And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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In the northeastern
high desert of Arizona
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sits a most peculiar
sight, thousands of petrified
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logs sitting on the desert
floor, hanging out of cliffs,
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and peeking out of the soil.
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Where did they come from?
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Why are they here?
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How did they petrify?
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How do they fit
into the Biblical world
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view of Earth's history?
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Just farther west is a huge
crater etched into the desert
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limestone and sandstone.
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With evidence for
vulcanism around the area,
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many early scientists thought
that it was an ancient volcano.
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But evidence later
revealed that this crater
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was caused by a
large meteorite hitting
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the earth at an
estimated 40,000 miles per hour
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just a few thousand years ago.
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Scientists have used this crater
to identify other meteorite
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craters around the world.
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But did something
like this cause the demise
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of the dinosaurs,
like so many secular
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scientists believe today?
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All this and more
next on Awesome Science.
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[theme music]
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"Awesome Science" takes
you on a field trip to some
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of the most amazing geologic
and historical sites around
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the world where we use 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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The Painted Desert
in northern Arizona
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is a remnant of a vast dry
lake bed, one of many lakes
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that stretched across several
Western states after the flood.
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This area is part of the Grand
Staircase, a 10,000 foot deep
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section of
sedimentary strata starting
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at the top of
Bryce Canyon in Utah
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and ending at the
bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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Much of this area
was formed through water
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by the laying
down of layers by water
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and then eroding by water.
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Much of this area is
in the Chinle Formation,
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which is in the lower
middle of the Grand Staircase.
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It's an amazing area
full of geologic sites.
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It's been thought to have been
formed over millions of years.
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But there's
another story that better
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explains the features we see.
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Using the Bible as
our historical authority,
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we see in Genesis 6
that God sent a flood
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to destroy the whole Earth.
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The fountains of the
great deep burst forth
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and it rained for 40 days and
nights nonstop and culminated
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in a year long flood.
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The bursting forth included
water and volcanic activity
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as continents were broken apart.
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Water covered the
whole Earth for about a year.
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As the continents
moved under the water
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and slowly came to a
stop, mountain ranges
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were quickly pushed up.
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Water from the flood
rushed off the continents,
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eroding valleys.
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But some water got
trapped in large inland lakes
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between the
mountain ranges and plateaus.
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Even after the
flood waters receded,
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volcanic activity continued.
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Then eventually
slowed down due in large part
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to continental movements
minimizing and the Earth
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equalizing after
this great catastrophe.
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The landscape of
the entire Southwest
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shows evidence that there were
two large lakes that existed
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eastward of the Kaibab Plateau.
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Many creationists believe
these waters breached and became
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the source of the catastrophic
flow which drained quickly
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through the Kaibab
Plateau to carve the Grand
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Canyon in a matter of days.
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Much of the Chinle formation
contains volcanic ash laid down
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by water.
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This volcanic ash came
from volcanoes erupting,
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for the most part,
under water during the flood.
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When it mixed with sand
and mud, this huge layer
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was deposited along
with logs and dinosaurs.
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Volcanoes continued to
erupt around this area even
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after the flood, as evidenced
by volcanic flows of basalt
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on top of these layers.
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We're here at
Petrified Forest National Park.
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Behind me here are petrified
logs haphazardly scattered
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around.
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Scientists here say that
they are millions and millions
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of years old.
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But it reality, they're
all a part of Noah's flood.
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Petrified Forest
National Park is just 124 miles
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east of Flagstaff, Arizona.
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This Navajo and Apache
land has an average height
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of 5,400 feet of elevation.
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Thousands of petrified logs
lie on the ground, mostly broken
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apart into rounds.
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A few full size
logs lie on the ground.
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Others hanging
halfway out of cliffs.
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And some peak
just above the surface.
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Also in the park are
hills of amazing colors.
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They are made from ash
layers that formed under water.
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It all screams catastrophe.
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In 1962, this area
became a national park
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because of its unique features.
