EvC Forum: The Grand Canyon Paradox

hmmmmmm. Faith's storybook description is no less credible then saying God waved his hand and the unconformity's formed out of the void. It is so ridiculous that i hesitate to respond to it.

What is always ignored is the simple fact that the bottom layer is often metamorphosed. The A/U at the bottom of Grand Canyon is high grade metamorphic rock - requiring high temperature/pressure/time. The temperature of that massive formation would have to be several hundred degrees!.

Faith writes:

To get the typical configuration of the kind of unconformity that YEC's supposedly can't account for, the tilted strata beneath the horizontal, all that need have happened is, if instead of bending as occurred here, the bent strata had broken, and the upper more horizontal portion had then slid over the lower angled portion.

The lower and upper layer rock are typically of completely different composition since they were often formed millions of years apart.

Also the bottom layer often contain erosional horizons with the weathered and eroded and rounded components of the lower layer present in a matrix with the upper layer.

Checkout these wonderful pictures of Siccar point. They are hi-res so I did not link them in here. Look closely at the contact and you will see that what Faith proposed is proposed out of ignorance.

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Faith writes:

In the lower picture, had the rock completely broken instead of holding together under the pressure well enough to form the S shape, you'd have had the formation of horizontal strata over upright or angled strata that is said to be inexplicable from the young earth point of view. Not at all inexplicable.

Not at all inexplicable!!!!! Ya if you ignore reality and the data. There is not one single piece of evidence to indicate such a fairy tale has every occurred. This is great hypothesis for a YEC to go look for confirmation. For example, find one identifiable strata (ie thickness or trace materials or fossils) and see if one can find a single AU in the world where you can find a strata match between upper and lower layer. Good luck

I am not even going waste time on her Alice in Wonderland fairy tale on the formation of the Great Unconformity with inventions like "underground volcanic explosions"

Further all this activity and somehow there are fossilized sand dunes demonstrating huge aeolian crossbedding complete with animal tracks. The Hakatai Shale contains frequent mud cracks, raindrop impressions and ripple rock.

Mud cracks, animal tracks and ripple rock!!! during a world wide flood!!! combined with massive cataclysmic events proposed!!! is absurd. YEC attempts of explaining the Grand Canyon as a product of the flood serves to demonstrate willful and purposeful deceit.

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