And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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NOAH JUSTICE: One of America's
most incredible national parks
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sits on the border
of Montana in Canada.
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It's called
Glacier National Park.
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Giant cliffs of sedimentary rock
rises thousands of feet high.
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How did the rocks form?
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And what processes
carved these giant valleys?
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Secular
scientists say these rocks
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are over 1.6 billion years old
and contain stromatolites built
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by microbes supposed to have
formed over a billion years,
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ago according to evolution.
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They also say many
ice ages over millions
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of years carved
these valleys, yet there
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are over 60 ideas about how
the ice age formed and melted,
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showing secular
scientists really
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don't have any one theory that
works well with the evidence.
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Some people doubt
there was an ice age,
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but the evidence
is all around us.
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The Bible indicates that
these rocks were formed quickly
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during the global
flood, which produced
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the right
conditions for one ice age,
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all happening within
the last 4,350 years.
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This time scale does not
match with the billions of years
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proposed by secular scientists.
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Which view is correct?
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And what does the
evidence really show?
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Find out all this and
more next on "Awesome Science."
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"Awesome Science"
takes you on a field trip
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to some of the most amazing
geologic and historic 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, the Fall,
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and in the Flood.
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Science, it's awesome.
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The history of this area
goes back thousands of years.
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The earliest inhabitants were
American Indians, the Salish.
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Flathead,
Shoshone, and Cheyenne.
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The anthropologist,
historian, and writer,
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George Bird
Grinnell, called this area
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the Crown of the Continent.
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He made it his
life's goal to preserve
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this beauty for all mankind.
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But progress came.
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In 1891, the
Great Northern Railway
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crossed the Continental Divide
along the southern boundary
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of the park.
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And Swiss style lodges and
chalets were built in this area
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to portray it as
Americas Switzerland.
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In concern that
the land would not
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be exploited for
private enterprise,
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President Taft, in
1910, established this area
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as a national park.
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The park compasses over 1.2
million acres with two mountain
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ranges, over 700
pristine lakes, only 134 named.
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The deepest is Lake
McDonald at 464 feet.
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The park has
over 200 waterfalls,
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some almost 500 feet tall.
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Two million
visitors come here annually.
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You can travel by
car or by bus through
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this magnificent scenery.
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In 1932, work was completed
on the Going-to-the-Sun Road,
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which connects the
west and east sides.
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The road was named after
an American Indian legend
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and is considered
an engineering marvel.
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It was built in the
1930s on sheer cliffs
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during the short
construction seasons
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where workers had to build
through 60 foot snowdrifts.
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The highest point of the
highway goes over Logan's Pass
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at 6,646 feet.
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The road was completed in
less than 20 years and cost
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more than $2 million.
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Glacier is a part of a
large preserved ecosystem
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known as the Crown of
the Continent ecosystem.
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There is little to
no pollution since there
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are no major
dense human population
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centers and no factories.
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It's a great place
to observe alpine flora.
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There are a total
of 1,132 plant species
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found in the valleys and peaks.
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There are three
major climate zones
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in the park, the
east side which is
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drier and colder, the
alpine regions, and the Pacific
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side, which tends to be warmer.
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Animal life is abundant.
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You can observe grizzly bears,
wolverines, mountain goats,
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big horn sheep, moose,
elk, mule deer, coyote,
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and on a rare
occasion, a mountain lion.
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Glacier is known for
its grizzly bear attacks.
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But only a few happen each year.
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It's always good to be cautious,
so carry a can of bear spray
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if you venture out onto
the 700 miles of hiking trails.
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Evidence for widespread glaciers
is found throughout the park.
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You can easily spot the u-shaped
valleys, glacial cirques,
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hanging valleys, moraines,
and large outflow lakes.
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Be sure to look
for these features
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as you explore the park.
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The rocks and
glaciers are supposed
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to be the best preserved
Proterozoic sedimentary
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layers in the world,
showcasing the Earth's most
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fruitful source for
the record of early life,
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according to
evolutionary thought.