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50,000 acres were set aside for
the public to come and examine
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Earth's history.
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Park signs say that this area
was for 225 million years ago.
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But is this accurate?
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This date comes from
a belief in evolution
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and millions of years.
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So how do we view this in
light of the Biblical accounts
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versus history?
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According to the
Biblical record and genealogies,
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we can determine this area
is only about 4,350 years old,
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formed at the time of the flood.
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Everyone agrees these logs were
transported in and by water,
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laid down here, and fossilized.
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But the mechanism
for how they got here
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and how long the
fossilization took
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is where the difference lies.
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You either believe
in long ages, which
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is held by those who
believe in evolution, or just
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a few thousand years,
according to the Bible.
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Let's see what
the facts show us.
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First of all, the root balls
on these logs are very small
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or just absent , which
scientists see as evidence that
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the original trees were ripped
out of their original creation
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in a cataclysmic event.
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Think Genesis flood.
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During the flood,
massive amounts of water
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rushed across
the land, uprooting
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much of the vegetation,
including large trees.
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The logs floated on top of
the flood waters for a while,
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but eventually
sank to the bottom
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and were buried quickly
by the volcanic sediments.
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The bark has been
stripped off, so something
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happened to cause the
bark to be knocked off.
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During catastrophes
like Mount St. Helens,
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we saw something similar.
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After the 1980
eruption knocked down trees,
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logs floated below Mount
St. Helens on Spirit Lake.
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They rubbed against each
other, and eventually the bark
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fell off before the
logs began being deposited
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on the bottom of the lake.
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During the flood catastrophe,
we expect nothing less.
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Where the bark fell
is most likely different
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from where the logs rested.
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Because the rock layers
here in the Petrified Forest
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National Park do not contain
any coal, where bark is commonly
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found and coal layers.
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We can see growth
rings in the logs.
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They are large.
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The original trees
would have grown up
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in a very healthy
environment, which
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is what we would expect
before the global flood.
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The environment
back then was definitely
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better than
today, but still suffered
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the effects of the curse.
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Due to volcanic
action, the water
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was surely heavy with silica.
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And when the logs were
buried, the silica rich water
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would have petrified them.
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Why is this significant?
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Well, when the logs
were buried, the carbon
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would have traded
places with the silica
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in a chemical process
called permineralization.
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And the logs were
quickly fossilized.
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Signs in the park will tell you
it took a long time for these
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logs to fossilize.
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But with the right conditions,
such as a global flood,
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it could take less than a year.
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One lab has been
able to duplicate
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this process in just days.
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Now that's repeatable science.
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Also, in
Yellowstone National Park
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scientists
experimented with putting
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logs in silica rich water.
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And in less than a year,
substantial fossilization
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occurred.
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Since this area
continued to be underwater
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even after the
flood receded, these logs
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stayed buried for a while.
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In a few years or
less, the large inland lakes
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wore away at the
limestone in the Kaibab Plateau
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and a massive erosional event
occurred where the Grand Canyon
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was carved in just days.
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When the Grand
Canyon formed, some
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of these layers at
Petrified Forest National Park
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were exposed.
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The exiting water
eroded through these layers,
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exposing the
petrified trees and creating
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the tepee geologic features.
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Much of the
desert floor is clay,
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which mostly came from
volcanic ash during the flood.
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Some probably came from volcanic
activity after the flood.
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But in some
places, like Jasper Forest,
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the stumps are buried
in sandstone with Pebbles.
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We call this a
conglomerate layer.
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When a rock layer has
pebbles, it's usually a sign
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that fast moving water was
involved to round the pebbles.
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This gives us another
indication that water action
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was responsible for
creating what we see here today.
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It's interesting that we find
entire logs here and not just
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bits and pieces of them.
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Researchers realize that
entire forest was swept away
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in one large event.
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The global flood
makes perfect sense.
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Remember, don't sample or take
any pieces of petrified wood.
