Debunking the Seven Myths about Genesis, Creation, and the Flood (Dr. Biddle, Genesis Apologetics)

Okay, so let's jump right in. We're gonna start with our seven myths tonight. We're gonna start with number five, because it's the one I wanna front load with, on Noah's Flood. What I want you to do tonight is I'm gonna bury you with dinosaur taphonomy.

Dinosaur taphonomy is a study of how creatures are buried, if they were alive when they were buried, if they were dead, they were buried, what it looks like, the whole burial condition. I'm gonna spend a good few minutes on that topic.

We're gonna look at the dinosaur taphonomy, dinosaur fossil beds, and then I'm gonna show you later how the flood is the most practical and likely explanation for how the dinosaurs got buried. But I'm not gonna just feed it to you.

I'm not just gonna give you my opinion straight out. I'm gonna show you the evidence, and then hopefully the light bulb will come on with you guys as it did with me, because when I understood this, it blew me away.

It was shocking to see really two things, how obvious it was that the dinosaurs were buried in Noah's Flood, but the second thing that was just as amazing is how hard the world pushes to cover it up, because there are some things I'm gonna go over and show you tonight that you're gonna hit your head and just go, of course it had to be Noah's Flood.

I've been in places, you guys, in Canada, where as far as the eyes can see, 14 miles in Dinosaur Provincial Park, as far as your eyes can see, there are these hoodoos that are buried, but not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of fleeing dinosaurs, Ceratopsian dinosaurs, that they admit were buried by a huge, huge flood.

They say it started as a tropical storm, but these creatures are buried under 50 feet of mud as far as your eyes can see, herds upon herds of Ceratopsian dinosaurs, but they're buried with marine life, all mixed up together, and you have to think, how much higher did the water have to be to deposit 50 feet of mud on top of these dinosaurs over multiple miles?

We're gonna see some things like that. Let's start here. These are some Jurassic creatures, so these are Allosaurus. We've all seen these creatures as kind of a cousin to a T-Rex. Keep a quick look here on the buttons that you see on the screen.

These are all the fossil beds where they found this species of dinosaur, Allosaurus, so all these little dots here are usually not one or two, sometimes they're dozens, sometimes they're massive fossilized bone beds, but right here in the middle of America, we can see all of these dots representing where this species has been found.

Now let's take a look at the sauropods, and instantly you should see something similar going on. We have Allosaurus, then we have sauropods. The dots really don't change places, do they? We're looking at a kill zone, something that happened that buried all of the Allosaurus are here and all the sauropods in America that are in the Jurassic layers are here.

Stegosaurus, same thing. And then we have all three together, look what happens. We have this one, this one, this one, and we put them all together. Something happened where these creatures were killed rather instantly and buried catastrophically because there's no good reason that the sauropod would go cuddle up next to a Stegosaurus to go get buried over long periods of time.

Some kill event happened and buried these creatures in their tracks. And we find tracks in the middle of America in a place called the Dinosaur Peninsula where we know that they made their last stand, where they were up running on dry, wet ground making imprints before they finally bought it at the zenith of the flood.

So this is just something about dinosaurs. But now let's look at the big picture. And this is the amazing part. These are all the fossils plotted out in America that are in the Cretaceous and Jurassic layers, which are the dinosaur bearing layers that are all across America.

And we obviously see a pattern here, not too many here on the West Coast, on the sides of the continent over here. But my gosh, do we have a massive kill zone right here in the middle of America. In fact, it stretches 1 ,800 miles by 1 ,000 mile wide and it's about 1 million square miles.

Now, this is the best we can do graphically to show it to you. But you really have to think, what would it look like if you got in a helicopter, parked yourself in the middle of this bull's eye and just started flying up, watching the flood as it happened or watching these dinosaurs, or even without the flood, just looking at the huge expanse of why on earth is the middle of America, like a bathtub, literally stuffed with millions upon millions of dinosaurs.

But secondly, why are they mixed with marine life? Shark teeth, oysters, clams, fish, all kinds of creatures are sandwiched in this magical kill zone in the middle of America. And when we open their bones, we find things like this.

