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Evidences for a Young Earth and a Young Canyon

 

The Grand Canyon is often used as "Exhibit A" for the evidence supporting the global Flood and a young earth. The following list of resources are made available to provide you with some of the details of that evidence. 

Summaries:
    •    A model for the formation of the Grand Canyon from the New Answers Book 3 in a downloadable PDF titled When and How did the Grand
         Canyon Form.   
    •    The eight most often used evidences found in the Grand Canyon are summarized in a downloadable PDF titled 8 Grand Canyon Evidences.

Evidences for the Flood:
    •    Geologic Evidences for the Genesis Flood, Part I: An Overview
    •    High & Dry Sea Creatures, Flood Evidence Number One
    •    The World’s a Graveyard, Flood Evidence Number Two
    •    Transcontinental Rock Layers, Flood Evidence Number Three
    •    Sand Transported Cross Country, Flood Evidence Number Four
    •    No Slow and Gradual Erosion, Flood Evidence Number Five
    •    Rock Layers Folded, Not Fractured, Flood Evidence Number Six

Fossils and the timescale:
    •    Order in the Fossil Record
    •    Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages?
    •    Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages?
    •    “In-Place” Fossils by Chance
    •    The Origin of Oil—A Creationist Answer

Triggering the Flood and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics:
    •    Did Meteors Trigger Noah’s Flood?
    •    A Catastrophic Breakup, A Scientific Look at Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
    •    Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology?

Flood, Post-Flood, and Ice Age:
    •    Continuing Catastrophes
    •    Where Does the Ice Age Fit?
    •    The Mystery of the Ice Age
    •    Only One Ice Age
    •    How Did Animals Spread All Over the World from Where the Ark Landed?
    •    Determining the Ark Kinds

Creation Week building of the basement rocks:
    •    Thirty Miles of Dirt in a Day
    •    How Old Does the Earth Look?
    •    Aren’t Millions of Years Required for Geological Processes?

Radiometric (Radioactive) Dating:
    •    Radiometric Dating: Back to Basics
    •    Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions
    •    Radiometric Dating: Making Sense of the Patterns
    •    The Fallacies of Radioactive Dating of Rocks, Basalt Lava Flows in Grand Canyon

Radiocarbon/Carbon-14 Dating:
    •    Carbon-14 Dating—Understanding the Basics
    •    Carbon-14 in Fossils and Diamonds, An Evolution Dilemma
    •    A Creationist Puzzle, 50,000-Year-Old-Fossils

 Starlight and Time:
    •    Anisotropic Synchrony Convention—A Solution to the Distant Starlight Problem
    •    Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old?
    •    Distant Starlight and Genesis: Conventions of Time Measurement
    •    Have Cosmologists Discovered Evidence of Inflation?
    •    Beyond Distant Starlight: Next Steps For Creationist Cosmology
    •    Mars, a Testament to Catastrophe

 Anthropology
    •    The Pigs Took It All

 Theology/exegesis
    •    Systematic Theology Texts and the Age of the Earth
    •    Philosophical Naturalism and the Age of the Earth: Are They Related?
    •    Christian Theodicy in Light of Genesis and Modern Science: A Young-Earth Creationist Response to William Dembski
    •    Why Don’t Many Christian Leaders and Scholars Believe Genesis?
    •    What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?

 Biology
    •    Antibiotic Resistance of Bacteria: An Example of Evolution in Action?<
    •    Life: Designed by God to Adapt
    •    Rapid Speciation (Video)
    •    How Did Animals Spread All Over the World from Where the Ark Landed?
    •    “Evolution” of Finch Beaks—Again
    •    Evolution or Adaptation?
    •    Creation’s Hidden Potential
    •    What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
    •    How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?