And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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NOAH JUSTICE: There
is an incredible area
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in Western
Colorado and Eastern Utah,
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where an amazing collection
of dinosaur bones are located.
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It is called
Dinosaur National Monument,
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and it is found in
the Morrison Formation.
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These fossils were
first discovered in 1909,
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and then they were set aside
by President Woodrow Wilson
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for national preservation.
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Park signs present history
from a naturalistic world view,
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saying that dinosaurs lived
over 100 million years ago,
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dying out about
65 million years ago.
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The cause of their mass
extinction remains a mystery.
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All we know for
sure is that they
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were buried quickly, worldwide,
under flood-like conditions.
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Yet, from the Bible,
we infer that our Earth
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is only about 6,000 years old.
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Human history and
recent scientific evidence,
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such as soft
dinosaur tissue, seem
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to support the
biblical worldview.
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Which view is correct?
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Where does the
evidence fit best?
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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,
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the fall and the flood.
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Science-- it's awesome.
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On the western
side of the Rockies
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is a vast area of desert basins
and parched mountain chains.
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In 1909, a large
deposit of dinosaur bones
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was found near
Dinosaur, Colorado
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by Earl Douglass, a
paleontologist working
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and collecting for the Carnegie
Museum of Natural History.
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Just six years later,
President Woodrow Wilson
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set aside 80 acres surrounding
the Dinosaur Quarry in Utah
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as a national monument.
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It's now grown to over 200,000
acres, located on the southeast
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flank of the Uinta Mountains,
on the border between Colorado
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and Utah at the confluence
of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
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The most common dinosaurs
found here are the Allosaurus
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and the Camarasaurus.
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They're found in
sedimentary rock layers
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of sandstone,
mudstone, siltstone, limestone,
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and a conglomerate bed.
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The layers which locally
make up the Morrison Formation.
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The Morrison Formation is found
in the Western United States,
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covering some one and a
half million square miles.
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Only a teeny fraction
is exposed and inaccessible
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to geologists
and paleontologists.
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The Dinosaur Quarry is the most
famous site of the monument.
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It is enclosed, taking you right
up to the steeply tilted rock
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layers, which contain hundreds
of fossilized dinosaur bones.
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This large quarry
building keeps the fossil safe
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from erosion and vandalism.
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The tilted rock has been
chipped away by paleontologists
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to reveal the fossil bones.
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You can spend hours finding
skulls, rib cages, and leg
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bones.
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It's a great
opportunity for everyone
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in the family to closely
observe real dinosaur fossils.
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Also present in abundance among
some of the fossilized dinosaur
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bones, though rarely
mentioned by evolutionists,
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are fossil unionid
clam shells, clear evidence
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of the watery graveyard
the dinosaurs were buried in.
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In addition, the
visitor's center at the quarry
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has full dinosaur
skeletons on display.
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Remember, many
of the signs reflect
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an evolutionary
worldview, portraying
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millions of years as fact.
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As we will soon show,
there is another worldview
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to consider, matching the
evidence much more accurately.
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In the 1820s, Gideon
Mantell, an English doctor,
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found some unusual
teeth and bones in a quarry.
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He had believed he had found an
entirely new group of reptiles.
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A couple of
decades later, nine types
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of these
different reptiles had been
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uncovered, including two called
the Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.
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Then in 1841, famous British
scientist Dr. Richard Owen
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wanted to name
these groups of creatures,
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coining the name Dinosauria,
meaning terrible lizard.
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So where do we find dinosaurs?
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Their fossils
have been discovered
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all around the world.
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Here in the
United States, they're
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mostly found in the Morrison
and Hell Creek Formations, where
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much study has been performed.
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All dinosaurs are
found in sedimentary layers
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of sand, silt, and mud, which
would seem to indicate they
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were buried quickly in a flood.
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We can assume this
because any dead animal left
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in the open air
would quickly decompose
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and scavengers
would eat the remains.
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Only quick burial
would keep the animal intact
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and provide the right
conditions for the bones
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to be quickly fossilized.