Here's a triceratops horn that's been demineralized. It still has soft, flexible biomatter inside of it. This is just one of 16 types of materials that holds it together. There's probably some collagen left in here, maybe some keratin.

But just over the last 50 years, there's been 122 peer-reviewed science journals that have revealed not a dozen, but 16 different types of bio-organic materials found inside of dinosaur bones. That are supposedly millions of years old.

The last two things that they just found were nerve cells and cartilage. Not impressions of cartilage or impressions of nerve cells, actual dinosaur nerve cells and actual dinosaur cartilage are found in these dinosaurs.

And it's really rocking the field of paleontology because they can't explain it within their time frame. Because they have to have 66 million years between today and the dinosaurs. So if this stage was 66 feet long, and I were to pace it off 66 feet here, one of these materials is called collagen.

And there's been five different studies that have looked at the shelf life of collagen. And the maximum shelf life that the evolutionary scientists are willing to give it is 900 ,000 years. They're saying with five different studies, the longest that collagen can possibly last in a dinosaur bone is less than one million years.

So they get one step, but all these other steps of 66 million years going across, they have to punt. They throw up their hands and they say, we can't explain within our evolutionary time frame how these bio-organic soft tissue materials are still in these dinosaur bones.

So when it comes to dinosaur taphonomy, that's yet one more thing we have to consider. Here's a list of the 122 peer-reviewed science journals that have established soft tissue within dinosaurs. Now, this is over all creatures in general.

50 of these articles deal specifically with dinosaurs. Now, they used to try to start explaining in a way they would actually say, well, the collagen that we find in dinosaur bones might be because the technician that was doing the analysis was wearing compound face makeup that fell and contaminated the sample.

But then they found, no, that wasn't the cause. Well, maybe some bird died on top of the T-Rex and leached its collagen into the dinosaur bone. Then they threw out that sample. In 2019, they published a study where they revealed that the collagen that they're finding inside these dinosaur bones is organic to the creature at the molecular level.

So it's case closed. They're finding collagen in dinosaur bones. And that's the second thing they're saying is, yeah, it can't last more than a million years. So it absolutely shrinks the timeframe of these dinosaurs and it lines with Noah's Flood.

Now, let's look at the Morrison Formation, which I showed you before. We have a one million mile swath of land in the middle of America that has all those dead dinosaurs. Let's look at just the Morrison Formation, which is a Jurassic formation that's about 600 ,000 miles right in the middle of that pocket in America.

Here's what it looks like. We're going to zoom into Morrison, Colorado. And we're going to take a cut, a cross-sectional cut of what this huge area looks like. I want you to picture what we just zoomed into is a 13 state region that's 600 ,000 square miles and it's 300 feet thick.

So imagine a pancake that's 300... It's a football field tall, but it spans for 600 ,000 miles, stretching over 13 states. That's what we're looking at here in the cross-section of the Morrison Formation that's filled with every known species of Jurassic dinosaurs found in America.

Every one, about 52 species are sandwiched in this layer. Somehow they all bought it at the same time. It's 300 feet thick. So we can shrink a 747 and put that down just to see what the size comparison's like.

And we can imagine this amount of mud, this thick mud pancake stretching across 13 states is a pretty big region. You put in the Empire State Building, it covers a lot of it at the bottom. It's a scale comparison.

It's really amazing. All of these dinosaur species that you see in this image are found in the Morrison Formation, 13 states. They're all dead and they're all there at the same time. What could do that?

And when you start realizing this stuff, you think, my gosh, I don't even care anymore what the secularists are explaining because anybody who can use sound reasoning can walk up to this and say, you can't explain that over a slow death process over millions of years because they're all found sandwiched in the same layer.

This whole, this gigantic family of dinosaurs with ankylosaurs and theropods and edmontosaurus and sauropods. All these creatures are found buried in that 300 foot thick man cake. They have over 1 ,700 fossil bone beds, 37 different genre, 364 species of plants, and that's just what we found so far.

