Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000009A
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00:11 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, "In the beginning God created." 00:20 Evolution teaches the opposite. 00:22 No one created, it all happened by itself. 00:26 Which one is the truth? 00:30 This is Headquarters, 00:34 Doc M, 00:38 Jacqui, and Rich, 00:45 their job, investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:16 Good morning, Jacqui. 01:17 Good morning, Doc M. How are you? 01:19 I am absolutely fantastic, 01:23 but I don't think the rest of world is. 01:25 What do you mean? You won't believe it. 01:27 Well, I was getting up this morning 01:29 and my alarm clock broke. 01:33 I was on my way out the door, tie my shoe, my shoelace broke. 01:39 I walk outside and a sprinkler breaks, 01:44 big old gush of water. 01:46 Wow. 01:50 Hopefully nothing will break on you here. 01:58 What happened to your favorite chair? 02:02 I think today just happened to my favorite chair. 02:09 I guess, I won't be rolling around in the office. 02:14 Oh, well, don't worry, eventually, 02:17 everything breaks down. 02:19 Well, apparently today is the day for that. 02:22 Why? 02:24 Well, look at this letter I just got from... 02:28 Here it is, Rosie in Jupiter, Florida. 02:32 Why is everything breaking down in Florida too? 02:35 No, but you are not far enough. 02:37 Listen to this interesting letter. 02:39 "Dear Headquarters, 02:41 I have a cousin that lives up in Missouri 02:42 and his town has some flooding last week 02:45 with those storms that went through again. 02:47 Their barn was destroyed with the river overflowing. 02:50 His school was in three feet of water. 02:53 His town is a mess now, 02:54 they're trying to fix all the damage. 02:56 While our town isn't under water, 02:58 but it sure feels like a mess." 03:01 She continues. 03:03 "So the next day in school, 03:04 we get in this big discussion in science class, 03:07 because one of my classmates asked 03:08 if in a million years all the flooding 03:10 would destroy Missouri 03:11 and make it into the next Grand Canyon." 03:14 Wow! 03:16 Interesting, crazy, there, there's more. 03:19 "So then it turns out, a big part of our class 03:21 believes that God created the earth, 03:22 then a flood eroded the surface of our planet. 03:25 Another smaller group has no idea what they believe 03:28 and the rest of the class and our teacher believe 03:30 the surface of the world is a mess 03:32 because of millions of years of erosion." 03:36 So my question... 03:38 It's a good question. 03:39 Is there any evidence in nature that shows us how our world 03:42 really got eroded? 03:44 Thank you, Rosie. 03:47 Suddenly a broken chair doesn't seem so important. 03:52 I know, it's so cool that all those kids stood up 03:56 for creation. 03:57 That's right. 03:59 We need to get this message out to Rich, ASAP. 04:03 You got it, Doc. 04:05 Good. Where is Rich anyway? 04:07 Well, I just got a text from him a little while ago. 04:10 He said, he was on a cliff. 04:12 On a cliff? 04:16 Really? 04:17 In case, I think. 04:19 Sometimes I don't know what his text mean. 04:24 Should I be worried? 04:25 No! 04:29 Do you have a creation question 04:31 for Headquarters? 04:32 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, 04:35 and Rich by visiting our website 04:36 at TheCreationCase.com. 05:21 That must be HQ. 05:26 Hi, Rich, I hope everything is okay. 05:31 Doc M has your next assignment ready. 05:34 We need you to investigate 05:36 what's happened to the surface of our planet. 05:39 It's easy to see that our planet 05:40 has been through a lot of erosion 05:42 because of all the canyons we see. 05:45 Does the evidence show that this happened 05:47 because of a global flood? 05:49 How and when did all of these happen? 05:56 Don't worry, he was just concerned 05:58 about your on a cliff comment. 06:02 Just worry about the assignment erosion 06:05 and stay safe. 06:07 We look forward to your report. 06:09 Erosion, got it. 06:12 Let me let HQ know, I got the assignment. 06:15 Got message, 06:19 erosion. 06:22 Safely off cliff 06:28 soon. 06:31 All right. 06:32 Let me write this in my journal. 06:40 Erosion. 06:42 Cool, erosion. You know what? 06:44 We are actually at the perfect starting point. 06:47 We're in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. 06:50 To really appreciate how water carved up this place. 06:54 We should take a look from above. 06:56 I had a really good idea. 06:57 Come on. 07:00 Even the wind is also a cause of erosion. 07:03 My focus today is on erosion from water. 07:06 The most destructive form of erosion 07:09 our planet has ever seen. 07:14 Let's take a helicopter ride. 07:16 We'll get a great view of what happened here. 07:20 The Badlands are named this way 07:22 because the early explorers said 07:24 they were badlands to cross. 07:29 Lots of marine fossils are found here which shows us 07:32 this whole area was once underwater. 