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The Grand Canyon
by John Hinton
Standing at the bottom of
the Grand Canyon and concluding that the multiple bands that
line the canyon walls are products of millions of years of
sedimentation is just plain stupid. I spent a couple of weeks
wandering through the Grand Canyon when I was in my early
twenties. I was alone and was not given one of the government
sponsored propaganda tours, but I had been told the same
pseudo-science concerning the Canyon and its origin clear
throughout my government school indoctrination program,
beginning in elementary school. I was puzzled by it then, but
far more puzzled when I looked at it in person.
The line that “it had
been carved out by a river” made absolutely no sense to me, but
what puzzled me more were the evenly colored stripes of even
heights that were uniformly found throughout the entire canyon.
Not being a Christian at that time, I was not troubled by the
idea of the earth being millions or billions of years old, but I
was not able to understand how each of these individual layers,
or stripes, got to be of one unified color.
Did they expect us to
believe that millions of years of light pink debris were
followed by millions of years of gray debris, followed by
millions of years of dark pink debris, and so forth? What
possible factors could have explained this uniformity of color,
not to mention the uniformity of the lines dividing the layers?
They are relatively smooth, even lines that stretch for great
distances without any signs of erosion between them. It actually
looked like the product of different types and weights of silt
settling after a flood, although at the time, I erroneously
considered the possibility of more than one flood having been
involved.
Being an agnostic at
the time, I did not look at it as an argument for or against
God, it was simply an observation based on common sense. The
idea that nearly perfect stripes would have formed through years
of decay, being of distinct and differing colors, and without
erosion lines, was just plain dumb. If all of the earth looked
like the Snake River Canyon their theory might have fooled me,
but it does not, so I did see through it. I was puzzled at the
time as to why they so many scientists were so gullible, but I
just figured that they were morons and left it at that.
Years later, after
coming to Christ and asking the Holy Spirit to guide me in all
that I do, I understood why they insisted on following such a
nonsensical theory. I then understood that they were not just
morons, but they were morons with an agenda that guided all of
their science falsely so called.
How truly sad that a
person could look at that evidence of the great worldwide flood
that the Bible tells us about, and to walk away from it spouting
a fairy tale about great ages of the earth.
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