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The Rockies are
the largest group
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of mountains in North America.
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They stretch over 1,000
miles, from British Columbia
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to New Mexico.
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Most of the exposed
rocks are sedimentary,
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meaning they were formed
by water and under water.
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One of the most beautiful
locations to see the Rockies
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is Rocky Mountain National
Park in central Colorado.
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Secular scientists
believe these mountains
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were formed over
tens of millions of years
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through slow and
gradual tectonic processes.
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They use continental drift
as a mechanism for mountain
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building, yet this
idea was originally proposed
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by a Christian
geologist in 1859,
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where he suggested
the continents came
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to their current
position in less than a
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year during the global flood and
didn't take millions of years.
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Current Christian
geologists have further research
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on this idea, and now call
it catastrophic plate tectonics.
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Then, there are other
slow forming geologic features.
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These features are
related to the Rockies formation
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and erosion.
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Examples being the Great
Sand Dunes and Devils Tower.
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The Bible
indicates that our Earth
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is only about 6,000 years old.
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What is the real story of when
and how these mountains were
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formed and eroded.
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What evidence
suggests these mountains could
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have formed and eroded
during the catastrophic events
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of the flood?
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We'll 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
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as our history 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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In the state of Colorado,
just west of Fort Collins,
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is the entrance to
Rocky Mountain National Park.
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The park was established in 1915
by President Woodrow Wilson.
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It covers an area of 415 square
miles with many stunning vistas
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from valleys to high peaks.
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The elevation changes
from 4,000 to over 12,000 feet.
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It's a great place to
get out and enjoy nature.
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There are over 300 miles of
hiking trails plus 150 lakes
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and 450 miles of streams.
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Everywhere you look,
there are amazing views.
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The park has 72 peaks
that tower over 12,000 feet.
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The park represents
the best of all parts
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of the Rockies, deep valleys,
high peaks, rough terrain,
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and lots of wildlife.
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There are many
stops along the highway
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for views of wild
animals, opportunities
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to see elk and deer.
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Coming here is a real treat.
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Mountains are
found on every continent.
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How do they form?
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There are actually several
ways mountains are built.
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The first way is mountains
can be formed by folded layers.
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The layers are pushed together
on each end and begin to fold.
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The layers will rise and
fall twisting in the process.
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Examples of folded mountains
are found in the Rockies, Alps,
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Himalayas, and Appalachians.
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Another kind is
called domed mountains.
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This happens when pressures
below the earth's surface
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push up layers, and
then the layers get bent.
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The Black Hills
of South Dakota are
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an example of domed mountains.
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Then, there are
fault block mountains.
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This happens when layers shift
up or down, like a knife went
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through the layers and cut them
up, so they shift vertically.
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The Grand Tetons in
Wyoming are an example
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of fault block mountains.
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Today, probably the most
dramatic and visible formations
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are volcanic mountains.
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These types of
mountains form when
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molten lava comes
up through the crust
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and pushes out onto the surface.
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They tend to be in
linear chains across the earth.
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They include the
Cascades, Aleutians,
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and Hawaiian Islands, which
are around the Pacific Rim.
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Secular scientists
believe the mountains
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we see today have
risen over millions of years
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through slow and
gradual processes.
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But since the Bible
indicates a much younger
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earth, the processes for
building the mountains, which
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we see today, would
have happened much quicker
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in the past.
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There is a lot of
evidence suggesting
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the flood was responsible
for catastrophic processes.
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These processes would have
formed most of the mountains
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in less than a year.
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So we have mountains
forming through upheaval,
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plus flood waters
carving new valleys
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and revealing more mountains.
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Even during the several
hundred years after the flood,
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as the earth
settled, there was still
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lots of geologic activity.
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Many of the volcanic
mountains we see today
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were a part of that process of
reaching geologic equilibrium.
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The Rockies only
reach 13,000 to 14,000 feet,
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and they are made up
of sedimentary layers.
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What's amazing
about these mountains
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is they're full
of marine fossils.
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Evolutionists
presume these fossils
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developed in a
shallow sea covering this area
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millions of years ago.
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Below the sedimentary
rocks, we find metamorphic rocks
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and granites.
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Metamorphic rocks are
sedimentary and volcanic rocks
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that have been
changed by heat and pressure.
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The granites are assumed to be
the basement rocks formed over
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a billion years ago.