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The Morrison and
Hell Creek Formations
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appear to be pushed up,
as though the dinosaurs were
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buried under deep sediments.
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Then some geologic
process eroded away
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the overlying layers and brought
them back to the surface.
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We can see evidence of this
by the tilted layers associated
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with the fossils.
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All dinosaur fossils
are found below what's
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called the KT Boundary layer.
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The KT Boundary is
a distinctive layer
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of sediment in
between other rock layers
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and is thought by evolutionists
to represent a mass extinction
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event.
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This is because many species are
found below this layer and not
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above it.
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All dinosaur fossils are
found below the KT Boundary
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layer, as well as
many particular plants
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and marine reptiles,
produced by a famed meteor
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impact which they
believe killed the dinosaurs.
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They believe this because
the layer contains iridium,
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an element found in meteorites
and some impact sites,
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such as meteor crater in Arizona
and not in most earth rocks.
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There are two
reasons why iridium
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in a meteorite from
an asteroid does not
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make sense as the sole
source for the iridium found
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in this layer.
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First, the dust from an asteroid
does not spread very far.
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And the amount found in
this layer in various places
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around the earth is just
too much for a single impact
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from an asteroid
fragment to produce.
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So what other
mechanisms could have
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helped create the
massive amounts of iridium
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we find around the earth?
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We know that iridium is also
found in ash from volcanoes.
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With the evidence of
many super volcanic eruptions
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around the world
in the past, they
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could have easily produced
the amount of iridium found
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in this layer around the earth.
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There was one series of
such super eruptions, which
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produced the
basalts of the Deccan Traps
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of India, that coincides
with the timing of formation
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of this KT Boundary layer.
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There is thus a
lot of evidence to show
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that there was
massive volcanic activity
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during and after the flood.
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Large lava
flows and ash deposits
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were laid down
between the sediment layers
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across the earth's
surface during this worldwide
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catastrophe and as the
flood waned and the earth was
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settling to today's
relative equilibrium.
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A year-long worldwide
flood, as the Bible describes,
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makes much more
sense as the source
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of the iridium we find
in the KT Boundary layer.
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The dinosaurs could not
have survived past the 150th day
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of the flood.
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Because by then, even the
highest peaks were under water.
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The dinosaurs
would have died by then
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and their carcasses
would have been quickly covered
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by sediments and
deposited in various layers
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in that stage of the flood.
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The volcanoes
going off underwater
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would have produced the KT
Boundary layer about halfway
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through the flood,
creating large areas
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of volcanic sediment around
the world, when the dinosaurs
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perished, and also after.
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As the flood waters
then receded off the earth,
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more sediments
would have been laid
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on top of the KT Boundary layer,
burying the dinosaurs even
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further.
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In addition, the surface
of the earth below the waters
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would have been
rising over vast areas.
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And the receding waters
would have eroded large areas
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and carved valleys and canyons.
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Some of the layers that
dinosaurs were buried in
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would have been tilted
and pushed back to the surface
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over time and
uncovered by erosion for us
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to discover today.
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Remember, the
flood was catastrophic.
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Nothing with the
breath of life in its nostrils
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could have survived,
except for those on the ark.
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The KT Boundary shows us that
God's judgment was complete.
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So what happened
to the dinosaurs?
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We know about dinosaurs because
of their fossilized bones
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in sedimentary layers.
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Many have been found
in an opisthotonic pose,
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where the head
is thrown backwards,
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the neck and body arched,
and the tail thrown backwards.
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No one knows exactly why
this death pose is so frequent.
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Here at Dinosaur
National Monument
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is an Allosaurus
with its head missing.
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But its tail is broken close
to the body and lies parallel
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under its feet, with the
thicker part under its chest.
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Many other
dinosaurs in the quarry
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are found in the same
pose and are headless.
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Dinosaur
skeletons around the world
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seem to reveal a violent
death during water transport.
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These clues give us an idea
of why the dinosaurs died off so
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suddenly.
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Those who believe
in evolution, however,
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have a myriad of ideas about
how the death of the dinosaurs
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took place.
