Grand Canyon much older than previously thought

Reuters ^ | Thu Mar 6, 2008 | Will Dunham

[pbear8]

Sorry, didn’t mean to imply that we went to the bottom, just that I wasn’t in an airplane seeing it from 30K feet for a change.

Maybe you can take the kids when they are a bit older to the bottom, could be a good bonding time. It would be memorable!!

[DainBramage]

Its old as eroded dirt.

[Always Right]

So it was 6 million years old +/-12 million?

[Non-Sequitur]

Impossible. I hear the earth is only 6,000 years old.

Maybe they determined it's actually 6,002 years old?

[count-your-change]

Yes indeed. Used to live in Arizona and enjoyed going there. Of course that was so long ago that it was called “The Fairly Large Canyon”.
Try going on Google Earth and take a tour. Interesting.

[Always Right]

Since it changes daily, today’s grand canyon is but a day old.

[wolfcreek]

“If I was younger maybe I would take one of the raft trips.”

Don’t let age stop ya. All you have to do is hang on, enjoy the scenery and ride. The outfitters do everything for you.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, the advanced civilization that used to live on Earth left for space about 10,000 years ago - 6,000 years ago was when the liberal Luddites they left behind devolved completely, forgot speech, fire, and the wheel, and had the last of their Section 8 housing fall down around their ears, forcing them out onto the plains as hunter-gatherers...where a (saber-toothed) Darwinian process weeded out the biggest losers and allowed the rest to start civilization over again. ;)

[Non-Sequitur]

I believe that man is around 6000 years old...the earth, nobody really knows.

If you accept Genesis as literal, man is only a couple of days younger than the earth.

[Jagman]

Ken Ham says 6,000 years, max, give or take a counterfeit dinosaur fossil!

[Beowulf9]

“I believe that man is around 6000 years old”
“While it looks like it, “that man” in post 8 is supposedly a women”.

But definitely 6000 years old.

[Beowulf9]

Well, if carbon dating is that far off it makes you wonder about all these carbon dating results that is used to prove the evolution theories.

[Gator113]

I agree. I’ve seen it about 10 times. On each occasion the experience was just as beautiful as the first.

Regrettably, it seems to be aging much more gracefully than I.

[stubernx98]

I rowed the Grand Canyon in 2006 with a private party. 22 days on the river. Ran the biggest rapids in the country. Explored the side canyons. An Experience of a life time.

[DesertSapper]

Assuming the world is 6,000 years old is probably just as UNscientific as these dolts who just changed their theories on the canyon's age by 11 million years.

Typical pseudo-science: refer to everything in terms of massive numbers (hundreds of thousands to billions) of years and even being off by millions means nothing. Sounds like the same "science" that swore we'd found a new human-like "hobbit" species just a few years ago. haha

Pass some of that popcorn over here . . . this b.s. science discussion should be interesting.

[allmendream]

Fully modern man has existed for at least the last 100,000 years. 6,000 years ago people were building civilizations; they had been around for a long time before they started writing things down and building cities.

[HonorInPa]

The wife and I went on our honeymoon. Once we get the kids out of the house I want to take her again and spend more time. Maybe go to the bottom like you did. Maybe see it from the North rim.

Might be the dirtiest post I've ever read here at FR... "I want to take her again...maybe go to the bottom...see the north rim"

[Captain Pike]

The Grand Canyon cost so much to dig that the National Park Service still charges admission in order to pay off the debt.

[McKayopectate]

Well, the advanced civilization that used to live on Earth left for space about 10,000 years ago - 6,000 years ago was when the liberal Luddites they left behind devolved completely, forgot speech, fire, and the wheel, and had the last of their Section 8 housing fall down around their ears, forcing them out onto the plains as hunter-gatherers...where a (saber-toothed) Darwinian process weeded out the biggest losers and allowed the rest to start civilization over again. ;)

And that is the premise for the new Roland Emmerich film...

[bagman]

The Grand Canyon is too old to use carbon dating which isn't good much past 50,000 or 100,000 years ago.