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These three levels of
granites, metamorphic,
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and sedimentary rocks are
thought by secular scientists
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to be three generations of
mountain building processes.
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The sedimentary being
the youngest of these.
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Many of the Rocky Mountains
have been pushed up, faulted,
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and folded.
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How did this happen?
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We now know the
surface of the Earth
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is made up of various
plates called tectonic plates.
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As far as we know, earth is the
only planet in the solar system
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with plates like these.
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The plates move.
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Currently, the rate
of movement is slow.
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They can collide with each
other, pushing up mountains.
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When one plate
slides underneath another,
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it is called subduction.
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We know Mt.
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Everest in Asia, the
tallest mountain in the world,
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continues to grow in
height by 4 millimeters a year.
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This is because two plates
are pushing into each other.
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The amazing part about
Everest is the top layer
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is sedimentary and
contains fossils, which means
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they were formed by water.
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Since sea level is
where most water is now, Mt.
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Everest has risen almost 30,000
feet at some point in the past.
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Most of the floor
of the Pacific Ocean
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is known as the Pacific plate.
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North America is known
as the North American plate,
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and South America is known
as the South American Plate.
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The Western edges of
North and South America
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are at the
edges of those plates.
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While the east
sides of those plates
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go all the way to
the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
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It is thought by
secular geologists
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that North America was much
flatter many millions of years
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ago then it is now.
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Placid seas came and went laying
down many layers of sediments.
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Then, some
unknown geologic process
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began pushing the
Pacific plate down
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below the North American plate.
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The Pacific plate dragged down
the Western edge of the North
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America plate and began
to push up the North American
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plate near its Western side.
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This caused
mountains to be pushed up
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supposedly forming the Rockies
over tens of millions of years.
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This upward pressure
also allowed molten rock
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to rise from deep in the earth
causing some volcanic activity
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on the surface.
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As the sedimentary
layers on top got pushed up,
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they were
partially eroded to expose
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the metamorphic and
granite rocks beneath,
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leaving tilted sedimentary
layers flanking them.
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All of these geologic processes
supposedly happened over
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tens of millions of years.
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Secular scientists
believe that mountain building
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is an ongoing process.
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Mountains being destroyed
and rebuilt over and over again.
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For the most part,
creation scientists
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don't disagree with secular
scientists about the mechanism
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for creating the
Rockies, but they
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believe geologic
processes happened much faster
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in the past.
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Back in 1859, French
geographer and scientist,
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Antonio
Snider-Pellegrini proposed
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that rapid horizontal
divergence of the crustal plates
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occurred during the
flood of Noah's day,
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and then slowed down.
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This basically
means tectonic plates
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began moving very
quickly initiating
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the geologic processes
to start the global flood.
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During the one year
period of the flood,
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they continued to move,
going underneath each other
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or colliding.
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This caused
mountains to rise quickly,
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and the flood waters
to eventually move off
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the continents.
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He developed this
idea after looking
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at how some of
the earth's continents
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seemed to match together.
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It appeared as if
they were once connected.
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He proposed the earth's
tectonic plates were rapidly
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ripped apart and
sprinted catastrophically
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to their current
positions in less than a year.
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Before this
time, most geologists
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believed the earth's
plates were horizontally fixed.
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Pellegrini a creationist,
thought differently,
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and furthered
science as a result.
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Later, secular
geologists adopted this idea
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of diverging crustal plates.
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However, due to their
world view of long ages,
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they developed the idea
of slow continental drift.
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Some would say the amazing
ideas of a creation geologist
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were hijacked by secular
scientists to prove long ages.
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This is an effort to use
creation geologist discoveries
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against them.
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Unfortunately,
slow continental drift
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has become the
predominant theory
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among secular geologists.
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In the 1990s,
several creation geologists
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adopted Pellegrini's idea for
quick movement of the earth's
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plates during the flood.
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They furthered his research,
and called it catastrophic plate
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tectonics, or CPT. As it
was examined in more detail,
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CPT appears
capable of explaining
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a wide variety of data,
which slow tectonic theories
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are incapable of explaining.
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In a pre-flood earth,
the earth was differentiated
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into core, mantle, and crust.
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The crust was
separated horizontally
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into large stable blocks of
rock above the waters formed
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during the creation week.
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These types of rocks are
mainly granites and metamorphic.
