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00:04 And comes from the DVD series, "Awesome Science"
00:10 NOAH JUSTICE: Our first stop on today's tour 00:12 is at the grandest of canyons, the Grand Canyon. 00:16 Secular scientists say it was formed over millions of years, 00:19 but now some scientists are changing their view. 00:23 The facts only fit what we learn using real science. 00:27 It's not millions, but just days. 00:32 Then we travel up river to Glen Canyon Dam 00:36 to learn about cavitation, a process where high velocity, 00:40 high pressure water can erode through concrete 00:42 and hard rock in seconds. 00:45 All this and more next on "Awesome Science." 00:54 "Awesome Science" takes you on a field trip 00:57 to some of the most amazing, geologic, and historical sites 01:00 around the world, where we use the Bible as our history 01:03 guidebook to interpret what we see, 01:06 that the Bible can be trusted and empirical science falls 01:10 in line with the biblical account of creation, 01:12 the fall, and the flood. 01:15 Science-- it's awesome. 01:24 The Western United States has some 01:27 of the most amazing scenic wonders 01:29 of the world-- Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. 01:36 The Grand Canyon is found in the northern part of Arizona. 01:42 It has a depth of more than a mile 01:45 and is as wide as 18 miles. 01:49 It can be seen from the moon. 01:52 It is truly an awesome sight. 01:57 The amazing Colorado River has its start 01:59 on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains 02:02 and runs 1,450 miles to the ocean. 02:06 It travels 277 miles through the canyon. 02:10 Eventually, it empties into the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. 02:14 Native Americans first dwelled here. 02:17 But in 1540, explorers with Coronado 02:20 were the first known Europeans to see the canyon. 02:24 Finally, in 1869, John Wesley Powell 02:27 led the first expedition in boats 02:29 down the Grand Canyon in just three months. 02:37 The most fascinating part about the canyon 02:39 is how we can see thousands of feet of sedimentary layers laid 02:42 down during the flood. 02:44 The Colorado River also flows through the basement granites 02:47 and schists. 02:49 This is fascinating to the scientific community 02:51 because it's one of the few places on earth 02:53 that you can study what happened in the past 02:56 on such a grand scale. 03:00 When you walk through the park, signs are up all over the place 03:04 saying that the canyon was formed over millions of years. 03:07 Why? 03:09 Because secular scientists believe 03:11 that slow geologic processes and evolution occurred 03:15 over millions of years. 03:17 Evolution and millions of years are 03:19 a part of the religion of secular humanism 03:22 in the same way creation and thousands of years 03:25 are part of biblical Christianity. 03:29 Evolutionary geology says that the present 03:32 is the key to the past. 03:34 In other words, the processes we see today 03:37 are what formed the past over long periods of time. 03:42 By doing this, they're saying that there 03:44 were no catastrophes in the past, 03:46 like the flood of Noah's day. 03:49 Here at the Grand Canyon, they say 03:51 the small Colorado River formed this huge canyon, given 03:55 enough time. 03:57 Catastrophe, which means a lot of change 04:00 over a little period of time. 04:02 Think Genesis' flood-- for secular scientists, 04:05 those things just don't happen on such a grand scale. 04:09 In the evolutionary world view, everything developed by chance 04:13 over billions of years, and creation by God is just a myth. 04:20 But some scientists, even though grudgingly 04:24 are having to reinterpret their thinking because they realize 04:28 that a proper interpretation of the evidence 04:31 just doesn't match up with millions of years. 04:33 There are suspicions that the Colorado 04:35 River couldn't have formed the Grand Canyon all by itself. 04:39 For instance, where the river started 04:40 is lower than what it went through. 04:43 Can a river go uphill? 04:44 I don't think so. 04:46 The Colorado River has its start in Rocky Mountain National 04:50 Park at over 10,000 feet. 04:53 Then it winds its way down through Utah 04:56 and empties into Lake Powell at around 3,700 feet. 05:01 After leaving Lake Powell, it meanders 05:03 through the Painted Desert. 