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00:09 [music playing] 00:10 NOAH JUSTICE: In the southwest part 00:12 of the United States in an area known as Four Corners, 00:15 there lies three different regions where 00:17 ancient dwellings can be found. 00:20 Known as Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco ruins, 00:24 and the Aztec ruins, these amazing archaeological 00:27 locations can be toured and explored by your whole family. 00:31 But as you view these locations, questions arise. 00:35 Who made them? 00:36 Where did these people come from? 00:38 And where did they go? 00:40 Biological evolution maintains that humans evolved over 00:44 several hundred thousand years descending from apes. 00:47 And only about 5,000 to 10,000 years ago 00:50 did civilizations arise where cities like these were built. 00:55 But there are big challenges with this view. 00:59 According to the genealogies in the Bible, 01:01 man was created by God about 6,000 years ago. 01:05 Then, a global flood wiped out everyone 01:08 except for Noah and his family. 01:11 The earth was repopulated over the last 4,350 years. 01:16 As the population grew, it diversified 01:18 into different people groups that we observe today. 01:22 Evolutionists like Darwin and Haeckel 01:24 often claimed that some races evolved at different speeds 01:28 from others, and some are more favored than others. 01:31 This view has caused genocide of millions in this century alone. 01:37 Plus, evolutionists have a very difficult time 01:39 explaining how the 7,000 different languages developed 01:43 all over the world. 01:46 Originally, there was one language. 01:48 But we also learned that distinct languages came by God 01:52 at the Tower of Babel through a supernatural act 01:55 of God's judgment. 01:57 Which one is true, and which one do we trust? 02:01 All this and more next on "Awesome Science." 02:05 [music playing] 02:10 "Awesome Science" takes you on a field trip 02:13 to some of the most amazing geologic and historic sites 02:16 around the world, where we use the Bible as our history 02:20 guidebook to interpret what we see, 02:22 that the Bible can be trusted and empirical science falls 02:26 in line with the biblical account of creation, 02:28 the fall, and the flood. 02:31 Science, it's awesome. 02:36 According to the Bible, about 6,000 years ago, 02:39 God created man in his own image on the sixth day. 02:43 Adam and Eve were given a beautiful garden to live in 02:46 and were told to multiply and subdue the Earth. 02:49 But Satan rebelled from God and used a serpent 02:53 to deceive Eve, and subsequently Adam, into sin. 02:57 In response, God sentenced man to die for their sin, 03:01 and then cast Adam and Eve from the garden. 03:04 1,600 years after creation, God had decided that the sin of man 03:09 had gotten so bad that he was going 03:11 to destroy the Earth with a worldwide flood. 03:15 Only one man and his family held special favor with God. 03:19 God told Noah to build an ark and be saved 03:22 from the worldwide destruction. 03:25 About a year later, Noah's family came off the ark 03:28 and began to repopulate the Earth. 03:30 God promised that he would never flood the Earth again, 03:34 and instituted the rainbow as a sign of his promise. 03:38 Noah's sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth, 03:41 all were born around the time that Noah was 500 years old. 03:46 Once everyone came off the ark, God 03:48 told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 03:53 Within 100 years, Noah's descendants 03:55 multiplied but had settled to the east of Noah's farm. 03:59 They found the plain of Shinar and settled 04:02 there, which is in modern day Iraq, 04:04 named for the old city of Uruk near Baghdad. 04:09 There was only one language at that time. 04:12 The people wanted to build a city and a high tower 04:15 to make a name for themselves and not be 04:17 scattered over the whole Earth. 04:19 This was in direct opposition of God's command to spread out. 04:24 Some have suggested the high tower was a place of sacrifice 04:28 to the sun gods. 04:30 We see evidence of this all around the world, 04:33 with ancient tall ziggurats and pyramids being 04:36 used for human sacrifices. 04:38 By having this temple in one location, 04:41 people would have to keep coming back for a sacrifice, which 04:44 would have kept everyone close. 04:46 When everyone is close, it's easier to rule them 04:49 and easier for evil to spread among them. 04:53 God came down to see what man was doing. 04:56 God knew that they all spoke one language. 