Seeing creation and evolution in the Grand Canyon

Thanks for the link headscratcher4,

For me, seeing the Grand Canyon was an emotional experience similar to seeing the moons of Jupiter through a telescope for the first time. Most of my life I had known of the moons but I had just taken other people's word for theire existance. All of a sudden I had personal confirmation that they existed. In a similar way I had never doubted the basic idea of an old earth, but here, all of a sudden in one grand view was proof of the vast age of the earth. It is interesting that others would have such a different view.

A small aside here, the river wasn't brown when I saw it. It is green and much clearer than it appears in old pictures. I think the dams have greatly reduced the sediment flowing down it. I wondered how the author of that article could have called it chocolate.

Another aside here, my daughter and I walked down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and stayed at the lodge that is down there. It was one of the memorable times of my life. It is an experience that I would highly recommend to anybody that is physically capable of the hike.
 
davefoc said:
For me, seeing the Grand Canyon was an emotional experience similar to seeing the moons of Jupiter through a telescope for the first time. Most of my life I had known of the moons but I had just taken other people's word for theire existance. All of a sudden I had personal confirmation that they existed.
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Yeah! I saw them first in astronomy class in college. There were two reactions from the class. More than half were of the "meh. Big deal. Round things in the sky." variety. The rest, like me, belonged firmly to the "wow. Just, wow. They're moons! And so far away! But I can see them! With my eyes!"

Oddly enough, the professor seemed to go way easier on grading the work of people who had a proper awe of the magnificence of space.
 
You always post such great stuff head...er scratcher... uh, in any event great story.

"It's all theory, right?" asked Jack Aiken, 63, an Assemblies of God minister in Alaska who has a master's degree in geology. "Except what's in the Good Book."
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:jaw-dropp

Dave is correct. The Colorado is spanish and means color red caused by the churning of the river as it chews rock and stirs the sediment into a choclate river. However the damn causes the sediment to settle and the water from the bottom of the damn is some of the clearest in the world with a slight green tint (from many trips and tours of the Colorado including The Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, Lake Mead, Havasu, Glen Canyon Dam, Hoover Dam (Boulder), river rafting, jet skiing, water skiing, sight seeing, visitors centers, tour guides, etc.) Go and enjoy one of the greatest wonders of the world. Trust me on this one. If you have not been go.

And ignore the young earthers.
 
On the one hand, we have evidence that the Sun rotates around the Earth. All we have to do is look with our eyes and we can see the Sun moving across the sky, and look in The Good Book.

On the other hand, we have evidence a mile high based on centuries of experimentation and observation and peer-review and confirmation that the Earth rotates around the Sun.

Would anyone, even a creationist, admit these two views are equal in merit?

But somehow they think their creationist/ID "evidence" is equal in merit to evolution.

People sure are interesting.
 
People sure are interesting.
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The creationists are not "interesting", they are uneducated dolts totally unaware that they are not educated intelligentsia at all. Most of them have yet to catch on that their leaders are fully aware of the ridiculousness of their religion, and that they are simply ripping their flock off for personal gain. They are sheep. Literally, brainless sheep being shorn. Baaaa...!
 
Zep said:
The creationists are not "interesting", they are uneducated dolts totally unaware that they are not educated intelligentsia at all. Most of them have yet to catch on that their leaders are fully aware of the ridiculousness of their religion, and that they are simply ripping their flock off for personal gain. They are sheep. Literally, brainless sheep being shorn. Baaaa...!
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My community has always had an excllent school district. But we now have a Calvary Chapel pastor---whose own kids are enrolled in private, religious school---running for the school board. I will be actively campaigning for his opponents.
 
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