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But the Bible
indicates the Earth
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was created
about 6,000 years ago,
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using the genealogies
found in Genesis and Matthew.
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So how do we
interpret the evidence
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for supposed long ages in the
light of the Biblical record?
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Let's see what the
evidence really shows.
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Glacier National Park
is in the northern Rockies.
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The Rocky Mountains
stretch from northern Arizona
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all the way up into Canada.
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Most of the Rocky Mountains
consist of sedimentary layers,
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meaning they were formed
by water and under water.
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There are also granite and
volcanic rocks here as well.
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Some secular
scientists say the Rockies
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we see today are the
third generation of mountains
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after seas and erosion carved
down the previous Rockies,
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leaving only a remnant
of past mountain building.
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The Rockies we
see today are thought
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to have formed over 1.6
billion to 800 million years ago
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by secular geologists.
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The top layer of
strata in Glacier
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is called the
Lewis Overthrust and is
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supposed to be from
the Proterozoic period.
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There is a big problem
here, because according
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to the geologic
column, the top layer
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is one and a half billion
years older than the rocks
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below, which are
from the Cretaceous age.
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Because these
layers are out of place
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according to the
supposed geologic column,
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scientists have
come up with a solution.
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They call it an overthrust.
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Overthrusts are thought to
result from a geological event
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where one rock
layer is pushed up
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over another through
tectonic activity over millions
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of years.
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Since we don't see
this happening today
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and can't perform
scientific experiments
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on such a
massive geologic scale,
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secular scientists
try to collect clues
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about what happened.
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Yet these clues are
viewed through their worldview
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of long ages and gradualism.
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Catastrophic processes
such as a worldwide flood
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are not an option
in their thinking.
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The Lewis Overthrust extends
from Glacier National Park
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to 350 miles north.
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It is 15 to 30 miles wide.
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And the rocks
are believed to have
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been thrust about 35 miles
from their original location.
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We find these overthrusts
throughout the mountain ranges
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of the world.
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The largest one is
found in northern Wyoming
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and called the
Heart Mountain Overthrust.
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If these formations are
truly overthrusts millions
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of years old, what
evidence should we see?
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Being that there are sedimentary
layers both above and below,
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the sedimentary
layer below would
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have to first
harden into rock then
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be pulled or pushed many miles
over another sedimentary layer
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that formed into rock after it.
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Secular geologists say this
happened over millions of years
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through slow and
gradual processes,
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yet this
tremendous geologic activity
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should show stress and
friction on each layer being
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pushed or pulled over one
distances in periods of time.
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At the contact point
between the two layers,
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the rocks should be ground up.
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In addition, where the
layer was initially pushed,
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the rocks should be
compressed because it's
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taking all of the
weight of the rock behind it.
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But we don't find
these compressed layers.
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With the supposed millions
of years time scale secular
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scientists use, the
coefficient of friction
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would have torn
the layers apart.
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The coefficient of friction
is an empirical measurement
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which describes the
ratio of the force of friction
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between two bodies and the
force pressing them together.
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But the contact point
between the two layers
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is sharp and
abrupt, not ground up.
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This is a telltale sign that the
overthrust between these layers
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was formed by
other geologic processes.
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If there is such a
lack in physical evidence
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for the overthrust
being formed over long ages,
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why do secular scientists
continue to believe in it?
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Finally, if one layer was
pushed, then all of the layers
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should show evidence of being
pushed in the same direction.
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But this evidence is absent.
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It looks like only
one layer was pushed,
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because the
fossils in the top layer
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appear to be more
simple than the fossils
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in the bottom layer.
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If evolution were
true, then we should
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find the opposite and more
basic lifeforms on the bottom.
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Secular
scientists promote the idea
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of an overthrust to explain why
the fossils are out of order.
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The overthrust
becomes their magic bullet
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to solve this dilemma.
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But as we pointed
out, there is no evidence
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for an overthrust happening
over millions of years.
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So how do we solve this problem?
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The Bible provides the
answer to this dilemma.
