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And you guys can feel free throughout the whole time that if you'd like to, you know, if you guys want to talk amongst yourselves, make some comments, remarks about things that are going on, you can use the chat.
At a certain point in time, we'll have it where you guys can put questions into the chat so that if we can do, answer some of them during a Q and A. So, okay. With that, let's go ahead and get started.
Just a little heads up about Russ Miller. We're really glad to have him tonight. He is the off-grid creationist, which means that he's off-grid. And you might think, well, then how can he be on Zoom?
And we don't really know, but we're hoping that it will last our whole time. So, we're going to be flexible and patient and see how things go. And if he drops off, then I have a backup plan that will be just as fun, but not as good because Russ wouldn't be here, but still we'll have a good time.
So, let's go ahead and pray to get things started. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love and your goodness to us. Thank you for the opportunity, once again, that we have on a Thursday night here to invite friends, new friends, friends far and wide from across the country and even Canada and sometimes beyond.
And thank you for Russ and his ministry. We thank you that he's willing to join us and to remind us of some of the truths that we can be confident about from your word and how we can see them in our surroundings.
Thank you for the beautiful scenery that you give us each day. Thank you that we can see the way that you uphold nature in a consistent way and that helps us be able to study science. And we know that because we study science based on a universe that you created in a consistent way, we know that it always is going to bring glory to you, as long as we have the right lenses on.
And we thank you that that's true. And we just ask for a blessing over our time tonight that we are able to fellowship with each other in a good way and take something away from this that we have learned that we didn't know before.
And also, we pray for technology that it works with us. In Jesus' name, amen.
Well, that's good. Amen.
All right, ladies. You guys got to be on those mutes.
Okay.
All right.
So, let's start by introducing Russ with a video that he has. This is a video that explains his Rim and Raft tour that he does at Lee's Ferry. So, I'm going to go ahead and use my videos log in there to go ahead and choose find this video.
And give me one second, apparently, as I find what I'm looking for. So, I'm going to have to go to a plan B already because I'm not finding what I needed. So, sorry about that, guys.
Is it titled Lee's Ferry?
It is.
Yep, I have it. I just, I downloaded it and for some reason, when I go to share my screen, it's not letting me do the one that I downloaded. So, I have another option here. So, we'll just do it a different way.
So, here we go. And let me make sure that I have the sound on for you guys and share.
Can you guys all see a video right now with the plane?
Yep. Okay.
So, let's play this video.
So, I'm standing at Lee's Ferry in Northern Arizona at Marble Canyon. This is where the River Raft trips are launched and head through Grand Canyon. And we're standing in front of the Vermilion Cliffs.
We're at the base of the Vermilion Cliffs. This is a 2 ,000 to 2 ,500 foot step of the Grand Staircase. We've just gotten through a rafting trip from Glen Canyon Dam to Lee's Ferry, which cuts through those massive layers of rock, strata.
They were laid down by water. Now, as we get to Lee's Ferry, suddenly, the whole area opens up and these massive rock layers behind us have been removed for tens of thousands of square miles. I would ask you to ask yourself, when you look at that massive strata layer, those vertical rock walls, how in the world, what power could have removed these rock layers for tens of thousands of square miles?
And when you realize that there used to be 6 ,000 or so feet of additional rock layers on top of these layers, which you pick up at the Gray and White Cliffs of Zion and the Pink Cliffs of Bryce, there is a mile of missing strata here.
Ask yourself, what force could have possibly have removed them and cut the steps and vertical cliffs? I would have to say the only viable explanation is the worldwide global flood, which removed those layers the last time they ran off, after the mountains arose and the valley sank down.
The last time those waters rushed off the continents, they eroded that mile of strata in the Grand Staircase. And here we stand in front of some of the most awesome proof of the truth and reliability and authority of God's word.
One thing is for certain, on every creation tour with Russ Miller, you will discover that evolution is a faith, but the facts have failed. But biblical Christianity is a faith that fits the facts.
Hey, Ben, so that was a nice introductory video. So welcome, Russ. We're glad, again, to have you with us here tonight. And I thought that maybe we could start by asking, I could ask you a couple of questions.
So I wanted to ask you, why is it that you
Absolutely.
Why is it that you refer to the global flood as the launch pin of the war of worldviews?
Now, I sent you that question, and there was a typo in it. It says, actually, I call it the linchpin, the linchpin. So that was my fault. I also should mention, because we live where we live, this comes in by a satellite link.
So by the time Terry says something and I hear it, or I say something and Terry hears it, there's a good two-second delay. So that might seem, that's the reason our timing's a little weird at times. But I've been in full-time creation ministry now for 21 years.
And starting out from day one until today, the biggest issue I run into is the age of the Earth. Millions of years of time is the foundation for Darwinism, naturalism, humanism, modern atheism, agnosticism.
All the compromise positions within the Christian church today are all based because of millions of years of time. And once you understand how the old Earth beliefs come about, you'll understand how it comes down to whether or not there was a global flood.
Let me talk about what I call the five pillars of old Earth beliefs. And then you'll see why the global flood is indeed the linchpin. In fact, in 2 Peter 3, 3 through 6, it is foretold that in the last day, scoffers would deny that the world that was being overflowed with water perished.
The Bible foretold 1 ,900 years ago that in the last day, scoffers would deny the global flood. So let me talk about the five pillars. The number one pillar of old Earth beliefs is the belief that there was never a global flood.
Everything else flows from that. Pillar number two is the geologic column or timescale. We've all seen that drawing of 12 primary layers with ages and names assigned to the layers. That is all based on the belief that there was never a global flood.
You see, a global flood would have laid down the Earth's crust, those stratified layers laid down by water that had been separated by grain size, weight, and density. Here we see a miner with a panty.
Scoops up some sediments and sloshes that pan back and forth, and the moving water stratifies out the sediments in his pan, gold being the heaviest sinks to the bottom. Well, on a global scale, the global flood eroded probably close to two miles of the Earth's crust.
The sediments were rolling around in those waters and getting separated by grain size, weight, and density, and then laid down in the layers we have today that make up the crust of the Earth. That's why we have these stratified layers, all shale, all sandstone, all mudstone.
The water stratified them out by, again, grain size, weight, and density. So the geologic column, pillar number two, is the drawing of the Earth's crust, those layers I'm talking about, based on the belief there was never a global flood and they formed slowly.
By the way, that puts death before Adam. We'll talk about that later on. Pillar number three of Old Earth beliefs is radiometric dating techniques, which must get a date that matches the man-made geologic column, which is based on the belief there was never a global flood.
The linchpin in the world world views. Pillars number four and five are dinosaurs and Grand Canyon. Dinosaurs, their millions of years ages assigned by which stratified layer they're found in, based on the geologic column, which is based on the belief there was never a global flood.
And Grand Canyon, which is again based on the belief it formed slowly over long ages of time, not quickly, as a result of the global flood. So I hope by hearing all that, anyone listening can understand why the global flood is the whole linchpin in the world world views.
If there was a global flood that covered all the high hills under the whole heaven, it would have laid down the Earth's crust, the stratified layers quickly in that year-long event, wiping out all of the Old Earth beliefs that are the foundation for Darwinism, naturalism, humanism, modern atheism, agnosticism, etc.
So the global flood is truly the linchpin in this war of world views.
