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00:36 You're joining us for, Evolution Impossible,
00:39 where we're exploring the scientific evidence for the 00:42 theory of evolution. 00:43 And we have to say, that we're starting to get a deluge 00:46 of reasons to see why evolution is impossible. 00:49 My name is Dr. Sven string. 00:51 Back with me in the studio today is Ellie Turner. 00:54 That's for joining us. 00:55 We've got Stephen Aveling-Rowe. Good to have you here. 00:57 And Jeandré Roux. Glad to have you back with us. 01:01 And of course, we've got our resident expert, 01:03 Dr. John Ashton. 01:05 Where would we be without you on this journey 01:07 together with all of us. 01:09 You know, talking about a deluge of evidence, 01:12 one of the landmark events in the Bible is the flood, 01:16 which the book of Genesis tells us covered the whole earth. 01:20 That would be a pretty incredible flood, indeed. 01:22 And yet, some scholars maintain that the flood was only a 01:26 local event which impacted a region in the Middle East. 01:30 But what we want to know is, 01:32 where does the scientific evidence point? 01:35 Does it point to a local flood or a global flood? 01:38 So John, help us out here. 01:39 Why are scholars and experts so concerned 01:44 and really believe that the flood was a local event? 01:49 Well there are, I guess, some other histories in the area that 01:53 talk about the flood. 01:54 And also, I don't know really why they want to say that. 02:00 Maybe they think it's impossible that it could be a global event. 02:03 And therefore, it had to be a local event. 02:05 But really, if it was just a local event, why didn't 02:08 God say to Noah, "Well, just pack up your family and 02:11 go for a holiday north or south," you know. 02:14 Just walk over the mountains. 02:16 And why did all the animals have to go in the ark, you know? 02:19 I mean, just migrate the animals. 02:21 It just doesn't make sense, you know. 02:23 And of course, you've got the meteorite impact 02:25 which supposedly destroyed all the dinosaurs, 02:28 which was, you know, global. 02:30 And yet, why not have a global flood as well? 02:33 So moving on to the scientific evidence 02:36 we want to explore with you and find out, what is the 02:41 scientific evidence that we have for a global flood event? 02:44 Well, the global flood event is actually recorded 02:47 in the scientific textbooks. 02:48 So they admit that. 02:50 At the end of the Cretaceous period the geology textbooks 02:54 essentially say the whole world was covered by water. 02:57 And there are a number of other extinction events too. 03:01 The first one, the Ordovician about 450 million ago, 03:06 according to conventional dating. 03:08 And then another series of extinction events. 03:11 So the geologists recognize that there were extinction events 03:15 that wiped out huge numbers of animals at those times. 03:19 Huge percentages of marine life in one event, 03:22 and so forth. 03:24 And so, these are recognized. 03:26 These global extinction events are recognized. 03:29 The big issue is that the Bible puts these events 03:32 only thousands of years ago. 03:34 ~ Right, so it's a matter of timing. 03:35 Yes, only thousands of years ago. 03:37 And of course, a lot of people feel that the story of 03:41 Noah's ark, and this sort of thing, is a little bit childish, 03:44 but it's something we can discuss another time. 03:45 But the geological evidence for a massive catastrophic flood 03:51 is certainly there. 03:53 In fact, there's been books written now, 03:55 Earth's Catastrophic Past. 03:57 One of the things that the author of that, for example, 04:01 Dr. Derek Ager, points out is, "Well, I don't want creationists 04:05 to grab onto this. 04:06 You know, I still believe in long ages." 04:08 But we can see that the long ages don't fit either. 04:10 We can talk about that perhaps at another time. 04:13 But the evidence is there, that there was a catastrophic 04:17 destruction of life on earth. 04:19 The geologists put them over a period of about 04:23 400 million years, perhaps 450 million year ago 04:27 to 65 million years ago. 04:29 Whereas, the Bible puts this all together. 04:32 But the Bible picture has some other advantages too. 04:35 In the Bible, it talks about the fountains of the deep 04:40 opening and coming forth. 04:42 And a lot of people just have this picture of 04:43 rain, you know, for forty days and forty nights. 04:46 ~ Long period of time. - This sort of thing, yeah. 04:47 But in actual fact, the Bible talks about massive, 04:50 and these fountains of the deep... 04:52 You know, that's what the Bible says. 04:55 And that's as far as we can know. 04:56 But it probably involved massive amounts of water, 04:59 ground water that was under there. 05:00 It would have been much warmer, of course, 05:03 that would have heated the oceans up as well. 05:06 And so, we had a lot of climatic conditions that occurred. 