07:38 The Bible says the flood waters covered the earth for months. 07:43 Eventually water drains down to lower ground. 07:46 When a lot of water is involved, 07:48 it results in a lot of damage that's what we see here. 07:53 Miles and miles of this part of the desert 07:56 is cut up by retreating water. 07:59 This was not caused by some little rain. 08:16 You know, there's another great place 08:18 that we can go visit to see 08:20 how erosion has reshaped the surface of the earth. 08:23 We need to go to Bryce Canyon in Utah. 08:27 There's a lot of amazing things to see on the way too. 08:30 Come on. 08:35 Help us investigate today. 08:38 Download and print your own free journal study guide 08:41 at TheCreationCase.com. 08:56 If we're gonna talk about erosion, 08:58 it's important to understand 09:00 that water is the biggest cause of erosion. 09:07 We're gonna drive right by Shoshone Falls in Idaho 09:11 we should stop and check it out. 09:21 Shoshone Falls 09:22 is one of the most amazing waterfalls 09:24 in the United States 09:27 It's over 200 feet high, 09:30 45 feet higher than Niagara Falls, 09:33 plus it's over 1000 feet wide. 09:38 What an incredible view. 09:42 Waterfalls are an amazing display 09:44 of the power of water. 09:47 Sometimes there are floods and tsunamis in the world 09:50 and we're reminded how powerful water is, 09:53 and how it can damage anything in its path. 09:58 When water and earth go up against each other, 10:00 let me tell you water always wins. 10:03 When we talk about erosion after the flood, 10:05 we're talking about a massive destructive power. 10:08 Imagine that on a global scale. 10:12 God knew that the most effective method 10:14 to destroy life on the planet was with water. 11:06 Welcome to Bryce Canyon, 11:07 one of the best places to see the effects 11:10 the flood may have had on the earth. 11:14 Bryce Canyon is actually not a canyon. 11:17 It's the edge of a high plateau that has eroded away by water. 11:23 We're really high up here. 11:25 The rim is between 8,000 and 9,000 feet above sea level. 11:36 According to the Bible, 11:38 the earth was flooded with water so high 11:40 that it covered all of the mountains. 11:45 Of course, that means this part of the United States 11:47 was also flooded. 11:49 So after 150 days 11:51 the waters finally started to drain down. 11:56 We find a lot of evidence that this whole part of Utah 12:00 was under water for a while 12:01 because we find a lot of marine fossils 12:04 buried here. 12:08 Eventually the water level got lower, lower and lower. 12:12 Places like this may have been formed 12:14 by receding waters 12:16 because of that the rock is pretty soft, 12:19 I need to be careful. 12:26 This layer of rock here is very soft, 12:28 it's called sedimentary rock 12:30 because at one point this was at the bottom 12:32 of the sea and it was loose sand 12:34 and then it hardened, 12:36 check it out. 12:37 It looks like rock but it's still pretty soft. 12:41 Because of this soft rock, 12:43 water has cut some amazing hoodoos 12:45 in this place. 12:49 One of the main differences between creation and evolution 12:52 is that evolution doesn't give God credit 12:55 for creating and owning this planet. 12:58 The other main difference is time. 13:01 You see evolution teaches that everything has been 13:04 pretty much the same for millions of years 13:07 and has been changing slowly. 13:14 Creation on the other hand 13:16 teaches that God created the world recently 13:19 and that the world was reshaped by a flood, 13:22 which one is true? 13:24 We are looking for clues and evidence 13:26 to try to figure that out. 13:29 Clues and evidence will lead us to the truth. 13:36 Actually let me show you something, 13:38 it's a picture of a canyon in Georgia 13:41 It's called Providence Canyon. 13:44 It's a beautiful canyon, 13:45 a 150 feet deeper in some parts. 13:49 Do you think it was formed millions of years ago? 13:53 It was only formed 150 years ago. 13:57 First thing to remember, 13:58 it doesn't take millions of years 14:00 to form a canyon. 14:02 It just takes the right conditions. 14:04 I think I'm gonna write that down in my journal. 14:08 It doesn't take millions of years 14:10 to form canyons, 14:12 just the right conditions. 14:20 If we think about it, 14:21 what kind of evidence would we expect to see 14:23 if a global flood did happen? 14:26 If the world was covered by one big giant ocean 14:29 during the flood, 14:31 we would expect to see a large deposit of sediment 14:33 at the bottom of the ocean, nice smooth layers. 14:39 We would see evidence of the flood waters 14:41 draining away from the higher places. 14:44 We'd see billions of land, sea, and air creatures 14:48 very rapidly all over the world. 14:52 We'd find evidence of massive amounts 14:54 of vegetation that got ripped up 14:56 and buried rapidly. 