And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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On May 18th, 1980,
a catastrophic event
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occurred that has been called
God's gift to creationists.
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On a beautiful
Sunday morning at 8:32 AM,
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Mount St. Helens erupted
and caused the largest landslide
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in modern human history.
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Then, for nine hours, it
released the explosive power
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of one atomic bomb every second.
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Not only was the world
shocked by the eruption's
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explosive power, but
it also challenged the way
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that secular scientists
think how catastrophes
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have changed this earth.
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Never did
creation scientists have
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such a wonderful,
observable laboratory
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to help explain so
many other geologic features
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around the world by
catastrophic processes.
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It doesn't take
millions of years
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to form canyons, stratified
layers, and petrified forests,
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only days, weeks, and months.
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All of 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
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falls 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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[music playing]
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The Pacific
Northwest in the United States
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is an amazing
collection of pristine coast
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land, lush valley farmland, high
desert, and the Cascade Range.
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The Cascade Range stretches
from Northern California
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to southern British Columbia.
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The range was pushed up during
the later stages of the Flood.
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The range contains about a
dozen volcanic peaks, averaging
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at around 10,000 feet.
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Most of the peaks
are thought to have
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been formed not
long after the Flood
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when the earth
was still equalizing
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from the massive
tectonic shifting.
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Eventually much of
this volcanic activity
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slowed down in about 500 years.
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But a few volcanoes
remained active or went dormant.
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The recent increase
in population centers
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around these peaks has
drawn concern from scientists.
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The 14,400 foot
dormant Mount Rainier
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poses a huge threat of
catastrophic destruction
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if it let loose.
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Another dormant volcanic
peak was Mount St. Helens
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in southern Washington state.
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This area was a
pristine, scenic wonderland
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with tall, beautiful,
virgin forests and deep blue
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mountain lakes.
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Youth camps and mountain cabins
lined the shores of Spirit Lake
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and the Toutle River
north of the mountain.
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For decades, brave mountaineers
would climb the 9,677 foot tall
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summit for a spectacular view.
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But in March 1980, the
mountain started to awaken.
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At first, small
earthquakes began
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to rattle the countryside.
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Over the next 60 days, there
were over 12,000 earthquakes
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each increasing in size.
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Scientists knew
that the sleeping giant
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was about to wake up.
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Then, in early April,
the first steam explosion
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penetrated the summit and a
big hole appeared in the snow.
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As earthquakes
slowly increased, scientists
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believed that magma was working
its way up towards the surface.
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In early May, a bulge
began to appear on the north
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side of the mountain.
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It was estimated to be
growing at 5 feet a day.
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Like a giant balloon,
the pressure was growing,
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and the danger level
of a large scale eruption
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appeared to be imminent.
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On the morning of May
18th, 1980, at 8:32 AM,
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an earthquake at
5.1 on the Richter scale
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signaled the eruption.
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This earthquake
caused a giant landslide
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as one half of a
cubic mile of summit
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slid north into the
valley below creating 25
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square miles of new landscape.
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The avalanche contained
rock, snow, and glaciers.
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When the landslide slid off
of Mount St. Helens, 3/4 of it
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went into the
Toutle River Valley,
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raising the valley
floor by hundreds of feet.
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As the landslide
came into the valley,
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huge chunks of the
mountain stayed intact.
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We call these hammocks.
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One quarter of the
landslide traveled northeast
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and spilled into Spirit
Lake causing an 860 foot
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tidal wave across
the water, washing up
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onto the opposite
hillside and totally destroying
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the old growth forest there.
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The new landslide
material also permanently
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raised the level of
the lake more than 200 feet
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above the pre-eruption level.
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The landslide
contained 30 glaciers
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from the top of the mountain.
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These glaciers were buried
in the landslide, eventually
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covered in ash.
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After this
1,300 feet of mountain
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disappeared into the landslide,
a massive steam explosion
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came spreading across
the landscape to the north.
