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00:10 NOAH JUSTICE: One of America's most incredible national parks 00:13 sits on the border of Montana in Canada. 00:16 It's called Glacier National Park. 00:20 Giant cliffs of sedimentary rock rises thousands of feet high. 00:25 How did the rocks form? 00:26 And what processes carved these giant valleys? 00:30 Secular scientists say these rocks 00:33 are over 1.6 billion years old and contain stromatolites built 00:37 by microbes supposed to have formed over a billion years, 00:40 ago according to evolution. 00:42 They also say many ice ages over millions 00:45 of years carved these valleys, yet there 00:48 are over 60 ideas about how the ice age formed and melted, 00:53 showing secular scientists really 00:55 don't have any one theory that works well with the evidence. 00:59 Some people doubt there was an ice age, 01:01 but the evidence is all around us. 01:04 The Bible indicates that these rocks were formed quickly 01:07 during the global flood, which produced 01:10 the right conditions for one ice age, 01:12 all happening within the last 4,350 years. 01:17 This time scale does not match with the billions of years 01:20 proposed by secular scientists. 01:22 Which view is correct? 01:24 And what does the evidence really show? 01:26 Find out all this and more next on "Awesome Science." 01:35 "Awesome Science" takes you on a field trip 01:38 to some of the most amazing geologic and historic sites 01:42 around the world where we use the Bible as our history 01:45 guidebook to interpret what we see, 01:47 that the Bible can be trusted, and empirical science 01:51 falls in line with the Biblical account of Creation, the Fall, 01:54 and in the Flood. 01:56 Science, it's awesome. 02:08 The history of this area goes back thousands of years. 02:12 The earliest inhabitants were American Indians, the Salish. 02:16 Flathead, Shoshone, and Cheyenne. 02:20 The anthropologist, historian, and writer, 02:22 George Bird Grinnell, called this area 02:25 the Crown of the Continent. 02:27 He made it his life's goal to preserve 02:29 this beauty for all mankind. 02:32 But progress came. 02:34 In 1891, the Great Northern Railway 02:37 crossed the Continental Divide along the southern boundary 02:39 of the park. 02:41 And Swiss style lodges and chalets were built in this area 02:44 to portray it as Americas Switzerland. 02:47 In concern that the land would not 02:49 be exploited for private enterprise, 02:51 President Taft, in 1910, established this area 02:55 as a national park. 02:58 The park compasses over 1.2 million acres with two mountain 03:02 ranges, over 700 pristine lakes, only 134 named. 03:09 The deepest is Lake McDonald at 464 feet. 03:15 The park has over 200 waterfalls, 03:17 some almost 500 feet tall. 03:20 Two million visitors come here annually. 03:23 You can travel by car or by bus through 03:26 this magnificent scenery. 03:29 In 1932, work was completed on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, 03:33 which connects the west and east sides. 03:36 The road was named after an American Indian legend 03:39 and is considered an engineering marvel. 03:42 It was built in the 1930s on sheer cliffs 03:46 during the short construction seasons 03:48 where workers had to build through 60 foot snowdrifts. 03:52 The highest point of the highway goes over Logan's Pass 03:55 at 6,646 feet. 03:59 The road was completed in less than 20 years and cost 04:02 more than $2 million. 04:04 Glacier is a part of a large preserved ecosystem 04:08 known as the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. 04:11 There is little to no pollution since there 04:13 are no major dense human population 04:15 centers and no factories. 04:18 It's a great place to observe alpine flora. 04:21 There are a total of 1,132 plant species 04:25 found in the valleys and peaks. 04:28 There are three major climate zones 04:30 in the park, the east side which is 04:32 drier and colder, the alpine regions, and the Pacific 04:36 side, which tends to be warmer. 04:38 Animal life is abundant. 04:41 You can observe grizzly bears, wolverines, mountain goats, 04:44 big horn sheep, moose, elk, mule deer, coyote, 04:48 and on a rare occasion, a mountain lion. 04:52 Glacier is known for its grizzly bear attacks. 04:54 But only a few happen each year. 04:57 It's always good to be cautious, so carry a can of bear spray 05:00 if you venture out onto the 700 miles of hiking trails. 05:05 Evidence for widespread glaciers is found throughout the park. 05:10 You can easily spot the u-shaped valleys, glacial cirques, 05:15 hanging valleys, moraines, and large outflow lakes. 