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The key to understanding how the
rocks in Glacier were formed,
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and much of the Rockies,
is found in the composition
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of their formations.
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They're mostly
sedimentary rocks,
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which are formed by
water and under water.
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The lower layers are
granite and metamorphic rocks,
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which could possibly
be the rocks of creation.
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The Bible says that
about 4,350 years ago, man
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had come to a point where every
thought of his mind was evil.
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And God was
sorry that he made man.
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So He chose to destroy
everything on the Earth
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by water as a judgment
against man's rebellion and sin.
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But there was one righteous man,
Noah, along with his family,
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who God chose to save by warning
him of the coming disaster
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and that he must
build an ark to be saved.
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When the Flood
came, it was catastrophic.
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As promised, all life
on earth was destroyed.
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After 150 days, the
water covered the entire Earth.
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The Earth was going through
tremendous geologic turmoil
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below the surface of the water.
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Giant tidal currents
carried sand, silt, and mud
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across the globe, laying
down many layers of sediment,
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in some places tens of
thousands of feet thick.
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As water
currents changed because
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of the geologic
activity below, life forms
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were being
buried in massive graves
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right within the
soft sedimentary layers.
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As the Flood
reached its full height,
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the Earth below
began to rise in places
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as rock layers were
pushed up, developing
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large mountains which changed
the worldwide flood currents.
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As mountains
rose, the flood waters
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began to fall away from
the uplifting rock layers,
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first flowing in
sheets, eroding thousands
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of feet of
layers of soft sediment
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and depositing them
into new ocean basins
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and elsewhere on the continents.
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Because of this rise of the
mountains on the continents,
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entire layers of
sediment miles wide
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could also have
began sliding downhill
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by the simple force of gravity.
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Back in the
1950s, secular scientists
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proposed the idea of
gravity slides to explain
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these out of place layers.
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But then in the
1960s, those scientists
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changed to believe that
slow plate tectonics caused
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these features.
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Because they like to believe
in slow, gradual processes,
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they choose to ignore the data
which supported gravity slides.
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But creation
scientists have brought back
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the idea of catastrophic
gravity slides, or super faults,
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to explain how these
massive layers of rock
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were put into place.
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First of all, as we established,
solid rock cannot easily be
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pushed.
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It breaks apart when moved.
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In order for these
layers to move and stay
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together
unbroken, they would have
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to be relatively soft at
the time they were moved.
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There were only
two times in history
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where these layers could
have been relatively soft--
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during the creation
week and during the flood.
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Since these layers in
Glacier are upper layers,
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they are from the
time of the Flood.
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During the
Flood, water could have
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been trapped under
some of the sediment layers.
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This water would have
been under tremendous pressure.
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Studies have shown that
if a sediment layer is tilted
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at least two
degrees and there is
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water under high
pressure underneath this layer,
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the layer will begin to
slide downhill due to gravity.
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The process of compressed
water making heavy objects slide
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is similar to water
boarding at the beach.
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Water boarding is
taking a thin board,
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throwing it across
a thin sheet of water,
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then running and
sliding on top of it.
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If you tried water
boarding on dry sand,
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it would be disastrous.
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But when a thin
layer of water is
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put between the board and the
sand with the pressure of you
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on top, you can
glide for many feet.
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When the mountains were rising
at the end stages of the Flood,
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layers of sediment would
have glided across the landscape
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in a similar way.
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After the layers stopped
sliding and settled down,
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the rock layers
further hardened.
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. What we've
seen here at Glacier so far
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is how the layers are amazing
and what the Flood did here.
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But what this national
park is really known for
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is how the Ice Age left
its mark in these valleys.
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Evidence for the Ice Age
was discovered in the mid 1800s.
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What scientists observed
were large U-shaped valleys
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and moraines.
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When secular scientists
first discovered evidence
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for an ice age, it didn't
fit their uniformitarian view,
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because uniformitarianism says
that the processes we see today
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are the ones that
happened in the past.
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And we don't see ice
ages forming today, do we?
