Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000002A
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00:10 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, 00:15 "In the beginning, God created." 00:20 Evolution teaches the opposite. 00:22 No one created, it all happened by itself. 00:26 Which one is the truth? 00:30 This is Headquarters. 00:34 Doc M, 00:38 Jacqui, and Rich. 00:44 Their job, investigate 00:46 and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:18 Hi, Jacqui. 01:19 I have Rich's next assignment. 01:21 You do? 01:23 Mm-hm. Awesome. 01:24 What's he investigating? 01:25 You'll never guess. 01:27 Ooh! 01:28 Mystery! 01:29 Yeah. 01:32 Hey! 01:33 You got a new T-shirt. 01:34 Pretty cool! 01:37 Wait, dinos! 01:39 He's going to be researching dinosaurs, right? 01:42 That's right. 01:44 Dinosaurs used to be my favorite animals as a kid. 01:50 I'm not quite sure 01:51 why they were always painted scary. 01:55 That's true. 01:56 But it would be really cool to see one in real life. 01:59 You're right. Yeah. 02:01 That reminds me. 02:02 I just got this email, 02:04 a question today. 02:05 And it's from Victor in Medicine Hat, 02:09 that's in Alberta, Canada. 02:10 Cool! 02:12 He says to us, "Dear, HQ people," that's us. 02:15 Okay. 02:17 "Dinosaurs are my favorite animals. 02:18 I like to read about them." 02:20 Ah, they're mine too. 02:21 "I've always read that 02:22 the last ones died 65 million years ago. 02:27 The thing is that in the church last week, 02:29 the pastor talked about creation 02:30 and how God created the world 02:31 a few thousand years ago. 02:33 So when did the dinosaurs really live? 02:37 Please help me. 02:39 Victor." 02:40 You know, he has point. 02:42 You see, my little brother, 02:44 he's in love with dinosaurs too, 02:45 and he watches this TV show. 02:47 And in the TV show, 02:48 every time they bring up dinosaurs or the past, 02:51 they use like millions of years ago. 02:55 We need to get this assignment off to Rich. 02:57 Maybe he can shed some 02:59 Dino-light on it. 03:01 Okay. 03:03 Where is Rich today? 03:08 You know... 03:09 Okay, so he sends me this message, 03:13 and I quote, 03:15 "Hanging around in California today." 03:19 "Hanging around in California today." 03:23 Yep. 03:24 Maybe he's taking the day off at the beach. 03:28 It's okay! I can fix it. 03:32 All right, I'm just going to send this to Rich. 03:36 Do you have a creation question for Headquarters? 03:39 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, and Rich 03:42 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 04:15 Oh, 04:16 I think I got a message from HQ. 04:18 It must be our next assignment. 04:20 I better climb up to a safe place 04:22 and check it from there. 04:41 All right, let's see what we have here. 04:51 Hi, Rich. Jacqui here at HQ. 04:54 Doc M just gave me your new assignment for today. 04:56 I wanted to give it to you. 04:58 It's... 05:00 Well, a little unusual today. 05:03 Unusual. 05:04 I'll say, it's a great choice of words, 05:07 Jacqui, it's unusual. 05:09 Unusual? 05:10 Hmm, I wonder what they have planned today. 05:14 Rich, your assignment today is about investigating, 05:18 well... Dinosaurs. 05:20 Dinosaurs! 05:22 You heard correctly, dinosaurs. 05:26 You're hearing just fine, Rich, dinosaurs! 05:29 Grrr! 05:32 Everywhere we turn, 05:34 it says dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. 05:37 But the Bible says God had created the earth 05:39 only a few thousand years ago. 05:41 So when did they live? 05:42 They both can't be right. 05:44 Your assignment today, 05:46 look for evidence about dinosaurs. 05:48 Did they live millions of years ago 05:50 or did they live recently? 05:52 We really look forward to getting your report. 05:55 Grrr! 05:58 Wow! Cool! 05:59 Dinosaurs. 06:00 I better let them know I got the message. 06:03 "Got message, dinos." 06:09 Well, that's an interesting assignment, dinosaurs. 06:12 I wonder... 06:14 Something else. 06:17 "Roar." 06:19 That was probably Doc M. 06:22 Oh, another one. 06:25 "That was Doc M." I figured. 06:29 Well, we have our assignment. 06:30 I'm going to write it down in my journal. 06:42 Dinosaurs. 06:47 Hmm. 06:48 Since dinosaurs are extinct, 06:49 it's not like we can go visit one in the zoo. 06:52 How do we even know they existed? 