Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000011A
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00:10 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, Jacqui, 00:41 and Rich, 00:44 their job, investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:21 Hi, Doc M. Hi, Jacqui. 01:25 Where's Rich today? I don't know. 01:28 See thing is he said something about a goose... 01:32 Chasing a goose or maybe, 01:35 was it goose neck? Goose egg? 01:39 Okay. So he's somewhere with a goose. 01:41 Yeah. Interesting. 01:45 Well, that's bizarre and that's Rich. 01:49 Well, I have something for him. 01:51 I just got an email. 01:52 Why don't you read it? Okay. 01:55 It says, "Dear, Doc M, 01:58 our class went on a field trip this week to a museum. 02:02 Everything they showed us, 02:04 they said it was millions of years old, 02:07 stuff like petrified wood and other things. 02:10 One of my friends in my class says they're wrong. 02:14 He says at a church they taught him that 02:15 it doesn't take that long for those things to form. 02:20 Are there things in the world 02:21 that take millions of years to form or not? 02:24 Who's right? 02:26 Thank you, Andres from Worcester, Massachusetts." 02:30 Hmm. 02:32 Wow, that's got to be so confusing. 02:34 Very. Yeah. Let me show you something. 02:40 Look at these. Two Roman coins. 02:44 One of those is fake, 02:48 but the other one of those, it's a real thing. 02:51 Really? Yeah. 02:52 See if you can find out which one it. 02:54 Let's take a look. All right. 02:55 Shall we? 02:56 Well, okay, this one has a head, 03:02 guessing it be Caesar, Augustus, or someone like that. 03:06 And this one kind of has a horse in the front 03:11 and it says... 03:13 It says some something. 03:16 I think it's a 64 BC. 03:21 I don't know, they all look so similar and real. 03:23 Yeah. Mm-hmm 03:28 Doc M, this is the fake. I'll tell you why. 03:34 It says 64 BC. 03:39 How did they know that Christ is gonna be born, 03:41 they had no idea. 03:43 So if they have no idea, 03:45 why would they know how to call it BC. 03:47 You can't date something before the event happened. 03:52 You're right. BC is Before Christ. 03:54 Yeah. They couldn't do it. 03:56 Here's the thing 03:58 is that sometimes people say things are really super old. 04:03 But the evidence and the clues that we can discover 04:07 say something different. 04:10 You know what I think? You tell me. 04:12 I think this is an assignment for Rich. 04:14 You got it. Yes. 04:16 So I will find him. 04:18 And I'll give him his assignment. 04:20 Super. 04:21 Let me know how it goes with the goose thing. 04:23 Yeah. 04:24 I'll definitely work on that one. 04:27 I'm okay. Okay. 04:31 Do you have a creation question for Headquarters? 04:34 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, and Rich 04:37 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 05:08 Hey, everyone. 05:10 I'm here at this really cool Grand Canyon. 05:11 And I'm gonna hike down into it today. 05:13 It's called Gooseneck Canyon, 05:15 and it's one of the most unusual canyons in Utah. 05:18 Come on. 05:56 They call this Gooseneck Canyon 05:58 because of the big giant S-curve in the river. 06:01 It's about 1,000 feet down to the bottom, 06:04 and it's a beautiful hike. 06:06 Come on, let's get going. 06:10 Uh-oh! 06:12 I think we got a message from HQ, 06:15 maybe it's our new assignment. 06:17 Let's check it out. 06:20 Hi, Rich. 06:21 Doc M has a special assignment for you. 06:23 One of the questions we got recently 06:25 asks about museum that claim a lot of the stuff in nature 06:28 is millions of years old. 06:30 Of course, the Bible says all that stuff 06:32 is thousands of years old, not millions. 06:35 Both can't be right. So please look into this. 06:38 We look forward to your report. 06:42 Rich are you chasing around geese? 06:44 Chasing geese? Where did he get that idea? 06:48 Watch out. They'll bite. 06:51 Bite? 06:53 Really? They bite? Sure they bite and they hiss. 06:57 Hiss? Hiss like a snake? 06:59 Well, not really like a snake, it kind of like a... 07:02 Are you recording? Oops! 07:06 Why did they think I'm chasing around geese? 07:09 I'm not at a farm. 07:10 I'm at Gooseneck Can... Gooseneck Canyon. 07:15 I get it. 07:16 I better let them know I got their message. 07:19 Got message. 07:22 How old is stuff on earth? 07:28 Will watch out for geese. 07:32 Honk. Honk. 07:36 All right, we got our assignment. 07:38 This is a tough one. 07:39 'Cause no one really knows how old stuff is, only God. 07:43 All we can do is look around for clues 07:45 to help us get an idea. 07:47 First things first, 07:48 let's get this down in our journal. 07:55 Old or new. 08:01 This is gonna be tough. 