Ummm, I doesn't read nuthin' 'bout no continents a raisin' nor seas a sinkin' nor winds a blowin' (could be I just missed it but...). Some read into scripture what isn't there; That until the flood there was no rain, however, is scriptural.
A hole in your theory, again at the Grand Canyon: As the waters drained away they would have eroded down along existing drainages, not necessarily carved new ones.
Re#50: There is nothing wrong with questioning the scriptures if the goal is understanding. God never commanded us to turn off our minds....In fact, quite the opposite.
Just for the record, I used to be more of a God-directed evolutionist. The more I have learned (and questioned), the more I have moved toward (if not into) the creationist's camp.
> until the flood there was no rain, however, is scriptural
And so... ummm... where'd the rivers come from?
> As the waters drained away they would have eroded down along existing drainages, not necessarily carved new ones.
And what drainages would those have been?
Think of it this way: imagine the straight scientific view of the formation of the Earth. At some point, the very frist rain would have fallen. Now, the rivers needed to start from *something*; there woudl ahve been no existing drainages, yet the rivers managed to pull themselves together along the paths of least resistance.