Participants: Dr. Robert Gentry, David Gentry
Series Code: V
Program Code: V000002
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01:02 Many theories attempt to picture just how and
01:05 when our planet was formed. 01:08 But, until recently there's been little hard 01:10 evidence to go by. Now, however, 01:13 a new discovery has thrust before the world a 01:16 revolutionary model of our origins, forcing 01:22 many scientists to consider the unthinkable. 01:39 The startling new evidence is found deep beneath 01:41 the Earth, below layers of sedimentary rock down 01:45 in its primordial stones, the granites. 01:49 There tiny bits of radio active matter have 01:51 formed what scientists call radio halos. 01:55 They've left telltale traces, 01:56 creating a discolored sphere around them. 01:59 Scientists can identify precisely what kind of 02:02 material caused these radio halos 02:04 by measuring their sizes. 02:10 One US scientist, Dr. Robert Gentry, 02:12 has examined more than 100,000 of these 02:15 phenomena. Dr. Gentry has discovered a type 02:18 of radio halo that just shouldn't be there, 02:21 in fact according to every basic principle of 02:24 evolutionary theory; it just can't be there, 02:27 it's impossible. But, after years of vigorous 02:30 experimenting and testing, there is now no doubt. 02:35 I have identified Polonium radio halos in 02:37 the Earth's basement granites from America, 02:40 Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, Japan 02:43 and Madagascar. This is extraordinary, 02:46 because these Polonium isotopes have a very 02:49 fleeting existence. One type I've identified, 02:53 Polonium 218, occurs for only a few 02:56 minutes before decaying into something else. 03:00 And yet this radioactive element has imprinted 03:03 into identifying halo in solid granite. 03:06 In particular, in these pieces from the 03:09 White Mountains in New Hampshire, 03:11 and from Myojin in Japan. 03:16 In granite, halos are found in this dark mineral 03:19 called Mica. The Mica must be thinly sliced 03:22 or peeled with tape, and then mounted on 03:25 a glass slide before halos can be observed. 03:36 Animation helps us to understand the origin 03:38 of the three ring, Polonium 218 halo now 03:41 seen under the microscope. 03:44 The three sunburst patterns are shooting out 03:46 from the tiny center represent three different 03:48 energy nuclear particles that were successively 03:51 ejected from three different isotopes of 03:53 Polonium encased within the tiny center. 03:56 The accumulated effects of millions of such 03:58 particles discolored the mineral around 04:00 the center, thus producing 3 microscopic sized, 04:03 concentric colored spheres. In the mineral, 04:07 the halo is always 3 dimensional, 04:08 under the microscope however it looks flat. 04:12 By taking a thin slice of the mineral through the 04:14 center we have effectively cut off the top and 04:17 the bottom of the spheres, and are thus left to 04:20 view the halo as a series of three concentric 04:23 rings under the microscope, 04:25 as is illustrated in this animation sequence. 04:28 According to all present scientific theories, 04:31 and granites such as this specimen from 04:33 Pikes Peak in Colorado, 04:34 originated in a molten state, cooled, 04:37 crystallized and hardened over millions of years 04:40 deep in the Earth, but if that's the case, 04:43 the radioactivity produced by Polonium would 04:45 never have been captured, it would have decayed 04:48 away long before the rock solidified. 04:52 The grains of Polonium that made these radio 04:54 halos were embedded deep in the granite, 04:56 the element was there, somehow when the rock 04:59 was formed, but it could only form its radio halo 05:02 after the rock had already hardened, 05:04 and if Polonium exists for only a few seconds or 05:08 minutes, the implication has stunned all those 05:12 who are willing to listen. Polonium radio halos 05:15 indicate that the Earth's foundation rocks the 05:18 granites were formed almost instantly. 05:21 In fact, they are evidence that the granite had 05:24 to be formed instantly. Scientifically, 05:27 they can't be accounted for in any other way. 05:33 David Gentry, son of Dr. Robert Gentry, 05:36 and associate in his father's work on creation. 