Geology and the Flood Washington State

A and introduce you. So here we go. So our title tonight is geology.

In the central cascades. Terry, did you disappear? No, I'm still here. Can you hear me? Yes, but just now. What? I mean, just right now, if you were saying something, we didn't hear it.

Before. You started to say the title. No, I got the title from you guys. So geology and the flood.

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I know I know one of my favorites is what do you with the chemist when it when he dies? But barium. Oh, my. OK, so I'm I'm Terry cameras out here with Creation Fellowship Santee, and we're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the creation account, as told in Genesis, is a true depiction of how God created the universe and all life from nothing in just six days.

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Tonight, we're pleased to have with us Mark Finkbeiner. Mark is the founder of the Tri-Cities Creation Science Club where he holds creation science seminars every other month of the year. He also founded Mark's Academy of Science where he teaches geology and electronics to homeschoolers and science adventure tours where he does field trips mostly on the Missoula flood caused by Noah's flood.

His college education is in criminal justice, electronics, automotive technology, geology and he has graduated from two police academies. Mark received Jesus Christ into his heart at the age of 12. He is now into film production making flood geology videos in the Pacific Northwest and filming physics and Bible experiments.

For about three years, he and two other guys had their own creation science TV program called Creation Foundations. His biggest project at this time is uncovering very profound geological evidence of a universal flood in central Washington that very few creation scientists seem to know about and tonight he joins us from in front of his rock collection so we're excited to hear what he has to share with us.

Mark, go ahead. All right, well thank you very much. Thanks for inviting me here so that I can share this information that very few people seem to know about. First to start off, I'd like to give you just a little bit more background before I start.

Mark Finkbeiner’s Background and Interest in Flood Geology

When I was six years old, I knew I wanted to be a scientist and a mathematician and so by the time I got into sixth grade, all I ever heard about was evolution and the eight men and I thought well since no pastors or teachers in churches, no one ever teaches on evidence that supports creation, I just thought well I guess science is not on our side and so I gave up the pursuit.

I thought science was just on the side of the evolutionists. Then one day when I was 25 years old, I heard a pastor on the radio and he was talking about all this scientific evidence that supports the Genesis account, the creation account in the Bible and I was just floored.

I just thought what in the world is going on, you know, and that was a whole life changer. So my whole life changed before me and so I no longer had the same goals, dreams, visions, you know, and so what I did is I heard that at our local Bible bookstore you could get books on this thing called creation science that I'd never heard of and so I bought all the books.

I bought tons of books. I bought all the books from ICR and I read them all and then that led to eventually doing field trips and I mean God has really blessed in this ministry. I mean he has had people donate an enormous amount of money to this ministry.

I just, you know, I can't believe the miracles that have occurred here and so here I am about what 30 years later and now I'm getting to do these kind of things. So anyway, so today what I want to do, like Terry was saying, I'm going to give a presentation on some geologic evidence in central Washington that supports the universal flood.

Now let's talk about where all this began. Now that's kind of a strange picture. Well, that's my wife there holding a rifle and that's me holding a rifle. We were married in 94 and then we did a lot of bear and deer hunting in the Cascades in central Washington and so this is probably about 1995 -96 and, you know, this is the strangest thing.

Okay, now I had geology already. I had geology, I had biology and so I knew a little something about geology at this time and as we hunted around central Washington, the Blewett Pass, Kittitas and Chelan County, there was just, there was something in my mind that was saying, Mark, this is a weird place.

This is not normal here. This is something that you need to investigate and I learned about the history of this place. Chief Joseph, you know, I learned he rode his horse through where Highway 97 is now down there by where Blewett, where the city of Blewett used to be, which was a gold mining town.

They had a 20 stamp mill there and they mined gold, I forget how many years, probably 20 years, something like that and so then I was, I got on the internet to look up places to go rock hunting because I've always wanted to go rock hunting, you know, because I hadn't got into it that much and so I found this website and I'm going to get to that yet.

In fact, I'll tell you what, before we get to that website, I just want to show you some things here that I found on the internet. This is a giant geode that's found in Cowlitz County. This is at the south part of the Cascade Mountains, a giant geode that was just found recently and then this is a big chunk of jade that was found in Darrington, Washington and so we've got a lot of strange and unusual geology around here, okay, and there's the big chunk of jade that they hauled out of there, okay, and so this is where we're going to go and we're going to go right there between Leavenworth and Cle Elum, Highway 97 and you'll notice where it shows sandstone formations and lion's rock.