08:02 It's not like the earth has a tag on it. 08:05 Time to do some detective work. 08:08 Well, the first thing I can think of is scientists 08:10 often say as super old is petrified wood. 08:13 We need to find some petrified wood, 08:15 and I know where to go. 08:16 Come on. 08:25 Help us investigate today. 08:28 Download and print your own free Journal Study Guide 08:31 at TheCreationCase.com. 09:04 Well, we are on our way to see the petrified trees. 09:09 It's amazing how big the desert is in this area. 09:12 Did you know that one-third of all the land 09:14 on our planet is considered desert? 09:17 In the United States, we're talking about cities like 09:19 Phoenix, and San Diego, and El Paso. 09:23 Are you wondering which US cities 09:24 get the most rainfall? 09:26 Cities like Miami, and New Orleans, and Mobile 09:29 get over 60 inches of rain per year. 09:32 What about the whole planet? 09:34 The rainiest place on earth is a city in India 09:37 that gets over 450 inches of rain per year. 09:41 That's a lot of rain. 09:43 And the driest place is a desert in Chile 09:46 where they haven't even seen a millimeter of rain 09:49 in hundreds of years. 09:51 That's dry. 10:00 I think we're almost there just a few more miles. 10:03 I can't wait. 10:21 We're here, but we need to walk a little ways 10:23 to get to the petrified logs. 10:25 Come on. 10:27 Petrified wood is found all over the world 10:30 on every continent. 10:37 Normally, when you see petrified wood in a park 10:40 or in a museum, 10:42 they will tell you that it's millions of years old. 10:46 Why do they say that? 10:48 Because some scientists say that the dirt layers 10:50 where they found those logs are millions of years old. 10:56 Hey, here's a few good pieces. 11:01 So what is petrified wood? 11:04 It's basically wood that was buried rapidly 11:07 and then turned into stone. 11:10 Once buried, 11:11 the living parts of the tree are replaced by minerals 11:14 and the tree becomes a rock. 11:18 The only way to preserve a tree is to bury it quickly 11:22 and only some sort of dramatic event 11:24 could have buried so many trees. 11:28 Remember, it had to happen quickly 11:31 because once a tree falls down and dies, 11:33 it starts to rot right away. 11:35 None of these trees here got to rot, 11:38 they were buried right away and preserved. 11:47 Think about it, 11:49 petrified wood is found everywhere in the world. 11:52 Whatever dramatic event happened to preserve them 11:54 seems to have happened everywhere. 11:56 If you ask me, this sure sounds a lot like the flood story. 12:00 Billions of trees, like this, 12:02 around the world buried rapidly and preserved? 12:11 Hey, here's a real nice pile of petrified logs. 12:23 You know, scientists used to say, 12:25 it takes millions of years to make petrified logs 12:27 but recently, they're discovering that 12:29 it doesn't take that long after all. 12:31 They learned that it can even happen in just a few years. 12:34 And it can even be done in a lab. 12:36 You don't need millions of years to petrify wood. 12:39 You just need the right conditions. 12:44 There's a spring in Europe 12:45 where water coming out is full of minerals. 12:48 What you can do is send small objects 12:50 like a shoe or a teddy bear, 12:52 and they soak it in that water for several months, 12:54 and then they send it back to you petrified. 12:59 Like I said, 13:00 petrifying has a do with the right conditions, 13:02 nothing to do with millions of years. 13:05 I think I'm gonna write that down in my journal. 13:09 Sit over here on this nice petrified log. 13:13 Petrifying wood has to do with having the right conditions, 13:17 not the passing of millions of years. 13:22 These logs are on the surface 13:24 but sometimes we find them buried in the ground. 13:26 Check it out. I have a picture. 13:30 As you can see, these types of petrified logs 13:33 are going through several layers. 13:36 If the bottom of a tree is buried in one layer, 13:39 is it possible for the top of the tree 13:41 to stick out of the ground and wait for millions of years 13:43 to be buried by the next layer? 13:45 No. 13:46 When you see a petrified tree 13:47 crossing through several layers, 13:49 you have to assume that it was buried all at once 13:51 and that the layers aren't millions of years apart. 13:54 It's amazing, how nature provides us 13:56 with so many little clues. 13:58 You know, this is a cool place. 14:00 I think I'm gonna sketch one of these logs. 14:03 Is it a coincidence 14:05 that the petrification is mainly caused by logs 14:07 being buried rapidly by water and mud? 14:11 Is it also a coincidence 14:12 that this is found all over the world? 14:16 This really looks like something the flood 14:19 would have caused. 