Noah's Flood Talk Bayside Church 2024

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February 22, 2024

In this talk Dr. Biddle reviews some of the leading evidences for Noah's Flood and previews the "Ark and the Darkness" highlights: www.noahsflood.com

00:00: Alright, well, thank you for coming tonight. My name is Dan Biddle. I'm the president of Genesis Apologetics.
00:05: We get around and speak a lot in this area, churches and chapels and Christian schools and things like that.
00:11: But most of our footprint is more broadly put out on YouTube and Facebook. So we do a lot of content creation.
00:18: So just a little bit about our ministry. We have lots of movies that are available on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Christian Cinema, things like that.
00:25: You guys can check those out or grab them free over our booth tonight. We have about 176 ,000 subscribers on YouTube.
00:32: I spend a lot of my time producing that content. We get about a half a million views a month. Thank you very much for the adjustment there.
00:39: And about 20 million views total. So it's amazing. We used to think that going around in our car and speaking, you know, loading your trunk full of books and going out and giving a talk at our church and then speaking to 50 people and then going to the next church and that is a great model.
00:53: We love doing that, but we can put out videos on Friday and have, you know, thousands of views by Monday and it goes out worldwide.
01:00: So I spend a lot of my time doing that. Just it's something I feel very commissioned by the Lord to do because it's got a great broad reach.
01:07: Our materials in 13 different languages. So we do have a pretty good global reach that way. We speak at William Jessup and Capital Christian and Providence and Victory and Summit.
01:17: I can honestly say that most Christian schools in this area have us in as a regular chapel speaker or as a guest speaker, which is great.
01:25: We give a lot of local talks. Then we have an annual conference called the G1 Conference. It's going to be at William Jessup this year.
01:32: We expect about 600 people at these events. We've been doing it for several years. We're trying to go for a thousand people this year because we're going to do a pre -screening of our movie on Noah's Flood.
01:42: And I'll tell you about that in a minute. So this is our leading book that is free. If you walk in right to the main church and hang left, you'll go to our booth.
01:50: It's called our Questions and Answers book. You can pick this up for free. There's a suggested $10 donation, but we give out hundreds of them every conference that we do just for free.
02:00: So we answer hundreds of questions every year by students and adults and all the way up from usually teenagers up on a ton of different creation related topics.
02:10: We took the top 50 questions we get asked most frequently and made a book covering just those topics.
02:16: So that's what that book is about. We have a mobile app you can download for free on the Google Play or Apple Store that's got links to most of our videos.
02:25: A lot of people have this app and find it very, very useful. Here's our annual conference.
02:31: We're going to have David Reeves and a friend of mine, Dr. Randy Galluzzi is the president for the Institute for Creation Research.
02:38: Great team. We'll be there the whole day speaking from about 10 to 3. We're going to cap out with about 1 ,000 people because Fathom Films is allowing us to do our second pre -screening of the film there at William Jessup.
02:51: So it'll be a situation where everybody puts their phones down because we're going to leak it out that once before we go out in the theaters, which should be fun.
02:59: And you can sign up at G1Conference .com. So here's something we've been working on for collectively about 10 years, but really focused on it for the last three.
03:10: We're working with Sevenfold Films, the creator of the Genesis Paradise Lost movie, which is the leading film ever done on creationism.
03:18: It was the number top four on Amazon Faith Films for a long time. It was number 31 in worldwide documentaries.
03:25: Number top 10 movie in Christendom for about seven years on different platforms. We work with Ralph and his team to produce what should be the most photorealistic representation of Noah's flood ever done.
03:37: And the most biblically accurate piece on Noah's flood ever done. Does anyone ever see the Russell Crowe Noah movie?
03:44: Okay. Yeah. Go rock creatures. Well, they got three things right on that movie. There was a guy named
03:50: Noah. They got that right. The ark was actually a pretty good representation of the ark. And it looked like it was a worldwide flood.
03:56: So those three things they got right. Everything else was, wow, pretty, pretty Hollywood. So we actually have a trailer that we're going to show of our movie tonight that just came out a couple of weeks ago.
04:07: Not too many people have seen it. It's actually the introductory piece of the movie. So we will play that now.
04:13: Hopefully it's loud enough. Have you ever wondered what the world was like before the
04:21: Great Deluge? Giants roaming in paradise, thriving before the judgment wiped them all away.
04:29: Leaving behind stretchy tissues we find in their bones today, along with other clues around the world that the flood really wasn't that long ago.
04:40: Did the ancient ones who lived at this time really live for hundreds of years? Maybe the truth about earth history is more eye -opening than you can imagine.
05:14: So let's talk about Noah's flood. Did it really happen? Why did it happen? When did it happen?
05:20: And what evidence do we have? So I spent about 20 years of my life as a testifying expert.
05:25: I worked on over 100 state and federal court cases dealing with research and statistics. I'm an evidence guy.
05:31: I love evidence. And for about 20 years, all I would do is take complex theoretical mathematical stuff and distill it down and then explain it to a courtroom.
05:42: So I've been able to take that same kind of orientation and apply it towards creation topics.
05:48: And so I love evidence and I love finding and distilling down good, credible arguments that are not just hearsay.
05:56: They're not myth. And they're really, really strong and robust. And that's the one that we're basing our movie on.
06:01: We rely on a theory that came out in the 1990s called catastrophic plate tectonics, which takes the idea that Pangea broke apart during the flood.
