Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000005A
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00:10 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, "In the beginning God created." 00:20 Evolution teaches the opposite. 00:22 No one created, 00:23 it all happened by itself. 00:26 Which one is the truth? 00:30 This is Headquarters, 00:34 Doc M, 00:38 Jacqui, 00:40 and Rich, 00:44 their job, 00:46 investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is "The Creation Case." 01:19 Hi, Jacqui. 01:21 You have some new plants 01:22 Yeah, this semester in school, 01:23 we're learning about botany, including edible plants. 01:27 Really? 01:28 Oh, this one here, 01:30 it's called Petroselinum crispum. 01:37 Looks kind of like... 01:39 Or parsley. 01:40 Parsley. 01:42 Yeah. I like parsley. 01:44 Hmm. 01:45 No, I forgot that one's name. 01:47 I'm gonna... 01:50 I think, I put in this folder. 01:53 Oh, here it is. 01:55 Oh, yeah, it's a poisonous vizio plant. 02:01 Yeah, you do not wanna eat one of these. 02:04 First after you eat it, you can't feel your face, 02:08 then after that you can't really control your tongue 02:11 and your vision goes a little blurry 02:14 and then your cheeks get all bloated. 02:17 Yeah, not a pretty sight. 02:20 Ye, ye, kind of like that. 02:29 Did you eat one of them, did you? 02:33 You ate one, okay, 02:35 so you're either making it really good 02:38 or are you really ate one? 02:43 Yeah, 02:46 don't worry, 02:47 the effect wears off after a while. 02:53 Is this Rich's new assignment? 02:56 Okay, I'm just gonna read it. 03:01 Yeah, I'm gonna read it. 03:03 Okay. All right. 03:04 It says, "Dear Doc M, I love plants. 03:08 My dad loves gardening. 03:10 And my mom has plants all over the house 03:12 and learned to take care of them. 03:14 When I grow up, I want to be a botanist 03:17 and work with plant as my job. 03:20 I was wondering if plants and trees are something 03:23 that God made. 03:25 What did they tell us about creation? 03:27 Thank you, Alex, Green Bay, Wisconsin." 03:33 So should I send this over to Rich? 03:39 Okay, I'll take that as a yes. 03:41 Yeah. 03:45 Where is Rich today? 03:47 Well, last I heard, he was stuck on a mountain 03:52 trying to figure out how to get out? 03:56 Yeah. 03:57 Well, I'm gonna send this over to him, okay. 04:00 Just hang in there, Doc. 04:01 All right. 04:03 Yeah, all right, you're gonna be fine. 04:05 Okay, after a while. 04:10 Do you have a creation question for Headquarters? 04:13 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui and Rich 04:16 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 04:45 What a fun way to come down off a mountain. 04:48 All right, where's my phone? 04:50 I think, I got a message. 04:51 It must be HQ with a new assignment. 04:53 Let's check it out. 04:56 Hi, Rich, I hope you figured out a way 04:58 to get off that mountain, you were telling me about. 05:00 Oh, yeah. 05:03 We have your next assignment and it's a little different. 05:06 Hmm, interesting. 05:08 We need you to investigate plants. 05:12 Did she say plants? 05:14 You heard me correctly, plants. 05:16 We want to know if the world of botany which, 05:19 of course, is the study of plants 05:21 provides any evidence of creation. 05:24 As usual, we look forward to getting your report. 05:27 Oh, hold on a sec, Doc M wants to tell you something too. 05:36 Let me translate for you. 05:38 He said, "If you find a poisonous vizio plant, 05:42 don't eat it." 05:46 Hmm, that is different, sounds fun though. 05:48 Let me let HQ know, I got the message. 05:51 Got it, 05:54 plants. 05:56 Avoid poisonous ones. 06:02 Well, this should be interesting. 06:04 Let me write this down in my journal. 06:10 Botany, that's the study of plants. 06:15 All right, where should we begin? 06:19 Obviously, little plants like this are pretty young. 06:22 We need to see some of the oldest 06:24 and some of the largest plants in the world like sequoias. 06:28 I would think they could provide us 06:30 some good clues about creation. 06:32 Come on. Let's go. 06:37 Help us investigate today. 06:41 Download and print your own free journal study guide 06:44 at TheCreationCase.com. 06:58 Giant sequoias 07:00 are the largest trees on the planet. 07:02 There's also the redwood trees that are not as massive, 07:06 but actually grow taller than the sequoias, 07:09 both grow here in California. 