05:41 We can demonstrate the principle of Polonium 05:43 radio halos. Imagine this Alka Seltzer tablet is 05:47 a bit of Polonium, and this glass of water 05:49 is a piece of molten granite. 05:52 I dropped the tablet in, and it begins to fizz. 05:55 Think of these bubbles as the radiation emitted 05:58 by that bit of Polonium embedded in the granite. 06:01 This fizz will go away in about 30 seconds and 06:04 we'll have nothing left but a slightly tangy 06:06 glass of water. Now, is there any way we 06:09 can preserve these bubbles as they are. 06:12 We could try placing the glass in the freezer. 06:15 The water of course would solidify after a while. 06:18 That's something similar to what evolutionary 06:20 theory suggests that molten rock slowly cools 06:23 to form granite. But as you've already guessed, 06:26 freezing this glass of Alka Seltzer wouldn't do 06:29 any good. The bubbles would have gone long 06:31 before the water turns to ice, and that's exactly 06:34 what would have happened to Polonium radiation 06:36 if the granite had slowly cooled. 06:39 It would have disappeared long before any radio 06:41 halos could have been imprinted in the solid 06:43 rock. If I show you a frozen glass of water 06:46 with all the fizz of a tablet still intact, 06:49 like this, you will know that something happened 06:52 to instantly freeze the water in this case, 06:55 we merely froze it instantly in time by 06:57 a pause of the video tape. 07:00 Likewise, if we look at a radio halo 07:02 demonstrated, unmistakably to have been 07:04 produced by a certain king of Polonium we can 07:07 know that the granite around it 07:09 had to be formed instantly. 07:13 The implications are incredible. 07:16 If Dr. Robert Gentry is correct, 07:19 all the evolutionary assumptions about the 07:21 Earth forming over millions or billions of 07:23 years are wrong, and the accounted Genesis 07:26 of the creation of the Earth is substantiated, 07:29 but is Dr. Gentry right? 07:32 Is he just some maverick scientist conducting 07:34 his work in virtual isolation? 07:37 If his experimental results were brought to 07:39 the light, would other scientists be able to 07:41 quickly discredit them? As a matter of fact, 07:44 Dr. Gentry conducted most of his research 07:46 on radio halos at the Oak Ridge 07:49 National Laboratories in Tennessee. 07:52 His findings have been published in many of the 07:54 world's leading scientific journals: Science, 07:57 Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, 08:03 Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 08:06 Physical Review Letters, Annual Reviews of 08:09 Nuclear Science. Papers appearing in these 08:13 journals are subject to peer review. 08:16 That is other scientists in the same field 08:18 carefully examine the evidence presented in the 08:20 experimentation reviews to see if 08:22 there are any flaws in the data. 08:24 So, far it seems no one has been able to 08:26 contradict Dr. Gentry's findings. 08:29 No one has been able to find a hole in his case. 08:33 In December of 1981, Dr. Robert Gentry was 08:36 called to testify at an Arkansas trial, 08:39 in which the American Civil Liberties Union 08:41 attempted to prevent the teaching of creation 08:43 science in that state's public schools. 08:47 He presented his findings regarding Polonium 08:49 radio halos as evidence of an instantaneous 08:52 creation of the granites. The ACLU brought one of 08:56 the world's foremost geologists, 08:57 Dr. Brent Dalrymple to testify for evolution, 09:01 but on the witness stand no scientific evidence 09:04 was offered to challenge this discovery for 09:06 creation, instead, it was referred to as 09:09 "Just a Tiny Mystery that 09:12 we can't quite explain." 09:15 With that background, let's step back and 09:17 get a bigger picture in order to place this 09:18 revolutionary discovery in perspective, 09:21 in particular, how does it 09:23 impact on the age of the Earth? 09:26 All attempts to determine the age of the Earth 09:28 are based on radioactive decay. 09:31 Heavy elements like Polonium and Uranium 09:33 are unstable. Their atoms tend to break down 09:36 or decay by ejecting alpha particles. 09:39 Over a period of time, unstable atoms decay 09:41 through a chain of steps into an entirely 09:43 different stable atom. Unstable Uranium, 09:47 for example, eventually becomes a type of lead. 09:51 Scientists have observed that radioactive 09:53 elements decay in the present at incredibly 09:55 constant rates. They can predict exactly 09:58 when an element would pass through each of 09:59 various stages in the decay chain, 10:01 if present rates persist. 