06:10: And there's actually tons of evidence that that actually happened. And we'll cover some of the tips of the trees of that evidence today.
06:17: But let's just start first with the big picture. If Noah's flood really happened, we would expect that all kinds of amazing myths and legends and rumors would come out of that flood account that would originate where the ark landed.
06:34: And that's exactly what we find. There are things like the Eridu tablet, the Sumerian Kings list, the
06:40: Enuma Elish, the Atrahapsis epic, the Simmons ark tablet and the Gilgamesh epic all originated where the
06:48: Tower of Babel dispersion event happened. So it didn't happen in America.
06:53: It didn't happen in Brazil. It didn't come out of China. All these flood myths and legends originated exactly where the
06:59: Bible puts Eridu or where we know the Tower of Babel dispersion event happened. So that's just number one.
07:06: Starting there, we have all these ancient writings on cuneiform and clay tablets that substantiate a very, very overlapping flood account.
07:16: They have in common things like there's a god or gods who's going to punish mankind. There's one chosen rescuer guy like Noah and his family.
07:24: He's going to save his family with the animals. There's going to be a vessel given with certain specifications. They're going to survive the flood.
07:30: They're going to have a bird to go out and find dry land, and they're going to make a sacrifice to God or gods after.
07:37: A lot of these ancient cuneiform tablets talk about those eight common themes.
07:43: Isn't that interesting? But the Bible is the most credible one, because if you talk with historians, they would say, well, look,
07:50: Dan, myths never get more historical. Myths get more mythical. And when you look at the biblical account, it's the longest description of any sequel event in the
08:00: Bible, covers about two and a half chapters. It's full of history and dates and people and processes and events.
08:08: And it talks about in seven days that happened, after 40 days this happened, after 150 days this happened.
08:13: It's treated like a historical diary of a real, real event. These other things have all kinds of mythical overtones to them.
08:22: If you look like in the epic of Gilgamesh, the flood only lasted for seven days and the ark was a big floating cube that would have obviously rotated around and at sea, would not have been seaworthy.
08:33: But the biblical account is very historical. So here's a researcher, a friend of mine named Nick. He spent years of his life going around and talking with the historians of ancient cultures all over the world.
08:46: And did you know that in just North and South America, when talking with the historical indigenous peoples there, he has now documented over 300 original flood legends that were passed down for hundreds of years from these people groups all over the world.
09:03: Well, they all talk about, yeah, are my grandfather, grandfather, grandfather, all the way back when he came out in this region, he came from a major flood.
09:12: It was his grandfather was involved in a flood. The whole flood motif goes all over the world and the
09:19: Tower of Babel. So if we just start here at Eridu, where the Tower of Babel happened, we have all the flood legends there.
09:25: Every single yellow dot you see is a documented flood legend from an indigenous group in those regions.
09:32: Look what happened when we splendor go over to America here. Most Native American tribes have a very clear documented flood account as part of their ancient history.
09:42: That's exactly what we would expect if Noah's flood is true. We would expect that the further away we got from the original place where the
09:50: Tower of Babel dispersion happened, where the flood landed, the more echoed it would get. But they still maintain a lot of similarities to the original flood account.
09:59: And Nick's book has got all kinds of good examples. So if Noah's flood happened, I would expect to find things like Leonardo.
10:06: Here's a mummified Edmontosaurus where they still have identified what's been found in its gullet.
10:12: Things like ferns and magnolia trees and all kinds of things that were still found in this animal's gullet.
10:19: It was found intact with tendons and muscles. It's a mummified dinosaur. We would expect to find things like this around the globe.
10:27: And we do. More on dinosaurs later. So we would also expect to find millions of dead things buried in flood layers laid down by water all over the world.
10:36: And if you go to the database called PaleoDB, you can do research and plot all these massive flood, what they call mass bone yards or bone graves all over the world.
10:47: Look at America. There's a huge 14 state region here that's 1 ,800 miles long by 1 ,000 miles wide, over one million square miles that's stuffed with dead dinosaurs.
10:59: And we're going to hone in on that a little bit more tonight. So when did the flood happen? If you adhere to what's called the
11:06: Masoretic textual tradition, which is what our modern Bibles are based on, it would park the flood about 2348
11:13: BC or as far back as 2518 BC. Now, if you hold to the
11:19: Subtuagint, which is another set of historical textual traditions, you can get as far back as about 3268
11:27: BC. But somewhere in that bracket is when we're certain Noah's flood happened and we know it was a worldwide event.
11:34: So historically speaking, that's when it happened. How big was the ark? Well, the Bible says it was 300 cubits long and a cubit is about 18 inches.
11:43: It was measured by the tip of your finger all the way down to your elbow here. There's an
11:48: Egyptian one and there's a couple different cultures that have different sizes for it, but typically between 18 and 21 inches.
11:56: So it was about 500 feet long by 50 by 80. So it was they've got a full size replica of this in Kentucky and it's the biggest timber structure in the world.
12:07: You can go check that out. But relatively speaking, it was a pretty big vessel here in one slide.
12:13: And I know this is a powerful, overbearing slide. But did you know that the flood was 371 days?
12:20: A lot of people here in Sunday schools and everything. Well, it rained for 40 days and nights. That was just the rain part of the flood.
12:26: When you read the whole Genesis narrative, it was a 371 day process where the flooding came up.