14:58 If a global flood did happen, 15:01 those are the kind of features we would expect to see. 15:04 So what do we see exactly that. 15:09 We see layers and layers of sediment neatly deposited. 15:14 Canyons that show 15:15 how water quickly eroded the land. 15:19 Billions of creatures buried in the ground, 15:23 huge amounts of buried vegetation 15:25 that have now turned into coal and oil. 15:29 All of these things can be seen 15:31 on every continent of the world. 15:35 It seems like the planet itself provides tons of evidence 15:38 that a global flood did occur. 15:41 A coincidence, I don't think so. 16:04 Every step leads us farther down. 16:07 As we descend, 16:08 we become surrounded by the hoodoos. 16:19 What an amazing view. 16:22 I've got to sketch this. 16:37 You know what? 16:39 I have an idea, 16:40 why don't we go visit 16:41 one of the most dramatic examples 16:43 of erosion in the world. 16:44 Come on. 16:47 Let's get back to the jeep. 16:49 We are heading to the Grand Canyon. 17:01 Hi, everyone, it's Doc M here at HQ. 17:04 If Rich is investigating erosion today, 17:06 I just know the flood will be part 17:08 of his investigation. 17:10 You know, almost everyone has heard 17:11 of the flood story in the Bible. 17:14 Here's a classic painting, the ark. 17:19 Look cute little sheep and lion and everything. 17:23 Some people choose not to believe in the Bible. 17:26 They just assume the flood is not a true story. 17:29 What many people don't know 17:30 is that the Bible is only one of the many 17:31 historical documents in the world 17:33 that talks about the flood, 17:35 yeah. 17:36 Historians have documented almost 300 stories 17:38 from ancient historical texts from all over the world 17:41 that talk about a flood 17:42 and a basic story line as told in the Bible. 17:45 Look, these are some of the modern 17:47 and ancient names, and countries, and cultures 17:50 besides the Bible that describe ancient stories 17:53 about an enormous flood. 17:57 Argentina, Assyrian, Babylon, that's modern day Iraq, 18:01 Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, British Columbia, and Canada, 18:07 Cameroon, Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, 18:12 Greece, India, The Ivory Coast, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, 18:17 Nigeria, New Guinea, New Zealand, Peru, 18:20 The Philippines, Rome, Scandinavia, Siberia, 18:24 Thailand, Turkey. 18:26 Wow and even in the United States 18:30 dozens of Native American stories 18:32 about a great flood, even from Alaska. 18:35 That's almost 300 different stories 18:38 and some of these documents are thousands of years old. 18:42 Is it really a coincidence that people from practically 18:45 every corner of the world wrote about the same huge event? 18:49 I don't think so. 18:50 I don't think so at all. 18:53 Look at this ancient Chinese word. 18:56 This is the Chinese character or the Chinese word 18:59 for large vessel, the ship. 19:02 The word is made up of three separate characters. 19:05 Look at what the three characters are. 19:07 Ship right here, eight, up there, 19:11 and people right there in the bottom right. 19:14 Altogether make a large vessel, 19:16 even languages that are thousands of years old 19:18 tell the story of the great flood. 19:22 That's why I'm convinced and believe more than ever 19:26 that God is my creator. 19:32 Hey, everyone, it's me, Rich Aguilera. 19:34 I'd love to see you at one of our live events. 19:37 To see, where I'll be speaking, 19:38 visit our website TheCreationCase.com. 19:52 You know what? 19:53 I've got to pull over so you can see this. 19:55 This is one of the most amazing parts 19:57 of the south-western desert. 20:01 What seems like an endless desert here 20:04 continues to amaze me with these incredible views. 20:15 This place is called Monument Valley. 20:17 A long time ago 20:18 this used to be a giant ancient sea 20:20 until the water drained away 20:22 and eroded these cool mount formations. 20:26 These tall formations are called buttes. 20:29 They show us how the different rock layers 20:31 each contained different elements 20:33 that erode differently. 20:36 Isn't it amazing that everywhere we look, 20:39 there is evidence of erosion by water. 20:54 This is the Grand Canyon. 20:57 No one ever forget the first time they arrive here 20:59 and look over the rim down into the canyon. 21:12 A lot of people think 21:13 that this is just a big giant crack in the ground 21:16 but it's not, 21:17 we're actually 7,000 feet above sea level 21:19 on a high plateau. 21:22 The bottom of the canyon 21:23 is still 2,500 feet above sea level. 21:27 It's amazing to think how big this canyon is. 21:33 It's about 18 miles across at its widest point 21:36 and almost 270 miles from end to end. 21:40 To get a good look at this place, 21:42 we need to hike down into the canyon. 21:44 Come on, let's go. 21:47 As we head down into the canyon, 21:49 the first thing we find are steep switchbacks 21:53 and very uneven terrain. 