05:09 Now this actually provides a beautiful explanation 05:12 for the ice ages. 05:13 Because we would have had this massive warming effect 05:17 after the flood, and then of course with a lot of volcanic 05:20 matter and ash, and this sort of thing, we would have had 05:22 cooling that occurred after that, 05:24 which would have produced our ice age. 05:26 So it produced these cycles afterwards, 05:29 which explains the ice ages. 05:30 So going into the evidence itself, do we find in the strata 05:34 evidence for this global flood? 05:37 ~ What is the specific evidence we're looking at? 05:39 Well in particular, if we look at the Grand Canyon, 05:43 we see all these layers on top of one another 05:45 that have been laid down that must have been 05:47 laid down under water. 05:49 And this covers huge areas. 05:52 Like, over the continent of the United States we have 05:54 massive amounts of material deposited. 05:57 So if we have a layer that's covering, say, over a million 06:01 square kilometers, that is a massive amount... 06:03 ~ And that's not a local flood. 06:04 No, no, and it might be 30 or 40 meters thick, 06:08 this particular layer. 06:09 And this is a solid material. 06:12 To carry that amount of material, you think 30 meters 06:17 deep of solid material spread over a million square kilometers 06:27 requires a huge amount of water to transport that 06:30 huge volume of solid material, you know. 06:33 And the average density of rock is about 2.7, 06:35 so nearly three times the density of water 06:39 has got to be moved. 06:40 So a lot of force, and to be carried by huge distances. 06:43 So we're talking about material spread over huge areas 06:47 of the continent. 06:48 And all the continents spread like this 06:50 that buried these creatures at these times. 06:54 One of the interesting things is that there's 06:56 no erosion in between the layers. 06:58 So again, these layers are dated millions of years apart. 07:01 Of course, some of the shots of the Grand Canyon, 07:03 you might have 300 million years or 200 million years 07:07 showing in that particular shot, and yet all those layers 07:10 apparently there's no signs of erosion. 07:12 And yet in the Grand Canyon itself we have massive erosion. 07:15 You know, I get erosion in my gravel driveway 07:18 when we get heavy rain. 07:19 You get a Grand Canyon in your very home. 07:21 A mini one. 07:23 A very mini one. 07:24 So this is a classic example. 07:26 Another classic example is folding. 07:28 We often find that the strata are folded 07:31 very sharply, and this sort of thing. 07:33 If those layers are millions of years apart, 07:35 in hard rock they're not going to fold up. 07:38 And we can see that those folds represent very plastic forms 07:42 of the rock. 07:44 Everywhere we look, when we look at these structures 07:46 it all points to that these layers can't be millions of 07:49 years apart that evolutionists require for their theory. 07:53 It all has to have happened at a very recent time. 07:56 Very interesting. Very interesting. 07:58 Stephen, it looks like you've got a question for John. 08:00 Absolutely. 08:01 So talking about the stratification there and the 08:03 lack of erosion between these layers, 08:06 you know, we look at things like the great coal deposits 08:09 which we have very close to us here in Australia, 08:11 The great Newcastle deposits around here. 08:14 And I've seen with my own eyes, we see, for example, 08:18 fossilized wood and things like that, trees that are spanning 08:22 across many meters through these different layers. 08:26 Well in my experience, you know, timber seems to decay after 08:30 you know, decades, not millions of years. 08:32 I mean, in millions of years there wouldn't be much left. 08:36 So how is it that this timber has remained there, 08:39 was able to fossilize, and then some of it has turned into coal 08:43 or has been preserved in other ways. 08:45 How does that work? 08:46 Well again, these are major problems. 08:48 I don't know how geologists attempt to explain these, 08:51 in terms of the timescales. 08:55 When I was doing geology, we simply learned the layers, 08:59 we learned how to do the mapping, 09:02 and so forth, in stratigraphy. 09:04 In paleontology we learned the names of the fossils. 09:07 But what I do know, talking to people that there are, 09:10 and particularly the coal miners in this area, 09:12 have come across these vertical tree fossils preserved 09:17 even in the coal seams. 09:18 And they were even known to Lyell, Charles Lyell, 09:21 as I mentioned in a previous session, 09:23 the ones in Nova Scotia. 09:25 So these are major problems, these polystrate fossils. 09:29 And they're found in many places around the world. 