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Young Age of the Earth

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Participants: Dr. Robert Gentry

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00:01 [Sound of roaring waves]
01:00 For decades, scientists have advanced
01:03 the evolutionary theory of origins.
01:07 Of an Earth that formed by slow cooling of molten mass
01:11 over 4.5 billion years to make the foundation rocks
01:14 of the continents, the granites. But have scientists considered
01:19 all the evidence in arriving at their theory
01:21 of an anciently evolving Earth?
01:25 What if there was evidence in the granites themselves
01:28 that showed they formed rapidly instead of by slow cooling?
01:33 What if there was evidence that these sedimentary formations
01:36 composing the Grand Canyon, were deposited quickly,
01:40 instead of slowly?
01:42 What if there was evidence the canyon itself
01:45 was carved over a short time by rapid erosional processes?
01:51 What if there was evidence revealing that coal and oil
01:55 can form rapidly, and did so recently.
02:00 What if there was evidence that dinosaurs existed
02:02 not millions of years ago, but just a few thousand years ago?
02:10 And what if it was found that natural laws,
02:13 the glue which holds the evolutionary framework together,
02:16 can not explain everything in Earth history.
02:21 We would then be forced to consider another model
02:24 of Earth history.
02:25 One that would acknowledge the possibility that
02:27 geological rates of change in the past were much greater
02:31 than those observed today.
02:34 In this scenario it would take much less time
02:36 for various geological events to occur.
02:40 We would then have all the ingredients for concluding
02:42 that the Earth is actually quite young.
02:45 But is there any published scientific evidence
02:48 which challenges the evolutionary view
02:51 of an ancient Earth, and supports a young Earth?
02:56 Scientist, Dr. Robert Gentry,
02:59 while working at the Oakridge
03:00 National Laboratory in Tennessee,
03:03 has found just that.
03:05 Publishing evidence which challenges the long time period
03:08 of Earth's history.
03:10 In 1977, the Research Communications Network
03:13 published a special breakthrough report on the results
03:16 of Dr. Gentry's scientific publications,
03:19 characterizing their implications as follows:
03:22 [text on screen].
04:23 Part of Dr. Gentry's work referred to in this quote,
04:26 pertained to his work with coalified wood from
04:28 what is known as The Colorado Plateau
04:31 - a broad geographical region encompassing parts of Colorado,
04:35 Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
04:39 Using the microscope and more advanced laboratory equipment,
04:43 he analyzed these specimens of coalified wood
04:46 for various types of radioactivity.
04:49 His results help us to understand how long it takes
04:52 coal to form.
04:53 The age of the coal, and the age of the Earth itself.
06:12 Coal! One of Earth's vast energy resources.
06:17 Before we can answer the question as to the age of coal
06:20 and the time of its formation, we need to ask the question:
06:24 Where did coal come from?
06:27 Here in this coal mine in Price, Utah, we have the answer.
06:32 Here is a log, almost completely turned to coal.
06:36 There are thousands of such logs in this mine and in other mines
06:40 here in the Price area. This fact tells us,
06:44 that given the right conditions of pressure, and temperature,
06:50 and water, and time, that wood and other vegetation,
06:55 will turn to coal. The question is:
06:59 How long did it take for that to happen?
07:03 Robert Gentry and his son David,
07:06 an associate in his fathers work,
07:08 explore this topic together.
07:11 To answer this question, we need to look
07:12 at coalified wood specimens from uranium mines,
07:16 instead of coalified wood like this log, from one
07:19 of the coal mines here, in the Price, Utah, area.
07:24 This coalified wood specimen comes from La Sal, Utah,
07:30 a uranium mine.
07:31 Its presumed geologic gage is around 140 million years.
07:40 This specimen of coalified wood comes from a uranium mine
07:43 in the Temple Mountain area, here in Utah.
07:46 Its presumed age is also 140 million years.
07:51 But look how closely this specimen resembles
07:53 this other piece of wood. They're nearly identical.
07:58 It's interesting to note, that this other piece of wood,
08:01 was derived from this from a fresh piece of wood,
08:04 like this, just a few weeks ago.
08:08 This close similarity raises an important question:
08:12 Is it really true that this piece of coalified wood
08:16 from La Sal, Utah, and this piece of coalified wood
08:20 from Temple Mountain, Utah, are really 140 million years older,
08:25 than this piece of wood, which David and I recently obtained
08:29 in some of our experiments?
08:32 Not really!
08:33 Locked in these, and other coalified wood specimens
08:36 from uranium mines, is some remarkable evidence
08:38 that tells quite a different story.
08:41 To see that evidence requires that the coalified
08:43 wood specimens be mounted in epoxy.
08:46 Then be sliced, and placed on glass slides for observation
08:49 under the microscope. Under the microscope can be seen
08:52 discolorations produced by radioactive particles
08:56 ejected from tiny centers.
08:58 Some are circular, others are elliptical,
09:01 as can be seen in these photographs.
09:05 These circular and elliptical halos required a special
09:08 sequence of events, to form. So special, in fact,
09:12 that they completely overthrow the idea,
09:14 of an ancient age of coal. Pointing instead to coal's
09:18 recent formation, geologically speaking.
09:21 How recently?
09:25 In 1976, I published my results of the studies on these logs
09:31 in the October 15, 1976 issue of "Science".
09:35 Here's what I said in this report: [text on screen]
09:55 In other words, I was suggesting that coal
09:57 could form very rapidly, geologically speaking.