Now, I want you to get familiar with this. Now, remember where lion's rock is at the bottom of your screen. We've got sandstone formations. Cle Elum is more to the right of the screen and then just above Cle Elum, it shows slick rock.

Now, that's really important for our study, so I want you to get accustomed to that and of course, to the right, you have the Wenatchee River. Way up the north, you have Lake Chelan, which is a whole nother piece of geology we could talk about, okay, and so now we're kind of zooming in just a little bit more.

There's Peel Point, there's Ellensburg, Cle Elum, all that, okay, and and then you'll notice we're kind of zooming in on Miner's Cabins. Down below is the Tiannaway. To the left, left-hand corner is Cheese Rock and then, of course, up towards the top, we have lots of sandstone formations.

You got lion's rock. All that's really important to try to remember in your head, okay, and of course, now, once again, on the right side, you have Peel Point and that's a huge cliff. Lots of thunder eggs are found over there and below, we have Cle Elum, Washington and then just below Cle Elum, we have Roslyn, Washington, okay.

Now, okay, so there's Roslyn. Now, you see the red line. Now, that red line right there, that represents all these coal mines that run from Roslyn to Cle Elum. Now, they're no longer mining those mines.

Now, they started that in, let's see, I had this all memorized. It was, I think they started in 1889, something like that, and then they mined those mines till around, I think, 1963, and so there's a lot of really interesting things, lots of interesting history and geology here.

So, see, I'm kind of getting you prepped here. I'm giving you a foundation for how unique this area is. Now, this is really amazing. Now, look at the city of Roslyn right there, okay. See the city of Roslyn, okay.

Now, there is their cemetery. A lot of people died in Roslyn. In fact, the city of Roslyn, shouldn't even call it a city. At one time, it was called a ghost town. There's between 500 and 1 ,000 people that live there.

I think there's more dead people in the cemetery than there are people that actually live there. They had a huge mining accident there in one of their mines. I think it was mine number one, where 45 people were killed in the late 1800s, and let's see, okay, let's back up.

Okay, so one of their mines, one of their coal mines, has 56 miles of tunnels, and that mine goes 2 ,700 feet down in the ground, okay. So, now you think about, well, what makes coal? Well, if there was all this coal, and by the way, they still say to this day that they estimate that there's still 235 million tons of coal left to be mined out.

Well, where does all that coal come from? Well, lush vegetation. That's how it got there, and then as we go west, we're going to run into all these tropical plants like palm fronds, various kinds of leaves about 20 miles away.

So, the further you go west, the less coal you have. Near Highway 97, near Cle Elum and Leavenworth, you can find coal, but right here around Roslyn, there's an enormous amount of coal in there, and so this is evidence that at one time, things were a lot different, more pristine, more jungle-like, and then, of course, we have this universal flood, and it creates all this coal, and by the way, the, oh boy, I'm trying to think of the word now.

I'll think of it here in a minute. What the catalyst for coal is, oh, it's that stuff that comes out of volcanoes, but anyway, if you watch one of my videos, I document all that, how coal is really formed.

So, coal is formed quite quickly, and volcanic action has a lot to do with coal formation. Well, we've got a lot of volcanic action that occurs around this area that did occur at one time. Okay, so now, with all that in mind, now, when we were hunting there at Blewett, I became really fascinated with the area, and I started looking up websites to find thundereggs and geodes, because I heard that this is a great place to go hunting for thundereggs and geodes, and upon my research, I could not believe what I saw.

I mean, it was like God was telling me, this is an amazing place, and here, this confirms it. Now, get this. This is not creation scientists that are teaching this. This is evolutionists that are teaching this.

They're saying that there's 50 ,000 feet. Did you hear that? 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers and lava flows in the Kittitas area. Now, that's part of Highway 97. That's between Cle Elum and Leavenworth.

Now, get this. Now, I'm going to show these books in my slideshow, but just this one book alone, look how thick that is. This is just the history of that area. This is just some of the history. Then, they wrote another book here about all the gold mines and all the amazing geology in this area.

In fact, this book here, this book about gold mining, they call this area freak geology. Now, that's the secularists. That's the evolutionists that are saying this. They call it freak geology because they can't figure it out because, you see, they won't accept the Genesis account of the flood.

They're blown away by it. They're trying to do a lot of mental gymnastics, trying to figure out how to explain this place through uniformitarianism, and they can't do it because all this stuff has been laid down at 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers.

