The issues of creation and the flood echo here, of course. The first
thing you notice is the uniformity of strata--they are different colors and
straight across, as if someone laid different floorings one on top of the
other. This visual evidence has been used by both sides of the flood debate.
The Whitcomb-Morris side sees it as evidence of massive, sudden "hydrodynamic"
activity. Mainstream geology sees it as a multi-million year process, with
seas alternatively covering then receding, with an eventual cut by the
Colorado River.
Well, this morning I was reading Psalms in The Living Bible, and ran
across 24:1,2: "The Earth belongs to God! Everything in all the world is his!
He is the one who pushed the oceans back to let dry land appear."
The NIV renders verse 2 as: "For he founded it upon the seas and
established it upon the waters." The KJV says, "For he hath founded it upon
the seas, and established it upon the floods."
This seems to comport with the mainstream geological view of, e.g.,
the Grand Canyon formation, does it not? And isn't that remarkable? The
Psalmist has described accurately what he could not have known scientifically.
That's called inspiration.
Recent criticisms notwithstanding, Henry Morris has performed a
service here by cataloguing other instances of similar, biblical prescience.
It would be nice if we could leave aside the acrimony for awhile and join in
worshipful agreement on this evidence of inspiration.
Jim