They've actually estimated that they've only uncovered maybe 20 of what they think is actually in the Morrison Formation. So there's a huge man pancake of these creatures here in the middle of America.

What on earth could put them there? So there it is again, 1 ,800 miles long. It's actually encompassing three countries, million square miles. There's what it looks like in Montana. That's where they found the largest T-Rex.

And they say, well, it must have been an asteroid that fell down right here that killed off all these dinosaurs. But if you run a simulation and you drop the Chicxulub asteroid here, look at where this simulation shows the water's going to go.

It's going to cover some parts of the southern areas of America, but it's not going to kill this 600 ,000 square foot area. Yet every time you go into any secular museum, they're going to say, oh, the Chicxulub asteroid did it.

The Chicxulub asteroid did it on the southern tip of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. But it really doesn't make a good explanation because it's only coming up, you know, feet in meters over here in the southern areas.

It's not going to kill dinosaurs in Montana or Canada. Something else had to do that. Here's a guy, Jack Horner, one of the most famous paleontologists in the world. He wrote a book, and it's very, very interesting.

Track with me carefully here because this is a very important phenomenon. Digging Dinosaurs is the title of this book, The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs. So why would Jack bother to write a book about a mystery about baby dinosaurs?

Well, here's what he found. He found a stretch of a bone bed of myosaur bones, which are these creatures, maybe 20 to 25 feet tall, big, huge dinosaur creatures that stretched one and a quarter mile east to west.

So it was going in a certain direction. It stretched over a mile long, and he found 30 million fossil fragments in that area stretching over a mile. We had discovered the tomb of 10 ,000 dinosaurs. Okay, so Jack found a herd.

It's 10 ,000 dinosaurs. They're myosaurs of the same species. So it's an entire herd, and they're stuffed and buried with mud. But there's a mystery that he wrote this book about. There was no youth found among them, no juvenile dinosaurs, no teenage dinosaurs, no baby dinosaurs, no nothing.

For some reason, this herd of 10 ,000 adult myosauras were booking it, trying to get away from something, and they ditched the kids, all of them. So what on earth could do that? Probably a scary event, a really, really scary event, because every single one of the 10 ,000 dinosaurs they found were between 9 and 23 feet.

All the kids were washed away and gone, and they found all kinds of traumatic things. They found leg bones that were split vertically from the trauma. They were hit, blenderized, deposited, and with lots of mud on top of them, over one and a quarter mile long.

And America's filled with mysteries like this, but it was significant enough that Jack wrote a whole book on it, saying, yeah, whatever killed these dinosaurs here, they're missing all their young. So, and if you know how animals behave in the stampede mentality, you can look at a wildebeest in Africa, and they're trying to run away from a lion.

They'll run through a crocodile-infested river, and they don't even care. They don't care about where their kids are or anything. They're just trying to, you know, the adrenaline triggers, and they just go.

That's exactly what happened with this herd trying to get away from something right in the middle of America. So when we consider dinosaur taphonomy, and we study these dinosaur bones, we have to have something, some mechanism that would explain how they're buried.

Because here is the second greatest thing about dinosaurs and how they're buried and how it supports the flood. Many places around America, not all, but in many places around America, these dinosaurs are buried in three products, in a matrix of three products, mud, sand, and ash.

So we need something, some mechanism, that could bury these dinosaurs in layers in mud, sand, and ash. What on earth can do that? Well, we think Manoa's flood is probably the only explanation that can account for these three different products.

So we need something that can explain this trifecta of burial material. Let's, with that, let's jump in to the mechanics from the Bible and from geology about how Noah's flood went down. And I think it'll explain what we just went through or how these dinosaurs bought it and were buried.

So let's give an overview of the flood. It was a 371-day process. And interestingly, the Bible gives us all kinds of narrative about how it went down. You know, Noah's keeping a diary. After seven days, this happened.

After 40 days, this happened. After 150 days, this happened. It's the most detailed, longest account of any event in the entire Bible, even the New Testament resurrection account. It's a very, very long account.