07:12 Sequoias only grow in high elevations, 07:15 usually between 4,000 and 7,000 feet above sea level. 07:21 The first time you walk up to one of these giants, 07:23 it's pretty impressive. 07:27 The tallest sequoias can reach almost 300 feet tall 07:31 and the tallest redwoods almost 400 feet tall. 07:34 Whoa! 07:41 Aren't these trees amazing? 07:43 They're huge. 07:46 So I know what you're thinking. 07:49 How old are these trees? 07:52 As you can imagine, 07:54 they are some of the oldest trees 07:56 on the planet. 07:57 Scientists here who study these trees have estimated 08:01 that the trees here are over 3,000 years old. 08:05 That means these trees were here 08:07 before the Declaration of Independence 08:09 was written, before the pilgrims landed, 08:11 even before Christopher Columbus 08:13 sailed across the Atlantic to the new world. 08:18 The amazing thing is that some of these trees 08:20 were already 1000 years old, when Jesus walked on the earth. 08:27 You know, as long as these trees are alive, 08:29 they keep on growing. 08:32 The interesting thing is that 08:34 scientists have searched all over 08:36 and they've never found one that died of old age. 08:39 They just keep living. 08:47 The oldest sequoia that we know about 08:49 is about 3,000 years old and it's still growing. 08:53 Whoa, check out this one. 08:56 I think, I'm gonna sketch this one. 08:59 You know, scientists say there's no reason to believe 09:02 they couldn't live another 3,000 years or more. 09:06 If that so, then why don't we find some really old trees, 09:10 or at least clues of old trees that lived a long time ago. 09:15 Calculations from the Bible tell us 09:17 that the flood was a few thousand years ago. 09:20 If that's true, 09:22 then we wouldn't find trees that are more than 09:23 a few thousand years old living today. 09:27 Even though scientists say 09:28 that these trees should be able to live 09:30 for even tens of thousands of years, 09:33 we don't find trees with nearly that amount of tree rings. 09:38 These are pretty old trees, 09:40 but they're not the oldest trees on the planet. 09:42 That honor goes to the bristlecone pine. 09:49 It's getting late and the place 09:51 that we're going to go check out 09:52 bristlecone pine trees is in Colorado. 09:55 We got to get back to the jeep. Come on. 10:08 Our trip from California has taken us deep 10:10 into the Rocky Mountain Range in Colorado. 10:23 Well, we are at 11,500 feet, we're getting close. 10:26 Come on. 10:29 We're gonna have to hike in little ways 10:31 to get to the place 10:32 where the bristlecone pines are growing. 10:36 It's amazing that these trees only grow 10:39 at such high elevations like this 10:40 and in such harsh conditions. 10:43 Even in the middle of the summer, 10:45 there's still snow on the ground up here. 10:49 Hey, here's a couple of bristlecone pine trees. 10:52 They're pretty cool looking. 10:54 I'm kind of out of breath. 10:56 I think, I'm gonna take a break. 10:59 Notice the twisting trunks of these trees, 11:01 they twist like that. 11:03 And that actually gives them a stronger foundation. 11:06 The trees here in this grove are only about 1,600 years old. 11:10 That sounds like a lot, 11:12 but it's actually not very old compared to the oldest ones 11:14 that we know of which are about 4,500 years old. 11:18 Just like the sequoias, 11:20 scientists believe that these trees 11:22 can also keep growing for thousands of more years. 11:27 If these trees can grow for thousands and thousands 11:29 of years, why then are the oldest ones 11:31 we find only 4,500 years old? 11:35 So why don't we find older dead ones 11:37 that used to live before them? 11:40 I'm gonna write this in my journal. 11:42 There are scientists that claim some trees are much older. 11:46 But I've never heard of trees 11:47 found with tens of thousands of rings. 11:52 Bristlecone pines seem to grow forever, 11:55 but aren't found more than a few thousand years old. 12:00 It's like plant life suddenly started on this planet 12:04 about 4,500 years ago. 12:08 Hmm, that's only a few thousand years ago. 12:11 That's around the time of the flood. 12:14 Interesting. 12:20 Wow! 12:22 Look at all these bristlecone pine trees. 12:25 Beautiful, amazing. 12:33 Have you ever touched one of these pine trees 12:36 and gotten that sticky stuff all over your hands. 12:38 That stuff is called resin, 12:40 and sometimes it drips out of the tree and hardens. 