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00:11 NOAH JUSTICE: In eastern Utah, in the Colorado River Basin, 00:14 is a national park and a monument, 00:17 both with very unique but similar features. 00:20 Arches National Park has over 2,000 arches 00:24 formed in sandstone. 00:26 The arches range in size from very large to super small. 00:30 Some scientists say that these arches 00:32 formed over millions of years. 00:35 But at the rate they are eroding away, 00:37 this long time period would be improbable. 00:40 Then, just south of arches, is Natural Bridges National 00:44 Monument where three massive rock ridges 00:47 are found in White Canyon. 00:49 They are some of the largest natural bridges in the world. 00:53 Yet, there is no river that runs through this canyon. 00:56 Flash floods are supposed to be the erosion agent. 01:00 But again, the time frame that they 01:02 used to determine the ages of these awesome natural bridges 01:06 doesn't match the rate of erosion. 01:08 Some other mechanism with faster erosion rates was at work. 01:13 In addition, at the bottom of one of these bridges 01:16 is a mysterious figure drawn by ancient settlers which 01:19 gives hints of early animals in the southwest, specifically 01:23 what looks like a sauropod dinosaur. 01:26 Let's explore these parks and find out 01:28 how the Bible gives us hints about their formation and age. 01:33 All this and more, next on "Awesome Science." 01:42 "Awesome Science" takes you on a field trip 01:45 to some of the most amazing geologic and historic sites 01:48 around the world, where we used the Bible as our history 01:52 guidebook to interpret what we see, that Bible can be trusted, 01:56 and empirical science falls in line 01:58 with the biblical account of creation, 02:00 the fall, and the flood. 02:03 Science, it's awesome. 02:05 [music playing] 02:07 This whole region is part of the Grand Staircase, a 10,000 foot 02:12 sequence of strata that has been revealed through erosion. 02:16 These sandstone layers are known to cover entire continents, 02:20 spreading across to Europe and North Africa. 02:24 There is no other logical explanation, 02:26 other than a massive catastrophic event, 02:28 which could produce these layers. 02:31 Secular geologists believe inland seas in deserts, 02:34 over millions of years, laid down these layers. 02:38 Oceans would come and go. 02:40 But the evidence is much more consistent 02:43 with the layers being laid down very quickly by water, 02:46 with little time passing between the layers. 02:49 In addition, many of the layers contain large cross-beds. 02:53 Cross-beds can be formed by desert wind or moving water. 02:58 Scientists can determine which process 03:00 created the dunes by the downslope angle of the dunes. 03:04 Lower angles indicate that they were formed under water. 03:09 All the cross-beds in these sandstone layers 03:11 are lower-angled dunes, indicating 03:14 they were all formed in a massive catastrophic water 03:17 event spanning the continents. 03:20 Only one event in recorded history 03:22 could have accomplished this-- the global flood of Noah's day. 03:27 Most scientists can agree that natural bridges are formed 03:30 by erosion from water that flows in the stream bed of a canyon. 03:35 It is thought by secular geologists 03:37 that the bridges here were formed over long periods 03:40 of time by flash floods. 03:42 Yet, there is no regular stream or river in this canyon. 03:47 Flash floods, which are common in this area, 03:50 can undercut the walls of rock, separating 03:53 the meandering gooseneck sections of the stream. 03:56 With enough water and force, the rock wall within the meander 04:00 is undercut and the meander is cut off. 04:03 A new stream bed then flows under the bridge. 04:07 Eventually, as erosion and gravity enlarge the bridges 04:11 opening, the bridge can collapse under its own weight. 04:15 There is evidence of at least two collapsed natural bridges 04:19 within the monument. 04:21 Scientists have estimated that in times past, 04:24 even more existed in this canyon. 04:27 But all of this is based on observations 04:30 they make in other canyons around the world. 04:33 The fact is, nobody was here when these bridges formed. 04:37 So we have to use forensic science 04:39 to try and piece together what happened 04:42 and make our best guess. 04:44 Forensic science investigates all possible elements 04:48 of a past process, trying to come up 04:50 with an idea of how it happened. 04:53 Some call this historical science 04:55 because what really happened was in the past. 04:58 We cannot repeat it in the lab. 05:01 In the case of this canyon, there 05:03 isn't a lab big enough in the world 05:05 to recreate the erosion that happened here. 05:09 So scientists have to make their best educated guess. 