10:02 This information has remained unchallenged and unrefuted
10:05 in the open scientific literature
10:07 since it was published in 1976.
10:10 We are therefore entitled to draw some rather
10:12 firm conclusions about the data.
10:21 Geologists have assumed the Eocene was about
10:24 60 million years ago,
10:25 the Cretaceous, about 110 million years ago,
10:29 the Jurassic, about 160 million years ago
10:32 and the Triassic, 225 million years ago.
10:36 But the results that we presented contradicts
10:38 that information, showing instead the simultaneous burial
10:43 of all these formations about several thousand years ago.
10:47 These results pertain to the origin and the age of coal,
10:52 wherever it is found.
10:55 Catherine Hill Bay, Australia.
10:59 Not far from this coastal area near [?] Point,
11:03 is an object of extreme geological interest.
11:06 An ancient tree.
11:09 The fossilized remains of this tree can be seen extending
11:13 through over 12 feet of sedimentary layers between
11:16 2 coal seams located here.
11:20 Years ago, when a mining company excavated the layers,
11:23 exposing the tree.
11:25 The bottom of the tree could be seen extending down
11:28 to the lower coal seam.
11:30 Since that time, the lower part of the tree has broken off.
11:34 Even now, in its reduced length, the tree extends through layers
11:39 geologists normally theorize to have taken
11:42 hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate.
11:45 But these layers could not have taken long ages to accumulate
11:48 because the tree would have rotted long before the sediments
11:51 would have had time to accumulate around it.
11:54 Rather, this tree is mute testimony
11:57 to its catastrophic burial by at least 2 sequences
12:01 of volcanic ash deposits.
12:04 As the evidence indicates, the tree was probably buried
12:08 in a series of closely spaced volcanic ash flows.
12:12 Perhaps similar to the catastrophic burial
12:14 of thousands of trees at Mount St. Helens in Washington State.
12:19 But if coal did form rapidly, we expect to find places
12:23 where geologists have encountered
12:25 extreme difficulties in explaining its origin
12:28 by a slow accumulation of vegetation.
12:32 So let's take a closer look at the evidence for coal formation,
12:37 as it occurs in the spectacular Powder River Basin
12:39 in Wyoming and Montana.
12:42 The Amax Eagle Butte open-pit mine, near Gillette, Wyoming,
12:47 exposes the vast coal reserves made visible
12:50 by the strip-mining methods used here.
12:53 The Eagle Butte mine boasts of coal layers
12:56 or seems with thicknesses ranging up to 120 feet.
13:01 Eagle Butte mine is part of a much larger coal rich area
13:04 known as the Powder River Basin.
13:07 This gigantic 10,000 square mile reserve,
13:10 situated between the Black Hills of South Dakota
13:13 on the east, and the Big Horn Mountains on the west,
13:16 extends northward to the Yellowstone River in Montana
13:20 and Southward to Casper, Wyoming.
13:23 The immensity of the Powder River Basin coal deposits,
13:26 has attracted the attention of geologists for decades.
13:29 Such interests were documented in the May 1993
13:33 issue of Earth Magazine.
13:35 The article "Powder River Coal: Geologic enigma,"
13:39 "environmental dilemma", included these statements:
13:44 [text on screen]
15:34 But if coal did not form slowly, is there any
15:37 laboratory evidence showing that it can form rapidly?
15:43 In this demonstration, Robert and David Gentry
15:47 begin to answer this question.
15:50 Earlier we took a piece of wood like this,
15:53 inserted it in this steel pipe,
15:56 added some water,
16:03 and then sealed it up.
16:09 The next step is to put it in the oven at about
16:11 160 degree centigrade for 2 weeks.
16:15 Now we're ready to examine the results of this experiment.
17:21 As we can see, this wood is now darker in color.
17:25 It's also softer.
17:27 A chemical reaction between the steam
17:29 and the wood under pressure,
17:31 has caused these changes to occur.
17:34 This specimen isn't coal yet, but clearly,
17:37 the process of coalification has begun.
17:41 The question is: would coal result if this experiment,
17:45 or a variation of it, continued for a longer period of time?
17:49 Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory
17:51 have answered this question in a series of experiments
17:54 performed in the 1980's.
17:57 One of the earliest reports about their work,
17:59 appeared in the magazine: [text on screen].
18:06 On page 42 of this issue we read the following quote:
18:10 [text on screen].
18:29 Later, after their published reports appeared
18:32 in the science journal "Organic Geo-chemistry",
18:35 the British science journal "Nature",
18:37 reported on the success of their experiments.
18:41 On page 613 of the journal "Nature", March 28, 1985,
18:46 we read the following: [text on screen].
19:10 To understand their results, lets first note
19:12 the basic structure of wood.
19:14 Two major wood components are Cellulose and Lignin.
19:19 The lignin basically acts as a binding agent
19:22 for the cellulose fibers.
19:25 Several variations of the Argonne experiment were run,
19:28 but the successful formula combined lignin
19:31 and clay with heat - about 150 degrees Celsius -
19:36 in the absence of oxygen.
19:39 Over a period of about 8 months, artificial coal was produced.
19:44 The rapidity with which coal can form, when steam interacts
19:50 with wood, under pressure, leads us to ask:
19:53 Can steam or hot water also produce the rapid
19:57 transformation of organic matter to oil?
