Canyon must have been covered with ice over a thousand times in its history. Odd that the Colorado River can leave its mark, but being covered by an ice pack a mile thick a thousand times -- for centuries at a time -- does not.
Grand Canyon Gorge Is 9 Times Older Than Thought
National Geographic News | 4-9-2008 | Hope Hamashige
Posted on 04/09/2008 1:26:29 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1999143/posts
Seniority should count(re: prevaricating press’ Grand Canyon flap)
Salt Lake Tribune LTE | 01/13/2007 | Stewart N. Thorpe
Posted on 01/19/2007 6:16:19 PM PST by Lorianne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1770525/posts
Mea Culpa, Mostly
http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2007/01/03/mea_culpa_mostly.php
Fact Checking 101: How Skeptic magazine was Duped by an Environmental Activist Group
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-01-17.html