It’s early morning on Monday 18th
January, 1836, and here comes a 26 year old British 'backpacker' from the Blackheath Inn, going for
a stroll to check out Govett’s Leap cascading into the Grose Valley in the Blue
Mountains west of Sydney. Charles R. Darwin has recently completed his studies in
theology at Cambridge University and has been enjoying the trip of a lifetime aboard
HMS Beagle as a friend of the captain. He stands at a lookout 997 metres above
sea level, in fact 92 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean, and imagines that this
valley was formed “by the undulations of an open sea…and slow elevation of the
land…narrow gorges were cut by the retreating sea….”
Slow
elevation? - or not so slow?...
Maybe it happened quicker than you think, Charlie!
That waterfall is a Scottish ‘leap’ and this
backpacker’s leap of imagination is so descriptive of the Great Flood is it any
wonder today’s geologists ignore it.
We can't have Science admitting there was once a global flood!