20:01 An article "Water, Water Everywhere",
20:04 published in the February 20, 1993 issue of "Science News"
20:08 answers this question.
20:10 Researchers at Exxon discovered water acted an essential part
20:14 in the formation of oil.
20:16 Efforts to synthesize oil met with failure,
20:19 until very hot water was added to the reactor vessel
20:22 containing the source rock sample.
20:25 When this was done, a layer of oil was found
20:27 on top of the water at the end of the experiment.
20:31 This result proves there is an alternate path
20:34 to the production of oil in the Earth,
20:36 with superheated water playing a major role.
20:40 The article indicated this discovery could wreak havoc
20:43 with established ideas about oil formation.
20:47 Actually, however, other natural events are already
20:51 wreaking havoc with conventional theories.
20:54 Incredibly enough, certain researchers,
20:57 one at Oregon State University, have published reports
21:00 showing evidence of present day oil formation
21:04 in the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.
21:08 Right now in the Gulf of California,
21:10 below 6,000 feet of water, is an accumulation
21:14 of organic sediments derived from marine algae
21:17 and other organic sources.
21:19 Below this, superheated water is being pushed up
21:23 by a deep heat source, through these sediments.
21:27 Oil is being formed in the interaction of organic sediments
21:32 with superheated water.
21:34 This hydrothermal oil from the Guaymas Basin
21:38 is virtually indistinguishable from crude oils
21:41 obtained from wells drilled in the Earth.
21:45 The implications of this discovery can hardly
21:47 be overestimated.
21:50 The possibility must be entertained that the genesis
21:54 of the reservoir crude oils abundant throughout the world,
21:57 may be explained by hydrothermal processes similar
22:02 to what's happening in the Guaymas Basin.
22:05 But instead an open dispersion of oil directly
22:09 into the seawater,
22:10 a closed system could easily be visualized,
22:14 where a reservoir of crude could be collected.
22:17 It is conceivable that a worldwide flood was instrumental
22:22 in the production of the tremendous oil serves
22:25 of the Middle East and elsewhere.
22:28 The vast amounts of vegetation buried by such a flood,
22:32 mixed with superheated water similar to that detected
22:35 in the Guaymas Basin, could produce oil
22:38 in the volumes we see today.
22:41 Depending on the burial conditions, the organic matter
22:45 would be transformed to either oil or coal.
22:50 Is there a model of Earth history
22:52 incorporating these features?
22:54 One which allows the formal of the world's large oil
22:58 and coal reserves over a much shorter time
23:01 than has been previously thought possible.
23:04 What about a model, based on the record of Earth's history
23:07 given in Genesis.
23:09 The Bible describes Earth being called into existence
23:13 about 6,000 years ago.
23:15 And Earth originally covered with lush vegetation,
23:19 then devastated by a worldwide flood about 1,700 years later.
23:24 This time scale certainly fits with all
23:27 the scientific discoveries I've made.
23:30 And just as certainly water once covered this Earth.
23:34 In 1927 Noel Odell discovered marine shelly fossils
23:40 near the very top of Mt. Everest.
23:42 "Mountains rising out of the waters" is how
23:45 the Bible describes the end of the worldwide flood.
23:48 According to that description, the shells near Mt. Everest
23:52 are no surprise at all.
23:55 And coal and oil, are they the result of the rapid devastation
23:59 and burial of lush vegetation by a worldwide flood?
24:03 If so, what about the worldwide flood could have caused
24:07 such rapid burial?
24:09 The Bible speaks of the fountains of the great deep
24:12 breaking up
24:13 - a strong reference to volcanic eruptions
24:16 in the preflood ocean basins.
24:19 This is significant because ocean survey researchers
24:23 recently found an area on the Pacific Ocean floor,
24:26 thickly concentrated with over 1,000 volcanoes.
24:31 The size of this area is approximately the same as
24:33 Washington State.
24:35 Additional ocean floor surveys may well yield
24:39 many more such discoveries.
24:41 The likelihood of extensive volcanic activity
24:44 during the Biblical flood, leads us to consider
24:47 one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in modern time.
24:52 On May 18, 1980, a giant landslide on the north face
24:56 of Mount St. Helens in Washington State,
24:59 accompanied an explosion equivalent
25:01 to 20 millions tones of TNT.
25:04 [Roaring and exploding sounds from the volcano]
25:12 This lateral blast of superheated steam, volcanic ash
25:17 and dirt leveled over 150 square miles of forest,
25:21 snapping huge Douglas Firs like toothpicks.
25:25 The landslide debris plunged into Spirit Lake,
25:28 causing a colossal water wave which washed over the adjacent
25:32 mountainside over 800 feet above its pre-eruption water level.
25:37 An average thickness of 300 feet of new sediment,
25:41 dumped into the lake, has caused its surface level
25:45 to be almost 250 feet higher than before the eruption.
25:49 A massive number of trees felled by the blast,
25:52 were washed into Spirit Lake by the giant water wave.
25:56 The power of catastrophically driven water to accumulate
25:59 and bury extensive amounts of vegetation
26:02 can easily be seen here.
26:05 The floating log mat on Spirit Lake is only about half
26:09 its original size because the rest of the logs
26:12 have sunk to the bottom.
26:14 If Mount St. Helens had erupted under water,
26:17 huge tidal waves hundreds of times larger
26:20 than the Spirit Lake water wave, would have caused
26:23 the erupted material to be carried over much of the Earth
26:26 before settling.
