There is a theory on volcanic activity blocking the flow of the Colorado River for a few years and then suddenly giving way resulting in massive floods and quick erosion of the Grand Canyon.
Yeah, but there are theories that MacArthur planned the whole Kennedy assassination and the astronauts were filmed in Tombstone, Arizona, and never went to the moon, too.
This theory is in the face of tons of scientific evidence is not equal to that of evolution. It doesn't even disprove the notion that the Earth is ancient, since the fossils at the bottom of the Grand Canyon are still millions of years old.
The scientific community disagrees, and will continue to do so, just as the bulk of the scientific community doesn't agree with global warming. Some have 'agreed' for purposes of funding, some for notoriety, some for their own reasons, but many of those with tenure are perfectly willing to dispute it--they just don't get press.
We all accept that parts of the Bible aren't truly literal. Christians eat biblically verboten foods all the time. And if we're willing to toss out the archaic and inconvenient parts of the Book of Leviticus for a ham sandwich (see
http://www.amichai.com/kodesh/kosher/ ), then we have to accept that not all of the other books are 100% literal and applicable to today, either.
I'm not Jewish, before anoyone gets the wrong idea on that that, either. I just happen to believe that the current state of science, law, and philosophy are the ever-climbing culmination of the upward march of humanity. And I don't believe that this theory has a darned thing to do with science, but much to do with religion and justifying personal beliefs instead of facing that perhaps faith is just that.
There's nothing wrong with faith being just faith. It doesn't have to be that everything anyone ever said God said, or everything that is in the Bible to be true, in order for God to be true, and Christ to have died for our sins, and that it be right for us to do unto others as we'd have them do unto us. If the Biblical Garden of Eden wasn't true, would it be impossible to know good from evil, to do your best to live free from sin, and try to follow Christ yourself as best you can? Would that make it wrong to do so?
No. And the Golden Rule is not Golden because of the purity or holiness of the text it's in, but because of the pure altruism, righteousness and inherent Godliness of that statement.