[Sound of roaring waves]
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For decades,
scientists have advanced
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the evolutionary
theory of origins.
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Of an Earth that formed by
slow cooling of molten mass
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over 4.5 billion years
to make the foundation rocks
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of the continents, the granites.
But have scientists considered
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all the evidence in
arriving at their theory
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of an anciently evolving Earth?
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What if there was evidence
in the granites themselves
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that showed they formed rapidly
instead of by slow cooling?
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What if there was evidence that
these sedimentary formations
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composing the Grand
Canyon, were deposited quickly,
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instead of slowly?
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What if there was
evidence the canyon itself
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was carved over a short time
by rapid erosional processes?
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What if there was evidence
revealing that coal and oil
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can form rapidly,
and did so recently.
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What if there was
evidence that dinosaurs existed
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not millions of years ago, but
just a few thousand years ago?
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And what if it was
found that natural laws,
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the glue which holds the
evolutionary framework together,
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can not explain
everything in Earth history.
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We would then be forced
to consider another model
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of Earth history.
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One that would
acknowledge the possibility that
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geological rates of change
in the past were much greater
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than those observed today.
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In this scenario it
would take much less time
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for various
geological events to occur.
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We would then have all
the ingredients for concluding
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that the Earth is
actually quite young.
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But is there any
published scientific evidence
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which challenges
the evolutionary view
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of an ancient Earth,
and supports a young Earth?
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Scientist, Dr. Robert Gentry,
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while working at the Oakridge
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National
Laboratory in Tennessee,
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has found just that.
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Publishing evidence which
challenges the long time period
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of Earth's history.
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In 1977, the Research
Communications Network
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published a special breakthrough
report on the results
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of Dr. Gentry's
scientific publications,
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characterizing their
implications as follows:
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[text on screen].
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Part of Dr. Gentry's work
referred to in this quote,
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pertained to his work
with coalified wood from
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what is known as
The Colorado Plateau
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- a broad geographical region
encompassing parts of Colorado,
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Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Using the microscope and more
advanced laboratory equipment,
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he analyzed these
specimens of coalified wood
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for various
types of radioactivity.
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His results help us to
understand how long it takes
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coal to form.
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The age of the coal, and
the age of the Earth itself.
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Coal! One of Earth's
vast energy resources.
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Before we can answer the
question as to the age of coal
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and the time of its formation,
we need to ask the question:
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Where did coal come from?
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Here in this coal mine in
Price, Utah, we have the answer.
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Here is a log, almost
completely turned to coal.
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There are thousands of such logs
in this mine and in other mines
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here in the Price
area. This fact tells us,
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that given the right conditions
of pressure, and temperature,
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and water, and time, that
wood and other vegetation,
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will turn to
coal. The question is:
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How long did it
take for that to happen?
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Robert Gentry and his son David,
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an associate in
his fathers work,
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explore this topic together.
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To answer this
question, we need to look
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at coalified wood
specimens from uranium mines,
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instead of coalified
wood like this log, from one
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of the coal mines here,
in the Price, Utah, area.
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This coalified wood specimen
comes from La Sal, Utah,
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a uranium mine.
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Its presumed geologic gage
is around 140 million years.
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This specimen of coalified
wood comes from a uranium mine
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in the Temple
Mountain area, here in Utah.
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Its presumed age is
also 140 million years.
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But look how closely
this specimen resembles
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this other piece of
wood. They're nearly identical.
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It's interesting to note,
that this other piece of wood,
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was derived from this
from a fresh piece of wood,
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like this, just a few weeks ago.
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This close similarity
raises an important question:
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Is it really true that
this piece of coalified wood
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from La Sal, Utah, and
this piece of coalified wood
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from Temple Mountain, Utah, are
really 140 million years older,
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than this piece of wood, which
David and I recently obtained
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in some of our experiments?
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Not really!
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Locked in these, and
other coalified wood specimens
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from uranium mines, is
some remarkable evidence
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that tells quite
a different story.
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To see that evidence
requires that the coalified
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wood specimens
be mounted in epoxy.
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Then be sliced, and placed
on glass slides for observation
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under the microscope.
Under the microscope can be seen
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discolorations produced
by radioactive particles
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ejected from tiny centers.
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Some are circular,
others are elliptical,
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as can be seen in
these photographs.
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These circular and elliptical
halos required a special
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sequence of events, to
form. So special, in fact,
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that they
completely overthrow the idea,
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of an ancient age of
coal. Pointing instead to coal's
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recent formation,
geologically speaking.
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How recently?
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In 1976, I published my results
of the studies on these logs
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in the October 15,
1976 issue of "Science".
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Here's what I said in
this report: [text on screen]
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In other words, I
was suggesting that coal
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could form very
rapidly, geologically speaking.
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This information has remained
unchallenged and unrefuted
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in the open
scientific literature
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since it was published in 1976.
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We are therefore
entitled to draw some rather
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firm conclusions about the data.
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Geologists have
assumed the Eocene was about
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60 million years ago,
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the Cretaceous, about
110 million years ago,
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the Jurassic, about
160 million years ago
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and the Triassic,
225 million years ago.
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But the results that
we presented contradicts
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that information, showing
instead the simultaneous burial
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of all these formations about
several thousand years ago.
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These results pertain to
the origin and the age of coal,
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wherever it is found.
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Catherine Hill Bay, Australia.
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Not far from this
coastal area near [?] Point,
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is an object of
extreme geological interest.
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An ancient tree.
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The fossilized remains of
this tree can be seen extending
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through over 12 feet of
sedimentary layers between
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2 coal seams located here.
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Years ago, when a mining
company excavated the layers,
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exposing the tree.
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The bottom of the tree
could be seen extending down
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to the lower coal seam.
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Since that time, the lower
part of the tree has broken off.
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Even now, in its reduced length,
the tree extends through layers
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geologists normally
theorize to have taken
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hundreds of thousands
of years to accumulate.
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But these layers could not have
taken long ages to accumulate
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because the tree would have
rotted long before the sediments
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would have had time
to accumulate around it.
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Rather, this
tree is mute testimony
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to its catastrophic
burial by at least 2 sequences
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of volcanic ash deposits.
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As the evidence indicates,
the tree was probably buried
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in a series of closely
spaced volcanic ash flows.
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Perhaps similar to
the catastrophic burial
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of thousands of trees at Mount
St. Helens in Washington State.
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But if coal did form rapidly,
we expect to find places
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where
geologists have encountered
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extreme difficulties
in explaining its origin
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by a slow
accumulation of vegetation.
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So let's take a closer look at
the evidence for coal formation,
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as it occurs in the
spectacular Powder River Basin
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in Wyoming and Montana.
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The Amax Eagle Butte open-pit
mine, near Gillette, Wyoming,
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exposes the vast
coal reserves made visible
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by the
strip-mining methods used here.
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The Eagle Butte mine
boasts of coal layers
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or seems with thicknesses
ranging up to 120 feet.
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Eagle Butte mine is part of
a much larger coal rich area
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known as the Powder River Basin.
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This gigantic
10,000 square mile reserve,
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situated between the
Black Hills of South Dakota
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on the east, and the Big
Horn Mountains on the west,
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extends northward to the
Yellowstone River in Montana
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and Southward
to Casper, Wyoming.
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The immensity of the Powder
River Basin coal deposits,
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has attracted the attention
of geologists for decades.
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Such interests were
documented in the May 1993
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issue of Earth Magazine.
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The article "Powder
River Coal: Geologic enigma,"
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"environmental dilemma",
included these statements:
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[text on screen]
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But if coal did not
form slowly, is there any
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laboratory evidence showing
that it can form rapidly?