12:44 Sometimes a bug lands in that resin 12:46 and gets stuck in there and it dies. 12:49 Once the resin is dried and hardens, it's called amber. 12:52 Check it out. I got a piece here with me. 12:54 And it even has a little insect trapped inside of it. 12:59 According to the theory of evolution, 13:01 they say some of these insects have been buried 13:03 inside amber for 100 million years. 13:08 There's a problem though, 13:09 the insects and creatures that we find inside of amber 13:12 are unchanged compared to the way we see them today. 13:16 After 100 million years, it doesn't look like anything 13:19 has changed with these bugs and after all, 13:21 reptiles supposedly changed into mammals 13:24 in 100 million years but nothing changed here. 13:28 Take your typical ant, 13:30 we find them in amber all the time 13:32 but after 100 million years they still haven't changed. 13:36 Ants are still ants. 13:40 Think about it. 13:41 We're probably talking about 500 million generations of ants 13:46 and no change. 13:48 Maybe 100 million years didn't go by. 13:52 Maybe God created ants only a few thousand years ago 13:56 and they're still ants today. 14:03 One of the biggest challenges for evolution 14:06 is the lack of transitional species. 14:11 If evolution were true, 14:13 there would be a huge trail of evidence 14:15 showing how and when all these changes happened. 14:19 But evidence of those changes have not been found. 14:23 The same goes for plants and trees, 14:25 the fossil record still doesn't show 14:27 how they could've evolved. 14:29 They just appeared all of the sudden, 14:32 fully formed, highly complex and with huge varieties. 14:40 As we dig around for evidence in botany, 14:42 we need to go visit a place 14:44 with high concentration of biomass, 14:46 that's living things. 14:47 We need to go to a rainforest. 14:55 We need to go 14:57 to one of the only temperate rainforest 14:58 in the lower 48 states. 15:00 So we better get going. Come on. 15:05 Hi, everyone, it's Doc M here, HQ. 15:09 Today here, at HQ we've several investigations going on. 15:13 It's crazy! 15:14 One of them has to do with our world's population. 15:17 You know, every ten years, United States counts 15:20 how many people are living here. 15:22 It's called census. 15:25 Remember 15:26 when Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary had to go back 15:31 to Bethlehem on little donkey, 15:33 so they could be counted in the census. 15:36 The interesting thing about a census is that 15:38 they show us the amount of people 15:40 on the planet is growing. 15:43 Everyday there's more and more people in the world, 15:47 all around the world, more and more. 15:50 Here's how it looks like on paper. 15:54 This is the years that have gone by. 15:57 This is today and this is 2000 and we have 1600 and 1100, 16:02 all the way back to the time when Jesus was born. 16:05 Censuses had been going on since before Jesus, 16:08 so we have a pretty good idea 16:09 of how many people were around back then. 16:12 This line here on the side, 16:13 shows how many billion people there are on earth. 16:17 It goes all the way up to seven billion 16:20 and that's about where we are today. 16:23 So I'm gonna take my marker, so let's put a dot. 16:27 Today 2000, 16:33 how about 1800? 16:35 All the way down to one billion. 16:40 We can easily project as far back 16:42 as when Jesus was born 16:43 when there was around 200 million people. 16:48 Now, here is the fun part. 16:49 Maybe you've already done this in math class 16:51 and you're great mathematician, 16:53 but we can draw a line between the dots 16:55 to show how the population 16:56 has increased over the last 2,000 years. 16:59 Starting with Jesus, we would just draw 17:01 this line up through our dots and we could see the growth. 17:06 That's pretty cool, huh? 17:08 Here's the great part though, even if we don't have a census 17:12 from too far before Jesus was born, 17:15 we can follow this line backwards down to zero people 17:19 by just doing a little math. 17:21 By using some math calculations and known growth rates, 17:25 the lines run down to only a few people. 17:29 Let's do it. Here we go. 17:30 Jesus going back, going back, going back, going back, 17:34 going back, going back 17:37 all the way to the flood 17:38 when there were only eight people 17:40 that made it on the ark alive. 