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

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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

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I wanna front load with, on Noah's Flood. What I want you to do tonight is

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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.

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I'm gonna spend a good few minutes on that topic. We're gonna look at the dinosaur taphonomy, dinosaur fossil beds, and then

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I'm gonna show you later how the flood is the most practical and likely explanation for how the dinosaurs got buried.

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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

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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

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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 with not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of fleeing dinosaurs,

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Ceratopsian dinosaurs, that they admit were buried by a huge, huge flood.

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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?

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We're gonna see some things like that. Let's start here, these are some Jurassic creatures, so these are

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Allosaurus, we've all seen these creatures, it's kind of a cousin to a T -Rex. Keep a quick look here on the buttons that you see on the screen.

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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.

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Now let's take a look at the sauropods, and instantly you should see something similar going on.

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We have Allosaurus, then we have sauropods, the dots really don't change places, do they?

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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

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Jurassic layers are here. Stegosaurus, same thing. And then we have all three together, look what happens.

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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

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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

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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.

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So this is just something about dinosaurs, but now let's look at the big picture, and this is the amazing part.

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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.

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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.

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In fact, it stretches 1 ,800 miles by 1 ,000 mile wide, and it's about one million square miles.

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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?

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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.

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Here's a triceratops horn that's been demineralized. It still has soft, flexible biomatter inside of it.

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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 bioorganic materials found inside of dinosaur bones that are supposedly millions of years old.

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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 timeframe because they have to have 66 million years between today and the dinosaurs.

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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.

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They're saying with five different studies, the longest that collagen can possibly last in a dinosaur bone is less than one million years.

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So they get one step, but all these other steps of 66 million years going across, they have to punt.

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They throw up their hands and they say, we can't explain within our evolutionary timeframe how these bioorganic soft tissue materials are still in these dinosaur bones.

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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.

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Now, this is over all creatures in general. 50 of these articles deal specifically with dinosaurs.

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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.

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But then they found, no, that wasn't the cause. Well, maybe some bird died on top of the

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T -Rex and leached its collagen into the dinosaur bone. Then they threw out that sample.

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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.

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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.

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So it absolutely shrinks the timeframe of these dinosaurs, and it lines with Noah's Flood.

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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.

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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.

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Here's what it looks like. We're gonna zoom into Morrison, Colorado, and we're gonna take a cut, a cross -sectional cut, of what this huge area looks like.

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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.

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So imagine a pancake that's 300, it's a football field tall, but it spans for 600 ,000 miles, stretching over 13 states.

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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.

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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.

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You put in the Empire State Building, you know, it covers a lot of it at the bottom. It's a scale comparison, it's really amazing.

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All of these dinosaur species that you see in this image are found in the Morrison Formation, 13 states.

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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,

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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.

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This gigantic family of dinosaurs, ankylosaurs and theropods and edmontosaurus and sauropods, all these creatures are found buried in that 300 -foot -thick man -cake.

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They have over 1 ,700 fossil bone beds, 37 different genre, 364 species of plants, and that's just what we've found so far.

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They've actually estimated that they've only uncovered maybe 20 % of what they think is actually in the

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Morrison Formation. So there's a huge pancake of these creatures here in the middle of America.

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What on earth could put them there? So there it is again, 1 ,800 miles long. It's actually encompassing three countries, a million square miles.

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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.

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But if you run a simulation and you drop the Chicxulub asteroid here, look at where this simulation shows the water's gonna go.

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It's gonna cover some parts of the southern areas of America, but it's not gonna kill this 600 ,000 -square -foot area.

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Yet every time you go into any secular museum, they're gonna say, oh, the Chicxulub asteroid did it.

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The Chicxulub asteroid did it on the southern tip of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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But it really doesn't make a good explanation because it's only coming up feet and meters over here in the southern areas.

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It's not gonna kill dinosaurs in Montana or Canada. Something else had to do that.

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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.

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Track with me carefully here because this is a very important phenomenon. Digging Dinosaurs is the title of this book,

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The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs. So why would

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Jack bother to write a book about a mystery about baby dinosaurs? Well, here's what he found.

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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 1 1⁄4 mile east to west.

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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.

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We had discovered the tomb of 10 ,000 dinosaurs. Okay, so Jack found a herd.

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It's 10 ,000 dinosaurs. They're myosaurs, they're 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.

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There was no youth found among them, no juvenile dinosaurs, no teenage dinosaurs, no baby dinosaurs, no nothing.

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For some reason, this herd of 10 ,000 adult myosaurus were booking it, trying to get away from something, and they ditched the kids, all of them.

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Ha! 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 nine and 23 feet.

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All the kids were washed away and gone, and they found all kinds of traumatic things.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Because here is the second greatest thing about dinosaurs and how they're buried and how it supports the flood.

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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.

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So we need something, some mechanism, that could bury these dinosaurs in layers in mud, sand, and ash.

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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.

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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

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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.

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So let's give an overview of the flood. It was a 371 -day process, and interestingly, the

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Bible gives us all kinds of narrative about how it went down. Noah's keeping a diary.

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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

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Bible, even the New Testament resurrection account. It's a very, very long account. It's deep in about two and a half chapters.

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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.

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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.

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We can see that at Arches National Park in America. But that's an overview of the 371 days of the flood process.

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Well, how in the world did Noah get all the animals onto the ark?

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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

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million animals on the ark. It's case closed, because there's 1 .5 million species alive today.

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You can't do that back then, so Noah's flood must be a fairy tale. But that's never been the creationist claim.

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There's only about 3 ,000 different types of animals that were on the ark.

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Some really smart biologists have studied this field. It's called baromenology. It comes from the

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Hebrew word barah, which means to create and mean, which means kind or family, so baromenology.

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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 trees.

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So, for example, Canis lupus, which is the wolf kind, there's 339 dog breeds that all go back to a wolf.

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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.

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She's on to six of them. So, but you can't go backwards, but they all come from the original kind of the wolf.

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Interestingly, if you take a wolf's paw in Alaska and you bury it in liquid nitrogen, you can't freeze it.

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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.

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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.

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Same thing with bears. In the Ursidae family of bears, there's five different species that are still interfertile.

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You can breed a polar bear with a grizzly bear with a black bear. They're all the same kind.