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In this demonstration,
Robert and David Gentry
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begin to answer this question.
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Earlier we took a
piece of wood like this,
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inserted it in this steel pipe,
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added some water,
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and then sealed it up.
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The next step is to
put it in the oven at about
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160 degree
centigrade for 2 weeks.
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Now we're ready to examine
the results of this experiment.
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As we can see, this
wood is now darker in color.
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It's also softer.
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A chemical
reaction between the steam
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and the wood under pressure,
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has caused these
changes to occur.
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This specimen isn't
coal yet, but clearly,
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the process of
coalification has begun.
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The question is: would
coal result if this experiment,
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or a variation of it, continued
for a longer period of time?
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Scientists at
Argonne National Laboratory
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have answered this question
in a series of experiments
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performed in the 1980's.
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One of the earliest
reports about their work,
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appeared in the
magazine: [text on screen].
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On page 42 of this issue
we read the following quote:
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[text on screen].
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Later, after their
published reports appeared
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in the science journal
"Organic Geo-chemistry",
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the British
science journal "Nature",
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reported on the
success of their experiments.
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On page 613 of the journal
"Nature", March 28, 1985,
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we read the
following: [text on screen].
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To understand their
results, lets first note
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the basic structure of wood.
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Two major wood components
are Cellulose and Lignin.
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The lignin basically
acts as a binding agent
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for the cellulose fibers.
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Several variations of the
Argonne experiment were run,
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but the successful
formula combined lignin
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and clay with heat -
about 150 degrees Celsius -
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in the absence of oxygen.
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Over a period of about 8 months,
artificial coal was produced.
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The rapidity with which coal
can form, when steam interacts
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with wood, under
pressure, leads us to ask:
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Can steam or hot
water also produce the rapid
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transformation of
organic matter to oil?
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An article
"Water, Water Everywhere",
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published in the February
20, 1993 issue of "Science News"
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answers this question.
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Researchers at Exxon discovered
water acted an essential part
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in the formation of oil.
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Efforts to
synthesize oil met with failure,
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until very hot water was
added to the reactor vessel
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containing the
source rock sample.
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When this was done, a
layer of oil was found
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on top of the water at
the end of the experiment.
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This result proves
there is an alternate path
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to the production
of oil in the Earth,
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with superheated
water playing a major role.
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The article indicated this
discovery could wreak havoc
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with established
ideas about oil formation.
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Actually, however, other
natural events are already
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wreaking havoc with
conventional theories.
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Incredibly enough,
certain researchers,
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one at Oregon State University,
have published reports
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showing evidence of
present day oil formation
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in the Guaymas Basin
in the Gulf of California.
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Right now in the
Gulf of California,
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below 6,000 feet of
water, is an accumulation
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of organic sediments
derived from marine algae
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and other organic sources.
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Below this, superheated
water is being pushed up
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by a deep heat source,
through these sediments.
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Oil is being formed in the
interaction of organic sediments
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with superheated water.
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This hydrothermal oil
from the Guaymas Basin
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is virtually indistinguishable
from crude oils
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obtained from wells
drilled in the Earth.
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The implications of
this discovery can hardly
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be overestimated.
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The possibility must be
entertained that the genesis
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of the reservoir crude oils
abundant throughout the world,
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may be explained by
hydrothermal processes similar
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to what's happening
in the Guaymas Basin.
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But instead an open
dispersion of oil directly
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into the seawater,
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a closed system
could easily be visualized,
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where a reservoir of
crude could be collected.
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It is conceivable that a
worldwide flood was instrumental
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in the production of
the tremendous oil serves
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of the Middle
East and elsewhere.
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The vast amounts of vegetation
buried by such a flood,
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mixed with superheated
water similar to that detected
00:22:32.00\00:22:35.06
in the Guaymas
Basin, could produce oil
00:22:35.09\00:22:38.43
in the volumes we see today.
00:22:38.78\00:22:40.92
Depending on the burial
conditions, the organic matter
00:22:41.47\00:22:44.98
would be transformed
to either oil or coal.
00:22:45.35\00:22:49.45
Is there a
model of Earth history
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.29
incorporating these features?
00:22:52.32\00:22:54.17
One which allows the
formal of the world's large oil
00:22:54.42\00:22:58.02
and coal reserves
over a much shorter time
00:22:58.05\00:23:01.00
than has been
previously thought possible.
00:23:01.19\00:23:03.65
What about a model, based on
the record of Earth's history
00:23:04.34\00:23:07.61
given in Genesis.
00:23:07.75\00:23:09.06
The Bible describes Earth
being called into existence
00:23:09.63\00:23:13.16
about 6,000 years ago.
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.14
And Earth originally
covered with lush vegetation,
00:23:15.61\00:23:18.68
then devastated by a worldwide
flood about 1,700 years later.
00:23:19.26\00:23:23.76
This time scale
certainly fits with all
00:23:24.73\00:23:27.30
the scientific
discoveries I've made.
00:23:27.34\00:23:29.88
And just as certainly
water once covered this Earth.
00:23:30.11\00:23:34.49
In 1927 Noel Odell
discovered marine shelly fossils
00:23:34.75\00:23:40.29
near the very
top of Mt. Everest.
00:23:40.32\00:23:42.40
"Mountains rising
out of the waters" is how
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.30
the Bible describes the
end of the worldwide flood.
00:23:45.34\00:23:48.19
According to that description,
the shells near Mt. Everest
00:23:48.95\00:23:52.53
are no surprise at all.
00:23:52.56\00:23:54.55
And coal and oil, are they the
result of the rapid devastation
00:23:55.01\00:23:59.28
and burial of lush
vegetation by a worldwide flood?
00:23:59.31\00:24:02.71
If so, what about the worldwide
flood could have caused
00:24:03.29\00:24:07.13
such rapid burial?
00:24:07.16\00:24:09.01
The Bible speaks of the
fountains of the great deep
00:24:09.44\00:24:12.04
breaking up
00:24:12.07\00:24:13.09
- a strong reference
to volcanic eruptions
00:24:13.59\00:24:16.09
in the preflood ocean basins.
00:24:16.12\00:24:18.53
This is significant
because ocean survey researchers
00:24:19.46\00:24:23.09
recently found an area
on the Pacific Ocean floor,
00:24:23.12\00:24:26.84
thickly concentrated
with over 1,000 volcanoes.
00:24:26.88\00:24:30.57
The size of this area is
approximately the same as
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.90
Washington State.
00:24:33.93\00:24:35.67
Additional ocean
floor surveys may well yield
00:24:35.71\00:24:39.07
many more such discoveries.
00:24:39.10\00:24:41.18
The likelihood of
extensive volcanic activity
00:24:41.86\00:24:44.56
during the Biblical
flood, leads us to consider
00:24:44.60\00:24:47.23
one of the most famous volcanic
eruptions in modern time.
00:24:47.27\00:24:50.81
On May 18, 1980, a giant
landslide on the north face
00:24:52.13\00:24:56.70
of Mount St. Helens
in Washington State,
00:24:56.73\00:24:58.83
accompanied an
explosion equivalent
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.28
to 20 millions tones of TNT.
00:25:01.31\00:25:04.45
[Roaring and exploding
sounds from the volcano]
00:25:04.49\00:25:08.07
This lateral blast of
superheated steam, volcanic ash
00:25:12.74\00:25:17.16
and dirt leveled over
150 square miles of forest,
00:25:17.19\00:25:21.58
snapping huge
Douglas Firs like toothpicks.