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The ocean floor was
primarily made of mafic basalt,
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which is denser than granite.
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In CPT, the flood was
started as slabs of ocean floor
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broke loose and
subducted along thousands
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of miles of
pre-flood continental margins.
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The pre-flood
supercontinent also broke up
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into fragments called plates.
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This all led to
the plates moving
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at feet per second,
and mantle convection
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bringing up
massive amounts of heat
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from the interior of the earth.
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The mantle convection
affecting the earth's core,
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which induced rapid reversals
of the earth's magnetic field.
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From near the
core mantle boundary,
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large plumes of
molten rock rose to erupt
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as vast volcanic outpourings
called flood basalts.
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Rising basalt lavas
from the upper mantle
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also rapidly filled
the long linear ruptures
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in the sea floor,
pushing the old seafloor aside.
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Rapidly, the
continental fragments
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were horizontally
displaced pushing the plates.
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This rapid rising of
basalt magma with steam
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came into contact
with the ocean water
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and jettisoned
ocean water with steam
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high into the
atmosphere where it condensed
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creating intense global rain.
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The new warm
ocean floor rose quickly
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as the new less dense
magma that had produced
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it poured out from the mantle.
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This caused sea level to rise so
that the ocean waters swept up
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onto and across the continents.
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Now, the pushed aside
denser cold pre-flood ocean
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floor, as it subducted,
started bending and up warping.
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Fast moving ocean water
facilitated the transport
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of sediments onto
the continental margins.
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Large earthquakes
induced tidal waves with ocean
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to land movement
further transporting sediments
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into the continental interiors.
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This resulted in
sedimentary rock layers
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covering regions and even entire
continents that were eventually
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covered in thick and
uniform layers of sediment.
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This is very
prevalent in the Western United
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States, such as in the
southwest and the Rockies.
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Erosion of these
sediment layers can
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be seen in
places such as the Grand
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. When the
pre-flood, cold dense ocean
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floor subducted under the
moving continents and plunged
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into the mantle it also tried
to drag the continental edges
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with it.
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But there was a problem.
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Further inland from its
edge, the North American plate
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began to arch upwards,
and thus, the Rocky Mountain
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started to develop very quickly.
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There was some
faulting as well as up warping.
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During this time,
cracking in the crust
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also occurred, and
large amounts of magma
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poured out onto the
continents through volcanoes.
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Because the
subducting pre-flood ocean floor
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slab sank below creation week
rocks foundational to the North
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American plate,
these got pushed up too.
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Examples being the
granites and metamorphic rocks.
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When all of the cold,
dense, pre-flood oceanic floor
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had been replaced with new warm,
less dense, less subductible
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oceanic crust,
catastrophic plate motion
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slowed down and
eventually stopped.
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The continental margins
stopped getting dragged down
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by the subducting slab,
so it bobbed back up again.
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The Rockies thus, rose higher.
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This new ocean floor increased
in density as it cooled.
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It then began sinking,
producing deeper ocean basins.
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As the mountains were
rising on the continents,
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the ocean basins were
sinking, and the flood waters
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receded quickly.
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It caused sheet
and channelized erosion
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planing off thousands of
feet of sedimentary layers.
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Much of the
continental shelves today
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are comprised of
these eroded materials.
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Even after the flood waters
drained into the ocean basins,
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there was a substantial period
of gravitational readjustment
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were local to
regional catastrophes
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with intense earthquake and
volcanic activity were common.
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Post-flood sedimentation
did continue, and was rapid
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at times, but
was mainly contained
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to small basins
on the continents.
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Huge geologic activity in
the oceans during the flood
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would have heated
up the water worldwide.
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This resulted in a significantly
warmer climate just
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after the flood.
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Large storms dumped
huge amounts of rain and snow
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on the continents
causing heavy erosion
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and the quick development of
the ice age towards the poles.
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CPT simply takes the
secular continental drift idea
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and puts it in the
context of the flood, which
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lasted only a year.
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The Rockies formed
quickly during this time.
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Even after the flood, they would
have experienced more change,
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but not as dramatic as the earth
settled and erosion continued.
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Some creation scientists
argue that recent earthquakes
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and geologic activity is still
the settling down of the earth
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from the events of the flood.
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CPT is a great
model for explaining
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much of the geology we
observe around the world today.
