Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000012A
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00:10 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, 00:15 "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, 00:41 and Rich, 00:44 their job, investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:16 Hi, Jacqui. Hi, Doc M. 01:18 How was your presentation at the aquarium this morning? 01:21 Fabulous. 01:23 The kids were so excited to get a shark's tooth. 01:26 Wow! Nice. 01:28 I haven't been to the aquarium in so long. 01:31 I should do that again some time. 01:34 You should. You would have a blast. 01:37 Yeah, my favorite part was a tide pool. 01:41 I used to love touching all those starfish. 01:45 I remember you saying something about going to the aquarium. 01:50 I bought you something. 01:52 You did? Uh-huh. 01:54 Where is it? 01:56 What is it? 01:58 I'll never tell. It's a surprise! 02:06 By any chance... 02:08 Was it a starfish? 02:12 How did you know? 02:14 Just a hunch. 02:17 Jacqui? 02:19 All right, it's on your back. 02:22 What? 02:26 I needed a new one. Yuck! 02:28 Get it off! 02:31 Ooh, it's so pretty. Thank you. 02:35 You're welcome. And there is more. 02:38 Our next assignment for Rich is at the ocean. 02:42 Really? That's so cool. 02:44 I love the ocean. 02:46 That reminds me, 02:47 we got a letter from Natalie in Manchester, England. 02:51 England? Wow! 02:54 She writes right here. 02:55 "Dear, Doc M, since I was little, 02:57 I've always loved to go on holiday to the seashore." 02:59 Oh, that's nice. 03:01 "Yesterday though, 03:02 my science professor started teaching about how life started 03:04 in the ocean millions of years ago 03:06 and all of that." 03:07 Well, that's not so good. 03:09 "Oceans are so big 03:10 and there's so much life in the ocean. 03:12 Isn't there some evidence of creation in the oceans? 03:15 Thank you, Natalie." 03:17 That's nice. Wow! 03:19 It's fantastic. 03:20 I thought you'd like that. 03:21 Yeah, I'll get the assignment over to Rich. 03:24 Well, perfect. 03:26 Rich, where is he anyway? 03:28 Oh, I think he mentioned 03:32 waxing his snowboard. 03:35 Waxing a snowboard in the middle of the summer? 03:40 I don't know. We're talking about Rich here. 03:44 That's true. Yeah. 03:46 Okay, I'll get this message over to him. 03:49 Do you have a creation question for Headquarters? 03:52 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, and Rich 03:55 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 04:24 Think we got a new message. 04:25 May be it's our new assignment. 04:29 Hi, Rich, I had your next assignment. 04:31 And lucky me, 04:32 it's one of my favorite topics, the ocean. 04:35 Whoa! The ocean. 04:37 We need to know 04:39 is there any evidence for creation in earth's oceans? 04:42 Evolution teaches that all of life started 04:44 in the oceans. 04:46 So there has to be some kind of evidence there. 04:48 We look forward to your report. 04:50 Oh, and by the way, we're pretty curious, 04:54 why are you waxing your snowboard 04:56 in the middle of summer? 04:57 It's kind of unusual. 05:00 Anyway, see you. 05:02 That's true. 05:04 That is a little bit unusual snowboarding 05:05 in the middle of the summer. 05:07 But that's because I'm upon a glacier, 05:09 way up where the snow is here year round. 05:12 I better let Jacqui know I got the assignment. 05:14 I better let her know too 05:16 why I'm snowboarding in the middle of the summer. 05:19 Hi, Jacqui, 05:21 I'm snowboarding on a glacier. 05:27 Got message. 05:30 Heading to ocean next. 05:34 All right, I need to write this in our journal. 05:43 Earth, oceans. 05:49 We need to head to the ocean, 05:51 sea level that means that right now, 05:53 I'm about 8,500 feet too high. 05:56 Let's head down. 05:59 Whoa! 06:04 Help us investigate today. 06:08 Download and print your own free Journal Study Guide 06:11 at TheCreationCase.com. 06:28 Well, I think we're almost at the ocean. 06:40 Wait a second. 06:41 Where did the ocean go? 06:45 Oops! 06:47 This isn't the ocean. 06:49 This is an ancient ocean. 06:51 Look where we standing on, huge salt flat, 06:54 a big ancient sea floor that's dried out here in Utah. 06:59 At one point 07:01 all this was the bottom of a huge sea, 07:03 but how could that be, 07:05 we're 500 miles away from the Pacific Ocean. 