And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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NOAH JUSTICE: Our
first stop on today's tour
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is at the grandest of
canyons, the Grand Canyon.
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Secular scientists say it was
formed over millions of years,
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but now some scientists
are changing their view.
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The facts only fit what
we learn using real science.
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It's not
millions, but just days.
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Then we travel up
river to Glen Canyon Dam
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to learn about cavitation,
a process where high velocity,
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high pressure water
can erode through concrete
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and hard rock in seconds.
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All this and more
next on "Awesome Science."
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"Awesome Science"
takes you on a field trip
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to some of the most amazing,
geologic, and historical sites
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around the world, where we
use the Bible as our history
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guidebook to
interpret what we see,
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that the Bible can be trusted
and empirical science falls
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in line with the
biblical account of creation,
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the fall, and the flood.
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Science-- it's awesome.
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The Western
United States has some
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of the most
amazing scenic wonders
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of the world-- Yellowstone,
Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon.
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The Grand Canyon is found in
the northern part of Arizona.
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It has a depth
of more than a mile
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and is as wide as 18 miles.
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It can be seen from the moon.
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It is truly an awesome sight.
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The amazing
Colorado River has its start
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on the western slopes
of the Rocky Mountains
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and runs 1,450
miles to the ocean.
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It travels 277
miles through the canyon.
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Eventually, it empties into
the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.
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Native Americans
first dwelled here.
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But in 1540,
explorers with Coronado
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were the first known
Europeans to see the canyon.
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Finally, in 1869,
John Wesley Powell
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led the first
expedition in boats
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down the Grand
Canyon in just three months.
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The most fascinating
part about the canyon
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is how we can see thousands of
feet of sedimentary layers laid
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down during the flood.
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The Colorado River also flows
through the basement granites
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and schists.
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This is fascinating to
the scientific community
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because it's one of
the few places on earth
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that you can study
what happened in the past
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on such a grand scale.
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When you walk through the park,
signs are up all over the place
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saying that the canyon was
formed over millions of years.
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Why?
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Because secular
scientists believe
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that slow geologic
processes and evolution occurred
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over millions of years.
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Evolution and
millions of years are
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a part of the
religion of secular humanism
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in the same way
creation and thousands of years
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are part of
biblical Christianity.
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Evolutionary geology
says that the present
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is the key to the past.
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In other words, the
processes we see today
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are what formed the past
over long periods of time.
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By doing this,
they're saying that there
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were no
catastrophes in the past,
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like the flood of Noah's day.
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Here at the
Grand Canyon, they say
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the small Colorado River
formed this huge canyon, given
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enough time.
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Catastrophe, which
means a lot of change
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over a little period of time.
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Think Genesis' flood--
for secular scientists,
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those things just don't
happen on such a grand scale.
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In the evolutionary world view,
everything developed by chance
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over billions of years, and
creation by God is just a myth.
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But some scientists,
even though grudgingly
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are having to reinterpret their
thinking because they realize
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that a proper
interpretation of the evidence
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just doesn't match up
with millions of years.
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There are
suspicions that the Colorado
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River couldn't have formed
the Grand Canyon all by itself.
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For instance,
where the river started
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is lower than
what it went through.
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Can a river go uphill?
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I don't think so.
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The Colorado River has its
start in Rocky Mountain National
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Park at over 10,000 feet.
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Then it winds its
way down through Utah
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and empties into Lake
Powell at around 3,700 feet.
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After leaving Lake
Powell, it meanders
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through the Painted Desert.
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A very large
plateau rises 7,800 feet
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to the west of the
Painted Desert called the Kaibab
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Plateau.
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This is where the
Grand Canyon goes through.
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So how does a river rise
4,000 feet to cut a canyon?
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It doesn't.
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A river cannot run uphill.
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Nothing in
modern day observations
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can reasonably explain how
a river could have done this.
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The Colorado River should
have gone a different direction.
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Some theorize that the plateau
rose while the canyon was
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being formed.
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But there is no evidence
for this to be the case.
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In fact, most scientists
believe that the plateau
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rose before the canyon was cut.
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Some other mechanism was
at work to carve this canyon.
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Then, there's the
problem of water flow.
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When you take the volume
of water of the Colorado,
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even in flood
stage, there is no way
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a river this small, compared
to the size of the canyon,
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could have eroded
away this much material
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over any period of time.
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We don't see it today.
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It's wishful thinking.
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And finally,
because of gravity, a river
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always erodes downwards.
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Floods do come and
change the direction of a river.