Then, here's another book that a guy wrote. He's blown away by it. He's a geologist, and he just can't believe that some of these sedimentary layers can be 30 ,000 feet thick. Now, we're going to talk about all of that.

Then, I got this notebook. I got all this information off the internet that I've been studying so I can learn the area real well. This is just the beginning of it. A lot of geologists are just blown away by this area, but they can't get comfortable because they won't accept the Genesis account.

Anyway, this first drawing that you're looking at here, this is all the layers that are laid down horizontally. This is what it looked like at one time in the past. Now, both creationists and evolutionists all agree that all these layers were laid down horizontally first.

It starts out with the Ellensburg Formation, and then the Columbia River, and then the Wenatchee Formation, and then the Roslyn-Chumstit Formation, then the Teanaway Formation, which is a lava flow that they claim is 5 ,000 feet thick.

Then, there's the Teanaway Formation below that, and that's made up of sandstone, conglomerate, shale, and they're claiming that that can be up to 28 ,000 feet deep. That's like three Grand Canyons. This really is 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers and lava flows, and this is 10 Grand Canyons deep.

Now, here's the other drawing that they made. They gave this to all the people that attended their field trips. You'll notice that these evolutionists now, they talk about the Swak Formation, which is sandstone and shale.

They say, well, that's 52 million years ago. Then, they have the Teanaway. They have the Roslyn Formation, and then the Columbia River flood basalts, and then the Thorpe and Ellensburg Formation. Of course, below the Swak, you have the Ingalls Complex.

Now, the Ingalls Complex is really interesting. You see now, if there's any kids listening here. Now, you got to think about rocks. Now, I graduated from two police academies, one of my majors in criminal justice.

One thing you learn is you learn that A leads to B, and B leads to C, and C leads to D. That's how the FBI looks at it too. You start bringing all this evidence together, and one piece of evidence leads to another.

You pick up a rock, and it's like a fingerprint. It tells you what's been there. It gives you an idea. How did the rock form? What is in the rock? Then, that gives you an idea of what is in the area. This is barite right here.

Let's see. We're going to talk about barite here in a moment. Now, the Mount Stuart Batholith that you see on the far left, they claim that that's 93 million years old. Well, when you look at Mount Stuart, it's very jagged.

Mount Stuart is mostly made up of granodiorite. Here is granodiorite. Hopefully, you can see that. You see all of the brown specks in there? That's biotype magma, or biotype mica, and it's got a class feldspar in it.

More so than granite. Here is granite. Hopefully, you can see that. Granite and granodiorite are very similar. Mount Stuart is a batholith. That means it was an underground magma chamber. Now, it's above the ground.

The evolutionists, they claim that this batholith, it rose up out of the ground. As it rose up, all these horizontal layers that were horizontal at one time, they all moved up like this at an angle, like about a 90-degree angle.

Now, some of the Roslin formation is at 180 degrees, almost at 180 degrees. Now, like I was saying about rocks, now you got to study rocks, and you got to treat rocks like they're a fingerprint. The Ingalls Complex is what we call Iron Peak, and it is made up of argillite, graywack, conglomerate, chert, those kind of things.

Now, argillite, it's basically, it's mud. It's dried up mud. Some people say it's metamorphic. It metamorphed into argillite. They're claiming that the Ingalls Complex, a lot of it is mud. It's got chert on it.

It's got conglomerate. Now, conglomerate, if you don't know what that is, that's just simply a lot of rocks all cemented together. There's a piece of conglomerate right there. It's a sedimentary rock.

Now, it was all laid down, I believe, by a catastrophe, a water catastrophe, a mud flow. Here's another chunk of conglomerate. That's conglomerate right there. The Ingalls Complex, you can see that's really thick, very deep.

That was all laid down by water. The Swak Formation was laid down by water. The Tiananwei Flood Basalt, now it has more silica in it than the Columbia River Flood Basalt. Now, the Columbia River Flood Basalt, that flood, that came from Dykes, southeast Washington, northeast Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada, and flowed this way.

I would say that that happened sometime mid-flood, maybe towards the end of the flood, somewhere in there. We've got flood basalts here in Washington that are about, well, flows. They claim that, let's see, they claim that they're, oh boy, I used to be able to do all this from memory.

There's 300 flood flows, but they claim that it took so many years for each one of those flows. Well, if that was true, then that there would be almost 17 ,000 years between each flow, but yet we don't see any erosion marks between those flows, and we don't see any evidences of lakes or rivers between those flows.

