It is amazing to me how the terms "liberal" and "conservative" are so abused. They are both considered broad ideological brushes and are really practically worthless, except to fan flames. I consider myself a fairly conservative Christian. I come up against the 6000 year crowd and can only shake my head. They think Bishop Usser had devine inspiration when he came up with a date something like April 20th 4002 BC for the creation of the Earth, based mainly on the genealogical information in the Bible.

No where in the Bible is there a claim for a start time nor is there a chapter titled "How I Did It, by God!" The 6000 year old crowd feels the need to help God out of His chronological predicament. They ignore the scriptural caveat "one day (of God's) is as a 1000 years and 1000 years is as a day". They insist on limiting God by their own finite and faulty factulties of reason. To deny the obvious geological and fossil record is the same as accusing God of being deceitful!

More to the point, the last time I was at the canyon the ranger explained that plate tectonics have been lifting what was once a vast shallow inland sea in middle northern America for about 20 million years and that the Colorado and Little Colorado and tributaries have been eroding the ancient ocean bed for about that long. Exposed sedimentary rock goes below the fossil record in some places and said rock is about 2 billion years old.

No photograph or painting can do justice to the Canyon. Being there and experiencing it in person is the only way to appreciate it for what it is. It IS awe inspiring. If you ever get the chance, go and see it.