26:28 If thousands of these volcanoes were active,
26:31 we can begin to imagine the destructive effects
26:34 a worldwide flood would have had on the topography
26:38 of the Earth's surface.
26:40 This leads us to ask: Could such a worldwide flood
26:44 described in the Bible, also be capable of explaining
26:48 other geological phenomenon?
26:50 Such as the Grand Canyon.
26:54 Some geologists would have you believe
26:56 that sedimentary deposits were laid down over
26:58 many millions of years.
27:00 What they want you to believe is just not true.
27:06 The fact is, the geology of the Grand Canyon fits a model
27:10 based on the occurrence of a worldwide flood.
27:14 In an attempt to learn where the floodwaters came from,
27:18 where they went after the flood, and what geological events
27:22 occurred during the flood, we went to Dr. Walter Brown,
27:25 the former chief of Science and Technology Studies
27:28 at the Air War College, and an associate professor
27:31 at the US Air Force Academy.
27:34 His development of the hydro plate theory provides
27:37 the key that unlocks many mysteries about the flood
27:40 and its effects.
27:42 We can see on our planet 17 very strange features
27:46 that can now be systematically explained as a result
27:50 of a cataclysmic global flood, who's waters erupted
27:54 from subterranean chambers, with an energy release
27:57 exceeding the explosion of 10 billion hydrogen bombs.
28:04 This explanation
28:06 shows us just how rapidly major mountain formed.
28:10 It explains the coal and oil deposits,
28:14 rapid continental drift,
28:16 why ocean floors have huge trenches and hundreds
28:19 of canyons and volcanoes.
28:22 It explains the formation of the layered strata
28:25 in most of the fossil record,
28:28 and so called ice ages,
28:30 and major land canyons, especially the Grand Canyon.
28:35 The pre-flood Earth probably had one very large
28:38 super continent containing lush vegetation, seas, rivers,
28:43 and minor mountains.
28:46 According to the hydro plate theory,
28:48 the pre-flood Earth had a lot of subterranean water,
28:52 about half of what is now in our oceans.
28:55 This water was in interconnected chambers forming a thin,
29:00 spherical shell about half a mile thick, perhaps 10 miles
29:05 below the Earth's surface.
29:07 Increasing pressure in the subterranean water chamber
29:12 stretched the overlying crust, just as a balloon stretches
29:15 when the pressure inside increases.
29:18 Failure in the crust began with a microscopic crack,
29:22 which grew in both directions
29:24 at about 3 miles per second.
29:27 The crack, following the path of least resistance,
29:30 encircled the globe in about 2 hours.
29:34 As the crack raced around the Earth, the overlying crust
29:38 opened up like a rip in a tightly stretched cloth.
29:43 The subterranean water was under extreme pressure
29:46 because of the weight of the 10 miles of rock
29:49 pressing down upon it.
29:51 So the water exploded violently out of the rupture.
29:56 Calculations show that all along this globe encircling crack,
30:01 fountains of water jetted supersonically over 20 miles
30:05 into the atmosphere.
30:07 The spray from this enormous fountain
30:10 produces torrential rains, such as the Earth
30:13 has never experienced before or after.
30:17 The Bible states
30:19 that all the fountains of the great deep
30:22 burst open on one day.
30:25 And it describes these events
30:27 about 4.5 thousand years ago, which we can
30:31 now tie together scientifically, in cause and effect order,
30:34 as the hydroplane theory.
30:37 The fountains of the great deep and the expanding steam
30:40 produced violent winds.
30:43 Some of the water jetting high above the cold stratosphere,
30:47 froze into super-cooled ice crystals
30:50 and produced some massive ice dumps; burying, suffocating,
30:54 and instantly freezing many animals.
30:57 The high pressure fountains eroded the rock on both sides
31:01 of the crack, and even threw up the limey contents
31:04 of many pre-flood seas.
31:07 Huge volumes of sediments
31:09 settled out of this muddy water all over the Earth.
31:13 The sediments trapped and buried plants and animals,
31:17 forming the fossil record.
31:20 The flooding uprooted vegetation, moving it to regions
31:23 where it accumulated and quickly became coal and oil
31:27 by processes we can duplicate in a laboratory today.
31:32 Experiments show that as erosion widened the rupture,
31:36 its width became so great, that the compressed rock
31:40 beneath the subterranean chamber, sprung upward,
31:44 giving birth to the mid-oceanic ridge that wraps
31:47 around the Earth, like the seam of a baseball.
31:51 The continental plates, the hydro plates,
31:54 still with lubricating water beneath them, slid down hill,
31:59 away from the rising, mid-Atlantic ridge.
32:03 After, the massive, slowly accelerating continental plates,
32:06 reached speeds of about 45 miles an hour.
32:10 They ran into resistances, compressed, crushed, thickened,
32:15 and buckled.
32:17 The portions of the hydro plates that buckled up
32:20 formed mountains,
32:22 those that buckled down formed ocean trenches.
32:25 This is why these features
32:27 are generally parallel to the oceanic ridges
32:31 from which they slid.
32:34 The hydro plates, in sliding away from the oceanic ridges,
32:37 opened up very deep ocean basins,
32:40 into which the floodwaters retreated.
32:44 Every continental basin was na- turally left rim full of water,
32:49 producing many post-flood lakes.
32:52 Each lake that grew from rainfall, or drainage
32:56 from higher elevations,
32:58 spilled over its rim at the lowest point of the rim.