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The park rules
say no, and we need
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to keep things like
this for future generations.
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One way for us to verify our
theories on catastrophic forest
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destruction, floating
log mats, and petrification,
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is looking no
farther than Mount St. Helens
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in southern Washington state.
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In 1980, Mount St.
Helens had a huge eruption,
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causing the north
side of the mountain
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to slide into the valley
below, resulting in the largest
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landslide in recorded history.
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The landslide
pushed into Spirit Lake
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and caused an 800
foot high tidal wave
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on the opposite hill.
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The wave was so
huge that it pulled down
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the entire force
of large, mature trees
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back into the lake in
less than a few minutes.
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The logs covered
the top of Spirit Lake
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in one large log mat, and
many are still there today.
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The logs rubbed
together and the bark sunk.
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Over time, thousands of logs
became water logged and sank
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to the bottom of the lake.
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Eventually, up
to 20,000 logs have
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sunk to the bottom of the
lake, and the layer of bark
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has formed into a layer of peat.
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Sonar tests and
scuba expeditions
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have verified these facts.
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If Mount St. Helens were
to continue to erupt and fill
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Spirit Lake, all
of the logs would
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be buried in peat, silt,
and ash, which would naturally
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have silica in it.
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Eventually, the
logs would fossilize.
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If exposed at some
point through erosion,
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this area at
Mount St. Helens would
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look much like what we see
at Petrified Forest National
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Park, and even the newest levels
of apparent petrified forests
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at Specimen Ridge in
Yellowstone National Park.
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Even if secular scientists
don't like the conclusion,
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this is evidence for
catastrophic processes
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like the
Genesis flood, that help
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carved many of
the geologic features
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we see around the world today.
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Driving along, you'll
see steep, cone shaped hills
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which are called the Tepees.
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They're made up of volcanic
ash at the top of the Chinle
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Formation.
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Their shape is the
result of water erosion.
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In August it is
monsoon season in Arizona,
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where afternoon storms
will drop as much as one
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to seven inches of
rain in 15 to 30 minutes.
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The ash and clay erode quickly
when this much rain falls
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over a short period of time.
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The brilliant layers
in the Chinle formation
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indicate that they were
created by catastrophic means.
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How?
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Let's look at the evidence.
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Indicators are that
these volcanic ash layers
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were originally
deposited under water.
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It was not a local
event, but huge in order
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for the same colored
layers to stretch out
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for extreme distances.
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Noah's flood,
just 4,350 years ago,
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is an ideal
candidate for a catastrophe
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of such a massive scale.
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If it was a smaller
event, than the layers
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would be more sporadic.
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The different bands of color
are due to different episodes
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of underwater
volcanic eruptions.
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Every volcanic eruption
puts out different materials,
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some coarse, some fine.
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So one layer is
never the same as the next.
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When eruptions
happen under water,
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such variations
are even more diverse.
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Because the water will
also carry other sediments,
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which will mix in with the ash.
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Slow and gradual processes would
have laid down these deposits
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with no uniformity.
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But if they were laid
down by water rapidly,
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one after the
other, the layers would
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be uniform over long
distances and large areas.
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Rapid layer deposits and
erosion are not a fairy tale.
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When catastrophic
processes are at work,
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amazing things can happen.
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. Northern Arizona is
home to the Grand Canyon, Lake
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Powell, the Painted Desert,
and many other geologic wonders.
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In addition to
catastrophic processes
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due to the global
flood, there is one formation
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in the desert
floor that has fascinated
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scientists for decades.
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It's a crater in the Kaibab
Formation, the top layer seen
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at the Grand Canyon.
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The crater is 4,200
feet wide and 750 feet deep.
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Due to all the
volcanism in the area,
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it was once
thought to be a volcano.
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But after scientific research,
a whole new model emerged.
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Here at Meteor Crater, Arizona,
150 foot in diameter meteorite
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slammed into the earth,
creating this gigantic crater
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we see here.