10:04 Geologists have thought that they could use 10:06 decay rates to tell geologic time, 10:09 the age of the rocks. They studied rocks that 10:12 contain samples of radioactive elements by 10:15 using complex scientific equipment, 10:17 they examine traces of Uranium in granite, 10:20 for example, and figure out precisely how much of 10:23 the Uranium has decayed into lead in the rock. 10:26 Then based on present rates of decay, 10:28 they figure back to the time when that Uranium 10:31 first began to decay. That, they reason, 10:34 should be the rock's starting point. 10:38 A piece of granite rock has been loaded into this 10:40 instrument, it is called an Ion Microprobe Mass 10:44 Spectrometer. It measures the ratio of Uranium 10:47 to lead in a certain sample. By figuring from 10:50 present decay process is backwards, 10:52 conventional Earth age theories tell us, 10:55 that this rock in the machine is a billion 10:58 years old. The question is, 11:00 are these theories correct? 11:02 All dating techniques work on the same principle, 11:05 present rates of radioactive decay, 11:07 which are constant, are used to compute what 11:10 scientists think must have happened in the 11:12 distant past. This involved an assumption. 11:16 There is nothing debatable about the present 11:18 decay rates of various rates of unstable 11:20 elements. These have been established by 11:22 observation and measurement 11:23 as scientific facts. 11:26 And the ratio of Uranium to lead in various 11:28 granite samples is not in question, 11:32 but what has not been a matter of observation and 11:34 measurement is what happened in the 11:36 distant past? That is until 11:39 Dr. Gentry's discovery, as we shall see. 11:43 All conventional methods of determining the age 11:45 of the Earth are based on an enormous assumption, 11:48 what is happening now is exactly what happened 11:51 at every point from the beginning of time to 11:54 the present. This is known as the Uniformitarian 11:57 Principle which says, natural law can 12:01 explain everything. And no miracles by 12:05 God have ever occurred. 12:08 Another illustration will help us understand how 12:10 this relates to the age of the Earth. 12:12 Imagine that this dripping faucet represents the 12:15 present rate of Uranium decaying to lead, 12:18 and this bucket partially filled with water, 12:20 represents the lead accumulated in the granite 12:23 rocks we dig up in the Earth's crust. 12:26 Now we can measure precisely how many drops 12:28 fall per second, and we can measure precisely 12:31 how much water is in the bucket. In this way, 12:35 we can figure out how long the faucet has been 12:38 dripping. That's all well and good, 12:40 but what if at some point, this dripping had 12:43 become a steady stream, even temporarily? 12:48 You see, even if we know present rates of decay 12:51 precisely, and present ratios of Uranium to lead 12:54 in granites precisely, these facts don't tell us 12:58 anything about the time the rock was formed, 13:00 unless Uranium decay has been perfectly constant. 13:08 What the Polonium radio halos demonstrate clearly 13:10 is this, at some point, the Uniformitarian 13:14 Principle was broken. Something very different 13:17 happened in the past, something that calls 13:20 into question constant ratings of radioactive 13:22 decay. To see why this is so, 13:24 we need to understand how Polonium halos were 13:27 discovered, that is, how they were found to 13:30 be separate and distinct from halos formed by 13:32 Uranium decay. Most radio halos exhibit 13:35 various concentric rings along with bands 13:39 discolored in slightly different ways. 13:41 They look like archery targets. 13:43 Each ring represents a different type of element 13:45 in the Uranium decay chain. 13:47 The parent Uranium sends out alpha particles 13:50 which travel a certain, precise distance, 13:52 creating an unmistakable, identifying halo, 13:56 so do the other elements in the decay process, 13:58 creating their own rings. You can see the 14:01 evidence of the Uranium decay process in these 14:04 rings, but what I was amazed to discover were 14:07 halos that began with Polonium. 