33:02 That eroded a little notch in the rim, allowing even more
33:06 water to flow through the notch, faster, cutting
33:09 the soft flood deposited sediments even deeper.
33:13 This process accelerated until all the lakes water dumped
33:19 through a very deep slit, forming a canyon.
33:23 The largest of these was the Grand Canyon.
33:27 North and east of the Grand Canyon was a huge lake,
33:30 that I have identified and named "Grand Lake".
33:34 Its dumping released more water than is in all five
33:39 of the great lakes combined.
33:41 Grand Lake spilled over its rim,
33:44 eroded its dam, 20 miles south of Page, Arizona.
33:50 Catastrophically forming the Grand Canyon within a few weeks.
33:55 Rapid deposition of flood deposits from tidal action,
33:59 means there was little time for erosion to occur
34:01 between successive layers.
34:04 On the long timescale envisioned by evolutionary theory,
34:08 there should be considerable evidence found of erosion
34:12 and infilling by successive geologic formations
34:15 during the weathering expected over millions of years.
34:20 The geological layers of the Grand Canyon are remarkable
34:23 in showing little or no evidence of erosion
34:26 between different layers.
34:28 Instead we see pancake layering,
34:31 very much consistent with the rapid deposition,
34:33 envisioned by the flood model.
34:37 Erosion did not occur until all of the layers
34:39 had been deposited.
34:41 But how rapidly could the canyon itself have eroded?
34:48 Freshly laid down sediments would still not have
34:51 completely hardened into rock, which allows the possibility
34:55 that erosion of the canyon could have taken place
34:58 far more easily, than if it had hardened into rock,
35:01 as evolutionary theory has assumed.
35:04 However, under the right conditions
35:07 water can rapidly cut its way through
35:10 the hardest of rocks, such as the granites
35:13 at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
35:16 Those conditions involve cavitation.
35:19 Cavitation is the rock pulverizing process associated
35:22 with water flows greater than 100 feet per second.
35:26 As water detaches from irregularities
35:29 in the bedrock channel, vacuum bubbles are produced,
35:32 inflicting hammer like blows on the bedrock surface
35:35 - literally converting the rocks into powder.
35:39 A modern example of rapid erosion
35:41 of bedrock from cavitation, comes from Glen Canyon dam
35:45 on the Colorado River, just above the Grand Canyon.
35:49 Excessive snowfall from the high country of the
35:52 Upper Colorado River Basin in late spring of 1983
35:55 caused excessive run-off that poured into Lake Powell
35:58 at rates of up to 148,000 cubic feet per second.
36:03 This rapid inflow threatened to overflow Glen Canyon Dam.
36:07 To control the high flow rates, the power plant was run
36:11 at full capacity, releasing 28,000 cubic feet per second
36:14 through the turbines.
36:16 Then the outlet tubes were opened to drain
36:18 another 17,000 cubic feet per second.
36:21 This was still not enough.
36:24 The emergency situation required
36:25 engineers to risk damage to the spillway tunnel,
36:29 and on June 15, the 40 foot diameter, left spillway tunnel
36:33 was opened to drain an additional 13,000 cubic feet
36:36 per second, which was then raised
36:38 to 17,000 cubic feet per second.
36:41 Then on June 28th the flow was increased
36:43 to 32,000 cubic feet per second.
36:46 At this point the water exiting the tunnel
36:49 became red, and noticeable ground vibrations,
36:52 earthquakes, were felt by engineers.
36:55 Large blocks of concrete and bedrock came hurling
36:58 from the 40 foot diameter tunnel.
37:01 After closing the spillway tunnel, the survey team
37:04 discovered extensive cavitational damage.
37:08 The 3 foot thick, steel reinforced concrete lining
37:11 of the tunnel, was penetrated by huge pits.
37:16 At an elbow where the tunnel levels out, a hole 32 feet deep,
37:20 150 feet long, and 40 feet wide, was cut through
37:24 the lining into red, sandstone bedrock.
37:28 This hole required 63,000 cubic feet of concrete to fill.
37:32 The repair process to the enormous hole shows
37:35 the vast extent of the damage.
37:38 The speed of erosion in the Glen Canyon Dam spillway tunnel
37:42 occurred very rapidly during the period when the
37:45 red color of water appeared
37:48 and ground vibrations were generated.
37:51 It is possible that cavitation was pulverizing concrete,
37:54 steel and sandstone at the rate of 1,000 cubic feet per second
37:59 during the peek period of erosion.
38:02 The destructive effects of cavitation at Glen Canyon Dam,
38:05 tell us the Grand Canyon could have been eroded
38:08 very quickly by the suddenly release of a huge volume
38:11 of water above the canyon,
38:13 but where did the water come from
38:15 and what caused its sudden release?
38:18 Dr. Brown's studies on the Grand Canyon provide
38:21 one of the best answers.
38:24 Most people are told that the might Colorado River
38:27 carved the Grand Canyon over millions of years.
38:30 But if people could study the canyon from an aircraft,
38:33 they could see its vastness, and how tiny that river is
38:37 in relation to the canyon itself.
38:41 There is no river on earth that could carve
38:44 this big hole in the ground, even over billions of years.
38:49 If the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon,
38:52 the first question we should ask is: Where did all the
38:55 eroded sediments go?
38:58 There should be a very large river delta
39:00 at the end of the Colorado River
39:02 - it's not there
39:04 Furthermore, geologists can't find a huge river delta anywhere
39:08 near this part of the world.
