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00:04 And comes from the DVD series, "Awesome Science"
00:09 [music playing] 00:10 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): One of the most amazing places 00:12 on earth is Yellowstone National Park. 00:16 With beautiful mineral pools and hot geysers, 00:19 this place is full of mystery. 00:22 Early trappers thought that this was the entrance 00:24 to hell itself, and came back with unbelievable stories 00:28 of this amazing landscape. 00:30 More explorers came, and it was so impressive 00:33 that a movement began to save this national treasure 00:36 for the people. 00:38 And in 1872, it became America's first national park. 00:43 Most of the signs in the park approach its history 00:46 from an evolutionary perspective, meaning 00:48 millions of years, and based on the religion 00:51 of secular humanism. 00:53 But a closer look at the evidence 00:55 reveals consistencies of short ages and large catastrophes. 00:59 The Biblical record best explains 01:01 what we see at Yellowstone. 01:03 All this and more, next, on "Awesome Science." 01:07 [music playing] 01:11 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): "Awesome Science" takes you 01:14 on a field trip to some of the most amazing geologic 01:17 and historical sites around the world, 01:20 where we used the Bible as our history guidebook 01:22 to interpret what we see-- that the Bible can be trusted, 01:26 and empirical science falls in line 01:28 with the Biblical account of Creation, 01:30 the Fall, and the Flood. 01:33 Science-- it's awesome. 01:35 [music playing] 02:00 When you think of Yellowstone National Park, 02:02 most people usually remember the geysers and mud pots. 02:06 But there is so much more to see. 02:08 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): It covers 02:09 over 2 million acres in three states across its boundaries. 02:15 Yellowstone contains one of the world's largest supervolcanoes. 02:20 The last of the three gigantic eruptions was hundreds of times 02:23 greater than that of Mount St. Helens, 02:25 and the first eruption was thought 02:27 to have been 2000 times that of Mount St. Helens. 02:32 The Bible tells us that at the beginning 02:33 of the worldwide Flood, the fountains 02:35 of the great deep burst forth. 02:38 During the Flood, and right after, 02:41 the Earth was going through tremendous geologic changes 02:44 because of the moving of Earth's outer plates. 02:48 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Volcanoes 02:49 were still active, including this caldera, shaping 02:54 the land after the Flood. 02:58 We can see other supervolcanoes around the world. 03:01 They can be seen on almost every continent. 03:04 Ones we know of reside in California, New Mexico, 03:08 Indonesia, New Zealand, and Japan. 03:11 [whoosh] 03:12 [hum] 03:14 [zap] 03:16 The park has two main access routeS-- a south circle 03:20 and a north circle, each passed by rather interesting features. 03:26 Besides the sedimentary and basement rocks, 03:28 there are two other types of rocks 03:30 in the park-- volcanic rhyolite, which is hardened lava, 03:34 and tuft, which is cemented volcanic ash. 03:37 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): After passing the park entrances, 03:39 you'll eventually come into the Yellowstone Caldera. 03:43 It has been filled mostly with volcanic tuft. 03:46 Much of the rim has been breached, or covered 03:48 with volcanic products. 03:50 Remember, this is an active volcano with a lava chamber 03:54 just several miles beneath the surface. 03:57 There is no immediate danger, but it 03:59 is a reminder of the volcanic activity 04:01 that we've seen from the past and activity 04:03 that we expect in the future. 04:05 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Throughout the park, 04:07 there is evidence of the Yellowstone fire 04:09 which happened in the summer of 1988. 04:12 It burned almost a third of all the trees in the park. 04:17 Many of the larger animals were able to escape and return 04:20 later. 04:21 Because of our Creator's design, 04:23 even in a sin-cursed world, the forest is coming back quickly. 04:27 [whoosh] 04:30 In order for us to better understand 04:31 the geology at Yellowstone, we need 04:33 to take a look at the "geologic" column. 04:36 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The traditional belief 04:38 from secular scientists is that the geologic column represents 04:42 long ages of time, billions of years, 04:46 starting with the Precambrian and ending in the Cenozoic, 04:50 being laid down slowly and gradually, 04:53 without a global catastrophe. 