Okay, great. And then Russ, can you tell us when and why you began leading tours to the Grand Canyon and the Grand Staircase?
Sure. It goes back to the year 2000 when we started our ministry. And we only live about an hour and a half from Grand Canyon. And so I was interested in the canyon, and I just happened to go there one day looking around, and I started realizing, wow, we could take Christians here, and Grand Canyon is one of those five pillars of secular Old Earth beliefs.
But I started looking at it, and I went to different points, and I thought we could bring groups here, and I could show them the original Creation Rock, where the first flood layers come in and lay right on top of the Creation Rock, literally where creation and judgment meet.
I could show them proof of the almost two miles of layers that have been removed from above today's canyon and picked up as you go north in what is geologically called the Grand Staircase. So I can talk about that in a bit too.
But we started doing, we had a Christian radio station put on our first trip with us. They had a really nice little jingle off an old Paul Simon tune, and it was get on the bus with Russ, and that's just kind of been something that people today even talk about.
But we started, I think our first rim tour was in 2004, and we, first year we did the one trip, then next year we did three, the next year we did six or seven. And I've been doing about 19 or 20 trips a year there with groups of about 50 people.
So I've been taking about 900 to 1 ,000 people a year to Grand Canyon. I also have led Christian based and creation based raft trips through the entire length of the canyon, more than a dozen such trips.
And I don't do the trips through the canyon anymore, but we have a rim and raft trip that is really quite spectacular. Charlie, who was on earlier, he was going to go on one of our trips this year. They were all sold out, and Charlie got on one, and then every single one was canceled because of the virus.
But we're rescheduling for next year, and we've got several going through May, June, and into July, and Charlie's going to be on one of those. That's going to be a lot of fun. But we started doing the trips because we could go to the secular bastions, one of the pillars of secular beliefs, and very quickly recapture it for the glory of God.
We've had atheists go on the trips, secular scientists that have become Christians afterwards. We had an entire Mormon family with us one trip that came up to me afterwards and said, Russ, I saw the truth of God's word today.
Where can we go to get baptized? And we just had a lot of really great reactions to the trips, and we've had river guides that have accepted Christ after going with us, and bus drivers, and God's just been really good to us on these trips.
I don't really have much in the way of promotion. Probably most of your listeners have never heard of me before. I'm the unknown creationist and the off-grid creationist, but God's given us really good information, and we share it where God opens doors.
Yeah, and I think we have a video.
To show about the Grand Canyon Tour, so I'm going to go ahead and play that one right now.
Super.
We're going to recapture Grand Canyon, one of the four pillars of Older Beliefs, for the glory of God, causing people to explode in their belief, and their faith, and their trust in the word of God. Word for word and cover to cover, as I like to say.
We look at the Grand Canyon through the correct biblical interpretation, which is of a relatively young creation judged by a global flood. I take people on the rim to where they can actually put their hands on original creation rock that was there at the end of day six when God called his creation very good, and I can explain that missing mile and a half of strata that's been removed from above the rim of the canyon.
Undeniable proof of the flood, which wipes out every Older Belief. These tours are important because 85 percent of Christian kids are now leaving the church by the age of 20. Half of Christians in the church today are trying to mix Older Beliefs of the death before Adam into God's word.
People are going to experience a deep understanding of how real science is a believer's best friend, and how real science fits with the uncompromised word of God. We've had atheists, secular scientists, entire families that were non-Christian become Christian after going on this tour.
So I invite folks to get on this tour, get on the bus with Russ, and have your eyes open to the truth and the authority of God's word.
I like that, that get on the bus with Russ. That's great. So I want to show everybody. I want to show everybody your website. It's creationministries .org. So I'm gonna, I have it open somewhere around here.
I had a whole plan that got a little bit thwarted. So I'm gonna do a new share, and we're gonna go to this one right here. Okay, so you guys can see his website, creationministries .org. Maybe, Robin, you want to type that into the chat so that people can keep that, creationministries .org.
And and this is the homepage here. When you go, he is, Russ has so many resources here. And Russ, you always say that people, if they buy your videos, they can make copies, right, and.
Distribute them. Right. We, our goal, of course, as a ministry is to get this information out and make a difference in people's lives. And I've never prevented, I've always encouraged people to get, for instance, our DVDs to make all the copies they want, give them away.
And then last December, because we have entire DVD sets, and people really don't know which is the one to make a copy of and give somebody. So last December, we put together a special DVD specifically for people to copy and give away based on First Peter and Give a Reason for the Hopes in Your Heart, we call it our Give a Reason DVD.
And it has the four live film teachings of ours in the very order I would present them to either a non-believer or a young Christian or a Christian who's struggling with these issues. So that's our Give a Reason DVD.
And it's specifically made for people to get and just make all the copies in the world you want and give away. Great. And then also people can use.
Your website to arrange a tour, right? So they can find the types of trips here. And then they.
Can arrange a tour with this link? Yes. Yes. And it's actually, I'm sorry, we just got tied up this week because our ministry is me and my wife. And we actually haven't gotten next year's listed on. We meant to list it by this program, but we'll have them listed by the end of next week.
But we have several room and raft and a couple of grand staircase tours set for next year already. And we're looking forward to that.
Okay. All right. So I'm gonna, I, we have a couple more questions that we can talk about. You know, we've heard from several of our speakers this summer, especially Mike Riddle talks a lot about no death before sin, no death before Adam, no death before sin.
So I know you wanted to touch on that a little bit. So go, you could go ahead and talk about that. I think that's another key.
Issue for folks to discuss. Within Christian circles, Terry, a lot of people don't see any reason to talk about the creation evolution age of the earth issues. I've spoken in many churches where literally the pastors have come up to me afterwards and said something to the effect of Russ.
I really didn't want to have you come here and speak, but people kept bugging me about having you come here. So finally I said, okay, we'll have a guy come and speak. But I really had no idea why we should waste time talking about creation evolution and age of the earth issues.
And you just showed me, this is the foundation of everything. And Terry, the reason a lot of pastors and a lot of Christians don't understand the issue is because we have so much compromise within Christian schools and colleges on the age of the earth that we can't stand up for the truth.
The age of the earth, you always hear, well, it doesn't matter if God used six days or six billion years or whatever. Well, first of all, besides God's word, because it does matter, is the fact that the old earth beliefs, the age of the earth in itself isn't the main issue.
The issue is that the old earth beliefs, picture us on a timeline. The Bible says in the beginning God created. Jesus Christ says man was made male and female since the beginning in Mark and in Matthew.
The biblical message, I call this the cause or creation, original sin, separation, and the cross, need for redemption. The biblical gospel message is that God created a perfect universe, but man's original sin, Adam's original sin that corrupted it, allowing death to enter while separating us from God, requiring our redemption through Jesus Christ.
The old earth beliefs, very subtle and very damaging, put death prior to Adam. Once you or a Christian school or college has compromised with old beliefs that put death before Adam, they can't teach that Adam's sin brought in death.
You see that? Once you put death before Adam, you can't teach Adam's sin brought in death, separating us from God, requiring our redemption. It's a foundational attack. It's a foundational issue. And the number one comment I hear when I speak in a church is people, including pastors, coming up to me and saying, when you explain the death before Adam issue, my jaw hit the floor.
And in fact, all of my messages now, the first eight minutes, I go through what I call the cost. I explain the creation, the original sin, the separation, the need for redemption. I explain how the layers formed during the flood, how Jesus said, Moses wrote of me, but if you believe not his writings, how will you believe my words?