05:05 A very large plateau rises 7,800 feet 05:09 to the west of the Painted Desert called the Kaibab 05:12 Plateau. 05:14 This is where the Grand Canyon goes through. 05:18 So how does a river rise 4,000 feet to cut a canyon? 05:21 It doesn't. 05:23 A river cannot run uphill. 05:25 Nothing in modern day observations 05:27 can reasonably explain how a river could have done this. 05:30 The Colorado River should have gone a different direction. 05:35 Some theorize that the plateau rose while the canyon was 05:38 being formed. 05:39 But there is no evidence for this to be the case. 05:43 In fact, most scientists believe that the plateau 05:46 rose before the canyon was cut. 05:49 Some other mechanism was at work to carve this canyon. 05:54 Then, there's the problem of water flow. 05:58 When you take the volume of water of the Colorado, 06:01 even in flood stage, there is no way 06:03 a river this small, compared to the size of the canyon, 06:06 could have eroded away this much material 06:09 over any period of time. 06:11 We don't see it today. 06:13 It's wishful thinking. 06:16 And finally, because of gravity, a river 06:18 always erodes downwards. 06:21 Floods do come and change the direction of a river. 06:25 But a river 18 miles wide with the current water volumes 06:28 would be so shallow it would have very little 06:31 erosional power at all. 06:33 Some major event would need to have 06:36 happened to carve this canyon. 06:43 The Bible tells us that around 4,500 years ago God 06:47 was grieved that He had made man because of these three things-- 06:51 he was bent toward violence, evil intent, 06:55 and was wicked at heart. 06:57 Genesis 6, verses 5 through 7, tell us, 07:01 "then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man 07:03 was great in the earth, and that every intent 07:07 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 07:10 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, 07:14 and He was grieved in His heart. 07:16 So the Lord said, I will destroy man, 07:18 whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man 07:22 and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, 07:24 for I am sorry that I have made them." 07:29 God was going to judge the world and send a global flood 07:32 to destroy mankind, except for one man and his family. 07:37 The Bible tells us that Noah found favor with God 07:40 because he was a righteous man. 07:42 He told Noah to build an ark and fill it 07:45 with two of every land-dwelling, air-breathing animal, including 07:49 the dinosaurs, and seven of every bird and clean animal. 07:52 Once on the ark, the flood came seven days later, 07:56 and with a vengeance. 07:57 The fountains of the great deep burst 07:59 forth, which included water and volcanic activity. 08:02 It rained for 40 days and nights. 08:05 The ark rose above on the waters. 08:08 And the flood waters were sustained for 150 days. 08:12 Water rose at least 20 feet above the highest mountains 08:16 during the flood. 08:17 At the end of those days, the waters 08:19 began to recede, which took about five months, then 08:23 another two months of drying time. 08:26 The earth went through a catastrophe 08:28 like it had never seen before. 08:30 All life was destroyed beneath those waters. 08:33 While the water covered the entire earth, 08:36 continents moved under the oceans. 08:38 Giant water currents carried silt and mud across the globe. 08:43 Billions of creatures beneath the waters perished. 08:46 They were rapidly buried by sediment and fossilized. 08:51 As the catastrophe began to wind down, 08:55 the moving continents came to a stop, buckling rock layers 08:58 and pushing up mountains thousands of feet high in just 09:02 days. 09:03 Water that ran off the continents 09:05 caused huge sheet erosion, pulling silt and soft soil 09:09 into the oceans. 09:10 The volume became less and began to channelize, forming 09:14 canyons and some valleys. 09:18 The water became trapped in the valleys between the mountains, 09:21 forming gigantic inland lakes. 09:25 The post-flood earth was drastically 09:27 different from before the flood. 09:31 Mankind, except for Noah and his family, were wiped out. 09:36 It was God's judgment upon the earth for sin and rebellion. 09:43 The key to helping us understand how this canyon was carved 09:47 may be in the canyon walls itself 09:50 and in the basement rocks at the bottom. 