12:33: The ark became waterborne about day 40. The water inundation happened for the first 150 days.
12:40: Then water began retreating off of the earth, first in sheets, then in channelized cuts.
12:46: We can go to places all over America like Arches National Park and find where the water was channelized as it was retreating off of the continents.
12:56: So a 371 day process. And here's all the Bible verses to go along with it.
13:01: But it was over one year. So just by way of recap, it's three chapters, lasted about a year.
13:07: There were eight people saved. All the pairs of land -dwelling, air -breathing animal kinds were saved.
13:13: Not all the species, but all the original kinds that later turned into different species.
13:18: It was preceded by the one single worldwide ice age that happened after the flood. The ice age was actually caused by the flood.
13:26: You have hot oceans and aerosols and evaporations that block the sun, creating one big ice age that lasted, started about 100 years after the flood and lasted for 800 or 900 years.
13:36: It was worldwide on the upper northern hemisphere. The flood is mentioned by several other
13:41: Bible writers. And we're dealing with the world version number two right now, because the Bible says that was the old world that was destroyed by the deluge.
13:50: We really don't know too much about the pre -flood world. But I would say that the credibility of all of Scripture hinges on whether that flood account happened, because we've got
14:00: Moses talking about the flood and Peter and Paul and Jesus himself. They all treated and regarded the flood as a real historical narrative.
14:09: So if it didn't happen, and it didn't happen like the Bible said it happened, when the Bible said it happened, now we have a fundamental credibility issue with Christianity.
14:18: So I would say it's a pretty fundamental thing. And of course, I've studied this topic now for a decade. I'm 100 % convinced that what
14:26: I'm telling you tonight is a true version of what happened with Noah's flood. Why is this important from our faith walk?
14:33: But I would argue that people, our faith has got to go all the way back to the beginnings, all the way back to Genesis.
14:40: We see a lot of Christians nowadays that start trying to develop their roots and believing in the
14:45: Bible. And they're like, you know what, I got saved and I felt the Holy Spirit. Or lots of people have different types of faith experiences.
14:52: But then they start reading the Bible and like, oh, well, what about Charles Darwin? Or what about science versus the
14:57: Bible? Or what about ape men? Then they run into these snags and they never grow a deep root system.
15:03: The Christians that we find that have a lot of fruit, that fruit that they're producing in their lives is because they have a good root system.
15:10: So if you want to have a good fruit in your Christian life, you got to make sure your roots are going to be strong. And I think that only begins with the book of Genesis.
15:20: So trusting God's word, there's all kinds of Bible verses. We could talk about why that's important. Let's just start out with the book of Psalms, a very opening verse in the book of Psalms says this.
15:30: How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers.
15:38: But his delight is in the law of Yahweh and in his law. And the word there is
15:43: Torah, meaning the first five books of the Bible. He meditates day and night. So how could you meditate and take pleasure in God's Torah, in his word?
15:53: If you think it's a myth or a fairy tale. So if it's a real history book, then you can meditate on it and you can reflect on it and think about it.
16:02: And God's word has got a promise to the people who are able to let their roots go down deep in God's word.
16:08: And it says, you know, you're going to be blessed in your life in many ways. It says you're going to be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and its leaf does not wither.
16:19: And whatever he does, he prospers. Well, who's going to do this? The person who's trusting and meditating and believing on God's word.
16:27: There's a strong connection there. Jesus said, for whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the son of man be ashamed when he comes in glory and the glory of the
16:37: Father and of the holy angels. So you guys, when I started out as a Christian, I was saved at 11. I kind of strayed from my faith until I was 17, then came back to the
16:46: Lord. I was really uncertain about the book of Genesis. Is it a myth? Are there long ages?
16:52: What about the days of creation? What about the Genesis genealogies? But about 10 years ago, when
16:57: I did some research myself and dinosaurs are really, really what pulled me into believing in Noah's flood.
17:04: I found myself with my family at the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada, overlooking an 11 mile stretch of dead dinosaurs buried under 50 feet of mud with mammals and clams and sharks and all kinds of fish.
17:20: And it dawned on me, oh, my gosh, it's true. There's no way you can take a 14 mile swath of land with tens of thousands of dead hadrosaurs and edmontosaurus and all kinds of dinosaurs and have it just be from a local river that overflowed its banks, which is what they claimed happened at the site.
17:38: You had to have water hundreds of feet higher at that location to settle down what
17:43: I was seeing with my eyes. It was a really faith transformative process. And I'm walking in these verses now because my head is connected with my heart and I believe the whole thing is true.
17:55: So what is that? How does that impact how I'm going to evangelize people, how I'm going to reach out, how I'm going to live my faith, how
18:01: I'm going to teach my kids as a dad? It all stems back to the fact that I truly believe that God's word is true and that emanates through my life in a lot of ways that it didn't used to emanate when
18:12: I wasn't really trusting in God's word. So 2 Peter, isn't this interesting? This was written by Peter, of course, 2000 years ago.
18:22: Fascinating verse here. Peter says, knowing this first of all, so he says, above everything else, listen to me.
18:29: What he says, he says that in the last days, mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lessons, saying, where is the promises of his coming?
18:38: Like, when is this second coming of Jesus is going to happen? For since the father's fell asleep, all things continued as it was from the beginning of creation.