So we know all those flows flowed quickly, one right after another, because there's no erosion marks between them. Okay, same thing with the Tiananwei Formation. Now, like I was saying, the Tiananwei Formation has got a lot more silica in it than the Columbia River Basalt.

That's why in the Blewett Pass area, you can find all of these geodes. See, I found all of these here, okay, because the more silica you have in your basalt, the more likely you're going to find agates, geodes, thunder eggs, and maybe some of you saw my 30-minute video that I did on the formation of geodes and thunder eggs, and so found this here, found a lot of stuff, okay.

I mean, I could bore you all day. Oh, and I got a good story about these two rocks right here. These are almost Ellensburg blue. Now, if these were Ellensburg blue, they would be worth around six, seven hundred dollars, okay.

So that's another thing that we're famous for here. Far as I know, nobody really has this quality of agate in the world, and so the way I found these, I was looking for agates in the river on First Creek near Ellensburg, and that creek follows Highway 97 for a few miles, and I was really hot, so I just dumped into, I just jumped into First Creek.

I'm laying down in the river, I open my eyes in the water, and lo and behold, I found this guy right here, and I did it a second time with this guy right here, okay. So there's, you know, I got a lot of good memories of that place, and here's another geode.

By the way, the difference between a geode and nodule is that a geode is hollow, okay, and you got crystals in there, and the nodule is, let's see, what I have, oh yeah, so this is a nodule right here.

There's no cavity, all right. By the way, if you want to see what happens, okay, I got this guy, this here, this is a guy that wanted to become a geode or a thunder but never made it, okay. So you see the big cavity right there.

By the time I get done with this, I'm going to have my workout for me. Okay, so let's see, okay, so next slide. Okay, so now here's what they're saying. They're saying that there's 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers and lava flows in that area, and Ellensburg, Washington sits at bottom of an anticline.

So they're saying that this whole area, the central Washington area, is an anticline, and Ellensburg is sitting at the bottom of the anticline. So an anticline is a fold of rock layers that slope downward on both sides of a common crest.

Anticlines form when rocks are compressed by plate tectonic forces. They can be as small as a hill or as large as a mountain range. Well, this is a huge mountain range, and so they're saying that Ellensburg is actually sitting on 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers and lava flows, okay.

So that's what's making this area so amazing. Now, there's actually a creation science museum that just opened up in this area a few years ago, and Will Marin, he's the curator of the museum, and he's a lot of fun to talk to.

He knows the area real well. He and I, we've gotten together a few times, went fossil hunting. I've interviewed him. I put it on Facebook. Hopefully, some of you have seen that video, and then, you know, he's got this model of a backbone of a dinosaur.

He's just got all kinds of neat things to look at, and these are just some of the pictures. This is a field trip that I did to Blewett Pass, which is along Highway 97, of course, and there's the Ellensburg Formation.

We're going to talk about that. That's really an amazing place. Lots of opportunities for gold panning, gold mining. Okay, so here's a map. Okay, so there's Blewett right there at an elevation of 4 ,100 feet.

As you go north, you go to Leavenworth, trying to just kind of help you get an idea, trying to help you get a mental picture of everything that I'm talking about here. Now, okay, so here is the city of Blewett in 1878, and let's see, the big building on the right is your 20-stamp mill, and the little building just in front of it, that's your dynamite house, your powder house, and over to the left is a public school, and so that's what it looked like in 1878.

That's a stamp mill, and now here's what it looks like now. There's nothing. It's gone, and if you walk up the hill there, you can still find gold mines. I found a gold mine up there, and oh, probably about 15 -20 years ago, and I've tried to go back to it, and I can't find it.

Also, there's a treasure in there. There's a story about a huge treasure chest that a guy buried, and it's supposed to still be there, and far as I know, nobody's found it. Okay, so there's another view of the city of Blewett, and I'm taking a picture on the other side of the highway.

Right behind me, there's all kinds of abandoned gold mines. Just a fascinating place. There's that 20-stamp mill again, and in this book called Buried Treasures of the Pacific Northwest, it talks about this huge treasure that one of these gold miners, he came from another country, and he had all this gold that he brought with him, and he buried it.

He died, and nobody's been able to find it, but it's supposed to still be there. Amazing, and this is what they used before they had a 20-stamp mill, and it's called an arastra, and that's how they ground all of their rocks to get the gold.

Okay, now there's a really cool story. Now, behind me, that's the Pohastion River. It used to be, back in the 1800s, and this is why people started gold mining there, people would just walk up to that river and pull out gold nuggets.