And I show people how the old earth beliefs are based on a belief, the layers formed slowly with no global flood. They're full of dead things that puts death before Adam. That's the battle right there.
We have been losing the battle because of compromise within our ranks. We can't talk about it without getting somebody upset. So it's actually one of the things I focus on. My book, The Cost, covers top 10 old earth beliefs, top 10 evil fruit of old earth beliefs, number one being Darwinism.
So I cover the top 10 Darwinian beliefs. And it's very easy to read and understand. It's written in the same method that I talk, just down to earth and easy as I can make things to understand for folks.
And actually, one of the larger Christian schools in the Southwest is working with me and the book, The Cost, to develop an in-school and also an online creation evolution course. It'll be based on my book, The Cost.
And so we're working on that right now, and it's to launch in a few months. So we're excited about that. But that is the key issue, whether there was a global flood, the linchpin, because without a flood, the old earth beliefs put death before Adam.
So I hope some people heard that. If they've heard that for the first time, hopefully it's opened some eyes.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably one of the biggest challenges to the old earth thinking. And that's great news about the curriculum. That's exciting that that's going to happen. So Russ, tell us where you're living now and how you became the off-grid creationist.
Well, my wife and I live in a nice chalet cabin in northern Arizona. It is actually in an old extinct volcanic crater. It's called Stoneman Lake. And actually, geologists can't tell us if it's an extinct volcanic crater or a sinkhole.
So we go with extinct volcanic crater. Sounds a lot better. Nobody wants to say, hey, I live in a sinkhole. But we're surrounded by, we're at about 6 ,800 foot elevation. And we are off-grid. The electricity we have is we have a really nice solar system with 24 deep cell batteries, a backup generator.
We have a private well company here that supplies water. And we just love it here. We've been having a little bit of trouble here in the last three or four days with elk. We have a fenced acre with a five-foot fence around it with also about six inches above that a strand of barbed wire around that.
And we planted four apple trees four years ago. And this year was the first year they really produced apples. And three nights ago, some bull elk jumped over our five-foot tall fence and ate half of the trees.
So I thought, it looked to me like they had jumped over our gate, which is only about four feet tall. So I parked my pickup truck across the gate the night before last, thinking that would solve the issue.
Then they jumped over the taller fence and really did some damage. So last night, I parked our jeep in one corner where they've been jumping over and also blocked the gate, put out some solar lights and some motion lights.
And just before going to bed last night, I went out on the front deck with a spotlight and just looked around. And sure enough, there are eight bull elk standing just right across the road from our house, just waiting to get in and finish off what we have left of our trees.
And it took me quite a while, but I was able to get them to convince them to move on. They never, I thought they'd come back during the night. I got up about four in the morning and went out looked around.
They hadn't come back. So last night, we won the battle last night. So we'll see how things go tonight. It's an interesting place to live.
It sure does sound like it. My mom complains about gophers. I can't imagine having to deal with the elk. So, okay, so we have gophers too. Now you've been making these off-grid creationist videos and I've really been enjoying watching them.
They're just short videos. So I, you know, you and I picked out a couple that we could share. So I'm going to go ahead and share the first one. And people can find these on YouTube or on Facebook, right?
Correct.
Hi, Russ Miller, off-grid creationist here. I was watching some elk move up the side of the hill just behind our place here in our volcanic crater in Northern Arizona. Oh, we have all kinds of great wildlife we get to enjoy here.
Elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, all sorts of mammals, all sorts of carnivores, all sorts of raptors and birds. It's a great place to live. We enjoy it, but my friends, that's not what I want to talk about.
I want to talk about non-existent animals, make-believe animals. We have real animals here. We can watch them, observe them, test study them if we want scientifically. We have lots of real animals. But if you look in a biology book today, you'll find all sorts of never-having-existed animals and really nice colorful drawings.
One is the whale evolution series where they show a land creature that supposedly evolves with really nice drawings, by the way, into a whale over the, of course, magic ingredient, which is millions of years of time.
But these animals never existed. This is a Darwinian macro-evolutionary fairy tale or fantasy. You know, a real animal, a real mammal, let's say an elk, it does not have the genetic information to form a whale's flipper, the blowhole of a whale.
And real science, a believer's best friend, knows of no way for nature to add that kind of new and beneficial genetic information to a gene pool. If you've been fooled by macro-evolution, realize, look in the textbooks and you'll find that their proofs for Darwinian change are almost always drawings.
There's an old saying that goes like this, Darwinists are experts at drawing things that never existed to support their theory that never took place. The fact of the matter is, if you took away their box of crayons, they'd be left with nothing.
And my friends, that's what I.
Wanted to talk about. Hi, I'm the off-grid creation. Okay, so I really, I like your humor that you weave in. It's a serious topic, really, because, you know, people's lives are at stake. But it's, you bring in an element of, of interesting humor.
That's, that's one way to put it.
So, and I like the recurring theme, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. And then that's what I wanted to talk about. So let's go ahead and show one more of these. This is the snow sleds, snow sleds and bananas.
Hi, Russ Miller, off-grid creationist here. And I'm just summarizing our, our snow sled. It's a pretty handy piece of equipment to have in the wintertime when you live off-grid in snow country. We found that out our first winter here.
The first snow was predicted to be three inches deep. Well, we woke up the next morning, it was actually three feet deep. We had all our vehicles parked here at the cabin and they don't plow out this way.
They plow across the top road around the canyon and actually down to the bottom of the main road, which is three quarters of a mile from here. But we had three feet of snow on the road between us and where they plowed.
So we actually didn't couldn't get out for about 12 days, which was fine. We just hung out and enjoyed the cabin and cabin life for a while because, well, we didn't have much other choice. But right now I winterize it by putting gas, fresh gas, about a gallon every two, three months with stabilizer in it.
Because unless you really like rebuilding carburetors, which I do not, you need to keep fresh gas in there. And I come out and I run it for about five, 10 minutes once a month as well. But that's not what I wanted to talk about.
Darwinists claim that similar biochemistry is proof of goo to the zoo to you evolution. I say that we all have the same evidence and similar biochemistry is much better supporting evidence that we all have the same similar designer.
Take, for example, your your biochemistry is over 90 percent the same as that from a mouse. Your biochemistry is more than 70 percent the same as that from some worms. In fact, your biochemistry is 50 percent the same as that from a banana.
Did you evolve from a banana? Of course not. Now, last time I spoke at a college, I asked that same question. 500 students raised their hand and they were serious because they've been taught we've all evolved from a common ancestor, which would mean you're related to bananas.
I got to tell you, I got home that night and I got online, looked at my family tree. There wasn't a banana in the whole bunch. And if you didn't find that very appealing, I don't find goo to the zoo evolution very appealing as well.
My thought is similarities are proof of a similar biblical designer and you can put your trust in the word of God word for word and cover to cover. And that's what I wanted to talk about.
Okay, so there's a couple of of your off-grid creation creationist videos and we'll just show people that you have your channel here. Okay, so they can, people can follow you here on YouTube, the off-grid creationist and find your videos there.
And also you are on Facebook. Facebook, you have your page off-grid creationist Russ Miller and people can follow you there and like your videos and share your videos. And then also some of the videos that we've been playing tonight have come from Vimeo because you have a page over there also on Vimeo.
