Where did we come from?
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The Bible says, "In
the beginning God created."
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Evolution teaches the opposite.
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No one created,
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it all happened by itself.
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Which one is the truth?
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This is Headquarters,
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Doc M,
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Jacqui,
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and Rich,
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their job,
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investigate and
discover the truth.
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This is "The Creation Case."
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Hi, Jacqui.
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You have some new plants
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Yeah, this semester in school,
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we're learning about
botany, including edible plants.
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Really?
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Oh, this one here,
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it's called
Petroselinum crispum.
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Looks kind of like...
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Or parsley.
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Parsley.
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Yeah. I like parsley.
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Hmm.
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No, I forgot that one's name.
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I'm gonna...
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I think, I put in this folder.
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Oh, here it is.
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Oh, yeah, it's a
poisonous vizio plant.
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Yeah, you do not
wanna eat one of these.
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First after you eat it,
you can't feel your face,
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then after that you can't
really control your tongue
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and your vision
goes a little blurry
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and then your
cheeks get all bloated.
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Yeah, not a pretty sight.
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Ye, ye, kind of like that.
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Did you eat one
of them, did you?
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You ate one, okay,
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so you're either
making it really good
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or are you really ate one?
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Yeah,
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don't worry,
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the effect wears
off after a while.
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Is this Rich's new assignment?
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Okay, I'm just gonna read it.
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Yeah, I'm gonna read it.
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Okay. All right.
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It says, "Dear
Doc M, I love plants.
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My dad loves gardening.
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And my mom has
plants all over the house
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and learned to
take care of them.
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When I grow up, I
want to be a botanist
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and work with plant as my job.
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I was wondering if
plants and trees are something
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that God made.
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What did they
tell us about creation?
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Thank you, Alex,
Green Bay, Wisconsin."
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So should I send
this over to Rich?
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Okay, I'll take that as a yes.
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Yeah.
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Where is Rich today?
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Well, last I heard, he
was stuck on a mountain
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trying to figure
out how to get out?
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm gonna send
this over to him, okay.
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Just hang in there, Doc.
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All right.
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Yeah, all right,
you're gonna be fine.
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Okay, after a while.
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Do you have a creation
question for Headquarters?
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Send your questions
to Doc, Jacqui and Rich
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by visiting our
website at TheCreationCase.com.
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What a fun way to
come down off a mountain.
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All right, where's my phone?
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I think, I got a message.
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It must be HQ
with a new assignment.
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Let's check it out.
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Hi, Rich, I hope
you figured out a way
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to get off that mountain,
you were telling me about.
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Oh, yeah.
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We have your next assignment
and it's a little different.
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Hmm, interesting.
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We need you to
investigate plants.
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Did she say plants?
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You heard me correctly, plants.
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We want to know if
the world of botany which,
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of course, is
the study of plants
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provides any
evidence of creation.
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As usual, we look
forward to getting your report.
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Oh, hold on a sec, Doc M
wants to tell you something too.
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Let me translate for you.
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He said, "If you find
a poisonous vizio plant,
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don't eat it."
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Hmm, that is
different, sounds fun though.
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Let me let HQ
know, I got the message.
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Got it,
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plants.
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Avoid poisonous ones.
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Well, this
should be interesting.
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Let me write this
down in my journal.
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Botany, that's
the study of plants.
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All right,
where should we begin?
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Obviously, little plants
like this are pretty young.
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We need to see
some of the oldest
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and some of the largest plants
in the world like sequoias.
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I would think
they could provide us
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some good clues about creation.
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Come on. Let's go.
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Help us investigate today.
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Download and print your
own free journal study guide
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at TheCreationCase.com.
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Giant sequoias
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are the largest
trees on the planet.
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There's also the redwood
trees that are not as massive,
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but actually grow
taller than the sequoias,
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both grow here in California.
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Sequoias only grow
in high elevations,
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usually between 4,000 and
7,000 feet above sea level.
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The first time you walk
up to one of these giants,
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it's pretty impressive.
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The tallest sequoias can
reach almost 300 feet tall
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and the tallest
redwoods almost 400 feet tall.
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Whoa!
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Aren't these trees amazing?
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They're huge.