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Chickens, same thing. There's 68 different breeds of chicken. They're all still interfertile. And even horses, 336 breeds of horses.

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And even today, you can take the smallest horse and a Clydesdale and you can still breed them.

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They're 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.

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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.

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We actually believe that the majority of these movements happened during the flood, during the 371 -day process.

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So when it happened, there was a lot of subduction going on that created volcanism along the continental margins that were spewing up ash.

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This is why the dinosaurs are buried in ash layers, because of the subduction -related things that were going on.

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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

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New Jersey 740 meters with ash. That whole area right there is a big pile of ash that came from California.

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This is secular speak. These are secular geologists that have uncovered these things.

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We just disagree on the timeline. So when it starts receding like that, it's gonna fill it with what's called, geologists call that gulf the

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Whopper Sand. It's like thousands of feet deep with sediment runoff that came as it washed off.

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So you can see the channelized cuts would have done that. Now we can even zoom in to the continental margins on the

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California coast here, and we can see the runoff margins. Here's Monterey Bay. We'll spend more time on this later.

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Look at Monterey Bay. It's a huge submarine canyon that stretches as long as the

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Grand Canyon, and we have these continental shelves all over the place that are filled with runoff. But just look at the

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Monterey Canyon. It's, like I said, it's about the same size as the Grand Canyon.

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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

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Grand Canyon. So huge sheet flow coming off of the continents like that, and that's what's gonna explain when the water's coming back off of the continents during the erosional stage of the flood.

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Now let's make a quick comparison of the most famous extra -biblical account about the

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Epic of Gilgamesh. Has anyone heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh before? Okay, interestingly, today, in not half but most colleges, it's required learning in English, for most students are gonna go through with the

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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

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Epic of Gilgamesh is obviously a fable tale, and therefore the Bible's account of the flood is too.

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In fact, you'd be surprised at the number of college students that have been indoctrinated to believe that.

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Well, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible's account, there used to be some legend of an old flood. No, not at all.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh talks about an ark that was about 300 feet square or so and had seven different levels, and it obviously would have tumbled out at sea.

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So we hired a hydrophysics group to simulate what a huge storm would have been using the

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Beaufort Storm Scale to compare Noah's Ark based upon the biblical dimensions to the

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Gilgamesh Ark, and it's quite obvious you can see the difference here. So here's the Gilgamesh Ark.

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It would have been rotating. There's just no way. About 200 feet on each side, seven stories.

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Animals can't live through that, but the ark can go all the way up to level 10 on the Beaufort Scale and not capsize.

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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.

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And the Epic of Gilgamesh also has only a seven -day flood, not 371 days.

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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

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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.

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The Hebrew for this is bakah, which means like to cleave something open with like a meat cleaver.

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And the windows of heaven were open. So there's two systems going on that God used to initiate the flood.

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Sheet flow, torrential rain from heaven, and the fountains of the great deep break and open.

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So key, the flood started on the ocean floor. That's why 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.

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So at Zenith, they're peaked after about 150 days. So here's an animation of what it might have looked like when the fountains of the great deep broke open

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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.

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It would have created a lot of tsunamis when the fountains of the great deep are breaking up like this. It would have been pushing water on both sides.

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It's creating new sea floor. It's gonna hit the landmass. And as it's diving down, it's gonna create cycles of tsunamis and earthquakes that are pushing water up on both sides.

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It's gonna subside underneath the continent. It's gonna create mountain uplift, which is what we see.

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But as that sea floor, the newly created sea floor is being pushed under, it's gonna push it up.

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And as the sea floor cools, it's gonna pull the water back off. So we have these sea mounts that are coming up, these linear rifts, they're pushing up like this, creating the new sea floor like a conveyor belt that's going over, hitting the landmass, creating tsunamis and all kinds of water that's coming up over the land and everything.

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And then when God said, the Bible says God shut the fountains off at about day 150.

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When that happened, it would have created cooling. And when you have cooling, it would have shrunk back down, lowering the sea floor.

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And when you lower the sea floor, it pulls the water back off of the continents. It's a perfect mechanism for it.

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So the Bible's got 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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In fact, I went to go see him before we did our first Noah's Flood movie. And I was going off on a little whiteboard with the best of my understanding of the flood because we were gonna do this video.

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And he was just patiently listening to me at his little pocket protector. Because he's a scientist, used to work at Lawrence Livermore Lab.

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And he let me go for about an hour, like watching a little dog go around on a little leash.

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And then after I sat down, he pulls up a globe. And he says, young man, I got my PhD from UCLA in geophysics 40 years ago.

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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.

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I own this thing. And his science resulted in a theory called catastrophic plate tectonics that went all across the newswire.

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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.

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So he's got all that science and he joined with five other PhD guys and they came out with the

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CPT model, the catastrophic plate tectonics. Here's an output from John's program,

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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, the speeds, the whole bit, the heats, the pressures that were involved.

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This is from his model, Terra. He's currently a professor over at Liberty University. But you guys, the flood and the fountains of the

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And did you know that the 12 different deposits that they investigate, when you put the continents back together, they match perfectly.

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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.

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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.

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The animals are found buried in the mud that killed them, in the mud that was responsible for their death.

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And the same creatures are found over here that are found over here. It's just the most amazing thing.

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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

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times around and these were literally the fountains of the Great Deep that opened up in the flood.

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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.

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As a new seafloor was being created, it's pushing these continents apart. That's the action that's involved.

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But when the new seafloor is being created, it's gonna go over here like a conveyor belt.

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It's gonna build pressure up against the land and it's gonna break and release and push a tsunami up onto land and one out to sea.

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And these were happening in cycles, 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.

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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

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Americas. We all remember that big tsunami that happened in Japan. That was because there was a subduction stuck there left over from the flood.

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It slipped and released, rebounded about 60 feet and it caused a tsunami that went over.

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Imagine that process happening over and over again for a couple hundred days during the flood.

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That's the mechanism that we're talking about. Now this is the scary part. You guys, we're standing on an ancient book written in Hebrew that says tsunamis were responsible for the flood.

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Hebrews, Genesis 8 .3 says, and the water receded from the earth going forth and returning.

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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?