14:22 You know, there's another place we need to visit, 14:24 a cave because some people think 14:26 that caves also take millions of years to form. 14:29 We're gonna have to check out the evidence, 14:31 that means we're gonna have to find a cave. 14:33 I know where there's a great one. 14:34 Come on, let's get back to the jeep. 14:43 Hi, everyone. 14:44 It's Doc M here at HQ. 14:47 I thought I'd talk to you about radioisotope dating. 14:49 Oh, that's really interesting. 14:52 That's the primary dating method 14:54 scientists used to figure out how old the earth is. 14:58 They call a machine, the mass spectrometer. 15:03 This is what one looks like. 15:05 I've a picture right here on my computer. 15:10 Using this machine, 15:11 scientists say the world is 15:13 4.5 billion years old. 15:18 So how does this machine really work? 15:21 Well, there are atoms in rocks that decay, they breakdown, 15:26 and change to other types of atoms. 15:29 Uranium decays and breaks down into lead, 15:32 potassium decays into argon. 15:37 These machines can measure the rate 15:39 at which these atoms are decaying. 15:41 You put something in and it figures out 15:42 how fast it's decaying. 15:44 Well, that's pretty cool, 15:45 except there are few problems, of course. 15:50 These machines weren't around hundreds 15:51 or even billions of years ago. 15:54 So the machines have to make a few assumptions 15:59 about some of the conditions in the past. 16:03 Well, that's where we run into problems. 16:06 How can we ask a machine to tell us 16:10 how old stuff is 16:12 if no one knows a bunch of important details 16:15 about the past? 16:16 It's impossible. Can't do it. 16:19 Plus, some of these atoms decay so fast, 16:21 the dates are only good for a few thousand years. 16:24 Let me give you an example. 16:30 An hourglass. 16:31 Let's say we just got here and you see it. 16:34 An hourglass with some sand in the bottom 16:37 and some sand at the top, 16:40 by just looking at this you can't tell exactly 16:43 how long the hourglass has been running. 16:45 No, it's impossible. 16:48 You could calculate and measure all you want, 16:50 but it's impossible to really know. 16:53 What if there was already sand in the bottom 16:56 when it was turned over? 16:59 Has it always been falling at a constant rate, 17:01 the same amount of sand? 17:03 What if sand was added or taken out of the hourglass 17:07 and we didn't know? 17:12 Since we don't know, 17:14 we would have to make some assumptions, 17:15 assumptions, assumptions, assumptions. 17:18 That's the problem. 17:20 That would seriously affect our calculations. 17:24 The same is done with radioisotope dating. 17:27 If scientists fail to consider 17:30 several of these critical assumptions, 17:33 then you can be pretty sure 17:35 that radioisotope dating will give you incorrect dates. 17:41 Yet again, 17:42 this is another reason I believe God is my Creator. 17:52 Hey, everyone. It's me, Rich Aguilera. 17:54 I'd love to see you at one of our live events 17:57 to see where I'll be speaking, visit our website, 18:00 TheCreationCase.com. 18:09 All right, my rope is tied in because tonight 18:12 we're going caving. 18:15 To go down into a cave, we must go underground. 18:19 I got all the gear I need to get down there. 18:21 Let's go. 18:29 This is not your normal cave. 18:31 To get in, you have to first gear up with the harness. 18:35 The first thing we must do is repel down into the first cave. 18:40 It's so dark, I really can't see what I'm repelling into 18:45 but eventually, I find the bottom. 18:52 At the bottom, I find there is another dark hole, 18:55 I have to repel into, 18:57 and I continued to work my way down deeper 19:01 into this cavern. 19:18 Well, we made it. 19:19 We are about 75 feet below the surface of the earth. 19:23 A cave, of course, is a space underground 19:25 where we can explore and check things out. 19:27 Come on. Let's see what we can find. 19:31 The real question is, how did this cave get here 19:34 and how long did it take to form. 19:37 Like petrified wood, 19:39 evolution teaches that cave also take 19:41 millions of years to form. 19:44 We've come here today to check this one out 19:46 and to investigate 19:48 if we really need millions of years to form a cave. 19:51 Most caves are cut out of soft stone like limestone. 19:55 It's a kind of stone that dissolves. 19:58 The water in the ground above us has acid in it, 20:01 acid dissolves stuff. 20:04 Most scientists believe that when acid water seeps down 20:07 through the cracks in the earth, 20:08 it slowly dissolves away the limestone, 20:11 leaving caves like this one, huge openings underground. 