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So I know what you're thinking.
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How old are these trees?
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As you can imagine,
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they are some
of the oldest trees
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on the planet.
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Scientists here who study
these trees have estimated
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that the trees here
are over 3,000 years old.
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That means these trees were here
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before the
Declaration of Independence
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was written, before
the pilgrims landed,
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even before Christopher Columbus
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sailed across the
Atlantic to the new world.
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The amazing thing is
that some of these trees
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were already 1000 years old,
when Jesus walked on the earth.
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You know, as long as
these trees are alive,
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they keep on growing.
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The interesting thing is that
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scientists have
searched all over
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and they've never found
one that died of old age.
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They just keep living.
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The oldest
sequoia that we know about
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is about 3,000 years
old and it's still growing.
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Whoa, check out this one.
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I think, I'm
gonna sketch this one.
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You know, scientists say
there's no reason to believe
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they couldn't live
another 3,000 years or more.
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If that so, then why don't
we find some really old trees,
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or at least clues of old trees
that lived a long time ago.
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Calculations
from the Bible tell us
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that the flood was a
few thousand years ago.
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If that's true,
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then we wouldn't find
trees that are more than
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a few thousand
years old living today.
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Even though scientists say
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that these trees
should be able to live
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for even tens of
thousands of years,
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we don't find trees with nearly
that amount of tree rings.
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These are pretty old trees,
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but they're not the
oldest trees on the planet.
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That honor goes to
the bristlecone pine.
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It's getting late and the place
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that we're going to go check out
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bristlecone pine
trees is in Colorado.
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We got to get back
to the jeep. Come on.
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Our trip from
California has taken us deep
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into the Rocky
Mountain Range in Colorado.
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Well, we are at 11,500
feet, we're getting close.
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Come on.
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We're gonna have
to hike in little ways
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to get to the place
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where the
bristlecone pines are growing.
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It's amazing that
these trees only grow
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at such high
elevations like this
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and in such harsh conditions.
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Even in the
middle of the summer,
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there's still snow
on the ground up here.
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Hey, here's a couple
of bristlecone pine trees.
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They're pretty cool looking.
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I'm kind of out of breath.
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I think, I'm gonna take a break.
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Notice the twisting
trunks of these trees,
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they twist like that.
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And that actually gives
them a stronger foundation.
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The trees here in this grove
are only about 1,600 years old.
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That sounds like a lot,
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but it's actually not very
old compared to the oldest ones
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that we know of which
are about 4,500 years old.
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Just like the sequoias,
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scientists
believe that these trees
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can also keep growing
for thousands of more years.
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If these trees can grow
for thousands and thousands
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of years, why then
are the oldest ones
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we find only 4,500 years old?
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So why don't we
find older dead ones
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that used to live before them?
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I'm gonna write
this in my journal.
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There are scientists that
claim some trees are much older.
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But I've never heard of trees
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found with tens of
thousands of rings.
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Bristlecone pines
seem to grow forever,
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but aren't found more
than a few thousand years old.
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It's like plant life
suddenly started on this planet
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about 4,500 years ago.
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Hmm, that's only a
few thousand years ago.
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That's around the
time of the flood.
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Interesting.
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Wow!
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Look at all these
bristlecone pine trees.
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Beautiful, amazing.
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Have you ever touched
one of these pine trees
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and gotten that sticky
stuff all over your hands.
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That stuff is called resin,
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and sometimes it drips
out of the tree and hardens.
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Sometimes a bug
lands in that resin
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and gets stuck in
there and it dies.
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Once the resin is dried
and hardens, it's called amber.
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Check it out. I got
a piece here with me.
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And it even has a little
insect trapped inside of it.
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According to the
theory of evolution,
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they say some of these
insects have been buried
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inside amber for
100 million years.
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There's a problem though,
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the insects and creatures
that we find inside of amber
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are unchanged compared to
the way we see them today.
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After 100 million years,
it doesn't look like anything
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has changed with
these bugs and after all,
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reptiles supposedly
changed into mammals
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in 100 million years
but nothing changed here.
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Take your typical ant,
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we find them in
amber all the time
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but after 100 million years
they still haven't changed.
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Ants are still ants.