06:54 I know. 06:55 We need to look for some evidence 06:57 that dinosaurs did exist once upon a time. 07:00 We need to visit a dinosaur tracksite. 07:02 Let's get going. 07:03 We need to get back to our jeep. 07:04 First things first, we need to get off this mountain. 07:10 Wow, what an amazing view. 07:12 God can sure make some awesome scenery. 07:14 All right, let's get going on assignment. 07:21 Help us investigate today. 07:25 Download and print your own free journal study guide 07:28 at TheCreationCase.com. 07:53 We're almost to the spot here in Wyoming 07:55 where we can see a dinosaur tracksite. 07:59 The evidence that dinosaurs existed 08:01 has been found on every continent. 08:04 There are thousands of clues such as tracksites, eggs, 08:08 skin impressions, droppings, and lots of fossil bones. 08:13 Now, of course, dinosaurs are extinct. 08:21 Well, we're here. 08:23 But you know what, first of all, 08:24 I want to show you some replicas 08:26 of some dinosaur claws I have with me. 08:29 Check this out. This isn't real. 08:32 It's a copy of a velociraptor claw. 08:35 I also have one of a megaraptor. 08:38 You want to guess why they call it a megaraptor? 08:41 Check this out. 08:45 This was a big animal. 08:52 The big question is when did dinosaurs live. 08:58 Evolution teaches that 09:00 the last dinosaurs died off around 65 million years ago. 09:06 On the other hand, the Bible says 09:08 that God made all the creatures of the earth, 09:11 and when He was done, 09:12 He said that it was good. 09:17 All right, we are at the tracksite. 09:19 But sometimes, they're a little hard to spot. 09:22 We need to really look around. 09:24 You know, the Bible doesn't say 09:26 that God created some of the creatures, 09:28 it says, He created all of them. 09:31 Only God can create life. 09:34 The enemy can't create life. 09:36 He may have the power to corrupt life. 09:38 But only God can create life. 09:41 So it would seem that in the beginning, 09:44 God created these creatures. 09:47 Hey, I found one. 09:48 Check this out. 09:51 Dinosaurs walked here many, many years ago. 09:57 Check out the distance between their steps. 10:02 That's a really neat track. 10:04 You know, I think I'm going to try to sketch it 10:06 in my journal. 10:07 A lot of people assume 10:09 God couldn't have created dinosaurs, 10:11 they're so scary. 10:12 But if you think about it, 10:13 there's a bunch of scary things out there, 10:15 like crocodiles, and tigers, or wolves, 10:18 or other scary creatures, like scorpions and wasps, 10:21 and there's even scary plants that are poisonous 10:24 or filled with thorns. 10:26 Still, not all dinosaurs were scary, 10:28 some were probably friendly. 10:31 Dinosaurs seem scary, 10:32 but they're not the only scary creatures out there. 10:34 The world is filled with scary animals. 10:39 Did God create them this way? 10:41 Probably not. 10:42 Something changed. 10:43 Something happened. 10:45 No one knows exactly how it happened, 10:47 but the Bible gives us some clues. 10:50 Genesis 3 says that as a result of sin, 10:54 a curse or punishment resulted. 10:58 Since the enemy had been disguised as a serpent, 11:00 it appears he had some control over the animal kingdom. 11:05 No one knows for sure, 11:07 but it would appear that from that day forward, 11:10 sin caused many sad changes 11:13 to come over the animal kingdom. 11:17 The most severe result of sin was death. 11:21 Every living thing would eventually have to die. 11:26 It sounds like all living things 11:28 were physically changed, 11:29 including dinosaurs. 11:31 I'm going to write that down in my journal. 11:38 Only God can create life. 11:45 Many sad changes in the animal kingdom 11:48 were the results of sin. 11:53 We should keep in mind that the enemy also has powers, 11:56 not to create life but maybe to corrupt life. 12:02 Dinosaur tracks are pretty neat, 12:04 but is it possible to actually see a dinosaur? 12:08 You know, there's a dinosaur excavation 12:10 going on right now 12:11 right here in Wyoming. 12:13 It would be great to go see where they're pulling out 12:15 the fossilized bones out of the ground. 12:17 Let's get back to the jeep. 12:29 Hi, everyone, Doc M here at HQ. 12:33 We sent Rich out to investigate dinosaurs today. 