05:13 Therein lies the problem because people's bias 05:16 can get in the way of the best explanation. 05:20 Just like you can come to the wrong conclusion on a murder 05:23 case if you dismiss some of the evidence, 05:25 if you don't use the right approach or worldview, 05:29 you can come to the wrong conclusions and explanations 05:32 about Earth's history. 05:34 We do know that flash floods happen in this area, 05:37 especially during the monsoon season in mid-to-late summer. 05:42 But we should look at the bigger picture. 05:45 This part of the southwest lies in the Colorado River Basin. 05:49 The Colorado River basin drains a total 05:52 of 243,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of France. 05:59 Large reservoirs and canyons are contained in the area 06:02 today including Lake Powell, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Mead. 06:07 The drainage eventually ends up in the Gulf of California. 06:11 Secular scientists claim that the geologic features 06:14 in the Colorado River Basin were eroded over millions of years 06:18 through slow and gradual processes, 06:21 yet evidence is mounting that these features were 06:24 eroded quickly in a massive event not that long ago. 06:28 One example is the vertical walls in many of the canyons. 06:33 The process of erosion would have destroyed the steep walls 06:36 long ago if they took millions of years to form. 06:40 Evidence of this is seen in places 06:42 like Zion Canyon in Utah, where the vertical walls 06:45 are more than 1,000 feet high. 06:48 Yet there is little debris at the bottom of the canyon. 06:51 Catastrophic events recently at Mount St. Helens 06:55 give us clues to how water could have easily carved out canyons 06:59 in a matter of hours. 07:01 In 1982, there was an eruption at Mount St. 07:04 Helens that sent a large amount of water across the blast zone. 07:08 That water ponded in one area. 07:11 But that pond breached, quickly draining the area, 07:14 leaving behind large canyons. 07:18 This shows how catastrophic processes on a small scale 07:22 can produce features secular scientists thought 07:24 took long ages to form. 07:27 The White Canyon is a drainage system of the Rocky Mountains. 07:31 There is no river system in this area. 07:33 But the canyon provides drainage when there are heavy rains. 07:38 Just on simple observation, it seems highly unlikely 07:41 that there is enough rain annually 07:43 to carve out these massive canyons at Natural Bridges. 07:46 Some other mechanism has been at work 07:49 that isn't operating today. 07:51 After 150 days of the global flood, 07:54 the Bible tells us that water covered the entire Earth. 07:58 Up to this point, massive amounts of sediment 08:01 were being laid down across the entire Earth under the waters. 08:06 Evidence for this exists all around the world 08:09 with 75% of the Earth's land surface 08:12 comprised of sedimentary layers. 08:14 Psalm 104 tells us as the flood continued, 08:18 mountains rose and valley sank. 08:20 This would have begun to shift of the waters, 08:23 creating massive sheet erosion across the continents. 08:27 Evidence of this is seen at places like Devil's Tower 08:30 in northeast Wyoming, where thousands 08:33 of feet of sedimentary layers were removed rapidly. 08:37 As the Rockies rose at the end stages of the flood, 08:40 the sheet erosion would have eventually lessened 08:42 and channelized erosion would have begun. 08:45 Large lakes would have also been left at the end of the flood. 08:49 Places like the Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon, and White Canyon 08:53 would have been formed in a very short time, just like what 08:56 happened at Mount St. Helens. 08:59 We don't know whether the bridges 09:01 were formed during the receding parts of the flood or after. 09:04 But because the canyons meander at sharp angles, 09:08 minor cutting could have started during the end 09:10 stages of the flood. 09:12 But the major cutting of these canyons 09:14 could have been post-flood. 09:16 The oceans were much warmer in the past due to volcanic 09:20 activity. 09:21 Creation scientists maintain that the oceans were thus 09:24 very warm after the flood, producing 09:27 large amounts of precipitation around these areas. 09:31 This very large amount of rain falling 09:33 for several hundred years, would have 09:35 continued to erode the canyons and valleys created 09:39 during the flood. 09:40 We know that man lived here for several thousand years. 09:44 The Bible indicates that after Babel, man 09:47 spread out across the Earth. 