17:42 You remember the story of Noah? 17:45 Yeah! That's a great story. 17:47 Now, wait a second. 17:49 Evolution teaches that people had been around 17:51 for way longer than 5,000 years. 17:55 The problem is that the curve we just made shows 17:58 it's not possible that people around a million years ago. 18:02 If people were around that long ago, you know, 18:04 how many people would be on our planet by now, 18:06 if we follow this curve. 18:09 Hey, here's how many, 18:10 one billion, trillion, killion, zillion, nillion. 18:14 I know that's a big number. 18:17 I don't even know how to say it. 18:19 It's one with 2,000 zeros behind it. 18:24 Let's try, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18:28 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13... 18:31 Oh, I'm already tired 18:33 and we have a lot of zeros to go. 18:36 Clearly, 18:37 there are not that many people on our planet earth right now. 18:43 Yeah, 18:44 estimates like these will never give us fully accurate numbers. 18:47 But it sure seems strange that humans would be around 18:50 for hundreds of thousands of years. 18:52 Then suddenly, only a few thousand years ago, 18:55 they started building cities and developing agriculture. 18:59 Yet again, 19:01 this is why I believe God is my creator. 19:09 Hey, everyone. It's me, Rich Aguilera. 19:11 I'd love to see you at one of our live events. 19:14 To see where I'll be speaking, 19:16 visit our website TheCreationCase.com. 19:27 Oh, hi. 19:29 No, this isn't a rainforest. 19:31 I decided to stop and take a break, 19:32 and check out this grass. 19:38 I think, the nicest grasses are found on a golf course. 19:41 I mean, look at this stuff. 19:43 I could take a nap in it. 19:46 Everyone loves a nice green grassy yard. 19:49 Do you know where it came from? 19:51 The Bible tells us that grass was created on day three. 19:55 On the other hand, according to evolution, 19:58 grass evolved about 55 million years ago, 20:01 but recently we've discovered dinosaur droppings, 20:03 showing that dinosaurs ate grass. 20:07 That sounds logical, 20:09 except evolutionary theory used to think, 20:11 grass appeared after dinosaurs lived. 20:17 Scientists have actually found 20:19 many different varieties of grass in dinosaur droppings. 20:22 So grass and dinosaurs 20:23 definitely existed at the same time. 20:26 Yeah, that's definitely a problem, 20:29 dinosaurs eating grass 20:30 when grass supposedly hasn't evolved yet. 20:35 So now what? 20:37 Well, the evolutionary theory had no choice 20:40 but to change their story 20:41 and believe that grass evolved earlier. 20:46 I'm glad they admitted their mistake, 20:48 but it sure must be frustrating to believe in something 20:51 that is constantly changing. 20:57 I'm glad the Bible doesn't have to change its story 20:59 all the time to match what we see in nature. 21:02 That's because God created science and nature. 21:22 Welcome to one of the only temperate rainforest 21:24 in all the lower 48 states. 21:26 Come on, let's check this out. 21:30 A temperate rainforest is one of the places on earth 21:33 with the highest concentration of biomass. 21:36 That's the total amount of living things in one place. 21:40 A temperate rainforest is also a place 21:43 that gets a lot of rainfall, 21:45 but the weather remains pretty cool most of the year. 21:50 Check out all these trees and plants here 21:53 and look at that one over there. 21:54 It's growing on top of a tree, not in the ground. 21:59 Mosses, ferns, lichen, 22:01 these plants are called epiphytes, 22:03 plants that grow on top of other plants. 22:07 It's interesting to see, 22:08 two plants like this living together. 22:11 It reminds me of symbiotic relationships 22:13 we find in nature. 22:15 That's when two organisms 22:16 rely on each other for survival. 22:20 For example, flowers make nectar 22:22 that attracts bees. 22:24 Both the flower and the bee have the perfect shape, 22:28 so that the bee can reach the nectar, 22:30 while at the same time a bunch of pollen 22:32 is rubbed on to the bee's body. 22:35 Actually, I have a close up picture of a bee, 22:38 here on my phone. 22:40 While this bumblebee is collecting nectar 22:42 to make their own special honey, 22:44 it's also carrying around a bunch of pollen. 22:48 The bee gets the nectar that it needs to make honey, 22:51 and the flower gets its pollen moved around. 22:53 So it can keep on growing. 