It has stood the test of
time, God's book, the Bible.
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Still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written ...
sharing hope around the globe.
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Thanks for joining me
today. I'm John Bradshaw
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and this is It Is Written.
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[Music] On February
12 in the year 1809,
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two men were
born on either side of
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the Atlantic Ocean who
would go on to profoundly
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affect the world.
In Kentucky on that day
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was born the man who
would go on to become
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the 16th President of
the United States of America
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- Abraham Lincoln -
the man who would sign
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the emancipation proclamation
and lead the nation through
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the turmoil of the Civil
War. And on that very same day,
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in Shewsbury,
England, Charles Darwin
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entered the world.
Now, although he was far
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from the first person to
propose the idea of evolution,
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Darwin went on
to become known as
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the Father of Evolution.
He came to view what he saw
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in the natural
world as being explainable
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by natural processes,
and in 1859 he published
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the book, "On the
Origin of Species"
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or by it's full name,
"On the Origin of Species
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by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation
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of Favoured Races In
the Struggle for Life".
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It was a book
that shook the world.
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It's fair to say
that prior to Darwin,
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the western world was
"largely" a creationist world.
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But today, things
are very different.
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Gallup polls, in the
United States reveal that while
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nearly half of Americans
believe in creationism,
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32% - 1 in 3 more or less
believe in evolution guided
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by God, and 15%
believe in atheistic evolution.
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TV scientist Bill Nye -
as quoted by CNN - as having
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"slammed creationism",
saying that if people
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ignored evolutionary theory
their worldview became "crazy",
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and he urged adults
not to teach biblical
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creation to their
children. So, what can a person
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safely believe? The
Bible begins with the words
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"In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth."
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But a lot of people don't
agree. I recently traveled
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to Petersburg in
Northern Kentucky,
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near Cincinnati,
Ohio, and I visited
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the Creation Museum,
where I spoke with scientist
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Dr Terry Mortenson
about creation and evolution.
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I began by asking Dr Mortenson
where the idea came from
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that the Earth is
millions of years old.
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The idea of millions of years
did not come from the rocks
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and the fossils. It
came from certain assumptions
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that were used to interpret
the rocks and the fossils
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and those assumptions came
out of antibiblical world views,
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Deism, Atheism,
where people rejected
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the Biblical view of
history. In contrast,
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for the first 1800
years of church history
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and for 1400 years
before that among the Jews,
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they took the Bible as
the revelation of the Creator,
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the early chapters of
Genesis as true history, and so
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the date of 6000 years roughly
comes from the chronological
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information given in Genesis.
You said that we didn't get
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from Creationism to Evolution
because somebody made a
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startling scientific
discovery. How did we get here?
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Many people coming out of
the enlightenment rejected
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the Bible and they began to say:
'We need to explain everything
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by time, chance and
the laws of nature.'
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And so they started
looking at the rocks.
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They looked at the rock layers
and made an assumption that
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there's no way that a
global flood could produce what
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we are looking at. I
mean these rock layers
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are very thick. It
must have taken millions
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of years to deposit
those. So what's science?
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Or good science? Or
responsible science?
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Well, the word
"science" in English comes from
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the Latin word for
science, and originally it just
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meant knowledge.
And so before the modern
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scientific age,
theology was a science.
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In fact, it was
called the queen of science,
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the queen of
knowledge. But in the wake of
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the enlightenment
and the development
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of modern science,
science became associated with
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repeatable
experiments and the development
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of technology and so we
started to build steam engines,
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and railroads and electricity
and those kinds of things
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and what happened in the
18th and 19th Century was
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what we can call the science
of geology began to develop
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and it was a
different kind of science,
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because it wasn't
reproducing things in the lab,
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it was looking at
things out there in the world
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and trying to
reconstruct the unobserved past.
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John Wesley Powell was
the first geologist to go into
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the Grand Canyon
back in the 1860's.
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Well, he went into the
canyon already an evolutionist
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and believing in
millions of years.
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So when he went into the
Grand Canyon and saw these
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massive layers , he
just began to immediately
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think: "Well, slow,
gradual deposition laid down
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these layers, and the
Colorado River has just been
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flowing for millions of
years to carve this canyon.