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Not long after the
formation of the Grand Canyon,
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an asteroid weighing
approximately 60,000 tons
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impacted the earth
at around 40,000 MPH.
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Because of what we know today
about the Earth's atmosphere
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and the heat
experienced during entry,
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the asteroid was most
likely much larger out in space.
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In the 1960s,
Dr. Eugene Shoemaker
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studied this crater, which
led him on a worldwide search
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to find other impact craters.
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To his surprise,
he found hundreds
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around the entire earth.
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Some say that a meteorite
like this only 100 times bigger
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crashed into the
Yucatan Peninsula,
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causing the
extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Think again.
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They say the meteorite would
have created a gigantic dust
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storm that would have
wiped out all the plants,
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thus wiping out the
dinosaurs' food source.
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The dinosaurs
around the Earth would
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have starved to death by lack
of food, then buried in dust.
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But there's one major
problem with this idea.
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We don't find
dinosaurs buried in dust layers,
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we find them in sedimentary rock
layers, clay, sand, and dirt.
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Which means flood action,
not a gigantic dust storm.
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Another proposed idea is a
meteor crashed into the ocean,
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causing tidal
waves and acid rain,
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destroying life on the planet.
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What makes
meteor craters so cool
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is that there are
few large craters so
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visible to the public.
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There are hundreds or more of
these craters around the earth,
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but we can't see them
because they are eroded
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and obscured in a tropical rain
forest or on the ocean floor.
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Meteor Crater is on the high
desert of Arizona with nothing
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to hide it.
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It's almost a mile
wide and 750 feet deep.
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That's as long as 2
and 1/2 football fields.
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With a meteorite coming in
at approximately 40,000 miles
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per hour, it caused a
huge explosion on impact.
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Because of this great
speed, most of the meteorite
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vaporized, leaving the crater in
just small fragments scattered
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around.
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In the early
1960s, Eugene Shoemaker
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began to visit this
area to study the crater.
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Studying impact
craters was his passion.
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He studied craters at
atomic test sites in Nevada
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and spent time at
Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff
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to study crater
impacts on the moon.
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He hypothesized that
meteor impact craters
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are much more numerous
than anyone previously thought.
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To him, Meteor
Crater was not an anomaly.
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Because of his research,
we now understand so much more
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about how the
Earth has been impacted
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through
catastrophic meteor impacts.
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Did a meteor impact cause
the death of the dinosaurs?
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Let's look at the facts.
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There are many ideas
on how the dinosaurs died.
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Yet most of them seem to
skirt around the global flood
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concept, even though most
of the evidence supports it.
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We know the
dinosaurs were buried
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in sedimentary
layers, which means
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they were buried by water.
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Any other theory
that doesn't include water
00:20:00.66\00:20:02.60
just doesn't stand up.
00:20:02.70\00:20:04.83
If the dinosaurs
died on land, then
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their bodies
would have decomposed
00:20:07.04\00:20:08.67
or been eaten by scavengers.
00:20:08.77\00:20:10.87
If they died in the
sea, the same process
00:20:10.97\00:20:12.97
would have
consumed their carcasses.
00:20:13.07\00:20:15.64
But all evidence
shows that they were quickly
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buried in sediments
such as sand and mud.
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When we used the
Bible as a history guidebook
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we see the
mechanism of a global flood.
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This would have been
the cause and the means
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for quick burial
of the dinosaurs.
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But the Bible also tells us that
God brought two of every land
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dwelling, air
breathing animal on Noah's ark,
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which included the various
dinosaur kinds, estimated
00:20:39.47\00:20:42.60
to be around 50.
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Any animal outside the ark would
have perished in the flood.
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As we already mentioned,
some secular scientists
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have proposed an
immense dust storm
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caused by a giant
meteorite hitting the earth,
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blocking out the sun and
dwindling their food supply.
00:20:57.69\00:21:01.86
The dinosaurs
simply starved to death.