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This steam
explosion went lateral
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and leveled 150 square miles,
causing the old growth forest
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to look like toothpicks
laying on top of each other.
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Usually, when a mountain erupts,
the explosion goes straight up,
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but Mount St. Helens
did something different.
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The first explosion went
straight out to the north.
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Having seen this kind of
blast for the first time,
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scientists were now able to find
300 volcanoes around the earth
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that they were now able
to explain using observations
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from Mount St. Helens.
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For the next nine
hours, the mountain
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released the equivalent of
40 million tons of TNT blast
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energy.
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That's equivalent to 33,000
Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs,
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or one atomic bomb a second.
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Seeing the amazing eruption,
reminds us of God's power.
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In Psalms 104:32, God
says "who looks on the earth
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and it trembles.
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Who touches the
mountains and they smoke."
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It just take God's
little finger touching
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the earth and
incredible power and destruction
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are released at His command.
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The ash and pumice cloud
spread across the eastern part
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of Washington state.
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Cities like Yakima were
turned from day to night
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in a matter of hours.
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As the buried glaciers in
the landslide debris heated up,
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they eventually
exploded, causing large pits
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in the landslide material.
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All of the melted snow
and ice caused the mud flow
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down the Toutle River.
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The mudflow carried ash,
pumice, and rocks tens of miles
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down the valley all the
way to the Columbia River.
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Shipping lanes were shut down
because of the debris clogging
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up the river.
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Down the Toutle River Valley,
bridges were totally gone.
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Logging camps were destroyed.
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Houses were washed away.
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The devastation was massive.
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But the events
at Mount St. Helens
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were small compared to an
average volcanic eruption.
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In past eruptions, the
volcanic activity at Yellowstone
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was much larger.
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One of these
eruptions at Yellowstone
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is estimated to have
been 2,500 times larger
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in its destructive force.
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The next day, there
were 57 people dead.
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And the devastation
was beyond description.
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In recent
memory, no one had ever
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seen such
catastrophic destruction.
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President Carter flew over the
area a few days after May 18th
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and described the
blast zone as looking
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like the surface of the moon.
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But in the
destruction, came a blessing
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for creation scientists.
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As it began to be
studied, it revealed how many
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geologic features around the
world that could have happened
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as the result of
major catastrophes,
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in particular, the global flood.
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The Cascade Range has a
variety of volcanic peaks.
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Some have gone dormant.
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Others have gone extinct.
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And some are still active.
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Crater Lake in
southern Oregon is the remnant
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of Mount Mazama which exploded
a few thousand years ago.
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And its ash can be found all
around the Pacific Northwest.
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Another imploded
mountain is at Newberry Crater
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in central Oregon.
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And, like Yellowstone,
it is considered active
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because of its hot springs.
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On the south side
date of Mount St. Helens,
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great ancient lava flows can
be seen at the timberline level.
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I would encourage
you to visit this area
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and tour some
great geologic formation.
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Most volcanoes have lava caves.
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Up here, at Mount
St. Helens, is Ape Cave.
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It's one of the longest lava
caves in the world at almost
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12,000 feet.
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Let's go exploring.
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I've got our lantern, the bat
food, and a couple flashlights.
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Well, let's go.
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The origin of the name for
Ape Cave is somewhat unclear,
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but some think it goes
back to the alleged Bigfoot
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sightings in the area back in
1924 where a big ape was seen.
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Others say it's
due to the foresters
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and loggers from
many years ago who were
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referred to as brush apes.
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Another group says it was named
after a Boy Scout troop called
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the Apes back in the 1950s.
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This lava cave was
formed when the lava
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flow cooled on the top, but the
hot lava still ran underneath.
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Eventually, it
got lower and lower
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and left the cave altogether.
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This type of cave formation
can be seen at active volcanoes,
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like Kilauea in Hawaii.
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Hot lava flows through a trough.