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[Music] Your Father God,
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Your Creator and originator
is also the God of the future.
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In His ability to tell
us what is still ahead,
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He reminds us of His sovereignty
and power over all things.
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To help us trust Him,
God has provided amazing
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evidence of His reliability,
and the reliability of His Word.
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Today, I'd like to send
you a booklet that demonstrates
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how God foretold world
events with absolute accuracy
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thousands of years in
advance. This booklet is called,
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"Can God be Trusted?"
and it's absolutely FREE.
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Just call 1 (800) 253-3000 and
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ask for "Can God be
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This is It Is
Written, I'm John Bradshaw,
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and today we're discussing
creation and evolution
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with Dr Terry Mortenson
from the Creation Museum
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in Northern Kentucky.
I think we both know that
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it's common for people
today to view the world as
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being millions and millions
of years old, and to look
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at the Grand Canyon as something
that was produced over long
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ages of time. I
asked Dr Mortenson how,
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in view of the science, that
he can go to the Grand Canyon
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and see an all
together different picture.
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Well, it's because I'm going in
with an eye witness testimony.
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When an evolutionist goes
into the Grand Canyon, it's not
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even a question on the
radar, could a global flood
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be responsible for
what I'm looking at?
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Whereas when I go in
that eye witness testimony
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of the Creator given to
us in the Book of Genesis
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is in the mind and we're
looking ... is there evidence
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in the rocks that
points to this global flood?
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Give me a scientific explanation
for the Grand Canyon.
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Well, there's a number of
things that we show people
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when we go into the canyon.
One is a feature that's called
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"Cross-bedding." you
have very strong evidence
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that that this very
thick layer was laid down under
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an enormous amount of
water, moving at a good speed.
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There is another
feature that we show them.
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They're called Nautiloids.
They are fossils that are like
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an ice cream cone, a
pointed ice cream cone.
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And they're related to
squid. They have a head sticking
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out of the cone, and
there's about a seven
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foot thick layer in the
red wall limestone that is
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about 400 feet thick that
is just filled with these,
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and they've been
spotted in different places,
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all the way through this layer,
all the way up near Las Vegas.
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There's an estimated billion
or so of these creatures buried
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in this one thin layer
and Steve Austin, a Ph.D.
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geologist did some research
on them and he took a compass
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and a GPS and he plotted
where he found them all along
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this layer in the Grand Canyon.
He noted their orientation.
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I think 15% of them are
buried in an upright position
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with their point down.
He noted that they are not
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all just higally pigally
in all directions, but there's
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a general indication ... I
can't remember if it indicates
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a flow from the Southwest
to the Northeast or Southeast
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to the Northwest, but
what he argues in a paper,
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which he presented to
the National Park Service,
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and they were very interested,
the geologists, was that this
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was a massive catastrophic
event, mass burial of
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these creatures, and that
helps to explain the orientation
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and that these cones
are in an upright position,
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because you wouldn't expect the
creature to just die a natural
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death and go down and
sink into the ocean floor
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and just stand there
perfectly upright for hundreds
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or thousands of years
waiting to slowly get settled.
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Another feature that we
show a couple of places is
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the folding of rock.
Now you can bend solid rock
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under high temperature
and pressure but when you do,
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you metamorphose or you
change the structure of the rock
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but in these
examples that we show,
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the rock stays exactly the same
character all the way through
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the bend. Many
people have seen this
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on the sides of
roads, that type of figure,
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where you get layers
that fold and this is what
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you're talking
about, right? Right
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When you see one of these
layers rather than being flat
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it kinda flows
this way and that way.
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OK, and so what do you see
when you look at these layers?
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Well, what that shows
... Doesn't it show ...
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taking the Evolutionist
viewpoint, doesn't it show,
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well, this one laid
down over 150 million years,
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and then the next one
came, because this is what
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modern science
typically teaches, correct?
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Yes. That they laid down
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over milions of years.