That's how it got started. Imagine that. Just walk over the river and start picking up gold nuggets, and here's another arastra. Now, this is at the ghost town of Liberty, which is just about 25 miles south of Blewett, and this is the only arastra that's working in the United States.

That's what they tell me. It's the only one, and that's the ghost town there of Liberty, and there's what's left of the Blewett stamp mill, and then, of course, I showed you that book about Blewett Gold, The History of the Pohastion Mining District, all of that history.

There's just a lot of history there. There's been different people who've written articles, books, pamphlets, all kinds of stuff about this area because it's so fascinating. There you got one about the Liberty Basin geology gold, about all the gold, the wire gold that's been found there.

There's a lot of wire gold. Now, wire gold is really important now for our study, and there's what Liberty looked like back 100 years ago or so, and that's what it looked like. I love all these old pictures, and they all dressed up to play tug-of-war on the 4th of July, and now this is what it looks like today.

Interesting things about this place is wire gold, Ellensburg Blewett, fossils, diamonds, oh boy, we're going to talk about that, lost treasure, how do we get diamonds there, and, of course, the 50 ,000 feet of sedimentary layers and lava flows.

Let's see what to look for to find the Blewett. Well, there is the Blewett. That's what it looks like when you find the real thing, and there are people there who live around that area, and they know where to find this stuff, and they're not telling anybody, and this is the person right here.

This is the man and his wife. They own this rock and gem store there in the forest, and they know right where to go. I asked them, can you tell me where it's at, and then, nope, they're not going to tell me, and they say it's really hard to get to, to find the Ellensburg Blewett, so this is what they found, and I asked the guy, well, how much are you selling that bigger rock there for?

He says, I'm selling it for $6 ,000, $6 ,000, that Ellensburg Blewett, and by the way, some of the experts will tell you that the hardness of that rock can go anywhere from 7 to 8, 8 Mohs scale, okay?

In fact, people have been so amazed about the Ellensburg Blewett, they had a Ph .D. guy come, I believe from New Zealand, his last name was Hoskins, and he came here and did a Ph .D. dissertation on the Ellensburg Blewett.

Now, this valley here, now, just below this valley is Ellensburg, okay? Now, they say that at one time, there was a whole bunch of water that flowed through here, through that pass, that mountainous pass there, and it ripped up all the agate that was in the basalt.

By the way, the host rock is basalt. That's where the Ellensburg Blewett comes from, and it ripped it all up, and that's why down here in the valley, you can find a lot of Ellensburg Blewett. There's a ranch called the Tomahawk Ranch, and they will allow you on their property for a fee.

They don't let you dig. You just have to walk around, and you can pick up the Ellensburg Blewett if you see one. As far as I know, they haven't been doing that for a while, so these are just really interesting things.

Now, gold is fascinating to think about. It really is, because what does the evolutionists say? What did they say about the formation of gold? Well, they say that there was two stars came together and hit each other, something like that, and they claim that gold is extraterrestrial, that it landed on this planet.

That's how gold, that's how they say gold got here, but you see, they can never explain how it was actually created, because that would be violating the first law of thermodynamics, because you can't just create an element.

You have to have other elements to create an element. You learn that in chemistry, but these guys, they're trying to tell us how gold was formed, but you can't do that without violating the first law of thermodynamics, and I wrote an article on that.

I would love to come back on here and explain all that sometime about the formation of gold and how it had to be created miraculously. Now, with that in mind, here is wire gold. Now, bluett is known for its wire gold.

Now, as far as I know, there's very few places in the world where you can find wire gold, and bluett's got a lot of it. Now, wire gold, gold is usually in calcite or silica quartz around bluett, and so I talked to this gold miner, and he's very famous here in Washington.

He's been a main speaker at Central Washington University. They allow him to come in, and they allow him to teach, and he says that he gets a lot of his gold out of calcite. Now, calcite, let's see. All right, so this great big, I pulled this out of Pahastion River.

There's your calcite. So, in theory, I should be able to break all this up and find gold in it, okay? Now, hopefully I can set this now without dropping it. Okay, so anyway, wire gold is the purest form of gold, and if you ever pick up a nugget out of a stream, at one time it was wire.

So, a gold nugget was wire at one time, and bluett has got a lot of wire gold, and these two brothers back in, I think the 1940s, 1950s, they found tons of wire gold out there in the mountains, and I believe this was their cabin right here.