39:10 So we need to ask ourselves: where did the dirt go?
39:15 At several places on this platform that overlook
39:18 the Grand Canyon, there are small mountains, or buttes,
39:22 who's horizontal layers tell a fascinating story.
39:26 The layers line up with each other, so obviously,
39:29 they were at one time connected.
39:32 Something must have come along and removed
39:35 a several thousand foot thick layer
39:37 of softer material that was once where we now are.
39:41 So we need to explain not only where the dirt from inside
39:45 the vast 200 mile long canyon went, but also, where did
39:49 the thousands of feet of dirt go, that was once above
39:52 where we are now, and spread out
39:54 for tens of thousands of square miles.
39:58 This particular formation, called Red Butte,
40:02 not only still has some of these horizontal layers,
40:05 but there is another clue sitting on top.
40:08 The topmost layer is a lava flow.
40:11 Lava only flows downhill, therefore, at one time,
40:15 the land surrounding the top of this butte
40:19 must have been even higher.
40:21 So again, where did all that dirt go?
40:25 Grand Lake spilled over, and eroded its dam catastrophically,
40:29 forming the Grand Canyon to the southwest within a few weeks.
40:34 One other large, post-flood lake that geologists recognize
40:37 was once near here, was Hopi Lake.
40:40 As Grand Lake catastrophically dumped,
40:43 I believe it eroded the western boundary of Hopi Lake,
40:46 causing it to also spill out.
40:49 Where did all the dirt go?
40:51 It spread out over southern Arizona,
40:53 and parts of California, and Nevada, rapidly.
40:59 The evidence supporting the Biblical worldwide flood
41:02 about 4,300 years ago, is mounting.
41:06 For the Grand Canyon, the flood explains how the
41:09 sedimentary layers were rapidly deposited as the waters rose,
41:13 and how they were quickly eroded as the waters subsided.
41:17 We have also seen where the dirty went.
41:19 And just as we have seen evidence of the rapid burial
41:23 of preflood vegetation, to produce today's coal and oil,
41:27 we will now see fossil evidence of rapid burial
41:30 of preflood life forms. Indeed some of the most remarkable
41:34 evidence of rapid deposition of flood sediments,
41:38 comes from well preserved fossils found in certain parts
41:42 of the Earth.
41:43 Perhaps the best fossil evidence
41:45 for the rapid burial of plant and marine life is found
41:48 in south-western Wyoming, at Fossil Butte National Monument.
41:53 During the past 100 years, scientists
41:55 and private collectors have collected thousands of almost
41:58 perfectly preserved fossils from sites within the monument.
42:01 Especially here at Fossil Butte itself.
42:04 It's an amazingly diverse collection of fossil turtles,
42:07 palm fawns, crocodiles, leaves, insects, branches
42:13 with nuts still intact.
42:15 There are even fossil stingrays,
42:17 whose skeletons of cartilage are known to disintegrate rapidly,
42:21 proving that burial of all these life forms,
42:24 was indeed, quite rapid. But this isn't all,
42:27 perhaps the most spectacular evidence of rapid burial
42:30 of all the fossils within the monument, are the billions
42:33 of the more than 20 kinds of fish.
42:36 This slab of rock in the monument visitor center,
42:39 which measure about 9 feet by 5 feet,
42:41 shows vividly, just a few of that number.
42:45 Amazingly, many of the fish retain not only their
42:48 entire skeletons, but their teeth, delicate scales,
42:51 and skin as well.
42:53 The vast number of fossil fish at Fossil Butte,
42:56 has left evolutionary geologists with a vast, unsolved, mystery.
43:00 In two sections, entitled: [Text on screen],
43:06 the National Park Services brochure on Fossil Butte,
43:09 reveals the contradictions that result when using
43:12 an ancient Earth time frame to explain rapid burial.
43:16 On one hand it speculates of the existence of a lake,
43:19 where many "animals and plants probably"
43:21 "died natural deaths... ",
43:23 on the other hand,
43:25 the evidence forces the conclusion that,
43:27 "... on several occasions huge numbers"
43:30 "of fish were killed suddenly. "
43:32 The brochure then equates those "several occasions",
43:36 to rapid burial by precipitation of calcium carboning
43:39 - the primary rock mineral enclosing the fossils
43:42 year after year for hundreds of thousands of years.
43:46 This is a truly incredible scenario to have such
43:49 a vast number of fish reproducing within a short time,
43:52 only to be wiped out by succeeding catastrophe
43:54 a year or so later, and this to be repeated
43:57 several hundred thousand times.
44:00 Paleontologist's should long ago have seen the fallacy
44:03 in this scenario, if for no other reason, because of the
44:06 beautifully preserved fossil palm fawns.
44:09 But very simply, palm trees don't grow in water,
44:12 and their fawns are not ripped off by gentle breezes.
44:16 Only a catastrophe of huge proportions can account
44:19 for the perfectly preserved fossils at Fossil Butte.
44:22 The rocks there are, like many in the Grand Canyon,
44:25 primarily calcium carbonate.
44:28 They all had a common source, the interaction
44:30 of volcanic gases with lime, thrown up from the basins
44:34 of the preflood seas.
44:35 This commonality, together with the
44:38 evidence of rapid deposition, and burial, tells us plainly
44:42 that Fossil Butte and the Grand Canyon originated
44:45 in the same great event:
44:46 the catastrophe of the worldwide flood.
