And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
One of the most amazing places
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on earth is
Yellowstone National Park.
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With beautiful
mineral pools and hot geysers,
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this place is full of mystery.
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Early trappers thought
that this was the entrance
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to hell itself, and came
back with unbelievable stories
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of this amazing landscape.
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More explorers came,
and it was so impressive
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that a movement began to
save this national treasure
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for the people.
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And in 1872, it became
America's first national park.
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Most of the signs in the
park approach its history
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from an evolutionary
perspective, meaning
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millions of years,
and based on the religion
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of secular humanism.
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But a closer
look at the evidence
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reveals consistencies of short
ages and large catastrophes.
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The Biblical
record best explains
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what we see at Yellowstone.
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All this and more,
next, on "Awesome Science."
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
"Awesome Science" takes you
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on a field trip to some
of the most amazing geologic
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and historical
sites around the world,
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where we used the Bible
as our history guidebook
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to interpret what we see--
that the Bible can be trusted,
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and empirical
science falls in line
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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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When you think of
Yellowstone National Park,
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most people usually remember
the geysers and mud pots.
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But there is so
much more to see.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): It covers
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over 2 million acres in three
states across its boundaries.
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Yellowstone contains one of the
world's largest supervolcanoes.
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The last of the three gigantic
eruptions was hundreds of times
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greater than that
of Mount St. Helens,
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and the first
eruption was thought
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to have been 2000 times
that of Mount St. Helens.
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The Bible tells us
that at the beginning
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of the worldwide
Flood, the fountains
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of the great deep burst forth.
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During the
Flood, and right after,
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the Earth was going through
tremendous geologic changes
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because of the moving
of Earth's outer plates.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Volcanoes
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were still active,
including this caldera, shaping
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the land after the Flood.
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We can see other
supervolcanoes around the world.
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They can be seen on
almost every continent.
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Ones we know of reside
in California, New Mexico,
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Indonesia, New
Zealand, and Japan.
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[whoosh]
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[hum]
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[zap]
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The park has two main
access routeS-- a south circle
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and a north circle, each passed
by rather interesting features.
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Besides the
sedimentary and basement rocks,
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there are two
other types of rocks
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in the park-- volcanic rhyolite,
which is hardened lava,
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and tuft, which is
cemented volcanic ash.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): After
passing the park entrances,
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you'll eventually come
into the Yellowstone Caldera.
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It has been filled
mostly with volcanic tuft.
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Much of the rim has
been breached, or covered
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with volcanic products.
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Remember, this is an active
volcano with a lava chamber
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just several miles
beneath the surface.
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There is no
immediate danger, but it
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is a reminder of
the volcanic activity
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that we've seen from
the past and activity
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that we expect in the future.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
Throughout the park,
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there is evidence
of the Yellowstone fire
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which happened in
the summer of 1988.
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It burned almost a third
of all the trees in the park.
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Many of the larger animals
were able to escape and return
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later.
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Because of our Creator's design,
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even in a sin-cursed world, the
forest is coming back quickly.
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[whoosh]
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In order for us
to better understand
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the geology at
Yellowstone, we need
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to take a look at
the "geologic" column.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
The traditional belief
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from secular scientists is that
the geologic column represents
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long ages of
time, billions of years,
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starting with the Precambrian
and ending in the Cenozoic,
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being laid down
slowly and gradually,
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without a global catastrophe.
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This sequence is never
complete in any one location,
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so secular scientists have
to combine locations to get
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their full view of the column.
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Using the Bible as
our history guidebook,
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the earth is only
about 6,000 years in age,
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according to the genealogies.
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Since many of the
layers are sedimentary,
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the Flood was the
catastrophic historical event
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that was the mechanism for
quickly laying down each layer.
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The fossils we
find in each layer
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were mostly buried
over the year of the Flood.
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Many Precambrian
rocks are those created
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during the Week of
Creation, mostly on day three.
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There were likely forces acting
upon them during the Flood,
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with the raising and lowering
of the mountains and valleys
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to cause some changes.
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But largely, they were the
rocks made during Creation Week.
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Since there were about
1,600 years before the Flood,
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we do see some
evidence of erosion
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and some sediment layers.
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But there are very few
fossils because the Flood,
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the prime
mechanism for fossilization,
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had not yet come.
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Secular scientists say
that these early layers do not
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have fossils because life was
too "simple" at the beginning,
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and only microbes had evolved.
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But the Biblical
explanation is much stronger,
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for several reasons.