The Ace of Diamonds, former mining operation, the early 1900s, $120 ,000 in gold was mined here, and of course, you know, $120 ,000 then, I mean, compared that to today, what's that? Close to a million, and so you find a lot of these cabins just all over the place, and that was kind of a spooky find.

I was just, you know, beating the brush, and I come upon this cabin here, and so, okay, so now, let's talk about the shale deposits and tropical fossils that are found in them. So, here is a tropical fossil that I found, palm fronds.

I've got buckets full of these guys, and you find these in giant mud flows in the mountains out there, and they're all over. You just dig for them. They're not hard to find, okay, and so here, we found all those palm fronds on the left side of the hill, and the way I got it figured, that must be a giant mud flow, because all this stuff is broke up, you know, because you got to remember, when all this was laid down in the beginning at the flood, it was all horizontal, and it was all together, so it's solidified.

Well, then the Bible, it talks about the mountains rising up in Psalms 104, so the mountains rose up, broke up the horizontal rocks, like these sedimentary rocks broke them up, and then you have these giant mud flows, and you find this stuff all broken up in the dirt, okay, and it's weird, because you find this in the mountains.

We shouldn't be finding this stuff in the mountains, because it's tropical plants, and here's another place you find fossils, lots of places, and these are some leaves, lots of leaves, leaf fossils, they're just, they're everywhere.

I mean, this is a fossil hunter's paradise, and I found all those, you know, within probably 30 minutes, 30 -45 minutes, and now, here is a gold mine, and I thought this one was really interesting, because, okay, there's the dyke, that's the Teanaway basalt dyke.