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The top of the
trough cools because it's
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closest to the surface, but the
rest of the lava keeps flowing.
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The top hardens
and a lava tube forms.
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Eventually, the lava stops
flowing and a cave is left.
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The upper Ape Cave
is around 1.5 miles long
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and climbs up 400 feet
were cavers hike over 27 boulder
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piles and scale an
eight foot high lava fall.
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This tunnel is
about 2,000 years old.
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But around 500
years ago, a mud flow
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came through here and
laid down a new floor.
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Researchers think it is
unusual for Mount St. Helens
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to have produced a
lava tube like this one,
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because the mountain
usually produced much thicker
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lava with, potentially,
explosive eruptions,
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like the 1980 blast.
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But this lava tube does exist.
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And its features are
good confirmation of the power
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and awesomeness of God.
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The lava tube also
helps us understand
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the formation of Mount St.
Helens right after the Flood.
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If this lava tube had been
around for millions of years,
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it would have eroded
away or collapsed long ago.
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Because it's so
close to the surface,
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and the tremendous
amounts of water seep
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in through cracks
above, it's pretty amazing
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to think you can
hike down the same path
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that lava once flowed.
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Now this is a place
where you can explore and see
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God's handiwork.
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The eruption on May
18th, 1980, at Mount St. Helens
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was impressive.
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When the north side of the
mountain slid into the valley
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below, it created a gold mine of
research material for creation
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scientists like Dr.
Steve Austin who studied
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many of these formations.
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The valley below was
covered with 600 feet
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of landslide deposits.
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The nine hour eruption laid
huge deposits of ash and pumice
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on top of the landslide.
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But the mountain
was not done yet.
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On June 12th, not
more than a month later,
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another major eruption put an
additional 25 feet of deposits
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on Earth's newest landscape.
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For almost two years,
the mountain went quiet.
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Then in March 1982, there
was another major eruption
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which melted ice and snow that
had collected in the crater.
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Large amounts of water,
mixed with the ash and pumice,
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this lahar, or mud flow,
came down off the mountain
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and laid another layer
on top of the past layers.
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The strata, layers of
deposits, were forming quickly.
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As the mud floor reached the
north side of the blast zone,
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the water came to an
obstacle and began to pool.
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The dammed water eventually
eroded through the obstruction
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and carved some amazing
canyons on the valley floor.
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As they looked at the
layers in the canyon walls,
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they saw what could
have been interpreted
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as individual
volcanic events based
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on the way the layers appeared.
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Scientists call
this building a sequence.
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Secular scientists have
held that geologic layers take
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long ages to
form because they hold
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to the idea of
uniformitarianism,
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which means little change
over a long period of time.
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But here at Mount
St. Helens, these layers
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formed in a matter of hours.
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And there was direct
observation to their formation.
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For example, the 25
foot June 12th layer
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was formed in just three hours.
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The layer was formed
when the mountain erupted
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and the hot
pyroclastic flow rushed down
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the northern flanks of the
mountain at an amazing speed.
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Because of the erosion,
we can see this layering
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in the canyon walls today.
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If one were to
explore these canyons,
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they would have
no idea how quickly
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these layers were formed.
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A uniformitarian
scientist might have
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guessed that there were
many eruptions over long ages,
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because that's the
main idea which has been
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taught over the last 100 years.
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And the layers
look similar to the rock
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layers they assume
took long ages to form.
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Catastrophism is roughly the
opposite of uniformitarianism
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and was considered dead by the
secular scientific community.
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This was mainly
because it was too closely tied
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to Noah's Flood, a major
catastrophe/ and the long ages
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was a proven fact.
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Not so.
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If secular scientists admitted
to a global flood of Genesis,
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then that would
mean that God is alive
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and His judgement is sure.
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Why would men who had
rebellion in their hearts
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want to admit this?
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They wouldn't.
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So the idea of
uniformitarianism has
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dominated the study of
geology for the past 150 years
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as God's word has been rejected.