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Because they believe in
an evolutionary history,
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their ideas just
don't fit all the facts,
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while those who
believe in the Bible
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can present a
compelling case for what
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we find in the fossil record.
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Secular ideas for the demise
of the dinosaurs are many.
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Some are reasonable
and others-- really crazy--
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such as their
food source diminished
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so they starved to death,
or they just overate and died,
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they were poisoned, they
became blind from cataracts
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and could not reproduce,
mammals ate their eggs,
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or they just had
too much flatulence.
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Other ideas
include them breathing
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in too much volcanic
dust or poisonous gases,
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comets or meteorites striking
the earth, mass suicide,
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constipation, parasites,
their brains started shrinking,
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they slipped
disks in their backs,
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or sunspot activity made
the earth too hot or too cold.
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But one big clue to
their demise is the way
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that they are buried.
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Their bones are
spread out across vast areas
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in sedimentary
layers deposited by water.
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Rarely are they found
as complete skeletons.
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Most of the
bones have fossilized,
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which is a rare
process and only happens
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when an animal is quickly buried
and the right minerals can
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replace the bony tissues,
so the bones turn to stone.
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Many of the
complete skeletons show
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signs of drowning and
being pulled along in currents
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before they were deposited.
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In addition,
fossilized dinosaur tracks
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show the giant
creatures were on the move,
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as though they were trying to
escape from the rising waters.
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These findings--
watery death, quick burial
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in sentiments, warm mineral
water causing fossilization,
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and escaping
footprints, would seem
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to make a strong case
for a catastrophic end
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to these amazing creatures.
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Would any event in the past
have created these conditions?
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How about the
biblical worldwide flood?
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Starting with the creation
account found in the Bible,
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God created all the
land animals on Day 6, which
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would have included dinosaurs.
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For about 1,600 years, dinosaurs
grew in variety and number.
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The Bible and the
fossil record seem
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to indicate the earth was
much more lush and temperate,
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a perfect place for dinosaurs
to grow big and plentiful.
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When God came to
Noah about 1,600 years
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after the
creation of the world, He
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told Noah He was going to
flood the entire earth because
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of man's rebellion.
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He told Noah to
construct an ark and take
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two of every kind of
land animal and seven of some
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on the ark, which would have
included pairs of dinosaurs.
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Noah didn't have to take
large, older adult dinosaurs
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on to the ark, but
smaller, young adults
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would have had more
life left to reproduce young
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after the flood had receded.
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When we think of dinosaurs, we
often think of huge creatures,
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but the average
size of a dinosaur
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was only about the
size of a small horse.
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There are about 670 dinosaurs
named from the fossil record,
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but there are only
about 55 kinds of dinosaurs.
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So this is about
how many pairs God
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sent to be taken on the ark.
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With over 2.2 million cubic
feet of space within the ark,
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carrying the dinosaurs and all
the other kinds of land animals
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wouldn't have been a problem.
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There would have been
more than enough space
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for the animals,
food, and Noah's family.
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Once the flood ended and
the animals came off the ark,
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the environment
was very different
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than before the flood.
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As the
dinosaurs spread out, it's
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likely they didn't
repopulate in the same numbers
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as before the flood
because their environment
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had drastically changed.
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Food sources and
the different climate
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would have drastically
limited their repopulation.
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We always find dinosaur
bones in sedimentary layers,
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which usually
indicates quick burial by water.
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If a dinosaur died
and laid on the ground
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for any period of
time after the flood,
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the flesh would
have decayed quickly
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and would have been scattered.
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We see this today with any
animal that dies in the open.
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Within a matter of
days, the flesh is eaten,
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the bones are scattered,
and the carcass quickly decays.
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God has provided our world
with bacteria, bugs, fungi,
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and scavenging animals to
take care of the dead things.
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If not, our world would
be a pretty putrid place.
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With the past
graveyards of dinosaur bones
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we find around the world,
the demise of the dinosaurs
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would have been
catastrophic, a nearly
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simultaneous global destruction.
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In addition, many
of the intact skeletons
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we find show signs of
drowning, then, quick burial
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in the mineral-rich
waters with a lot of silt.