04:55 [music playing] 04:57 This sequence is never complete in any one location, 05:02 so secular scientists have to combine locations to get 05:05 their full view of the column. 05:08 Using the Bible as our history guidebook, 05:10 the earth is only about 6,000 years in age, 05:12 according to the genealogies. 05:14 Since many of the layers are sedimentary, 05:17 the Flood was the catastrophic historical event 05:20 that was the mechanism for quickly laying down each layer. 05:24 The fossils we find in each layer 05:26 were mostly buried over the year of the Flood. 05:29 Many Precambrian rocks are those created 05:31 during the Week of Creation, mostly on day three. 05:35 There were likely forces acting upon them during the Flood, 05:39 with the raising and lowering of the mountains and valleys 05:42 to cause some changes. 05:44 But largely, they were the rocks made during Creation Week. 05:49 Since there were about 1,600 years before the Flood, 05:52 we do see some evidence of erosion 05:54 and some sediment layers. 05:56 But there are very few fossils because the Flood, 05:59 the prime mechanism for fossilization, 06:01 had not yet come. 06:03 Secular scientists say that these early layers do not 06:06 have fossils because life was too "simple" at the beginning, 06:10 and only microbes had evolved. 06:12 But the Biblical explanation is much stronger, 06:15 for several reasons. 06:16 First of all these "simple" life forms are not simple at all. 06:20 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): And further, 06:22 the conditions necessary for fossilization 06:24 didn't occur until the Flood came. 06:28 The Paleozoic layers start with the fossils 06:30 of sea-floor creatures, which would have been buried first 06:33 with the onset of the Flood. 06:35 This makes sense because the Flood 06:37 started with the fountains of the great deep breaking open. 06:42 In layers above are fish fossils, 06:44 because they were the next to die. 06:46 We then find land-plant fossils and coal. 06:51 When the Flood moved inland, it wiped out 06:53 most of the vegetation. 06:56 Land animals would have escaped to higher ground, 06:58 or, by virtue of being on higher ground, 07:00 would have had a higher burial in the fossil layers. 07:05 The Mesozoic rock layers contains more coal 07:08 and reptiles. 07:11 As the trees were uprooted, these surely formed 07:14 into some of the large, floating log 07:15 mats similar to what we have seen at Mount St. Helens' 07:18 Spirit Lake after the eruption. 07:21 When the loosened logs rubbed together, 07:23 floating on top of the flood waters, 07:25 their bark came off and sank to the bottom of the sea floor, 07:28 causing large deposits of peat which 07:30 eventually turned into coal when buried by other sediments. 07:34 Large reptiles could no longer survive. 07:37 Their bodies may have floated on top of the water for a while, 07:41 but eventually their weight and mass 07:42 carried them to the ocean floor, where they were quickly 07:45 buried by other sediments. 07:49 The natural sorting power of flowing water 07:51 may have also contributed to distributing plants and animals 07:55 in sedimentary layers through buoyancy and other factors. 08:00 Fossilization of plants and animals happens quickly. 08:03 It does not take long periods of time. 08:06 You don't find any dead carcasses on the sea floor 08:08 today. 08:09 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Dead animals 08:11 on the ocean floor are quickly consumed by scavengers, 08:14 and their bones decay away. 08:17 The same is true on land. 08:20 It is suspected that mammals survived the longest. 08:23 Many of them could have survived a bit longer on higher ground, 08:26 or on the floating log mats. 08:30 Many mammals also float when dead, preventing them 08:33 from being rapidly buried by sediment and fossilized. 08:39 The Cenozoic contains the last layers, 08:42 which may have marked the end stages of the Flood, 08:46 and the short time thereafter when there were 08:48 continuing local catastrophes. 08:51 Most layers have a better explanation 08:53 when viewed in the light of a Biblical worldview. 08:55 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Since there is not 08:57 a full sequence of the column in any one location, 09:01 this is consistent with the Flood account, 09:03 because water in currents will carry sand, silt, 09:06 and mud to different places around the earth. 09:10 It's Flood action, not billions of years. 