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Think about it.
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We're probably talking about
500 million generations of ants
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and no change.
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Maybe 100 million
years didn't go by.
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Maybe God created ants
only a few thousand years ago
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and they're still ants today.
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One of the biggest
challenges for evolution
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is the lack of
transitional species.
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If evolution were true,
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there would be a
huge trail of evidence
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showing how and when
all these changes happened.
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But evidence of those
changes have not been found.
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The same goes
for plants and trees,
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the fossil record
still doesn't show
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how they could've evolved.
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They just
appeared all of the sudden,
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fully formed, highly
complex and with huge varieties.
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As we dig around
for evidence in botany,
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we need to go visit a place
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with high
concentration of biomass,
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that's living things.
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We need to go to a rainforest.
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We need to go
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to one of the only
temperate rainforest
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in the lower 48 states.
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So we better get going. Come on.
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Hi, everyone,
it's Doc M here, HQ.
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Today here, at HQ we've
several investigations going on.
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It's crazy!
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One of them has to do
with our world's population.
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You know, every ten
years, United States counts
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how many people are living here.
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It's called census.
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Remember
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when Jesus was born,
Joseph and Mary had to go back
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to Bethlehem on little donkey,
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so they could be
counted in the census.
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The interesting thing
about a census is that
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they show us
the amount of people
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on the planet is growing.
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Everyday there's more
and more people in the world,
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all around the
world, more and more.
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Here's how it
looks like on paper.
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This is the years
that have gone by.
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This is today and this is
2000 and we have 1600 and 1100,
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all the way back to the
time when Jesus was born.
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Censuses had been
going on since before Jesus,
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so we have a pretty good idea
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of how many people
were around back then.
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This line here on the side,
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shows how many billion
people there are on earth.
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It goes all the
way up to seven billion
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and that's about
where we are today.
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So I'm gonna take my
marker, so let's put a dot.
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Today 2000,
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how about 1800?
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All the way down to one billion.
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We can easily
project as far back
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as when Jesus was born
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when there was
around 200 million people.
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Now, here is the fun part.
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Maybe you've already
done this in math class
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and you're great mathematician,
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but we can draw a
line between the dots
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to show how the population
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has increased over
the last 2,000 years.
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Starting with
Jesus, we would just draw
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this line up through our dots
and we could see the growth.
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That's pretty cool, huh?
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Here's the great part though,
even if we don't have a census
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from too far
before Jesus was born,
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we can follow this line
backwards down to zero people
00:17:15.03\00:17:18.97
by just doing a little math.
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By using some math calculations
and known growth rates,
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the lines run down
to only a few people.
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Let's do it. Here we go.
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Jesus going back, going
back, going back, going back,
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going back, going back
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all the way to the flood
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when there were
only eight people
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that made it on the ark alive.
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You remember the story of Noah?
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Yeah! That's a great story.
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Now, wait a second.
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Evolution teaches
that people had been around
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for way longer than 5,000 years.
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The problem is that the
curve we just made shows
00:17:55.57\00:17:58.67
it's not possible that people
around a million years ago.
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If people were around
that long ago, you know,
00:18:02.14\00:18:04.51
how many people would
be on our planet by now,
00:18:04.55\00:18:06.85
if we follow this curve.
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Hey, here's how many,
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one billion, trillion,
killion, zillion, nillion.
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I know that's a big number.
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I don't even know how to say it.
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It's one with
2,000 zeros behind it.
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Let's try, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
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7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13...
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Oh, I'm already tired
00:18:31.37\00:18:33.04
and we have a
lot of zeros to go.
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Clearly,
00:18:36.11\00:18:37.55
there are not that many people
on our planet earth right now.
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Yeah,
00:18:43.22\00:18:44.55
estimates like these will never
give us fully accurate numbers.
00:18:44.59\00:18:47.96
But it sure seems strange
that humans would be around
00:18:47.99\00:18:50.56
for hundreds of
thousands of years.
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Then suddenly, only a
few thousand years ago,
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they started building cities
and developing agriculture.
00:18:55.33\00:18:59.87
Yet again,
00:18:59.90\00:19:01.50
this is why I
believe God is my creator.
