Terry Mortensen, his doctoral dissertation, which is published as a book called The Great Turning Point

He is a historian of geology and researcher for Answers in Genesis, and we are discussing one of his

Well, I mean, if you want to destroy the church, you just have the church focus on environmental justice and environmentalism and turning the world green. Because I'll tell you what, if the next generation gets the message that the main point of our lives is to preserve the world, the physical world, which is passing away, the Bible tells us, then guess what the next generation is going to be focused on and what they're going to hand on to their kids, and it's not going to be the gospel.

But creation care and environmentalism and going green, once that zooms into the church, especially through the people that are writing about it, you are going to have, eventually, a quasi -religion and Christless Christianity.

So that mountains rose, valleys sunk and were ripped open. I mean, tremendous tectonic geological change happening to our planet. And scripture actually gives us an indication of that as well. Psalm 104 talks about the flood.

So, the global flood is the key to understanding geology. If you remember from the first week, I talked about presuppositions everyone brings to scientific observations, and that one presupposition Old Earthers bring to inform their interpretation is uniformitarianism, the belief that everything happens at a consistent rate and in the same way over time.

They reinterpreted the geological evidence in terms of millions of years. I 18th and 19th century that before this through the history of the church. They'd all been what we'd call young earth creationist.

And that's a good point. I mean, they don't even want to consider that their young earth is possible. But Mount St. Helens, actually, I was a geology student. I was halfway through my undergraduate when that didn't even mention they were in catastrophe.

Correct, but what this principle refuses to take into account is the major catastrophic events of the past. Even many evolutionary geologists are starting to recognize the importance of regional catastrophes in understanding the geologic features on Earth.

In the 1980s, the secular geologists began to turn to catastrophism and to distance themselves from uniformitarianism as soon as it served their purposes. They turned to catastrophism when it helped them to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs.

This is a huge, huge event taking place. What we see are changes and shifts in tectonic plates, but again, not the slow gradual uplift of millions of years, more of a rapid and catastrophic. At the end of the flood, all that comes screeching to a halt for the most part, but we do still see some residual movement.

And what causes the disasters in the Book of Revelation? I know maybe they'll have the thermal hailing circulation will cut out. Maybe the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will slide off during that time, but it's because of man's sin, not because he's driving, all right?

Yeah, I just saw not long ago. In fact, I saw it on Todd Friel's wretched TV program. He was showing a clip of dr. John MacArthur Bemoaning the fact that there has been a new study Bible released the Green Bible and he basically was going into the fact that the extreme of environmentalist movement is really in a polar opposition to Christian worldview that Christians are taught and the people of God have been taught For thousands of years that we are to have dominion over the earth that God has created.

He's a historian of geology and researcher for Answers in Genesis, a lecturer on the creation evolution controversy in 25 countries since the late 1970s, university campus ministry leader in the United States and Eastern Europe with Campus Crusade for Christ, and the author of many articles and books, including The Great Turning Point, and he's an editor and contributor to Coming to Grips with Genesis.

The last time those waters rushed off the continents, they eroded that mile of strata in the Grand Staircase. And here we stand in front of some of the most awesome proof of the truth and reliability and authority of God's word.

In fact, they predicted it wrong. But we have a very sensible explanation. But, you know, it's also just looking at the volcano is in itself important to the Gospel because we've got to remember that God did not make the world...

Isn't another big reason why this has everything to do with christianity. Is that the global warming is a an enormous lie? That is Dominating in many ways the media at this point and many many many christians are being sucked into this deception.

I forget what the title of the sermon was, but basically was how the pope was a false position, a false teacher and a false false understanding of of Christianity. And they were they were all stunned.

One says I am struggling with a massive amount of anxiety over the fact that leaders in my church reject a literal historical view of Genesis in favor of a secular view. Any insight would be welcome. Is it extreme to wonder whether it's time to leave?

He said her explanation of what we can see there with that 14 mile stretch of dead dinosaurs buried with fish and birds and clams makes more sense and better explains the evidence and everything I learned while getting my my geology license and he said you know what I used to be a Christian then I went to school and got my degree in geology and kind of just let go of my biblical perspectives but I'm going to come back to them because I have a lot of unlearning to do and strangely I bumped into him the next day at the Royal Terrell Museum he happened to be behind me it's kind of like we had some some more divine encounters there but it was incredible hearing that in five minutes his licensed geologist had completely renounced his evolutionary worldview and adopted a biblical worldview because the evidence plainly lined up to the most obvious conclusion that these creatures were rapidly buried in a flood.