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It's amazing, God's word even has that. So dinosaurs are buried in thousands of cubic miles of ash that's spread across multiple states.

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Where could such immense volumes of ash come from? What systems produced it? And why are the dinosaurs buried in it?

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So here's what happened when these new seafloors subducting, it's creating these volcanism that's pushing up all this ash.

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It's raining down on the dinosaurs at the same time the tsunamis are gonna be bringing up the sand and the mud.

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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.

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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.

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Evolutionists even admit it came from the linear rift right here in California, just a little bit

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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.

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And here's how much that volume is. And this cube right down here, this little tiny cube is

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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

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Independence Dike Swarm did during the flood. So that's how you can bury states worth of dinosaurs in ash.

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Because when you go talk to paleontologists who are in the field, they're like, yeah, we come across ash all the time. These dinosaurs are buried in ash.

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How did that happen? Well, it came from the Independence Dike Swarm. So that's really, I think, what can explain the dinosaur burials.

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You have to have mechanisms to bring mud, sand, and ash up. And catastrophic plate tectonics really explains it.

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We have the subducting seafloor that's going to create the tsunamis that's responsible for bringing mud and sand onto the continent.

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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.

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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.

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It was not related to the Chicxulub asteroid that dropped way down here and buried some dinosaurs over in this region.

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Something was happening out in the ocean with the subducting plates hitting America. And we know, we can go see the

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Farallon Plate today with underground radio stuff that they do.

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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.

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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.

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It starts in sheet flow, then it goes to channelized cuts. Here again, we have the Gulf with what the people call, even secular geologists call it the

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Whopper Sand, you know, over 1 ,000 feet deep. That's from all the erosion that's coming off.

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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.

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You can see it clipped off this huge section of California, but it carves out an entire

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Grand Canyon as it's coming off of America. When the fountains of the Great Deep were shut down over here, and it's going to pull that water back off the continent.

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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.

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Okay, guys, so that is my first myth of six more that we're going to have.

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But the other ones go really, really quick. So why don't we take a break for dessert? And then

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I think, I'm hoping that you'll find the other six myths as interesting as I do this one. All right, well, thanks for the first half.

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And now we're going to go into myth number one. So as you guys can imagine, when students go to college these days, even many labeled

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Christian colleges, the Bible is going to be under attack in two ways.

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It's validity and it's reliability. So here's what's going on in America.

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A Gallup poll just came out and asked Americans, these are not Christians, just Americans broadly, asked them, hey, how do you regard the

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Bible? And the green line here, the highest line is 49 % currently of Americans.

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

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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

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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

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Song of Solomon is, you know, it's got all kinds of metaphor and poetry in it and everything. But this dotted line says, you know, is the percentage of people that say, yeah, it's the actual word of God, we should take it literally.

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It starts out really high in the 1980s and it's been tapering down to now it's at 20%.

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So one out of five Americans are believing that. It just got eclipsed by this other dark line, that the

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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.

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And that line was crossed in about 2018 or so. So this is a phenomenon currently in America of how people are perceiving

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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

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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

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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.

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So when you plot it all out, you can see some very solid trends here that the belief in the

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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.

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What about when you ask Americans about their view about humans and human evolution?

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Well, the green line up here says, well, God created humans in their present form.

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So humans were spoken out of existence, breathed into existence by God. That's still holding strong at about 37%.

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The next line is that humans developed but God guided it, kind of a theological evolution or theistic evolution perspective.

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But look at this scary little dotted line over here that's going up and catching up quickly is that humans developed without God or just evolved pawn scum that evolved from ape -like creatures.

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That's going up and it's soon to grab these other number here. So when you plot it all out, we do have a situation here where in about 10 years or so, they're gonna cross.

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There's gonna be an intersection. So this is what's happening in America and I would argue, obviously,

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I think that these two things are connected. One's view of scripture is gonna dictate what you believe about humans and if it dictates what you believe about humans, it's gonna dictate how you live your life out.

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So the moral fiber of society is gonna start pulling apart as these lines are dipping down because our perspectives of where humans come from is getting pulled apart by the idea of evolution.

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So yes, evolution and creation are a big hot topic that should be taught. So now we see all the lines together where they're crossing, where we're gonna have some changes going on even more.

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Well, what do we believe about the Bible itself? Well, the Bible says that no prophecy was ever made by the act of human will but men were moved by the

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Holy Spirit as they spoke from God. And 2 Timothy 3 says, all scriptures inspired by God are profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.

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And it's not only that the Bible says itself that it's inspired. You guys, we've all been reading the

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Bible for decades, many of us, and those of us have been doing that. It's shocking how incredible the

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Bible is, how integrated it is, how one part quotes the other part and he doesn't even know it. I mean, it's a holistic book.

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It's obvious to us who have been doing BSF for years or whatever in Bible studies, it's an inspired book.

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And not only that, it's a supernatural book. When you read it, it's gonna come up and hit your spirit. It's gonna divide your heart and mind and it's a powerful, powerful book.

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So that's what the Bible says about itself. But when we evaluate any old religious text, there's two things that you can look at.

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Is it valid? Is this source accurately making predictions when it makes predictions?

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And is it making accurate claims that can be substantiated in history? It is a real book.

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Is it valid? And the second thing is, was it reliably transmitted over the centuries?

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Was it copied over time and in a reliable way? And we're gonna answer those questions shortly by looking at is the

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Bible valid first? Well, here's for example, there's 53 people in the Bible and you're not designed to have to read these as it scans up.

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But 53 characters in the Bible have been substantiated with archeology, which is fascinating.

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There's a group called Defending Inerrancy. Thousands of people have signed up on this to say, yes, we believe the

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Bible alone in its entirety. It's the infallible written word of God. But even when you go back in archeology, there's all kinds, there's dozens of biblical characters that have been substantiated in archeology.

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So that has to do with the validity of the Bible. Well, what about the prophecies of Jesus? This is a short list of the 43 prophecies that we know were written before Christ came that really were nailed by Christ in the

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New Testament. And very specifically, that he would be a descendant of Isaac and he'd be a descendant of Jacob and he would come from the tribe of Judah.

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Very, very specific things about Jesus. Over 40 of them were predicted in the

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Old Testament and all of them came true. Even secular historians are gonna give us this.