It's deep in about two and a half chapters. So we have flooding that happened. The ark even didn't get buoyant until day 40. So there was a lot of coastal and shallow sea flooding that went on for about three or four weeks.

Then the flood didn't peak or zenith until about 150 days in. Then the water began to sheet off of the continents, first in big sheet flow. And then as erosion happened, it went into channelized cut flow.

We can see that at Arches National Park in America. But that's an overview of the 371 days of the flood process. Well, how in the world did Noah get all the animals onto the ark? Now, I was in a debate presentation once.

And the person thought he had got me because he says, well, look, you can't put 1 .5 million animals on the ark. It's case closed. Because there's 1 .5 million species alive today. You can't do that back then.

So Noah's flood must be a fairy tale. But that's never been the creationist claim. There's only about 3 ,000 different types of animals that were on the ark. Some really smart biologists have studied this field.

It's called baromenology. It comes from the Hebrew barah, which means to create, and min, which means kind or family. So baromenology. And it's really easy to see how you could fit all the different animals on the ark when you start spidering back the tree, the animal family tree.

So for example, Canis lupus, which is the wolf kind. There's 339 dog breeds that all go back to a wolf. Now, when you selectively breed a beautiful wolf down into a dumb basset hound, you can't get back to a wolf.

But my mom loves basset hounds. She's onto six of them. So but you can't go backwards. But they all come from the original kind of the wolf. Interestingly, if you take a wolf's paw in Alaska and you bury it in liquid nitrogen, you can't freeze it.

It's a perfect design. It can go below minus 32 degrees because it's got so much circulation and movement and blood flow in its paw, it can't be frozen. Amazing design with these wolves. But if we start looking at that, we can boil down all the dog kinds back or varieties back to a wolf.

Same thing with bears. In the Ursidae family of bears, there's five different species that are still interfertile. You can breed a polar bear with a grizzly bear with a black bear. They're all the same kind.

Chickens, same thing. There's 68 different breeds of chicken. They're all still interfertile. And even horses, 336 breeds of horses. And even today, you can take the smallest horse and a Clydesdale and you can still breed them.

The same interfertile kind. So when you walk that all the way back to the originals, you only need about 3 ,000 pairs or varieties of animals to go on the ark. So here's what happened. We had a landmass.

Some people call it Rodinia or Pangaea. And when all of the fountains of the great deep broke open, here's what it looked like. We actually believe that the majority of these movements happened during the flood, during the 371-day process.

So when it happened, there was a lot of subduction going on that created volcanism along the continental margins that were spewing up ash. This is why the dinosaurs are buried in ash layers, because of the subduction-related things that were going on.

In fact, if you look at the Independence Dike Swarm, which is a system of volcanoes over here, it blew enough ash over here that you could fill New Jersey 740 meters with ash. That whole area right there is a big pile of ash that came from California.

This is secular speak. These are secular geologists that have uncovered these things. We just disagree on the timeline. So when it starts receding like that, it's going to fill it with what's called, geologists call that gulf the Whopper Sand.

It's like thousands of feet deep with sediment runoff that came as it washed off. So you can see the channelized cuts would have done that. Now we can even zoom in to the continental margins on the California coast here.

And we can see the runoff margins. Here's Monterey Bay. We'll spend more time on this later. Look at Monterey Bay. It's a huge submarine canyon that stretches as long as the Grand Canyon. And we have these continental shelves all over the place that are filled with runoff.

But just look at the Monterey Canyon. Like I said, it's about the same size as the Grand Canyon. When you invert it, it looks huge. We can zoom in and see it. It's an amazing structure. All that came from channelized flow that came off of America at the tail end of the flood and washed down a river the size of the Grand Canyon.

So huge sheet flow coming off of the continents like that. And that's what's going to explain when the water's coming back off of the continents during the erosional stage of the flood. Now let's make a quick comparison of the most famous extra biblical account about the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Has anyone heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh before? OK, interestingly, today in not half but most colleges, it's required learning in English. For most students are going to go through the Epic of Gilgamesh.