09:31 Of course, the Mount St. Helen eruption that occurred in 09:35 1980, I think it was, or thereabouts, 09:39 when those trees were blown out and then they floated 09:42 in the lake, so forth, we can see how that sort of scenario 09:47 could explain these structures. 09:48 But the important point is that these structures 09:51 pass through many layers, that if we use the Lyell type 09:54 dating approach would span tens of thousands, 09:57 hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of years. 10:00 Whereas, in actually fact that can't be. 10:04 So everywhere we look, we've got this sort of evidence. 10:10 So moving to this concept of the ice age, 10:13 as you mentioned before, it's a time which fascinates 10:17 kids; the woolly mammoths and the saber-toothed tigers, 10:21 and things like that. 10:22 So I guess it's a challenge. 10:24 How does the ice age fit into the flood account, 10:30 in terms of and compared to, like, the Milankovitch cycles, 10:35 and all that kind of thing, in terms of geological history? 10:38 Yeah sure, okay, well many of us have heard about 10:43 the ice core data, and the ice cores go back 10:45 hundreds of thousands of years, and this sort of thing. 10:48 So let's have a look at this. 10:50 There's powerful evidence for ice ages. 10:53 And in the relatively recent past. 10:55 For example, the official age for the Grand Canyon ice age 10:59 is only about 12,000 years. 11:01 Even though Lyell dated it about 35,000 years, 11:05 you know, from his guess. 11:06 And his guess was way too old. 11:08 And that was because of recent ice age activity in the area. 11:14 But there's no actual secular model that can 11:17 explain the ice ages. 11:19 So when we look at the Milankovitch sort of theory, 11:24 it's look at perturbations or slight perturbations 11:27 in the tilt of the earth varying the amount of sunlight. 11:29 But it's not enough change in energy to actually trigger this. 11:33 But they've got nothing else to sort of hang their hat on. 11:36 But I've had a look at this ice age data because, you know, 11:40 a lot of questions are raised on this, and they say, 11:42 you know, people say to me, "Hey, John, so you believe 11:44 the earth is only 6.5 thousand years old. 11:46 What about these ice ages? 11:48 They've measured them and they go back 11:49 a hundred thousand years." 11:51 Well, the data just isn't there. For a number of reasons. 11:54 When you apply increased pressure to ice, 11:56 it melts, you know. 11:58 If you have a block of ice and you put a wire across it 12:00 with a couple of weights, it just slowly moves down. 12:02 Because under that little bit of wiring; increased pressure, 12:05 decrease melting point. 12:07 And so, what happens is that as the layers get compressed 12:14 and compressed, the melting points changes. 12:15 So any particular layering there is going to blur. 12:19 But when you look at the literature, you have 12:23 up in Antarctica, for example, you've got maybe 30 different 12:29 ice ages supposedly recorded. 12:31 Yet, you go to the Greenland ice core and there's only 12:34 one ice age recorded. 12:36 So there are major discrepancies between this ice age data. 12:39 And also the interpretation becomes very, very blurred. 12:43 And it's actually a very similar phenomena, in terms of 12:46 when they date these varves in another area. 12:50 So we look at these lake varves, and this is where you get these 12:53 little multi-layered layers that are supposed to represent 12:57 sedimentation that has occurred with the 12:59 melting snow through the years. 13:01 The whole thing is that... 13:03 And they say that they can date these back tens of thousands 13:06 of years, and so forth. 13:07 The whole problem is, that doesn't really work. 13:10 In real life, we have what is called bioturbulence. 13:12 And bioturbulence mixes these layers up. 13:15 When you dig down in beach sand and this sort of thing today, 13:19 you don't see these. 13:20 You see them for, you know, a meter or so down, 13:23 and then it's all mixed up. 13:24 That's what we've observed. 13:26 So the fact that we observe these layers in the varves, 13:28 and these sort of things, represent really 13:30 very short time frame. 13:32 Another fascinating thing with ice cores is, 13:35 and we can do this calculation, is that we know that a group of 13:38 bombers ran out of fuel and landed on one of the 13:43 Greenland glaciers during World War II. 13:45 Right, so we've got the data when that happened. 13:47 - They were able to land. ~ There was a plane on the ice. 13:48 They landed on the ice, the crew got off, 13:51 the planes were left there. 13:52 They had no fuel, you know. Can't get fuel there. 13:55 They rescued the people. They left the planes there. 13:57 Now the planes, since 1941 or 1942, whenever it was, 14:01 have been buried, right. 