09:49 The evidence of pictographs and petroglyphs 09:52 indicate that they were here some time 09:54 after the bridges were made. 09:56 So there is a short window between the end 09:59 of the flood and Babel when White Canyon was cut 10:02 and the bridges were carved out. 10:05 Estimates are, this area was formed 10:07 within several hundred years after the flood or about 10:10 4,000 years ago. 10:13 We know at the end of the flood that the ice age grew rapidly. 10:17 As ice developed in the higher elevations, 10:20 the lowlands would have received much more precipitation 10:23 than seen today. 10:25 Creation scientists believe that the ice age 10:28 didn't last for more than a few hundred years. 10:32 Evidence suggests that it grew quickly and melted 10:35 catastrophically. 10:37 We can look to places like the Pacific Northwest 10:40 where we find evidence of a massive melt-off of the ice age 10:44 in what we call the Missoula Floods. 10:47 Throughout the world, the quick melt-off of the ice age 10:50 resulted in large lakes being held back by large ice dams. 10:55 The dam holding back glacial Lake Missoula 10:57 broke, producing the largest flash flood in history, 11:01 carving out canyons and scablands in just a few days 11:04 across hundreds of miles. 11:07 Evidence suggests that the Rockies 11:09 would have also produced similar conditions of regional floods, 11:12 only on a smaller scale. 11:14 One such example is in the Madison Valley, 11:17 just north of Yellowstone. 11:20 As the large glaciers melted quickly from the Rockies, 11:23 they could have produced flash floods 11:25 as the water was released down into the valleys. 11:28 If White Canyon had already been partially cut 11:30 by receding flood waters during the time of Noah, 11:33 then these flash floods from melting glaciers 11:35 would have eroded the canyon even more. 11:38 [music playing] 11:40 Much of the literature will tell you 11:42 that it takes centuries to carve out these natural bridges. 11:45 But this may not be the case. 11:48 We know of a process called cavitation 11:51 where the pressures of high water flow 11:53 can carve out rock in a matter of minutes. 11:56 We've seen this process in action 11:58 back in 1980 at Glen Canyon Dam. 12:02 A huge amount of spring runoff at Lake Powell 12:05 threatened to overflow Glen Canyon Dam. 12:08 So the engineers opened the floodgates. 12:11 The incredible amount of water running down the tubes 12:14 was so great that cavitation took place, 12:17 eroding huge amounts of concrete and sandstone 12:21 in a matter of seconds. 12:23 So it doesn't take long ages to form natural bridges, just 12:28 the right conditions. 12:29 The flood, local flash floods, and the melting of the ice age 12:33 would have provided the conditions 12:35 to quickly erode this canyon and form the bridges that span it. 12:40 This program is brought to you by 12:44 An organization committed to producing high quality 12:47 science-focused television content 12:49 all from a Biblical worldview. 12:52 Awesome Science is our kids series hosted by Noah Justice 12:55 In every episode, Noah visits the national parks 12:58 and historical sites to help you understand 13:01 earth's history using a Biblical worldview. 13:04 Find us online to watch all of our shows, 13:07 Noah's bloopers, behind the scenes videos, and special interviews. 13:13 You can also visit and like our Facebook page. 13:16 Where we post updates, announcements, and post extra videos. 13:20 Our YouTube channel also hosts many of videos and bonus segments. 13:24 Thanks for visiting. We hope you enjoy our great content. 13:30 Anthropologists estimate that man occupied this area 13:34 several thousand years ago. 13:35 Creation scientists would confirm this 13:38 as man spread out across the earth 13:41 after the event at Babel in the Middle East. 13:44 After several thousand years of habitation, 13:47 for some unknown reason, the Anasazi 13:49 left the area at around 1250 AD. 13:52 During their time of occupation, they 13:54 made many drawings on the rock about their life here. 13:58 A great collection of these petroglyphs 14:00 can be found at the bottom of Kachina Bridge. 14:04 One of these is especially peculiar. 14:07 There is a petroglyph bearing a startling resemblance 14:10 to a dinosaur, specifically a sauropod with a long tail 14:14 and neck and a small head. 14:17 These drawings were made only a few thousand years ago. 14:21 To hint that early Americans might 14:24 have seen dinosaurs and depicted them on canyon walls 14:27 seems like a pretty big claim. 14:30 This is especially true if you believe dinosaurs died out 14:33 over 65 million years ago like secular paleontologists insist. 