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As scientists looked
closer at the June 12th layer,
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they discovered
fine and coarse materials
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had been lain down as
separate layers, called lamina.
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What was
amazing, was these lamina
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had been formed in the
pyroclastic flow in winds
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moving over 100 miles per hour.
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It would be logical to assume
that catastrophic processes
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would just mix up
all the material into one
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big homogenized deposit
with no distinct layers.
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But here at Mount St.
Helens, just the opposite
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has been observed.
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In these layers,
there's a feature
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called micro
thin lamination where
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there are coarse and
fine layers just centimeters
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from each other.
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This amount of
detail is remarkable
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because it has been proposed
by secular scientists that
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features like these take
long ages to form, not minutes
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or seconds.
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Yet, this is what
has been observed to have
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happened at Mount St. Helens.
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In other canyons
across the earth,
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we can observe
many similar features
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such as in the lower sandstone
layers at the Grand Canyon.
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Secular scientists have proposed
that all sedimentary layers
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in the Grand Canyon were
formed by seas coming and going
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over millions of years.
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As the seas persisted,
sediments from the waters
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made the layers as particles
settled out of the water.
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Eventually, the seas left
and the land was pushed up
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to its current elevation.
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There are many
evidences that we can look at
00:16:37.86\00:16:40.16
to show that these
layers were not made
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by seas over millions of years.
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Indications are
that these layers
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were formed very quickly by
water during the year of Noah's
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Flood.
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As the flood waters
moved around the earth,
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large amounts of
sediment settled out,
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forming layers of sediment.
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When the flood
waters were receding,
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they continued to dump
sediments on the landscape
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in very short order.
00:17:02.68\00:17:04.79
With the
observable evidence left
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after the eruption
of Mount St. Helens,
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we now realize how quickly
fine and coarse layers can form,
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given the right conditions.
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It doesn't take
millions of years
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to form these
types of layers, just
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the right
catastrophic conditions,
00:17:18.80\00:17:20.34
such as what we would
expect during the Flood.
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Mount St. Helens
provides a miniature laboratory
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for the study of
particle stratification.
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content. As the landslide fell
into the Toutle River Valley,
00:18:25.33\00:18:28.64
over 25 square miles of
new landscape was developed,
00:18:28.74\00:18:32.87
some places, up
to 600 feet thick.
00:18:32.97\00:18:37.11
On top of the debris
field, layers of ash and pumice
00:18:37.21\00:18:40.28
were deposited.
00:18:40.38\00:18:41.68
The lush valley became a gray
wasteland, similar to the moon.
00:18:41.78\00:18:46.22
After the major
volcanic activity in 1980,
00:18:46.32\00:18:49.42
the mountain went
quiet for a couple of years.
00:18:49.52\00:18:52.39
During this time, snow and
ice accumulated in the crater.
00:18:52.49\00:18:56.16
Then, in March of 1982,
the mountain came alive again.
00:18:56.26\00:19:01.47
The large amount of snow
and ice melted in the creator
00:19:01.57\00:19:04.91
and broke through
the fresh landscape.
00:19:05.01\00:19:07.98
It carved two huge canyons,
Loowit Canyon and Step Canyon,
00:19:08.08\00:19:12.31
with depths up to 600 feet.
00:19:12.41\00:19:15.18
Not only did it erode
through the ash deposits,
00:19:15.28\00:19:18.25
but also through 100
feet of solid rock from lava
00:19:18.35\00:19:19.55
flows thought to be
about 500 years old.
00:19:21.36\00:19:25.49
The water then came cascading
down the flanks of the mountain
00:19:25.59\00:19:28.80
and into the valley.
00:19:28.90\00:19:31.10
When it reached a large
pit left from a glacier steam
00:19:31.20\00:19:34.30
explosion the, water
pooled and was dammed up
00:19:34.40\00:19:37.31
to a depth of 125 feet
across the valley floor.
