The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT), February 21, 2001, Wednesday, Pg. A12
HEADLINE: Why is creationism hidden?
 
    If one were to travel the Colorado Plateau without preconceived ideas,
he would see everywhere evidence of a gigantic flood. He would see
watermarks on canyon walls thousands of feet apart. He would see where
plains have been washed out, leaving remnants now isolated buttes or mesas
such as at Monument Valley. The processes of erosion operating on those
buttes today are turning them into hills, not making more buttes.

    Fossils that are found were obviously buried in a flood. If not, they
would have rotted away and left no evidence of their existence. Rocks are
laid down in strata as if a giant wave had deposited mud that became
shale, sand that became sandstone, then a forest that became coal, etc. With
tidal action, these materials could have been deposited daily. At the end of the
flood, the water would rush off the land through the still soft sediments,
leaving the giant canyons and buttes.

    Elsewhere, this same thing can be seen. Most rivers are in channels
many times bigger than the present river occupies, yet at the same time
the rivers are flowing on top of hundreds of feet of sediment. The river can't
both carve out a channel and deposit sediment, but a giant flood could
wash out a canyon, leaving a slower, smaller river to deposit sediments.

    The same people who tell us there was no giant flood also tell us that
life came about by accident. A big explosion caused atoms, suns, galaxies
and DNA, cells, and people. They argue against faith and God, but how much
faith does it take to believe that the whole universe was once compressed
into an area the size of a pinhead and through a big bang became what we
see today?

    Every living cell is more complex than all that is going on in Salt
Lake Valley. All the water, electrical, sewer and gas systems, as well as
the roads, houses and activities of all the people going on at once is no
more complex than what goes on in a single cell of your body. Yet they
would have you believe that it all came together by chance or mutations
even though they know that mutations only produce harm.

    All living things today or in the fossil record are complex and fully
developed. There are no links or gradual changes between different types
of organisms. If we find a fossil tyrannosaurus, it's a tyrannosaurus. It's
not partway to becoming something else. If any change takes place within
an organism, it is within the parameters of that organism's original DNA.

    This introduction brings me to my point. Everywhere the doctrine of
evolution is taught without a word about creation or Noah's flood.
Libraries and bookstores [even at BYU] have many titles refuting
creationism but none propounding it. How is one to get both sides of the
issue? Many of us believe in a creation and a worldwide flood, but in
teaching science, we pretend it didn't happen. Wouldn't it be better to
believe the word of God rather than the doctrines of men?

    Dennis Dalley
    South Jordan