I was watching one of those nature shows on TV the other night. The topic was the Grand Canyon. The commentator stated that it took the slow moving river millions of years to wear away at the rocks and create the canyon as we see it today.

I thought “millions of years”. He must be from the old earth school.

Later in the program, they showed a 10 minute rain storm in the canyon. The commentator stated that a single 10 minute rain storm could age the canyon by a thousand years.

Now wait a minute, you can’t have it both ways. If you are telling me that a 10 minute rain storm can age the canyon by a thousand years, then I am not willing to believe that it took millions of years to create the canyon. While rain storms are not a common event out there, they do occur several times a year. And if you have a 10 minute rain storm once a year for the next 1000 years, the canyon would have aged a million years in only a thousand years.

And what other natural events could occur which would accelerate the aging of the canyon? Hail? Sand storms? Tornado’s? It seems to me that there are more variables to the aging of the canyon than just water flowing through it.

Do you think that the commentator actually understands his contradictions? Probably not. He is just another pretty face with a good voice.