14:03 But a few years ago they drilled down and they got one. 14:06 Matter of fact, they got one out. 14:08 But it was under something like 250 feet of ice. 14:10 Did it still work? 14:12 Well, I mean, I find that hard... 14:14 That would be amazing, wouldn't it? 14:15 ~ Well, I suppose it would. ~ It might have evolved. 14:17 ~ Well, yeah. It hasn't evolved. 14:20 But the interesting thing was, if you just do the simple math, 14:24 and you look at how much snow fell over that plane 14:29 in that particular time, this is something we can measure today. 14:32 And if people want to apply the uniformitarian principle, 14:35 let me apply that uniformitarian principle. 14:37 Then the whole thickness of the Greenland ice sheet 14:41 would have been deposited less than two thousand years ago. 14:44 So since the time of Christ. 14:47 So people say to me... 14:48 It could be a lot younger than a hundred thousand years. 14:53 It could only be a couple thousand years 14:54 to deposit that amount of ice. 14:55 And people say to me, "Oh, John, there's a different 14:59 snowfall rate there, you know. 15:01 It's much slower in these other areas." 15:04 And I say, "Well, how do you know that?" 15:07 You know, it's not something you know. 15:08 If I go out and measure this, it explains everything, 15:13 again, in short time frames. 15:15 And this is an important point, I think, 15:17 when we need to look at all this data. 15:20 What does the data that we can go out 15:23 and measure today tell us? 15:25 And it really all points to the young ages 15:29 and those positions. 15:31 For example, one of the guys I met just recently, 15:35 he specializes in studying fossils, 15:39 and he's done some work at the whale fossils that they found 15:43 on the mountains in Peru. 15:46 ~ On top of the mountains? 15:47 Yes, yes, on the top of a mountain. 15:49 Not buried, on the top... 15:52 Now whales, although they can breathe air, they're not 15:54 noted for mountain climbing. 15:56 And there's a whole... 15:59 You know, a pod of these whales are found there, 16:01 and they're very well preserved. 16:02 The baleen is still there, it hasn't broken off. 16:05 So obviously buried very quickly. 16:07 But why up there? 16:08 Why are the whales up there? 16:10 Now this raises a very... 16:13 When we look at the earth's surface, 16:14 we find crinoid stems in the limestone, 16:17 and this sort of thing, up on the top of Mount Everest. 16:20 Now these little creatures live down in the bottom of 16:23 the water, sort of thing. 16:25 Why are they up there? 16:27 ~ So would it be geological kind of thrusting 16:29 that they talk about? 16:30 Would that have gotten those whales there to the top? 16:32 Well, that's right. 16:34 So what we have is, we talk about this picture of 16:36 the flood, right, and this sort of thing. 16:38 But the flood embraces a whole catastrophic event 16:43 where God destroyed the surface of the earth 16:46 at that time and started again. 16:48 And it involves not only the deluge of water, 16:51 but involves the movement of probably the continents 16:54 and pushing up the mountain ranges. 16:56 So the picture that we get from geology, from what we 16:59 observe today, what we can go out and measure, 17:02 drill down with our cores, go out with our little pick 17:05 and see, and photograph today, 17:07 the picture that we have is that we have these parallel layers 17:11 that were laid down on top of one another. 17:13 They must have been laid down very rapidly because 17:15 there's no erosion in between. 17:18 Or they're folded up, which must have happened 17:20 while they were all soft, 17:21 and so all the layers must have been soft. 17:23 They rapidly buried a whole lot of creatures, 17:26 from tiny little things to really big things, 17:29 that are all mixed up. 17:31 And then after that time there was massive movement 17:35 on the crust that pushed up the mountains 17:38 in the different ranges; the Alps, the Himalayas, 17:41 South American mountains, and so forth. 17:43 And that's why we find these fossils up there. 17:45 And then after that particular time, 17:48 over hundreds of years there were massive temperature 17:51 cycles as the earth cooled down, became very cold, 17:56 and then warmed up again. 17:58 And that explains exactly what we see. 18:01 You know, Dr. John, one of the things I was wondering is, 18:05 just backtracking a little bit to the strata, 18:10 the widespread strata, I heard some people refer 18:14 to that and say this is evidence to say that the 18:20 continents were previously connected and then moved apart 18:22 over millions of years. 18:24 What would you say to that? 18:25 ~ So the idea of one earth. ~ Yeah, yeah, yeah. 18:28 Yeah, so what they're saying is, well that could explain the fact 18:32 that we have similar layers of strata around the world; 18:35 that these things all sort of moved apart, and so forth. 18:39 Well, it most certainly could have been continental drift, 18:41 and it could have been actual fact quite rapid. 