Reflections from a Week Deep in the Grand Canyon
Last week I spent seven days river rafting through 190 miles of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon compares in my mind to the Louvre in Paris or to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. They are so big you cannot grasp them in just a few days. Of course the Grand Canyon is WAY bigger than the Louvre or the Smithsonian, but you know what I mean. Last summer when I was standing on the north rim and looking out over the 18 mile gap between the north and south rim I said to myself, "There is no way this Canyon was formed by one river over millions of years." In fact, the whole gradualism, particle-by-particle erosion theories seem very contrived to me. What seems more obvious is that the Canyon was formed by a massive cataclysmic event sometime in the past. My week deep inside the canyon gave me about 100 reasons to see and believe that with deep conviction. We had not been on the river more than five minutes when we stopped and hiked up the o