18:47: And then Peter says, but when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God, the heavens came into existence long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.
19:02: So here's Peter saying, you guys, above everything else, just remember this. In the last days, people are going to come scoffing the
19:10: Bible and they're going to deny two things, creation out of nothing or creation out of water and the flood.
19:18: And you can't attend college anywhere in America right now without hearing those mockers scoff about creation and the flood.
19:26: Those are the two things in our era right now today are the most attacked topics of Christianity because people are thinking, well,
19:33: I'm not even going to start with the Bible or learning about Jesus because the Bible is not scientifically credible or historically credible.
19:41: So they just disregard it and don't even get a start. That's one of the big problems we have in our faith today.
19:48: So the pre -flood world, let's talk about this in 2 Peter 3, 6, they talk about where the world that then was being overflowed with water perished.
19:57: So as I mentioned, we're in world number two this time because this world is gone. Things with these big dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs and maybe different oxygen levels and these huge dragonflies that have a two and a half foot wingspan that couldn't even fly in today's earth atmosphere.
20:14: All this world was was gone. It was wiped away in the flood. You've got these huge mushrooms.
20:19: Here's an artist's rendition. These things grew 20 feet tall. What an amazing, beautiful place the world was probably looking like before the flood.
20:28: The amazing tropical Garden of Eden and all that stuff. You've got these huge centipedes eight feet long.
20:35: You know, how'd you like to find that in your bed at night? Just amazing stuff. It's a different world and you have other things that just don't seem to make sense in today's world because how in the world could this huge sauropod dinosaur, the biggest ones are over 120 feet long, weight as much as 80 tons.
20:52: You know, you've got secularists saying, I'm not sure how this animal could even breathe. Because its nostrils are only about twice the size of a modern day horse.
21:01: So something was different before in the last world that was now deluge. That is not like the world we're in today.
21:08: And then you have these huge pterosaurs that people say, look, you've got to hit it with 16 miles an hour wind just to get its toes up off the ground.
21:16: It's a 53 foot wingspan. It doesn't work in today's earth climate. So that world is gone.
21:22: We're in world version number two. So how did all the animals fit? We get this a lot because people say, well,
21:29: Dr. Biddle, there's a million different species alive today. You can't cram all those on the ark. So they're actually estimating only now about 7 ,000 different pairs or varieties of or different kinds of animals.
21:41: Let's just take a look here. If you take Canis lupus, well, there's 339 dog breeds that all go back to Canis lupus, the wolf kind.
21:49: There's 336 breeds of horses. You can take a little tiny horse, a miniature horse.
21:55: They could actually breed with a Clydesdale. They're all interfertile. That's one kind. Same thing with the bear family.
22:01: There's eight different species in the Ursidae, the bear family. Five of them are still interfertile.
22:08: And chickens, you've got 68 breeds of chickens. They all go back to the same kind. So when you pare down the animal biology tree, this shows very clearly how you don't need to have hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of different animals on the ark.
22:21: You only need thousands of animals. So some key flood verses are right here.
22:27: We'll spend the rest of our talk getting after these key verses. So Genesis 7 -11 is probably the biggest keystone we have for really understanding what happened during the flood.
22:38: So in the 600th year of Noah's life, well, let's just start right there. What in the world? 600 years old.
22:44: We're going to cover and explain why people could live that long before the flood. We've actually solved that.
22:50: Not me, but the team of scientists that we've been working with have great answers for that now. So we'll get to that towards the end.
22:57: But when Noah was 600 years old in the second month, the 17th day, because this is reading like a real history book, the same day were all of the fountains of the great deep broken up.
23:09: The Hebrew word there is baka, and it's a word picture of someone getting a big cleaver and hacking open earth like a watermelon.
23:20: Baka means to cleave or to break open. So something was breaking up and it happened in the great deep and the windows of heaven were open.
23:29: So the key is the flood started on the ocean floor and then it peaked about 150 days into the flood by going 22 feet upwards over the highest hills over all the mountains of the world.
23:42: So that's 15 cubits is about 22 feet. So these are some good key verses that will kind of set the biblical foundation for the rest of the science we're going to cover tonight.
23:52: We've got an animation that shows what this might have looked like here when earth was cleaved apart.
24:26: So as the seafloor is spreading, creating new seafloor, it's going underneath the land continents and it's subducting and it's pushing up the mountains that happen at different stages during the flood.
24:38: And that's how we get a lot of these things erupting. So as the new seafloor is going, as the fountains of the great deep are opening up, then after the seafloor had cooled, the water sank down as all the heat and pressure caused the seafloor to go up as much as a kilometer or so.
24:54: After God shut the fountains off, because it says that he did that after 150 days, the seafloor cooled back down.
25:00: And when that action happened and the ocean floor sunk down by over a kilometer, that pulled, had a pulling action of sheeting back all the water that was on top of the continent.
25:10: So God started it that way and then he pulled the water back off through that last animation that you just saw.
25:16: We'll cover this some more. But here's what some creation scientists, this is from Dr. John Bumgardner.
25:22: He's a PhD in geophysics from UCLA about 40 years ago, and he's been studying the flood ever since.
25:28: This is from his software program called Terra, which has been used by oil discovery researchers for years.
25:35: He sold it for all kinds of money. And it's all based upon the flood, how a Pangea -like formation was split apart.