12:36 But here at Headquarters, we can help too. 12:39 I started digging around 12:40 and found some interesting things. 12:42 I want to tell you about it. 12:43 I love playing with my Dino toys. 12:45 But you know what, 12:46 some people think dinosaurs never even existed. 12:50 Someone might be wrong. 12:52 Okay, so let's look at some pictures. 12:56 This will be fun. 13:01 Dinosaurs are cool. 13:02 And there's actually a lot of evidence 13:04 that dinosaurs really did exist. 13:07 For example, 13:08 we find lots of fossilized dinosaur bones 13:11 buried and preserved in the ground. 13:13 This makes sense since according to the Bible, 13:16 tons of them would have been buried during the flood. 13:20 Oh, look at this big old bone. 13:24 We also find dinosaur eggs, a bunch of shapes and sizes. 13:28 Wow! 13:29 Sometimes, the embryo inside is even fossilized 13:33 like this one. 13:34 Here's another dinosaur fossil. 13:36 This is called coprolite. 13:39 That's actually the scientific word 13:41 for fossilized droppings. 13:43 I know. That's kind of gross, 13:45 but dinosaurs had to go to the bathroom too. 13:48 Another evidence is dinosaur footprints. 13:51 There are many dinosaur tracksites all over the world 13:54 showing where dinosaurs walked, 13:56 and they're in all shapes and sizes. 14:00 Even impressions of their skin have been fossilized. 14:03 Wow! 14:04 There's a ton of evidence 14:06 that dinosaurs really did exist. 14:09 And still, some people choose to believe they never existed. 14:13 Don't you find that kind of strange? 14:16 There's even lots of ancient drawings 14:19 and carvings of strange creatures 14:21 that resemble dinosaurs. 14:23 No one knows what they really are for sure. 14:26 But just by looking at fossils alone, 14:29 we can know for sure 14:31 that dinosaurs definitely existed. 14:33 And you know what, 14:35 only God can create living things. 14:39 Yet again, 14:40 I am convinced 14:43 that God is my Creator. 14:49 Hey, everyone, it's me Rich Aguilera. 14:51 I'd love to see you at one of our live events. 14:54 To see where I'll be speaking, 14:55 visit our website, TheCreationCase.com. 15:18 We are in Eastern Wyoming, not too far from South Dakota. 15:22 The place that we're going to be digging 15:23 is about a mile from here, and we have to go on foot. 15:25 Come on. 15:31 In the past, scientists working here 15:34 say they've uncovered three basic types of dinosaurs, 15:37 triceratops, tyrannosaurus Rex, and edmontosaurus. 15:49 Wyoming is a great place 15:51 to hunt around for dinosaur fossils. 15:57 Hey, look, 15:58 there's dinosaur fossils just laying around on the ground. 16:03 Many scientists report 16:04 that they find these dinosaur bones 16:06 and that they're 60, 100, even 200 million years old. 16:10 Did they really live that long ago? 16:13 Did you know that a few years ago, 16:15 a scientist in Montana found some fossils of T-rexes 16:19 that is causing a stir in the scientific community? 16:21 In one of its leg bones, 16:23 they discovered soft unfossilized blood vessels, 16:27 blood cells, and soft tissues. 16:30 Scientists are coming forward now 16:31 and saying that it's impossible 16:33 that a dinosaur could remain unfossilized 16:35 for 70 million years. 16:37 They say it shouldn't even last a couple of thousand years 16:40 without becoming fossilized. 16:41 Actually, I have a picture of that here on my phone. 16:44 Check this out. 16:49 Soft tissues from a T-Rex. That's incredible. 16:52 Scientists are examining it, 16:53 even talking about the awful stench of decay. 16:58 Sadly, 17:00 many scientists are still hanging on to the belief 17:02 that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago 17:06 instead of studying the possibilities that, 17:08 "Hey, maybe they did live more recently." 17:11 Scientists are now working harder 17:13 to try to figure out how to explain 17:15 how soft tissue 17:16 could have survived for 70 million years 17:19 without being fossilized. 17:23 In the meantime, 17:25 more and more examples of soft tissues 17:27 are being found in dinosaur fossils. 17:34 We're going to do a little digging today. 17:36 I hope we find some fossils. 17:43 As always, safety is very important. 17:46 Using the right tools also helps us 17:49 to be careful around the fossils. 