14:09 There was no evidence of any parent Uranium 14:11 which produced them, that just shouldn't happen. 14:15 Polonium is supposed to exist in nature only as 14:18 part of the Uranium decay chain into one of the 14:21 last fleeting steps taken before that element 14:24 turns into lead. By all that we know today, 14:27 Polonium simply can't exist apart 14:29 from this decay process. 14:32 But as seen through the microscope something 14:35 very, very different which happened in the past 14:38 Polonium on its own. Something unexplainable 14:41 according to present scientific laws. 14:45 I ruled out every possibility except 14:47 primordial Polonium, Polonium that was made 14:49 at the beginning, one of the most important 14:52 experiments that ruled out Uranium and confirmed 14:54 primordial Polonium as the cause for the Polonium 14:56 halos in granites was 14:58 done with the ion microprobe. 15:07 The ion microprobe uses a thin beam of ions 15:09 to probe, or analyze tiny microscopic specs 15:13 of matter. The experiment was set so that the 15:16 ion beam impacted directly on the halo's center, 15:18 sputtering it away atom by atom to then be 15:21 analyzed by a magnetic spectrometer. 15:25 A significant number of the halos of the element, 15:27 Polonium 218, were analyzed using the 15:30 ion microprobe. The results were positive 15:32 and unequivocal. The Polonium 218 halo 15:35 centers contain lead 206, the direct decay 15:38 product of Polonium 218 without the corresponding 15:41 Uranium found in Uranium halos. 15:44 These results confirm that Polonium halos in 15:46 granites originated with primordial Polonium. 15:52 These halos not only indicate that the granites 15:54 in which they are found were formed 15:56 almost instantly, they also indicate that the 15:59 process involved was significantly different 16:02 from what we observe in the present. 16:05 This brings us to the far reaching implications 16:08 of Dr. Gentry's discoveries. 16:11 If radioactive decay rates have not been constant 16:14 then conventional methods of calculating the 16:17 age of the Earth are meaningless, 16:19 they simply don't work. 16:23 The Polonium radio halos offer proof that a 16:25 different process was in operation when these 16:28 granites were formed. This is clear evidence 16:31 that invalidates the Uniformitarian Principle. 16:34 Natural law cannot explain everything such as 16:38 Polonium Halos. And miracles by God 16:41 have occurred such as instant granite creation. 16:45 The Uniformitarian Principles was the glue 16:47 that held the entire theory of evolution 16:49 together. Dr. Gentry's discovery dissolves that 16:53 glue. The hard evidence of the Polonium radio 16:57 halos flatly contradicts the Uniformitarian 17:00 Principle and thus poses a threat to the entire 17:02 evolutionary framework that scientists have 17:05 invested in so heavily for a century and a half. 17:09 To put it bluntly, Polonium radio halos and 17:12 the Uniformitarian Principle cannot both 17:14 exist in the same universe. 17:16 It's got to be one or the other. 17:20 So, what has been the reaction of the scientific 17:22 community to this evidence? 17:25 The first reaction of many scientists who 17:27 spent their lives building on the framework of 17:29 evolution, is to try to dismiss the evidence of 17:31 the radio halos. Typically, they viewed 17:34 it as a tiny mystery which must be weighed 17:37 against all the other evidence for evolution and 17:40 for a constant rate of radioactive decay. 17:44 Dr. Bruce Holman, professor of chemistry 17:46 at Wisconsin Lutheran College. 17:48 Any scenario for the formation of the Earth 17:50 has to explain how the Polonium halos were formed 17:54 in the granites. As you think the Earth 17:57 was cooling over millions of years, 17:59 there's a contradiction, no matter how you look 18:02 at it, but it can be easily explained if you 18:05 think the Earth was created by God in the 18:08 way the Bible describes. You know, 18:12 Robert Gentry has published work over 18:15 many years in the scientific literature 18:17 and on many subjects. His Polonium halo results 18:21 have been in the scientific journals for 18:23 25 years, and couldn't be refuted at the 18:26 Arkansas Trial. You know what 18:30 surprises me is the unwillingness of the 18:33 scientific community to bring his work to the 18:35 center of the scientific discussion, 18:37 in a land that prides itself on freedom of 18:40 inquiry and expression. We owe Dr. Gentry the 18:44 opportunity to fully share his results, 18:47 his discoveries and his explanation for them. 18:52 Why hasn't the scientific community brought this 18:54 evidence to the center of discussion? 