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.83
But these impacts should
have affected the whole world's
00:21:04.93\00:21:07.76
animal population,
but they didn't it.
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Furthermore,
dinosaurs were dying out
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after the flood,
which tragically reduced
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their numbers, of course.
00:21:16.17\00:21:18.34
Other ideas say a meteorite
hit the ocean near the Yucatan
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.11
Peninsula, causing giant tidal
waves and acid rain to fall,
00:21:21.21\00:21:26.45
killing off the dinosaurs.
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Yet none of these
ideas can adequately
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explain what we see
except for a global flood.
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The Bible can be trusted as the
true history book of the world.
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The Bible's
explanation makes perfect sense
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of what we are observing.
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We even expect
meteorites to impact the world,
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being that it is
sin cursed and broken.
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But as creationists, we don't
look at the evidence first,
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we start with
the Bible, trusting
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that it is God's true word.
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Then we interpret the
evidence through the Bible.
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We form our
worldview through the Bible
00:22:02.22\00:22:05.02
and use it to
interpret all the evidence.
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We let God be the ultimate
authority on the subject
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and go from there
using the milestones He
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has revealed in the Bible.
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Secular scientists
look at the same evidence
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we do and
interpret it differently
00:22:17.77\00:22:19.50
because of their worldview.
00:22:19.60\00:22:21.70
They don't trust in God or His
word as the ultimate authority.
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So by default, man
becomes his own authority.
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This is where the
debate rages, between these two
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religions, humanism
and Biblical Christianity.
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This is why there will always
be a difference in what is
00:22:36.48\00:22:39.72
thought about Earth's history.
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.76
It's not just based on the
evidence, but our worldview.
00:22:41.86\00:22:45.93
It shapes the way
we look at the evidence
00:22:46.03\00:22:47.96
as though we're wearing
a certain type of glasses.
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So do we trust in
man's opinion or God's word?
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We trust in God's word.
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God was there at the beginning.
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He made the world.
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He destroyed it
by a flood, showing
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He has the power to judge.
00:23:03.45\00:23:06.08
He promises to destroy
it again, this time by fire.
00:23:06.18\00:23:10.02
But He promises salvation
through His son, Jesus Christ.
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Meteor Crater
reminds us that the Earth
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is known only to catastrophic
destruction from the heavens.
00:23:20.30\00:23:24.17
A group of scientists
are concerned about this
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and continue to watch
the heavens for meteorites
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.40
heading to Earth.
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When we look at
the rocks in this area,
00:23:32.04\00:23:34.64
evidence for a
global flood is all around,
00:23:34.74\00:23:37.08
and God's judgment
was indeed a reality,
00:23:37.18\00:23:40.78
showing that the
Bible can be trusted
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.98
as a true book
of Earth's history.
00:23:43.08\00:23:45.39
And there will be
another coming judgment,
00:23:45.49\00:23:47.89
and this time by fire.
00:23:47.99\00:23:50.59
God means
business with His judgement
00:23:50.69\00:23:52.96
and is calling people to repent.
00:23:53.06\00:23:55.36
As we look at
meteor crater, it gives us
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.67
a glimpse of what God can do.
00:23:57.77\00:24:00.80
When we see the flood
sediments all over the world,
00:24:00.90\00:24:03.47
we see what God can do
when people do not repent.
00:24:03.57\00:24:07.78
Even so, God sent
a means of salvation
00:24:07.88\00:24:10.45
from the flood with the ark.
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.55
All people had to do was enter
through the door and be saved.
00:24:12.65\00:24:17.22
God is going to judge the earth
for its rebellion once again.
00:24:17.32\00:24:20.79
Yet because of His great
love He has provided salvation
00:24:20.89\00:24:24.49
for all those who believe
in His son, Jesus Christ,
00:24:24.59\00:24:27.60
a door of salvation for those
who enter through to be saved.
00:24:27.66\00:24:31.83
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sins and come to Jesus Christ?
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