05:20 Be sure to look for these features 05:21 as you explore the park. 05:24 The rocks and glaciers are supposed 05:26 to be the best preserved Proterozoic sedimentary 05:28 layers in the world, showcasing the Earth's most 05:32 fruitful source for the record of early life, 05:34 according to evolutionary thought. 05:37 But the Bible indicates the Earth 05:38 was created about 6,000 years ago, 05:41 using the genealogies found in Genesis and Matthew. 05:46 So how do we interpret the evidence 05:48 for supposed long ages in the light of the Biblical record? 05:51 Let's see what the evidence really shows. 05:57 Glacier National Park is in the northern Rockies. 06:01 The Rocky Mountains stretch from northern Arizona 06:04 all the way up into Canada. 06:07 Most of the Rocky Mountains consist of sedimentary layers, 06:11 meaning they were formed by water and under water. 06:14 There are also granite and volcanic rocks here as well. 06:18 Some secular scientists say the Rockies 06:21 we see today are the third generation of mountains 06:23 after seas and erosion carved down the previous Rockies, 06:27 leaving only a remnant of past mountain building. 06:31 The Rockies we see today are thought 06:33 to have formed over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago 06:37 by secular geologists. 06:40 The top layer of strata in Glacier 06:42 is called the Lewis Overthrust and is 06:44 supposed to be from the Proterozoic period. 06:47 There is a big problem here, because according 06:50 to the geologic column, the top layer 06:52 is one and a half billion years older than the rocks 06:55 below, which are from the Cretaceous age. 06:58 Because these layers are out of place 07:00 according to the supposed geologic column, 07:03 scientists have come up with a solution. 07:06 They call it an overthrust. 07:08 Overthrusts are thought to result from a geological event 07:11 where one rock layer is pushed up 07:13 over another through tectonic activity over millions 07:16 of years. 07:17 Since we don't see this happening today 07:19 and can't perform scientific experiments 07:22 on such a massive geologic scale, 07:25 secular scientists try to collect clues 07:27 about what happened. 07:28 Yet these clues are viewed through their worldview 07:31 of long ages and gradualism. 07:34 Catastrophic processes such as a worldwide flood 07:37 are not an option in their thinking. 07:40 The Lewis Overthrust extends from Glacier National Park 07:44 to 350 miles north. 07:47 It is 15 to 30 miles wide. 07:49 And the rocks are believed to have 07:51 been thrust about 35 miles from their original location. 07:56 We find these overthrusts throughout the mountain ranges 07:59 of the world. 08:00 The largest one is found in northern Wyoming 08:03 and called the Heart Mountain Overthrust. 08:06 If these formations are truly overthrusts millions 08:10 of years old, what evidence should we see? 08:13 Being that there are sedimentary layers both above and below, 08:17 the sedimentary layer below would 08:19 have to first harden into rock then 08:21 be pulled or pushed many miles over another sedimentary layer 08:25 that formed into rock after it. 08:28 Secular geologists say this happened over millions of years 08:32 through slow and gradual processes, 08:35 yet this tremendous geologic activity 08:38 should show stress and friction on each layer being 08:41 pushed or pulled over one distances in periods of time. 08:45 At the contact point between the two layers, 08:47 the rocks should be ground up. 08:50 In addition, where the layer was initially pushed, 08:53 the rocks should be compressed because it's 08:55 taking all of the weight of the rock behind it. 08:57 But we don't find these compressed layers. 09:00 With the supposed millions of years time scale secular 09:04 scientists use, the coefficient of friction 09:07 would have torn the layers apart. 09:09 The coefficient of friction is an empirical measurement 09:13 which describes the ratio of the force of friction 09:15 between two bodies and the force pressing them together. 09:21 But the contact point between the two layers 09:23 is sharp and abrupt, not ground up. 09:27 This is a telltale sign that the overthrust between these layers 09:31 was formed by other geologic processes. 09:34 If there is such a lack in physical evidence 09:37 for the overthrust being formed over long ages, 09:40 why do secular scientists continue to believe in it? 09:44 Finally, if one layer was pushed, then all of the layers 09:48 should show evidence of being pushed in the same direction. 09:51 But this evidence is absent. 09:53 It looks like only one layer was pushed, 09:57 because the fossils in the top layer 09:59 appear to be more simple than the fossils 10:02 in the bottom layer. 10:03 If evolution were true, then we should 10:05 find the opposite and more basic lifeforms on the bottom. 