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And this itself should be enough to say, that's amazing, the Bible is valid, because it's making predictions about this

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Messiah who's gonna come in the future and these things are actually coming true. There's many, many of these.

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I'll send Chris a PowerPoint so you guys can have this as a table if you like. I mean, things about he's gonna be betrayed with money, that's gonna be used to buy a potter's field, the idea of the 30 pieces of silver, all that stuff's in there.

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It was all predicted accurately by Old Testament prophets. Prophecy after prophecy, even what he's gonna be given to drink up on the cross and crucified with criminals and buried in a rich man's grave.

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The list goes on that really substantiate the Bible is in fact valid. In fact, when you look at it graphically, look at all of these

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Old Testament prophecies that we can map over and show were fulfilled by New Testament writers.

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This is kind of like a man -of -war jellyfish with all those connections showing, here's the prophecies and here's where they came true in the

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New Testament. That's just the top half, the second half, same thing. Over and over again, all these prophecies in the

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Old Testament were connected and fulfilled in the New Testament. So over and over again, it would take a much longer lecture to get into this, but this is a phenomenon that people have to deal with when they say, oh, the

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Bible's not valid. You say, well, what about the 43 prophecies that we know were written before Christ that came true when he was here?

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Amazing. What about the Bible's reliability? Is it consistent? Well, when you look at these ancient documents like the

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Gallic Wars by Caesar or Tacitus writings by Tacitus, the

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Homer's Iliad over here, we have 643 copies of that book and that's 400 years from the original.

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So there's lots of distance, lots of time between all these copies that we have and the original.

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But the Bible, we now have over 5 ,000 scraps and parchments and pieces of the

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New Testament that we can show were written consistently and they're only 275 years from the original.

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So it's got much more evidence of reliability than all of these famous ancient words.

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We have thousands upon thousands of copies of the New Testament that are dated and aged really close to when they were written.

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In fact, someone did a study once and showed that even if you burned the Bibles that we have, the older ones and the newer ones, you could reassemble most of the

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New Testament just by the writings and the letters between the early church fathers. So you scrap all the

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Bibles from 1 ,000 AD and forward, you can go back to the time of the early church fathers in the first few centuries after Christ, you could use just their writings and reassemble the entire

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New Testament. So yes, we have lots of reliable evidence for the Bible.

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But now I'm gonna show you with one example, with just one scroll, how the Bible is both valid and reliable in a way that is absolutely shocking.

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A young boy threw a rock up in this cave once in the 1940s and heard a shattering glass.

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He went up there and found, oh my gosh, there's all these clay pots. Well, these clay pots were filled with hundreds and hundreds of scrolls.

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In fact, 40 ,000 scroll fragments in 11 caves. These are known as the

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Dead Sea Scrolls. Has anyone been to Jerusalem before and seen these things? They have these in museum.

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It is incredible. We'll look at just one of these, the Great Isaiah Scroll. So this

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Great Isaiah Scroll is just one of the seven complete scrolls, and I'm glad that they found this one.

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It contains a whole book of Isaiah. But here's the cool thing, the most amazing thing, is they've dated this chemically and paleographically.

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They're certain it was written before Christ, at least 100 years before Christ was even on the scene.

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And that's important to know as we're gonna go through this. But here we have all the different chapters of Isaiah all laid out, and the question for us tonight would be, okay, well, if we know this scroll is 2 ,200 years old, what does it look like when we hold it up to a modern

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Bible? Because now we've got 2 ,200 years worth of Bible copying that's gone on, and we can compare how reliable it was.

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We've got the old original. Well, we can look at the modern one and see how reliably it was written.

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But let's do that by drilling down on just one single chapter in Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 53.

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Here's what it looks like. Here's all the words in Isaiah chapter 53. We won't read the whole thing, but there's the amount of text that we're talking about that was put in that time capsule 2 ,200 years ago and copied by copyists and scribe for two millennia to the

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Bibles that we have today. That's the amount of text that's just in one chapter of that whole scroll of Isaiah.

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Here's the amazing thing. That one chapter in that scroll has 12 prophecies about our

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Lord that are splitting true and amazing in their implications.

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Things like he would not be believed widely. He would not have the look of majesty.

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There was nothing to his look that would be becoming. He would be despised and suffer. He would be concerned for others' health.

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We even went in dying for our sins. His pain and punishment would be for us.

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He would not respond to his charges like a lamb. He would be silent before his accusers. He'd be oppressed and killed.

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He's gonna be buried with criminals during his death, buried in a rich man's tomb, crushed and suffer, yet live again, would bear our sins and would have a portion with the great.

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All of these prophecies were spoken about the Messiah in that one chapter nestled in the scroll of Isaiah.

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So here's what we can do. Here's the original Isaiah scroll, which we don't have, which was written about 700

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BC. Here's the Dead Sea Scrolls that we have written about 125 BC.

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We have the Aleppo Codex, which is one of our more recent complete Bibles written about 930

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AD. And then we have today's modern Bible. We can test this now. We can look at the reliability of the transmission of and the copying of these scriptures over 2 ,200 years.

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So this is when the Dead Sea Scroll was written. This is when

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Christ was crucified. And we can now prove that those 12 prophecies, which we know were written before Jesus, came true and about Jesus 100 to 200 years after they were written.

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So not only does this prove the validity of the Bible, we can show the reliability of the

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Bible, because in that entire chapter of 166 Hebrew words, only 17 letters were in question between the 2 ,200 -year -old copy and the copies that we have today.

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Four letters or 10 letters were spelling differences, so not a big deal there. Four letters were stylistic changes.

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Three letters added a word light. And one added word in 166 words means that we have a 99 % accuracy from the original back, what was written before Christ to what we have today, 2 ,000 years of copying.

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And that's because God commissioned a culture of the scribes where they would go through and they would count all the letters that they would write, and then there would be someone else that would go and check the scroll that that guy had written and they would count all the

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Hebrew characters that they were right. And if it was off by one, they'd burn the whole scroll.

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It could take a scribe a year to write an Old Testament book. And if the guy doing the counting at the end said, sorry, man, you missed it by one word, they would torch his work.