09:13 [whoosh] 09:14 [hum] 09:16 [zap] 09:18 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): On the northwest side 09:19 of the southern loop is a prized collection of geysers. 09:24 It's a great place to get out and tour the hot springs. 09:28 Yellowstone hosts 2/3 of all the known geysers in the world. 09:33 The close proximity of these geysers 09:35 is because of the large magma chamber a few miles 09:38 below the surface. 09:41 The highest geyser in the world resides here-- 09:43 Steamboat Geyser. 09:45 It can erupt up to 300 feet high, 09:48 but eruptions are rare and unpredictable. 09:51 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): A geyser source is melted 09:53 snow and rain, which eventually moves 09:55 through the porous volcanic rock. 09:57 The water mixes with saline brine and heat 10:00 from the shallow magma. 10:02 The water rises well above the boiling point, 10:04 but remains in a liquid state due to the pressure and weight 10:08 of overlying water and rocks. 10:11 The water can exceed 400 degrees. 10:16 The silica in the water creates seals in the fissures, 10:18 and a plumbing system develops. 10:23 When the pressure is sufficient, it forces the water up 10:26 to the surface and a geyser results. 10:30 There are a variety of minerals and species 10:32 of algae in the hot pools. 10:34 Microbes grow at different acidities. 10:37 A pool's color can be used to determine its acidity. 10:40 Green is more acidic, and orange is more alkali. 10:43 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The organisms and enzymes 10:45 can survive sulphur emissions similar to microbes 10:48 living near thermal vents on the bottom of the ocean. 10:51 Secular scientists suggest that if you look into the hot pools, 10:55 you can imagine life as it began, billions of years ago. 10:59 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): In reality, 11:01 these heat-loving microbes are not 11:02 simple or primitive, but extremely complex 11:05 in their structure and biochemistry. 11:08 They require an intelligent designer, the Creator God 11:11 of the universe. 11:12 Evolved over billions of years? 11:15 Not a chance. 11:16 [whoosh] 11:18 [hum] 11:19 [zap] 11:21 Some of the hottest geothermal features here in Yellowstone 11:24 are fumaroles. 11:25 Behind me here is Roaring Mountain. 11:27 Any water that comes up close to the surface 11:30 immediately gets flashed into steam. 11:32 [music playing] 11:35 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The Yellowstone River 11:37 runs through the park with its source from Yellowstone Lake. 11:43 The river has cut through volcanic rhyolite 11:45 and soft tuft, leaving a stained pastel colored 11:48 by the hot springs and fumaroles. 11:52 The river cuts through Hayden Valley, 11:54 where many buffalo roam. 11:57 There were once millions of buffalo 11:59 that roamed the plains and mountains of North America. 12:02 They were killed off, mostly by hunting. 12:05 But now a strong herd exists in Yellowstone year-round. 12:09 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Hayden Valley 12:11 is thought to have been covered up by 200 feet of water 12:13 when Yellowstone Lake extended through this valley 12:16 after the retreat of the glaciers 12:18 at the end of the ice age. 12:21 Very little grows here, because it 12:23 was a lake bed where glacial clay lines the valley floor. 12:30 Trees across the river mark the former shoreline of the lake. 12:35 This area in the park is called the Grand Canyon 12:39 of Yellowstone. 12:42 It was cut by the Yellowstone River through basalt and ash, 12:45 and is one of the most well-recognized 12:47 geologic features of the park. 12:50 Secular geologists thought that the carving of this canyon 12:53 took tens of thousands of years. 12:56 But evidence is beginning to emerge that an upstream ice 12:59 dam may have failed, carving out this canyon 13:02 in a very short time-- maybe even as little as a day. 13:06 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The rock in the canyon is soft, 13:09 so it would have been quite easily cut 13:10 by fast-moving water. 13:14 There is similar evidence like this 13:16 in Eastern Washington, with the Missoula flood, 13:19 at Mount St. Helens, as well as the Grand Canyon in Arizona. 13:25 The steepness of the canyon walls 13:27 help us realize that there has been 13:28 a recent cutting of the canyon. 13:31 Based on the current rate of erosion, long periods of time 13:34 would have eroded the canyon much more than it is now, 13:37 and the canyon walls would have been much more gradual 13:40 in their slope. 