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Grand Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Noah's Flood, etc.

Why is Noah's Flood in a discussion of Evolution and Creation?
Many Young Earth Creationists claim that Noah's Flood caused many of the geologic formations, such as the Grand Canyon, coal beds, etc. that evolutionists claim were caused by gradual processes over long periods of time. This article limits the discussion of Noah's Flood to how it relates to geological effects. See also Noah's Flood for evidence for and against whether the flood actually happened.

Mount St. Helens and an alternate view of the Grand Canyon formation

Does the recent eruption of Mount St. Helens give us evidence that the Grand Canyon could have been formed in a short timer period or even by Noah's Flood?

See reviews of the videos Mount St. Helens and Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth for the events of Mount St. Helens and their implications for the creation of the Grand Canyon.

This view that the Grand Canyon was formed by Noah's Flood is espoused in Tom Vail's book Grand Canyon: A Different View. His book started a controversy after it was put on sale in the park's bookstore. Most admit that the book contains some of the best photos available of the Grand Canyon, but many believe that its scientific merit is somewhat dubious.

Does Noah's Flood Explain the Geologic Column?

The geologic column shows increasing complexity in life forms as one goes from deeper levers to higher levels. Since it is believed that the layers of the geologic column were built up over vast periods of time, this shows that life became increasingly more complex across time.

Creationist View
Noah's flood created the geologic column. The actions of the floods waters caused the creation and sorting of the life forms. The more intelligent, i.e. more complex, life forms were able to travel to higher ground and were therefore buried in the geologic column at higher levels.

Some contend that the geologic column doesn't exist
and is simply an imaginary construct of evolutionists
See Geologic Column

Evolutionist View
The creationist explanation simply doesn't fit the facts. Various dating techniques show that the column was created in a span of time much greater than the single year of Noah's flood. But more importantly, it's not intelligence that allows life forms to move to higher ground, but mobility. How did it happen that the plants pulled up their roots and reached higher grounds in correspondence to their complexity? How come no dinosaurs made it to the higher levels? How come no humans are found in the lower levels? Surely there were some elderly, sick, or crippled people who couldn't flee to the higher grounds. This is one of those claims that falls into the category of "Sounds good at first, but is absurd if you actually think about it."

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Producing the Geological Record