22:54 They work together and they were designed 22:56 that way to survive. 23:00 This causes a problem for evolution. 23:02 How would these two organisms evolve? 23:05 If the bee doesn't have a certain shape, 23:06 it can't get to the nectar, 23:08 which means it can't distribute the pollen for the flower. 23:12 If the bee and the flower aren't exactly 23:15 as they are right now, 23:16 neither would survive very well. 23:19 Don't you find it hard to believe that chance luck 23:22 that symbiotic relationships would have evolved perfectly, 23:25 in order for each to survive? 23:29 I find it a little hard to believe 23:32 that all this would happen by itself, so perfectly. 23:41 Plants and rock layers 23:42 actually create a problem for evolution. 23:45 You see sometimes plants are fossilized in rock layers. 23:48 I have a sample here that you can see. 23:51 This is a fossilized fern, 23:54 you can easily tell it was buried alive 23:56 because there is no sign of decay or rotting, 23:59 as you would see on the forest floor. 24:04 Look at this, 24:06 the ground here is actually soft and squishy 24:09 because all the leaves and stuff 24:10 rots and decomposes here. 24:12 Check this out. 24:15 The only way to preserve a leaf before it rots, 24:18 is for it to be quickly buried by dirt and mud. 24:24 How would nature move so much dirt and mud around? 24:28 A flood? 24:29 Hey, do you remember how earlier we were talking 24:32 about how ants are found inside of amber? 24:35 This is the same thing. 24:38 Look, here's another kind of fern. 24:41 I was told my fossil fern is 300 million years old. 24:45 But look, ferns are still ferns today. 24:48 It doesn't look like they've evolved. 24:51 I believe my fossil fern was just quickly buried 24:54 at the time of the flood. 24:58 I'm gonna write that down in my journal. 25:04 What the fossil record actually shows 25:06 is that plants and trees 25:07 appear all of a sudden fully formed, 25:10 fully functional and highly complex. 25:14 Well preserved plant fossils all over the world show us 25:17 they were all buried quickly by water. 25:21 It sure looks like the evidence 25:23 we find in botany does not support 25:25 the idea of evolution. 25:27 The Bible says that on the third day of creation, 25:30 God created the plants, 25:32 and the trees, and many varieties. 25:41 Wow! 25:42 I'm still amazed at how big those trees are. 25:45 If you're a bird that is afraid of heights, 25:47 you'll definitely want to find a different tree to nest in. 25:51 You know, I never thought 25:52 how trees and plants could provide 25:54 so much evidence about when God created the world. 25:57 I'm glad that God left us a bunch of clues, 26:00 to help us understand about the past. 26:03 Well, I need to finish up my report and send it to HQ. 26:07 And remember, if you want to read it, 26:09 just go to our website. 26:13 The Bible tells us after the flood, 26:15 trees and plants started growing again. 26:19 The fossil record shows, 26:21 plants appeared all of a sudden, 26:23 fully formed. 26:25 Bristlecone pines seem to be able to live very long lives. 26:29 But we don't find plants that are so old, 26:32 that they don't fit with the biblical account. 26:36 Fossilized plants all over the world show us, 26:39 they were quickly buried by water. 26:42 I'm amazed that some of these trees 26:45 out there seem to live forever. 26:47 You know, in the beginning, when God created humans, 26:50 He made them perfect. 26:52 He breathed life into us, so that we could live forever. 26:56 It's like his breath equals life. 27:00 Unfortunately, sin mess things up 27:03 and brought death to the world. 27:05 Without God, sin and death take over. 27:08 With God, we have a life full of peace and joy. 27:13 Choose to breathe in God every day. 27:16 The good news is that God wants to make us perfect again. 27:20 He wants us to go 27:21 and live with Him forever in heaven. 27:23 That's where I want to be. 27:25 I hope you'll join me again for our next assignment. 27:28 And remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 27:33 especially you. 27:34 Good night. 27:45 Hold on! 27:47 Don't leave yet, we've got bloopers. 28:11 Stuck in there and it... 28:12 Dies. 28:14 And dies. It dies. 28:16 This isn't a rainforest, 28:18 there's a car coming and it's very nice. 28:21 I can't get it open. 28:22 Interesting... |
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