How the Grand Canyon formed

A Different Perspective

[NILgravity]

Trying to teach my kid about erosion and this nonsense pops up

[barryfinkle]

"So you tell me. Am I a major idiot?"

[anthonyblackburn]

Lol! Typical creationist logic. "Well, it didn't flow up hill, must have been God". Because there's no WAY at one point the canyon could have been just a valley between two mountains.

[bongmanding]

I think I just lost 10 brain cells from watching this video.

[AlexGarcia-vgtr]

How does it flow uphill if the entry point is higher than the exit point ?

[TheBaldmeister]

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of utter crap!

(Apologies to Kipling).

[mar]

@JohnD24x7 Alright, since your the expert in geology why don't you explain to everyone just how the plateau was created.

[steponme]

HA HA HA!! I thought this was an animation demonstrating how the Grand Canyon was actually formed, not some evangelical creationist's view. Well that threw me for a minute. "Or was it Noah's Flood???" Me: "WTF?! I need more sleep."
Anyway, while I'm here: I know water's powerful, but a simple flood is not going to dramatically slice right through the igneous intrusive and metamorphic layers of the inner gorge in the canyon. I don't understand this logic presented in the video...

[swordhunter]

If the flood formed the grand canyon then why is it in the shape of a river rather than a seabed? Also if the great flood could have done this shouldn't we see more canyons like this?

[GoodToGlow]

OMG!... that's funny... ya, well sorry sir, but the verdict is back and science won!

[meangreen]

That was unenlightening. State one improbable theory and don't bother to explain how Noah's flood would have carved it out in the manner that it did.

[Knightyme]

My observations:

0:14
The canyon on the right is virtually a horseshoe. A great flood of the type proposed would carve a near straight channel in whichever direction it was flowing. The overall pattern is one of a meandering river, even on the left of the picture.

0:17 and from 0:32
Notice how the river goes around the mound / plateau. So the water was never going over, it was going around, in a pattern that would indicate a long process of erosion, taking the path of least resistance.

[CharlesMcClure]

If Hovind can't even correctly identify the entry and exit points of the Colorado River, why should we listen to anything else he has to say?

[nataly]

All I want to know is how it was formed it's the middle of the night and my report is due geez gunna die here

[darkwarrior]

no you tell me did the colorado river start above, or below the height of the top here let me repeat the TOP of the grand canyon, in mountains at least 12000 here TWELVE THOUSAND FEET above sea level? kind of useful to include how high the river actually starts. yeah nice try bud.

[GutiFrags]

Or, we can accept that it was formed from pyroclastic flow during a catastrophic event.

[Darwinsman]

The colorado plateau has been rising for thousands of years. That's just basic geology, and as it has risen, the river has cut down into it, so that over time, the walls are now higher than the start and finish. Perfectly natural and similar to other places all over the world. Question answered.

[LettersFromTheSky]

Part of me hopes this is a joke/parody yet I know that there are stupid people that would believe this shit. This guy should just stick to his bible and leave the science to the scientist. 

[michaelkindt]

@0:20-.-“Some scientists”. A.k.a. The vast majority of the scientific geology community.


@0:41-.->Implying there was always a hill/mountain in that location.
>Implying The hill/mountain part didn’t go up as the river eroded it down.
>Ignoring how the river is clearly going around the hill/mountain area.

@0:47-.-How the heck would that even work‽‽‽

[pyrobryan]

Yea, forget the fact that we see the very mechanics of erosion shaping riverbeds, including the grand canyon, all over the world to this very day.

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