The YECists lie about there being unbroken bent rock strata!
I was going to post the infamous photo which proves that statement but I can no longer find it online. Did AiG etired of being called on the lie? If anyone is able to post it I would appreciate it.
On the text, specifically on the meanings of the words. What Genesis is saying is that God cracked open those small passages so water from the great deep would surge up onto the land.
(Maybe I’m having a bad-google day; I can’t find the Jewish translation that sticks to the original meaning that has been linked here before.)
I don’t have a full explanation; someone else may know a link to a good one. I do have a pair of observations that make the comparison totally invalid:
- the geometry of the two features are very different
- the formation at St. Helens is formed of volcanic debris, whereas there is very little volcanic-source material at the Grand Canyon.
These two, which are obvious to an educated observer, make any comparison between the so-called “mini Grand Canyon” and the actual one useless.
The blog entry here is helpful:
Oh – one other point: geologists have realized that the Grand Canyon started out as several separate canyons that got linked, not as a single feature – read here:
Though the article would have been more useful if it had included a map!