09:52 There are up to 40 major sedimentary layers 09:56 in the Grand Canyon area. 09:57 Sedimentary layers are rock layers, 10:00 formed by water laying down silt, mud, and sand. 10:05 They were soft at one time, like the muck left over 10:08 after a local flood. 10:11 Once the water departed, the sediments 10:13 hardened into rock layers, though some lower layers surely 10:16 began forming into rock prior to being 10:18 dry due from the pressure above them. 10:23 Below the sedimentary layers of the Grand Canyon 10:25 are the basement rocks of granite and schists. 10:29 The basement rocks are not sedimentary, but mainly 10:32 volcanic and metamorphic. 10:35 They were there before the sedimentary layers 10:37 were laid down. 10:38 What's most interesting about the basement 10:40 rocks is that they don't contain any megascopic marine fossils, 10:45 meaning that they were not formed during the flood 10:48 but were a part of the original creation, 10:50 around 1,600 years earlier. 10:55 Signs of the Grand Canyon will tell you 10:58 that the sedimentary layers were laid down 11:00 over millions of years on the basement rocks by oceans. 11:05 Oceans would come in, then recede, leaving layers 11:09 and repeat the same process at least seven times, 11:13 one on top of each other, over and over. 11:16 But this raises problems because ocean floors are not 11:20 places know known to form fossils because of scavengers 11:24 and decomposition. 11:26 And the Grand Canyon layers do you have fossils. 11:30 Since oceans cannot rise 4,000 to 7,800 feet, 11:34 secular scientists say that this ground was originally lower, 11:37 then pushed up after the oceans left the deposits. 11:40 As creationists, we do agree in one sense with secular 11:44 scientists-- the earth's crust has risen and fallen, 11:49 but we believe this all happened during the flood and especially 11:53 during the recessional stage, as mountains rose 11:56 and the valleys sank. 11:59 The difference is in our belief about the timing. 12:02 It's not millions of years, but just months and weeks. 12:06 That is a very important distinction. 12:09 Even if this rising of the dry layers 12:12 happened over millions of years, as secular scientists believe 12:15 occurred repeatedly, the layers would 12:17 be full of huge cracks and many fractures. 12:21 But we don't see that. 12:23 We do see some bent layers, but not large scale fracturing 12:28 or snapping, indicating the layers were moved 12:31 and Bent while still wet prior to being fully hardened 12:35 into rock. 12:37 So the whole sequence of layers had 12:39 to be deposited rapidly then bent 12:41 immediately before hardening occurred. 12:45 During the recession stage of the flood, 12:48 many areas of the earth's surface 12:50 were going through great uplifting or sinking, 12:53 causing some of this bending of the soft layers. 12:58 Many mountains were formed, for example, 13:00 by day 150 of the flood. 13:07 This program is brought to you by 13:11 An organization committed to producing high quality 13:14 science-focused television content 13:16 all from a Biblical worldview. 13:18 Awesome Science is our kids series hosted by Noah Justice 13:22 In every episode, Noah visits the national parks 13:25 and historical sites to help you understand 13:28 earth's history using a Biblical worldview. 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We hope you enjoy our great content. 13:56 Another challenge-- some sedimentary layers, especially 14:01 near the bottom of the canyon, have 14:03 many large embedded boulders in them, some of which 14:06 are 15 feet in diameter. 14:11 This would mean that there had been fast moving water carrying 14:14 these large stones along. 14:18 The Shinarump Conglomerate covers 100,000 square miles 14:22 and is full of pebbles, so the water 14:25 which formed these layers was likely moving extremely 14:28 fast over a wide area in order to round 14:31 so many pebbles by erosion. 14:35 The sedimentary layers were laid down quickly, 14:38 one on top of the other. 14:44 Many Grand Canyon sandstones contain cross beds. 14:49 Cross beds are sedimentary layers 14:51 which are laid down as tilted or inclined layers 14:54 during their deposition and are usually 14:57 caused by water or wind. 14:59 This widespread geologic feature is often 15:02 seen in ripples, dunes, and anti-dunes, sand waves, 15:07 sandbars, and delta slopes. 