04:59 And if he let them get away with this defiance of his command, 05:03 then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 05:08 God must have recalled the civilizations before the flood 05:12 and how they rebelled against his commands. 05:15 He was seeing it replay here at babel. 05:18 Remember, God promised Noah that he would never 05:21 send another flood. 05:22 However, God also knew that he needed to scuttle man's plans 05:26 and force them to spread out. 05:28 He knew that it was best for humanity that they 05:31 not all settle in one place. 05:34 Of course, his plan was brilliant. 05:36 He decided to give different family groups 05:39 different languages so that they would not 05:41 understand each other. 05:43 This would force them to scatter. 05:45 So when did this event occur? 05:48 If we use the biblical time scale, 05:50 the flood would have happened in about 2350 BC. 05:54 Archbishop James Ussher placed the time of Babel 05:57 at 106 years after the flood, or in 2242 BC, when 06:02 Peleg was born. 06:04 Abraham was called by God in 1921 BC, about 300 years 06:09 after Babel. 06:11 According to secular archeology, Egypt began about 3,500 BC, 06:16 in Babylon in 4000 BC. 06:20 But a more accurate figure in the biblical time scale 06:24 would be 2188 for Egypt in 2234 for Babylon. 06:29 Since these nations speak different languages, 06:32 their founding would have been after the Tower of Babel which 06:35 occurred after the flood. 06:37 After all, Egypt is named for Egyptus in Greek, 06:41 or Mithraeum in Hebrew, its founder who 06:43 happens to be Noah's grandson. 06:45 So what happened after the event at Babel? 06:49 The people spread out across the world 06:51 into family and language groups. 06:53 Some had knowledge of city building 06:55 and took that knowledge to build cities of their own. 06:59 We see evidence of this all around the world, 07:01 with ziggurats, pyramids, and mounds 07:04 being replicated as far away as South America. 07:08 Others probably took a more nomadic lifestyle for a while 07:12 as they spread out. 07:13 Eventually, they would have begun planting and raising 07:15 animals. 07:16 And then, they would have built cities. 07:19 This progression of human expansion after Babel 07:22 matches what secular archaeologists find 07:25 in the record of human development, 07:27 only this development happened after Babel and not 07:30 over a few hundred thousand years. 07:34 Also, there could have been some uneasiness 07:37 about building large cities because 07:39 of what happened at Babel. 07:41 This would have kept some cultures 07:42 more nomadic like the Native Americans. 07:46 Early on, some would have sought shelter in caves 07:49 and made homes there. 07:51 This is where the idea of cavemen could have come from. 07:54 They were merely people living in caves. 07:56 Some people still live in caves today. 07:59 And they have satellite TV, too. 08:02 Around this time, the Ice Age would have started up 08:05 in full force, causing the spreading out of man 08:08 on the earth to be stunted in far northern regions. 08:11 But it still happened. 08:13 Ultimately, God used Babel to accomplish his purposes. 08:18 And from that dispersion, we get all of the amazing people 08:22 groups and languages we see today. 08:29 You can go around the world today and see 08:31 many different types of people. 08:33 From Oriental to African to South American to European, 08:38 the diversity is amazing, yet everyone is still human. 08:45 In 1859, Darwin wrote The Origin of Species with the subtitle, 08:50 By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation 08:54 of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. 08:58 Darwin encouraged the thought that some races were 09:01 more favored than others and that different races evolved 09:05 at different times and rates. 09:07 Darwin expounded this in his second book, 09:10 The Descent of Man. 09:12 For instance, Australian Aborigines 09:15 were considered a type of missing 09:17 link between ape-like ancestors and the rest of mankind. 09:20 They were hunted down and killed because 09:23 of the evolutionary philosophy. 09:26 After years of research, scientists 09:28 now tell us that biologically speaking, 09:31 there is only one race of humans. 09:34 Their previous evolutionary view of race was wrong, 09:37 and what they viewed as race was actually a social construct. 09:42 And it tends to be more cultural, 09:44 meaning we are mainly separated by language, 09:47 skin tone, and facial features. 