14:39 Secular scientists have tried to debunk this claim, 14:42 saying that they represent other animals that the Indians would 14:45 have seen in the southwest. 14:50 But those who believe the Earth is about 6,000 years old as we 14:54 infer from the Bible, believe these 14:55 could be the drawings of dinosaurs 14:58 before they went extinct in this area a few thousand years ago. 15:02 The Bible says that all land animals 15:05 were created on day six of creation, which would 15:08 have included the dinosaurs. 15:10 Noah was commanded to take two of every kind of land animal 15:14 onto the ark, which would have also included dinosaurs. 15:18 They came off the ark about a year later 15:21 and began to repopulate. 15:23 The earth was much different in climate than before the flood, 15:27 so the dinosaurs probably didn't come back in the same numbers 15:31 as they had before the flood. 15:33 But is there any supporting evidence for such a claim? 15:36 Yes, there is. 15:39 Dinosaur petroglyphs and pictographs 15:41 are much more common than we hear from the press and secular 15:44 scientists. 15:45 At an ancient temple and Ankgor, Cambodia, 15:48 a bas relief carving of a stegosaur has been found. 15:52 This building stone is over 1,000 years old. 15:56 This culture didn't practice paleontology either. 15:59 Forensic science would lead us to believe 16:01 that man and dinosaurs lived side by side for quite a while 16:05 after the flood in this Asian culture. 16:09 Even the Chinese, the Romans, and explorers 16:12 like Marco Polo documented encounters with such creatures. 16:16 In the book of Job in the Bible, God 16:19 describes two large creatures-- Behemoth and Leviathan-- 16:23 which Job knew about. 16:24 When you read the descriptions, they sure 16:26 sound a lot like a dinosaur and an extinct sea creature. 16:31 In addition, the word dinosaur wasn't invented until 1841. 16:36 Before that, such animals were often referred to as dragons. 16:40 The word dragon is used many times 16:43 in the King James version of the Old Testament 16:46 to describe some of God's creatures. 16:49 It's probably only been in the past thousand years 16:52 that dinosaurs had been exterminated 16:54 into extinction through hunting and changes in climate. 16:58 Another compelling claim about dinosaurs living recently 17:02 is the discovery of soft dinosaur tissue and blood 17:05 cells. 17:06 T. Rex and triceratops bones, supposedly 17:09 over 65 million years old, could not have preserved soft tissue 17:13 for such a long time. 17:15 The tissue should have rotted away or fossilized a long time 17:19 ago. 17:21 But the fact that we still find soft tissue and blood cells 17:24 makes a strong case for dinosaurs living recently. 17:28 Finally, creation scientists have 17:30 done their own study of dinosaur pictography at Kachina Bridge. 17:34 They have found many indications that it is authentic. 17:38 Although it is not possible to assign absolute dates to rock 17:42 art, it is possible to narrow the time span in which 17:45 a particular figure might fall. 17:47 There are many methods of dating rock art that can give us 17:50 a clue to its relative age. 17:52 At times, it is suggested that rock art of extinct animals 17:56 is the work of clever hoaxers. 17:59 Yet, several dating methods have dismissed this possibility. 18:03 The first is desert varnish. 18:06 Desert varnish is an accumulation 18:08 of minerals building up in glyphs and on the canyon walls. 18:12 This dark coating or varnish takes a considerable amount 18:16 of time to accumulate. 18:18 It can be generalized that if the varnish on the glyph 18:21 is as dark as its surrounding undisturbed surface, then 18:24 the glyph is significantly old. 18:26 One could easily tell if a glyph was recent 18:29 because it would clearly stand out 18:31 as very light against the dark background. 18:34 The second clue is weathering. 18:36 Erosion of exposed rock by wind and water 18:39 wears the surface of the drawing, 18:41 giving it a pockmarked appearance. 18:44 A newer glyph has a bright, fresh appearance. 18:47 The degree of weathering provides a clue to the age. 18:50 And the weathering factor is considered impossible to fake. 18:55 Finally, there are lichens. 18:57 Studying lichens, which are a common plant consisting 19:00 of an algae and a fungus living together form, 19:03 a scaly adherents on rock surfaces. 19:06 Lichenometry, the study of lichen, 19:09 cover patterns, colonization, and growth, 19:12 is based on the slow growth rate of lichens 19:14 on exposed surfaces and the long life 19:17 expectancy of their colonies. 19:19 In certain habitats, lichens may reach their final size only 19:23 after several thousand years. 