00:25:21.73\00:25:25.02
The landslide debris
plunged into Spirit Lake,
00:25:25.11\00:25:28.41
causing a colossal water wave
which washed over the adjacent
00:25:28.67\00:25:32.85
mountainside over 800 feet above
its pre-eruption water level.
00:25:32.89\00:25:37.04
An average thickness of
300 feet of new sediment,
00:25:37.42\00:25:40.67
dumped into the lake,
has caused its surface level
00:25:41.02\00:25:44.96
to be almost 250 feet
higher than before the eruption.
00:25:45.00\00:25:48.91
A massive number of
trees felled by the blast,
00:25:49.19\00:25:52.39
were washed into Spirit
Lake by the giant water wave.
00:25:52.43\00:25:55.85
The power of catastrophically
driven water to accumulate
00:25:56.18\00:25:59.45
and bury extensive
amounts of vegetation
00:25:59.48\00:26:02.09
can easily be seen here.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.56
The floating log mat on
Spirit Lake is only about half
00:26:05.65\00:26:09.71
its original size
because the rest of the logs
00:26:09.74\00:26:11.99
have sunk to the bottom.
00:26:12.02\00:26:13.52
If Mount St. Helens
had erupted under water,
00:26:14.14\00:26:17.04
huge tidal waves
hundreds of times larger
00:26:17.67\00:26:20.54
than the Spirit Lake
water wave, would have caused
00:26:20.58\00:26:23.28
the erupted material to be
carried over much of the Earth
00:26:23.32\00:26:26.63
before settling.
00:26:26.66\00:26:28.14
If thousands of these
volcanoes were active,
00:26:28.76\00:26:31.61
we can begin to
imagine the destructive effects
00:26:31.82\00:26:34.81
a worldwide flood would
have had on the topography
00:26:34.99\00:26:37.97
of the Earth's surface.
00:26:38.00\00:26:39.79
This leads us to ask:
Could such a worldwide flood
00:26:40.29\00:26:44.25
described in the Bible,
also be capable of explaining
00:26:44.29\00:26:48.22
other geological phenomenon?
00:26:48.25\00:26:50.55
Such as the Grand Canyon.
00:26:50.78\00:26:53.14
Some geologists
would have you believe
00:26:54.52\00:26:56.01
that sedimentary
deposits were laid down over
00:26:56.05\00:26:58.38
many millions of years.
00:26:58.41\00:26:59.80
What they want you to
believe is just not true.
00:27:00.91\00:27:03.49
The fact is, the geology of
the Grand Canyon fits a model
00:27:06.93\00:27:10.89
based on the
occurrence of a worldwide flood.
00:27:10.92\00:27:13.94
In an attempt to learn
where the floodwaters came from,
00:27:14.97\00:27:18.49
where they went after the flood,
and what geological events
00:27:18.68\00:27:22.25
occurred during the flood,
we went to Dr. Walter Brown,
00:27:22.29\00:27:25.83
the former chief of
Science and Technology Studies
00:27:25.86\00:27:28.83
at the Air War College,
and an associate professor
00:27:28.87\00:27:31.81
at the US Air Force Academy.
00:27:31.84\00:27:33.74
His development of the
hydro plate theory provides
00:27:34.12\00:27:37.24
the key that unlocks
many mysteries about the flood
00:27:37.27\00:27:40.36
and its effects.
00:27:40.39\00:27:41.77
We can see on our
planet 17 very strange features
00:27:42.25\00:27:45.91
that can now be systematically
explained as a result
00:27:46.53\00:27:50.39
of a cataclysmic global
flood, who's waters erupted
00:27:50.43\00:27:54.00
from subterranean
chambers, with an energy release
00:27:54.03\00:27:57.57
exceeding the explosion
of 10 billion hydrogen bombs.
00:27:57.86\00:28:03.93
This explanation
00:28:04.92\00:28:06.63
shows us just how
rapidly major mountain formed.
00:28:06.67\00:28:10.02
It explains the
coal and oil deposits,
00:28:10.85\00:28:14.28
rapid continental drift,
00:28:14.40\00:28:16.23
why ocean floors have
huge trenches and hundreds
00:28:16.73\00:28:19.70
of canyons and volcanoes.
00:28:19.73\00:28:21.79
It explains the
formation of the layered strata
00:28:22.07\00:28:24.56
in most of the fossil record,
00:28:25.22\00:28:26.97
and so called ice ages,
00:28:28.00\00:28:30.79
and major land canyons,
especially the Grand Canyon.
00:28:30.98\00:28:34.86
The pre-flood Earth
probably had one very large
00:28:35.81\00:28:38.03
super continent containing
lush vegetation, seas, rivers,
00:28:38.07\00:28:42.80
and minor mountains.
00:28:43.37\00:28:45.67
According to the
hydro plate theory,
00:28:46.20\00:28:48.25
the pre-flood Earth had a
lot of subterranean water,
00:28:48.47\00:28:51.99
about half of what
is now in our oceans.
00:28:52.05\00:28:54.56
This water was in interconnected
chambers forming a thin,
00:28:55.69\00:28:59.59
spherical shell about half
a mile thick, perhaps 10 miles
00:29:00.01\00:29:04.83
below the Earth's surface.
00:29:05.24\00:29:06.80
Increasing pressure in
the subterranean water chamber
00:29:07.42\00:29:12.00
stretched the overlying crust,
just as a balloon stretches
00:29:12.08\00:29:15.02
when the
pressure inside increases.
00:29:15.05\00:29:17.17
Failure in the crust
began with a microscopic crack,
00:29:18.05\00:29:21.71
which grew in both directions
00:29:22.28\00:29:24.48
at about 3 miles per second.
00:29:24.63\00:29:26.95
The crack, following the
path of least resistance,
00:29:27.01\00:29:30.33
encircled the
globe in about 2 hours.
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.06
As the crack raced around
the Earth, the overlying crust
00:29:34.96\00:29:38.80
opened up like a rip in
a tightly stretched cloth.
00:29:38.83\00:29:42.71
The subterranean water
was under extreme pressure
00:29:43.39\00:29:46.13
because of the weight
of the 10 miles of rock
00:29:46.90\00:29:49.51
pressing down upon it.
00:29:49.54\00:29:51.53
So the water exploded
violently out of the rupture.
00:29:51.93\00:29:55.57
Calculations show that all along
this globe encircling crack,
00:29:56.14\00:30:00.78
fountains of water jetted
supersonically over 20 miles
00:30:01.34\00:30:05.42
into the atmosphere.
00:30:05.45\00:30:07.53
The spray from
this enormous fountain
00:30:07.57\00:30:10.18
produces torrential
rains, such as the Earth
00:30:10.22\00:30:13.08
has never
experienced before or after.
00:30:13.11\00:30:16.56
The Bible states
00:30:17.42\00:30:19.52
that all the
fountains of the great deep
00:30:19.92\00:30:22.50
burst open on one day.
00:30:22.60\00:30:25.15
And it describes these events
00:30:25.58\00:30:27.25
about 4.5 thousand
years ago, which we can
00:30:27.29\00:30:31.05
now tie together scientifically,
in cause and effect order,
00:30:31.09\00:30:34.71
as the hydroplane theory.
00:30:34.97\00:30:36.73
The fountains of the great
deep and the expanding steam
00:30:37.81\00:30:40.87
produced violent winds.
00:30:40.90\00:30:43.02
Some of the water jetting high
above the cold stratosphere,
00:30:43.68\00:30:47.04
froze into
super-cooled ice crystals
00:30:47.75\00:30:50.31
and produced some massive
ice dumps; burying, suffocating,
00:30:50.35\00:30:54.50
and instantly
freezing many animals.