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But a river 18 miles wide
with the current water volumes
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would be so shallow
it would have very little
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erosional power at all.
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Some major event
would need to have
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happened to carve this canyon.
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The Bible tells us that
around 4,500 years ago God
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was grieved that He had made man
because of these three things--
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he was bent toward
violence, evil intent,
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and was wicked at heart.
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Genesis 6, verses
5 through 7, tell us,
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"then the Lord saw
that the wickedness of man
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was great in the
earth, and that every intent
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of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
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And the Lord was sorry that
He had made man on the earth,
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and He was grieved in His heart.
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So the Lord said,
I will destroy man,
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whom I have created from
the face of the earth, both man
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and beast, creeping
thing and birds of the air,
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for I am sorry
that I have made them."
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God was going to judge the
world and send a global flood
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to destroy mankind, except
for one man and his family.
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The Bible tells us that
Noah found favor with God
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because he was a righteous man.
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He told Noah to
build an ark and fill it
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with two of every land-dwelling,
air-breathing animal, including
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the dinosaurs, and seven of
every bird and clean animal.
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Once on the ark, the
flood came seven days later,
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and with a vengeance.
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The fountains of
the great deep burst
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forth, which included
water and volcanic activity.
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It rained for
40 days and nights.
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The ark rose
above on the waters.
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And the flood waters
were sustained for 150 days.
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Water rose at least 20
feet above the highest mountains
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during the flood.
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At the end of
those days, the waters
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began to recede, which
took about five months, then
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another two
months of drying time.
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The earth went
through a catastrophe
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like it had never seen before.
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All life was
destroyed beneath those waters.
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While the water
covered the entire earth,
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continents moved
under the oceans.
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Giant water currents carried
silt and mud across the globe.
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Billions of creatures
beneath the waters perished.
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They were rapidly buried
by sediment and fossilized.
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As the catastrophe
began to wind down,
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the moving continents came
to a stop, buckling rock layers
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and pushing up mountains
thousands of feet high in just
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days.
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Water that ran
off the continents
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caused huge sheet erosion,
pulling silt and soft soil
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into the oceans.
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The volume became less and
began to channelize, forming
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canyons and some valleys.
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The water became trapped in the
valleys between the mountains,
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forming gigantic inland lakes.
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The post-flood
earth was drastically
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different from before the flood.
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Mankind, except for Noah
and his family, were wiped out.
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It was God's judgment upon
the earth for sin and rebellion.
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The key to helping us understand
how this canyon was carved
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may be in the
canyon walls itself
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and in the basement
rocks at the bottom.
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There are up to 40
major sedimentary layers
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in the Grand Canyon area.
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Sedimentary
layers are rock layers,
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formed by water laying
down silt, mud, and sand.
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They were soft at one
time, like the muck left over
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after a local flood.
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Once the water
departed, the sediments
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hardened into rock layers,
though some lower layers surely
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began forming into
rock prior to being
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dry due from the
pressure above them.
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Below the sedimentary
layers of the Grand Canyon
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are the basement rocks
of granite and schists.
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The basement rocks are
not sedimentary, but mainly
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volcanic and metamorphic.
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They were there
before the sedimentary layers
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were laid down.
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What's most
interesting about the basement
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rocks is that they don't contain
any megascopic marine fossils,
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meaning that they were
not formed during the flood
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but were a part of
the original creation,
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around 1,600 years earlier.
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Signs of the Grand
Canyon will tell you
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that the sedimentary
layers were laid down
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over millions of years on
the basement rocks by oceans.
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Oceans would come in,
then recede, leaving layers
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and repeat the same
process at least seven times,
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one on top of each
other, over and over.
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But this raises problems
because ocean floors are not
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places know known to form
fossils because of scavengers
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and decomposition.
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And the Grand Canyon
layers do you have fossils.
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Since oceans cannot
rise 4,000 to 7,800 feet,
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secular scientists say that this
ground was originally lower,
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then pushed up after the
oceans left the deposits.
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As creationists, we do
agree in one sense with secular
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scientists-- the earth's
crust has risen and fallen,
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but we believe this all happened
during the flood and especially
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during the recessional
stage, as mountains rose
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and the valleys sank.
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The difference is in
our belief about the timing.
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It's not millions of years,
but just months and weeks.
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That is a very
important distinction.
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Even if this
rising of the dry layers
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happened over millions of years,
as secular scientists believe
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occurred
repeatedly, the layers would
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be full of huge
cracks and many fractures.