09:50 Different races have been used by totalitarian regimes 09:54 and companies to exterminate large groups of people, 09:57 such as Hitler's Germany towards the Jews, Poles, Africans, and 10:02 Slavs, as well as Planned Parenthood's 10:06 early racist attack on dark-skinned African-Americans. 10:10 Human genome mapping has shown us 10:12 that there is only one race, the human race. 10:15 And instead of using the word races, 10:18 we should use the term people groups. 10:21 The Bible does not even use the word race. 10:24 The Bible describes human beings as one blood, 10:28 basically saying we are all descendants 10:30 of the first man, Adam. 10:33 Human biological variation is only about 10:36 point 0.012%, making racial differences absolutely trivial, 10:41 because there is more difference genetically between any two 10:44 people than this small fraction. 10:47 The differences between us are not race, 10:50 but culture, yet we've been taught 10:52 that the differences between us are race. 10:56 The major difference between skin tone 10:58 is the amount of melanin in our skin. 11:01 In addition, albinism, sunburns, and genetic defects 11:05 also affect the color of skin as well. 11:09 There are two main forms of melanin, 11:11 eumelanin, which is brown to black, 11:14 and pheomelanin, which is red to yellow. 11:17 This makes up about 16 different shades of skin color 11:21 and every combination in between. 11:23 No matter what our shade of skin is, 11:26 we all have approximately the same concentration 11:29 of melanocytes in our bodies. 11:31 From the DNA of our parents, we get all of our characteristics, 11:36 including skin color. 11:37 No new genetic information is generated at conception. 11:41 But a new combination of already existing genetic information 11:45 is formed. 11:47 There are dominant and recessive genes. 11:49 And from these genes, we get all of our characteristics. 11:54 Usually, we get our characteristics 11:56 from the dominant genes of our parents. 11:58 But there is no universal mechanism 12:01 by which dominant and recessive genes act. 12:04 In other words, it's hard to predict which genes you'll get. 12:08 The point is, you can get a great difference in your skin 12:11 tone if your parents have great variations in their skin tone. 12:16 These genes might also cause a brother and sister 12:18 to have different skin tone, such as darker 12:21 or lighter, especially if the parents are 12:24 different skin toned. 12:26 But we also see the different skin 12:28 colored people favor warmer or cooler climates. 12:32 Why? 12:33 It has been estimated by creation scientists 12:36 that Noah and his children were likely 12:38 middle brown in their skin color, 12:41 from which we get all the shades of the world. 12:44 In fact, in just one generation, they 12:47 could have produced all of the skin colors of the world. 12:51 The Tower of Babel would have dispersed the family groups 12:54 by different languages. 12:57 They split apart, going their own way, 12:59 finding different places to live. 13:02 The Bible tells us that they scattered over the whole Earth. 13:06 Because of the new language and geographic barriers, 13:09 people groups didn't mix with each other so much, 13:12 creating a splitting of the gene pool. 13:15 Different cultures formed with certain features 13:18 becoming predominant in each group, 13:20 simply because that is what their direct ancestors had 13:24 coming out of Babel. 13:26 Real science in the present fits with the biblical view 13:29 that we are all closely related, that there is only one race 13:32 biologically, and that they all came 13:35 from one man and one woman. 13:38 This program is brought to you by 13:42 An organization committed to producing high quality 13:45 science-focused television content 13:48 all from a Biblical worldview. 13:50 Awesome Science is our kids series hosted by Noah Justice 13:54 In every episode, Noah 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We hope you enjoy our great content. 14:29 Another area of study with compelling evidence 14:32 for the biblical account is linguistics, 14:34 or the study of languages. 14:37 There are over 6,900 spoken languages in the world today, 14:42 yet the number of languages emerging from Babel 14:45 would have been much less than this, 14:46 as few as 100 different original language families. 14:51 Linguists recognize that most languages have similarities 14:54 to other languages. 14:56 Related languages belong to what are called language families, 15:00 of which, there are about 100. 15:03 Some can be grouped into Latin, Greek, Slavic, Hindic, Asian, 15:09 Germanic, West African, and Arabian. 