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This is what we would expect
to find if the flood were true.
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As the fountains of the great
deep came up out of the earth,
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these fountains
would have included
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warm, mineral-rich
water mixed with volcanic ash
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and sediments.
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All of these elements would have
created the right conditions
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to quickly fossilize the bones.
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. Back in the 1990s,
paleontologist Mary Schweitzer
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discovered soft
tissue in a T. rex bone.
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Then in 2000, a T. rex
was unearthed in Montana
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in the Hell Creek Formation.
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After excavating the bones,
Mary grabbed a couple of shards
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from the femur
bone, taking them back
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to her lab for further study.
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She soaked the
samples in a weak acid
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to wear away the stone and bone.
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To her surprise,
what was left was
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dinosaur soft tissue, including
collagen, blood vessels,
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and red blood cells.
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This is astounding
because most secular scientists
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believe that dinosaurs
died out 65 million years ago.
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The fragile tissue should
not have survived this long
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inside the bone.
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No one would expect to
find it because everyone knows
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soft tissue doesn't last
more than a few thousand years,
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if you're really lucky.
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But this is not
a shocking surprise
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to those who believe
in a biblical worldview,
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because they believe
that the earth is much younger
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and only 4,300 years have passed
since the global flood when
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most dinosaur
fossils were buried.
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Mary Schweitzer
continued to look for
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and found other
specimens with soft tissue.
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Being a scientist who
believes in evolution,
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she began to
research how dinosaur tissue
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could have been preserved
for such a long period of time.
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But the results
are inconclusive.
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Mark Armitage, a young
earth creation scientist,
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felt soft dinosaur
tissue was much more abundant
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than previously thought.
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So he went out to
find his own samples.
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He went to the Hell Creek
Formation in Eastern Montana,
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quickly
discovering a Triceratops horn.
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When he took it
back to his lab, he
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followed the same
procedures Mary Schweitzer
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did and found soft tissue.
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In another trip, he
found other Triceratops bones,
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recovering
additional soft tissue.
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Mark put the samples
under his electron microscopes,
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revealing amazing
detail in the bone tissue.
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Tiny osteocytes, the small cells
which help regenerate bone,
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were observed in amazing detail.
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These cells should have
degraded into mush very quickly.
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But somehow, they have
been beautifully preserved
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since the flood.
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There has been a very large
find in China of soft tissue
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in dinosaurs.
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So Mark's claim about
it being more abundant
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may be close to the truth.
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The evolutionary paleontologists
are scratching their heads,
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wondering what mechanism
could have preserved these cells
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for 65 to 135 million years.
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The only idea
making sense to them
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is that the
blood of the dinosaurs
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was rich in iron, which
can be a preserving agent,
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but not for millions of years.
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It's possible
iron could have been
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involved in preserving the
tissue for a few thousand years
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since the flood,
because soft tissue should
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have degraded in the
short time since the flood.
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Mary Schweitzer has done
tests with dinosaur tissue
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in the lab.
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She was able to preserve the
tissue with iron over a couple
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of years, but you
cannot extrapolate out millions
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of years with an
experiment only lasting a few.
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Yet if we use the biblical time
scale of only a few thousand
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years since the
flood, soft dinosaur tissue
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could have been
preserved, showing
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the death and burial of
the dinosaurs during the flood.
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The Bible tells us that two
of every kind of land animal
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and seven pairs of
some came onto the ark
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and survived the flood.
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After about a year,
the flood was finished
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and the waters had receded.
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The animals came off the ark and
began to repopulate the earth.
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If dinosaurs did
come off the ark,
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then evidence of their
existence in human history
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should be plentiful.
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But there are
many more examples.
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These examples are found in
ancient writings, as well as
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works of human art.
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In the temple ruins
at Angkor in Cambodia,
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there is a passageway with
ancient artwork in the stones.
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The artwork depicts many
animals found in the area,
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such as elephants,
fish, snakes, and monkeys.
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There are no mythological
figures among the architecture.
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So it appears they
made carvings of animals
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they saw at the time.