00:30:54.53\00:30:57.24
The high pressure fountains
eroded the rock on both sides
00:30:57.73\00:31:01.51
of the crack, and even
threw up the limey contents
00:31:01.54\00:31:04.89
of many pre-flood seas.
00:31:04.92\00:31:07.40
Huge volumes of sediments
00:31:07.43\00:31:09.78
settled out of this
muddy water all over the Earth.
00:31:09.82\00:31:12.90
The sediments trapped and
buried plants and animals,
00:31:13.55\00:31:16.97
forming the fossil record.
00:31:17.58\00:31:20.05
The flooding uprooted
vegetation, moving it to regions
00:31:20.47\00:31:23.67
where it accumulated and
quickly became coal and oil
00:31:23.71\00:31:26.88
by processes we can
duplicate in a laboratory today.
00:31:27.37\00:31:31.16
Experiments show that as
erosion widened the rupture,
00:31:32.02\00:31:36.24
its width became so
great, that the compressed rock
00:31:36.55\00:31:40.50
beneath the subterranean
chamber, sprung upward,
00:31:40.72\00:31:43.94
giving birth to the
mid-oceanic ridge that wraps
00:31:44.17\00:31:47.26
around the Earth, like
the seam of a baseball.
00:31:47.29\00:31:51.12
The continental
plates, the hydro plates,
00:31:51.55\00:31:54.53
still with lubricating water
beneath them, slid down hill,
00:31:54.77\00:31:59.57
away from the
rising, mid-Atlantic ridge.
00:31:59.79\00:32:02.28
After, the massive, slowly
accelerating continental plates,
00:32:03.07\00:32:06.59
reached speeds of
about 45 miles an hour.
00:32:06.62\00:32:10.04
They ran into resistances,
compressed, crushed, thickened,
00:32:10.28\00:32:15.35
and buckled.
00:32:15.78\00:32:16.97
The portions of the
hydro plates that buckled up
00:32:17.90\00:32:20.50
formed mountains,
00:32:20.53\00:32:22.43
those that buckled
down formed ocean trenches.
00:32:22.54\00:32:25.55
This is why these features
00:32:25.88\00:32:27.95
are generally
parallel to the oceanic ridges
00:32:27.99\00:32:31.44
from which they slid.
00:32:31.47\00:32:33.64
The hydro plates, in sliding
away from the oceanic ridges,
00:32:34.89\00:32:37.93
opened up very
deep ocean basins,
00:32:37.96\00:32:40.15
into which the
floodwaters retreated.
00:32:40.68\00:32:43.35
Every continental basin was na-
turally left rim full of water,
00:32:44.07\00:32:48.99
producing many post-flood lakes.
00:32:49.18\00:32:52.15
Each lake that grew
from rainfall, or drainage
00:32:52.72\00:32:56.06
from higher elevations,
00:32:56.09\00:32:58.00
spilled over its rim at
the lowest point of the rim.
00:32:58.04\00:33:02.26
That eroded a little notch
in the rim, allowing even more
00:33:02.86\00:33:06.53
water to flow through
the notch, faster, cutting
00:33:06.56\00:33:09.87
the soft flood
deposited sediments even deeper.
00:33:09.91\00:33:13.19
This process accelerated
until all the lakes water dumped
00:33:13.92\00:33:19.06
through a very deep
slit, forming a canyon.
00:33:19.09\00:33:23.02
The largest of these
was the Grand Canyon.
00:33:23.67\00:33:26.81
North and east of the
Grand Canyon was a huge lake,
00:33:27.20\00:33:30.82
that I have identified
and named "Grand Lake".
00:33:30.85\00:33:34.67
Its dumping released
more water than is in all five
00:33:34.84\00:33:39.39
of the great lakes combined.
00:33:39.42\00:33:41.82
Grand Lake spilled over its rim,
00:33:41.86\00:33:44.23
eroded its dam, 20
miles south of Page, Arizona.
00:33:44.62\00:33:49.71
Catastrophically forming the
Grand Canyon within a few weeks.
00:33:50.07\00:33:54.56
Rapid deposition of flood
deposits from tidal action,
00:33:55.32\00:33:58.73
means there was little
time for erosion to occur
00:33:59.10\00:34:01.77
between successive layers.
00:34:01.80\00:34:03.72
On the long timescale envisioned
by evolutionary theory,
00:34:04.30\00:34:08.48
there should be considerable
evidence found of erosion
00:34:08.86\00:34:12.05
and infilling by
successive geologic formations
00:34:12.08\00:34:15.85
during the weathering
expected over millions of years.
00:34:15.89\00:34:19.54
The geological layers of
the Grand Canyon are remarkable
00:34:20.38\00:34:23.56
in showing little or
no evidence of erosion
00:34:23.66\00:34:26.34
between different layers.
00:34:26.37\00:34:28.49
Instead we see pancake layering,
00:34:28.59\00:34:31.15
very much consistent
with the rapid deposition,
00:34:31.19\00:34:33.67
envisioned by the flood model.
00:34:33.97\00:34:36.44
Erosion did not occur
until all of the layers
00:34:37.00\00:34:39.94
had been deposited.
00:34:39.97\00:34:41.52
But how rapidly could the
canyon itself have eroded?
00:34:41.87\00:34:45.19
Freshly laid down
sediments would still not have
00:34:48.31\00:34:51.12
completely hardened into rock,
which allows the possibility
00:34:51.16\00:34:54.69
that erosion of the
canyon could have taken place
00:34:55.32\00:34:58.11
far more easily, than if
it had hardened into rock,
00:34:58.15\00:35:00.91
as evolutionary
theory has assumed.
00:35:01.27\00:35:03.53
However, under
the right conditions
00:35:04.31\00:35:07.28
water can rapidly
cut its way through
00:35:07.32\00:35:10.22
the hardest of
rocks, such as the granites
00:35:10.26\00:35:13.18
at the bottom of
the Grand Canyon.
00:35:13.21\00:35:15.37
Those conditions
involve cavitation.
00:35:16.76\00:35:19.77
Cavitation is the rock
pulverizing process associated
00:35:19.81\00:35:22.94
with water flows greater
than 100 feet per second.
00:35:22.97\00:35:26.07
As water detaches
from irregularities
00:35:26.44\00:35:28.85
in the bedrock channel,
vacuum bubbles are produced,
00:35:29.05\00:35:32.14
inflicting hammer like
blows on the bedrock surface
00:35:32.38\00:35:35.55
- literally converting
the rocks into powder.
00:35:35.80\00:35:38.13
A modern
example of rapid erosion
00:35:39.57\00:35:41.73
of bedrock from cavitation,
comes from Glen Canyon dam
00:35:41.77\00:35:45.21
on the Colorado River,
just above the Grand Canyon.
00:35:45.24\00:35:48.65
Excessive snowfall
from the high country of the
00:35:49.20\00:35:52.39
Upper Colorado River
Basin in late spring of 1983
00:35:52.42\00:35:55.58
caused excessive run-off
that poured into Lake Powell
00:35:55.83\00:35:58.75
at rates of up to
148,000 cubic feet per second.
00:35:58.78\00:36:02.75
This rapid inflow threatened
to overflow Glen Canyon Dam.
00:36:03.12\00:36:07.11
To control the high flow
rates, the power plant was run
00:36:07.62\00:36:11.00
at full capacity, releasing
28,000 cubic feet per second
00:36:11.04\00:36:14.39
through the turbines.
00:36:14.42\00:36:15.89
Then the outlet
tubes were opened to drain
00:36:16.22\00:36:18.38
another 17,000
cubic feet per second.