10:09 Secular scientists promote the idea 10:11 of an overthrust to explain why the fossils are out of order. 10:15 The overthrust becomes their magic bullet 10:18 to solve this dilemma. 10:19 But as we pointed out, there is no evidence 10:22 for an overthrust happening over millions of years. 10:26 So how do we solve this problem? 10:28 The Bible provides the answer to this dilemma. 10:35 The key to understanding how the rocks in Glacier were formed, 10:39 and much of the Rockies, is found in the composition 10:42 of their formations. 10:44 They're mostly sedimentary rocks, 10:46 which are formed by water and under water. 10:49 The lower layers are granite and metamorphic rocks, 10:52 which could possibly be the rocks of creation. 10:56 The Bible says that about 4,350 years ago, man 11:00 had come to a point where every thought of his mind was evil. 11:04 And God was sorry that he made man. 11:07 So He chose to destroy everything on the Earth 11:10 by water as a judgment against man's rebellion and sin. 11:14 But there was one righteous man, Noah, along with his family, 11:18 who God chose to save by warning him of the coming disaster 11:22 and that he must build an ark to be saved. 11:25 When the Flood came, it was catastrophic. 11:28 As promised, all life on earth was destroyed. 11:32 After 150 days, the water covered the entire Earth. 11:36 The Earth was going through tremendous geologic turmoil 11:40 below the surface of the water. 11:42 Giant tidal currents carried sand, silt, and mud 11:46 across the globe, laying down many layers of sediment, 11:50 in some places tens of thousands of feet thick. 11:54 As water currents changed because 11:56 of the geologic activity below, life forms 12:00 were being buried in massive graves 12:02 right within the soft sedimentary layers. 12:05 As the Flood reached its full height, 12:08 the Earth below began to rise in places 12:10 as rock layers were pushed up, developing 12:13 large mountains which changed the worldwide flood currents. 12:18 As mountains rose, the flood waters 12:20 began to fall away from the uplifting rock layers, 12:23 first flowing in sheets, eroding thousands 12:26 of feet of layers of soft sediment 12:28 and depositing them into new ocean basins 12:30 and elsewhere on the continents. 12:33 Because of this rise of the mountains on the continents, 12:36 entire layers of sediment miles wide 12:38 could also have began sliding downhill 12:41 by the simple force of gravity. 12:45 Back in the 1950s, secular scientists 12:48 proposed the idea of gravity slides to explain 12:51 these out of place layers. 12:53 But then in the 1960s, those scientists 12:56 changed to believe that slow plate tectonics caused 12:59 these features. 13:01 Because they like to believe in slow, gradual processes, 13:05 they choose to ignore the data which supported gravity slides. 13:10 But creation scientists have brought back 13:12 the idea of catastrophic gravity slides, or super faults, 13:15 to explain how these massive layers of rock 13:18 were put into place. 13:21 First of all, as we established, solid rock cannot easily be 13:25 pushed. 13:25 It breaks apart when moved. 13:27 In order for these layers to move and stay 13:30 together unbroken, they would have 13:32 to be relatively soft at the time they were moved. 13:36 There were only two times in history 13:39 where these layers could have been relatively soft-- 13:42 during the creation week and during the flood. 13:45 Since these layers in Glacier are upper layers, 13:48 they are from the time of the Flood. 13:50 During the Flood, water could have 13:52 been trapped under some of the sediment layers. 13:55 This water would have been under tremendous pressure. 13:58 Studies have shown that if a sediment layer is tilted 14:01 at least two degrees and there is 14:04 water under high pressure underneath this layer, 14:06 the layer will begin to slide downhill due to gravity. 14:11 The process of compressed water making heavy objects slide 14:14 is similar to water boarding at the beach. 14:18 Water boarding is taking a thin board, 14:20 throwing it across a thin sheet of water, 14:22 then running and sliding on top of it. 14:25 If you tried water boarding on dry sand, 14:28 it would be disastrous. 14:31 But when a thin layer of water is 14:32 put between the board and the sand with the pressure of you 14:35 on top, you can glide for many feet. 14:39 When the mountains were rising at the end stages of the Flood, 14:43 layers of sediment would have glided across the landscape 14:46 in a similar way. 14:47 After the layers stopped sliding and settled down, 14:50 the rock layers further hardened. 14:53 This program is brought to you by 14:57 An organization committed to producing high quality 15:01 science-focused television content 15:03 all from a Biblical worldview. 