44:49 But is there any other evidence which would confirm
44:52 that Fossil Butte is only as old as the flood?
44:55 The answer is: Yes!
44:58 Geologists have repeatedly identified the Fossil Butte
45:01 site as belonging to the Eocene, which they assume
45:04 was 50-60 million years ago, but we have already seen
45:07 from my studies of coalified wood, and the chart
45:09 on the collapse of geologic time, that the Eocene fits
45:12 into the framework of a worldwide flood only several
45:15 thousand years ago. So there is no question that the entire
45:19 Fossil Butte occurrence fits only within the framework
45:22 of a worldwide flood, and a young age of the Earth.
45:25 And there is more! Not everything was buried
45:28 on the first day of the flood.
45:30 The water was rising for 40 days
45:32 Land animals large enough to survive part of that period
45:36 left a remarkable record of their efforts to escape
45:38 the flood's rising waters. That record is found in coal,
45:42 and it is truly fascinating.
46:05 Dinosaur tracks in coal.
46:07 Amazing! Extraordinary!
46:09 How in the world did they ever get there?
46:12 Obviously, in the past, there was a huge seem
46:15 of vegetation in this area. Dinosaurs were walking around
46:19 on top of that vegetation before it turned to coal.
46:23 But how long ago was that? How old are the dinosaurs?
46:28 That's what we want to know!
46:30 This other dinosaur track tells the story.
46:34 It's right adjacent to one of these coalified logs here
46:38 in this coal mine in Price, Utah.
46:41 In fact, it's only about 100 feet away
46:43 from the coalified log that we saw earlier,
46:46 so we know that whatever the age of the coalified wood,
46:50 the dinosaurs were of the same age.
47:02 In the coal mine we saw two dinosaur tracks.
47:06 Where those the only dinosaur tracks in the coal mines
47:09 here in Eastern Utah? Not at all!
47:12 Here in the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum,
47:16 look what has been taken out of these coal mines.
47:18 Look at all these dinosaur tracks: different sizes,
47:24 some flesh eating dinosaurs, some plant eating dinosaurs.
47:27 Why were they all together?
47:32 To answer that question, let's look at the
47:34 Kenilworth Mine fossil map. It says: [Text on screen].
47:43 Over here on the map itself, here we can see all the tracks,
47:46 and the coalified logs.
47:49 According to the sign, those dinosaurs
47:51 were tromping around in a swamp.
47:54 Common sense tells you that can't be true.
47:56 There's no swamp in the world that will preserve such tracks.
48:00 All those dinosaurs were together for a reason:
48:04 they were trying to escape the rising waters
48:06 of a worldwide flood.
48:09 These charts help illustrate how dinosaur tracks
48:11 could have formed at the time of the flood,
48:13 and why they exist in coal today.
48:16 The preflood earth was covered with lush vegetation,
48:20 a scene of beauty everywhere. Then came the flood.
48:23 Torrential rain, and the fountains of the great deep,
48:26 bursting open, caused Earth's lush vegetation
48:29 to be swept up in the flood's rising waters.
48:32 This vegetation accumulated in great mats, and then
48:35 was deposited by the ebb and flow of tidal waves produced
48:38 by volcanic activity in the preflood seas.
48:41 Each tidal action left its deposit of sediment within,
48:44 or over, the layer of vegetation. The dinosaurs,
48:47 being quite heavy, were able to survive many
48:50 of the early tidal actions as they sought to escape
48:53 the rising waters of the flood.
48:56 When the tidal waters briefly receded,
48:58 the dinosaurs continued their search
49:00 for higher ground, leaving their tracks in the sediments
49:03 that were freshly deposited over the vegetation.
49:06 At times, their great weight caused their tracks to penetrate
49:09 the sedimentary layer into the mat of vegetation.
49:12 That mat of vegetation has since turned into coal,
49:15 and wherever the dinosaurs left their original imprints,
49:19 there we still find an indelible record of their tracks,
49:22 in coal, today.
49:27 If all these dinosaurs were congregating together,
49:29 and swept up by the rising waters of the flood,
49:32 we might also expect that they would be buried together.
49:35 And indeed, here at Dinosaur National Monument,
49:38 in Vernal, Utah, we see a giant fossil dinosaur graveyard.
50:28 The time has come to draw some conclusions about the age
50:31 of the dinosaurs and the age of the fossil fish found
50:34 at Fossil Butte National Monument.
50:37 Here at Dinosaur National Monument
50:39 there's a sign that says:
50:41 "These dinosaur bones are 145 million years old. "
50:45 The so called Jurassic era, but we know that can't
50:48 really be true at all. Remembering our early results
50:51 on the coalified wood, there we found the collapse
50:54 of geologic time. The Eocene, the Cretaceous,
50:59 the Jurassic and the Triassic, we found were all together
51:03 only several thousand years ago.
51:05 The fossil fish in the Eocene, the Dinosaurs, in the Cretaceous
51:11 the Jurassic and the Triassic, all again collapse to just
51:15 several thousand years ago; buried at the time
51:18 of the worldwide flood. At this point, many may wonder
51:22 how this startling summation can be reconciled
51:25 with the evolutionary view of Earth history.
51:28 They may ask: do we not know from radiometric dating
51:32 that Earth's basement rocks, the granites,
51:35 formed repeatedly at different times and places over billions
51:39 of years of evolutionary time? And do we not know,
51:42 that using these same methods that the fossils
51:45 in sedimentary rocks are hundreds
51:47 of millions of years old?