But it wouldn't lay down
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the layers so that it
all flowed the same way
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and if the rock layer
is being deposited slowly,
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and then you had an earthquake,
which is what would cause
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the movement ... Right
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...it would break the rock or
if there was enough stuff above,
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it would, with the heat
and the pressure, would allow
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it to bend, but
it would transform
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the character of the rock
in the bend, and what we see
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doesn't fit that at all.
What it fits is the conclusion
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that those rock layers
were bent when they were still
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relatively soft and
moist, shortly after they were
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deposited, and then
the northeast end of
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the Grand Canyon you
have the Kaibab up where
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the whole mile of sediments,
which the evolutionists say
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represents 300
million years of time,
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the whole pile is
bent the same direction,
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which indicates strongly
to creation geologists that
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the whole pile was
still relatively wet and moist
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and soft. See,
you've got me convinced.
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And as I listen to you, I
say to myself: Why doesn't
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everybody believe this?
Well, I come back to the Bible,
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because that informs my
understanding of the World
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and the Bible says
that all of us are sinners.
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We're in rebellion against
our Creator and Paul says
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in the book of
Romans, Chapter 1 and 2,
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he says that the whole Creation
bears witness to the existence
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and at least
some of the attributes
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are characteristics
of God and in Chapter 2,
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he says that God has written
his moral law in the heart
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of every person. Our
conscience tells us we
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either did that
right or we did it wrong
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and what Paul says in Romans
1 is that people, we all do this
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to a greater or lesser
extent. We push down the truth.
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We suppress that
truth because we don't want
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to deal with God.
We don't want to deal
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with our sin. You know,
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there's a lot of discussion
today about Intelligent Design,
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and people saying there's
strong evidence for a designer
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and I agree with that,
but it's fairly safe to
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entertain the idea of a designer
as long as you don't say
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who the designer
is. It could be aliens
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in outer space.
Well, it doesn't matter.
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I can live my
life the way I want,
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but to consider a
global flood and a young earth,
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you're now face to face
with the reality of a God
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that the Bible describes is
not only loving and merciful
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and patient, but Holy and just.
So if a person is not prepared
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to really face that
truth, they're going to suppress
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the truth. They're
going to find any other
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explanation to evade
that. It's not just Atheists
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who embrace
evolution, even Christians,
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even Christian
teachers and preachers.
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Even Christian academics. Yep
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Who claim to believe the Bible.
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The Pope came out and said that
evolution and at least how he
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interpreted the Word of God,
were not mutually exclusive.
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How is that? If
we believe the Bible
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is the Word of God,
then we need to carefully
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look at what it says.
And I find that a lot of
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Christians,
including Academics, who say:
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'You know, the age of the earth
doesn't matter, or you know,
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you can even accept that
God evolved the body of Adam
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from an ape, and
then he breathed into that
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and that became Adam.'
What is really disturbing to me,
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John, is that as I read
their writings, I don't see
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them carefully handling
the actual Biblical text
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on the key verses. So
it's easy to wave my hands
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and say there's no conflict
between this view and the Bible
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if I don't look
carefully at the text.
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Is it possible to
bring together the teachings
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of creation and evolution?
Not if you're really paying
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attention to what
the evolutionists say
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and what the Bible says.
Back with more in a moment.
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In 2 Corinthians 11:3
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Paul shared a serious warning
with the church in Corinth.
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Notice what he said,
"But I fear, lest somehow,
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as the serpent deceived Eve by
his craftiness, so your minds@
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may be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ."
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Eve was 'deceived', and
the result of that deception
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was that the world was
plunged into misery and sin.
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How could she NOT been deceived?
Well, God had said to her,
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"Don't eat the
fruit of that tree."
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Satan says, "Go
ahead and eat this fruit."
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At that moment she had a
choice: Who would she believe?
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Would she trust God's
word and yield to that?
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She didn't, and
sin was the result.
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You and I will avoid a whole
lot of anguish if we'll do what
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Eve didn't - if we'll choose
to follow God's word instead
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of that of the tempter.
Put God's word first when
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temptation comes today.
Let's live today by Every Word.
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Thanks for joining me
today on It Is Written,
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where we're looking today
at creation and evolution.