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These scientists
observed evidence
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for at least one ice age,
but had no idea how quickly
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it formed or melted.
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Because they
believe in long ages,
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they guessed an ice age
would last 100,000 years.
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And just one ice age
didn't seem reasonable.
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They then
discovered supposed evidence
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in the moraines
and ocean sediments
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for many ice ages
spanning over two million years.
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They claim that we have seen
at least four major ice ages.
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And some scientists even suggest
our distant past included ice
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everywhere,
calling it Snowball Earth.
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Secular scientists say that
the last ice age occurred around
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10,000 years ago.
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But what does the
evidence really show?
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They also say that we're
due for another ice age soon,
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but they really
don't have a clue about how
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it develops in the first place.
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So what elements do
you need for an ice age?
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The primary elements you
need are abundant moisture,
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mild winters, and cool summers.
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Let's take a look
at each one of these.
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Abundant moisture
usually comes from our oceans,
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especially warm oceans.
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Most of our large
storms and hurricanes
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come from the
equatorial regions,
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where the water
is extremely warm.
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But to develop the
vast amounts of moisture
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to create an ice age
would require much warmer oceans
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worldwide.
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Next, you need mild winters.
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If winters are too cold,
the air cannot hold moisture.
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And therefore, it can't snow.
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We see this in the
Arctic, where temperatures
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get into the subzero
level and snow fall is absent.
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When we say mild
winters, we're not
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saying winters above
freezing, just winters about 20
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or 30 degrees below freezing.
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Finally, you need cool summers.
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How do you get that?
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The answer might surprise you.
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Mechanisms such as volcanoes
can put ash and aerosols
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into the atmosphere
and cause global cooling
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for short periods of time.
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This cooling
usually lasts just a couple
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of years from one major event.
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For instance, Mount Pinatubo's
massive eruption in 1991
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caused the Earth's average
temperature to drop by a degree
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or two for many months.
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If several large eruptions
happened simultaneously
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around the Earth, the
effect would be much greater.
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But to create consistently
cool summers worldwide,
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you would need large volcanic
activity for several decades.
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There is evidence
to support this idea,
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because we find signs
of global volcanic activity
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in the Earth's recent past.
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This evidence includes
many extinct super volcanoes,
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huge ash beds, and
gigantic lava flows
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found throughout the world.
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As Bible
believing creationists, we
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have a good answer for
how the Ice Age formed.
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During the
global flood, the Earth
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was going through
catastrophic global changes.
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At the beginning of
the flood, the Bible
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says the fountains of
the great deep burst forth.
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This included
warm subterranean water
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from within the
Earth's crust, which
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was ejected onto the surface.
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In addition, the
fountains of the great deep
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included molten lava.
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Although the Bible does
not speak of them specifically,
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some creation
scientists have found evidence
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that the Flood could have
involved meteorites entering
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the Earth's atmosphere.
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These events would have added
heat to the Earth's waters.
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Finally, large-scale
catastrophic tectonic activity
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would have caused friction.
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The water on top
of the tectonic plates
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would have
heated up dramatically
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as the plates
were subducted rapidly.
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All of these processes would
have warmed the flood waters
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to a very high temperature
by the end of the flood.
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Sea floor
sediments indicate the waters
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were much warmer in the
past around the entire Earth.
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Estimates for ocean
temperatures worldwide
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could have risen to at
least 90 degrees Fahrenheit
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or even higher.
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These warm waters would have
existed worldwide for hundreds
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of years after the flood.
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These conditions would have
caused tremendous evaporation,
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resulting in very large
precipitation near the shores
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and snowstorms in
the higher latitudes.
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With mild winters and
cool summers after the Flood,
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the snow would have accumulated
quickly in the mountains
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and not melted off.
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This snow and ice would have
eventually filled the valleys
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and created large ice sheets
over the northern and southern
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continents.
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Some estimates
from creation scientists
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are that huge ice
sheets could have accumulated
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in 200 to 300 years, starting
within decades after the Flood.