So those are three ways that people will be able to find you. YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo. So, okay, so next up, let's, oh, well that brings us to our main talk for tonight about real science, which is a believer's best friend.
And we're going to play the second part of one of your big talks on science versus Darwinism in textbooks. But before we get it started, it's about a 28-minute video that we're going to play. We're playing part two.
So before we, we do that, if you could kind of summarize the first half and then tell us how this, what the impact this talk has had.
Okay, Terri, we, this particular message and I've made different versions of it. Some, some are called science versus Darwinism in the textbooks. Some are called the top 10 Darwinian lies. And what I do is I start out by going through the scientific issues with Darwinism, from putting death before Adam to getting life started, which is a massive problem for Darwinism.
In fact, it's so big today, Darwinists will get mad at you if you even connect the start, the origin of life with Darwinism. And the reason they get mad is there's no scientific way for non-living matter to produce living matter.
They can't get life started. So Darwin's book, The Origin of Species, now they claim it has nothing to do with the origin of the species because they can't get any life started from non-life. Never has this been observed, never in a lab of scientists working with, on the research of millions of other scientists, research before them with billions of dollars of lab equipment and computers and salaries thrown in with world fame and billions of dollars resting.
If they could get non-life to produce life, they can't do it. Life only comes from life. One Harvard Nobel Prize winner, I won't mention his name, about two years ago came out and announced that he had proven that RNA could self-replicate itself, opening the door for life to possibly have started on its own.
And then about six months later, he had to retract those claims and admit that his religious beliefs in Darwinian evolutionism and atheism led him to make the statement it was totally a fraud. But in real science, a believer's best friend, life only comes from life.
So I go through this. I go through the fact that 10 times in the book of Genesis, we're told that kinds will bring forth after their kind. 10 times in Genesis. Well, today in the year 2020, the only thing that real science finds is that one kind will only produce its own kind.
People will only produce people. Dogs only produce dogs. Pine trees only produce pine trees, et cetera. One kind will only produce after its kind. So I talk about that and explain Darwinian macroevolution.
In fact, if you ask me, Russ, do you believe in evolution, I would say, yes, I believe in biblically correct microevolution, which is better called microadaptations or transitions. They're just kinds bringing forth after their kind, and changes within the kind are caused by the sorting or the loss of the parent starting genetic information.
So changes, even microchanges like the Bible says will happen, are caused basically by the loss of genetic information as gene pools get weaker and weaker. It's called gene depletion. Darwinian macroevolution needs nature adding massive amounts of new and beneficial genetic information to change, let's say, a fish into an amphibian with all of the skeletal and muscular and central nervous system changes.
And real science, a believer's best friend, knows of no way for nature to add any such information. Gene depletion is what breeders use in breeding. If they want a pure bred, they don't breed in new information, they breed out gene depletion, what they don't want.
They keep matching pairs, offspring together, and they're losing gene depletion, what they don't want, till they get the kind that they want. But dogs only produce dogs no matter how much information you lose.
So I explain all of this and show how Darwinism is scientifically impossible during the first half. I show how to scientifically destroy Darwinism in four seconds flat during the first half of that talk, and that's simply this.
Start your watch. Gene depletion plus natural selection makes Darwinism impossible. Stop your watch. As things are losing information, eventually they get removed by natural selection, otherwise everything would go extinct due to the loss of information.
So I explain how Darwinism is a scientific impossibility, how they can't get life started, and then we get into part B and I start going through some of the frauds in the textbooks that everybody's been shown, everybody's been taught, and we just take them apart one at a time.
And it's not hard to do once you see it. If you believe in Darwinism, you're gonna walk away with a whole different mindset. We had one biology teacher who came to an event I gave at a college a few years ago, and it actually came on one of my Grand Canyon tours almost three years later.
And she walked up to me on the tour and she said, Russ, this is gonna shock you, but I was at Northern Arizona University when you shared your science and Darwinism there. It was two weeks before I graduated with a degree in biology, and I'd been raised in a Christian home, but I'd lost my faith within the first week of college because there are all any Christians in here I'm picking on them.
And she hadn't been to church in about five years when she came to see my talk two weeks before she graduated in biology. She told me on the hike three years later, I was so mad at you for coming on our campus and challenging what we've been taught, and that I hated your guts.
And she took a job as a high school biology teacher for two years, and her church had me, the church I should say she was raised in, her parents' church, had me speak on a Sunday morning about two years later.
And she said when she heard that I was speaking, she wanted to throw up, and she went to church for the first time in like seven years. As she put it, to hear what nonsense you're going to spew out of your mouth.
And she said halfway, so that was her attitude coming in, halfway through the service she said, this guy is telling the truth, gave her life back to Christ that day. She went in the next day and told the school she would never again teach the fairy tale of Darwinian evolution.
They told her she'd have to resign. She did. She ended up by getting a job teaching science in a Christian school. And there's quite a bit more to the story. It's a little fairy tale story, but I'll leave it right there.
But this has a big impact on youth and college kids. I don't think I've ever given it to a youth group that didn't have kids come up to me afterwards and say how it had saved their faith. So this is part B.
It gets in, we get more through the technical things in the first half. Then we start getting into what they show in the textbooks,.
And they actually can be kind of fun to go through those. Yeah, so a serious topic that affects lives, but also we can have some fun with it and make it interesting. So okay, so we're going to show this video.
It's about 28 minutes long. If you guys have questions during it, I noticed that you guys have been using the chat box already, so you can ask some questions. We'll have a little bit of time afterward for a short Q &A, and then we'll go.
So let's go ahead and get started on that.
So let's look at some of the famous frauds in the textbooks, and I imagine every one of you have seen these when you were in school. This is Ernst Haeckel. He read Darwin's book 10 years after it came out in 1869, and he had the same problem Darwinists have today.
He couldn't find any evidence it happened. Well, so he did what Darwinists have become famous for. He invented some evidence, and he came up with the biogenetic law, also called the theory of recapitulation.
Kids, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. How is a kid supposed to stand up and argue with that, right? What that means is you go through your evolutionary stages while you're in your mother's womb. Now, I'm going to show you his drawings.
They go from left to right across the top. These are his drawings, and right below are the actual photos, but he's got these things labeled humans, fish, chicken, turtle, etc., right? It was proven in the 1870s what Haeckel had done was he took a human in the embryonic stage and made a drawing of it, and then he made copies of that drawing and labeled them fish, salamander, turtle, etc., and came up with the theory of recapitulation.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny that you go through your evolutionary stages in your mother's womb. Proven fraud in the 1870s and still taught in colleges today. Here's an NAU textbook. I like to use their textbooks because they pick on me.
I might as well pick on them, I figure. It's kind of, you know, fair that way, but this is their textbook. It tells students whether they develop into fish, amphibians, or humans, vertebrate embryos all start out very similar with gill slits and a long tail.
I'm not there in those classrooms. Kids are being taught this as a fact. I'm surprised that only 85 percent of Christian kids are leaving the church. What's wrong with those other 15 percent? Aren't they paying attention to what they're being taught?
Look at this. My friends, you never have gills. You never have gill slits. You have foals in the skin that later develop into organs in the throat and neck area. They're not gill pouches or gill slits.
The NAU book goes on. In fact, let me say this. You never have a long tail. One of the first things that develops in a human embryo is the backbone. And we named the end of the backbone the tailbone. It's not because there was ever a tail there.