15:11 Some of these sandstone layers at the Grand Canyon 15:14 are thought by secular scientists 15:16 to have been formed by wind in arid deserts with blowing sand. 15:21 But we know from scientific testing 15:23 that a wind-blown sand dune's front face can reach 15:26 an angle of 33 to 34 degrees. 15:30 None of the cross beds in the Grand Canyon sandstones 15:33 are at a steep angle produced by desert dunes. 15:37 But underwater sand waves have front faces with angles 15:41 less than 30 degrees. 15:43 This is exactly what we find at the Grand Canyon. 15:48 This sandstone layer was created underwater. 15:55 At the bottom of the Canyon is an area 15:58 called the Great Unconformity. 16:00 The layers below the horizontal sedimentary layers 16:03 are tilted, as though a great upheaval happened. 16:07 Then these layers were eroded all flat with little time 16:11 to be subject to further erosion of valleys or other features. 16:15 The mud, silt, and sand were then quickly laid on top. 16:20 At the beginning of the flood, we 16:22 can infer that the earth experienced huge upheavals. 16:27 The fountains of the great deep burst 16:29 forth, the land shifted, and entire continents moved. 16:34 This was not a local event. 16:39 The sedimentary layers of the Tapeats Sandstone 16:42 and the Redwall Limestone stretch 16:44 across the continents of North America, Europe, 16:47 and parts of Asia. 16:50 Grains of Navajo sandstone in the Grand Staircase 16:54 can be traced to Oklahoma in some sand grains 16:57 as far as the northern Appalachians. 17:00 Secular scientists say that an ancient river carried the sand 17:04 grains 1,800 miles. 17:06 But there is no evidence for this. 17:08 So it's just speculation. 17:10 A global flood could have carried it west. 17:15 Current direction indicators in many strata layers 17:18 have been interpreted to show the waters were moving 17:21 from the northeast directly from the northeastern part 17:24 of America. 17:27 The Bible best explains so many of the geologic 17:30 features we find around the world 17:32 today, including the vast sandstone layers. 17:35 Science-- it's awesome. 17:40 Around day 150 of the flood, the continental shifting 17:44 was slowing down, the springs of the great deep were stopped. 17:47 The windows of heaven were restrained, 17:50 mountains had been formed, implying continental plates 17:53 had collided and water was steadily decreasing. 17:57 Scripture implies that this was all 17:59 going on under the surface of the water. 18:03 As the mountains rose, the great continental collisions slowed. 18:07 Giant land masses rose and sank, causing the flood waters 18:11 to recede off the continents and into the ocean basins. 18:15 When water recedes, it first goes in sheets, 18:18 then it channelizes, eroding canyons. 18:23 With the huge amount of water associated with the flood, 18:27 this erosion was massive, across entire continents. 18:32 Because plateaus and mountains were 18:34 formed during the stages of the flood, 18:36 large inland bodies of water were trapped. 18:40 It is now believed that two large lakes 18:43 formed behind the uplifted Kaibab Plateau. 18:47 Evidence has been left behind of two main lakes holding 18:50 an estimated 3,000 cubic miles of water, three times that 18:55 of Lake Michigan. 18:58 In addition to the lakes, there's strong evidence 19:01 that we interpret as harsh weather conditions 19:03 right after the flood. 19:05 Most creationists believe that there was a post-flood ice age. 19:10 To aid this, there may have been super-sized hurricanes that 19:14 roamed the earth as weather patterns were stabilizing, 19:17 causing massive flooding and produced enough precipitation 19:20 from the warmer climate in the early post-flood world 19:24 to create the polar ice sheets in a few hundred years. 19:29 This rainfall in the warmer regions 19:31 would build these lakes to overflowing. 19:35 Secular scientists say that these tiny rivers 19:38 carved these huge canyons over millions and millions of years. 19:42 That just doesn't work. 19:44 Since the plateau blocking the lakes had limestone in it, 19:47 and water leaches through limestone, 19:50 the integrity of the plateau began to weaken, probably 19:53 over several years. 19:56 The limestone could have also still been saturated from right 20:00 after the flood, making it even more 20:03 susceptible to quick erosion. 