25:42: There we see the Mid -Atlantic Ridge, which is about a 10 ,000 mile baseball seam -like tear when the fountains of the great deep broke open there.
25:50: Here's what it looks like on a map. And when you highlight it with some colors, you can see this 10 ,000 mile oceanic rift broke open during the flood, pushing these two continents apart.
26:01: And as you're going to see later, we have oil chemistry that's correlated on both of these sides where the matching continents fit.
26:09: And we have biology. We have dead plant and animal life that's on this side that also matches over this side.
26:16: So it's a perfect split happened right down the middle. So here's what the seafloor is spreading.
26:22: When the fountains of the great deep broke open, it would hit the ocean and start cooling and spreading on each side.
26:28: And that's how the continents got pushed apart when the fountains of the great deep broken up.
26:34: And as the newly formed seafloor is spreading, it hits the land, binds up under tension, and kicks back and releases, causing a tsunami to go in both directions.
26:46: That's how the dinosaurs bought it. Over and over and over again, these tsunamis were coming up in cycles during the first 150 days of the flood, over and over and over again.
26:58: So here's an example of what happened in Japan when the seafloor just slipped by about 60 feet. This was in 2011.
27:05: This is the impact of that tsunami when that was just a small slippage, when the seafloor was going underneath the continent and it slipped and released, caused about a 60 foot jump.
27:15: And it caused that tsunami to go all the way back. It was felt by continents all over the world. That's just one small seafloor slippage.
27:24: This was happening in rapid cycles during the flood. And isn't it interesting that when you look in the
27:31: Bible, Genesis chapter 8, verse 3, and the waters receded from the earth, going forth and returning.
27:39: And at the end of the 150 days, the water decreased. There we have it right in the Bible, just what
27:44: I showed you through the animation. The water's coming up and retreating, coming up and retreating.
27:50: This Bible is describing a tsunami -like process. And it's exactly what happened during the flood.
27:56: Here's an example. We'll look at the Tanis site by going to North Dakota. Here's what it looks like. This is called the
28:01: Tanis location. They found all kinds of flood animals sandwiched here that were buried probably in the last stages of the flood.
28:09: Here's a little person that you can see, and they discovered all these fossils. All these strata and layers are made by water coming up and sheet flow and then retreating.
28:18: Tsunamis coming up, retreat. They deposit all these things. They come back, deposit all these things, and come back.
28:24: Isn't it interesting? Here's from the research reports. They say on this Tanis site, where are they finding all these fossils, a huge collection of fossils.
28:32: They say, well, look, the hundreds of fish remains are distributed by size and generally show evidence of tetany, a body posture related to suffocation.
28:42: Suggesting strongly that they were all killed indiscriminately by common suffocation cause that affected the entire population.
28:51: Fragile remains spanning the layers of debris showed that the site was laid down in a single event over a short time span.
28:59: And in 2022, get this, they found a fossilized Thessalosaurus was unearthed with its skin still intact.
29:07: So these animals bought it during the flood. Here's your fossilized Thessalosaurus.
29:14: Just amazing. You still got skin intact, muscles, all kinds of stuff still imprinted there.
29:19: And here is a, I believe that's a garfish. You can see all the detail with its fins and everything still.
29:26: Amazing preservation because the flood came up wiping these animals off and burying them in layers.
29:32: Look at the detail with this creature. They all, they were all in that one location and bought it quickly, but they noticed something interesting.
29:39: There's actually two depositional events that happened in this location. They call it unit one and unit two.
29:45: And they look at the flow of the water and they said, look, there's two tsunamis that caused this, this huge death assemblage.
29:52: So water comes up and retreats, comes up and retreats with two different types of events.
29:58: They've looked at the carcasses and the plants and the sedimentary structures. And they said this whole Tanus location is a result of two sheet flow tsunamis that came up, retreated, came up and retreated.
30:09: Just a good snapshot of one location in America of exactly how these animals died during the flood.
30:15: So let's look more quickly at a process called taphonomy, which is this study of how animals died.
30:22: And we'll get into that in just a minute here, but I want to give you the big picture first. This is in the heart of this, all these little bubbles here is what's called the
30:31: Morrison formation. It encompasses about 13 states and 700 ,000 miles in the middle of America here.
30:38: But the fossil beds in this general area take up about 14 states and about 1 million square miles.
30:45: This is where the animals bought it during the flood. And there are millions and millions and millions of dead things that are in this dinosaur kill zone right in the middle of America.
30:54: We can't even imagine how big this area is. A thousand miles wide, 1800 miles long. Here's a
31:00: T -Rex buried under 100 feet of mud that they had to helicopter out. The evolutionists will say, oh, it's due to the
31:07: Chicxulub asteroid that landed way down here. But that asteroid landed way, way, way down here.
31:13: And if you simulate it, the tsunamis would have come up, maybe buried Texas a little bit. Here's all the estimations that they came up.
31:20: It would have entirely missed these locations and it would have entirely missed the Tannus site that's way up here with the examples that I just showed you.
31:29: So the Chicxulub asteroid that you'll see as the explanation for how the dinosaurs went extinct that's in most museums certainly can't explain what we're seeing.
31:38: What we're seeing is a worldwide flood with the tsunamis coming in from the west to the east, coming in in sheets, pulling back, coming in, pulling back over and over again.
31:47: It certainly wasn't a little tiny asteroid way down here, 2 ,000 miles away from that big kill zone.
