GRAND CANYON NOT FORMED
BY LONG-TERM WATER EROSION
How awesome! It just kept dropping below me… down… down… down.
I drank in the majesty of the canyon.
“Grand Canyon”… so well named!
My friend Thomas stood beside me. He broke the silence.
“Did you know that this Grand Canyon most likely started as a
crack in the earth?”
“Oh come on, Tom, the Colorado River did it. Everybody knows
that.”
Tom shook his head. “There is reason to believe that the canyon
was originally cut by an electrical discharge from a passing
heavenly body.”
“You mean, by a huge lightning bolt?”
“That’s right,” said Tom. “Those cracks perpendicular to the
canyon resulted from an electrical arc. They are not
water-caused rills.” And he added, “I believe it happened
during the latter part of the Great Flood.”
Tom was a well respected scientist.
But I still had to ask him: “Are you serious?”
“Definitely,’ he responded.
WHY NOT WATER EROSION
OVER LONG AGES?
“Of course,” he admitted, “I realise that most people assume
the Colorado River formed the Grand Canyon.”
And it is also assumed that this took millions of years.
After all, isn’t the canyon in parts up to a mile deep? Water
erosion would take ages… well, wouldn’t it?
Not necessarily. Because if there really was a global flood
disaster, on the scale implied by the evidence now coming to
light, it could be an enormous, rapid event.
Just imagine it… continents and seas churned up together.
Water-laid sediment tens of thousands of feet deep, stratified
during 12 months by water movements on an unimaginable scale.
Then, finally the violent run-off into the tectonically enlarged
ocean basins.
Volumes of water, laden with rocks, gravel and debris, running
over newly-deposited, still unconsolidated soft ground, could
easily scoop out a Grand Canyon in a short time.
Yes, it’s possible.
But, as Tom pointed out, this Grand Canyon was not scooped out
that way. The perpendicular cracks give us the clue.
PROBLEMS WITH THE POPULAR THEORY
Tom stared at me, grinning.
“Okay”, I said. “There’s something else you know… right?
Spit it out.”
Tom beamed. “Were you aware that the Grand Canyon humps in the
middle, and that it stretches HIGHER than the upstream Colorado
River?”
“No,” I confessed. “You mean…”
“Yes, to start cutting the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River
would need to flow uphill! Do you see?
“Also, there is very little downstream detritus… which gives no
support for the erosion theory.
“No – the Colorado River did NOT cut the Grand Canyon.”
I had to investigate this further.
Back home, I began researching. And discovered something else.
It almost blew me away!
Did you know this? In reality, the Grand Canyon seems to be part
of a crack in the earth’s crust. It starts in Mexico and runs
underground all the way up to Yellowstone Park.
It seems likely that the retreating Flood waters did pour down
into the crack from all directions in great abundance.
And then erosion did take place – but it was rapid erosion.
CANYON WATER LEVEL
MUCH HIGHER IN 2000 BC?
Are you ready for another bombshell?
Could the river now flowing through this crack have been - as
recently as 4,000 years ago - at a much higher level?
Now that’s a staggering thought!
You may already be familiar with the newspaper report that
follows, but most people are not. So I shall repeat this news
item to you now, then follow up with my bombshell.
On the front page of The Phoenix Gazette, on April 5, 1909,
there appeared a most intriguing news report.
G.A. Kinkaid, an explorer working with Professor S.A. Jordan of
the Smithsonian Institution, allegedly discovered a network of
caverns, artificially hewn into the side of the Grand Canyon.
His report began as follows:
“First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible.
The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall…. I was
journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for
mineral.
“Some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal
canyon, I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary
formation about 2,000 feet above the river bed.
“There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with
great difficulty. Above a shelf which hid it from view from the
river, was the mouth of the cave.
“There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to
what was, at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the
river.
“When I saw the chisel marks on the wall inside the entrance, I
became interested.” (Nexus, April-May 1993, pp. 36-39)
Following several hundred feet of passage, the explorer found
himself in a network of passages and hundreds of rooms radiating
from a central point like spokes in a wheel.
The relics seen (some of which he photographed by flashlight) were
astonishing. There were mummies, images and artefacts of a high
technology. And an unknown grey metal resembling platinum.
Everywhere he looked, hieroglyphics were to be seen.
Does that awaken your appetite?
But here is the bombshell that blows to pieces our ideas on how
long it took the canyon to form.
The point is that this archaeological site is some 2,000 feet
above the present river bed. And it has steps leading a short
distance to the former river level.
Do you see? This would mean that the water in the river was about
2,000 feet higher only a few thousand years ago.
If this is true, then the water level cut through the soft strata
2,000 feet lower in just a few thousand years since those first
explorers were here.
That erosion would have been rapid at first – the bulk of the
cutting being done in just the first few years, while the
sediments of the plain were still soft.
Of course, the entire story could be an elaborate newspaper hoax.
However, the fact that it was on the front page, named the
prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and gave a highly detailed
story that went on for several pages, lends a great deal to its
credibility. It is hard to believe such a story could have come
out of thin air.
POSSIBLE CONFIRMATION
More recently, two backpackers who entered the Grand Canyon
claimed that at an elevation of some 800 feet, they saw several
cave entrances, just as reported in the newspaper article.
But the entrances all seemed to be sealed shut or destroyed, as
if to keep everyone out. (This raises the question, Why would
anyone want to deliberately seal off caves in such a remote area,
so difficult of access?)
Being expert rock climbers, the two men climbed toward the most
promising looking cave entrance.
Upon reaching the entrance they discovered that, several feet
in, it had likewise been sealed off with native rock. The
entrance itself appeared to be man made. A 6 foot circular
pattern was clearly hewn into the ceiling.
The question arises, if the newspaper article was a mere hoax,
then what did these more recent backpackers stumble upon? And
why were the entrances to such extremely remote caves sealed?
And something else. The backpacker’s discovery was made at least
40 miles from the location given in the newspaper article. So,
if the newspaper report was not a hoax, and the backpackers had
found the real location, could the newspaper location have been
misinformation to keep people away?
But the point of my mentioning the story, is this.
If the report is genuine, then those early post-Flood,
Egyptian-style visitors were in a canyon whose water run-off
was still copious, the Flood-laid sediments still relatively
soft.
And in the few millennia since that time, the river has dropped
anything up to 2,000 feet lower. Or 800 feet lower. It doesn’t
matter how much. It has not taken millions of years.
I notice that most inhabited areas of the planet are reported to
be drier than they were even a century ago. Water shortages will
feature in coming media news broadcasts.
There is more to our future water shortages than meets the eye.
For one thing, the slow drying out of the continents has been a
feature of our planet ever since the Great Flood… at first,
trapped Flood “puddles” left as inland seas and lakes on every
continent, then their retreat, and the consequent drying out.
This has impacted on the fates of cities and civilizations, both
in desertification and sea level rise. What is in store for our
civilization in the near future? What do you think?