17:53 Hey, check out this fossil I'm working on. 17:56 This is from an edmontosaurus, this is the hip bone. 17:59 We need to excavate really carefully around it 18:02 so we don't damage it. 18:04 It's fun to learn about dinosaurs, 18:06 but we'll never know everything. 18:08 We don't even know what they look like, 18:10 if they had fur or what color they were. 18:15 One neat piece of evidence about this site here in Wyoming 18:19 is the graded beds. 18:21 One of evolutions theories 18:22 is that dinosaurs died in small local floods 18:25 or that they got swept away by a river, 18:28 but that they just died one at a time. 18:31 But the evidence here proves 18:32 that a large catastrophic event killed the animals first 18:36 and then deposited them to this location. 18:39 Scientists know that 18:41 because the fossils that we find here 18:42 have been sorted. 18:44 That's why we find large fossils on the bottom, 18:47 the medium ones higher up, and on the top, 18:49 we find the smallest ones. 18:50 That's called a graded bed. 18:52 The only way that they could be sorted this way 18:55 is by being all brought here by one huge flood. 19:02 Genesis vividly describes the account 19:05 of a giant global flood. 19:10 Does the Bible talk about dinosaurs? 19:12 Well, it doesn't use the word dinosaurs 19:14 'cause it's a pretty new word. 19:15 But it does talk about dragons 19:17 and it mentions them over 30 times, 19:19 and it describes them as these big mean animals 19:21 that lived at that time. 19:23 Were these real animals? 19:26 No one knows what those animals really were. 19:30 Verses in the Bible talk about the place 19:33 where dragons live 19:35 or about slaying the dragons in the sea 19:37 or about being swallowed up by a dragon. 19:40 Were these dragons in the Bible dinosaurs? 19:44 I don't know. 19:46 Many scholars think those verses 19:48 were more poetic and metaphorical. 19:50 But again, no one knows for sure. 19:55 The book of Isaiah writes about fiery flying serpents in Egypt 19:59 just like the ones Herodotus wrote about. 20:01 The book of Job describes an animal called the behemoth, 20:04 a huge animal with a humongous tail. 20:07 The book of Job also describes an animal called the leviathan, 20:11 a huge, scaly sea monster, 20:13 and everybody was terrified of that. 20:15 And that's not all, the creature leviathan 20:18 is also mentioned in the books of Psalms and Isaiah. 20:24 Again, no one knows for sure what these animals are 20:27 that are being described in the Bible. 20:29 Some think they may be jackals or hippos or crocodiles, 20:33 but some of the descriptions don't fit any animals 20:36 that are alive today. 20:38 It's a bit of a mystery. 20:41 Come on. 20:42 Let's go check out other parts of the quarry. 20:56 So what happened to all the dinosaurs? 20:59 We know, from all the dinosaur fossils 21:00 that we find, 21:02 that many were buried 21:03 in some sort of water-related catastrophe. 21:06 They all got buried rapidly and preserved 21:08 underground. 21:10 Otherwise, if they're left on the surface, 21:11 they're not going to last very long, 21:12 they're going to decay, 21:14 or scavengers are going to get them. 21:15 All over the planet, on every continent, 21:17 there are billions and billions of creatures 21:19 that have been buried by some water-related catastrophe, 21:23 mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, 21:25 insects, and yes, even dinosaurs. 21:29 With evidence of billions and billions of creatures 21:32 buried by water and mud all over our planet, 21:35 you would think it would be just easy enough to say, 21:37 "Everything got buried 21:39 by water and mud on our planet." 21:42 But evolution cannot agree to that 21:45 because that would mean there was a global flood. 21:49 A global flood means the Bible is true. 21:53 And if the Bible is true, 21:55 that means God created the world. 21:59 It's really sad to think that some people are missing out 22:03 on the Bible truths 22:05 that tell us where we came from. 22:13 The Bible says that God destroyed the world 22:16 with a huge global flood. 22:18 A handful of animals were saved, 22:20 but the rest of the animals on the planet were destroyed. 22:23 They were buried by the floodwaters. 22:27 If we compare the things that the Bible says 22:30 to the things that we see on this planet, 22:33 they go together quite neatly. 