How old is the earth?

According to this news story, a brand new canyon has recently been opened for the public to view. It is only 5 years old. Had eyewitnesses not been on hand to actually see it formed, one wonders what kind of date they would have given to its formation.

Having stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon and looked down upon the little (from the rim's perspective, that is) trickle known as the Colorado River, it defies the imagination that this one stream could have carved all of the mesas and gorges now known as the Grand Canyon. But uniformitarianism, the geological handmaiden of evolution, says that everything goes on today much like it has for millions and billions of years. The Bible teaches catastrophism. As Peter wrote,

In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this coming he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

In short, the world of "then" was destroyed in a flood of global proportion. And if a local flood in Texas could create this new canyon with an apparent old age, how much more conceivable is it that the great canyonlands of the American southwest were also the result of a "major flood event?"

In World History we learned that all ancient mythology contains the account of a worldwide flood in which only a few people were saved. As sophomores attend their seminar this week, perhaps they can also react here in this space.

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