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First of all these "simple" life
forms are not simple at all.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): And further,
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the conditions
necessary for fossilization
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didn't occur
until the Flood came.
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The Paleozoic layers
start with the fossils
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of sea-floor creatures, which
would have been buried first
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with the onset of the Flood.
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This makes sense
because the Flood
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started with the fountains
of the great deep breaking open.
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In layers above
are fish fossils,
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because they
were the next to die.
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We then find
land-plant fossils and coal.
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When the Flood
moved inland, it wiped out
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most of the vegetation.
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Land animals would have
escaped to higher ground,
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or, by virtue of
being on higher ground,
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would have had a higher
burial in the fossil layers.
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The Mesozoic rock
layers contains more coal
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and reptiles.
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As the trees were
uprooted, these surely formed
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into some of the
large, floating log
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mats similar to what we
have seen at Mount St. Helens'
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Spirit Lake after the eruption.
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When the loosened
logs rubbed together,
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floating on top
of the flood waters,
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their bark came off and sank
to the bottom of the sea floor,
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causing large
deposits of peat which
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eventually turned into coal
when buried by other sediments.
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Large reptiles
could no longer survive.
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Their bodies may have floated
on top of the water for a while,
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but eventually
their weight and mass
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carried them to the ocean
floor, where they were quickly
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buried by other sediments.
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The natural sorting
power of flowing water
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may have also contributed to
distributing plants and animals
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in sedimentary layers through
buoyancy and other factors.
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Fossilization of plants
and animals happens quickly.
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It does not take
long periods of time.
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You don't find any dead
carcasses on the sea floor
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today.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Dead animals
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on the ocean floor are
quickly consumed by scavengers,
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and their bones decay away.
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The same is true on land.
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It is suspected that
mammals survived the longest.
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Many of them could have survived
a bit longer on higher ground,
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or on the floating log mats.
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Many mammals also float
when dead, preventing them
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from being rapidly buried
by sediment and fossilized.
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The Cenozoic
contains the last layers,
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which may have marked
the end stages of the Flood,
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and the short time
thereafter when there were
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continuing local catastrophes.
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Most layers have
a better explanation
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when viewed in the
light of a Biblical worldview.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Since there is not
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a full sequence of the
column in any one location,
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this is consistent
with the Flood account,
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because water in
currents will carry sand, silt,
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and mud to different
places around the earth.
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It's Flood action,
not billions of years.
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[whoosh]
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[hum]
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[zap]
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
On the northwest side
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of the southern loop is a
prized collection of geysers.
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It's a great place to get
out and tour the hot springs.
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Yellowstone hosts 2/3 of all
the known geysers in the world.
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The close
proximity of these geysers
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is because of the large
magma chamber a few miles
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below the surface.
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The highest geyser in
the world resides here--
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Steamboat Geyser.
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It can erupt up
to 300 feet high,
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but eruptions are
rare and unpredictable.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
A geyser source is melted
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snow and rain,
which eventually moves
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through the
porous volcanic rock.
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The water mixes with
saline brine and heat
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from the shallow magma.
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The water rises well
above the boiling point,
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but remains in a liquid state
due to the pressure and weight
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of overlying water and rocks.
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The water can
exceed 400 degrees.
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The silica in the water
creates seals in the fissures,
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and a plumbing system develops.
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When the pressure is sufficient,
it forces the water up
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to the surface
and a geyser results.
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There are a variety
of minerals and species
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of algae in the hot pools.
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Microbes grow at
different acidities.
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A pool's color can be
used to determine its acidity.
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Green is more acidic,
and orange is more alkali.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
The organisms and enzymes
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can survive sulphur
emissions similar to microbes
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living near thermal vents
on the bottom of the ocean.
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Secular scientists suggest that
if you look into the hot pools,
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you can imagine life as it
began, billions of years ago.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): In reality,
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these
heat-loving microbes are not
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simple or primitive,
but extremely complex
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in their
structure and biochemistry.
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They require an intelligent
designer, the Creator God
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of the universe.
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Evolved over billions of years?
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Not a chance.
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[whoosh]
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[hum]
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[zap]
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Some of the hottest geothermal
features here in Yellowstone
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are fumaroles.
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Behind me here
is Roaring Mountain.
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Any water that comes
up close to the surface
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immediately gets
flashed into steam.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
The Yellowstone River
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runs through the park with its
source from Yellowstone Lake.