00:36:18.41\00:36:21.26
This was still not enough.
00:36:21.83\00:36:23.58
The emergency situation required
00:36:24.03\00:36:25.85
engineers to risk
damage to the spillway tunnel,
00:36:25.89\00:36:28.92
and on June 15, the 40 foot
diameter, left spillway tunnel
00:36:29.25\00:36:33.15
was opened to drain an
additional 13,000 cubic feet
00:36:33.18\00:36:36.43
per second,
which was then raised
00:36:36.46\00:36:38.64
to 17,000 cubic feet per second.
00:36:38.68\00:36:40.83
Then on June 28th
the flow was increased
00:36:41.59\00:36:43.81
to 32,000 cubic feet per second.
00:36:43.84\00:36:46.48
At this point the
water exiting the tunnel
00:36:46.52\00:36:49.59
became red, and
noticeable ground vibrations,
00:36:49.62\00:36:52.66
earthquakes, were
felt by engineers.
00:36:52.69\00:36:55.37
Large blocks of concrete
and bedrock came hurling
00:36:55.96\00:36:58.61
from the 40
foot diameter tunnel.
00:36:58.64\00:37:00.88
After closing the
spillway tunnel, the survey team
00:37:01.39\00:37:04.41
discovered
extensive cavitational damage.
00:37:04.44\00:37:07.67
The 3 foot thick, steel
reinforced concrete lining
00:37:08.42\00:37:11.63
of the tunnel, was
penetrated by huge pits.
00:37:11.66\00:37:15.35
At an elbow where the tunnel
levels out, a hole 32 feet deep,
00:37:16.28\00:37:20.80
150 feet long, and 40
feet wide, was cut through
00:37:20.88\00:37:24.30
the lining into
red, sandstone bedrock.
00:37:24.33\00:37:28.03
This hole required 63,000
cubic feet of concrete to fill.
00:37:28.23\00:37:32.44
The repair process to
the enormous hole shows
00:37:32.86\00:37:35.29
the vast extent of the damage.
00:37:35.32\00:37:38.18
The speed of erosion in the
Glen Canyon Dam spillway tunnel
00:37:38.81\00:37:42.45
occurred very rapidly
during the period when the
00:37:42.65\00:37:45.72
red color of water appeared
00:37:45.75\00:37:47.63
and ground
vibrations were generated.
00:37:48.00\00:37:50.77
It is possible that cavitation
was pulverizing concrete,
00:37:51.05\00:37:54.83
steel and sandstone at the rate
of 1,000 cubic feet per second
00:37:54.87\00:37:59.02
during the peek
period of erosion.
00:37:59.05\00:38:01.53
The destructive effects of
cavitation at Glen Canyon Dam,
00:38:02.13\00:38:05.90
tell us the Grand
Canyon could have been eroded
00:38:05.93\00:38:08.01
very quickly by the suddenly
release of a huge volume
00:38:08.05\00:38:11.16
of water above the canyon,
00:38:11.19\00:38:12.79
but where did
the water come from
00:38:13.29\00:38:15.40
and what caused
its sudden release?
00:38:15.44\00:38:17.52
Dr. Brown's studies on
the Grand Canyon provide
00:38:18.71\00:38:21.51
one of the best answers.
00:38:21.54\00:38:23.42
Most people are told
that the might Colorado River
00:38:24.11\00:38:26.99
carved the Grand
Canyon over millions of years.
00:38:27.02\00:38:29.87
But if people could study
the canyon from an aircraft,
00:38:30.27\00:38:32.95
they could see its vastness,
and how tiny that river is
00:38:33.57\00:38:37.74
in relation to
the canyon itself.
00:38:37.94\00:38:40.64
There is no river on
earth that could carve
00:38:41.27\00:38:44.33
this big hole in the ground,
even over billions of years.
00:38:44.37\00:38:48.58
If the Colorado River
carved the Grand Canyon,
00:38:49.59\00:38:51.77
the first question we
should ask is: Where did all the
00:38:52.13\00:38:55.67
eroded sediments go?
00:38:55.70\00:38:57.49
There should be a
very large river delta
00:38:58.03\00:39:00.57
at the end of the Colorado River
00:39:00.73\00:39:02.82
- it's not there
00:39:02.98\00:39:04.35
Furthermore, geologists can't
find a huge river delta anywhere
00:39:04.62\00:39:08.33
near this part of the world.
00:39:08.36\00:39:10.23
So we need to ask ourselves:
where did the dirt go?
00:39:10.64\00:39:14.86
At several places on
this platform that overlook
00:39:15.99\00:39:18.45
the Grand Canyon, there
are small mountains, or buttes,
00:39:18.49\00:39:22.54
who's horizontal layers
tell a fascinating story.
00:39:22.96\00:39:26.14
The layers line up with
each other, so obviously,
00:39:26.67\00:39:29.77
they were at one time connected.
00:39:29.80\00:39:31.73
Something must have
come along and removed
00:39:32.01\00:39:34.95
a several
thousand foot thick layer
00:39:35.20\00:39:37.55
of softer material that
was once where we now are.
00:39:37.59\00:39:40.81
So we need to explain not
only where the dirt from inside
00:39:41.16\00:39:45.08
the vast 200 mile long
canyon went, but also, where did
00:39:45.30\00:39:49.12
the thousands of feet of
dirt go, that was once above
00:39:49.16\00:39:52.95
where we are now, and spread out
00:39:52.98\00:39:54.93
for tens of
thousands of square miles.
00:39:54.97\00:39:58.53
This particular
formation, called Red Butte,
00:39:58.98\00:40:02.29
not only still has some
of these horizontal layers,
00:40:02.32\00:40:05.03
but there is
another clue sitting on top.
00:40:05.06\00:40:07.64
The topmost
layer is a lava flow.
00:40:08.12\00:40:11.58
Lava only flows downhill,
therefore, at one time,
00:40:11.97\00:40:15.79
the land surrounding
the top of this butte
00:40:15.82\00:40:18.80
must have been even higher.
00:40:19.08\00:40:21.47
So again, where
did all that dirt go?
00:40:21.50\00:40:24.47
Grand Lake spilled over, and
eroded its dam catastrophically,
00:40:25.49\00:40:29.44
forming the Grand Canyon to the
southwest within a few weeks.
00:40:29.59\00:40:33.74
One other large, post-flood
lake that geologists recognize
00:40:34.38\00:40:37.83
was once near
here, was Hopi Lake.
00:40:37.86\00:40:40.72
As Grand Lake
catastrophically dumped,
00:40:40.88\00:40:43.26
I believe it eroded the
western boundary of Hopi Lake,
00:40:43.78\00:40:46.50
causing it to also spill out.
00:40:46.60\00:40:49.22
Where did all the dirt go?
00:40:49.61\00:40:51.25
It spread out
over southern Arizona,
00:40:51.83\00:40:53.83
and parts of
California, and Nevada, rapidly.
00:40:53.87\00:40:58.03
The evidence supporting
the Biblical worldwide flood
00:40:59.23\00:41:02.61
about 4,300
years ago, is mounting.
00:41:02.64\00:41:06.34
For the Grand Canyon,
the flood explains how the
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.28
sedimentary layers were rapidly
deposited as the waters rose,
00:41:09.32\00:41:13.17
and how they were quickly
eroded as the waters subsided.
00:41:13.27\00:41:16.76
We have also seen
where the dirty went.
