And comes from the DVD
series, "Awesome Science"
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NOAH JUSTICE: In
the southwest part
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of the United States in an
area known as Four Corners,
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there lies three
different regions where
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ancient dwellings can be found.
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Known as Mesa Verde
National Park, Chaco ruins,
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and the Aztec ruins,
these amazing archaeological
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locations can be toured and
explored by your whole family.
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But as you view these
locations, questions arise.
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Who made them?
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Where did these
people come from?
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And where did they go?
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Biological evolution maintains
that humans evolved over
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several hundred thousand
years descending from apes.
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And only about
5,000 to 10,000 years ago
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did civilizations arise where
cities like these were built.
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But there are big
challenges with this view.
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According to the
genealogies in the Bible,
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man was created by
God about 6,000 years ago.
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Then, a global
flood wiped out everyone
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except for Noah and his family.
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The earth was repopulated
over the last 4,350 years.
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As the population
grew, it diversified
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into different people
groups that we observe today.
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Evolutionists
like Darwin and Haeckel
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often claimed that some races
evolved at different speeds
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from others, and some
are more favored than others.
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This view has caused genocide of
millions in this century alone.
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Plus, evolutionists
have a very difficult time
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explaining how the 7,000
different languages developed
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all over the world.
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Originally,
there was one language.
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But we also learned that
distinct languages came by God
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at the Tower of Babel
through a supernatural act
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of God's judgment.
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Which one is true,
and which one do we trust?
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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 falls
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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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According to the
Bible, about 6,000 years ago,
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God created man in his
own image on the sixth day.
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Adam and Eve were given a
beautiful garden to live in
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and were told to
multiply and subdue the Earth.
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But Satan rebelled
from God and used a serpent
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to deceive Eve, and
subsequently Adam, into sin.
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In response, God sentenced
man to die for their sin,
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and then cast Adam
and Eve from the garden.
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1,600 years after creation, God
had decided that the sin of man
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had gotten so
bad that he was going
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to destroy the Earth
with a worldwide flood.
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Only one man and his family
held special favor with God.
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God told Noah to
build an ark and be saved
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from the worldwide destruction.
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About a year later,
Noah's family came off the ark
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and began to
repopulate the Earth.
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God promised that he would
never flood the Earth again,
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and instituted the rainbow
as a sign of his promise.
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Noah's sons were
Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
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all were born around the time
that Noah was 500 years old.
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Once everyone
came off the ark, God
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told them to be fruitful
and multiply and fill the earth.
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Within 100 years,
Noah's descendants
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multiplied but had settled
to the east of Noah's farm.
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They found the plain
of Shinar and settled
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there, which is
in modern day Iraq,
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named for the old
city of Uruk near Baghdad.
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There was only one
language at that time.
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The people wanted to
build a city and a high tower
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to make a name for
themselves and not be
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scattered over the whole Earth.
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This was in direct opposition
of God's command to spread out.
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Some have suggested the high
tower was a place of sacrifice
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to the sun gods.
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We see evidence of
this all around the world,
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with ancient tall
ziggurats and pyramids being
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used for human sacrifices.
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By having this
temple in one location,
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people would have to keep coming
back for a sacrifice, which
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would have kept everyone close.
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When everyone is close,
it's easier to rule them
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and easier for evil
to spread among them.
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God came down to
see what man was doing.
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God knew that they
all spoke one language.
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And if he let them get away with
this defiance of his command,
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then nothing they plan to
do will be impossible for them.
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God must have recalled the
civilizations before the flood
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and how they
rebelled against his commands.
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He was seeing it
replay here at babel.
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Remember, God promised
Noah that he would never
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send another flood.
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However, God also knew that
he needed to scuttle man's plans
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and force them to spread out.
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He knew that it was
best for humanity that they
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not all settle in one place.
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Of course, his
plan was brilliant.
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He decided to give
different family groups
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different languages
so that they would not
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understand each other.
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This would
force them to scatter.
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So when did this event occur?
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If we use the
biblical time scale,
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the flood would have
happened in about 2350 BC.
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Archbishop James Ussher
placed the time of Babel
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at 106 years after the
flood, or in 2242 BC, when
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Peleg was born.
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Abraham was called by God
in 1921 BC, about 300 years
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after Babel.
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According to secular archeology,
Egypt began about 3,500 BC,
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in Babylon in 4000 BC.
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But a more accurate figure
in the biblical time scale
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would be 2188 for
Egypt in 2234 for Babylon.