21:58 Here at the Grand Canyon, 22:00 evolution teaches 22:01 that the Colorado River at the bottom 22:03 carved out this canyon over millions of years, 22:05 but physical evidence 22:07 points more too massive erosion. 22:11 After a global flood, you would expect 22:14 to see massive lakes and seas forming all over the world. 22:22 If a lake were, say 8,000 feet above sea level, 22:26 you would expect it would want to drain to lower ground. 22:29 That's a lot of pressure. 22:31 A lot of water trying to get to lower ground. 22:35 If a small leak were to develop, 22:37 the earth would give a way to a massive torrent of water. 22:48 That's actually what we see here. 22:51 It appears that this high desert 22:53 was at the edge of a huge inland sea 22:56 after the flood. 22:58 As the waters drained, 22:59 this edge of that sea 23:01 wasn't able to hold back those waters 23:03 and they rushed down towards the Pacific. 23:06 The pressure of all that water 23:08 eventually carved this canyon into the ground. 23:12 It's possible that at the end of the flood 23:15 water from that large inland sea 23:17 rushed down into the Pacific Ocean 23:19 right through here. 23:22 The Colorado River cuts down the middle of this canyon, 23:25 but there are also hundreds 23:27 of very deep side canyons here too. 23:29 There is no evidence 23:31 that a river cut those side canyons. 23:33 So how did they get there? 23:35 It appears that they were carved quickly 23:38 by one massive event, 23:39 tons of water gushing through here, 23:42 not millions of years of rivers. 23:44 The rate of erosion today is slow. 23:47 It's caused by natural events as well as man, 23:50 but the dramatic erosion that happened here 23:53 was caused by something huge. 23:58 The other thing about the Colorado River, 24:00 it enters a canyon 24:01 in about 2,800 feet above sea level 24:04 and exits the canyon at about 1,800 feet above sea level. 24:07 Water runs downhill, right? 24:10 But as the river is going down in elevation, 24:13 the land around it is only going higher. 24:16 A river couldn't have carved this canyon 24:18 because rivers can't flow uphill. 24:22 It's very possible that this canyon was eroded 24:26 at the end of the flood as the waters receded. 24:36 Sometimes fossils can be found going through multiple layers, 24:40 how could a log or an animal become partially buried 24:44 wait there for a million years and finish getting buried. 24:48 This also shows that no time passed between layers. 24:52 I think I'm going to write that in my journal. 24:59 Fossils that go through multiple layers are evidence 25:02 that there are not millions of years between layers. 25:09 Over and over the evidence here 25:12 points to the layers of sediment 25:13 that were quickly deposited on the surface 25:16 as well as the massive amount of erosion 25:18 that carved the surface of our planet. 25:31 We sure visited some amazing places 25:34 for today's assignment. 25:35 Water looks so harmless when you drink a cup of it, 25:38 but the evidence we've seen today 25:40 shows us water has enormous destructive power, 25:44 especially when there is a lot of it involved. 25:47 Well, I need to finish up my report and send it to HQ. 25:51 Remember, if you want to read it, 25:53 just go to our website. 26:01 There is so much evidence on the surface of our planet 26:04 that shows how water has eroded 26:07 the landscape all over. 26:11 It doesn't take millions of years 26:13 to form canyons, 26:15 just the right conditions. 26:20 Fossils that go through multiple layers are evidence 26:23 that there are not millions of years between layers. 26:36 When something erodes, 26:38 it pretty much always means 26:40 something is getting destroyed. 26:42 If there is one thing 26:44 we need to protect from erosion, 26:46 it's our relationship with God. 26:49 How does that happen? 26:51 The Bible says in Psalms 101:3 that, 26:53 "Our eyes shouldn't look at things that are wicked." 26:57 That means you have to be careful 26:59 of what you watch or do. 27:02 What kind of movies or TV do you let your eyes watch? 27:07 What about the things you see on the internet 27:10 or what kind of books do you read? 27:13 Another thing, 27:14 don't wait for someone else to tell you 27:16 what is good or bad, 27:18 start being responsible for your own decisions 27:21 and avoid things 27:22 that will erode your relationship with God. 27:27 I hope you'll join me again for our next assignment. 27:30 Remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 27:34 especially you. 27:35 Good night. 27:47 Wait, don't go yet. We've got bloopers 27:50 It ends, where are we... 27:52 Eroded out of here. 27:57 I think someone stabbed me. 27:59 Again the evidence shows... 28:04 Violent rush of water down the canyon, craziness ensued. 28:09 Does this evidence show that this happened? 28:15 According to the Bible... 28:19 Argentina, 28:21 yeah that was pretty backwards, wasn't it? 28:23 True or false. |
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