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Final Thoughts
Before we examine the “grandest of canyons” in the greatest geological laboratory on earth, we should reflect on how the “Two Faulty ‘Principles’ ” described on page 172 produced centuries of confusion within the earth sciences. Without understanding the powerful events of the flood that produced global and massive liquefaction, one had to assume that the slow, relatively uniform events we see today operated throughout earth’s history (uniformitarianism). Without understanding that fossils were rapidly sorted by liquefaction during the flood, people had to assume that vast amounts of time were needed for a “magically produced” single cell to somehow develop into all plants and animals (evolutionism). Correcting these errors, now ingrained in the social fabric, will require a willingness to study, educate others, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.