20:15 The question is, 20:17 does it really take millions of years to do that. 20:20 People who study caves see the dripping water 20:23 and assume it's always been dripping like that 20:25 slowly, one drop at a time. 20:28 So if the caves were formed one drop at a time, 20:31 it could make sense that it would take 20:32 a very long time to form a very large cave. 20:35 The thing is that there is another way 20:38 of looking at it. 20:39 The Bible teaches of a global flood 20:41 that covered the earth. 20:42 A global flood would mean that in a short period of time, 20:45 a lot of water would have come through 20:47 and eroded a cave like this very, very quickly. 20:51 Both explanations would form a cave, 20:53 drops of water for millions of years, 20:55 or a lot of water in a short period of time. 20:59 So were caves formed the slow way or the fast way? 21:04 We need to keep looking. 21:08 Wow! This part of the cave is kind of tight. 21:14 Think of it like a lollipop. 21:15 If you lick it once a day, 21:17 it will take a long time to dissolve. 21:19 But if you lick it every few seconds, 21:21 it will dissolve in no time. 21:24 More water means, it would dissolve quicker. 21:28 Stalactites and stalagmites are interesting too. 21:31 They're formed by water rich in minerals 21:34 that build up into some cool shapes. 21:37 Some scientists claim 21:38 that they take millions of years to form. 21:41 But what really matters 21:42 is how much water has passed through there, 21:45 not how much time. 21:47 Water forms caves, not time. 21:51 Wow, I finally got through that tight passage. 22:05 Have you ever seen the Lincoln Memorial 22:07 in Washington DC? 22:09 Let me show you a picture of it. 22:11 For years, 22:13 water has been dripping down into the basement 22:15 where stalactites have formed. 22:17 They have grown 5 feet in 45 years. 22:21 Do you know 22:22 what the Lincoln Memorial is made of? 22:24 Yep. Limestone. 22:26 Stalactites are actually found forming all over the place. 22:30 They are found forming on bridges 22:32 and in subway tunnels. 22:34 You don't need a lot of time to form a stalactite. 22:37 You just need the right conditions. 22:40 And during a flood, you would expect water 22:42 to be filled with minerals and stuff. 22:44 And the water would not be clean and pure, 22:47 it would be muddy and dirty and filled with minerals. 22:51 Massive amounts of water rich with minerals... 22:55 Hmm... 22:57 I gonna write this down in my journal. 23:10 Caves are formed by large amounts of water, 23:14 not large amounts of time. 23:19 Since the Bible is God's Word, 23:21 when we compare the things we see in nature to it, 23:24 we see that the Bible has the truth. 23:29 Well, I've looked everywhere. 23:31 There's only one way to get back out of this cave. 23:35 The same way we came in. 24:02 I made it. 24:10 That cave was intense. 24:12 You know, sometimes we forget that things on the surface 24:15 aren't the only things on the planet. 24:17 There's an amazing world of nature underground too 24:21 and also in the oceans. 24:23 I need to keep exploring these places. 24:26 Well, I need to finish up my report and send it to HQ. 24:30 Remember, if you wanna read it, just go to our website. 24:38 When everyone out there keep saying everything 24:40 is millions of years old, 24:42 it can be confusing but comparing the Bible 24:45 to the things we see in nature shows us the truth. 24:51 Petrifying wood has to do 24:53 with having the right conditions, 24:55 not the passing of millions of years. 24:59 Caves are formed by large amounts of water, 25:02 not large amounts of time. 25:06 The biblical account of the flood 25:08 goes with what we see in nature. 25:12 You know, there are a lot of experts out there 25:15 claiming to have the truth, 25:17 but many of the things they say 25:19 go against the truth that we find in the Bible. 25:22 It's important to be careful 25:25 because Satan wants to trick us into believing lies about God. 25:30 This is a very serious thing 25:32 because you know what's at stake, 25:35 life and death. 25:37 If we choose wrong 25:39 and believe in the enemy's lies, 25:40 we may miss out on the most wonderful gift 25:43 our Creator wants to give us, 25:45 eternal life with Him in heaven. 25:48 More than anything, I want to choose the truth. 25:52 I hope you will do the same. 25:55 Well, I hope you'll join me again for our next assignment. 25:59 Remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 26:04 especially you. 26:05 Goodnight. 26:16 You know. 26:19 A river... 26:21 What is that? 26:25 Perfect. 26:28 Barrier to bury... Ba, ba... 26:31 That things aren't the... 26:34 Kill that one. 26:35 All of them... 26:37 Washington DC. 26:39 Oops! I forgot to say here's a picture. 26:42 Some scientists always say so... 26:44 If you're gonna swishing around. 26:45 Ah! 26:47 Get out of here. 26:49 A mass spectomic... Yuck! 26:52 And, you know, I get it... 26:53 I forgot my mind. |
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