18:56 The essence of science is to test all theories 18:59 by repeated experimentations, 19:01 this is how the basic laws of physics and 19:02 chemistry were discovered. 19:04 This is how Dr. Gentry's results were obtained. 19:08 If something is wrong, why haven't the 19:09 evolutionist countered by publishing their 19:11 findings in the scientific journals 19:13 where his reports appeared. 19:16 Evolutionists would gladly have filled the pages 19:18 of scientific journals in refuting this evidence 19:20 for creation, if they could have done so. 19:23 Their failure exposes what long has been the 19:25 best kept secret in science. 19:28 Evolutionists made a colossal mistake by 19:30 building the theory of an evolving Earth on 19:32 the premise that granites formed naturally, 19:35 without having firm scientific evidence to 19:37 support this premise. Their uncertainty was 19:40 aptly expressed in a comment from a renowned 19:42 geologist who spoke at an international symposium 19:46 on the Origin Of Granite in 1947. 19:49 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: 19:51 it is a pleasure to take part in a discussion of 19:54 this sort, for two reasons. 19:56 In the first place, the newspapers and the radio 19:58 are bringing problems before us everyday, 20:01 and they are threatening dire consequences if 20:04 we do not solve them. In this symposium we are 20:07 treating a problem that is really an old friend. 20:10 This problem goes back through almost all the 20:12 years during which there has been a science of 20:14 geology. We have never satisfied ourselves as to 20:18 solution, and we furthermore must note that 20:21 no very serious consequences arise if 20:24 we do not arrive at that solution. 20:27 From Origin Of Granite, 20:29 Geological Society Of America, Memoir 28 20:32 F. Fitz Osborne, Laval University, 20:36 Montreal. Despite this lackadaisical attitude, 20:40 geologists had good reason to be concerned about 20:42 the origin of granite, even before the Polonium 20:46 halo evidence was published. 20:49 This rock is Rhyolite. It forms when granite 20:52 melted in the Earth pushes its way to the surface 20:54 and slowly cools. Its crystals are almost 20:57 microscopic and of light color. 21:00 In contrast, granite has some dark minerals, 21:03 which contain the Polonium halos and its 21:05 crystals are much larger. Geologists hope that 21:09 they were right in assuming that granite 21:10 formed from slow cooling deep in the Earth, 21:13 but from the first, they had evidence that the 21:16 assumption was wrong. This Rhyolite formed by 21:20 slow cooling at a depth of 1683 feet, 21:23 it exhibits only tiny crystals, 21:26 it's not granite, so geologists had to 21:29 assume that granites formed much deeper. 21:32 In the 1960's, geologists melted small pieces 21:35 of granite and let them cool slowly under 21:37 conditions of heat and pressure existing very 21:40 deep in the Earth. This is a rock produced 21:43 in those experiments. It has only tiny crystals 21:47 just like Rhyolite, no large crystals, 21:49 no dark crystals. It just isn't granite. 21:57 The Polonium halos tell us that granites were 21:59 formed by creation not by natural processes. 22:05 Granites contain the signature of creation, 22:07 Rhyolites and rocks formed in the 22:09 laboratory do not, it's just that simple. 22:13 Despite these facts, in 1987 geologists still 22:17 treated the origin of granite as in 1947 when it 22:21 was said to be an old friend. 22:23 The 1987 symposium ended with the lament. 22:27 As was well documented by the discussion during 22:29 this meeting, many old questions are 22:32 still debated. I would certainly hope 22:34 that one hundred years hence, 22:36 we will not be debating the origins of granites. 22:40 Professor W. S. Fyfe, Geology Department, 22:42 University of Western Ontario, Canada. 22:46 But, 4 years later, geologists at the 22:48 1991 Second Hutton Symposium on the Origin of 22:51 Granites and Related Rocks, 22:53 left with that hope unfulfilled, 22:56 the same old questions still being debated. 