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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. In
various displays at the visitor’s center, we
learned that the Colorado River formed the
canyon over millions of years. I wondered
what proof they have of that. The answer:
they 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. The question I asked was, “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?”
“What would happen if, a few thousand years ago, this entire canyon was underwater, and the water
receded in a few months. Could that have formed this canyon?” I believe that is what actually happened
at the Grand Canyon.

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Noah’s Ark and the Flood with Dr. Georgia Purdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47vDpY3eMXg

The geology of the Earth demonstrates the reality of Noah’s Flood and the awful results of God’s
judgment on sin.

Eventually, Noah and his family were able to exit the
ark that sat upon a mountain we know of today as
Ararat. It is over 16,000 feet high, but the ark could
have rested anywhere on the slopes, at a lower
elevation. Noah’s family created homes in the new
plains and began populating the area.

Noah was commanded by God to “Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the earth.” (Genesis 9:1)
Genesis 11 tells us that Noah’s clan moved eastward
and settled in the plain of Shinar. We do know
geographically where they settled. Shinar is in the
plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what
we know today as Iraq (see map to the left).

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