It's just what we called it. And now the NAU book goes on. Why would humans, think logically students, why would humans have embryos with gill slits and a tail unless their ancestors also once had these features?
And kids' faith is destroyed. I don't know about you. I get mad about it. Mad enough I'll go to NAU or ASU and I'll put this on in one of their auditoriums. You never had slits or gills. Those are foals in the skin that later develop into organs in your throat and neck area.
We need to get this information to people. Have you ever heard that you're 98 percent the same? Your biochemistry is a chimpanzee? Proving you're close relative to the chimp? Well, actually, real science, a believer's best friend, has this down to about 90 percent.
In fact, this one has chimp and human Y chromosomes as much as a 30 percent difference. A 30 percent difference. Talk about complexity. You're made up of about 80 trillion cells. And each of your cells' DNA contain three billion base pairs of genetic information.
Talk about complexity. A 30 percent difference would require 925 million beneficial information-adding mutations to take place just to change a chimp into a human. And Darwinists can't show you a viable one between bacteria cells and everything in the world.
They'll stand up to scrutiny. If genetic similarity proves our evolutionary paths, they should teach kids we evolved from worms. You're 75 percent the same. Your biochemistry is some worms. Like I said last night, you're 50 percent the same as a banana.
No jokes today. Okay. Can I even ask, did anyone evolve from a banana? Did anyone evolve from a banana? Not even one. Okay. Usually there's somebody. Okay, one. One person. Have you ever heard that bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics or insects becoming resistant to insecticides as proof they're evolving bigger and better?
This has nothing to do with the evolution of new kinds with new and beneficial genetic information. Let's say I had a thousand cockroaches right here on the floor, and they were running right toward the front row.
But I sprayed insecticide on them and killed 998, but two survived. Did those two instantaneously evolve an immune system? No, they already had a gene in their gene pool that allowed them to survive. Now the other 998 either didn't have it or it was switched off and they died.
The two evolved nothing. The information was already there. Now when they have offspring, their offspring inherit that gene and the entire population is immune to the poison. They evolved nothing. So why do Darwinists use this as one of their big proofs?
Because they've got nothing. They don't have any real evidence. You see, gene depletion plus natural selection makes Darwinism a scientific impossibility. Yet this textbook says, hey kids, we have proof of evolution from the fossil record.
Well, if Darwinism were true and the straddle layers formed slowly over never seen millions of years of time, they should be full of evidence if it really happened. They show these evolutionary trees of life and at the bottom they have the word typed in invertebrate ancestor.
Well, why don't they show what it was? They wouldn't have any idea what it was. And then someone took a box of crayons and they drew nice colorful lines from the word invertebrate ancestor to everything on earth.
And that's supposed to prove everything evolved from the word invertebrate ancestor. Does anyone thinking about it, does anyone actually see any proof of Darwinism there? No. For each one of those lines to be scientific, they'd have to be made up of millions of transitional fossils as one kind slowly changed into the other.
Here we are 150 plus years after Darwin's book came out and they don't have a single viable missing link of any sort that'll hold up to scientific scrutiny. They only have about four or five they even try to throw out there and fool people with.
You know, thousands of creatures are found entombed in amber and we're told that this amber is up to 250 million years old. Well, things are supposed to evolve over time, right? All the creatures found trapped in amber look just like the living ones today.
There's no evidence of Darwinism in the fossil record.
We can trace the evolution through the fossil record. Would you be specific? Just give me one. Um, between six and seven million years ago. Hundreds of thousands to millions of years?
So it's quite a long time. Yes. Millions of years. Yes. So it can't be observed. Evolution is.
Is not testable over time. This book says, well, Archaeopteryx is the missing link between reptiles and birds. This was found two years after Darwin's book came out. Well, they said, well, Archaeopteryx was about the size of a pigeon.
It had claws on its wing proving it's a reptile becoming a bird. Well, the hoidson is found in South America alive today. He's about the size of a pigeon and has claws on his wings. No one's saying he's a missing link of any sort.
Actually, 20, almost 30 years ago, they found, think about this, they found modern bird fossils below the layer that had Archaeopteryx in it. Now they say that shows their evolutionary path as the layers form slowly.
Well, if modern birds are there before Archaeopteryx, he couldn't be much of a missing link, could he? And here's a real dagger through this. Reptile DNA doesn't have the genetic information to produce feathers, which are very complex structures.
And real science, a believer's best friend, knows of no way for nature to add that kind of genetic information to a gene pool. In other words, it doesn't add up. In fact, now they're starting to say, well, you know, Archaeopteryx, he may not have been a missing link.
Maybe he was a feathered dinosaur. He was just a bird. He was a perching bird. An odd bird, but a bird. Have you ever seen the whale evolution series or the camel evolution series, et cetera? They're all pretty much the same.
Here's the whale series. It shows this extinct land mammal. And then Ambulocetus is the work of art. He's supposed to be the missing link. Here are the bones found. The white bones are found in a different strata layer in a different location.
They weren't in the same layers or locations, but they put them together and they come up with about 25 of a skeleton. And they say that's the missing link, Ambulocetus. He had no pelvic girdle. They don't know if he ran, swam, flew, or what, but that's the missing link.
And then Bacillus aureus is actually 10 times that size. But he wouldn't fit the propaganda if they drew him to size, would he? This book says that the lobe fin type fish are the missing link between fish and amphibians.
And the story goes the lobe fin couldn't swim, so he walked around on the bottom of the ocean on those lobe fins. I guess one day he got bored, so he climbed out on land and became an amphibian. It's a nice story, but the amphibian has feet, shoulders, elbows, claws, skeletal system, a muscular system, a central nervous system, and a different neck system.
Science knows there's no way for nature to add any new and beneficial genetic information, much less the millions of pieces this would have required. And guess what? The lobe fin fish, which they thought was extinct for 300 plus million years, is found alive today.
He doesn't walk around on the bottom of the ocean floor. He's a very good swimmer. And the fossilized version that they say is 300 million years old looks just like the living one, with no evolutionary change.
I always say there's two ways to look at the evidence, so I say either that fish refutes the old earth dating methods in Darwinism, or maybe that scuba diver is 325 million years old. You're going to have to make your own choice as to what you want to believe, because there are two ways to look at all evidence.
So this appropriately was announced on April Fool's Day in 2006, but this is now one of the messiahs of Darwinism, Totalic Rosea. And here's when they found it and announced it. Think about what this says.
It's still a fish, but exhibiting changes that anticipate the beginning of digits, wrists, elbows, and shoulders. Let me reread that. Think about this. It's exhibiting changes that don't even show the beginning, that anticipate some random chance mutation in the future that'll lead to the beginning of wrists, shoulders, elbows.
How do you have random chance mutations that anticipate, and this is now one of their messiahs, Tiktaalik. Think about this. Tiktaalik and the fossilized lobefin fish that we find today have bones exactly like the living lobefin fish.
From the fossilized lobefin fish to the living lobefin fish, there's no change in them. So why would we think Tiktaalik's turned into wrists, elbows, shoulders, etc.? And this is one of their messiahs today.
This NAU book, and you know, NAU books are typical of all colleges. Don't think it's NAU. A lot of high schools as well. This NAU book says, look, all these creatures have two bones in the forelimb from a human arm, two bones in the forelimb, the wing of a bat, the foreleg of a horse or dog or a cat.