07:08 Wow, that's salty. 07:11 Dried out inland seas, like this one, 07:12 are found all over the world. 07:16 Other seas out there still have water in them 07:18 and have been shrinking for centuries. 07:20 This one is over 4,000 feet above sea level. 07:24 How did the sea get way up here? 07:28 That's quite high for a salt water sea. 07:31 There's only a couple ways to explain 07:33 how a huge inland sea could form. 07:37 Since secular scientists 07:38 won't consider the idea of a global flood, 07:42 they say water originally got here 07:43 from melting glaciers or rain. 07:45 They say tens of thousands of years of rain 07:48 and evaporation slowly built up all the salt. 07:53 The other explanation is that the flood 07:56 covered the entire earth with one huge, salty ocean. 08:02 This is actually one of the flattest places 08:04 on the planet. 08:05 Race car drivers come here to race and test their cars 08:08 to see how fast they can go. 08:10 Why don't we go for a ride? 08:16 This is great. No roads! 08:20 The floodwaters eventually drained away, 08:22 leaving pockets of large salty lakes 08:25 trapped all over the surface of our planet, 08:27 over the last few thousand years 08:29 they have been shrinking and drying up. 08:32 Evolution teaches that all life started 08:35 about three billion years ago from a salty ocean. 08:40 There's a problem with that though, 08:43 we can measure the salt in the ocean every year 08:45 and we see that it's getting saltier. 08:48 We can also do the math backwards 08:50 to see how long it's been salty. 08:54 The math says there's no way the ocean could have been salty 08:57 a billion years ago. 08:59 That's a pretty huge problem because evolution teaches 09:03 that the first creatures evolved from a salty ocean 09:06 a billion years ago. 09:14 There is a lot of salt in the oceans. 09:17 But the evidence says 09:18 there's simply not enough salt in the ocean 09:20 over a billion years to have passed. 09:23 Think I'm gonna write that down in my journal. 09:28 At the rate salt is entering the ocean, 09:31 it doesn't appear that a billion years 09:33 could have ever passed. 09:37 All right, we need to get back on track. 09:39 We were heading to an actual ocean, 09:41 not an old dry one. 09:42 Come on. 09:52 As I mentioned, 09:53 the nearest ocean is the Pacific Ocean 09:55 500 miles that way, 09:58 you know, a lot of water would be required 10:00 to cover the whole planet. 10:02 Where did all that water come from? 10:04 The Bible says that during the flood 10:06 the water came from two places, 10:08 it rained for 40 days and 40 nights 10:10 and that it erupted from underground. 10:14 Exploding water from underground. 10:17 Wow, God is powerful! 10:20 Psalms 95:5 says, 10:22 "The sea is His, for He made it." 10:26 If He could create it, 10:27 He could easily command it to burst. 10:30 So the surface of the earth split open 10:33 and water gushed out. 10:35 The Bible says the water gushed out for 150 days. 10:40 That's five months. 10:42 That's a lot of water. 11:19 We made it to the Pacific Ocean, 11:21 the largest ocean in the world. 11:25 Imagine all this water and much, much more flooded 11:28 the entire earth at the time of the flood. 11:33 There was enough water 11:34 to cover the tallest mountains of the earth at that time. 11:38 All the mountains we see now 11:40 probably formed during or after the flood 11:42 because of all the movements of the earth's crust. 11:45 Mount Everest didn't have to be covered 11:47 because it probably didn't exist 11:49 till after the flood. 11:51 Scientists have calculated that if we were to flatten out 11:54 the mountains and the ocean floor, 11:57 the world would be 11:58 in about a mile and a half deep of water. 12:03 In other words, we really don't need that much more water 12:06 to have a global flood. 12:09 The key is understanding that before the flood, 12:12 the surface of the planet was probably a lot flatter. 12:17 So is there any evidence of cracks in the earth 12:19 where water would have come bursting forth? 12:22 Surely, there would be some evidence 12:23 of something so dramatic. 