00:19:01.54\00:19:05.54
Hey, everyone.
It's me, Rich Aguilera.
00:19:09.41\00:19:11.65
I'd love to see you at
one of our live events.
00:19:11.68\00:19:14.28
To see where I'll be speaking,
00:19:14.32\00:19:16.02
visit our website
TheCreationCase.com.
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Oh, hi.
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No, this isn't a rainforest.
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I decided to
stop and take a break,
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and check out this grass.
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I think, the nicest grasses
are found on a golf course.
00:19:38.47\00:19:41.71
I mean, look at this stuff.
00:19:41.74\00:19:43.08
I could take a nap in it.
00:19:43.11\00:19:45.98
Everyone loves a
nice green grassy yard.
00:19:46.01\00:19:49.25
Do you know where it came from?
00:19:49.28\00:19:51.29
The Bible tells us that
grass was created on day three.
00:19:51.32\00:19:55.42
On the other hand,
according to evolution,
00:19:55.46\00:19:58.13
grass evolved about
55 million years ago,
00:19:58.16\00:20:01.13
but recently we've
discovered dinosaur droppings,
00:20:01.16\00:20:03.83
showing that
dinosaurs ate grass.
00:20:03.87\00:20:07.94
That sounds logical,
00:20:07.97\00:20:09.64
except evolutionary
theory used to think,
00:20:09.67\00:20:11.77
grass appeared
after dinosaurs lived.
00:20:11.81\00:20:17.61
Scientists have actually found
00:20:17.65\00:20:19.31
many different varieties of
grass in dinosaur droppings.
00:20:19.35\00:20:22.38
So grass and dinosaurs
00:20:22.42\00:20:23.95
definitely
existed at the same time.
00:20:23.99\00:20:26.79
Yeah, that's
definitely a problem,
00:20:26.82\00:20:29.06
dinosaurs eating grass
00:20:29.09\00:20:30.53
when grass
supposedly hasn't evolved yet.
00:20:30.56\00:20:35.70
So now what?
00:20:35.73\00:20:37.27
Well, the evolutionary
theory had no choice
00:20:37.30\00:20:40.24
but to change their story
00:20:40.27\00:20:41.87
and believe that
grass evolved earlier.
00:20:41.90\00:20:46.21
I'm glad they
admitted their mistake,
00:20:46.24\00:20:48.48
but it sure must be frustrating
to believe in something
00:20:48.51\00:20:51.21
that is constantly changing.
00:20:51.25\00:20:53.01
I'm glad the Bible
doesn't have to change its story
00:20:57.29\00:20:59.59
all the time to match
what we see in nature.
00:20:59.62\00:21:02.79
That's because God
created science and nature.
00:21:02.82\00:21:06.16
Welcome to one of the
only temperate rainforest
00:21:22.04\00:21:24.61
in all the lower 48 states.
00:21:24.65\00:21:26.65
Come on, let's check this out.
00:21:26.68\00:21:30.09
A temperate rainforest is
one of the places on earth
00:21:30.12\00:21:33.46
with the highest
concentration of biomass.
00:21:33.49\00:21:36.96
That's the total amount of
living things in one place.
00:21:36.99\00:21:40.80
A temperate
rainforest is also a place
00:21:40.83\00:21:43.00
that gets a lot of rainfall,
00:21:43.03\00:21:45.00
but the weather remains
pretty cool most of the year.
00:21:45.03\00:21:47.50
Check out all these
trees and plants here
00:21:50.87\00:21:53.48
and look at that one over there.
00:21:53.51\00:21:54.91
It's growing on top of
a tree, not in the ground.
00:21:54.94\00:21:59.28
Mosses, ferns, lichen,
00:21:59.31\00:22:01.68
these plants are
called epiphytes,
00:22:01.72\00:22:03.59
plants that grow on
top of other plants.
00:22:03.62\00:22:07.52
It's interesting to see,
00:22:07.56\00:22:08.89
two plants like
this living together.
00:22:08.92\00:22:11.36
It reminds me of
symbiotic relationships
00:22:11.39\00:22:13.70
we find in nature.
00:22:13.73\00:22:15.46
That's when two organisms
00:22:15.50\00:22:16.87
rely on each other for survival.