00:19:37.41\00:19:41.34
The mudflow eventually
broke through the dam hand
00:19:41.44\00:19:44.81
kept flowing to the west,
down the Toutle River Valley,
00:19:44.91\00:19:47.72
carving canyons as it went.
00:19:47.82\00:19:51.15
What the mudflow left
behind stunned scientists
00:19:51.25\00:19:54.52
around the world.
00:19:54.62\00:19:55.86
Just like a dam you
might build at the beach, when
00:19:55.96\00:19:58.63
a dam breaks, there's
soft soil like sand or ash.
00:19:58.73\00:20:02.00
The water carves through these
materials very quickly leaving
00:20:02.10\00:20:05.47
canyons and channels.
00:20:05.57\00:20:07.24
As scientists went
into these canyons,
00:20:07.34\00:20:09.37
they studied the newly
formed strata and were amazed.
00:20:09.47\00:20:14.61
The forces of erosion
carved a series of canyons
00:20:14.71\00:20:17.68
up to 140 feet
deep, all in just hours.
00:20:17.78\00:20:22.68
One formation has been called
the Little Grand Canyon because
00:20:22.78\00:20:26.45
of its similar features.
00:20:26.55\00:20:28.12
It is about a 140th scale
model of the Grand Canyon.
00:20:28.22\00:20:32.66
Secular scientists point to
the canyons around the world,
00:20:32.76\00:20:36.36
like the Grand
Canyon and Zion Canyon,
00:20:36.46\00:20:39.37
and say that the small rivers
in the bottoms of these canyons
00:20:39.47\00:20:42.74
carved what we see
today over millions of years.
00:20:42.84\00:20:46.64
There are many
reasons to suggest
00:20:46.74\00:20:48.78
this is just not the case.
00:20:48.88\00:20:50.58
A proper
understanding of the evidence
00:20:50.68\00:20:52.68
after actual observation of
rapid canyon formation at Mount
00:20:52.78\00:20:56.32
St. Helens led many
researchers to conclude
00:20:56.42\00:20:59.29
that to carve
canyons of large magnitude,
00:20:59.39\00:21:01.82
you need a lot of water
in a short period of time,
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.89
not the small rivers
over millions of years.
00:21:04.99\00:21:07.76
Contrary to what
most scientists think,
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.00
it isn't the river
that carved the canyon.
00:21:10.10\00:21:12.57
It was the canyon
that formed and provided
00:21:12.67\00:21:14.67
a passageway for the
river to flow through.
00:21:14.77\00:21:18.51
If one were to walk through this
canyon using the uniformitarian
00:21:18.61\00:21:22.41
model of long
ages, they would imagine
00:21:22.51\00:21:25.15
it took tens of
thousands to millions of years
00:21:25.25\00:21:27.92
for the north fork of the Toutle
River to carve this canyon.
00:21:28.02\00:21:31.32
Yet, we know from
eyewitness accounts
00:21:31.42\00:21:33.79
that it happened very rapidly.
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.69
We don't have
direct eyewitness accounts
00:21:36.79\00:21:38.96
to how the canyons
around the world were formed,
00:21:39.06\00:21:41.40
but we have "The Bible," God's
eye witness testimony, that
00:21:41.50\00:21:45.10
gives us a framework by which we
can look at these other canyons
00:21:45.20\00:21:48.34
and features.
00:21:48.44\00:21:49.57
The biblical record,
and subsequent models,
00:21:49.67\00:21:52.27
based on what we have observed
from events we did witness
00:21:52.37\00:21:55.54
are the key to understanding
these other canyons.
00:21:55.64\00:21:59.68
Here at Mount
St. Helens, we were
00:21:59.78\00:22:01.82
able to see the landscape
before these canyons were here.
00:22:01.92\00:22:05.39
And we know the
events and mechanisms
00:22:05.49\00:22:07.99
which laid down the strata and
carved the canyon through them.