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So that's how we have it so reliably. So here we have it. The whole chapter is accurate, and this is the only part in question, 99 .4

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% accuracy as it goes on. And you can multiply that and say much of the same thing about all of scripture.

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God shepherded that process for a couple thousand years so we can trust what we have today.

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All right, let's move straight on to number two, myth number two, six days of creation.

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I'm gonna be changing gears. It's gonna be like snip -snap here going back and forth because we have a lot of stuff to cover.

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But this myth is simply this. Well, the days of creation are metaphorical or represent long ages.

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They're not ordinary days. And why do people do this? Because some Christians want to align the Bible's history with secular evolution.

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There's a lot of conflict and turmoil over the days of creation, and that's what's motivating it is people want to try to align the

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Bible's written truth with some form of man's narrative, of man's secular ideas.

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But we know that God was capable of creating in six seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months, but he chose to create over six days.

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That was his choice. And every time he says a day in Genesis 1, like day one, day two, day three, he packages it.

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There was evening, there was morning, the second day. There was evening, morning, the third day.

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Evening, morning, the fourth day. He did this over and over again. And even in the fourth commandment when God was communicating to the

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Israelites about the Sabbath law, God says with his own hands, he carves this in stone, the only part of scripture

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God bothered to write himself directly. He says, for in six days, the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them.

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The whole package and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

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Now, communication involves both a sender and a receiver. Real simple, right?

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You have to ask the question, what did this sender of this communication want the audience to believe?

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Six million years, six stretches, six eras? No, the people that heard

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God say this when Moses revealed it were thinking back in their framework of, well, I know what a day is because I plant and I water and I've got my stuff and the sun comes out and the sun comes down.

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They knew what God was talking about. So God commissioned the Israelites, hey,

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I want you to believe this. And if that was a commissioning he gave to the Israelites, it's also a commissioning that I wanna take personally in faith.

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I'm just gonna believe that that's what God wanted us to do. So that's what God wanted them to believe about Creation Week and why should we believe any differently.

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So that's a theological reason to believe this. But here's an interesting thing that Luther himself said.

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This is very interesting because at that time they were trying to think, well, could God have done it in a shorter period than six days?

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They were arguing about that. And here's what Luther said. He said, when Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days and do not venture to devise any comment according to which the six days were one day.

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But if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the

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Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. Isn't that interesting?

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For you are to deal with scripture in such a way that you bear in mind that God himself says what is written.

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But since God is speaking, it is not fitting for you to wantonly turn his word to the direction you wish to go.

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And that's convicting to me because I don't wanna stand up here and be a dogmatic fundamentalist.

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Oh, six days, believe it or you're a heretic. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the Holy Spirit has convicted me with these types of things, this type of thinking, that I'm personally convicted to believe in six days.

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Now, if I go up to heaven and Jesus says, oh, by the way, earth is really old, but thanks for believing in scripture.

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That's okay with me because I feel like I'm bringing honor to God's word because I think he wanted me to believe that.

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And that's just where I personally stand. I know there's lots of other people that get sparks and all kinds of emotion about this.

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This is my personal perspective, but I'm convicted by it. So here's some other things to think about.

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Why would God say on day one there was evening, morning, night, day? It looks to me like he's opening and closing the chapter every time.

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I mean, how more clear could God have been if he's trying to say it's an ordinary day?

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Well, where did the light come from? Well, God himself probably had to provide the light because the sun, moon, and stars weren't even created until day four.

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But think about this. How in the world could bees and the need for pollinating plants be separated by millions of years?

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Because we have plants created on day three and pollinators like butterflies and bees were created on day five.

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So a two -day separation is fine with me when it talks about animals or the flying animals like the bees and butterflies having to pollinate, but you can't stretch these days out across millions of years without even having bees to pollinate the vegetation.

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There's some other practical ways of looking at it like that. So the Hebrew word for day is yom. It's used 2 ,300 times in the

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Old Testament. And did you know that when it's used with day or yom with a number, whenever it's used with a number, which is 410 times, it always means an ordinary day.

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When evening and morning are used together without day, which is 38 times, it always means an ordinary day.

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And when evening or morning is used together with day, 23 times, it always means an ordinary day. And when night is used with day, 52 times, it always means an ordinary day.

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So it's not just the word yom to think about, it's the words that God packaged with yom, evening, morning, day, number.

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So to me, it seems clear he's wanting us to believe that it was six ordinary days and he even reinforces it by the fourth commandment.

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Okay, so the other thing to think about about God's instantaneous creation or his somewhat instantaneous creation over a regular week of time is the things that need to exist together.

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Look at Hebrews 410. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from his.

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So there's no more creating going on, guys, because there's no more things being born or planets being spun up into existence because God did it, he completed it, and then he stopped.

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When you look at the earth, it's very finely tuned, so everything had to be here at the same time for life to exist.

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Here's one scripture, Isaiah 45, that says, for thus the Lord says, who created the heavens, who is

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God, who formed the earth and made it, he who established it, who did not create it in vain, so there's intentionality here, who formed it to be inhabited.

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I am the Lord, and there is no other. And when we look at the planets and the orbits and the stars and the magnetic fields between everything and the night and the day and the ions and all the oxygen layers and everything, you can't change anything in our immediate solar system and still have life on earth today.

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You can't budge the earth and the moon and separate them a little bit more. We're gonna fry or freeze if we're closer to the sun or further away from the sun.

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The Bible says he created it perfectly habitable for life, and you can't change any of the chemistry, the oxygen layers, carbon dioxide, magnetism, any of that stuff, and I believe he had to assemble this whole thing that's spinning around like this in six ordinary days.

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That's when he put this whole thing together, spun it all up, and he even used the sun and the moon to track the day itself, and that's defined in Genesis chapter one.

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So all that had to come together pretty quick. Well, wait a second. Let's pump the brakes for a second because don't the secularists believe about radiometric dating?

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Doesn't that destroy the whole idea of God creating in six days? And as a creationist, well, we can just take

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Luke chapter three and we can map back the patriarchs of 77 patriarchs from Jesus back to Adam just 4 ,000 years span, and there's another 2 ,000 years from Jesus for us today, so we know that the

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Bible says that the whole package is only about 6 ,000 years old, but what about radiometric dating?