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But we don't see that.
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We do see some bent layers,
but not large scale fracturing
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or snapping,
indicating the layers were moved
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and Bent while still wet
prior to being fully hardened
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into rock.
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So the whole
sequence of layers had
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to be deposited
rapidly then bent
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immediately before
hardening occurred.
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During the
recession stage of the flood,
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many areas of
the earth's surface
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were going through
great uplifting or sinking,
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causing some of this
bending of the soft layers.
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Many mountains were
formed, for example,
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by day 150 of the flood.
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content. Another challenge--
some sedimentary layers,
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especially near the
bottom of the canyon, have
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many large embedded
boulders in them, some of which
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are 15 feet in diameter.
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This would mean that there had
been fast moving water carrying
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these large stones along.
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The Shinarump Conglomerate
covers 100,000 square miles
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and is full of
pebbles, so the water
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which formed these layers
was likely moving extremely
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fast over a wide
area in order to round
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so many pebbles by erosion.
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The sedimentary layers
were laid down quickly,
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one on top of the other.
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Many Grand Canyon
sandstones contain cross beds.
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Cross beds are
sedimentary layers
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which are laid down as
tilted or inclined layers
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during their
deposition and are usually
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caused by water or wind.
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This widespread
geologic feature is often
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seen in ripples, dunes,
and anti-dunes, sand waves,
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sandbars, and delta slopes.
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Some of these sandstone
layers at the Grand Canyon
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are thought by
secular scientists
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to have been formed by wind in
arid deserts with blowing sand.
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But we know from
scientific testing
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that a wind-blown sand
dune's front face can reach
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an angle of 33 to 34 degrees.
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None of the cross beds in
the Grand Canyon sandstones
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are at a steep angle
produced by desert dunes.
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But underwater sand waves
have front faces with angles
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less than 30 degrees.
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This is exactly what we
find at the Grand Canyon.
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This sandstone layer
was created underwater.
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At the bottom of
the Canyon is an area
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called the Great Unconformity.
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The layers below the
horizontal sedimentary layers
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are tilted, as though a
great upheaval happened.
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Then these layers were
eroded all flat with little time
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to be subject to further erosion
of valleys or other features.
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The mud, silt, and sand
were then quickly laid on top.
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At the
beginning of the flood, we
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can infer that the earth
experienced huge upheavals.
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The fountains of
the great deep burst
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forth, the land shifted,
and entire continents moved.
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This was not a local event.
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The sedimentary layers
of the Tapeats Sandstone
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and the Redwall
Limestone stretch
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across the continents
of North America, Europe,
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and parts of Asia.
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Grains of Navajo
sandstone in the Grand Staircase
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can be traced to
Oklahoma in some sand grains
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as far as the
northern Appalachians.
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Secular scientists say that an
ancient river carried the sand
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grains 1,800 miles.
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But there is no
evidence for this.
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So it's just speculation.
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A global flood could
have carried it west.
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Current direction
indicators in many strata layers
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have been interpreted to
show the waters were moving
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from the northeast directly
from the northeastern part
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of America.
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The Bible best
explains so many of the geologic
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features we
find around the world
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today, including the
vast sandstone layers.
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Science-- it's awesome.
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Around day 150 of the
flood, the continental shifting
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was slowing down, the springs
of the great deep were stopped.
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The windows of
heaven were restrained,
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mountains had been formed,
implying continental plates
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had collided and water
was steadily decreasing.
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Scripture
implies that this was all
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going on under the
surface of the water.
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As the mountains rose, the great
continental collisions slowed.
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Giant land masses rose and
sank, causing the flood waters
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to recede off the continents
and into the ocean basins.
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When water recedes,
it first goes in sheets,
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then it
channelizes, eroding canyons.
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With the huge amount of
water associated with the flood,
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this erosion was massive,
across entire continents.
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Because plateaus
and mountains were
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formed during the
stages of the flood,
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large inland bodies
of water were trapped.
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It is now believed
that two large lakes
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formed behind the
uplifted Kaibab Plateau.
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Evidence has been left
behind of two main lakes holding
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an estimated 3,000 cubic
miles of water, three times that
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of Lake Michigan.
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In addition to the
lakes, there's strong evidence
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that we interpret as
harsh weather conditions
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right after the flood.
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Most creationists believe that
there was a post-flood ice age.
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To aid this, there may have
been super-sized hurricanes that
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roamed the earth as weather
patterns were stabilizing,
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causing massive flooding and
produced enough precipitation
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from the warmer climate
in the early post-flood world
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to create the polar ice
sheets in a few hundred years.