18:44 Particularly if it was lubricated hydraulically 18:47 with water and so forth. 18:49 I guess we're getting into space here where 18:52 there's only certain things that we can know. 18:54 There are things that we can't know. 18:56 We can make measurements today and do our best. 19:00 ~ But if we haven't observed it, or... 19:01 ~ Yes, yes, but there certainly could have been movement. 19:05 How that happened, where the energy came from, 19:07 and this sort of thing; I understand creationists 19:09 have done models of this to show that, yeah, 19:11 you could have very rapid movement, 19:13 and this sort of thing. 19:15 A lot of issues to look at in those particular models. 19:19 But I think one of the important points in my reading 19:21 is that the creationist models that are being developed 19:25 seem to explain things better than the long age models. 19:29 And particularly, really, we have so much evidence 19:31 that the long ages aren't there, you know. 19:33 So they really can't fall back there. 19:36 Ellie, you've been very patiently waiting there 19:39 to talk to John with a question. 19:40 Did you have a comment or a thought for John? 19:42 Yeah, look, going back to talking about the Grand Canyon 19:46 earlier and the different layers. 19:48 I'm just wondering how we know that they were 19:51 deposited under water. 19:53 Is there any other ways that those layers could have 19:55 been deposited, or are we sure that it was 19:57 from some kind of watery catastrophe? 19:59 Yes, we would expect that the volume of material 20:03 there would have to be moved under water. 20:05 Of course, sedimentary rocks does include rocks 20:08 carried by any sort of fluid. 20:10 And so, that could include air. 20:13 But the structures and so forth are not as likely as the dunes. 20:18 So it very strongly points to massive movement of water. 20:23 And I think, you know, geologists would accept that. 20:26 They wouldn't question that. 20:27 Those layers were laid down underwater. 20:30 at that particular time. 20:31 And to move such massive amounts of material, 20:35 I mean, some of the areas cover... 20:37 I mean, one of the things, I think it's the Chinle... 20:43 I'm not saying that right. 20:44 A deposit, it's over about 2.5 million square kilometers. 20:52 You know, and it's quite thick, many meters thick. 20:54 So that's a huge volume of eroded material 20:58 that has to be moved. 21:00 So it's massive catastrophic conditions. 21:02 It's very different to anything we've observed, 21:05 like in recent human history. 21:07 I think it's evidence it's a one-of type event 21:12 that occurred as recorded in the Bible at that time. 21:15 And in the book, you also talked about how there was 21:17 some layers which actually were kind of thrust up 21:21 and moved across the top of other layers, 21:24 and pointed out the evidence of how that 21:27 pointed towards the flood. 21:28 Could you just share with us what the idea was there. 21:32 Yes, well of course, sometimes they find slabs of rock layers 21:36 that are in the wrong order. 21:38 And so, in order to explain these, we have over thrusting. 21:43 And this is an area where there's a bit of contention 21:45 and debate, because some of these areas, 21:48 you know, the over thrusting has been for a long way. 21:52 So why didn't the rocks all break up and this sort of thing? 21:55 ~ Because of the friction and the movement? 21:56 And so, again, the only possible explanation 21:59 for these big slabs of rock to move so far with overthrusting 22:04 is that they had to be hydraulically lubricated. 22:07 Otherwise they're going to break up. 22:09 One of the other factors, I guess I haven't mentioned, 22:12 is that there are areas where there's like a hundred million 22:16 years of layers missing, and yet there's no signs 22:22 of erosion in between. 22:24 ~ Where do they go? 22:26 Well, they're just not there. 22:27 And so, I think one of the things is that in different 22:29 layers they just weren't deposited in the first place. 22:33 Yes, it's not that they were eroded away. 22:35 They just weren't deposited. 22:36 So again, when we look at all these scenarios 22:39 and these sort of irregularities, it points 22:41 to the fact that it had to be a very short-term event. 22:45 You know, not over millions, not even out thousands of years. 22:49 And then you've got the examples in the 22:51 Mount St. Helen's eruption where the canyons formed 22:56 very quickly when they had an eruption. 22:58 It carved out a canyon, and the volcanic ash 23:01 that was deposited that formed all these layers, 23:04 that if you looked at them you might interpret them 23:06 at multiple tens of thousands of years, 23:09 yet they formed in a few hours. 23:12 You know, this sort of scenario. 23:13 We've also got the island of Surtsey 23:15 that exploded again off Iceland. 