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Well, radiometric dating is when they take a radioactive element like uranium and see how fast it can decay into lead or potassium to argon.

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There's all different types of radiometric dating. This kind of radiometric dating, called relative dating, usually works just fine.

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It's where you can stack up a whole bunch of layers of rocks and you can date the ash layers between them, and you can know that, well, stack pancake one was laid down first, and number two, number three, number four.

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You can go up the stack of pancakes and it makes great sense that these are relatively dated when they were put down in layers, so that's relative dating, but when it comes to absolute dating, that's where radiometric dating comes in, so we know there's a high likelihood that these pancake layers were laid down over time.

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It could have been quick. In some cases, it wasn't so quick, but there's a very high likelihood about that, but when it comes to absolute dating, when we're starting to use radiometric dating and date them back to millions of years ago, and we think that these deposits happen over millions and millions of years, well, we have to rely on this.

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This is the formula for radiometric dating, and I won't get too much into it, but we have T for the time of the rock.

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We have the daughter atoms today. We have the starting parent elements. We have a logarithm, but did you know that we have to assume these parts of the formula?

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They're complete assumptions. We don't know a lot of things about radiometric dating, so we don't know the starting amount of the parent element.

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We don't know the starting amount of the daughter element, and we can't go back and test the rate of the decay in the past.

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All we know is the rate of decay today that we can put in a laboratory and we can check, but the rest of the formula here and the time, we have to assume all kinds of things, like the starting amount of the parent and the daughter amounts, that decay is 100 % radioactive and not caused by anything else, like most creationists believe that there's what's called accelerated nuclear decay that happened during the flood.

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That couldn't be factored in, but they assume a static straight -line decay between the parent and the daughter, and they assume a constant decay rate, so we have to assume these things, but what happens when you put radiometric dating to the test?

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I was in a debate once with a geologist, and he says, Dr. Biddle, this is really just a foolish phone call because I have 5 ,000 geology books in my library, and I know radiometric dating works, and I just trust it.

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I know millions of years is a true thing, so we're just wasting our time, and I said, well, that's great.

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If you have 5 ,000 geology books in your library, go find me a single study where they dated a rock radiometrically, and the radiometric age of the rock matches the known age of the rock, and he's like, well, what do you mean?

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I said, well, there's a lot of instances that we have where people were alive, like in Mount St. Helens when it blew up in the 1980s or 500 years ago in Hawaii or in Italy.

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Lots of times through history, people have watched rocks be formed metamorphically.

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It comes up out of a lava dome. It cools, and then you can take that rock that should be 500 years old because people 500 years ago, they watched that rock actually get formed.

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You should be able to grab that rock, haul it into a lab, and it should say what? 500 years old, but do you know that never happens?

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The rocks are always millions and millions and millions of years older than they are actually age.

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Here's a big study that was done with Mount St. Helens using about a 15 -pound sample of dacite.

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So we know that this rock was only about 10 or 15 years old when it was taken in for analyses.

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They dated it using five different methods, and the rock that we know was only decades old came back at 2 .8

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million years old, 1 .7, 900 ,000, 340 ,000. It's all over the place, and it's not just Mount St.

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Helens. This happens all the time. There's all kinds of studies here. When we watch these rocks get formed, basalt and all these different examples here, we know when the lava was extruded, people were present in the year 1800 when they watched this rock get formed.

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When you take it into a lab, it turns back at 1 .6 million years old. This sample here, 122

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BC, says it's a quarter million years old. This is the 1800s, a third of a million years old.

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This problem happens all the time in radiometric dating. If radiometric dating was a true science, you should be able to validate it by taking rocks of known ages, like a 300 -year -old rock or a 1 ,000 -year -old rock, take it right into a lab, and it should return that date, but it doesn't.

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It takes faith to rely on radiometric dating just like it takes faith to rely on a 6 ,000 -year -old

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Earth. Carbon dating, we'll save for the Q &A because that's another two, three -minute thing, but this is radiometric dating, generally speaking.

01:03:44

Okay, because I want to make sure, in the last 15 minutes or so, we get through some other myths here. This actually happens a lot, and it wrecks the faith of a lot of students because they go into school, even some

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Bible schools, and they say, well, we know Genesis is a mythical account because Genesis 1 and 2 tell a different story of creation.

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And oh my gosh, it's so frustrating because when you spend a lot of time reading into the book, that's not at all what it says, but that's what's being pitched in a lot of secular colleges.

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They tell these young Christians, oh, you know, Genesis 1 tells the creation story one way, and Genesis 2 tells a totally different other story, so you really can't believe either account.

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I have a cousin whose faith was hammered by this very thing, so it happens quite a bit.

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What really happens, though, is the book of Genesis is not 50 chapters, 50 -some chapters, like we think it is in our

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Bibles today. The ancient Hebrews broke it up into what's called toldotes, and there were 10 of those plus a preamble, so about 11 different toldotes that talk about the generations of heaven or the generations of Adam or the generations of Noah.

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So the Hebrews broke up Genesis not in 50 -some chapters. They broke it into 11 different sections.

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To start, so we have a crossover. Genesis 1 actually doesn't really end until Genesis 2, verse 4, but we have a clean break at chapter 2, so it's gonna have some overlap like that.

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That's the first thing we have to consider when looking at that. What we have really going on is with these six different days that are defined in Genesis 1, it's real simple to explain this.

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Genesis 2 is a drill down on the sixth day. It gives all kinds of events and happenings that go on on the sixth day of creation that are not described in Genesis 1, so that's really what's happening here.

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So for example, in Genesis 1, we have the creation of earth, the atmosphere, ocean, sea creatures, land, and the sun and stars, and none of those things are in chapter 2.

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Chapter 2 has unique things that are focusing on day six, including the creation of Adam, the

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Garden of Eden and its river systems, Adam's instructions for the garden, naming the animals, the creation of Eve, and the institution of marriage.

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A lot of these things are unique to just chapter 2 and are not in chapter 1. So if your student comes back from college and says, well, the whole thing's a fairy tale because you don't even know which account you're gonna choose in the book of Genesis itself because you've got the first chapter and the second chapter and they're different, say no, chapter 2 is a focus, it's a drill down on the sixth day of creation.