31:53: What's happening is we have the newly floored seafloor coming over here and subducting underneath the land and bringing water up in sheets and burying the dinosaurs in layers, which is exactly how we see them dead and buried today.
32:06: It's coming in from the west to the east and causing these repeating tsunamis that are just wiping these creatures out.
32:14: Now let's look at this other thing when it comes to taphonomy or studying how these creatures are buried. They're buried in ash.
32:22: In fact, I would say if someone said, Dan, well, just boil it down to me and give me your best evidence for Noah's flood,
32:28: I would say simply this. Why are the dinosaurs buried in a matrix of three products, mud, sand and ash?
32:36: Something happened. You can put your own time frame on it, but something happened with these dinosaurs where they're buried in a matrix of those three different types of products, mud, sand and ash.
32:46: So how do you bury these creatures in ash, millions of creatures in ash? I'll show you a quick video that will explain it.
32:54: These rapidly subducting plates resulted in enormous volcanism. That's a few megatons of ash that entombed countless dinosaurs in multiple states.
33:02: The evidence for this is obvious. For example, the Independence Dike Swarm is a system of linear fissures that erupted during the flood.
33:10: This system extends over 370 miles in Southern California and belted out 4000 cubic miles of ash that covered multiple states, leaving behind enormous ash deposits like the
33:22: Brushy Basin Member, which is 110 meters thick in eastern Utah and found in 35 other locations around the region.
33:31: So when you go dig these creatures up, they're buried in ash. Well, was anyone around when Mount St. Helens blew up in the 1980s?
33:38: Okay, it darkened like three different states, Oregon, Washington, California. It was a terrible thing.
33:43: I was a teenager when it happened. Well, that put out about a quarter of one square mile of ash.
33:49: The Independence Dike Swarm, evolutionists would say, put out 4000 cubic miles of ash and it blanketed half of America.
33:59: Well, if that happened over millions of years when the dinosaurs were or were not around, why are the dinosaurs buried in that same product?
34:07: And what was happening on the earth to produce 4000 cubic miles of ash rapidly along with mud and sand?
34:15: It had to be tsunamis that were rapidly happening over and over and over again.
34:20: So that's why they're buried in those three different products. There's Mount St. Helens and here's what happened. Belted out of Southern California, 371 mile linear fissure just brought out all this ash.
34:32: There's Mount St. Helens blowing its lid. You can just imagine how much of that ash product was pumped out into the atmosphere.
34:38: So that's what we find these creatures buried in. They're buried in those three different products, mud, sand and ash.
34:43: And it's a giveaway. It's a dead ringer clue to how these animals died during the flood. It's those three products.
34:50: Mud's coming in from the oceans, from the tsunamis, bringing up and grinding and pulverizing sand.
34:56: And then we have the ash. So it really perfectly explains the dinosaur burial situation.
35:03: Next, I want to show you the Morrison Formation, which is that big 700 ,000 mile area. We're going to zoom into a town called
35:10: Morrison, Colorado. So we're going to zoom in right now and just take a look on Google Earth. Here's an example of what's going on in the
35:18: Morrison Formation. Now, mind you, this is a cross -sectional cut of a 13 state region.
35:25: 700 ,000 square miles has this strata layer in it.
35:31: It's a 300 foot thick layer of mud that spans 13 states, 700 ,000 square miles.
35:39: How did it get there and what's inside of it? It's about 300 feet thick. So here we get to fly in a 747 and we look at comparison, how thick that was.
35:49: This little thick mud layer is going over 13 states. We can fly in the
35:54: Empire State Building to see for scale how big it is. But just imagine a pancake of mud that covers 13 states.
36:01: And it's not just the mud. The mud is filled with these creatures. 50 species of dinosaurs all bought it in that same layer.
36:11: Think about this, you guys. This is overwhelmingly compelling evidence for a worldwide flood.
36:17: Your evidence meter should be over the top right now. How do you take a pancake and spread it out of mud over 13 states and stuff it with 50 species of dinosaurs in all these layers, millions of them?
36:30: It requires a worldwide flood. 13 states, 13 states.
36:36: So 1 ,700 fossil occurrences that they found, 37 genre or 50 species and lots of different plants and animals.
36:45: That's just what we've found based upon what we've been able to dig out of this 300 foot thick pancake that spans 13 states.
36:53: So now let's get a little bit advanced. Keep with me tonight. Keep your thinking. Are you with me? Say, yes, I am.
36:59: Okay, here we go. Because we're going to go into a little bit more science stuff here, which I think is just fun.
37:04: So let's consider again, all these different little circles represent big fossil burial sites.
37:10: This is a secular site. And they say every place you see a little green dot is not just one fossil.
37:16: They're usually mega bone beds. So lots and lots of fossils over here, lots of fossils over here.
37:22: But when we look at the fossil database, we see that some of these creatures, some of these species are spread over two continents, or this little guy is spread over four different continents.
37:33: Same type of creature that are correlated across all the different continents. So we know
37:38: Earth was once a big single landmass like Pangaea. The secularists and creationists have that belief in common.
37:47: But what, here comes the clue. What happens when you put these continents back together? Here's what it looks like.
37:54: The same types of creatures that were living over here and living over there before the fountains of the great deep broke apart are now buried inside of the mud that killed them.
38:06: So think about this. When you put these continents apart, you've got all these creatures over here and all these creatures over here.