23:00 Geologist, Dr. Andrew Snelling of the 23:02 Creation Science Foundation of Australia 23:05 has examined the field evidence for the origin 23:07 of the granites, and is considering 23:10 the possibilities of their creation. 23:13 To answer this question of the origin of granites 23:16 and to see if the conventional wisdom is the 23:19 correct explanation, we need to look at the 23:22 field relationships of granite. 23:24 How granite occurs and how it occurs in relation 23:27 to other rocks. And here for example 23:31 in Southern California, in the ranges where 23:34 these granites are exposed to view over hundreds 23:37 of square miles, we see some rather 23:41 odd and strange relationships that 23:43 conventional wisdom doesn't seem to be able to 23:45 explain for example, we see, as here on 23:49 this rock, we can see dark, as it were, 23:53 blocks and patches that are clearly delineated, 23:57 sharply visible, against the normal granite. 24:05 And in other places we can see what appears 24:08 to be vein-like light material, and this raises 24:12 the question as to whether we've had, 24:14 perhaps even, 2 or even 3 melts of different 24:18 compositions. That raises the question as to how 24:21 conventional wisdom can explain melts like this 24:25 existing side by side to produce rocks like this 24:29 that seem so different from one another and 24:32 yet not mix. This leads us then to ask the 24:35 question is there another possible explanation 24:39 for the origin of these rocks, these granites? 24:42 I believe there is another explanation, you see, 24:45 when we look at these and see these relationships 24:48 as we've discussed here, could these we have to 24:51 ask ourselves the question, 24:52 could these rocks in fact form quickly, suddenly? 24:55 After all there has been no time for mixing, 24:58 there's been probably no heat involved because 25:02 otherwise the heat would have allowed the mixing 25:04 to occur, that brings to my mind the possibility 25:08 of what the Bible speaks of, that God created 25:11 rocks at the beginning, could these rocks be 25:14 rocks that God created? The Bible says that in 25:16 the beginning God created the Earth, 25:19 He created the land, that means He would have 25:21 created the rocks, could these rocks, 25:23 these granites, have had a sudden origin, 25:26 created by God? It's significant in this 25:30 context therefore, that not only do we 25:33 look at the field relationships, 25:36 but we should also look at these rocks under the 25:40 microscope, because in the microscope, 25:42 looking at these rocks, we need to be aware 25:46 that there is exciting evidence that's been 25:48 available for some time now, of particles in 25:54 these rocks, radioactivity that suggests quite 25:58 strongly that these rocks were created by God. 26:03 The telltale signature of that radioactivity 26:06 appearing out of nowhere for a few moments, 26:09 leaving its mark in hard granite, speak to us of 26:12 an instant creation, like a frozen 26:15 bubbles in the glass of Alka Seltzer. 26:21 Something extraordinary happened when these rocks 26:24 were formed. Something that defies 26:27 all the physical laws that we presently observe, 26:31 the evidence is captured in the granite and we 26:34 can see with a microscope creation's 26:36 tiny mystery, Polonium halos. 26:41 They are a mystery only to those who are 26:43 determined to stick with their theory of an 26:45 Earth billions of years old. For those wiling to 26:49 consider the Genesis account of a recent, 26:51 rapid creation, the halos are perfectly 26:54 understandable. They fit the Biblical 26:57 picture being found in the very rocks called into 27:00 existence in the beginning of creation week. 27:04 In the beginning Lord, you laid the foundations 27:07 of the earth. For He spake and it was done; 27:11 He commanded, and it stood fast. 27:18 Polonium radio halos offer hard evidence that 27:21 the Earth's foundational rocks, 27:22 the granites were created almost instantly. 27:26 To Dr. Robert Gentry those faintly colored 27:28 rings are almost like the fingerprints 27:31 of God, the signature of creation. 28:10 To order this fascinating video call now: 28:12 1-800-467-6380, that's 1-800-467-6380 or 28:19 visit the website at www.halos.com 28:23 to order by check or credit card, 28:25 again that's www.halos.com. |
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