13:42 We know that this is not formed by glaciation because it 13:45 does not exhibit u-shaped features like Yosemite National 13:49 Park. 13:52 A large glacier, as it moves and cuts the valley underneath it, 13:56 will shape the valley with rounded corners at the bottom. 14:00 When the ice retreats, the valley has a u-shaped bottom. 14:05 A valley cut by a river tends to have a v-shaped valley 14:08 with steep sides. 14:11 Understanding that this canyon has not 14:13 been affected by glaciation helps 14:15 us conclude that it was formed quite recently, after the ice 14:18 age, only a few thousand years ago. 14:22 This program is brought to you by 14:26 An organization committed to producing high quality 14:29 science-focused television 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We hope you enjoy our great content. 15:12 One of the most fascinating parts about Yellowstone 15:14 is its petrified forests. 15:16 Much of it is in the Specimen Ridge area. 15:18 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): There we 15:20 find hundreds of upright, petrified logs 15:22 in 27 to 50 layers of forest. 15:26 Secular scientists say that there were many forests here, 15:30 one laid on top of the other, which 15:33 took around 30,000 years in an ongoing cycle to create. 15:38 A forest would grow. 15:40 Then it would be covered by volcanic ash. 15:42 Minerals would soak into the tree and petrify it. 15:45 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The ash 15:46 weathered into clay and soil. 15:49 Then, a new forest grew, was destroyed by the ash, 15:54 and the process continues. 15:57 Eventually, the layers were exposed by erosion, 15:59 revealing what we see today. 16:02 Using the Bible as our history guidebook, 16:04 with an earth age of only 6,000 years, 16:07 the Petrified Forests of Yellowstone 16:09 do not match up with the secular science of 30,000 years. 16:12 No surprise. 16:13 But there is a different explanation. 16:16 The Bible says there was a catastrophic event, the Genesis 16:20 Flood, which destroyed all vegetation 16:22 on the pre-Flood earth. 16:23 Some of the trees survived on top of the flood waters, 16:26 creating these giant tree mats. 16:28 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Yet, even 16:30 by the end of the Flood, some of the trees 16:32 were still floating on top of the flood waters, 16:34 even as the waters retreated from off the new, emerging land 16:37 masses. 16:40 As the logs had become waterlogged, 16:41 the heavy end, the root ball, sank in the water 16:44 to the submerged land surface below. 16:47 With the water current still carrying logs, 16:51 they were buried rapidly in the accumulating silt. 16:56 There was also a lot of continuing volcanic activity 16:59 beneath the waters and on the emerging land surface, 17:05 creating large explosions of ash that 17:08 added to the accumulating silt. 17:12 Because the logs were not sinking at the same time, 17:15 they would come to rest on different layers 17:17 of silt and ash. 17:20 Eventually, the upright logs would be fully buried, 17:23 and the chemicals in the water and ash 17:25 would petrify the trees quickly. 17:30 When the flood waters fully receded, 17:32 up to 50 levels of logs were deposited. 17:36 This explanation seems like a good story, 17:39 but hard to believe, until you see the facts. 17:41 [music playing] 17:48 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): If the logs 17:49 were trees that grew at these locations, 17:52 one would expect to find a well-developed root 17:54 system under the logs. 17:56 But they are nonexistent in all of the mature trees at all 50 18:00 layers. 18:02 Also, none of the logs have branches or bark, 18:05 indicating a cataclysmic . 18:06 Event 18:08 In addition, the root balls at the bottoms of the logs 18:12 are small and broken off-- evidence 18:14 of the trees being forcefully pulled out of the ground, 18:17 transported, and deposited here in this area at Yellowstone. 18:21 [music playing] 18:28 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): When studying the rings of logs 18:30 near the top of the ridge and at the bottom, 18:33 there's a lot of similarity in the ring sizes, 18:36 indicating they all grew at the same time. 18:41 If the trees grew in different forests, 18:42 at different time periods, the rings should not be similar. 18:45 [music playing] 18:55 If each forest was killed by different eruption, 18:58 then the trace-element profiles in the ash 19:01 the logs were buried in should be different, 19:03 even if from the same volcano. 