38:14: And there's a good chance you would find the brother of an Edmontosaurus and the sister of it right over here because now they're spread by two to three thousand miles apart.
38:25: But when you put these areas back together, you have the same types of plants and fossils that are all, were once living there.
38:34: When the fountains of the great deep broke apart and pushed these continents apart, now we find those same creatures, half of them buried over here and half of them buried over here because they died when the continents were being pushed apart.
38:48: They didn't die there over millions of years. They died as the process they did. They died by the process of them being pushed apart.
38:55: Because what we have here is a snapshot of the same types of creatures and plants and animals that were over here are also found buried over here.
39:03: But now they're separated by three thousand miles. You guys get it? Okay. It's the same thing with oil, oil chemistry.
39:10: So let's talk about this real quick. This is a more advanced study. So when you dig down and you find oil, all this different types of oil that we find around the world, there are different chemical signatures with different types of oil based upon what the oil was made out of.
39:26: Is it plant based oil or animal based oil or pollen based oil? They have fancy names that they use for all this stuff.
39:33: But oil comes from this product called kerogen, which is this waxy, unsoluble, organic substance that's usually found in sedimentary rock.
39:41: And the type of kerogen present in a rock depends on the type of organic material that was originally present.
39:47: So they say you can have these three different types of kerogen that turns into oil.
39:54: It can come from algal or plant tonic or pollens and spores. They say, look, at a minimum level, you have these three different types of precursor type product that's going to turn into oil.
40:05: Well, check this out. As these creatures die, they go all the way down to the bottom. They're covered with mud and sediment.
40:11: And then over time, it turns into oil. Everyone's seen this stuff before we get it. But what happens when you take these different types of oil and you start finding out where do we find these different types of oil?
40:24: Well, did you know that these oil, these different parts of oil that we find, these different families, there's the marine oil over here, they're also correlated with where and how these continents split, showing that the same type of plant and animal life that was over here was once living here and all happy in their own little ecosystem.
40:45: Then they were rapidly split apart. Same thing over here. We have whatever plants and animals were over here were also over here and they were split apart and buried.
40:57: And then they turned into their own unique type of oil signature. So here's 12 different examples on this one, on this one spreadsheet or this one graphic here showing it was a rapid process because we find the same types of oil chemistries that are now on that were on matching parts of continents that are now separated by 3000 miles.
41:17: You guys get it? OK, that's another amazing flood evidence there. Here's for me personally.
41:24: There's a lot of people that have different reasons that they believe in the flood and everything. For me, this is what did me in as far as believing the creation account as a literal natural history account and believing in dinosaurs to live recently and things like this.
41:38: It's dinosaur soft tissue. I had to buy hundreds of dollars worth of books and DVDs and do firsthand research and talk to all the different scientists because I had to run face to face into this reality that they're now finding soft, pliable, stretchable dinosaur matter.
41:56: This is a triceratops horn being stretched by Dr. Mark Armitage. And this is just one example.
42:02: I had to go out and buy my own dinosaur bones and send them out to spectrometry labs and scanning electron microscopy to look into the nature of these bones.
42:11: They're not hardened per mineralized rocks. Most bones that are found in the Cretaceous layers and the top layers are actually still organic bone.
42:21: So it's not just me. It's all kinds of scientists in the secular field. There's over 120 peer review journal articles now that have substantiated this raw organic material that they're finding in dinosaur bones.
42:34: It's not just one type like collagen down here. It's 16 different varieties of organic materials.
42:42: They're finding fecks and histones and proteins and collagen. And they've even found some different forms of broken up DNA, red blood cells, red blood vessels.
42:53: All of these things have now been discovered, most of them in the last 20 years. Some of them started as back as 50 years ago.
42:59: And here, their last two that they discovered was dinosaur cartilage. How in the world is that millions of years old?
43:06: That's a cartilage that was from a dinosaur. And the last one was nerve cells. They're actually finding intact nerve cells in dinosaur bone material.
43:15: So here is a citation of 120 peer review journal articles, most of them very, very recent.
43:22: You can see the years scrolling over here where they found raw organic material from dinosaurs that really proved that they were rapidly buried in the flood.
43:31: They didn't sit and turn into rocks over millions of years. They were encapsulated about 4 ,400 years ago in the flood.
43:38: This data, the fact that they have 16 different types of dinosaur organics that have now been found, really supports a recent flood and doesn't support the idea that these creatures lived and went extinct 65 million years ago.
43:52: Okay. So now I don't know why I did this, but I saved the hardest part for the end. But you guys made it to the end.
43:58: So here's a hard part that involves some math and some statistics and everything. But as a scientist, this is probably one of my top three reasons that I believe in the
44:09: Genesis flood, and it has to do with the lifespans of these guys. So we all know that people get old and we age.
44:17: Here's a quick time lapse of people 20 to 30 to 40. We know this happens.
44:22: We know that people age and our cells aren't as strong as they were before. This is very, very, very common sense.
44:29: But by the time you get to about 100 years old, most people are petering out even much before that, right?
44:35: So this is common sense. But why in the book of Genesis do they list all these patriarchs that lived an average of 912 years old?
44:44: What's going on there? So let's just frame this by way of example. We know people today can live maybe 100 years old, maybe up to 120 years old, but back in the
44:53: Bible times before the flood, they're living 200 and 300 and 400 and 500, all the way up to Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old.
