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Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe

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Anyone who has ever gazed down into the immensity of the Grand Canyon has surely asked himself, "HOW in the world did this ever happen!"

If the standard "millions and millions of years" explanation leaves you with questions, read this book.

If you want a thorough, intellectually satisfying survey of the Grand Canyon, and the theories of it's origin, this book is for you. If you liked Whitcomb and Morris's "The Genesis Flood", you will like this book.

A man who believes the Bible, knows geology, and has carefully studied the Grand Canyon presents his findings in a very readable, interesting, and well illustrated book aimed at the general reader.

Lots of eye opening information. To bad you after dig yourself to find it. Schools, the media and people just don't want you to hear about other possibilities. I so enjoy the argument. It's like a tennis match watching it go back and forth. I think it's 30 love for creation. Uniformitarianism has more unanswered points and that's not in the game sense. The other areas of the argument favor creation even more than the studies of the rocks, but that's another book.
The meat of this entire matter rests in the ultimate claim of each sides argument. One says I am my own and the other says you are not. One is an extreme faith issue, the other is a paradox.

Standard geology textbooks teach us that, while individual events may be rapid, geologic change (such as erosion) is very slow overall. Austin deftly dispenses with the straitjacket of uniformitarianism, and shows how the Grand Canyon could have been eroded rapidly. Instead of a little river acting over a lot of time, we had a large body of water (Floodwater and its remnants) acting over a short period of time.

The authors of this book make an attempt to prove that the Grand Canyon was formed during Noah's Flood only 4,300 years ago. However, the geologic evidence used to support this theory is full of holes. They present no solid proof of their claim, and even contradict themselves within the book. For instance, the authors try to show that the distribution of the fossil record supports their claim that the Flood killed all the fossils in the rocks. However, even though they claim the Grand Canyon rocks (over a mile of rock layers) was deposited by the flood, there are no dinosaur fossils in the canyon. Dinosaur fossils are all stratigraphically above the canyon layers. Somehow, the dinosaurs survived the first mile of deposition of the flood rocks! Not only that, but they were walking around making footprints, breeding, pooping, and nesting new eggsites, all during the receeding phase of the flood! This is but one example of hundreds of errors by the authors. Before you buy, check out a more thorough review of this book at www.answersincreation.org/bookreview.htm.

I received the book Grand Canyon: Monumrnt to Catastrophy in a timely manner, and the book has the appearance of a new book.

I found the book to be well written, documented, and photographed. It's what they don't teach in schools. I would recommend for anyone, especially evolutionists.