15:05 Awesome Science is our kids series hosted by Noah Justice 15:09 In every episode, Noah visits the national parks 15:12 and historical sites to help you understand 15:15 earth's history using a Biblical worldview. 15:18 Find us online to watch all of our shows, 15:21 Noah's bloopers, behind the scenes videos, and special interviews. 15:27 You can also visit and like our Facebook page. 15:30 Where we post updates, announcements, and post extra videos. 15:33 Our YouTube channel also hosts many of videos and bonus segments. 15:38 Thanks for visiting. We hope you enjoy our great content. 15:45 What we've seen here at Glacier so far 15:48 is how the layers are amazing and what the Flood did here. 15:51 But what this national park is really known for 15:54 is how the Ice Age left its mark in these valleys. 15:58 Evidence for the Ice Age was discovered in the mid 1800s. 16:03 What scientists observed were large U-shaped valleys 16:07 and moraines. 16:08 When secular scientists first discovered evidence 16:11 for an ice age, it didn't fit their uniformitarian view, 16:15 because uniformitarianism says that the processes we see today 16:19 are the ones that happened in the past. 16:22 And we don't see ice ages forming today, do we? 16:26 These scientists observed evidence 16:27 for at least one ice age, but had no idea how quickly 16:31 it formed or melted. 16:33 Because they believe in long ages, 16:35 they guessed an ice age would last 100,000 years. 16:39 And just one ice age didn't seem reasonable. 16:42 They then discovered supposed evidence 16:45 in the moraines and ocean sediments 16:47 for many ice ages spanning over two million years. 16:51 They claim that we have seen at least four major ice ages. 16:56 And some scientists even suggest our distant past included ice 17:00 everywhere, calling it Snowball Earth. 17:04 Secular scientists say that the last ice age occurred around 17:07 10,000 years ago. 17:09 But what does the evidence really show? 17:11 They also say that we're due for another ice age soon, 17:14 but they really don't have a clue about how 17:16 it develops in the first place. 17:18 So what elements do you need for an ice age? 17:22 The primary elements you need are abundant moisture, 17:25 mild winters, and cool summers. 17:27 Let's take a look at each one of these. 17:30 Abundant moisture usually comes from our oceans, 17:33 especially warm oceans. 17:36 Most of our large storms and hurricanes 17:38 come from the equatorial regions, 17:40 where the water is extremely warm. 17:43 But to develop the vast amounts of moisture 17:46 to create an ice age would require much warmer oceans 17:50 worldwide. 17:51 Next, you need mild winters. 17:53 If winters are too cold, the air cannot hold moisture. 17:57 And therefore, it can't snow. 17:59 We see this in the Arctic, where temperatures 18:01 get into the subzero level and snow fall is absent. 18:05 When we say mild winters, we're not 18:07 saying winters above freezing, just winters about 20 18:11 or 30 degrees below freezing. 18:14 Finally, you need cool summers. 18:17 How do you get that? 18:19 The answer might surprise you. 18:21 Mechanisms such as volcanoes can put ash and aerosols 18:25 into the atmosphere and cause global cooling 18:28 for short periods of time. 18:31 This cooling usually lasts just a couple 18:33 of years from one major event. 18:36 For instance, Mount Pinatubo's massive eruption in 1991 18:41 caused the Earth's average temperature to drop by a degree 18:44 or two for many months. 18:46 If several large eruptions happened simultaneously 18:49 around the Earth, the effect would be much greater. 18:54 But to create consistently cool summers worldwide, 18:57 you would need large volcanic activity for several decades. 19:02 There is evidence to support this idea, 19:04 because we find signs of global volcanic activity 19:07 in the Earth's recent past. 19:10 This evidence includes many extinct super volcanoes, 19:13 huge ash beds, and gigantic lava flows 19:17 found throughout the world. 19:19 As Bible believing creationists, we 19:21 have a good answer for how the Ice Age formed. 19:25 During the global flood, the Earth 19:27 was going through catastrophic global changes. 19:30 At the beginning of the flood, the Bible 19:32 says the fountains of the great deep burst forth. 19:36 This included warm subterranean water 19:38 from within the Earth's crust, which 19:40 was ejected onto the surface. 19:43 In addition, the fountains of the great deep 19:46 included molten lava. 19:48 Although the Bible does not speak of them specifically, 19:51 some creation scientists have found evidence 19:53 that the Flood could have involved meteorites entering 19:56 the Earth's atmosphere. 19:57 These events would have added heat to the Earth's waters. 