There's two bones in the forelimb, and it says, proof they've all derived from a common ancestor. And what do they say the common ancestor that we all evolved from is? The lobefin fish. Can you believe that?
And there's not a shred of change in the lobefin fish fossils found. My friends, any argument of similarity, whether it be similar bone structure, similar biochemistry, is really a better argument that we have the same designer.
Similarities are proof you have the same loving biblical creator. I drive a Ford pickup truck. My next door neighbor has a Ford van, and their dashboards are identical. It's not because they evolved from a skateboard.
It's because they have the same designer, right? Absolutely. Similarities are proof of a similar designer. So in case you think it's just me saying that they've got no evidence, actually, back in about 1930, Richard Goldschmidt came up with the hopeful monster theory to explain why they have no evidence.
And he said, well, maybe reptiles laid eggs and birds popped out, leaving no evidence behind. Well, most people were laughing at the hopeful monster theory. So 50 years later, around 1980, world famous evolutionists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Gould of Harvard changed hopeful monster just slightly, but they came up with, they gave it a better sounding name, punctuated equilibrium.
This is now a key concept for Darwinian evolutionism. If a kid asks a professor, well, why is there no evidence in the fossil record? He's going to say punctuated equilibrium. Don't you know anything?
But what that means, by the way, is evolution didn't just happen overnight, but it happened in a short spurt of time, and then there's a long period with no change. They call it stasis. And then a period of fast evolution in a long period with no change.
So no evidence was captured in the fossil record. It's not just me saying they've got no evidence. They've got a theory to explain why they've got what? No evidence. They've got no evidence. I thought science was knowledge derived from the study of the evidence.
Darwinism isn't science, and neither is millions of years beliefs. They're both beliefs. You might be thinking, oh, come on, Russ, what about the ape, man? I mean, we've all been showed the hominids, the closest link between ape and man, right?
Let's take a look at some of the famous hominids. Here's a modern textbook showing humans related to jellyfish and worms connected by a nice red line. What more could you want than a nice red line? And, you know, I can sit here, and when we're just talking about this, it starts to look kind of silly, doesn't it?
But if you're a student in school, and you've gone home and read the book, and you sit in class, and you're told, look, this is the evolution proof, you're not going to be thinking this is silly. You're going to most likely accept it, and you're going to be one of those 85 percent that leave the church by the age of 20.
Piltdown Man was the messiah of evolution from about 1912 to the mid -1950s for 45 years. This was actually, this Piltdown Man was probably the number one reason we eventually kicked creation and prayer out of our schools and started teaching our future citizens they evolved without God, because it changed so many people's thinking over that 45-year period.
And then, finally, in about 1955, it was discovered these jokers had taken the skull cap of a human, the jawbone from an orangutan, felled them down to fit together, acid treated both sides, and buried them in a rock quarry, in Piltdown, England.
Came along two years later, dug up Piltdown Man, and spent the rest of their lives as world-renowned evolutionists, speaking wherever they wanted to speak, and misled not millions, billions of people into rejecting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, based on a total fraud.
Nebraska Man was used as proof for Darwinism. All they found in Nebraska Man back in the 1920s was a piece of a broken tooth, but they got pretty creative. From the broken tooth, they reconstructed Nebraska Man, his family, even the tools they would have worked with, from a piece of a broken tooth.
It was later proven that tooth came from an extinct peccary, extinct pig. There's a real Nebraska Man right there. So in 1932, they found a crushed lower jawbone. It was crushed in about 40 pieces. It had all apes' teeth, but they reconstructed those 40 pieces, and lo and behold, it came out in the shape of a human jawbone with all apes' teeth, and thus was born Ramipithecus, the missing link.
And into textbooks again for 45 years went Ramipithecus, teaching kids they evolved without God, and then in 1977, it was proven that was actually the jawbone from an orangutan. After misleading hundreds of millions of people into rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, so a kid studying to be a dentist hands me his advanced biology book from dental school, and he says, hey Russ, look through my book, pick out some frauds.
Hey, we could be here for a week going through the frauds. When you leave here today, I'm not going to cover every fraud. There's too many. You're going to have to be able to stand on your own and say, if this goes against the Word of God, I'm putting my faith in the Word of God.
You can't put your faith in these things. It's sad, but it's just the way it is. Put your faith in the Word of God. So, I'm just flipping through the book while he's talking to me, and there's the drawing of Ramipithecus' teeth.
So, that caught my eye because it was proven to be an orangutan 35 plus years ago. Well, now they put it back into the modern advanced biology books with the new name. It's called Civipithecus, and it says this genus now includes the animal formerly known as Ramipithecus.
That's proven to be an orangutan 35 years ago, and now he's branched off into ancestors. Anyways, the author of the book somehow, someone told on me for pointing this out, and so they called me, and they were going to sue me.
I said, what are you going to sue me for? You're making fun of me. I'm not making fun of you. I'm just showing people what you put in your book. I said, take it out of the book. I won't talk about it anymore.
Anyways, she hasn't sued me yet. That was two years ago. So, now this has been the messiah for evolution since about 1974. This is Lucy, and these were the bones originally found with Lucy, about 30 percent of a skeleton, and they said, look, we know it's an ape becoming human because the femur, the thigh bone angles to the knee, and human thigh bones angle to the knee.
They said that proves it's an ape becoming human. They forgot to mention that almost all tree-dwelling apes have angled femurs. They said, but the knee joint is, think about this, slightly bigger than a normal ape's knee.
My friends, if you took every knee joint in this room, they'd be different sizes. There's no proof of evolution there. They also forgot to point out that the knee joint in question was found over a mile away and 230 feet deeper in the strata.
Yeah, if that was Lucy's knee, I want to see the airplane that hit that monkey, because he must have been going about 700 miles an hour right through the treetops, right? Now, other such fossils have been found since.
Australopithecus afarensis is a scientific name. They have curved toes and fingers for grabbing on a tree lens. This from 30 years ago. Anatomists have concluded these creatures are not a link between ape and man and did not walk upright like a human.
Yet, here's a new textbook showing Lucy walking perfectly upright like a human, talking on a cell phone. I don't get it.
The fossils they found of all the cavemen, the homosapien dinosaurs, it shows clear evidence.
So Tomei man is one of the new messiahs now. It's in the new books. They say it's older than any hominid ever found before. You notice how it's always got to be the oldest or the youngest to get grant money.
Yeah. Well, anyways, when they actually found this in 2002, Nature Magazine said this is just an ape. When they found it in 2002, Science News reported that the teeth are apes. It didn't walk on two legs.
They knew it was an ape when they found it. They wait 10 years and put it in the textbooks as the new missing link, the closest link between ape and man. This Yale professor of anthropology said that human evolution theories reveal more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about.
If you want to believe you evolved from a wet rock, that is your belief. But stop teaching in our schools as if it were science. You know, think about it logically with millions of individual apes and monkeys having lived and died over the last 500 years alone.
Why does finding a monkey bone prove evolution? Doesn't it just prove that when monkeys die, they leave their bones behind? Dwayne Gish defined Darwinism as a sustenance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links unseen.
Yeah, here's a new textbook showing kids, humans related all sorts of apes and primates by nice colorful lines. Like the Tarsier, we're related to the Tarsier. Grandma, what big eyes you've got. The better to see you with.