00:41:17.10\00:41:19.79
And just as we have seen
evidence of the rapid burial
00:41:19.89\00:41:23.28
of preflood vegetation, to
produce today's coal and oil,
00:41:23.31\00:41:26.67
we will now see fossil
evidence of rapid burial
00:41:27.33\00:41:30.59
of preflood life forms. Indeed
some of the most remarkable
00:41:30.63\00:41:34.77
evidence of rapid
deposition of flood sediments,
00:41:34.97\00:41:38.19
comes from well preserved
fossils found in certain parts
00:41:38.29\00:41:41.99
of the Earth.
00:41:42.02\00:41:43.42
Perhaps the best fossil evidence
00:41:43.54\00:41:45.30
for the rapid burial of
plant and marine life is found
00:41:45.34\00:41:48.87
in south-western Wyoming, at
Fossil Butte National Monument.
00:41:48.91\00:41:53.01
During the past
100 years, scientists
00:41:53.55\00:41:55.45
and private collectors have
collected thousands of almost
00:41:55.49\00:41:58.52
perfectly preserved fossils
from sites within the monument.
00:41:58.56\00:42:01.56
Especially here at
Fossil Butte itself.
00:42:01.73\00:42:04.17
It's an amazingly diverse
collection of fossil turtles,
00:42:04.62\00:42:07.72
palm fawns, crocodiles,
leaves, insects, branches
00:42:07.75\00:42:13.25
with nuts still intact.
00:42:13.28\00:42:15.48
There are even fossil stingrays,
00:42:15.59\00:42:17.47
whose skeletons of cartilage are
known to disintegrate rapidly,
00:42:17.77\00:42:21.33
proving that burial
of all these life forms,
00:42:21.45\00:42:24.38
was indeed, quite
rapid. But this isn't all,
00:42:24.42\00:42:27.32
perhaps the most spectacular
evidence of rapid burial
00:42:27.72\00:42:30.59
of all the fossils within
the monument, are the billions
00:42:30.63\00:42:33.47
of the more than
20 kinds of fish.
00:42:33.50\00:42:35.99
This slab of rock in
the monument visitor center,
00:42:36.65\00:42:38.84
which measure
about 9 feet by 5 feet,
00:42:39.34\00:42:41.63
shows vividly, just
a few of that number.
00:42:41.93\00:42:44.61
Amazingly, many of the
fish retain not only their
00:42:45.04\00:42:48.23
entire skeletons, but
their teeth, delicate scales,
00:42:48.26\00:42:51.42
and skin as well.
00:42:51.78\00:42:53.79
The vast number of
fossil fish at Fossil Butte,
00:42:53.89\00:42:56.46
has left evolutionary geologists
with a vast, unsolved, mystery.
00:42:56.58\00:43:00.35
In two sections,
entitled: [Text on screen],
00:43:00.67\00:43:04.41
the National Park Services
brochure on Fossil Butte,
00:43:06.75\00:43:09.80
reveals the contradictions
that result when using
00:43:09.84\00:43:12.63
an ancient Earth time
frame to explain rapid burial.
00:43:12.67\00:43:15.43
On one hand it speculates
of the existence of a lake,
00:43:16.24\00:43:19.14
where many "animals
and plants probably"
00:43:19.30\00:43:21.77
"died natural deaths... ",
00:43:21.87\00:43:23.64
on the other hand,
00:43:23.97\00:43:25.29
the evidence forces
the conclusion that,
00:43:25.33\00:43:27.42
"... on several
occasions huge numbers"
00:43:27.73\00:43:29.99
"of fish were killed suddenly. "
00:43:30.02\00:43:32.11
The brochure then equates
those "several occasions",
00:43:32.42\00:43:35.79
to rapid burial by precipitation
of calcium carboning
00:43:36.14\00:43:39.35
- the primary rock
mineral enclosing the fossils
00:43:39.78\00:43:42.21
year after year for
hundreds of thousands of years.
00:43:42.63\00:43:45.63
This is a truly
incredible scenario to have such
00:43:46.03\00:43:49.10
a vast number of fish
reproducing within a short time,
00:43:49.14\00:43:52.23
only to be wiped out
by succeeding catastrophe
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.75
a year or so later,
and this to be repeated
00:43:54.78\00:43:57.43
several hundred thousand times.
00:43:57.59\00:43:59.80
Paleontologist's should
long ago have seen the fallacy
00:44:00.17\00:44:03.45
in this scenario, if for no
other reason, because of the
00:44:03.49\00:44:06.74
beautifully
preserved fossil palm fawns.
00:44:06.77\00:44:09.64
But very simply, palm
trees don't grow in water,
00:44:09.84\00:44:12.78
and their fawns are not
ripped off by gentle breezes.
00:44:12.96\00:44:16.16
Only a catastrophe of
huge proportions can account
00:44:16.61\00:44:19.25
for the perfectly preserved
fossils at Fossil Butte.
00:44:19.28\00:44:21.89
The rocks there are,
like many in the Grand Canyon,
00:44:22.52\00:44:25.56
primarily calcium carbonate.
00:44:25.99\00:44:28.12
They all had a common
source, the interaction
00:44:28.29\00:44:30.91
of volcanic gases with
lime, thrown up from the basins
00:44:30.95\00:44:33.98
of the preflood seas.
00:44:34.01\00:44:35.72
This
commonality, together with the
00:44:35.86\00:44:37.99
evidence of rapid deposition,
and burial, tells us plainly
00:44:38.03\00:44:41.98
that Fossil Butte and
the Grand Canyon originated
00:44:42.01\00:44:45.11
in the same great event:
00:44:45.14\00:44:46.71
the catastrophe of
the worldwide flood.
00:44:46.93\00:44:49.54
But is there any other
evidence which would confirm
00:44:49.84\00:44:52.18
that Fossil Butte is
only as old as the flood?
00:44:52.21\00:44:55.05
The answer is: Yes!
00:44:55.60\00:44:57.41
Geologists have repeatedly
identified the Fossil Butte
00:44:58.20\00:45:00.99
site as belonging to the
Eocene, which they assume
00:45:01.02\00:45:04.26
was 50-60 million years
ago, but we have already seen
00:45:04.29\00:45:07.50
from my studies of
coalified wood, and the chart
00:45:07.53\00:45:09.64
on the collapse of geologic
time, that the Eocene fits
00:45:09.68\00:45:12.73
into the framework of a
worldwide flood only several
00:45:12.77\00:45:15.75
thousand years ago. So there
is no question that the entire
00:45:15.79\00:45:19.24
Fossil Butte occurrence
fits only within the framework
00:45:19.27\00:45:22.44
of a worldwide flood,
and a young age of the Earth.
00:45:22.47\00:45:25.61
And there is more!
Not everything was buried
00:45:25.93\00:45:28.69
on the first day of the flood.
00:45:28.72\00:45:30.23
The water was rising for 40 days
00:45:30.27\00:45:32.69
Land animals large enough
to survive part of that period
00:45:32.75\00:45:35.85
left a remarkable record
of their efforts to escape
00:45:36.15\00:45:38.38
the flood's rising waters.
That record is found in coal,
00:45:38.42\00:45:42.19
and it is truly fascinating.
00:45:42.47\00:45:45.27
Dinosaur tracks in coal.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.51
Amazing! Extraordinary!
00:46:07.54\00:46:09.89
How in the world
did they ever get there?
00:46:09.92\00:46:12.49
Obviously, in the
past, there was a huge seem
00:46:12.62\00:46:15.77
of vegetation in this area.
Dinosaurs were walking around
00:46:15.81\00:46:19.33
on top of that vegetation
before it turned to coal.
00:46:19.36\00:46:23.09
But how long ago was
that? How old are the dinosaurs?
00:46:23.29\00:46:28.46
That's what we want to know!