45:04: That was Noah's grandfather. So he kept going and going and going, what in the world is going on?
45:09: How in the world is this possible? Well, you know, I used to read the Bible as a teenager and just go, my gosh, are the years not years or what's going on?
45:17: But we actually now have some really good explanation for it. So here is the ages of the patriarchs before the flood, living in their 900s.
45:26: And then after the flood, look at this, the ages, they don't just fall off from 900 down to 100 or down to 120, they exponentially taper, they taper down.
45:39: So how in the world, if this isn't real data, why in the world would the ancient scribes of the
45:45: Bible writers do this? If the Bible is just a myth and it's fairytale, why in the world would the ancient scribes who didn't understand polynomial math write a declining lifespan that follows what's called an exponential decay curve?
45:59: Let's take a look a little bit further. Here's the lifespans before the flood. You've got the flood event.
46:05: All of a sudden Noah's sons are living, you know, up to 600 years, 400 years. And it goes down, but it doesn't go from here to here.
46:13: It follows what's called a power law curve and it goes all the way down. So something is mathematically going on here.
46:21: This guy really discovered what it is. I'm going to speak boldly about it. You guys can have your own theories and everything, but I've drilled into this guy's stuff.
46:28: He's got me a hundred percent. This is Dr. John Sanford. He's featured in our film. He's a geneticist out of Cornell university.
46:34: He invented this biolistic particle gun, really smart guy. He's got a book out on entropy that shows why compounding mutation rates accounted for the shortened lifespan.
46:46: So here's what I mean. When you take an original population and you have a bottleneck event like the flood, where you're drawing from millions of people, and then you go down to just eight and you have your surviving population and then they reproduce making a new population.
47:03: It, what it does is it increases mutations in our gene pools exponentially.
47:08: So you're dealing with a, with Adam and Eve started with a perfect gene code with no mutations.
47:14: Then they send and brought in the mutations and decay into our gene pool. Then it began exponentially increasing as time went on and our lifespans got shorter and shorter.
47:26: So I'm a statistician. I love playing with this stuff out. The R square is 0 .95 or 0 .96.
47:32: So 96 % of these data points fall along a predicted curve. It's just the most amazing thing.
47:38: We, the probability of this happening by chance is less than one in a quadrillion.
47:43: There's something going on here with the data and the scientists have nabbed it. And they say that it's a, it's a decay curve and decay curves like this biological decay curves happen when you take a lot of people, put them down to a bottleneck event into little people.
47:57: And then those little few people go out and they reproduce. So that's exactly what happened. And it really proves, proves that the
48:03: Bible is historical. So when I would go testify in court, all I would have to do is produce evidence that would, would beat the 5 % probability level.
48:12: But how I have to go into court and say, your honor, I'm sure that this is a phenomenon and I'm, I'm 95 % confident, but there's a 5 % chance that I'm wrong.
48:21: So there's something going on with the state of that. So that's such a strong likelihood. It's only occurring by chance, less than 5%.
48:28: So this is 5 % probability. And now here's 1 % and 0 .01%.
48:33: The likelihood of this happening by chance is off of the charts. Something's going on here with the data.
48:40: And there's no way that these ancient Bible writers would have known what they were doing. But as they're recording these declining lifespans, you can actually go using this data and make reliable predictions on how long people would live based upon where they're at in the curve.
48:57: You can make all these predictions because the mathematical model is strong enough to make really robust predictions.
49:04: So why are these guys writing in with, with hoodies on and little feathers coming up with polynomial math?
49:11: You've got two choices. Logically, either a multiple generation scam was happening where this one writer would say,
49:20: Hey, when you write the Bible time spans, the people after the flood, can you just kind of slowly decrease it? Then he'd have to go tell the next guy.
49:27: I would go tell the next guy, go tell the next guy. So all these transcribed Bibles would have that same story over time.
49:33: And then why would they even want to do that? Or these guys are faithfully recording the real actual lifespans of the people living before the flood and after the flood, not even knowing why themselves, how ridiculous it sounded.
49:46: Well, 912 years. Are you kidding me? No one lives that long, but they would still write it down. And that's because it's real actual data.
49:54: And it takes the biblical account with all of this history and substantiate it. So you can't have multiple authors all enjoying in this scam together, writing the same thing over almost 3000 years and have it be some figment of their imagination.
50:11: They were recording real lifespans that substantiate when you take Luke chapter three and you go from Jesus Christ, it lists 77 generations that go all the way back through Abraham to Noah, all the way back to Adam, who is a son of God.
50:25: I would argue as a statistician, what you just saw with this curve takes that whole line of history and stamps it with credible genealogies.
50:35: It really happened. It's not made up. It's not, you know, it's not fictitious stuff.
50:40: It's not some fantasy. It's not allegory. That polynomial curve that I showed you guys substantiates the entire chapter of Luke chapter three of the
50:49: Bible, because it takes the history of Jesus with all these guys in their lifespans. It goes back to Adam, who was the first man just, uh, you know, 6 ,000 some years ago, just amazing, amazing stuff.
51:01: So, um, I'm going to go ahead and skip this last two minute video because I've only got five minutes left and I want to take, um, take some questions.
51:09: This last part I was going to show you guys can look it up. It's about flood currents, showing that how the flood currents coming off the earth all follow kind of the same direction.