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I spoke with Dr Terry
Mortenson at the Creation Museum
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in Petersburg, Kentucky,
and I asked him if it's possible
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to bring together the teachings
of creation and evolution.
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Not if you're really
paying attention to what
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the evolutionists say
and what the Bible says.
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There's another very common
argument in favor of evolution
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and against Biblical creation
that I want to ask you about.
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That's carbon
dating. Carbon dating ...
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there are various dating methods
using radioactive isotopes.
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Carbon 14 is one, but
carbon dating is never
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used to date rocks.
It's used to date former
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living things where
there's carbon in them,
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so the maximum age you could
date something with carbon 14
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is about 80 thousand years.
So, they use other methods.
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They look at.... OK,
well, how many uranium atoms
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and how many lead
atoms are there in the rock?
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We have observed for 100 years
that uranium decays into lead
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at this X rate. They
assume that it has always
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decayed at that rate but the
half-life for uranium to lead is
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4.5 billion years.
So, they didn't observe it
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all that time.
They've only observed it for
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100 years and then they have
extrapolated on the basis of the
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assumption of a
constant rate. Well, is that not
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a fair assumption? It
could be except that we
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have creation scientists
who have done a lot of research
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on this area. They
start with the eyewitness
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of the Creator who says
that the creation is only
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a few thousand years old
and there was a global flood
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and then they go out
and they look at the rocks.
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They've taken rock samples
and they look for things.
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They ask
questions about the rocks.
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They probe in certain areas
because they are starting with
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that eyewitness and they found
a lot of good evidence that
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the decay rates have not
been constant in the past,
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that there were
orders of magnitude faster
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and if that were the case, that
would shrink those millions of
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years dates to
thousands. Dramatically.
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They used
Carbon 14 to date coal.
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These are dated anywhere
from, I think, about 35 million
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to 245 million years
old, and they dated them with
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carbon 14 and the
dates they got back for all
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of the ten samples at
different levels and supposedly
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different ages was
all about the same.
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I think it was
about 58 thousand years.
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Now, the creationists don't
believe that's the real age of
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the coal because they were using
still the same naturalistic
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assumptions that the
evolutionists were using.
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They believe that the
flood would have a huge impact
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on carbon dating. They
also dated some diamonds.
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The rock layer that enclosed
the diamonds was something like
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2 billion years old. They
dated the diamonds, and the
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dates for the diamonds
with carbon 14 was only several
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tens of thousands of years.
So even though that's still
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older than a young earth, it's
radically different from the
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assumption that one would
... And it's saying: How do you
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get a diamond completely
enclosed in a rock that is 2
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million years old
and the diamond is only
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50,000 years old.
There's something wrong here.
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They've dated rock
layers in the Grand Canyon.
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There are lava flows over
the top edge of the north rim
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and the south rim that are dated
by some methods to be older
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than lava deposits down at
the bottom of the canyon that
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are supposedly at least
300 million years older than
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the lava flows at the top.
So what do we deduce from this
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about carbon dating?
These dating methods are not
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telling us the
true age of the rocks.
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They are giving us erroneous
dates because of several
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key assumptions that
the evolutionists use
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to interpret what they
see. So, they take their sample
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and they get
uranium and lead atoms.
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That doesn't tell them the
age. They have to plot this on
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a chart and then they
have to interpret what they are
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looking at so that the uranium
and the lead doesn't tell you
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the age of the rock by
itself. It has to be interpreted
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and the interpretation
is very much influenced by
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the assumptions
about the past. The flood.
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Yep. The flood in Noah's day.
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The Bible talks
about it. It's very clear.
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For a Creationist, the flood
answers a lot of questions.
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Give me some reasons
quickly why we can believe that
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there was a flood.
Okay, well, let me start with
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the Biblical because there
are a lot of Christians who have
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accepted the millions of years
who believe that Noah's flood
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was just an extensive
but localized flood in
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the Middle East
but the Biblical text
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from Genesis 6-8 is clearly
describing a global flood.
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If the flood was
just in the Middle East,
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no need to build an
ark because the animals and
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the birds outside the flood
zone don't care and they could
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repopulate the whole area
if all the creatures died.