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But some say it takes
tens of thousands of years
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to build up ice
sheets that thick.
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Think again.
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During World War II, a squadron
of six P-38s and two B-17
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bombers had to crash land on
top of Greenland's ice sheets.
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None of the crew was
lost, and they were all
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rescued and returned safely
home after spending several days
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on the desolate ice.
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In the 1980s, a team
of ambitious historians
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decided to go back
and find these planes
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and bring them home.
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They assumed the job
would be fairly easy,
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.17
because they made the
assumption that ice does not
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accumulate quickly.
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They were wrong.
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This assumption was made because
secular scientists tell us
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it takes thousands or
even millions of years
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to develop an ice sheet.
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After several
failed attempts at finding
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the planes near the
surface, they eventually
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located them much further down.
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In fact, they were
buried under 250 feet of ice.
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This is just one
example showing that it doesn't
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take long ages to
build up an ice pack, just
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the right conditions.
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With the
meteorological conditions right
00:22:21.57\00:22:23.94
after the Flood,
building the Ice Age
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quickly was not a problem.
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God loves us.
00:22:28.38\00:22:29.61
And He is in control
of all living things.
00:22:29.71\00:22:33.05
We need to be aware that
there are other spiritual forces
00:22:33.15\00:22:36.22
at work which are
using the global warming
00:22:36.32\00:22:38.42
debate as a means to push
their own agenda, which does not
00:22:38.52\00:22:41.96
include
honoring God or His word.
00:22:42.06\00:22:45.29
We know the future of our world.
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.66
It will be destroyed by
fire in God's final judgment
00:22:47.76\00:22:50.83
against man.
00:22:50.93\00:22:52.00
And there is nothing
we can do to stop it.
00:22:52.10\00:22:55.64
But God has provided a
way out of His judgement.
00:22:55.74\00:22:58.71
He loves man and desires to
have a relationship with him.
00:22:58.81\00:23:02.14
But we are sinful creatures
and cannot fellowship with God,
00:23:02.24\00:23:05.68
because He is
holy and we are not.
00:23:05.78\00:23:09.25
Our sin and
rebellion against God
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deserves the penalty of
death, yet God made a way for us
00:23:11.62\00:23:15.96
to escape the
judgement by sending
00:23:16.06\00:23:17.69
His own Son, Jesus Christ.
00:23:17.79\00:23:20.50
Because Jesus is God's
Son, He is perfect without sin.
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He died in our place, taking the
punishment for mankind's sin.
00:23:25.30\00:23:29.47
Only by repenting of
our sin and believing
00:23:29.57\00:23:31.97
in this gift of
salvation through what
00:23:32.07\00:23:33.98
Jesus did for us
on the cross will
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.38
we be able to
escape His judgement
00:23:36.48\00:23:38.41
and enter into
fellowship with God forever.
00:23:38.51\00:23:41.45
We encourage you
to repent of your sin
00:23:41.55\00:23:43.92
and come to salvation today,
before God's final judgment
00:23:44.02\00:23:47.62
comes.
00:23:47.72\00:23:48.12
Glacier is a great place to see
the evidence for a global flood
00:23:51.53\00:23:55.36
in the massive layers that
have been exposed in the park.
00:23:55.46\00:23:58.93
We also see how
the overthrusts show
00:23:59.03\00:24:01.44
incredible geologic
activity during the Flood.
00:24:01.54\00:24:05.01
We've also seen how the Flood
provided the right conditions
00:24:05.11\00:24:08.24
to start and
maintain the Ice Age.
00:24:08.34\00:24:11.01
Because the one and only Flood
provided the right conditions
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.08
for the Ice Age, the
prediction of another ice age
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.02
is just blind speculation.
00:24:18.12\00:24:20.62
We can trust in God's word
to help us interpret the past
00:24:20.72\00:24:24.43
and to use it as a
guide to Earth's history.
00:24:24.53\00:24:28.06
When we use God's word,
things begin to make sense
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.27
about what we find in nature.
00:24:31.37\00:24:34.54
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