20:01 Finally, large-scale catastrophic tectonic activity 20:05 would have caused friction. 20:07 The water on top of the tectonic plates 20:09 would have heated up dramatically 20:11 as the plates were subducted rapidly. 20:13 All of these processes would have warmed the flood waters 20:16 to a very high temperature by the end of the flood. 20:20 Sea floor sediments indicate the waters 20:22 were much warmer in the past around the entire Earth. 20:26 Estimates for ocean temperatures worldwide 20:29 could have risen to at least 90 degrees Fahrenheit 20:32 or even higher. 20:34 These warm waters would have existed worldwide for hundreds 20:37 of years after the flood. 20:40 These conditions would have caused tremendous evaporation, 20:43 resulting in very large precipitation near the shores 20:46 and snowstorms in the higher latitudes. 20:49 With mild winters and cool summers after the Flood, 20:52 the snow would have accumulated quickly in the mountains 20:55 and not melted off. 20:57 This snow and ice would have eventually filled the valleys 21:00 and created large ice sheets over the northern and southern 21:03 continents. 21:05 Some estimates from creation scientists 21:07 are that huge ice sheets could have accumulated 21:10 in 200 to 300 years, starting within decades after the Flood. 21:14 But some say it takes tens of thousands of years 21:17 to build up ice sheets that thick. 21:19 Think again. 21:21 During World War II, a squadron of six P-38s and two B-17 21:26 bombers had to crash land on top of Greenland's ice sheets. 21:30 None of the crew was lost, and they were all 21:33 rescued and returned safely home after spending several days 21:36 on the desolate ice. 21:39 In the 1980s, a team of ambitious historians 21:42 decided to go back and find these planes 21:45 and bring them home. 21:46 They assumed the job would be fairly easy, 21:49 because they made the assumption that ice does not 21:51 accumulate quickly. 21:53 They were wrong. 21:54 This assumption was made because secular scientists tell us 21:57 it takes thousands or even millions of years 22:00 to develop an ice sheet. 22:02 After several failed attempts at finding 22:04 the planes near the surface, they eventually 22:07 located them much further down. 22:09 In fact, they were buried under 250 feet of ice. 22:13 This is just one example showing that it doesn't 22:16 take long ages to build up an ice pack, just 22:19 the right conditions. 22:21 With the meteorological conditions right 22:24 after the Flood, building the Ice Age 22:26 quickly was not a problem. 22:28 God loves us. 22:29 And He is in control of all living things. 22:33 We need to be aware that there are other spiritual forces 22:36 at work which are using the global warming 22:38 debate as a means to push their own agenda, which does not 22:42 include honoring God or His word. 22:45 We know the future of our world. 22:47 It will be destroyed by fire in God's final judgment 22:50 against man. 22:52 And there is nothing we can do to stop it. 22:55 But God has provided a way out of His judgement. 22:58 He loves man and desires to have a relationship with him. 23:02 But we are sinful creatures and cannot fellowship with God, 23:05 because He is holy and we are not. 23:09 Our sin and rebellion against God 23:11 deserves the penalty of death, yet God made a way for us 23:16 to escape the judgement by sending 23:17 His own Son, Jesus Christ. 23:20 Because Jesus is God's Son, He is perfect without sin. 23:25 He died in our place, taking the punishment for mankind's sin. 23:29 Only by repenting of our sin and believing 23:32 in this gift of salvation through what 23:34 Jesus did for us on the cross will 23:36 we be able to escape His judgement 23:38 and enter into fellowship with God forever. 23:41 We encourage you to repent of your sin 23:44 and come to salvation today, before God's final judgment 23:47 comes. 23:51 Glacier is a great place to see the evidence for a global flood 23:55 in the massive layers that have been exposed in the park. 23:59 We also see how the overthrusts show 24:01 incredible geologic activity during the Flood. 24:05 We've also seen how the Flood provided the right conditions 24:08 to start and maintain the Ice Age. 24:11 Because the one and only Flood provided the right conditions 24:15 for the Ice Age, the prediction of another ice age 24:18 is just blind speculation. 24:20 We can trust in God's word to help us interpret the past 24:24 and to use it as a guide to Earth's history. 24:28 When we use God's word, things begin to make sense 24:31 about what we find in nature. 24:35 Awesome Science is a video series produced by 24:40 Awesome Science Media produces many other great shows, 24:51 Ark 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