00:46:28.49\00:46:30.64
This other dinosaur
track tells the story.
00:46:30.99\00:46:34.27
It's right adjacent to one
of these coalified logs here
00:46:34.32\00:46:38.62
in this coal
mine in Price, Utah.
00:46:38.65\00:46:41.20
In fact, it's only
about 100 feet away
00:46:41.24\00:46:43.71
from the coalified
log that we saw earlier,
00:46:43.75\00:46:46.95
so we know that whatever
the age of the coalified wood,
00:46:46.99\00:46:50.76
the dinosaurs
were of the same age.
00:46:50.93\00:46:54.17
In the coal mine we
saw two dinosaur tracks.
00:47:02.86\00:47:05.99
Where those the only dinosaur
tracks in the coal mines
00:47:06.34\00:47:09.20
here in Eastern
Utah? Not at all!
00:47:09.23\00:47:11.76
Here in the College of
Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum,
00:47:12.18\00:47:15.87
look what has been
taken out of these coal mines.
00:47:16.07\00:47:18.87
Look at all these dinosaur
tracks: different sizes,
00:47:18.97\00:47:22.62
some flesh eating dinosaurs,
some plant eating dinosaurs.
00:47:24.06\00:47:27.87
Why were they all together?
00:47:27.94\00:47:29.99
To answer that
question, let's look at the
00:47:32.18\00:47:34.44
Kenilworth Mine fossil
map. It says: [Text on screen].
00:47:34.48\00:47:39.41
Over here on the map itself,
here we can see all the tracks,
00:47:43.53\00:47:46.75
and the coalified logs.
00:47:46.78\00:47:48.76
According to the
sign, those dinosaurs
00:47:49.56\00:47:51.73
were tromping around in a swamp.
00:47:51.76\00:47:53.87
Common sense tells
you that can't be true.
00:47:54.20\00:47:56.76
There's no swamp in the world
that will preserve such tracks.
00:47:56.86\00:48:00.18
All those dinosaurs
were together for a reason:
00:48:00.42\00:48:03.85
they were trying to
escape the rising waters
00:48:04.31\00:48:06.76
of a worldwide flood.
00:48:06.79\00:48:08.52
These charts help
illustrate how dinosaur tracks
00:48:09.23\00:48:11.85
could have formed at
the time of the flood,
00:48:11.88\00:48:13.59
and why they
exist in coal today.
00:48:13.89\00:48:16.10
The preflood earth was
covered with lush vegetation,
00:48:16.91\00:48:19.58
a scene of beauty
everywhere. Then came the flood.
00:48:20.01\00:48:23.59
Torrential rain, and the
fountains of the great deep,
00:48:23.94\00:48:26.00
bursting open, caused
Earth's lush vegetation
00:48:26.03\00:48:28.97
to be swept up in the
flood's rising waters.
00:48:29.01\00:48:31.92
This vegetation accumulated
in great mats, and then
00:48:32.19\00:48:35.14
was deposited by the ebb
and flow of tidal waves produced
00:48:35.18\00:48:38.45
by volcanic activity
in the preflood seas.
00:48:38.48\00:48:41.24
Each tidal action left its
deposit of sediment within,
00:48:41.41\00:48:44.45
or over, the layer of
vegetation. The dinosaurs,
00:48:44.48\00:48:47.68
being quite heavy,
were able to survive many
00:48:47.72\00:48:50.85
of the early tidal
actions as they sought to escape
00:48:50.89\00:48:53.45
the rising waters of the flood.
00:48:53.48\00:48:55.62
When the tidal
waters briefly receded,
00:48:56.16\00:48:58.12
the dinosaurs
continued their search
00:48:58.15\00:49:00.04
for higher ground, leaving
their tracks in the sediments
00:49:00.08\00:49:02.99
that were freshly
deposited over the vegetation.
00:49:03.02\00:49:05.92
At times, their great weight
caused their tracks to penetrate
00:49:06.38\00:49:09.54
the sedimentary layer
into the mat of vegetation.
00:49:09.57\00:49:12.14
That mat of vegetation
has since turned into coal,
00:49:12.77\00:49:15.45
and wherever the dinosaurs
left their original imprints,
00:49:15.99\00:49:18.95
there we still find an indelible
record of their tracks,
00:49:19.14\00:49:22.02
in coal, today.
00:49:22.05\00:49:23.99
If all these dinosaurs
were congregating together,
00:49:27.12\00:49:29.54
and swept up by the
rising waters of the flood,
00:49:29.85\00:49:32.26
we might also expect that
they would be buried together.
00:49:32.41\00:49:35.35
And indeed, here at
Dinosaur National Monument,
00:49:35.38\00:49:38.10
in Vernal, Utah, we see a
giant fossil dinosaur graveyard.
00:49:38.14\00:49:43.87
The time has come to draw
some conclusions about the age
00:50:28.87\00:50:31.76
of the dinosaurs and the
age of the fossil fish found
00:50:31.79\00:50:34.65
at Fossil Butte
National Monument.
00:50:34.91\00:50:37.18
Here at Dinosaur
National Monument
00:50:37.41\00:50:39.27
there's a sign that says:
00:50:39.64\00:50:41.20
"These dinosaur bones
are 145 million years old. "
00:50:41.24\00:50:44.98
The so called Jurassic
era, but we know that can't
00:50:45.02\00:50:48.32
really be true at all.
Remembering our early results
00:50:48.36\00:50:51.51
on the coalified wood,
there we found the collapse
00:50:51.54\00:50:54.66
of geologic time. The
Eocene, the Cretaceous,
00:50:54.96\00:50:58.94
the Jurassic and the Triassic,
we found were all together
00:50:59.07\00:51:03.06
only several thousand years ago.
00:51:03.39\00:51:05.62
The fossil fish in the Eocene,
the Dinosaurs, in the Cretaceous
00:51:05.84\00:51:11.41
the Jurassic and the Triassic,
all again collapse to just
00:51:11.44\00:51:15.75
several thousand years
ago; buried at the time
00:51:15.78\00:51:18.77
of the worldwide flood. At
this point, many may wonder
00:51:18.81\00:51:22.16
how this startling
summation can be reconciled
00:51:22.19\00:51:25.13
with the evolutionary
view of Earth history.
00:51:25.16\00:51:28.07
They may ask: do we not
know from radiometric dating
00:51:28.93\00:51:32.63
that Earth's
basement rocks, the granites,
00:51:32.66\00:51:35.49
formed repeatedly at different
times and places over billions
00:51:35.66\00:51:39.20
of years of evolutionary
time? And do we not know,
00:51:39.23\00:51:42.36
that using these same
methods that the fossils
00:51:42.40\00:51:45.50
in sedimentary
rocks are hundreds
00:51:45.53\00:51:47.55
of millions of years old?
00:51:47.58\00:51:49.20
The answer is a clear-cut
"No!" to both questions.
00:51:49.86\00:51:53.36
Neither granites, nor fossils,
have ages stamped on them
00:51:53.65\00:51:56.96
when they are collected.
00:51:56.99\00:51:58.24
The ancient radiometric
gages that scientists
00:51:58.54\00:52:00.71
have accepted for so long, have
never been scientific facts.
00:52:00.75\00:52:04.80
Factual scientific
information is derived from
00:52:05.26\00:52:08.20
laboratory experiments.
00:52:08.23\00:52:09.66
Radiometric Age Dating is really
just an arithmetic calculation.
00:52:10.74\00:52:15.02
It is composed of: a
laboratory measurement
00:52:16.18\00:52:19.63
- the amount of lead divided
by the amount of uranium,
00:52:19.83\00:52:22.80
both of these are
ascertained in the laboratory.