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The river has cut
through volcanic rhyolite
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and soft tuft, leaving
a stained pastel colored
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by the hot
springs and fumaroles.
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The river cuts
through Hayden Valley,
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where many buffalo roam.
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There were once
millions of buffalo
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that roamed the plains and
mountains of North America.
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They were killed
off, mostly by hunting.
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But now a strong herd exists
in Yellowstone year-round.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Hayden Valley
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is thought to have been
covered up by 200 feet of water
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when Yellowstone Lake
extended through this valley
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after the
retreat of the glaciers
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at the end of the ice age.
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Very little
grows here, because it
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was a lake bed where glacial
clay lines the valley floor.
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Trees across the river mark the
former shoreline of the lake.
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This area in the park
is called the Grand Canyon
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of Yellowstone.
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It was cut by the Yellowstone
River through basalt and ash,
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and is one of the
most well-recognized
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geologic features of the park.
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Secular geologists thought
that the carving of this canyon
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took tens of thousands of years.
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But evidence is beginning
to emerge that an upstream ice
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dam may have failed,
carving out this canyon
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in a very short time--
maybe even as little as a day.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
The rock in the canyon is soft,
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so it would have
been quite easily cut
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by fast-moving water.
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There is similar
evidence like this
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in Eastern Washington,
with the Missoula flood,
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at Mount St. Helens, as well
as the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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The steepness
of the canyon walls
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help us realize
that there has been
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a recent cutting of the canyon.
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Based on the current rate of
erosion, long periods of time
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would have eroded the
canyon much more than it is now,
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and the canyon walls would
have been much more gradual
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in their slope.
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We know that this is not
formed by glaciation because it
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does not exhibit u-shaped
features like Yosemite National
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Park.
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A large glacier, as it moves and
cuts the valley underneath it,
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will shape the valley with
rounded corners at the bottom.
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When the ice retreats, the
valley has a u-shaped bottom.
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A valley cut by a river
tends to have a v-shaped valley
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with steep sides.
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Understanding that
this canyon has not
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been affected
by glaciation helps
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us conclude that it was formed
quite recently, after the ice
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age, only a few
thousand years ago.
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. One of the
most fascinating parts about
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Yellowstone is
its petrified forests.
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Much of it is in
the Specimen Ridge area.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): There we
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find hundreds of
upright, petrified logs
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in 27 to 50 layers of forest.
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Secular scientists say that
there were many forests here,
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one laid on top
of the other, which
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took around 30,000 years
in an ongoing cycle to create.
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A forest would grow.
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Then it would be
covered by volcanic ash.
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Minerals would soak
into the tree and petrify it.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): The ash
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weathered into clay and soil.
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Then, a new forest grew,
was destroyed by the ash,
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and the process continues.
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Eventually, the layers
were exposed by erosion,
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revealing what we see today.
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Using the Bible as
our history guidebook,
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with an earth age
of only 6,000 years,
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the Petrified
Forests of Yellowstone
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do not match up with the
secular science of 30,000 years.
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No surprise.
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But there is a
different explanation.
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The Bible says there was a
catastrophic event, the Genesis
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Flood, which
destroyed all vegetation
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on the pre-Flood earth.
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Some of the trees survived
on top of the flood waters,
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creating these giant tree mats.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Yet, even
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by the end of the
Flood, some of the trees
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were still floating on
top of the flood waters,
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even as the waters retreated
from off the new, emerging land
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masses.
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As the logs had
become waterlogged,
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the heavy end, the
root ball, sank in the water
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to the submerged
land surface below.
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With the water
current still carrying logs,
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they were buried rapidly
in the accumulating silt.
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There was also a lot of
continuing volcanic activity
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beneath the waters and on
the emerging land surface,
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creating large
explosions of ash that
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added to the accumulating silt.
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Because the logs were
not sinking at the same time,
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they would come to
rest on different layers
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of silt and ash.
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Eventually, the upright
logs would be fully buried,
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and the chemicals
in the water and ash
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would petrify the trees quickly.
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When the flood
waters fully receded,
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up to 50 levels of
logs were deposited.
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This explanation
seems like a good story,
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but hard to believe,
until you see the facts.
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[music playing]
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): If the logs
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were trees that
grew at these locations,
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one would expect to
find a well-developed root
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system under the logs.
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But they are nonexistent in all
of the mature trees at all 50
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layers.
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Also, none of the
logs have branches or bark,
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indicating a cataclysmic .