Malcolm Margaret stated the theory of evolution will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an apotheosis could have been accepted.
But my friends, it's being accepted because it's being taught in our secular schools as if it were science. And it's not science, it's a religious belief. Professing themselves to be wise, they've been fooled.
And they change the uncorruptible God, which I think today is his creation, into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. And again, these verses are talking about idolatry.
And what we're being told is the highest form of idolatry is to think you evolve, you're your own God. That was the original sin in the Garden of Eden, right? Eat of the tree, your eyes will be open, you'll be like God.
Nothing ever changes. But a review of Darwinism versus actual observable empirical science will show us that the law of biogenesis has never been overcome. Darwinism couldn't have started. Mathematical probability says it never happened.
The fossil record shows no missing links that'll hold up to true scientific scrutiny. We don't have any half this, half that flopping around on earth today, do we? No. And my friends, it's not because of hopeful monsters.
And it's not because of punctuated equilibrium. And it's not because the evidence got lost in the iffy stuff. It's because gene depletion plus natural selection makes Darwinism a scientific impossibility.
And real science is a believer's true friend. Real science. But billions of years in Darwinism is simply humanistic indoctrination which has undermined scientific research, scientific education, and the saving faith of billions of people around the globe.
And 85 of our kids are leaving the church by the age of 20 today.
We need to get this information to them. You believe in evolution? Yes. Are you a strong believer? Yes. Are you a strong believer? Yep. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. The calling of this ministry.
Is to teach about creation, evolution, and age of the earth issues to expose false anti-biblical teachings, thusly providing a reason for the hope that's in the heart of every true believer and every true seeker.
We do this for our teachings, like the age of the earth issues, Noah's Ark, and dinosaurs, one of our best Sunday service messages. In fact, I'm giving that, I believe, tomorrow morning. If you have any friends in Camp Verde, I'll be giving service messages at Calvary Chapel, Camp Verde, tomorrow morning.
Ask them to come and see the information. Sight opening. We do this for our DVDs. We've got our singles. Our singles have two or three teachings on each one. They're all in our DVD sets, and I do not copyright my DVDs because the only way to get this out there is to get them and make copies and give away.
I spoke in La Grande, Oregon, a year and a half ago, and one woman got our DVD set, went out and bought a tower copier, and she has given away 250 plus complete sets of our DVDs. It's even getting into the public school systems now.
Ten different churches there have had us come up and speak because this information is really starting to impact the whole area. You guys can do the same thing. If you want, if you're looking for a ministry, you're looking for a way to serve God, easiest thing to do, get some of these DVDs.
Here, watch this, or watch that. In the age of the earth, watch that. Darwinism, watch this. You can do it. We can make a difference. Check out our kids' coloring books on America's Christian Heritage and Noah's Ark and Dinosaurs.
It spells out the biblical foundations. You know, on that ark, God gave us one narrow plank way that led through one door, his plan of salvation. Today, he's given us one narrow pathway that leads through one door, and it's not my plan, and it's not your plan or that person's plan.
It's God's plan. That door is Jesus Christ. In my new book, it's about time. Because, my friends, by learning real science, we can chop down the thorn bush of false science known as billions of years leading to Darwinian process.
Then the soil is ready for the planting of the seed, God's word. Plow up the soil, plant the seed. Let's reap a bountiful harvest and save souls for the glory of our Lord and creator, Jesus Christ. Let me end with a word.
Of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this. Okay, so there's the video that we wanted to share tonight, and I'm going to try to, there we go. Okay, all right. So, I don't see any questions so far in the chat.
Does anybody have any questions that they wanted to ask Russ about.
The video? I do. Not about the video, but about his life, how he became a creationist from a progressive, from a theistic evolutionist. I want to know how he, what turned him?
That's a really good question. I had been raised in a Christian home and went off to college and somewhat drifted away. I always thought I was a Christian, but I came out a week in my belief, as a lot of young Christians do today.
I got married to a strong Christian woman and started going back to church at the age of 27. And within a couple of years, I felt God calling me back, and I realized this is important, an important part of my life, and started becoming more and more involved in the church.
However, at the time, in fact, I became a church moderator and then a church trustee. I had my own nationwide business. I had developed also, my wife and I also built houses on the side up in Flagstaff, Arizona, and we were doing quite well.
And at the age of 40, now a trustee in my church, but it's what you would call a theistic evolutionist. That's a individual who believes Jesus used millions of years of death and suffering to slowly create us, revolve us, denying the global flood and the biblical creation.
And about that time, at about the age, actually probably at the age of 30, videos, back in those days, there were videos from a couple different creation speakers, and I watched those, and God just started lighting a fire under me.
I have 174 college credits, I'm really more of a general manager. I took your basic, you know, biology, geology, etc. But most of my college background was in businesses, and we were doing quite well.
My actual plan was to retire at the age of 49, spend the rest of my life goofing off and playing golf and hunting Cape Buffalo and Zimbabwe and the important things in life. And then at the age of 40, I was about to watch some more information, and God had just lit such a fire under me.
I was studying this information for about four years, just day in and day out. And I was about to watch a video, I'd read about 80 books on the subject, and it was God, it's just like God tapped me on the shoulder and said, Rush, you know this as well as anybody, I want you to spend the rest of your life sharing this information with others, not sitting around making money.
And I told my wife, I think God's wanting me to walk away from my business and go into a ministry and get this information out. And my wife said, If you really feel that's what God wants you to do, that's what we should do.
And we went cold turkey into the ministry. I gave my business to a fella who had worked for me for 13 years, and I went cold turkey into the ministry. And I've got to admit, I thought, wow, once pastors see this information, the phone's going to be ringing off the hook non-stop.
But I didn't realize how much damage older beliefs had done. And because of that, our information gets blocked most of the time. It's very difficult to get this out, because I do make a stand on the age of the earth and the death before Adam issues.
And people always say, Russ, if you just compromise that, we'll have you here and there. And I say, hey, if it was my book, I'd change it, but it's not my book. And the real science is on the side of what God's Word says.
So I got into this and actually gave our business way back in 2000. So we've been doing this full-time for 21 years now. It really makes no human sense that we're still doing this or that we're still surviving, but God takes great care of us.
I can absolutely take no credit for the fact we've been doing this this long. We don't send out emails, mass newsletters. We don't advertise. We just trust God will open doors if He wants us to go there.
And He's kept us very busy for the past 21 years. And I feel that once I saw this information, as a former theistic evolutionist, my faith skyrocketed. And for all my Christian brothers and sisters who are struggling with these issues and trying to figure out how does God fit millions of years or death and suffering into His Word and evolution, see some information from some creation speakers, myself, and there's several others, your faith will skyrocket when you see that you can actually believe and trust.
God's Word, word for word and cover to cover, as I like to say. Amen. Okay, sorry about that. Yeah, that's a great testimony. It's very encouraging to hear it, Russ. Did anybody else have a question? I'm not seeing any questions.
I guess tonight...
Well, I must have answered all the questions in the video.
I guess so. Well, we do have one more video to play, just a short one to show a little promo about speaking in churches, how you do that. So I'll go ahead and show that one right now. And then if nobody really has any other questions, then we'll go ahead and pray and wrap things up.
