Fabulous pics of the Grand Canyon:
http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/03/grand-canyon-proof-that-nature-rocks-35-pics/
To stand on the South Rim and gaze into the Grand Canyon is to behold an awesome immensity of time. The serpentine Colorado River has relentlessly incised a 280-mile-long chasm that in some places stretches 18 miles wide and more than a mile deep. Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park will encounter an exhibit titled the Trail of Time, and learn that scientists believe the canyon is about 6 million years old — relatively young by geological standards.
Now a few contrarian scientists want to call time out. The canyon isn’t 6 million years old, they say, but more like 70 million years old. If this order-of-magnitude challenge to the orthodoxy holds up, it would mean the Grand Canyon has been around since the days of T. rex.
No! It can’t be the same age as T-Rex!
So much for the advancement of the flat-earthers!
One of the great mysteries of life is wrapped up in that first 30 seconds of a person’s experience when he or she first sets eyes on the Grand Canyon. It is one of those experiences you simply never forget. The Grand Canyon is so grand, and so unimaginable, that at first glance it literally takes your breath away. No picture, No movie possibly prepares a person for that first real life, real time glimpse. After that first minute, you come to your senses. But that first glance…well…if you have experienced it, you know what I am talking about. If you have never been there…you are in for s treat.
The enormity of that canyon and all of its various land forms and colors are part of a vastness that springs into your line of vision that simply overpowers the mind, albeit briefly. It is a unique experience in sensory overload.
One of the great offenses in life was allowing a book about the Grand Canyon being only 6,000 years old (yes, that’s 6 THOUSAND) to be placed in the Grand Canyon book store. It happened during the Bush era as some sort of counter-revolutionary gesture against science. I have always resented seeing that book, all perched and proud of itself, sitting there there daring those of us who think geology is apolitical to do something about it.
Now we are told to open our minds to the fact that the Grand Canyon just might be 70 million years old. That works for me also. I don’t care how old it is really. I care deeply that someone wants to squeeze a land form this massive and majestic into some man-made political time table. It is the last insult from the flat earth society. I am glad that scientists suggest that the Grand Canyon might be even older than previously thought. The Grand Cayon seems to make time stand still.
Further reading: Grand Canyon 70 million years old, formed during era of dinosaurs, new study claims
Meh….doesn’t look so grand to me: http://youtu.be/xf4pUZPaz5k
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Did you hear, Pat Robertson denounced the idea that the Earth is only 6 thousand years old!
@Cargosquid
That was very cute, actually.
@Elena, so how old did he say the earth was? Why were you awake at 2:03?
Yes, I almost called you! Just a sleepless night I guess.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/pat-robertson-creationism-earth-is-not-6000-years-old_n_2207275.html
I remember it when it was only about 50 feet deep! I’m with you Moon–who really gives a rat’s behind? However old it is–it’s old–give or take a million here or there.
I wonder if there is an accompanying picture/diagram World We Live In type teach and show to go along with this new information?
If anyone finds it, plant it here.
Beside, everyone KNOWS that Paul Bunyan dug the Grand Canyon when he was crossing the desert and he grew tired and thirsty. Dragging his great ax behind him he crossed the desert and thus the Canyon was born.
Anyway, that’s how I was taught the birth of the Grand Canyon in pre-school. It had to be true. It was in a book.
Actually the latest theories say that the Grand Canyon is about 12,000 years old. These scientists say it was eroded as one catastrophic event when a giant ice age lake burst forth due to the melting of an ice dam. Now the rocks… the rocks at the bottom of the canyon are hundreds of millions of years old (and get newer as one progresses upwards).
Welcomne Fred. Who is it that says 12,000 years old?
re hate crime–No one says this arson was a hate crime, I asked the question, was it one.
per arson…too soon to tell. Also, is arson. Is crime. Who cares about the motive. Lock him up.
Here’s the article about how they figured the current theory of 70 million years old
http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/45280
What an ingenious way to determine age of rock exposures….. that is SOME book learnin’!
There is evidence of human habitation in or around the Canyon dating to 12,000 years ago.
As long as we can agree that it wasn’t 6 THOUSAND EARS AGO, I can pretty much go along with any time frame.
The Jesus horses (dinosaurs) galloping down the grand canyon with Moses on its back is just a little much.
@Moon-howler
I would pay good money to see an actual movie with that as a scene in the money. Just picture the plot development that would be needed to get all of that together.
In the MOVIE, not “in the money.”
Edit THEN submit…one day I’ll get it right.