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This rainfall in
the warmer regions
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would build these
lakes to overflowing.
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Secular scientists
say that these tiny rivers
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carved these huge canyons over
millions and millions of years.
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That just doesn't work.
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Since the plateau blocking
the lakes had limestone in it,
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and water leaches
through limestone,
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the integrity of the plateau
began to weaken, probably
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over several years.
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The limestone could have also
still been saturated from right
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after the flood,
making it even more
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susceptible to quick erosion.
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At some point, the
integrity of the Kaibab Plateau
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gave way and the Grand
Canyon began to be cut.
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When most dams break, once
the first waters were through,
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all of the water behind it
pushed forward, causing even
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a greater amount of erosion.
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Hopi Lake broke through
first, then Canyonlands Lake.
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In just a few days, over
a 1,000 cubic miles of earth
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were eroded away.
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Since this massive erosion
was not long after the flood,
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many of the layers
in the Grand Canyon
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were still saturated
and comparatively soft.
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So erosion could
have been very quick.
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Lakes can be formed by uplifting
tectonics, volcanic activity,
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earthquakes, receding
glaciers, and even landslides
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like this one behind me.
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Some time ago, an
earthquake occurred,
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resulting in a
landslide that took out
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half this mountainside,
blocking up the valley below.
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The creek and the
valley was blocked
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by the landslide,
allowing, over time, a mountain
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lake to develop.
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If the natural earthen dam
holding back that mountain lake
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were to break, it would
flood this entire valley.
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But that's only a
little mountain lake.
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Think of the water used
to carve the Grand Canyon
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and all it did.
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Empirical
scientific methodology means
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you should be able to
observe something and repeat it,
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over and over again.
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Even though the formation
of the Grand Canyon was not
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observable, and
we cannot repeat it,
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we've seen other canyons
on a smaller scale form before
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our eyes.
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This is what we
find at Mount St. Helens
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in southern Washington state
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Mount St. Helens
was a dormant volcano.
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And in May, it
had a major eruption,
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blowing out the
north side of the mountain
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and creating a blast
zone unlike anything ever seen
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in recent history.
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Through a giant
landslide and many eruptions,
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several hundred feet
of pulverized rock and ash
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were deposited.
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It became a wasteland.
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After the main eruption
in 1980, Mount St. Helens
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went quiet for about two years.
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During this time, snow
built up within the crater.
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The crater rim is like a
large earthen dam that held back
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snow and water for two years.
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Then, in 1982, the
mountain became alive again.
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Melting the snow
and ice, the water
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quickly eroded
through the soft volcanic soil
00:22:50.77\00:22:53.44
and came cascading
across the blast zone.
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It quickly created canyons
in the volcanic rock and ash
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layers.
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Even though the Grand
Canyon has sedimentary layers,
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the same process
of erosion applies--
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lots of water cutting
deeply in a little bit of time.
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The Bible tells us
that the flood was global,
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it covered everything.
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It was catastrophic.
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The biblical flood
provides a framework
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for the proper
mechanism and forces
00:23:27.90\00:23:30.11
necessary to produce these
types of sedimentary layers
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in a rapid succession.
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The Bible is the
true history book
00:23:35.58\00:23:37.61
of what happened on the earth.
00:23:37.71\00:23:39.38
It was not long
periods of time, but
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a short catastrophic
period, validating the earth
00:23:41.62\00:23:45.09
as being young.
00:23:45.19\00:23:47.62
Those who believe in the literal
account of earth's history
00:23:47.72\00:23:51.03
have long thought
that the Canyon was not
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formed in millions
of years, but just days.
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The Bible indicates
that the earth is young,
00:23:57.57\00:24:00.27
around 6,000 years from
creation to the 21st century,
00:24:00.37\00:24:05.14
indicated by reading
the genealogies of Christ
00:24:05.24\00:24:08.04
and then from history forward.
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So much of the
earth's features we
00:24:12.05\00:24:14.05
see today would be
due to catastrophe, not
00:24:14.15\00:24:17.52
long processes.
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.99
God wants us to
use reasoning based
00:24:20.09\00:24:21.92
on the authority of
scripture, not man's opinions.
00:24:22.02\00:24:26.46
Evidence for the
flood is a reminder
00:24:26.56\00:24:28.23
that God has judged the world.
00:24:28.33\00:24:30.70
The Bible says He will judge
the world again through fire.
00:24:30.80\00:24:35.50
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