22:42 So were dinosaurs on the ark? 22:46 I don't know. 22:47 That's a really good question. 22:49 But what I do know 22:50 is the Bible says that two of every animal 22:53 was on the ark. 22:54 If there were dinosaurs on the ark, 22:57 I've got to assume that God would have sent the young ones, 23:00 not the big old giant ones. 23:03 That's the other thing. 23:05 The Bible says that before the flood, 23:07 men used to live hundreds of years. 23:09 Methuselah lived 969 years. 23:12 But after the flood, something changed 23:14 and they started living shorter lives. 23:18 So is it possible that animals before the flood 23:21 could also live longer lives? 23:24 Could a turtle live to 1,000 years? 23:26 Could an insect live for 50 years? 23:29 Could a reptile live for 500 years? 23:32 We do find fossils of giant animals 23:34 that lived in the past. 23:36 For example, giant turtles, 23:38 I got a picture here on my phone. 23:44 Or giant dragonflies, 23:47 huge ones with a two-foot wingspan. 23:54 What about large reptiles? 23:57 Did you know that reptiles never stop growing? 24:00 What would happen if a reptile lived for 500 years 24:04 and never stopped growing? 24:06 It would become pretty large like a dinosaur. 24:11 After all, many dinosaurs were reptiles. 24:17 There sure are a lot of unanswered questions out there. 24:20 I just hope that someday soon, I can ask God those questions. 24:25 You know, 24:27 I think I'm going to write all this down in my journal. 24:38 Dinosaurs are extinct creatures that used to grow very large. 24:49 The world is filled with dinosaur fossils 24:53 which were buried by water. 24:55 It sure seems like the dinosaur clues 24:57 we've seen today show us that dinosaurs lived recently, 25:02 not millions of years ago. 25:04 Clues such as soft tissues 25:06 and old memories and legends are evidences 25:09 that some extinct creatures died in enormous quantities 25:12 during the flood. 25:19 Wow! What an amazing day. 25:22 It's amazing that we were pulling 25:24 fossilized dinosaur bones out of the ground today. 25:27 It's cool to think, I was the first person 25:30 to uncover a part of an animal 25:32 that was probably buried at the time of the flood. 25:35 There's a lot about dinosaurs we don't know, 25:38 but it sure is fun 25:39 trying to learn about them. 25:40 One thing I know for sure, only God can create life. 25:45 Well, I need to finish up my report 25:47 and send it off to HQ. 25:49 Remember, if you want to read it, 25:51 just go to our website. 25:58 We sure learned some amazing things today. 26:02 We were reminded that only God can create life 26:05 and how sin affected all of nature. 26:10 We also learned how dinosaurs are just extinct reptiles 26:14 that grew to be very, very big. 26:18 The time we spent at the dig 26:20 showed us how so many of these animals 26:23 died at the time of the flood. 26:29 Many people out there don't want to believe 26:32 that God is our creator. 26:34 Instead, they choose to believe in evolution 26:38 and that all the millions of complex creatures out there 26:40 evolved from random chemical mixing. 26:44 No, it was God who created everything, 26:48 and His most prized possession, people, you. 26:54 The Bible says you are God's workmanship. 26:57 Can you imagine 26:59 the God who has the power 27:00 to speak something into existence 27:03 created you? 27:05 Who you are on the inside is what's most important, 27:09 but still He knows everything about you, 27:13 including the amount of hairs on your head. 27:16 You were created unique, 27:18 special, by a powerful loving God. 27:22 I hope that you will never forget that. 27:25 Well, I hope you'll join me again 27:27 for our next assignment. 27:29 And remember, God the Creator 27:31 loves what He's created, especially you. 27:35 Good night. 27:46 Don't go yet, we've got bloopers. 27:49 Dragon flags. 27:51 Honestly, dragon flags? That there were at least... 27:54 Man! 27:55 So close. 27:59 Wow! Off this rock. 28:03 Here, but you know what... 28:10 Sorry. I can fix it. 28:12 Because the word was... 28:15 We find tripping manure stuff here 28:17 and most of these are cow patties. 28:18 I better write this down in my... 28:24 I wasn't even close. |
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