15:13 Then there are languages that have been mixed together 15:16 throughout history, such as Afrikaans 15:18 in South Africa, or even English, 15:21 which is a mixture of German-based language 15:23 and Latin French Norman-based language. 15:26 Since Babel around 4,200 years ago, 15:29 the original language families have grown and changed 15:32 into the vast number of languages we see today. 15:36 Language is also one of the main characteristics separating us 15:40 from animals. 15:41 Secular linguists can't explain how so many languages formed. 15:46 But they believe alleged human ancestors 15:48 began developing language 30,000 to 100,000 years ago 15:53 through an evolutionary process. 15:56 But in reality, secular linguists 15:58 have no idea where half of the languages came from 16:01 and how far back they developed. 16:04 The amount of languages and kinds of languages are complex. 16:09 This is why the evolutionist has such a hard time explaining 16:13 how they formed. 16:14 But according to the Bible, God created man. 16:17 He has the power to inject new languages 16:20 into the brain at Babel. 16:22 Evolution can't explain where language came from, 16:26 but the Bible can. 16:28 Even if we were there at Babel when God divided the people 16:31 by language, we probably would have 16:33 had no idea it was by God's supernatural power. 16:37 Again, it's the Bible giving us insight 16:40 into what really happened. 16:42 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that "all scripture 16:46 is God-breathed," meaning that God 16:48 spoke through men like Moses to tell about the history of man 16:52 and what God did in the past. 16:55 We can trust that it's the true history of Earth. 16:59 God's plan at Babel was to spread out man over the earth, 17:03 dividing the people by language, to thwart 17:05 their sinful rebellion. 17:07 And it happened. 17:09 His wisdom of what to do was perfect. 17:12 And it remains perfect in every situation. 17:19 After studying the scriptures and seeing 17:21 how languages developed, let's go back to Mesa Verde. 17:26 As we study this area, we must first 17:28 ask, how would Native Americans get 17:31 to North America after the flood all from eight 17:34 people off the ark? 17:36 We've seen how the Tower of Babel 17:38 separated the people into groups, probably 17:41 along the lines of Noah's sons. 17:43 The Tower of Babel was in Mesopotamia, in Asia. 17:47 And from there, they spread out. 17:49 As a general trend, Japheth's descendants went toward Europe 17:53 in North Asia, Ham's went towards Africa and the Middle 17:56 East, and Shem's mainly kept in the Middle East and Far East. 18:00 Although, there are some exceptions 18:02 to this in each line. 18:04 So where do the Anasazi people go after Mesa Verde and Chaco 18:09 canyon? 18:10 The Aztecs, according to their own legends, 18:13 departed from a region in the north called [? chicomoztok, ?] 18:16 a region that is today the areas of Texas, Oklahoma, 18:20 and New Mexico. 18:22 They reached the valley of Mexico in the 12th century AD. 18:25 So the Anasazi went south. 18:28 Their language, Nahuatl, was linguistically related 18:32 to other native language groups throughout the United States 18:35 southwest and northern Mexico. 18:38 Linguists note, for instance, the Shoshone language 18:41 in the Utah-Nevada region was understood by all the tribes 18:44 from Mexico without difficulty. 18:47 It has been found that the Anasazi were related 18:50 to modern tribes, including the Paiute, Hopi, Pima, 18:54 Yaqui Apache, [inaudible] Kiowa, and Mayos. 18:59 In addition, Catholic missionaries in the 1850s 19:02 established the fact that all the people 19:05 of the ancient southwest and Mexico 19:08 were of one language family. 19:10 Yet, while there are other examples of language 19:12 similarities, studies of the native languages 19:15 of the Americas have shown them to be extremely diverse, 19:19 representing nearly 200 distinct families, some consisting 19:23 of a single isolated language. 19:26 These other tribes would have occupied areas outside 19:29 of the Anasazi and Aztec regions, 19:31 showing the diversity and growth of languages since Babel. 19:40 As we study the story of man on Earth, one thing becomes clear. 19:44 The biblical account matches what 19:46 we find in the archaeological record much better 19:49 than man evolving over hundreds of thousands of years. 19:53 The Table of Nations matches what 19:55 we find in genealogies, and in cultures throughout the world. 20:00 The development of languages is a mystery to evolutionists. 20:04 But the Tower of Babel matches what 20:06 we find in archeology, a sudden explosion of culture 20:11 and language. 