20:06 At some point, the integrity of the Kaibab Plateau 20:09 gave way and the Grand Canyon began to be cut. 20:13 When most dams break, once the first waters were through, 20:17 all of the water behind it pushed forward, causing even 20:21 a greater amount of erosion. 20:23 Hopi Lake broke through first, then Canyonlands Lake. 20:29 In just a few days, over a 1,000 cubic miles of earth 20:32 were eroded away. 20:35 Since this massive erosion was not long after the flood, 20:38 many of the layers in the Grand Canyon 20:40 were still saturated and comparatively soft. 20:43 So erosion could have been very quick. 20:50 Lakes can be formed by uplifting tectonics, volcanic activity, 20:54 earthquakes, receding glaciers, and even landslides 20:57 like this one behind me. 20:59 Some time ago, an earthquake occurred, 21:01 resulting in a landslide that took out 21:03 half this mountainside, blocking up the valley below. 21:08 The creek and the valley was blocked 21:09 by the landslide, allowing, over time, a mountain 21:12 lake to develop. 21:15 If the natural earthen dam holding back that mountain lake 21:18 were to break, it would flood this entire valley. 21:21 But that's only a little mountain lake. 21:23 Think of the water used to carve the Grand Canyon 21:25 and all it did. 21:28 Empirical scientific methodology means 21:31 you should be able to observe something and repeat it, 21:34 over and over again. 21:37 Even though the formation of the Grand Canyon was not 21:40 observable, and we cannot repeat it, 21:43 we've seen other canyons on a smaller scale form before 21:47 our eyes. 21:49 This is what we find at Mount St. Helens 21:51 in southern Washington state 21:55 Mount St. Helens was a dormant volcano. 21:59 And in May, it had a major eruption, 22:01 blowing out the north side of the mountain 22:03 and creating a blast zone unlike anything ever seen 22:07 in recent history. 22:09 Through a giant landslide and many eruptions, 22:12 several hundred feet of pulverized rock and ash 22:15 were deposited. 22:18 It became a wasteland. 22:22 After the main eruption in 1980, Mount St. Helens 22:26 went quiet for about two years. 22:29 During this time, snow built up within the crater. 22:33 The crater rim is like a large earthen dam that held back 22:36 snow and water for two years. 22:41 Then, in 1982, the mountain became alive again. 22:48 Melting the snow and ice, the water 22:50 quickly eroded through the soft volcanic soil 22:53 and came cascading across the blast zone. 22:58 It quickly created canyons in the volcanic rock and ash 23:01 layers. 23:05 Even though the Grand Canyon has sedimentary layers, 23:08 the same process of erosion applies-- 23:10 lots of water cutting deeply in a little bit of time. 23:18 The Bible tells us that the flood was global, 23:21 it covered everything. 23:23 It was catastrophic. 23:25 The biblical flood provides a framework 23:27 for the proper mechanism and forces 23:30 necessary to produce these types of sedimentary layers 23:33 in a rapid succession. 23:35 The Bible is the true history book 23:37 of what happened on the earth. 23:39 It was not long periods of time, but 23:41 a short catastrophic period, validating the earth 23:45 as being young. 23:47 Those who believe in the literal account of earth's history 23:51 have long thought that the Canyon was not 23:53 formed in millions of years, but just days. 23:57 The Bible indicates that the earth is young, 24:00 around 6,000 years from creation to the 21st century, 24:05 indicated by reading the genealogies of Christ 24:08 and then from history forward. 24:12 So much of the earth's features we 24:14 see today would be due to catastrophe, not 24:17 long processes. 24:20 God wants us to use reasoning based 24:22 on the authority of scripture, not man's opinions. 24:26 Evidence for the flood is a reminder 24:28 that God has judged the world. 24:30 The Bible says He will judge the world again through fire. 24:36 Awesome Science is a video series produced by 24:40 Awesome Science Media produces many other great shows, 24:52 Ark Animals 24:57 We broadcast our episodes throughout the world 25:00 on television networks, TV stations, and online platforms. 25:05 We're making a difference by challenging the deceptive 25:08 evolutionary worldview, which directly opposes the Word of God 25:13 Our mission is to provide youth with a firm foundation 25:16 based on solid scientific evidence that supports their 25:20 Biblical worldview. 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