Florida’s Geology Through the Lens of Noah’s Flood
Nate Loper - June 5, 2026 Florida is not a simple one-event landscape. It is more like a layered story. Being in Florida right now sharing about Canyon Ministries at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting has me thinking about geology in a different way than I usually do. Out West, geology is obvious. You stand on the rim of the Grand Canyon and the rocks are right there in front of you, stacked in massive layers like a giant open book. In the West, you see cliffs, canyons, faults, folds, desert
The Appalachians and the Global Flood
Nate Loper - February 10, 2026 To understand the Appalachians properly, we have to step back far enough to see not just a mountain range, but a world that was once unified, later broken apart, and reshaped by catastrophic events. A World That Was Once Whole There are landscapes that feel settled, as though their story is complete the moment you arrive. The Appalachian Mountains are not like that. They stretch on quietly, ridge after ridge, forested and familiar, until the repetition itself begins to ask questions. Why do these
Petrified Forest: Beauty, Mystery, and Catastrophic History
Luke Wayne - March 07, 2025 The splendor and importance of this fossilized arbor is hard to overstate. But how did it get here? Arizona's Ultimate Rock Garden: The Petrified Forest Roughly two hours down I-40 East from Flagstaff, or about fifty miles before you reach the New Mexico border, you’ll find one of Northern Arizona’s true gems—the beautiful mystery of Petrified Forest National Park. In 1906, when the passing of the Antiquities Act first gave U.S. Presidents the power to create National Monuments, Petrified Forest became one of Arizona’s
Human Fossils from the Flood?
The very absence of human fossils serves as a powerful reminder of God's declared purpose to "blot out man from the face of the earth" while preserving clear evidence of His judgment through the billions of marine fossils entombed in the rock layers. The Missing Humans: Understanding the Fossil Record Through a Biblical Lens When examining the rock layers of the Grand Canyon and other geological formations worldwide, a common question arises: "Why don't we find human fossils in the rock layers laid down by the Flood?" The answer reveals
Bryce Canyon National Park
Adam Huff - April 13, 2023 All these factors combined to form Bryce’s remarkable features very quickly in the early post-flood years. One hundred miles north of Grand Canyon lies a typical southern Utah plateau. Peculiarly named the Paunsaugunt, this relatively narrow strip of land juts out above the valley below. Exposed on its sides are beautiful pink cliffs of rock known as the Claron Formation, which have been carved into the world’s largest collection of hoodoos. Numbering in the thousands, these strangely shaped vertical columns of rock extend
Horseshoe Bend, Arizona – A Gem of the Colorado River
Horseshoe Bend is a spectacular place to visit near the Grand Canyon. Though technically (and often mistakably attributed) it is not part of the Grand Canyon National Park, which begins a few miles downstream at Lees Ferry. Nor is it Marble Canyon quite yet. Horseshoe Bend is in Glen Canyon, and sits about halfway between the Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry. In September of 2022, we took 50 people on an amazing 4-day tour of multiple parks in celebration of the 25 years Canyon Ministries has been leading
The Rest Of The Story
Over the past 24 years of exploring and sharing the Grand Canyon, we have gotten to know it pretty well. Adventure awaits around every corner, and we love seeing the faces of our guests light up as we take them into its many hidden treasures. Of course, marveling over the beauty of this place is only part of our objective. We want to see everyone marvel over our Creator as we examine the powerful evidence of a global Flood as described in the Bible. What we see in
The Genesis Flood and the Grand Canyon – John Whitcomb
The Genesis Flood and the Grand Canyon By Dr. John C. Whitcomb Norma and I will never forget rafting almost 100 miles down the lower Colorado River on a Canyon Ministries trip in early September, 2006, with twenty-eight friends under the leadership of Tom Vail. We were absolutely amazed at the sight of thousands of feet of enormous superimposed layers (strata) of rock, filled with billions of fossilized and marvelously preserved marine life! I was raised in a home where biblical creationism was never taught. At Princeton University, I took two
Past Preserved in Stone
"The Wave" in Northern Arizona I recently had the enormous privilege of visiting the "Wave" in Northern Arizona. No doubt many of you have seen the flood of images I have shared in various social media forms. In spite of all that, I couldn't help but share it at least one more time. Please visit https://youtu.be/OjEiO6D5mzQ?list=UUDVjTUg7S-yh9JQakFcbRsA to watch a video of me walking through the this incredible sandstone formation. The patterns left behind in the Navajo Sandstone are water currents preserved in time. The swirling lines of stone indicate tremendously powerful hydraulics and
Preserved
Crinoid The foundation rock of our earth (granitic in nature) floats on the mantle beneath it and is covered in layers of sedimentary rocks (sandstones, limestones, shales, etc.). These sedimentary layers range in thickness. For example, the layers exposed in Grand Canyon are over a mile thick while the sedimentary layers of Minnesota have been scraped clean (pushed predominantly to the south and west by the glaciers of the post flood ice age) exposing the foundation rock below. In many wet and humid climates, these layers of sedimentary rocks