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And God could have just
told Noah to go on a vacation
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to Europe. No need
to build this huge boat.
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So the purpose of the ark
... the fact that the Bible says
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"all of the high mountains
under the heavens are covered"
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and since water
seeks a level plain,
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the only way you are going
to cover the high mountains
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is a global flood. Now,
the Bible doesn't say that
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the Himalayas were in
existence before the flood.
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The Himalayas are
actually the result of the flood
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and the mountain ranges,
the major mountain ranges,
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are all geologically recent.
They are made of sedimentary
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rocks that were once
flat and were thrust up
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so we don't have to assume
that you had to have 29,000 feet
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of water added to the
ocean. So, there is a number
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of factors. In
Genesis it says that all
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creatures in whose nostrils
is the breath of life perished.
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And then there's the rainbow
promise in Genesis 9 that never
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again would God flood the
world with a global flood.
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So biblically speaking, there
is no way around the flood.
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No. It was global
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and it was catastrophic.
and it's fundamental
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to the Bible. Absolutely.
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Geologically, we
see massive layers,
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massive that they can
trap, for example, in India,
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there's a massive lava flow, on
a scale that we don't see today
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and there are other places where
just huge flows of lava that
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changed into solid rock.
That fits with the Bible.
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The Bible says that the
fountains of the great deep
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burst open and that language
we can study how those words
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are used in the Bible
and it's clearly speaking of
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tectonic breaking of
the crust of the earth.
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We see sedimentary
layers that are continent wide
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or nearly so that are
just massively extensive.
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These are not the
sediments of a river delta.
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They're just too extensive.
We see evidence of sea creatures
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buried in these sediments.
We see mass graveyards where
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there are millions of creatures
buried together in high
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concentrations with all kinds
of creatures buried together.
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In many, we see land
animals and sea creatures
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buried together. They
are not living I mean,
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they are not
buried where they lived.
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They aren't even
buried where they died.
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They are buried where
they are buried and as
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we mentioned
earlier, we see cross-bedding
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which indicates
turbulent flow of water.
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The very fact that we find
fossils speaks of a global flood
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because if you have a
creature die like around here,
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we hunt deer all year round.
I tell people most of the year
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our people hunt
with their car ...
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laughter ... and
they slam into a deer.
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If you leave the deer
on the side of the road
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and the highway department
doesn't come to pick it up,
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scavengers and micro
decay organisms will erase
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the evidence. So to
make a fossil, you have
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to bury that creature fast
and we see evidence of creatures
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being buried alive.
There are creatures with other
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creatures fossilized in their
stomachs so they didn't even get
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to finish digesting lunch.
There are fossilized worms.
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There are
fossilized animal manure.
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You know, a cow pie doesn't
lay on the field for years
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in pristine condition. So
there's folding in the rocks
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and this speaks of catastrophic
processes on a global scale.
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It's interesting Christians,
very often people who believe
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in Creation are
dismissed as not thinking.
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But it seems to me that if you
really think about how we got
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here, Creation, a flood,
divine intervention is the only
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suitable, satisfactory
explanation for the world
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we see around us.
The more I read, the more
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I study, the more persuaded
I am of the truth of the Bible.
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Dr. Mortenson, thank you.
Thanks for taking the time
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to talk with us.
Good to be with you, John.
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Thank you.
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Creation and evolution.
The Word of God points us
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to a God who is
the God of creation.
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Together, let's pray
to that God right now.
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Would you pray with
me? Our Father in heaven,
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I thank you the Bible states
with great confidence that
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in the beginning, God created.
And I'm grateful that you are
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not only the
Creator, but the Re-Creator.
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David prayed,
"Create in me a clean heart,
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oh, God, and renew a
right spirit within me,"
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and I pray now that you
would be our Creator and
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Re-Creator and create in me,
in each of us, that right spirit
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that you want us to
have. Bless and keep us, Lord,
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and be in our lives the God
of creation and Re-creation.
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And I thank you
today in Jesus' name, Amen.
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[Music] Thank you
for joining me today.
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I look forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then,
remember: It written:
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Man shall not live by
bread alone but by every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
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