00:22:16.90\00:22:20.00
For example, flowers make nectar
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.90
that attracts bees.
00:22:22.94\00:22:24.77
Both the flower and the
bee have the perfect shape,
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.08
so that the bee
can reach the nectar,
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.15
while at the same
time a bunch of pollen
00:22:30.18\00:22:32.41
is rubbed on to the bee's body.
00:22:32.45\00:22:35.68
Actually, I have a
close up picture of a bee,
00:22:35.72\00:22:38.52
here on my phone.
00:22:38.55\00:22:40.56
While this
bumblebee is collecting nectar
00:22:40.59\00:22:42.69
to make their own special honey,
00:22:42.72\00:22:44.59
it's also carrying
around a bunch of pollen.
00:22:44.63\00:22:47.96
The bee gets the nectar
that it needs to make honey,
00:22:48.00\00:22:51.27
and the flower gets
its pollen moved around.
00:22:51.30\00:22:53.44
So it can keep on growing.
00:22:53.47\00:22:54.90
They work together
and they were designed
00:22:54.94\00:22:56.50
that way to survive.
00:22:56.54\00:23:00.04
This causes a
problem for evolution.
00:23:00.08\00:23:02.61
How would these
two organisms evolve?
00:23:02.64\00:23:05.11
If the bee doesn't
have a certain shape,
00:23:05.15\00:23:06.88
it can't get to the nectar,
00:23:06.92\00:23:08.38
which means it can't distribute
the pollen for the flower.
00:23:08.42\00:23:12.85
If the bee and the
flower aren't exactly
00:23:12.89\00:23:15.12
as they are right now,
00:23:15.16\00:23:16.59
neither would survive very well.
00:23:16.62\00:23:19.09
Don't you find it hard
to believe that chance luck
00:23:19.13\00:23:22.16
that symbiotic relationships
would have evolved perfectly,
00:23:22.20\00:23:25.30
in order for each to survive?
00:23:25.33\00:23:29.94
I find it a
little hard to believe
00:23:29.97\00:23:32.21
that all this would
happen by itself, so perfectly.
00:23:32.24\00:23:35.58
Plants and rock layers
00:23:41.52\00:23:42.85
actually create a
problem for evolution.
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.22
You see sometimes plants
are fossilized in rock layers.
00:23:45.25\00:23:48.56
I have a sample
here that you can see.
00:23:48.59\00:23:51.79
This is a fossilized fern,
00:23:51.83\00:23:54.16
you can easily
tell it was buried alive
00:23:54.20\00:23:56.46
because there is no
sign of decay or rotting,
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.40
as you would see
on the forest floor.
00:23:59.43\00:24:04.37
Look at this,
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.31
the ground here is
actually soft and squishy
00:24:06.34\00:24:09.04
because all the leaves and stuff
00:24:09.08\00:24:10.81
rots and decomposes here.
00:24:10.85\00:24:12.45
Check this out.
00:24:12.48\00:24:15.18
The only way to
preserve a leaf before it rots,
00:24:15.22\00:24:18.62
is for it to be
quickly buried by dirt and mud.
00:24:18.65\00:24:24.33
How would nature move so
much dirt and mud around?
00:24:24.36\00:24:27.96
A flood?
00:24:28.00\00:24:29.33
Hey, do you remember
how earlier we were talking
00:24:29.36\00:24:32.87
about how ants are
found inside of amber?
00:24:32.90\00:24:35.50
This is the same thing.
00:24:35.54\00:24:38.31
Look, here's
another kind of fern.
00:24:38.34\00:24:41.08
I was told my fossil
fern is 300 million years old.
00:24:41.11\00:24:45.61
But look, ferns
are still ferns today.
00:24:45.65\00:24:48.88
It doesn't look
like they've evolved.
00:24:48.92\00:24:51.25
I believe my fossil
fern was just quickly buried
00:24:51.29\00:24:54.82
at the time of the flood.
00:24:54.86\00:24:58.39
I'm gonna write
that down in my journal.
00:24:58.43\00:25:00.66
What the fossil
record actually shows
00:25:04.43\00:25:06.50
is that plants and trees
00:25:06.53\00:25:07.94
appear all of a
sudden fully formed,
00:25:07.97\00:25:10.27
fully functional
and highly complex.