The mission of CESM is to confirm biblical truth and expose misinterpretations of God's creation in order to exalt Jesus Christ as Creator, Judge, and the redeeming Savior that He is. This information has a huge impact on youth, college students, and any adult who compromises God's Word or has refused to accept God's Word because of millions of years leading to Darwinian beliefs.
It's an important issue. It's a vital issue today. And I might add, it's an issue we can win. I get this information to people through our live presentations. I have 14 PowerPoint-driven presentations.
If this goes against the Word of God, I'm putting my faith in the Word of God. Grand Canyon and Grand Staircase tours, radio programs, and the five different books that I've written, including my newest book, The Cost.
Most Sundays, I'm speaking in a church somewhere, and we can give conferences and seminars in youth groups and camps as well. You can have me visit your church and give some of our messages. We have several Sunday service messages that are not only exciting, they get people involved and really enthused about the truth of God's complete and total Word.
We take a lot of the things that have been used to undermine people's faith and trust in God's Word, and we turn those around and show the people how God's Word actually fits with the world we live in, just like a hand in a glove.
We've had atheists, we've had secular scientists, we've had entire non-Christian families come to Christ. The end goal of CESM is to bring glory to Jesus Christ and our Father and His Word, and to let people realize that, hey, there's a lot of false information out there, but you can put your trust in the non-compromised Word of God, word for word and cover to cover, and you can spend eternity with our Lord and Savior Jesus in heaven by putting your faith in Him today, and you can do just that.
Russ, this is Robin, or Creation Fellowship, as my thing says. Two weeks ago,.
I went to Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, and there's not a lot of information from the.
Creation perspective for those two areas. Right. Of course, the secularists own the whole system, as you know. Our Grand Staircase Tour goes through the grand staircases in Bryce and Zion are two of the four areas we cover on our Grand Staircase Tours.
They are where the original event ended the removal of the two miles of sediments that have been removed from above Grand Canyon. If you're standing at Grand Canyon, you're actually up on top of the Kaibab upwarp.
The canyon is cut through the upwarp, not into the plain. It cuts through the upwarp. You're staying on the top, and about 65 miles north, you'll see a 2 ,000-foot-tall cliff. That's Vermilion Cliffs.
Our raft trip section goes through those cliffs, including around Horseshoe Bend, because when I land at Lee's Ferry, if you saw my talk at Lee's Ferry at the start of this program tonight, that's where we get off of the river.
But if you climb up on top of those 2 ,000 foot steps, the Vermilion Cliffs, and go about 45 miles north, you'll come to the 2 ,500-foot white and gray cliffs that Zion cuts through. If you climb up on top of those 2 ,500-foot cliffs, and go about 40 miles north, you get the 2 ,500-foot pink cliffs where you find Bryce.
So you got Bryce, Zion, Vermilion Cliffs. Those are the main steps of the Grand Staircase. And let's start up at the top at Bryce. You've got the pink formations that they call hoodoos, and the secular story is that over, of course, millions of years of time, it's always time, that's their magic ingredient, water gets into the cracks of the rocks, and freezes, and expands, and melts, and contracts.
And over time, that cracks the rocks, and they fall off to the ground, leaving the smooth hoodoos behind, which, the fact that the hoodoos are smooth might tell you that that doesn't really add up. They should be jagged and sharp if the rock was breaking off.
But one of the first things I'll show people in our on-the-rim talks at Bryce is, I'll say, look at the floor below the hoodoos, and when a rock breaks off, where does it go? It falls to the ground, right?
If you look at the hoodoos in those areas of Bryce, smooth as can be, there's virtually no rock debris laying on the ground. The reason for that is the area formed quickly. It's not really a canyon. They call it Bryce Canyon.
It's actually off the edge of a butte, a big mesa, and the hoodoos are off the edge, and water suddenly left the area and took everything with it, leaving the hoodoos behind. It's really what you call a large sapping structure.
If you ever have walked along the edge of a river and water gets under the edge and then goes out, and the sides just collapse straight down, and they'll leave these little horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters, mini amphitheaters, as it just collapses down.
And if you look at Bryce, it's actually a series of about three extremely large, like, three-quarter mile long amphitheaters where the water suddenly left and removed the debris, and that's the reason that you have very little debris on the ground at Bryce.
It formed quickly by a massive water event, an aqueous event, not slowly. So that 2 ,500 foot of straddle were removed from there south, and then the waters cut another 2 ,500 foot cliff and removed those layers south to the sea, leaving behind the white and gray cliffs that Zion cuts through.
So the Virgin River cuts down through those 2 ,500 foot cliffs, and when you go to Zion, they tell you that the little bitty Virgin River carved those canyons over, guess what, millions of years of time.
What they won't tell you at Zion is if you go a mile and a half south, a mile and a half south of there, those 2 ,500 foot cliffs are cut like a knife and gone all the way to the sea. So obviously, the little Virgin River didn't have much to do with any of that.
All that area formed quickly toward the end of the flood. The last time the flood waters ran off of what is now the southwestern portion of our continent of the United States, I should say, it eroded those two miles of layers, leaving behind the Grand Staircase, Bryce, Zion, Vermilion Cliffs.
And if you go far enough south, in fact, just above where I live here in Arizona, you've actually got the 2 ,000 foot tall Mogollon Rim that cuts east and west across Arizona. Officially, it's not part of the Grand Staircase, but it is a part of that same erosional event.
Down in Phoenix, over 11 ,000 feet of rock layers used to exist above that area that had been removed. And you pick those up north, as I said, with the Mogollon Rim, Vermilion Cliffs, the Zion area, and the Bryce area.
Those are the major steps. There's a couple smaller ones like the Chocolate Cliffs that I usually don't dwell on. So anyways, yeah, come out and go with us on one of our Grand Staircase trips. We have two scheduled for next year, 2021.
And it's a great trip. We do our one-day rim tour. We do our half-day raft trip. You can see a river guide's reaction to my talk on that raft trip. I think it's under our tours. You'll see a river guide's reaction.
Click on that. It's only 30 seconds long, but it's pretty amazing. And then we stay overnight in cabins on the North Rim of Grand Canyon. We eat in the Grand Canyon National Lodge. I do some talks right there on the North Rim.
The North Rim, if you've never been in the North Rim of Grand Canyon, that's the place to go. We like it so much better than even the South Rim. It's about a thousand feet higher in elevation. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Not very crowded, unlike the South Rim. And then we also spend two nights in Zion and one in Bryce. And in Zion, we have a free day where I lead a hike up. We call it an extreme hike up Angels Landing, if you're familiar with that.
The last half mile, you have to hang on to a thick cane. And that's a lot of fun for the, usually five or six people out of 50 might want to do that. And there's some other activities. So we have a lot of good fun on the trip.
But the key is we explain the entire area through a biblical view that fits just like a hand in a glove, because God's word is true, word for word and cover to cover. Awesome. Thank you so much.
It says Russ's network bandwidth is low. We had three other people trying to join us, Russ. One, Joseph, or Joe Adelson, I think it was, says, hi, he'd done a tour with you. But Zoom has been having a problem all day today, and they were not able to get in.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. But tell him I said hello.
I will. And of course, we are recording. So all of this will be on YouTube later. And there's a couple of comments here in the chat for you. Penelope says, thanks, Russ. I had a hard time believing in God because of what I learned in earth science.
Keep it up. The truth needs to be told. And Mark said, this was a great presentation. Fabulous information. Thanks so much for doing this.