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That's really what's happening with this myth. Okay, on to myth number four, were Adam and Eve real people?

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This is a hot, contended debate right now, and sadly, there's lots of Christian professors caving on this saying, well,

01:06:40

Adam was just a mythical figure, which to me, I think, really maligns the character of God because it shows that Jesus is dying for the sins of a mythical person, which is a pretty serious allegation.

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But here's the myth, is that what a lot of these students are hearing in colleges nowadays is Adam and Eve were not real people, they're only allegories used to describe their first humans.

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Therefore, humans must have evolved from ape -like creatures over millions of years. That's what a lot of students are hearing today, but it stops here, the hearing system.

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I have yet to have a university professor sprinkle any water on this fire because for me, when you really understand how the hearing system is put together, it shows that humans had to be made as complete packages right when they were breathed out of God's imagination, a

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Mago day made in the image of God. So we have our pinna here, which is designed for capturing sonar waves.

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So as I'm breathing around all these air molecules, it's designed to be trapped by your ear.

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It goes down this three -inch tunnel and wiggles around your little tympanic membrane, your eardrum here, which has three different bones.

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And we could just skip right past that, but did you look or ever consider your three little ear bones that are the size of a grain of rice?

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Well, they're arranged as a mechanical engine to increase the efficiency of the sound by 1 .7

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times using leverage. That's the hammer anvil and stirrup over here, and they're designed in a way that when this one's wiggling, it uses leverage force to push on this little stirrup here that's attached to your cochlea.

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So the sound signal comes in and it's upsampled 1 .7 times using mechanical force.

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Then when it pushes on the cochlea, because that's water, it upsample 22 times again.

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This is a miraculous system. Then it creates some chemical and electrical charges that go across this little nerve that's wrapped around a part of your brain.

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So what's heard as noise is understood as speech and comprehended as communication instantaneously.

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So you can't evolve this kind of system because evolution is random. So random would say, well,

01:09:05

I'm gonna take parts five and four and just switch them. Or how about part two, you really don't need that.

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Or the outer ear, let's just pull that part out. Or let's take one system out or flip it or reverse it.

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You can't do this. And you can't take a bucket of mud and charge it with electricity and stir it like a pot for four billion years and ever have a complete system like this come out because what you're looking at is a multiple component machine.

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It's not just one thing that evolved. Okay, maybe I would give it to evolutionists that some shape like this could maybe evolve over millions of years or something like that if that was really a thing.

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But when you bolt it with a mechanical system like this, so it starts with sound waves that goes to a mechanical machine with these three little tiny drums.

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And look at how this comes across like a fork and has a flat plate that attaches to your cochlea.

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I mean, what kind of design is that? Up samples 1 .7 times, goes to a hydraulic machine, ups it up 22 more times into a chemical machine, into an electrical machine that goes into a chemical machine because there's little tiny springs in there that it's changing the ratio of potassium and calcium, changing that signal that's in there.

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So there's five different components and three different types of machinery going on here.

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So I believe firmly, just as a logical human, that that could not have evolved.

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And you couldn't evolve this through an ape -like creature that goes down. Now, evolutionists have a terrible explanation for this.

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They say, well, some mammal millions of years ago accidentally had a piece of its jaw break off and over multi -generationally passing down that defect, it turned into these little bones that somehow found a cochlea to bolt itself onto and an electrical system and a chemical system, it's impossible.

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So for me, at least, this really proves that we're dealing with a spontaneous creation of humans, not one that evolved over time.

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So here's another thing, looking at the mitochondrial ape. This is a study, this is a story that was reported by Ann Gibbons but done by all kinds of other scientists and everything.

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They looked at the mitochondrial eve by looking at the mutation rates in mitochondrial

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DNA. They used to think, well, there's about a four million year connection between humans and chimps, so we think the mistakes that are gonna be made in mitochondrial

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DNA is gonna be at a certain rate. But then they went and tested using real human subjects the actual rate of mutations that occur in mitochondrial

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DNA and here's what they said. This is reported in a secular journal. Regardless of the cause, evolutionists are most concerned, huh, why are they most concerned?

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What are they concerned about? About the effect of this faster mutation rate that they've found using scientific methods.

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For example, researchers have calculated that mitochondrial eve, which is the first woman, the woman whose mitochondrial

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DNA was ancestral to all that and living people lived 100 ,000 to 200 ,000 years ago in Africa.

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That's what they used to think. But using the new clock based upon the mitochondrial mutation rate, she would be a mere 6 ,000 years old.

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No one thinks that this is the case, but at what point should models switch from the mitochondrial

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DNA time zone to the other? So mitochondrial DNA, here's good scientific evidence that the first woman was alive 6 ,000 years ago.

01:12:40

Great, great evidence. And of course, there's a huge theological implication here. Did Jesus die for the sins of a mythical Adam?

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Certainly he did not, he died for a real one. Romans 5 says, therefore just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men.

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The Bible talks about a real Adam and it was by the curse that was brought by the real Adam that Jesus, the second

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Adam, had to come and die. Okay, myth number six, and I think we wrap up with this and we'll have some time for Q &A.

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Did Moses produce the first five books of the Bible? Because there's all kinds of advanced textual criticism that's now coming out and it's spreading through Christian colleges and secular colleges.

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There's like, oh, now we know that Moses didn't compile the first five books of the Bible, so we really don't know who did it.

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The whole thing's probably not valid. The enemy finds all kinds of ways to attack here.

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So that's what the myth is, we can't even trust that Moses himself wrote or compiled the Torah because it looks like different authors were the ones writing it.

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Well, the Jews believe in this thing called Matan Torah or the giving of the Torah, and of course we believe in this passage too,

01:13:54

Exodus 20. This is what happened in scripture. Then the Lord told Moses, go up to me on the mountain and stay there,

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I'll give you stone tablets with the instruction and the law that I've written to teach the people. When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it.

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The glory of the Lord settled on the Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it for six days.

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Isn't that interesting, he was up there for six days. Then on the seventh day, he called to Moses from within the cloud.

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To the Israelis, the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain.

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When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

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Now we're going through this quick, but there's three New Testament passages that say the

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Torah was given by angels or through angels or in the presence of angels.