19:26 Lichenometry can tell us if a particular piece of rock art 19:30 is hundreds of years old. 19:31 A modern hoaxed glyph would have no lichen growth at all. 19:35 Based on these clues for its authenticity, 19:38 the dinosaur petroglyph here at Kachina Bridge is real 19:41 and was crafted by the Anasazi Indians 19:44 several thousand years ago. 19:46 It's amazing to take in the panorama 19:48 here at natural bridges. 19:50 And imagine dinosaurs like the brachiosaurus 19:53 roaming this landscape while you hunted for your next meal. 19:57 Science, it's awesome. 19:59 [music playing] 20:03 The geologic formations at Arches and Natural Bridges 20:07 remind us that catastrophic processes 20:09 have taken place on our Earth several thousand years ago. 20:13 The flood was a real event. 20:15 It impacted our Earth in ways that we 20:18 will never fully comprehend. 20:20 Even though geologic features around the world verified there 20:24 was a global flood, secular geologists 20:27 continue to deny that truth. 20:29 But to those of us who believe in the Bible, 20:31 this rejection should come as no surprise. 20:35 The apostle Peter once said that in the last days, 20:38 people will scoff at God's work, making fun of creation 20:42 and the global flood. 20:44 Peter tells us they do this because they 20:46 want to deliberately forget God's judgment happened 20:49 on the Earth and deny that it will ever happen again. 20:53 If there is no judgement by God, they 20:55 can live whatever way they want. 20:58 It would sure seem like we are living in the last days 21:01 because most of the world scoffs at the global flood, 21:04 even though the evidence is plentiful. 21:07 But Peter also reminds us that "The Lord 21:10 is not slow in keeping his promise--" 21:12 as some understand slowness. 21:14 "Instead, he is patient with you, 21:16 not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone 21:19 to come to repentance." 21:20 In other words, God's desire is not to destroy his creation. 21:24 So he waits patiently for man to repent. 21:27 But God's patience won't last forever. 21:30 One day, his judgment will come. 21:33 The Bible says every person is born with a sin nature, 21:37 because the first man Adam sinned against God. 21:40 It has been passed down through the generations. 21:43 Because of the rebellion of Adam and Eve, 21:46 death came to the human race. 21:49 Our own evil deeds have earned us eternal separation from God. 21:53 He is Holy and cannot live with sinful creatures. 21:56 The Bible says that one day, all of us 21:59 will face judgment before God. 22:02 But God is also a God of mercy. 22:05 He desires fellowship with us. 22:07 He wants us to come to repentance. 22:10 So he provided his perfect son, Jesus Christ, 22:14 to live a sinless life and then die 22:16 on a cross as a sacrifice for our sins. 22:20 Jesus received the penalty of death we deserved. 22:24 All we have to do is recognize the depth of our rebellion 22:28 against God, repent of our sins, and bow our knee in submission 22:32 to Him. 22:33 We turn our hearts to Jesus Christ 22:35 and follow him for the rest of our days on Earth. 22:39 When we die, we will enter into eternal rest 22:42 with God because of the work of Jesus on the cross. 22:45 If you've not come to this place of repentance 22:48 and submitting your life over to your creator, 22:51 then now is the day of salvation. 22:53 We encourage you to do this today. 22:56 [music playing] 23:01 The geology of Utah is amazing. 23:04 From Zion to Bryce Canyon, Natural Bridges and Arches, 23:09 the sights are worth the trip. 23:11 The naturalistic and evolutionary idea 23:14 that it takes millions of years to form arches 23:17 has big problems. 23:19 The rate of erosion would suggest 23:21 that the arches are falling apart faster than they 23:24 can form. 23:25 Yet, we've never seen one form, so it's just an assumption. 23:30 But a global flood provides the right conditions 23:33 to build thousands of arches in a relatively short time. 23:37 The same holds true at Natural Bridges National Monument. 23:41 The receding flood waters would have carved many of the canyons 23:44 in the Colorado River Basin, including part of White Canyon. 23:49 But the bridges would have most likely formed after the flood, 23:53 before man spread across the earth-- within a few years 23:57 after the flood. 23:59 In their canyon drawings provide strong evidence 24:02 for the Biblical record about dinosaurs coming off the ark. 24:06 The biblical record can be trusted 24:08 as a book about Earth's history, with a timeline of only 24:11 6,000 years since creation. 24:14 It's not a fairy tale, myth, or 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