Now, these gold miners, they learned to burrow in, to create, to make a mine right beside a basalt dyke, so the lava, it flowed down, at least from, well, let's see, I got it, I got this picture here I want to show you, let's see, okay, so here it is, okay, so the Teanaway lava, it started down here in the Ingalls complex, it flowed up through the cracks, through the swak formation, and then it flowed out, and that's why we have 5 ,000 feet of Teanaway basalt, so these dykes carried the gold up with them, it carried the gold up there, and now, here's the interesting thing, the gold is in calcite, so the calcite is in the basalt, and the gold is in the calcite, I'll show you more pictures, I'll show you more about that, okay, and so anyway, everywhere you go, you find like these abandoned mining camps, it's really cool, because people were finding a lot of gold there at one time, okay, and I call this the bottomless hole, I think there is a bottom, don't want to fall in, probably won't come back out, and then there's a lot of gold mines that are still operating, I just, there is no road or trail to this mine that is actually in progress, the guy wasn't around, and he's got his mind gated, and he had some really nice buildings, and I can't figure out how did he get all that material up that mountain, and there's no road, I mean you just walk through the brush, you just beat the brush, and you find these mines that are out there, you also find people you don't want to find either, that's another story, if you're going to play Indiana Jones, you run across some situations, and so okay, so now, here's this gold mine, and hopefully the next slide, yes, okay, so this is the Te Anawe Basalt, this is one of the dikes, so this guy burrowed right through it, and look at all the calcite on the walls, now that's where you're going to find your wire gold, okay, and there's a chunk of calcite, that's where you're going to find your wire gold, right there, and here's a seam of calcite, right there, you can kind of see the white, it's not the best picture, but anyway, and so anyway, so here's, you know, a warning, active load mines, trespassers arrested, punished, you know, and danger, mining claim, no prospecting, you know, it's kind of cool just hiking around, and you find these places, and then we find the dynamite boxes, explosive boxes, you know, and this is where they put dynamite back in the day, when they were mining all this, and so, okay, so now, now I've kind of given you just a lot of interesting little tidbits there, so now in Genesis 7 -11, it says, well, I can't hardly read that, because things are in the way, so anyway, so what this is saying here, is that Genesis 7 -11, talking about the fountains of the great deep breaking up, and the windows of heaven were opened, now myself, I believe that that means that there was water shooting up out of the earth, and I think maybe we have found where the water shot up out of the earth, when I was in Yellowstone, I took that picture of that buffalo, and I'm thinking, you know, this is, this is kind of the aftermath of the flood, you know, you think about animals and human beings, they were just, they were living, you know, the Bible talks about, you know, before the flood happened, people were just living, and marrying, and giving in marriage, they, they were living it up, they weren't listening to Noah, they weren't heeding Noah's warnings, and human beings were a lot like that buffalo, just standing there, and then all of a sudden, everything just started erupting out of the ground, and blowing up, and, and ruined everybody's day, and so I think that, okay, so anyway, I, I made this little graph here, so in the beginning, you had the fountains of the great deep, you had, had volcanoes going off, earthquakes, and then mid-flood, the sedimentary layers were being laid down, animals were being buried, and that would start the, the fossil process, and then the end of the flood, you have the mountain ranges rising up, according to Psalms 104, the ocean basins were being created, and then that was the time when a lot of canyons were being created, and rivers, and valleys, more fossils, more animals being buried, and then that brought us to the ice age, which then caused the Missoula flood, and other local floods that happen around the planet, okay, so in Psalms 104, it talks about the mountains, they're rising up, and as they're rising up, the ocean basins are going down, and that's where all the flood waters went, was in the ocean basins, and I believe that this could be the source right here, because this is the, the mid-Atlantic range, and it wraps around the earth like, seems on a, like a, seems like on a baseball, and it intersects itself in the Indian Ocean, and I think that this mountain range could very well be the source for the fountains of the great deep, that's just, that's, that's a theory of a few different creation scientists, and so, okay, so here we have this hydrothermal venting at Endeavor Ridge, now this is, this is off the coast of Washington, where I'm at, hydrothermal sulfide, sulfate rock samples from the Endeavor segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge Northeastern Pacific Ocean, and this hydrothermal activity created barite, so this is barite right here, this is a really heavy rock for its size, and so this would have been created for, from hydrothermal activity, so could this be a leftover, could this be a leftover of the fountains of the great deep, you know, because we got places all over the world where water is still erupting out of the ground, we got places like that in Oregon, there's places like that in Wyoming, they're everywhere, so it's kind of cool, and so here is your hydrothermal water shooting up out of the, out of the bottom of the ocean, and it's heavily laden with minerals, so all that has to do in theory is get into a crack, a crack in a rock, and then the minerals, they solidify in the crack, and then it can create various kinds of minerals, so here, here's a chunk of basalt, now look on, look at that, right there, you got an agate in the basalt, so when this basalt was flowing, there was a, there was a cavity, and hydrothermal activity got in there, and it formed that nice little agate right there, and it's not Ellensburg blue, unfortunately, I can never seem to find any, so here's a map, now the Appalachian Mountains, now remember I talked about the, the mountains rising up, so the Appalachian Mountains, I believe that they rose up first during the flood, that's why they're so wore down, Appalachian Mountains are really round, then you go west towards the Rocky Mountains, they're a little more jagged, that's because they rose up, I believe, during mid-flood, and then you have the Cascade Mountain range, and they're really jagged, so they rose up towards the end of the flood, so the type of geology I'm talking about here today is actually into the flood type geology, towards the end, that's why the Cascades are so jagged, that's why Mount Stewart can't be 92 or 93 million years old, because it's too jagged, and so there's a picture of the Appalachians, you'll notice