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Since these nations
speak different languages,
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their founding would have been
after the Tower of Babel which
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occurred after the flood.
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After all, Egypt is
named for Egyptus in Greek,
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or Mithraeum in
Hebrew, its founder who
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happens to be Noah's grandson.
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So what happened
after the event at Babel?
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The people spread
out across the world
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into family and language groups.
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Some had
knowledge of city building
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and took that knowledge
to build cities of their own.
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We see evidence of
this all around the world,
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with ziggurats,
pyramids, and mounds
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being replicated as
far away as South America.
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Others probably took a more
nomadic lifestyle for a while
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as they spread out.
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Eventually, they would
have begun planting and raising
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animals.
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And then, they
would have built cities.
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This progression of
human expansion after Babel
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matches what
secular archaeologists find
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in the record of
human development,
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only this development
happened after Babel and not
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over a few
hundred thousand years.
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Also, there could
have been some uneasiness
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about building
large cities because
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of what happened at Babel.
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This would have
kept some cultures
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more nomadic like
the Native Americans.
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Early on, some would
have sought shelter in caves
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and made homes there.
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This is where the idea of
cavemen could have come from.
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They were merely
people living in caves.
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Some people still
live in caves today.
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And they have satellite TV, too.
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Around this time, the
Ice Age would have started up
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in full force, causing
the spreading out of man
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on the earth to be
stunted in far northern regions.
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But it still happened.
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Ultimately, God used Babel
to accomplish his purposes.
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And from that dispersion, we
get all of the amazing people
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groups and
languages we see today.
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You can go around
the world today and see
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many different types of people.
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From Oriental to African
to South American to European,
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the diversity is amazing,
yet everyone is still human.
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In 1859, Darwin wrote The Origin
of Species with the subtitle,
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By Means of Natural
Selection or The Preservation
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of Favored Races in
the Struggle for Life.
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Darwin encouraged the
thought that some races were
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more favored than others
and that different races evolved
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at different times and rates.
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Darwin expounded
this in his second book,
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The Descent of Man.
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For instance,
Australian Aborigines
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were considered
a type of missing
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link between ape-like ancestors
and the rest of mankind.
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They were hunted
down and killed because
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of the evolutionary philosophy.
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After years of
research, scientists
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now tell us that
biologically speaking,
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there is only
one race of humans.
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Their previous evolutionary
view of race was wrong,
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and what they viewed as race
was actually a social construct.
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And it tends to
be more cultural,
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meaning we are mainly
separated by language,
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skin tone, and facial features.
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Different races have been
used by totalitarian regimes
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and companies to exterminate
large groups of people,
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such as Hitler's Germany towards
the Jews, Poles, Africans, and
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Slavs, as well as
Planned Parenthood's
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early racist attack on
dark-skinned African-Americans.
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Human genome
mapping has shown us
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that there is only
one race, the human race.
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And instead of
using the word races,
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we should use the
term people groups.
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The Bible does not
even use the word race.
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The Bible describes
human beings as one blood,
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basically saying
we are all descendants
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of the first man, Adam.
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Human biological
variation is only about
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point 0.012%, making racial
differences absolutely trivial,
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because there is more difference
genetically between any two
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people than this small fraction.
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The differences
between us are not race,
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but culture, yet
we've been taught
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that the
differences between us are race.
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The major
difference between skin tone
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is the amount of
melanin in our skin.
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In addition, albinism,
sunburns, and genetic defects
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also affect the
color of skin as well.
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There are two
main forms of melanin,
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eumelanin, which
is brown to black,
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and pheomelanin,
which is red to yellow.
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This makes up about 16
different shades of skin color
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and every
combination in between.
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No matter what
our shade of skin is,
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we all have approximately
the same concentration
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of melanocytes in our bodies.
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From the DNA of our parents, we
get all of our characteristics,
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including skin color.
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No new genetic information
is generated at conception.
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But a new combination of already
existing genetic information
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is formed.
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There are dominant
and recessive genes.
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And from these genes, we
get all of our characteristics.
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Usually, we get
our characteristics
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from the dominant
genes of our parents.
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But there is no
universal mechanism
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by which dominant
and recessive genes act.
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In other words, it's hard to
predict which genes you'll get.
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The point is, you can get a
great difference in your skin
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tone if your parents have great
variations in their skin tone.
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These genes might also
cause a brother and sister
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to have different
skin tone, such as darker
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or lighter,
especially if the parents are
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different skin toned.
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But we also see
the different skin
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colored people favor
warmer or cooler climates.