I have a suspicion that I think that's probably because what a lot of the professors are doing is they're saying, well, the Epic of Gilgamesh is obviously a fable tale. And therefore, the Bible's account of the flood is too.

In fact, you'd be surprised at the number of college students that have been indoctrinated to believe that. Well, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible's account, there used to be some legend of an old flood.

No, not at all. The Epic of Gilgamesh talks about an arc that was about 300 feet square or so and had seven different levels and it obviously would have tumbled out at sea. So we hired a hydrophysics group to simulate what a huge storm would have been.

Using the Buford Storm Scale to compare Noah's Ark based upon the biblical dimensions to the Gilgamesh Ark. And it's quite obvious you can see the difference here. So here's the Gilgamesh Ark. It would have been rotating.

There's just no way. About 200 feet on each side, seven stories. Animals can't live through that. But the Ark can go all the way up to level 10 on the Buford Scale and not capsize. It can turn 45 degrees up on each side, perfectly sea stable for what it did.

It was only afloat for 150 days before it parked and then the earth began drying out and everything. And the Epic of Gilgamesh also has only a seven day flood, not 371 days. So there's some practical differences between Noah's Flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

So let's look at a key verse in scripture about the flood and it's Genesis chapter 11. In the 600th year of Noah's life in the second month, the 17th day of the month, on the same day were all of the fountains of the great deep broken up.

The Hebrew for this is baka, is also baka, which means like to cleave something open with like a meat cleaver. And the windows of heaven were open. So there's two systems going on that God used to initiate the flood.

Sheet flow, torrential rain from heaven and the fountains of the great deep break and open. So key, the flood started on the ocean floor. When you look at the fossil record, we have the quote, simple organisms all on the bottom and the sea organisms all on the bottom because that's where the flood commenced in the first place.

So when at Zenith or peaked after about 150 days. So here's an animation of what it might've looked like when the fountains of the great deep broke open. It was a linear rift system. We can still see this rift system all over the planet today, a 40 ,000 miles of the linear rift system.

It would have created a lot of tsunamis when the fountains of the great deep are breaking up like this. And it would have been pushing water on both sides. It's creating new seafloor. It's gonna hit the land mass.

And as it's diving down, it's gonna create cycles of tsunamis and earthquakes that are pushing water up on both sides. It's gonna subside underneath the continent. It's gonna create mountain uplift, which is what we see.

But as that seafloor, the newly created seafloor is being pushed under, it's gonna push it up. And as the seafloor cools, it's gonna pull the water back off. So we have these seamounts that are coming up, these linear rifts, they're pushing up like this, creating the new seafloor like a conveyor belt that's going over, hitting the land mass, creating tsunamis and all kinds of water that's coming up over the land and everything.

And then when God said, the Bible says God shut the fountains off at about day 150. When that did, when that happened, it would have created cooling. And when you have cooling, it would have shrunk back down, lowering the seafloor.

And when you lower the seafloor, it pulls the water back off of the continents. It's a perfect mechanism for it. So the Bible's got this,.

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The science for it all the way down. This guy, Dr. John Baumgardner, is probably one of the top three leading flood geologists in the world.

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I went to go see him before we did our first Noah's Flood movie. And that was going off on a little whiteboard with the best of my understanding of the flood because we were going to do this video and he was just patiently listening to me at his little pocket protector because he's a scientist.

He used to work at Lawrence Livermore Lab and he let me go for about an hour, like watching a little dog go around on a little leash. And then after I sat down, he said he pulls up a globe.

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Young man, I got my PhD from UCLA in geophysics 40 years ago and I've been studying the flood ever since. And he didn't do it to show off, he did it to say, this is my thing, I own this thing. And his science resulted in a theory called catastrophic plate tectonics that went all across the newswire and he actually developed software program called Terra that modeled Pangea breaking apart to the point that he nailed how fast the continents were spreading about five miles an hour during the flood.

So he's got all that science and he joined with five other PhD guys and they came out with the CPT model, the catastrophic plate tectonics. Here's an output from John's program, Terra. He's got the timing and everything else.

