Credit: Jim Cash/Idaho Geological Survey
Posted on 12/17/2013 8:25:59 AM PST by fishtank
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers is proposing that Idaho's Malad Gorge and two of its three unique heads were created by a massive flood 46,000 years ago. In their paper published in Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, the team members from California Institute of Technology describe a field study they undertook of the area and how their findings suggest the gorge was created by a flood, not erosion as has been previously thought.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-idaho-canyons-result-massive-erosion.html#jCp
Credit: Jim Cash/Idaho Geological Survey
Soooo ... in the same way, the Grand Canyon HAD HAD HAD to have been formed over MEEEEELYUNS AND MEEEELYUNS of years???
I’d rather believe the Bible is scientifically accurate (because it is), than to believe the Al Gores of their day, Chuck Darwin and Chuck Lyell.
What happened to your house?
Well, the rains came and swelled the river and it gushed past our house for 3 days and eroded the bank away and our house sank into the river
Undoubtedly caused by the policies of late-Pleistocene Republicans.
massive flood 46,000 years ago
I’d rather believe the Bible is scientifically accurate (because it is), than to believe the Al Gores of their day, Chuck Darwin and Chuck Lyell.
AMEN!But I feel sorry for the people who are going to find out too late that God was right all along.
“I’d rather believe the Bible is scientifically accurate (because it is)”
How old, approximately, is the Earth?
Yes, logically, if you accept that this flood happened 46,000 years ago, that would predate 6,000 years ago, even give or take 4000 years...
But where did the 46,000 come from? Eyewitnesses?
How old was Adam when he was created?
Flooding is just very rapid erosion. A huge inland sea, once an arm of the ocean, reached into the intermountain plain, then that part of the earth was upthrust, forming an inland sea, of which the Great Salt Lake is about the only remaining portion. Perhaps the same outflow from that inland sea as it drained, that created this canyon, also created the Grand Canyon to the south. As the bottom part of this sea dried down, because of the shifting climate patterns, the components in solution crystallized out at different strata, resulting in what was once a huge bed of potassium chloride, a fertilizer component, being left deposited in the Great Salt Lake Desert. The beds once may have seemed to be nearly infinite, but they are reduced to only a very small part of their original deposit.
The mechanism of the upthrust was the huge pool of magma that underlies the entire structure of the Rocky Mountains, with its thinnest crust being the Yellowstone caldera.
There are forces in play that are far beyond the puny imagination of most men, and vastly dwarf any possible effect that mankind can ever have on the continuing change to this blue marble as it circles the sun, in the solar system we call “home”.
That isn’t an answer to the question in my post.
No question. Bush's fault!
This was recognized shortly after the Mt. St. Helens erruption, and resulting flooding and channel cutting.
My imagination is not that puny . Nature can destroy the planet. Man cannot, no matter what the envirowackos say.
If God wishes Yellowstone could fire up and destroy most life on this planet, and there isn’t a damned thing man can do about it.
Certainly we all want clean air but the response our government is willing to take is far too abrupt and ridiculous and it needs to be stopped. EPA is endangering us all.
And if they’d read Genesis and believe; they’d already know this..
The Bible doesn’t SAY the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Folks ignore the admonition that asserts God is unconstrained by time, and project instead, a literal reading of the 6 day Creation, followed by adding up the years in the “Begats”.
To God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day.
That’s why I’m an “Old Earth, Creationist”.....AND, I accept that many of the canyons of the world are due to RAPID ERROSION caused by massive floods.
You see, there’s room between “Millions of Years” and “6,000 years”.....!!!
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Where did this water come from and where did it go?
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