20:13 The movement of man across the Earth from the starting point 20:16 of Mesopotamia matches what we find in scripture, 20:19 from the story of Noah's flood and the Tower of Babel. 20:23 According to Genesis 3, Adam and Eve were the first to sin. 20:27 In Noah's day, man's rebellion against their Creator 20:30 had gotten so bad that God destroyed the entire Earth 20:35 in a flood. 20:36 Even then, man still wouldn't obey God 20:39 to spread out across the Earth. 20:41 So he confused their languages. 20:44 Over and over, we see in the Bible 20:46 that God is patient with man's rebellion. 20:49 But he won't let sin continue forever. 20:52 Even today, people around the world 20:55 rebel against their Creator. 20:57 They would rather deny that there is a God 21:00 and follow their own sin. 21:02 The Bible says that our rebellion against God 21:05 deserves death and eternal separation from him. 21:09 God knew this. 21:11 So he provided a way to save us from death. 21:14 Someone had to pay the punishment for our rebellion. 21:17 Romans 6:23 says that "the wages of sin is death, 21:21 but the gift of God is eternal life 21:24 through Jesus Christ, our Lord." 21:25 When we were powerless to do anything to save ourselves, 21:29 God loved us so much that he sent his son, Jesus Christ, 21:32 to die in our place, to take the punishment for our rebellion 21:36 and sin. 21:37 Even with this great gift we've been given, 21:39 many around the world have rejected God's grace 21:43 because they love their sin too much. 21:45 They still want to live in rebellion against the Creator. 21:49 God offers every man the chance to repent of his sins 21:53 and turn to Him. 21:55 We are encouraged in the Bible, not to put off this decision, 21:58 but to come back to God today. 22:01 Just like the door of the ark was 22:03 open for a time for anyone who wanted 22:05 to be saved from the flood, the door 22:07 is now open through Jesus Christ to repent 22:10 of our rebellion and sin. 22:12 And just as there was a time when the door of the ark 22:15 was sealed, the opportunity to come to God won't last forever. 22:19 Even though he loves his creation, 22:21 he cannot let sin and rebellion continue indefinitely. 22:26 His judgement on man will eventually happen. 22:28 And those who do not turn to Jesus 22:30 will be separated from God forever. 22:33 If you have not humbled yourself, repented 22:36 of your sins, and turned your heart to Him, 22:39 then we invite you to do so today. 22:45 Mesa Verde, the Chaco Ruins, and Aztec Ruins 22:49 remind us that a once thriving culture 22:51 used to live in the Southwest. 22:53 But they mysteriously disappeared, 22:55 and meshed into other cultures, particularly to the south. 23:00 The Bible gives us good information 23:02 about how the nations were formed after the flood, 23:05 and how many nations can be traced back 23:07 to Noah's three sons. 23:10 The dispersion of man from Babel by the confusion 23:13 of their languages gives us an idea 23:15 of how God caused man to move out from the Middle East 23:18 into the rest of the world. 23:20 The Bible also gives us clues about why cultures come and go. 23:24 In the book of Jeremiah, God says, 23:26 "the instant I speak concerning a nation 23:29 and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, 23:32 and to destroy it, if that nation against whom 23:35 I have spoken turns from its evil, 23:37 I will relent of the disaster that I 23:39 thought to bring upon it." 23:41 God is in charge of building and tearing down nations. 23:45 And it's all tied into a nation's heart towards God. 23:49 If a nation honors him, then he will bless them. 23:52 However, if a nation rebels against him, 23:54 then he will destroy it. 23:56 We don't know much about ancient cultures in the Southwest. 24:00 But archaeologists indicate that they worship the creation, 24:03 rather than the Creator. 24:05 Based on scripture, God would not 24:07 have blessed this nation of ancient Americans. 24:10 He would have sought to destroy and disperse them 24:12 because of their rebellion. 24:14 And this is exactly what we find about this culture. 24:18 We know from scripture that God controls the weather. 24:21 He may have brought the drought and other circumstances 24:24 to drive these people elsewhere. 24:26 These ruins should be a lesson to us today 24:29 to make sure our hearts and the heart of our nation 24:31 are turned to God. 24:34 Awesome Science is a video series produced by 24:38 Awesome Science Media produces many other great shows, 24:50 Ark Animals 24:55 We 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