He'll show you how fast the continents broke apart during the flood, which ones went where, the directions,.

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The pressures that were involved. This is from his model, Terry's currently a professor over at Liberty University. But you guys, the flood and the fountains of the Great Deep is actually quite obvious.

You can go look on Google Maps and see this stuff. Google Maps, you can see it right here, but it really becomes prevalent and obvious when you look at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge here and you can see all these perpendicular rifts in these lines that are coming up and it's actually elevated and it perfectly matches these two continents back together.

And did you know that they've done oil correlation studies? They've looked at the oil chemistry from oil deposits along this coastal region and this coastal region and did you know that the 12 different deposits that they investigate, when you put the continents back together, they match perfectly.

So there's all these oil deposits stuck along here and when you put them back together, whatever flora and fauna died and was buried to make up all those oil deposits matches back perfectly. And you can look at the fossils and we have correlated fossils over here that also match the fossils over here because the same ecosystem was catastrophically pulled apart and here's the clue.

The animals are found buried in the mud that killed them, in the mud that was responsible for their death and the same creatures are found over here that are found over here. It's just the most amazing thing.

Here's another one where you can see all the fountains of the great deep, the mid ocean ridges. It's a 40 ,000 mile system that covers the earth 1 .6 times around and these were literally the fountains of the great deep that opened up in the flood.

You can go look at them yourself. You can go touch God's judgment to the world. So when the lava came up and split, it served as a pushing mechanism to shove these continents apart as a new seafloor was being created.

It's pushing these continents apart. That's the action that's involved but when the new seafloor is being created, it's going to go over here like a conveyor belt. It's going to build pressure up against the land and it's going to break and release and push a tsunami up onto land and one out to sea and these were happening in cycles at one after the other during Noah's flood and that's why the dinosaurs are buried in layers because the tsunami would come wash up and then wash back, wash up and wash back.

They're buried in all these layers. So here's some good evidence when there was a 60 foot seafloor slip in Japan that sent tsunamis all the way over to the Americas. We all remember that big tsunami that happened in Japan.

That was because there was a subduction stuck there leftover from the flood. It slipped and released, rebounded about 60 feet and it caused a tsunami that went over. Imagine that process happening over and over again for a couple hundred days during the flood.

That's the mechanism that we're talking about. Now this is the scary part. You guys were standing on an ancient book written in Hebrew that says tsunamis were responsible for the flood. Genesis 8 .3 says, and the water receded from the earth going forth and returning and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.

How is it that God's word even talks about the mechanism of the flood that perfectly matches the geology that I just showed you? It's amazing God's word even has that. So dinosaurs are buried in thousands of cubic miles of ash that spread across multiple states.

Where could such immense volumes of ash come from? What systems produced it? And why are the dinosaurs buried in it? So here's what happened when these new seafloors subducting, it's creating these volcanism that's pushing up all this ash.

It's raining down on the dinosaurs at the same time the tsunamis are gonna be bringing up the sand and the mud. Here's the Independence Dike Swarm. It's a 375 mile linear volcanic rift that evolutionists even say pumped 4 ,000 cubic miles of ash into the atmosphere.

And that's what's responsible for burying the dinosaurs in all of this ash. You can see there's a huge ash deposit right here. Evolutionists even admit it came from the linear rift right here in California, just a little bit northeast from us is where it starts.

It goes all the way up. It blows this ash of 4 ,000 cubic miles of it all over America. And here's how much that volume is. And this cube right down here, this little tiny cube is Mount St. Helens. So when Mount St. Helens blew up in the 80s and you couldn't see the sun for three days in three states with just one quarter cubic mile of ash, that's what the Independence Dike Swarm did during the flood.

So that's how you can bury states worth of dinosaurs in ash. Because when you go talk to paleontologists who run the field, they're like, yeah, we come across ash all the time. These dinosaurs are buried in ash.