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Based on
Pellegrini's observations,
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the CPT model is
actually older and more accurate
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than the secular model
of slow continental drift.
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When you take the
biblical record as true history,
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it makes much better sense
of what we find in the evidence.
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Science, it's awesome.
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Back in 1785, James
Hutton proposed that the earth
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was immensely old.
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Before that, many scientists
believed the earth was young,
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using the Bible as their guide.
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Today, most geologists
take Hutton's view for granted
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and accept that the continents
formed at least 2 and 1/2
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billion years ago.
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Once you take a closer
look, many geological processes
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indicate the
continents are much younger.
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One such process, which
indicates a younger earth,
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is the process of erosion.
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You can measure the rate
of erosion across the world.
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Water is the main culprit.
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With some parts of the world
getting more rain than others,
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the rate of erosion can vary
drastically across the globe.
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Using current rates,
the average height reduction
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for all the continents is about
2.4 inches per 1,000 years.
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In the 2 and 1/2 billion
years of supposed earth's
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continental history,
93 miles of continent
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would have eroded, which defies
common sense on a planet where
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the highest mountains are only
a few miles above sea level.
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At the current
average rate, North America
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would have been leveled in
less than 10 million years.
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Either the
average rate of erosion
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was much smaller in the past,
the earth just isn't that old,
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or the rate of erosion
was much greater in the past,
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and the earth is as
young as the Bible indicates,
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only 6,000 years.
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To make matters
worse, mountainous regions
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with their steep
slopes and deep valleys
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erode fastest, at an average
of 39 inches in reduction
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every 1,000 years.
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Some mountains
in Papua New Guinea
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have been measured to erode
at 750 inches per 1,000 years.
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There is also evidence that the
earth was much more temperate
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in the past.
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Places that are now
deserts, like the Sahara,
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were once very wet.
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In addition, an abundance of
evidence in the fossil record
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shows a much wetter
climate in the past.
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So if the earth were even
hundreds of millions of years
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old, the
mountains should not exist.
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Secular scientists say the
process of erosion and mountain
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building is ongoing, so that
as the mountains are eroded,
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they continue to
uplift and build.
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So the effect of
erosion is not as noticeable.
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Yes, uplift is
occurring right now,
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but there is a major
problem with this option.
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If current
erosion rates are used,
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we should not find any
old sediments in the mountain
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areas, yet we find sediments
from all ages preserved even
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on the highest
peaks, such as Mt.
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Everest.
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But if we take
the Bible literally,
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asserting that there was a
worldwide flood, which happened
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in a year, then
the rates of erosion
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would have been off the
charts and match much what
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we find around the world.
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The Bible says, by
day 150 the entire earth
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was covered in water.
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In fact, the Bible states
the highest peak from the earth
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before the flood was covered
by over 23 feet of water.
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God's promise of destruction
of man and animals was complete.
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Only those on the
ark could have survived.
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Because many of
the mountains today
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show evidence of rising
quickly during the flood,
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the mountains before
the flood were probably
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much smaller and hard to
compare to what we see today.
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Some also question
how the entire earth could
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have been covered by water,
but if every continent was
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laid flat and
the ocean basins were
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filled in so that
everything was level,
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there is enough water to
cover the entire earth up
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to 1.7 miles.
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That's about 9,000 feet.
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Psalm 104, verse 8,
tells us that during the flood,
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the mountains rose
and the ocean basins sank.
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As already discussed,
catastrophic plate tectonics
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would have
quickly push up mountains
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and eroded them quickly.
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Giant sheets of
sediments thousands of feet
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thick were eroded
in just days to months
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as the floodwaters retreated.
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As you can tell
by now, the flood
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had a major impact on
the earth we see today.
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The Bible says the flood
was God's judgment on sin
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and rebellion back
in the days of Noah.
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With everything
happening in our world today
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and where man is headed,
God promises another judgment
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on man's rebellion and sin.
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This time, by fire.
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He loves his creation, but can't
let it go on the way it is,
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towards destruction.
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But he promises, if
we repent of our sin
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and turn to his son, Jesus
Christ, and trust in his death
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on the cross as the
payment for our sin,
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then God will forgive us, and
we will walk with him forever
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in a new heaven and new earth.
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If you have not
done so already, we
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encourage you to repent of your
sin and turn to Jesus Christ
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today.
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