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Why?
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It has been estimated
by creation scientists
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that Noah and his
children were likely
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middle brown in
their skin color,
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from which we get all
the shades of the world.
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In fact, in just
one generation, they
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could have produced all of
the skin colors of the world.
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The Tower of Babel would
have dispersed the family groups
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by different languages.
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They split apart,
going their own way,
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finding
different places to live.
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The Bible tells us that they
scattered over the whole Earth.
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Because of the new language
and geographic barriers,
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people groups didn't
mix with each other so much,
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creating a
splitting of the gene pool.
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Different cultures
formed with certain features
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becoming
predominant in each group,
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simply because that is
what their direct ancestors had
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coming out of Babel.
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Real science in the present
fits with the biblical view
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that we are all closely related,
that there is only one race
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biologically, and
that they all came
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from one man and one woman.
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We hope you enjoy our great
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content. Another area of
study with compelling evidence
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for the biblical
account is linguistics,
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or the study of languages.
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There are over 6,900 spoken
languages in the world today,
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yet the number of
languages emerging from Babel
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would have been
much less than this,
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as few as 100 different
original language families.
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Linguists recognize that
most languages have similarities
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to other languages.
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Related languages belong to what
are called language families,
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of which, there are about 100.
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Some can be grouped into Latin,
Greek, Slavic, Hindic, Asian,
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Germanic, West
African, and Arabian.
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Then there are languages
that have been mixed together
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throughout
history, such as Afrikaans
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in South
Africa, or even English,
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which is a mixture
of German-based language
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and Latin French
Norman-based language.
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Since Babel
around 4,200 years ago,
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the original language
families have grown and changed
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into the vast number
of languages we see today.
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Language is also one of the main
characteristics separating us
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from animals.
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Secular linguists can't explain
how so many languages formed.
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But they believe
alleged human ancestors
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began developing language
30,000 to 100,000 years ago
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through an evolutionary process.
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But in reality,
secular linguists
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have no idea where half
of the languages came from
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and how far back they developed.
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The amount of languages and
kinds of languages are complex.
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This is why the evolutionist
has such a hard time explaining
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how they formed.
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But according to the
Bible, God created man.
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He has the power to
inject new languages
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into the brain at Babel.
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Evolution can't explain
where language came from,
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but the Bible can.
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Even if we were there at Babel
when God divided the people
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by language, we
probably would have
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had no idea it was by
God's supernatural power.
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Again, it's the
Bible giving us insight
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into what really happened.
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2 Timothy 3:16 tells
us that "all scripture
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is
God-breathed," meaning that God
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spoke through men like Moses
to tell about the history of man
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and what God did in the past.
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We can trust that it's
the true history of Earth.
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God's plan at Babel was to
spread out man over the earth,
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dividing the people
by language, to thwart
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their sinful rebellion.
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And it happened.
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His wisdom of
what to do was perfect.
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And it remains
perfect in every situation.
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After studying the
scriptures and seeing
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how languages developed,
let's go back to Mesa Verde.
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As we study this
area, we must first
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ask, how would
Native Americans get
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to North America after
the flood all from eight
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people off the ark?
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We've seen how
the Tower of Babel
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separated the people
into groups, probably
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along the lines of Noah's sons.
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The Tower of Babel was
in Mesopotamia, in Asia.
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And from there, they spread out.
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As a general trend, Japheth's
descendants went toward Europe
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in North Asia, Ham's went
towards Africa and the Middle
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East, and Shem's mainly kept
in the Middle East and Far East.
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Although, there
are some exceptions
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to this in each line.
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So where do the Anasazi people
go after Mesa Verde and Chaco
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canyon?
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The Aztecs,
according to their own legends,
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departed from a region in the
north called [? chicomoztok, ?]
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a region that is today
the areas of Texas, Oklahoma,
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and New Mexico.
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They reached the valley of
Mexico in the 12th century AD.
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So the Anasazi went south.
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Their language, Nahuatl,
was linguistically related
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to other native language groups
throughout the United States
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southwest and northern Mexico.
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Linguists note, for
instance, the Shoshone language
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in the Utah-Nevada region
was understood by all the tribes
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from Mexico without difficulty.
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It has been found that
the Anasazi were related
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to modern tribes, including
the Paiute, Hopi, Pima,
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Yaqui Apache,
[inaudible] Kiowa, and Mayos.
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In addition, Catholic
missionaries in the 1850s
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established the
fact that all the people
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of the ancient
southwest and Mexico
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were of one language family.