00:22:08.09\00:22:12.33
Because of the
events at Mount St. Helens,
00:22:12.43\00:22:15.43
even many secular
geologists are junking
00:22:15.53\00:22:18.23
the idea of millions of years
for the formation of the Grand
00:22:18.33\00:22:21.54
Canyon, and are thinking
in terms of catastrophe.
00:22:21.64\00:22:26.11
But what type of
catastrophe would
00:22:26.21\00:22:28.44
have cut the Grand Canyon and
other canyons around the world?
00:22:28.54\00:22:32.35
We would have
needed a lot of water
00:22:32.45\00:22:34.42
over a short period of time.
00:22:34.52\00:22:36.32
There is only one event
recorded in human history that
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.62
is the key to accomplish
this, the Flood of Noah's day
00:22:39.72\00:22:42.86
as recorded in "The Bible."
00:22:42.96\00:22:44.43
Just to the south
of Mount St. Helens
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.53
is a fascinating feature
called the Trail of Two Forests.
00:22:48.63\00:22:53.50
Around 2,000 years ago when
the lava flow came through here,
00:22:53.60\00:22:56.97
there was a tree standing
right in this exact place.
00:22:57.07\00:22:59.77
As the lava flowed
around it, it hardened
00:22:59.87\00:23:02.28
enough against the cool
wood to make a form right there.
00:23:02.38\00:23:05.81
And then the wood
vaporized through the heat,
00:23:05.91\00:23:07.92
and whatever was left just
rotted away, leaving a hole.
00:23:08.02\00:23:12.89
Since that
time, a new forest has
00:23:12.99\00:23:15.16
grown on top of the lava flow.
00:23:15.26\00:23:17.73
Hence, the Trail of Two Forests.
00:23:17.83\00:23:20.40
An easy to use
walkway has been built for us
00:23:20.50\00:23:23.03
to see this
great volcanic feature.
00:23:23.13\00:23:26.37
Not all the trees were upright.
00:23:26.47\00:23:28.34
Some of them fell down and
created these lateral tunnels
00:23:28.44\00:23:31.21
all across the area.
00:23:31.31\00:23:32.71
Who wants to see me go
down one of these right now?
00:23:32.81\00:23:34.88
Show of hands, anyone?
00:23:34.98\00:23:35.98
[applause]
00:23:36.08\00:23:37.35
All right, your vote wins.
00:23:37.45\00:23:38.48
Here I go.
00:23:38.58\00:23:41.68
Are you certain my
insurance covers this?
00:23:41.78\00:23:44.79
Oh well.
00:23:44.89\00:23:46.52
Wow.
00:23:49.39\00:23:51.03
[laughing]
00:23:55.76\00:23:58.43
That was cool.
00:23:59.07\00:24:00.70
Science, it's awesome.
00:24:00.80\00:24:03.64
It doesn't take
millions of years
00:24:05.44\00:24:07.44
to form canyons, stratified
layers, and petrified forests,
00:24:07.54\00:24:11.61
only days, weeks, and months.
00:24:11.71\00:24:14.75
Secular scientists
have their own ideas
00:24:14.85\00:24:17.19
about how the earth was
formed over billions of years.
00:24:17.29\00:24:20.56
But they leave out
God's supernatural touch
00:24:20.66\00:24:22.92
and judgement.
00:24:23.02\00:24:24.33
Many of the evidences they use
to support evolutionary ideas,
00:24:24.43\00:24:27.96
are better
interpreted when looking at them
00:24:28.06\00:24:30.00
through the truth of scripture.
00:24:30.10\00:24:31.87
Mount St. Helens
was truly God's gift
00:24:31.97\00:24:34.54
to creationists by showing
us catastrophic processes that
00:24:34.64\00:24:37.87
occurred during and after
the Flood 4,300 years ago.
00:24:37.97\00:24:42.58
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