23:19 You know, the amazing structures that formed 23:21 with that before the ice age. 23:23 So it showed that, again, within a few years, 23:27 I think within one year they had the first plants on Surtsey 23:30 after the surface cooled down. 23:32 And then, you know, within a few years they had permanent 23:36 plants that were established. 23:37 Now we know with the flood that the seeds and all this material 23:42 would have been, you know, washed around and spread around. 23:44 And so, when we saw Surtsey, and how quickly 23:48 that island, that barren volcanic island out in the 23:51 middle of the sea got plants on it, and the plants grew, 23:56 it shows that the earth could, after the flood, 24:00 reform very quickly. 24:02 Plus, the flood was a miracle as well. 24:04 And God had a plan then to destroy the earth. 24:07 But I think when we look at the science, 24:09 and the bottom line is this, when we look at the science 24:12 of what we can go out and measure today, 24:14 it fits the biblical model to a T. 24:17 Geologists can't explain these rapid folding strata. 24:20 They can't explain the fact that there are no erosion 24:24 occurring in between these layers, and yet these layers 24:26 span millions of years, and yet they're all flat and parallel. 24:29 You know, they can't... 24:31 ~ Even massive coal beds are hard to explain. 24:33 ~ Yes, yes. 24:34 Why that hasn't decayed over time, 24:36 but that it was compressed. 24:37 ~ Yes. 24:39 Recently I saw some research; it takes a very short amount of 24:42 time to actually form the coal, relatively speaking. 24:46 And the long ages might have caused its decline. 24:48 Do you have any thoughts on that? 24:50 Well, I'm not an expert on, you know, coal formation, 24:52 but I think the flood model, again, explains the coal, 24:55 where you have the heat from the volcanoes, 24:57 all these fossils massively cleared, the flood, 25:01 they formed together, you know, and turbulence, 25:03 then get buried and dumped on, 25:05 and get buried. 25:07 So the flood model certainly explains the coal. 25:10 And the fact that you have all this timber buried, 25:14 and then the heat to, you know, coalify it, and so forth. 25:19 Another visually very stunning thing that we see around the 25:23 world is chalk layers, you know. 25:26 - Oh, yes. - The Cliffs of Dover. 25:28 White Cliffs of Dover, yes. 25:29 And yeah, just how does that kind of fit into the flood model 25:34 and also the geological model as well? 25:36 So that's the Cretaceous. 25:37 And of course, that particular deposit there spreads from 25:41 Ireland through to Turkey, you know. 25:43 It's a massive deposit full of fossils. 25:46 But there are similar chalk deposits for the Cretaceous: 25:50 the Great Australian Bight; same period. 25:53 So they're all around the world. 25:54 So again, these deposits that have these same structures 25:58 all around the world point to the flood being a global event. 26:02 Impossible to be a series of little, you know, local floods. 26:06 Because little local floods wouldn't produce these 26:08 same patterns of strata that we see around the world today. 26:13 And so, the little local flood model in all these different 26:16 areas around the world just doesn't work. 26:19 Everything points to the biblical model. 26:23 And really, I think it's a wake-up call. 26:25 Then I think our science would progress far more rapidly 26:28 if we accepted that the Bible, in actual fact, 26:31 was inspired by God. 26:33 So, John, as we start to wrap up and head towards the 26:36 finish of our episode, could you just summarize 26:38 what is the key evidence that leads you to believe 26:41 in a global flood? 26:43 The fact that when we look at the global picture of the 26:46 surface of the earth, there is this thin layer 26:48 of sedimentary rock laid down by water. 26:51 We've got all these massive sedimentary beds 26:55 around here with parallel rock layers 26:58 in them all laid out. 26:59 We've got all the buried fossils of all the buried animals. 27:03 To me, it just all points to one big global catastrophe. 27:07 ~ It's amazing. 27:08 You know, so there really is scientific evidence 27:11 for a global flood. 27:13 And that really builds my faith and confidence in the Bible. 27:17 And you may be wondering if there's any other evidence 27:20 that the flood was a catastrophe that impacted 27:23 our whole entire planet. 27:24 Well, you'll definitely want to join us next time 27:27 as we explore the historical evidence 27:30 for a global flood. 27:32 In the meantime, you can catch up on previous programs 27:35 on our website... 27:40 And the other thing, as well, if you want to dive into the 27:42 evidence, go to your favorite online bookstore 27:45 and get one of Dr. John Ashton's book, Evolution Impossible. 27:49 We look forward to you joining us next time. |
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