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But an unusual animal
stands out among all the rest.
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It's a Stegosaurus-like
bas-relief in the stone.
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This temple was erected for
a king about 1,000 years ago.
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As far as we know,
this ancient culture
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didn't study paleontology.
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Being the other carvings depict
what this culture observed
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at that time,
the assumption can be
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made that they also saw a
live Stegosaurus among them.
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Secular scientists describe
them as mythical creatures,
00:21:51.01\00:21:54.44
but they clearly
resemble various dinosaur kinds.
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Why not believe
that the Bible is true,
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that man and dinosaurs
were created on the same day,
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and many of them
died during the flood?
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We have learned a
lot about dinosaurs
00:22:06.96\00:22:08.49
in the past half-hour.
00:22:08.59\00:22:09.72
We believe the
weight of evidence
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demonstrates that
they lived on this earth
00:22:11.59\00:22:13.43
recently and not
millions of years ago.
00:22:13.53\00:22:16.67
They are buried in
sedimentary layers,
00:22:16.77\00:22:19.23
having died in a
violent, watery death.
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.64
This evidence alone strongly
supports the biblical account
00:22:22.74\00:22:26.57
of the flood.
00:22:26.68\00:22:27.91
The discovery of
soft dinosaur tissue
00:22:28.01\00:22:30.28
provides strong evidence
for their recent demise.
00:22:30.38\00:22:34.05
There is a battle between
two worldviews on dinosaurs.
00:22:34.15\00:22:37.85
The biblical
worldview makes much more sense
00:22:37.95\00:22:40.72
from the evidence that
we find all over the world.
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This evidence
confirms we can trust
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the Bible as an accurate account
of history, and so much more.
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Man was created
by God in perfection
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but chose to disobey, bringing
sin and death into the world.
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Then because of
man's continued rebellion,
00:22:59.54\00:23:02.31
a worldwide
judgment came by water,
00:23:02.41\00:23:04.75
depositing most of
the dinosaur fossils
00:23:04.85\00:23:06.85
we have been looking at.
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The Bible also shares what's
going to happen in the future.
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Because of our sin and
rebellion against our Creator,
00:23:12.32\00:23:15.59
we are destined to be
judged by our Creator.
00:23:15.69\00:23:18.96
No matter how many
good things you've done,
00:23:19.06\00:23:21.66
the Bible says that your
sin will condemn you to death
00:23:21.76\00:23:24.93
and eternal punishment.
00:23:25.03\00:23:26.90
God is holy and perfect
and cannot live in heaven with
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sinful creatures like us.
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In fact, the Bible
says we live as enemies
00:23:32.47\00:23:35.28
of God because of our sin.
00:23:35.38\00:23:37.48
But while we were
powerless to do anything
00:23:37.58\00:23:39.98
about our situation,
God sent his son, Jesus,
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who died on the cross to
pay the penalty for our sins,
00:23:43.85\00:23:46.92
to take the
punishment we deserved,
00:23:47.02\00:23:49.09
and died for our sake.
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But we have to
realize that we are sinners
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.50
and in need of salvation.
00:23:54.60\00:23:57.33
If we turn to
God, repent of our sin,
00:23:57.43\00:24:00.07
and believe Jesus
Christ died on our behalf, then
00:24:00.17\00:24:03.81
we will be made
friends with God,
00:24:03.91\00:24:05.74
not by anything we've
done, but only by what
00:24:05.84\00:24:08.81
Jesus did on the cross for us.
00:24:08.91\00:24:11.78
Three days after
Jesus was on the cross,
00:24:11.88\00:24:14.52
He rose from the
dead and later went back
00:24:14.62\00:24:16.85
to His Father in Heaven.
00:24:16.95\00:24:18.89
If we have repented and
believed in the work of God
00:24:18.99\00:24:22.32
through Jesus, then we
too will rise in the future
00:24:22.42\00:24:25.59
and be with God in heaven.
00:24:25.69\00:24:27.20
Have you realized
the depth of your sin,
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.40
repented, and made
Him your Lord and Savior?
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We invite you to do this today.
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