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Event
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In addition, the root
balls at the bottoms of the logs
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are small and
broken off-- evidence
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of the trees being forcefully
pulled out of the ground,
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transported, and deposited here
in this area at Yellowstone.
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[music playing]
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
When studying the rings of logs
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near the top of the
ridge and at the bottom,
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there's a lot of
similarity in the ring sizes,
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indicating they all
grew at the same time.
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If the trees grew
in different forests,
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at different time periods,
the rings should not be similar.
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[music playing]
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If each forest was
killed by different eruption,
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then the trace-element
profiles in the ash
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the logs were buried
in should be different,
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even if from the same volcano.
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But there are only
four different trace-element
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profiles, which help us
realize that the trees were
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buried in less than a year.
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[music playing]
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In a typical forest,
the decomposing material
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on the forest floor, such
as pine needles and dead trees,
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should match
the trees around us.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): But at
Specimen Ridge in Yellowstone,
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the petrified flora doesn't
match the petrified trees.
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Which makes for a
very petrifying situation.
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Which indicates
they didn't grow there.
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[music playing]
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
In the typical forest,
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you would expect to
find evidence of animal life,
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such as burrows and nests.
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But there is no evidence
of animal tracks in this area,
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except the remains of
termites and their holes
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in some of the logs.
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Some say that the animals
fled during the eruptions.
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This happens with
large animals, but is not
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true of worms and insects.
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And bones, teeth, and droppings
couldn't escape burial, either.
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[music playing]
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
If the secular story
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is used to explain the formation
of these petrified forests,
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then there should
be successive layers
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of clay and organic debris.
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But there is no clay
found in these volcanic layers,
00:20:28.99\00:20:31.56
and the organic
materials are only about an inch
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thick in places.
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In addition,
sediments in these layers
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appear to have been
graded and laminated--
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the result of
water and fluid action.
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If these layers were only
produced by volcanic activity,
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no such features
should be evident.
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This was the result of the
receding flood waters, not just
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volcanic action.
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Petrification is actually
a pretty simple process.
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It doesn't take that much time.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): Secular scientists
00:21:14.67\00:21:16.40
used to say that it took
many years to petrify wood.
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But we can do it
quickly in labs today.
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What you need to
petrify is the presence
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of water
saturated with minerals,
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such as lime or silica.
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We know, from the
springs around Yellowstone,
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that these
minerals are in abundance.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): When
a log is buried and saturated
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with water
containing these minerals,
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there's a chemical
exchange that takes place.
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Even if we give
an extended range,
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it could take as much as 100
years to fully petrify a log.
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That's still within
the Biblical time scale.
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Many of the processes in nature,
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that secular
scientists thought took ages,
00:21:55.24\00:21:57.85
we can now do it very quickly.
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Coal and oil have been
produced in less than a year.
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NOAH JUSTICE
(VOICEOVER): The global Flood
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would provide the
right conditions to quickly
00:22:05.59\00:22:07.69
bury, and exchange
the chemicals and the heat
00:22:07.79\00:22:10.26
necessary to produce petrified
wood on such a grand scale,
00:22:10.36\00:22:14.20
as here in Yellowstone.
00:22:14.30\00:22:16.67
[whoosh]
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[music playing]
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Yellowstone National
Park, where many natural wonders
00:22:22.40\00:22:25.81
are remarkably preserved,
also preserves a testament
00:22:25.91\00:22:29.48
to the catastrophic Genesis
Flood and its aftereffects.
00:22:29.58\00:22:33.85
Secular and Biblical geologists
both agree on the evidence
00:22:33.95\00:22:37.62
that we find
here in Yellowstone,
00:22:37.72\00:22:39.62
but we disagree on how
we interpret that evidence.
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NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER):
One rejects God and the Bible,
00:22:43.63\00:22:46.19
and hence, a global Flood,
and accepts millions of years
00:22:46.29\00:22:51.20
from the religion of humanism.
00:22:51.30\00:22:53.44
The other views God as
the authority in all areas,
00:22:53.54\00:22:57.07
and hence recognizes
the effects of the Flood
00:22:57.17\00:22:59.57
as a result of
God's judgment on sin.
00:22:59.67\00:23:03.98
God is going to judge the
world again, this time by fire.
00:23:04.08\00:23:07.98
We are all given
the opportunity to turn
00:23:08.08\00:23:10.15
to our Creator, repent of
our sins, and make Him our Lord.
00:23:10.25\00:23:14.16
We Invite you to
begin this journey today.
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