00:52:23.01\00:52:25.57
The other variable is
supposedly a constant.
00:52:26.15\00:52:29.29
It assumes a
constant decay rate.
00:52:29.49\00:52:31.78
The age is then calculated
as the product of that constant,
00:52:32.07\00:52:35.56
times the ratio, only the ratio
is measured in the laboratory.
00:52:35.86\00:52:40.12
If this constant here
is really not a constant,
00:52:40.34\00:52:43.70
but a variable, then
the age is meaningless,
00:52:43.74\00:52:47.07
and the radiometric gages
00:52:47.19\00:52:49.07
are just so much,
radiometric fiction.
00:52:49.11\00:52:51.73
Evolution assumes
granites form by slow cooling
00:52:52.51\00:52:56.08
over billions of years.
00:52:56.11\00:52:57.78
The time of cooling, or presumed
age, is obtained by measuring
00:52:57.85\00:53:01.95
the present radioactive
decay products in the granite,
00:53:01.98\00:53:05.37
and assuming they accumulated
only by slow, constant,
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radioactive decay.
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Because evolution
equates radioactive age
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with the time of cooling,
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any evidence showing
granites formed rapidly,
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essentially shows
their simultaneous creation.
00:53:18.67\00:53:21.78
Thus, the premise of
constant radioactive decay
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and the inference of
great age is invalidated.
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And indeed, there
is scientific evidence
00:53:28.56\00:53:31.19
for their simultaneous creation.
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Etched within the granites
are beautiful micro spheres
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of coloration produced
by the decay of a certain
00:53:37.23\00:53:40.27
radioactive element known to
have only a fleeting existence.
00:53:40.31\00:53:43.98
Using a simple analogy,
Alka-Seltzer bubbles in water
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can be retained
only by rapid freezing.
00:53:48.12\00:53:50.68
Similarly, the
microscopic record of fleeting
00:53:51.23\00:53:54.28
radioactive decay in the
granites, is there only because
00:53:54.32\00:53:57.67
these rocks were
instantly created in solid form.
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If these rocks had
formed by slow cooling,
00:54:01.38\00:54:03.66
as evolution claims,
the radioactive traces
00:54:03.86\00:54:06.67
would have
disappeared in the meld,
00:54:06.70\00:54:08.56
without leaving
any visible record.
00:54:08.60\00:54:10.43
This record of instantaneous
creation in granites worldwide.
00:54:11.25\00:54:15.37
Moreover, its existence in
granites of vastly different
00:54:15.71\00:54:19.01
radiometric gages,
shows they were all created
00:54:19.04\00:54:21.63
at the same time.
00:54:21.66\00:54:23.20
This collapses the whole
foundation of geologic time.
00:54:23.30\00:54:26.79
The hundreds of millions
of years of cooling time that
00:54:27.14\00:54:29.50
the geologists have
thought necessary to form
00:54:29.53\00:54:31.60
the giant monolith, El Capitan,
00:54:31.63\00:54:34.02
is reduced to less
than a few minutes.
00:54:34.32\00:54:37.04
How does this
creation evidence impact
00:54:37.82\00:54:39.51
on the age of the
Earth? Very significantly.
00:54:39.55\00:54:42.45
The weight of the scientific
evidence has brought us
00:54:42.49\00:54:44.56
to the collapse
of evolutionary time.
00:54:44.59\00:54:47.05
There is a Young
Earth Creation Timescale.
00:54:47.33\00:54:50.71
The radiometric
gages of the granites,
00:54:51.25\00:54:53.66
stretching from 80 million
to 4 billion years, is invalid.
00:54:53.86\00:54:59.30
These granites, from
Yosemite to the basement rocks
00:54:59.51\00:55:02.65
of the Grand
Canyon, to Japan and India,
00:55:02.68\00:55:05.83
to the granites of
Europe and Russia, and Canada,
00:55:06.09\00:55:08.81
were all the product of
a simultaneous creation.
00:55:09.16\00:55:12.09
We haven't proved that
the Earth is 6,000 years old,
00:55:12.79\00:55:15.59
but we have found
evidence that is consistent
00:55:15.98\00:55:18.94
with a 6,000
year age of the Earth.
00:55:18.97\00:55:22.07
And we have shown
that a several billion
00:55:22.27\00:55:24.66
year age of the Earth is
scientifically incorrect.
00:55:24.70\00:55:28.16
We've captured only a brief
glimpse of the various lines
00:55:30.65\00:55:33.89
of scientific evidence that
point to the truth and accuracy
00:55:33.93\00:55:37.14
of the Biblical record of
the Earth's recent creation,
00:55:37.17\00:55:40.14
and the great flood.
00:55:40.17\00:55:41.89
Brief though our
glimpse has been,
00:55:42.13\00:55:44.34
the conclusion has been certain.
00:55:44.37\00:55:46.55
The radioactive
traces in coalified wood,
00:55:48.26\00:55:51.08
collapses the geological
time scale for life on Earth,
00:55:51.36\00:55:55.01
from hundreds of millions
of years, to just thousands.
00:55:55.05\00:55:58.67
The occurrence of the worldwide
flood explains the rapid
00:55:59.59\00:56:02.85
accumulation of vegetation
responsible for Earth's
00:56:02.88\00:56:06.97
vast coal and oil
reserves, the young age of coal,
00:56:07.00\00:56:11.02
and it's rapid formation in the
laboratory, as well as the oil
00:56:11.06\00:56:14.25
now forming in Guaymas
Basin off the California coast,
00:56:14.28\00:56:17.58
fits only into a young,
not ancient, age of the Earth.
00:56:18.13\00:56:23.00
Dinosaurs, their fossils
buried in mass graveyards
00:56:23.68\00:56:27.24
and their tracks in
coal, are a mute reminder
00:56:27.29\00:56:30.75
of the futile attempts
of these creatures to escape
00:56:30.79\00:56:33.13
the rising water
of a worldwide flood.
00:56:33.16\00:56:36.56
The excess
helium in deep granites
00:56:37.04\00:56:39.57
provides concrete evidence the
Earth's crustal rocks are young,
00:56:39.61\00:56:44.02
thus powerfully
disproving the whole concept
00:56:44.05\00:56:46.52
of an anciently evolving Earth.
00:56:46.55\00:56:48.75
And finally, the
fingerprints of creation,
00:56:49.36\00:56:52.52
also found in the granites, the
very rocks the Bible speaks of
00:56:52.56\00:56:56.51
as Earth's foundation rocks,
confirm these rocks were all
00:56:56.54\00:57:01.10
the product of
the same creation.
00:57:01.13\00:57:03.73
This fact invalidates evolutions
basic assumption of uniform
00:57:04.43\00:57:08.74
radioactive decay, and
collapses the whole structure
00:57:08.93\00:57:12.66
of evolutionary time.
00:57:12.69\00:57:14.39
We must conclude
therefore, that evolution's
00:57:15.17\00:57:18.47
4.5 billion
year age of the Earth
00:57:18.50\00:57:21.37
is nothing more
than science-fiction.
00:57:21.41\00:57:24.25
Clearly the belief system that
fits all the scientific facts
00:57:24.53\00:57:28.35
we presented, is the record
of creation given in Genesis,
00:57:28.38\00:57:32.17
and repeated by
Moses, in Exodus 20:11:
00:57:32.20\00:57:35.69
"For in 6 days the Lord
made Heaven and Earth, the sea,"
00:57:36.38\00:57:40.98
"and all that in them is.
And rested the seventh day. "
00:57:41.01\00:57:45.58
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