51:49 The answer is a clear-cut "No!" to both questions.
51:53 Neither granites, nor fossils, have ages stamped on them
51:56 when they are collected.
51:58 The ancient radiometric gages that scientists
52:00 have accepted for so long, have never been scientific facts.
52:05 Factual scientific information is derived from
52:08 laboratory experiments.
52:10 Radiometric Age Dating is really just an arithmetic calculation.
52:16 It is composed of: a laboratory measurement
52:19 - the amount of lead divided by the amount of uranium,
52:23 both of these are ascertained in the laboratory.
52:26 The other variable is supposedly a constant.
52:29 It assumes a constant decay rate.
52:32 The age is then calculated as the product of that constant,
52:35 times the ratio, only the ratio is measured in the laboratory.
52:40 If this constant here is really not a constant,
52:43 but a variable, then the age is meaningless,
52:47 and the radiometric gages
52:49 are just so much, radiometric fiction.
52:52 Evolution assumes granites form by slow cooling
52:56 over billions of years.
52:57 The time of cooling, or presumed age, is obtained by measuring
53:01 the present radioactive decay products in the granite,
53:05 and assuming they accumulated only by slow, constant,
53:08 radioactive decay.
53:10 Because evolution equates radioactive age
53:13 with the time of cooling,
53:15 any evidence showing granites formed rapidly,
53:18 essentially shows their simultaneous creation.
53:21 Thus, the premise of constant radioactive decay
53:25 and the inference of great age is invalidated.
53:28 And indeed, there is scientific evidence
53:31 for their simultaneous creation.
53:34 Etched within the granites are beautiful micro spheres
53:37 of coloration produced by the decay of a certain
53:40 radioactive element known to have only a fleeting existence.
53:44 Using a simple analogy, Alka-Seltzer bubbles in water
53:48 can be retained only by rapid freezing.
53:51 Similarly, the microscopic record of fleeting
53:54 radioactive decay in the granites, is there only because
53:57 these rocks were instantly created in solid form.
54:01 If these rocks had formed by slow cooling,
54:03 as evolution claims, the radioactive traces
54:06 would have disappeared in the meld,
54:08 without leaving any visible record.
54:11 This record of instantaneous creation in granites worldwide.
54:15 Moreover, its existence in granites of vastly different
54:19 radiometric gages, shows they were all created
54:21 at the same time.
54:23 This collapses the whole foundation of geologic time.
54:27 The hundreds of millions of years of cooling time that
54:29 the geologists have thought necessary to form
54:31 the giant monolith, El Capitan,
54:34 is reduced to less than a few minutes.
54:37 How does this creation evidence impact
54:39 on the age of the Earth? Very significantly.
54:42 The weight of the scientific evidence has brought us
54:44 to the collapse of evolutionary time.
54:47 There is a Young Earth Creation Timescale.
54:51 The radiometric gages of the granites,
54:53 stretching from 80 million to 4 billion years, is invalid.
54:59 These granites, from Yosemite to the basement rocks
55:02 of the Grand Canyon, to Japan and India,
55:06 to the granites of Europe and Russia, and Canada,
55:09 were all the product of a simultaneous creation.
55:12 We haven't proved that the Earth is 6,000 years old,
55:15 but we have found evidence that is consistent
55:18 with a 6,000 year age of the Earth.
55:22 And we have shown that a several billion
55:24 year age of the Earth is scientifically incorrect.
55:30 We've captured only a brief glimpse of the various lines
55:33 of scientific evidence that point to the truth and accuracy
55:37 of the Biblical record of the Earth's recent creation,
55:40 and the great flood.
55:42 Brief though our glimpse has been,
55:44 the conclusion has been certain.
55:48 The radioactive traces in coalified wood,
55:51 collapses the geological time scale for life on Earth,
55:55 from hundreds of millions of years, to just thousands.
55:59 The occurrence of the worldwide flood explains the rapid
56:02 accumulation of vegetation responsible for Earth's
56:07 vast coal and oil reserves, the young age of coal,
56:11 and it's rapid formation in the laboratory, as well as the oil
56:14 now forming in Guaymas Basin off the California coast,
56:18 fits only into a young, not ancient, age of the Earth.
56:23 Dinosaurs, their fossils buried in mass graveyards
56:27 and their tracks in coal, are a mute reminder
56:30 of the futile attempts of these creatures to escape
56:33 the rising water of a worldwide flood.
56:37 The excess helium in deep granites
56:39 provides concrete evidence the Earth's crustal rocks are young,
56:44 thus powerfully disproving the whole concept
56:46 of an anciently evolving Earth.
56:49 And finally, the fingerprints of creation,
56:52 also found in the granites, the very rocks the Bible speaks of
56:56 as Earth's foundation rocks, confirm these rocks were all
57:01 the product of the same creation.
57:04 This fact invalidates evolutions basic assumption of uniform
57:08 radioactive decay, and collapses the whole structure
57:12 of evolutionary time.
57:15 We must conclude therefore, that evolution's
57:18 4.5 billion year age of the Earth
57:21 is nothing more than science-fiction.
57:24 Clearly the belief system that fits all the scientific facts
57:28 we presented, is the record of creation given in Genesis,
57:32 and repeated by Moses, in Exodus 20:11:
57:36 "For in 6 days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the sea,"
57:41 "and all that in them is. And rested the seventh day. "
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