19:06 But there are only four different trace-element 19:08 profiles, which help us realize that the trees were 19:11 buried in less than a year. 19:13 [music playing] 19:20 In a typical forest, the decomposing material 19:22 on the forest floor, such as pine needles and dead trees, 19:26 should match the trees around us. 19:28 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): But at Specimen Ridge in Yellowstone, 19:31 the petrified flora doesn't match the petrified trees. 19:34 Which makes for a very petrifying situation. 19:37 Which indicates they didn't grow there. 19:39 [music playing] 19:45 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): In the typical forest, 19:47 you would expect to find evidence of animal life, 19:49 such as burrows and nests. 19:51 But there is no evidence of animal tracks in this area, 19:54 except the remains of termites and their holes 19:56 in some of the logs. 19:58 Some say that the animals fled during the eruptions. 20:02 This happens with large animals, but is not 20:04 true of worms and insects. 20:06 And bones, teeth, and droppings couldn't escape burial, either. 20:10 [music playing] 20:17 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): If the secular story 20:19 is used to explain the formation of these petrified forests, 20:24 then there should be successive layers 20:26 of clay and organic debris. 20:28 But there is no clay found in these volcanic layers, 20:31 and the organic materials are only about an inch 20:34 thick in places. 20:35 [music playing] 20:45 In addition, sediments in these layers 20:47 appear to have been graded and laminated-- 20:50 the result of water and fluid action. 20:54 If these layers were only produced by volcanic activity, 20:57 no such features should be evident. 21:00 This was the result of the receding flood waters, not just 21:04 volcanic action. 21:09 Petrification is actually a pretty simple process. 21:12 It doesn't take that much time. 21:14 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): Secular scientists 21:16 used to say that it took many years to petrify wood. 21:20 But we can do it quickly in labs today. 21:24 What you need to petrify is the presence 21:27 of water saturated with minerals, 21:29 such as lime or silica. 21:31 We know, from the springs around Yellowstone, 21:34 that these minerals are in abundance. 21:37 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): When a log is buried and saturated 21:39 with water containing these minerals, 21:41 there's a chemical exchange that takes place. 21:44 Even if we give an extended range, 21:46 it could take as much as 100 years to fully petrify a log. 21:50 That's still within the Biblical time scale. 21:53 Many of the processes in nature, 21:55 that secular scientists thought took ages, 21:57 we can now do it very quickly. 22:00 Coal and oil have been produced in less than a year. 22:03 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): The global Flood 22:05 would provide the right conditions to quickly 22:07 bury, and exchange the chemicals and the heat 22:10 necessary to produce petrified wood on such a grand scale, 22:14 as here in Yellowstone. 22:16 [whoosh] 22:18 [music playing] 22:22 Yellowstone National Park, where many natural wonders 22:25 are remarkably preserved, also preserves a testament 22:29 to the catastrophic Genesis Flood and its aftereffects. 22:33 Secular and Biblical geologists both agree on the evidence 22:37 that we find here in Yellowstone, 22:39 but we disagree on how we interpret that evidence. 22:43 NOAH JUSTICE (VOICEOVER): One rejects God and the Bible, 22:46 and hence, a global Flood, and accepts millions of years 22:51 from the religion of humanism. 22:53 The other views God as the authority in all areas, 22:57 and hence recognizes the effects of the Flood 22:59 as a result of God's judgment on sin. 23:04 God is going to judge the world again, this time by fire. 23:08 We are all given the opportunity to turn 23:10 to our Creator, repent of our sins, and make Him our Lord. 23:14 We Invite you to begin this journey today. 23:16 [music playing] 23:57 [wind blowing] 24:39 Awesome Science is a video series produced by 24:43 Awesome Science Media produces many other great shows, 24:55 Ark Animals 25:01 We broadcast our episodes throughout the world 25:03 on television networks, TV stations, and online platforms. 25:08 We're making a difference by challenging the deceptive 25:12 evolutionary worldview, which directly 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