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Yet, while there are
other examples of language
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similarities, studies
of the native languages
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of the Americas have shown
them to be extremely diverse,
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representing nearly 200 distinct
families, some consisting
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of a single isolated language.
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These other tribes would
have occupied areas outside
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of the Anasazi
and Aztec regions,
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showing the diversity and
growth of languages since Babel.
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As we study the story of man on
Earth, one thing becomes clear.
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The biblical
account matches what
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we find in the archaeological
record much better
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than man evolving over
hundreds of thousands of years.
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The Table of
Nations matches what
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we find in genealogies, and in
cultures throughout the world.
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The development of languages
is a mystery to evolutionists.
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But the Tower of
Babel matches what
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we find in archeology, a
sudden explosion of culture
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and language.
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The movement of man across the
Earth from the starting point
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of Mesopotamia matches
what we find in scripture,
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from the story of Noah's
flood and the Tower of Babel.
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According to Genesis 3, Adam
and Eve were the first to sin.
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In Noah's day, man's
rebellion against their Creator
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had gotten so bad that
God destroyed the entire Earth
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in a flood.
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Even then, man
still wouldn't obey God
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to spread out across the Earth.
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So he confused their languages.
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Over and over,
we see in the Bible
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that God is patient
with man's rebellion.
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But he won't let
sin continue forever.
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Even today,
people around the world
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rebel against their Creator.
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They would rather
deny that there is a God
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and follow their own sin.
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The Bible says that
our rebellion against God
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deserves death and
eternal separation from him.
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God knew this.
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So he provided a way
to save us from death.
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Someone had to pay the
punishment for our rebellion.
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Romans 6:23 says that
"the wages of sin is death,
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but the gift of
God is eternal life
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through Jesus Christ, our Lord."
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When we were powerless to
do anything to save ourselves,
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God loved us so much that
he sent his son, Jesus Christ,
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to die in our place, to take
the punishment for our rebellion
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and sin.
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Even with this great
gift we've been given,
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many around the world
have rejected God's grace
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because they love
their sin too much.
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They still want to live in
rebellion against the Creator.
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God offers every man the
chance to repent of his sins
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and turn to Him.
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We are encouraged in the Bible,
not to put off this decision,
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but to come back to God today.
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Just like the
door of the ark was
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open for a time
for anyone who wanted
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to be saved from
the flood, the door
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is now open through
Jesus Christ to repent
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of our rebellion and sin.
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And just as there was a
time when the door of the ark
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was sealed, the opportunity to
come to God won't last forever.
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Even though he
loves his creation,
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he cannot let sin and
rebellion continue indefinitely.
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His judgement on man
will eventually happen.
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And those who do
not turn to Jesus
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will be
separated from God forever.
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If you have not
humbled yourself, repented
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of your sins, and
turned your heart to Him,
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then we invite
you to do so today.
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Mesa Verde, the Chaco
Ruins, and Aztec Ruins
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remind us that a
once thriving culture
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used to live in the Southwest.
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But they
mysteriously disappeared,
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and meshed into other cultures,
particularly to the south.
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The Bible gives
us good information
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about how the nations
were formed after the flood,
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and how many
nations can be traced back
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to Noah's three sons.
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The dispersion of man
from Babel by the confusion
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of their
languages gives us an idea
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of how God caused man to
move out from the Middle East
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into the rest of the world.
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The Bible also gives us clues
about why cultures come and go.
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In the book of
Jeremiah, God says,
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"the instant I
speak concerning a nation
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and concerning a kingdom,
to pluck up, to pull down,
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and to destroy it, if
that nation against whom
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I have spoken
turns from its evil,
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I will relent of
the disaster that I
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thought to bring upon it."
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God is in charge of building
and tearing down nations.
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And it's all tied into a
nation's heart towards God.
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If a nation honors him,
then he will bless them.
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However, if a
nation rebels against him,
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then he will destroy it.
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We don't know much about ancient
cultures in the Southwest.
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But archaeologists indicate
that they worship the creation,
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rather than the Creator.
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Based on
scripture, God would not
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have blessed this
nation of ancient Americans.
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He would have sought to
destroy and disperse them
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because of their rebellion.
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And this is exactly what
we find about this culture.
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We know from scripture
that God controls the weather.
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He may have brought the
drought and other circumstances
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to drive these people elsewhere.
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These ruins should
be a lesson to us today
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to make sure our hearts
and the heart of our nation
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are turned to God.
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