how well-rounded they are, that's because the flood waters eroded them down pretty good, and then here are the Rockies, they're a little more jagged, another picture of the Rockies, and then we get to the Cascades, and you'll notice how jagged they really are, and so there's Mount Stewart, Mount Stewart is a beautiful, baffleth mountain, and I took this picture because this is what a miner saw every morning when he woke up, imagine living in a place like that, see that every morning in your backyard, okay, and there's a close-up view of Mount Stewart, remember it's granodiorite, okay, that's important, and so around the area of Mount Stewart, we have what's called serpentinite, and serpentinite is a metamorphic rock, the parent rock of serpentinite is peridotite, so serpentinite is a metamorphic rock, and look what it says here, it was created through hydrothermal solutions, there we go again, hydrothermal, this is water again, hot water, could this be related to the fountains of the great deep shooting up out of the ground, okay, so hydrothermal solutions concentrated during final stages of magma crystallization and batholiths, or seawater solutions drawn down into subduction zones, all right, I don't know how well we're doing for time, I can go on and on and on, okay, so it's an ultramafic rock, that means it's got a lot of magnesium, a lot of iron in it, let's see, forget that one, okay, so here we are, Mark, yes, probably want to ramp up in about seven minutes, okay, let's do this, all right, let me just get through all this, and there's pumice going through serpentinite right there, and okay, so let's start at this, right, okay, so here's an evolutionist who admitted that the Roslin formation could be as thick as 36 ,000 feet, so that's really amazing, and of course, this book calls this area freak geology, so now we're going to look at the Thorpe Gravels and Craig's Hill, and the Thorpe Gravels now is at the top, it's 4 ,000 feet thick, and that's made up of the Thorpe Gravels and the Ellensburg Formation, and the Ellensburg Formation is a lahar, and that lahar started at White Pass, which is about 70 -80 miles from here, and this is where the lahar ended up at, and it flowed so violently, and this is what your mainline geologists will tell you, a lahar can flow so violently that it doesn't have time to sort out the rocks, and so you can find heavier rocks at the top, and even lighter rocks at the bottom, which is the opposite of what you normally would see like in a turbidite, which is just a underwater mud flow, and so this Ellensburg Formation, it runs along Highway 90, and it's 4 ,000 feet deep, and let's see, we're going to get through all of this, all right, now look at this Ellensburg Formation here, you'll notice how you have all these bent layers, and this reminds me a lot of looking at the Grand Canyon, and let's see, there's a word for it now, I'm trying to remember it, an unconformity, it's almost like we're looking at unconformities here, non-conformity, huh, non-conformity, yeah, well it could be an unconformity or a non-conformity, and anyway, they will tell you that, the evolutionists will say, well there's a lost time here, and actually this is just layer after layer after layer, and there's no erosion marks between them, and you'll notice how this looks so similar to this, now that's the little Grand Canyon, okay, at Mount St. Helens, and then here we have the wave in Northern Arizona, which looks very similar in a sense to the Ellensburg Formation, and so we're looking at modus operandi here, we're looking at similarities, and there you have, you've got big rocks and little rocks, you've got this non-conformity or unconformity appearance there, and I mean, this is really amazing how this all ended up there, but this all ended up here catastrophically, okay, so there, now you look at the Grand Canyon, it looks very similar, doesn't it, okay, so I'm told that a lot of the Grand Canyon is mud flows, that's what makes up the sides of the canyons, okay, then we have the Columbia River Basalt Flows, and let's see, we'll just go through that real quick, and when you're up there at Lion's Rock, you're looking down into what almost looks like a giant volcano, but yet you have all of these sandstone features, these huge sandstone pillars down there, and we'll look at those in just a second, now we have the Wenatchee Formation, now that's the next one, so you got the Ellensburg Formation, you got the Columbia River Basalt Flows, and you have the Wenatchee Formation, and this reminds me of places in Utah, where you have the Red Rock, okay, so here we are at Walmart taking a picture of this, and it reminds me of a place where you could probably find dinosaur bones, you know, it looks similar to that there, okay, then we have the Roslyn Chumstick Formation, and according to the evolutionists, it can be 9 to 30 ,000 feet deep, so we're going way over 50 ,000 feet deep here, okay, and in this Chumstick Strata, look at that, there's a layer that's almost 180 degrees right there, and you find this kind of stuff all over the area, here's a place where I found tons of fossils, I slammed on the brakes, slid sideways, and we found lots of fossils there, and there's one of them that's just full of leaf fossils, that's part of the Roslyn Formation, that's where you find coal, okay, and then you find these sandstone pillars, and it looks kind of spooky, because they're just dotted everywhere, which is strong evidence that an ice flow did not go through here and carve this out, this is more evidence of a water catastrophe, and what you're looking at here is leftovers after the water catastrophe going through here, hence, you know, Noah's flood, and look at that, that's almost 180 degrees right there, and let's see, there's places where, okay, you find just these sandstone features, they're just sitting out there in places out in the forest, it this is Cheese Rock, which is part of the Roslyn Chumstick Formation, and we're near Roslyn, Washington, and okay, then we get to the coal, and I talked about the coal already, and then the Teanaway Formation is 5 ,000 feet deep, and then at the very bottom, we have the Swock Formation, and okay, so we talked about the basalt dikes, we'll just hurry through that, so the Swock Formation, there's a basalt dike that's going right through the Swock right there, so a guy could take, could burrow in there, and maybe find gold, okay, and so the Swock Formation is made up of what's so-called river rock, which is not river rock, it's a flood deposit, okay, and it's made up of conglomerate, shale, sandstone, all that stuff, okay, and so I was going to show you some similarities to Glacier National Park, but yeah, when you look at Glacier, you look at that, and then you look at this, this is the Swock Formation, notice how the layers are at about a 90 degree, 90 degrees there, and right here, you're going to find a huge palm frond about right there, and there it is, you're looking straight up at it, and here is ripple marks, and I can't tell you where those ripple marks are at, because by these ripple marks, we find that, you see what that is?