How did that happen? Well, it came from the Independence Dike Swarm. So that's really, I think, what can explain the dinosaur burials. You have to have mechanisms to bring mud, sand, and ash up. And catastrophic plate tectonics really explains it.

We have the subducting seafloor that's going to create the tsunamis that's responsible for bringing mud and sand onto the continent. And then we have the subducting seafloor responsible for the ash. There's really no other explanation that's a worldwide catastrophe that can better explain how you can fill these dinosaurs in 13 states with mud, sand, and ash.

To me, it really fits the best explanation. So as these tsunamis were coming up from the west heading east like this, we can see that's how the dinosaurs were buried with repeating tsunamis coming up out of the ocean with all these subducting plates and the volcanism, everything's going like that.

It was not related to the Chicxulub asteroid that dropped way down here and buried some dinosaurs over in this region. Something was happening out in the ocean with the subducting plates hitting America.

And we know we can go see the Farallon plate today with underground radio stuff that they do. It's like a huge x-ray machine. And they can go and see the Farallon plate that actually subducted along the continental margin here.

So the repeating tsunamis is what better explains the flood. Now, when the receding stage happened, as I mentioned, it's about another 150 days when the water's drying out. It starts in sheet flow that goes to channelized cuts.

Here again, we have the gulf with what the people call, even secular geologists call it the whopper sand, you know, over 1 ,000 feet deep. That's from all the erosion that's coming off. And of course, my favorite is Monterey Canyon.

My wife and I have stood right there before. It's like a little nozzle of where the water's coming off. You can see it clipped off this huge section of California, but it carves out an entire Grand Canyon as it's coming off of America.

When the fountains of the great deep were shut down over here, and it's gonna pull that water back off the continent. So huge, huge area, lots and lots of dirt. And there's an amazing, what they call an alluvial fan out here with all kinds of dirt and debris that were scattered out in the ocean when that retreated off the continent.

The Dinosaur Fossil Record and Noah’s Flood

Okay, guys, so that is my first myth of six more that we're gonna have. But the other ones go really, really quick. So why don't we take a break for dessert? And then I think, I'm hoping that you'll find the other six myths as interesting as I do this one.

So, all right, well, thanks for the first half. And now we're gonna go into myth number one. So as you guys can imagine, when students go to college these days, even many labeled Christian colleges, the Bible is gonna be under attack in two ways, its validity and its reliability.

So here's what's going on in America. A Gallup poll just came out and asked Americans, these are not Christians, just Americans broadly, asked them, hey, how do you regard the Bible? And the green line here, the highest line is 49 currently of Americans.

About half of Americans say, well, the Bible's inspired by God, but it's not all literal. There's gonna be pockets that might be allegory or myth or maybe some things that we shouldn't really take as real history.

So we've got a soft interpretation of the Bible, about half of Americans, 49%. And then the dotted line that we see here are, look, the Bible is the actual word of God and it should be taken literally.

Now, I think the people who said that would also, of course, give it like the Song of Solomon has got all kinds of metaphor and poetry in it and everything but this dotted line says, it's the percentage of people that say, yeah, it's the actual word of God, we should take it literally.

It starts out really high in the 1980s and it's been tapering down to now it's at 20%. So one out of five Americans are believing that. It just got eclipsed by this other dark line, that the Bible is fables, history, moral precepts recorded by man.

So it's not inspired, it's not authoritative, it's just a mythical allegory book. And that line was crossed in about 2018 or so. So this is a phenomenon currently in America of how people are perceiving God's word and for the first time over the last five or 10 years or so, those of us who hold a high view of scripture and believe in the authority of scripture just dip down and now the majority of people in America, you know, about 80 are saying, well, the Bible could be inspired or it's just a myth.

So that's what's going on in America with respect to the belief about the Bible. So we can see the inspired literal line is going down and inspired not literal line is going down but the idea that it's a myth is spiking up and they're scheduled to cross in about 2040 or 2035 or so.

So when you plot it all out, you can see some very solid trends here that the belief in the Bible as a real historical book that's inspired word of God is going down and the idea that it's a myth is going up.