[vessel]

> Ichneumon once made a nice post highlighting the problems with interpreting the Grand Canyon layers as flood sediments. I like to borrow it, as it's perfect for times like this.

The critics of creationism on that post are very confused, an the proponents a bit as well, I must admit.

The Grand Canyon could have had the uplifts as described by old earth geologists, but as I assert, during a short period of global upheaval and after a global flood had recently made a massive deposit of sand. This deposit could have then been cut out by a subsequent local event on the scale of one of the Great Lakes Bursting through an earthen dam. Really just a post storm puddle in the new mountains, maybe not even a sustainable from local drainage. This could gouge out the sand stone very quickly and wash all of the sediment out onto the high sea, no delta. This fits. The absence of a delta does not fit with millenia of erosion.

[VadeRetro]

If you imagine that reply as adequate, you have not read carefully or ... something. Limestones, shales, and sandstones are all sedimentary rocks, but they are not formed the same way. The Grand Canyon sediments contain all of these in distinct layers, each of which looks like the remains of a particular unique ecosystem. Spider tracks would not be left to be fossilized in mud during an incredible global catastrophe reshaping the planet in the manner your model attempts to describe. That's just two.

I don't feel like dragging you through them all. I leave it as an exercise for the lurker to find all the points you pretend not to see.