00:25:10.31\00:25:14.61
Well preserved plant fossils
all over the world show us
00:25:14.64\00:25:17.71
they were all
buried quickly by water.
00:25:17.75\00:25:21.92
It sure looks like the evidence
00:25:21.95\00:25:23.28
we find in
botany does not support
00:25:23.32\00:25:25.39
the idea of evolution.
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.96
The Bible says that on
the third day of creation,
00:25:27.99\00:25:30.63
God created the plants,
00:25:30.66\00:25:32.63
and the trees,
and many varieties.
00:25:32.66\00:25:34.90
Wow!
00:25:41.50\00:25:42.84
I'm still amazed at
how big those trees are.
00:25:42.87\00:25:45.54
If you're a bird
that is afraid of heights,
00:25:45.57\00:25:47.58
you'll definitely want to find
a different tree to nest in.
00:25:47.61\00:25:51.31
You know, I never thought
00:25:51.35\00:25:52.68
how trees and
plants could provide
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.45
so much evidence about
when God created the world.
00:25:54.48\00:25:57.75
I'm glad that God
left us a bunch of clues,
00:25:57.79\00:26:00.66
to help us
understand about the past.
00:26:00.69\00:26:03.89
Well, I need to finish up
my report and send it to HQ.
00:26:03.93\00:26:07.23
And remember, if
you want to read it,
00:26:07.26\00:26:09.26
just go to our website.
00:26:09.30\00:26:13.34
The Bible tells
us after the flood,
00:26:13.37\00:26:15.74
trees and plants
started growing again.
00:26:15.77\00:26:19.54
The fossil record shows,
00:26:19.57\00:26:21.38
plants appeared all of a sudden,
00:26:21.41\00:26:23.21
fully formed.
00:26:23.24\00:26:25.61
Bristlecone pines seem to be
able to live very long lives.
00:26:25.65\00:26:29.82
But we don't find
plants that are so old,
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.59
that they don't fit
with the biblical account.
00:26:32.62\00:26:35.99
Fossilized plants all
over the world show us,
00:26:36.02\00:26:39.16
they were
quickly buried by water.
00:26:39.19\00:26:42.66
I'm amazed that
some of these trees
00:26:42.70\00:26:44.97
out there seem to live forever.
00:26:45.00\00:26:47.67
You know, in the beginning,
when God created humans,
00:26:47.70\00:26:50.57
He made them perfect.
00:26:50.61\00:26:52.37
He breathed life into us,
so that we could live forever.
00:26:52.41\00:26:56.75
It's like his
breath equals life.
00:26:56.78\00:27:00.32
Unfortunately,
sin mess things up
00:27:00.35\00:27:03.02
and brought death to the world.
00:27:03.05\00:27:05.45
Without God, sin
and death take over.
00:27:05.49\00:27:08.86
With God, we have a
life full of peace and joy.
00:27:08.89\00:27:13.70
Choose to
breathe in God every day.
00:27:13.73\00:27:16.56
The good news is that God
wants to make us perfect again.
00:27:16.60\00:27:20.30
He wants us to go
00:27:20.34\00:27:21.67
and live with Him
forever in heaven.
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.87
That's where I want to be.
00:27:23.91\00:27:25.77
I hope you'll join me
again for our next assignment.
00:27:25.81\00:27:28.74
And remember, God the
Creator loves what He creates,
00:27:28.78\00:27:33.11
especially you.
00:27:33.15\00:27:34.52
Good night.
00:27:34.55\00:27:35.88
Hold on!
00:27:45.99\00:27:47.33
Don't leave yet,
we've got bloopers.
00:27:47.36\00:27:49.10
Stuck in there and it...
00:28:11.49\00:28:12.82
Dies.
00:28:12.85\00:28:14.19
And dies. It dies.
00:28:14.22\00:28:16.26
This isn't a rainforest,
00:28:16.29\00:28:18.16
there's a car
coming and it's very nice.
00:28:18.19\00:28:21.26
I can't get it open.
00:28:21.30\00:28:22.80
Interesting...
00:28:22.83\00:28:24.17