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in various layers, miles deep. This is the obvious result of massive amounts of water laying down layer
on layer over a very short time.

The Grand Canyon is about a mile deep from the rim at the top to the Colorado River way down at the
bottom. Although magnified in this telephoto image, the Colorado River actually looks very small from
the top rim of the Grand Canyon. From the rim, the Colorado River in fact looks like a small bluish-black
line way down at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. This tiny little river at the bottom of the Grand
Canyon could not have carved out a huge canyon a mile deep and many miles wide right out of solid
rock! It had to be carved by massive amounts of water exiting the canyon immediately after the flood.

A personal story from Dr. Bjorgen…

Years ago I visited the Grand Canyon.
During a lecture by one of the park Rangers,
we learned that the Colorado River formed
the canyon over millions of years. I asked
the Ranger what proof they have of that.
She replied that they have measured the
amount of dirt the river carries down each
day and divided that into the massive
volume of the dirt emptied from the canyon,
and they calculated it would take millions of
years for the river to form the canyon. I
asked the Ranger, “What happens if the
river flowed with a much larger volume of water in the past. Wouldn’t that shorten the time it would
take to form this canyon?” She commented, “I suppose it would.” I asked, “What would happen if a few
thousand years ago, this entire canyon was under water, and the water receded in a few months. Could
that have formed this canyon?” She decided to change the subject!

Noah’s Ark and the Flood with Dr. Georgia Purdom

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