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So there was a big celestial event when God downloaded the

01:14:54

Torah to Moses because think about this, how many eyewitnesses were there to creation, none.

01:15:00

When Adam was created on day six, who carried a lot of this history and passed it down to his ancestors afterwards, he only saw it from the sixth day going forward.

01:15:12

He didn't see the creation of the sun, moon, and stars or the days or things like that. So there was a divine event that happened when

01:15:19

Moses received the Torah. So who wrote it? We don't really know. There could have been angelic scribes.

01:15:26

Somehow he was impressed with the Torah and he wrote the whole thing down. Now we don't necessarily say that he was the author or the editor, but he produced it.

01:15:37

He was involved in the production of the Torah. And here's some Bible verses that say,

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Acts 7 .53, we who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

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This one says, wherefore then serves the law. It was added because of transgressions till the seed would come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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And this one's very interesting. The word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.

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So I'm not saying angels wrote the Bible. I'm saying that there was a celestial council present when this divine, amazing set of five books was downloaded or at least bear a sheet,

01:16:22

Genesis at the first because a lot of the books are more historical that go on after that. But we're talking about a book that we should have a really, really high degree of reverence for.

01:16:32

Okay, so last myth in five minutes. We're gonna touch some more things on dinosaurs. Some of this is gonna be, was also covered in the flood, but we're gonna cover some more things about dinosaurs specifically.

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It's interesting that dinosaurs are leveraged to reach today's youth to pitch evolution because kids are so curious about dinosaurs.

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The world leverages dinosaurs to pitch the idea of evolution. So the myth here is this.

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Dinosaurs lived and died out millions of years ago and they're not alive today, so this supports evolution.

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Look at these kids' books, Life Through Time. Has anyone heard of the era of dinosaurs or the time of dinosaurs?

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There was never that. That's all fancy stuff, but that's what they wanna pitch, life through time, life through time.

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Again, here's another kid's book, Evolutionary Activities for grades of five through eight. It started with the

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Big Bang, the origin of Earth, you, and everything else, and they have the age of man, the age of fish, the age of dinosaurs.

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Dinosaurs are used over and over again to reach our kids with the idea of billions of years, evolution over time.

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It's leveraged because kids are fascinated by dinosaurs. So they're pulled in over and over and over again.

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But here's the truth. This is probably the most condemning slide you could ever show to an evolutionist, and there's one that looks like it.

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A guy named Karl Werner spent 10 years and took 60 ,000 pictures in museums all over the world, a whole 10 years with his wife, they took 60 ,000 pictures, and he went and interviewed all these museum curators about dinosaur ancestors and dinosaur transitions.

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He would corner these head paleontologists all over different countries and ask them, what's your evidence for a transitionary form between this dinosaur, when it evolved from that kind of dinosaur into this kind of dinosaur?

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Or what about this group? Or what about that group? And did you know that this chart shows that they could find zero transitions between these different dinosaurs?

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Here's, for example, we have, it's really amazing when you look at it this way, there are 287 sauropod fossil sets that have been uncovered.

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They have no idea where they came from. We even have a video of the lead expert in the world on pterodactyls, on those big flying pterosaurs, and he says every time we find these creatures in the fossil record, they're just perfect pterosaurs.

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They have no idea where they came from, they just show up in the dirt. They're just there. There's no predecessor.

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You would think that you would find something like a little mouse or a rat that looks kind of like the body of those big flying birds, and maybe the rat would grow little wings so it would look like a bat, and then it would turn into like a pterosaur, but they have no such examples like that.

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Nothing in between, zero, zero, zero, zero, and it goes on. I mean, we have all these T. rexes, all these centrosaurs.

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We have hundreds and hundreds of these dinosaurs in their final forms, 78 T. rexes and no predecessors.

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They don't know where they came from. They just show up on earth. This absolutely matches the Bible where God breathed and spoke to these animals into existence after their kinds, just like the

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Bible says. We went through this before. Here we have all these different dinosaurs buried in the same places.

01:20:05

It shows that they died and got wiped off catastrophically, and we covered a little bit about dinosaur soft tissue.

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I have a little bit more here. Here's that scene again. This is Mark Armitage. He took a Triceratops horn, demineralized it, which is where you just take the calcification off, and he put it under a microscope, and now you can stretch it.

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There's soft, pliable dinosaur biomatter still there present to be stretched with forceps.

01:20:32

So 120 different peer -reviewed journals that have substantiated even blood vessels with blood cells lined up like a train when

01:20:42

Mary Schweitzer first found a blood cell inside of a blood vessel like this, she sent it back to the lab 17 times because she couldn't believe it.

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So that's just one example, but all these different things. We have unmineralized dinosaur bones, keratin, skin pigments, the list goes on, all kinds of fresh dinosaur materials, and the last two that I mentioned that were just found were actual dinosaur cartilage.

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That's what dinosaur cartilage looks like up close, and there's a real actual dinosaur nerve cell that's been extracted.

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Not a fossilized impression, that is a real organic nerve cell from a dinosaur.

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And here's a closeup of red blood cells in a dinosaur vein inside of a dinosaur bone.

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They found the T. rex bone out in the field, and it was so heavy, after they covered it with Plaris, they couldn't get it out, so they cut the dinosaur bone in half so they can helicopter it out.

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When they took it back into the lab, they look inside and they're like, oh my gosh, there's veins inside of this bone.

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And then they report that the ground that they're extracting the bones from has this stench of death to it.

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It does not, that doesn't pass the smell test, forgive the pun. It can't be millions of years old if you're digging it out of the soil that smells like death, and it's got blood cells and veins still left over in it.

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But the big one, as I mentioned before, is collagen. They find all kinds of collagen fibers in dinosaurs that are as old as 75 million years old, but we've got five studies that say all that stuff should decay.

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So if all the collagen should be gone in less than a million years, how does it last for 65 million years?

01:22:28

This is a case -closed evidence for the idea that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. It only fits the flood paradigm where they lived just 4 ,500 years ago.

01:22:38

So you have to choose. Which paradigm makes sense? Which one's gonna fit the data better? All these 16 bio -organic materials somehow miraculously lasting 65 million years?

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Or did they get buried in a flood just 4 ,500 years ago? Okay, great.