12:25 Well, there are a lot of cracks on the surface 12:28 where molten lava comes out. 12:30 I wonder if at some point water came from the cracks too. 12:33 And there really is no way of knowing for sure 12:36 where the flood waters burst from. 12:39 One of my favorite parts of walking on the beach 12:42 is looking for shells and fossils. 12:53 Shells provide fascinating evidence 12:55 for the Bible. 12:57 When a clam dies of natural causes, 13:00 it relaxes and opens up. 13:04 This is what we find, by the billions, 13:07 on beaches and on the bottom of the ocean 13:09 all over the world. 13:11 In a global flood, 13:12 all these shells would be washed away 13:14 and buried with layers of sediment. 13:18 This is exactly what we see in nature. 13:23 Here we see tons of layers 13:25 where shells were buried and piled up. 13:29 What would happen to clams in the events of a flood? 13:32 They would be buried alive like this. 13:38 We also know that these are found 13:40 all over the world by the millions. 13:42 We know that they did not die from natural causes 13:45 because otherwise 13:46 they would have opened up like this. 13:49 See how this shell is closed 13:51 that's how we know that this clam was buried alive 13:54 because it never got to open up. 13:57 Whatever water catastrophe, buried all these shells, 14:00 buried them quickly. 14:03 That sounds a lot like a flood story, doesn't it? 14:06 I think I'm gonna write that in my journal. 14:13 Millions of closed clams all over the world is evidence 14:16 that they were buried alive by a water catastrophe. 14:20 You know, this is a pretty place. 14:22 I think I'm gonna sketch this too. 14:25 It's amazing, how powerful is the evidence 14:28 from a tiny little clam. 14:36 Did you know that layers of shells like this one 14:39 or even found on top of Mount Everest? 14:41 Everything that we've talked about 14:43 shows us how a flood would have happened. 14:47 Here's the way I imagined it might have happened. 14:50 First, the surface cracks, the water burst forth, 14:54 and the earth is flooded. 14:57 Next, everything is buried in layers, 15:00 trees, animals, shells. 15:03 The water stops coming out 15:05 and the surface plates begin to settle. 15:09 These huge plates collide smashing into each other 15:12 and causing uplift. 15:14 That uplift pushes the land upwards. 15:18 This causes areas that were once at the bottom of the sea 15:21 and full of marine fossils to now 15:23 be at the highest peaks. 15:25 The ocean is an amazing place 15:27 filled with life and amazing creatures 15:29 that God created. 15:32 You know, if we're gonna be talking about the ocean 15:34 we need to get a close up look and get in the water. 15:37 We're gonna do that first thing in the morning. 15:43 Hi, everyone. 15:44 It's Doc M here at Headquarters. 15:46 Got some new evidence, I want to show you, 15:49 it blows me away. 15:51 Have you ever heard of the Fibonacci numbers? 15:54 It's a series of numbers 15:57 as 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 16:02 it goes like this. 16:04 I write them out 16:06 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 16:13 5, 8, 13, 21, 16:18 and you could keep going, getting bigger and bigger. 16:22 Each number is the sum of the two numbers before it. 16:27 Let's look at it. 16:29 We start with 0 and 1 make 1, 16:33 1+1=2, 16:35 1+2=3, 16:38 2+3=5, 16:41 3+5=8, 16:43 5+8=13, 16:46 8+13=21. 16:48 You follow this pattern of math 16:50 to make bigger and bigger numbers. 16:52 There's nothing random about it. 16:54 It's a very clear pattern. 16:57 When we see patterns, 16:59 that means there are some sort of intelligent plan behind it. 17:02 When we see things that are just random, 17:04 then it's just random with no intelligence. 17:08 Random would be like 9, 15, 17:13 3, 27, 11, 17:18 all mixed up. 17:20 Did you know the Fibonacci numbers 17:21 are very commonly found in nature? 17:23 "Wait," you say. 17:26 Yep, intelligent mathematical patterns in nature. 17:31 I told you it's exciting. 17:32 Check this out. 17:37 Let's take the Fibonacci numbers 17:39 and make a drawing out of them. 17:44 Zero and one, 17:45 since zero has no value, no space but one. 17:51 Zero plus one equals one. 17:53 One plus one equals two. 17:56 Two plus one is three. 17:59 Three plus two is five. 18:01 Five plus three is eight. 18:03 And we could keep going. 18:06 This is a Fibonacci spiral. 18:08 Watch, through the one, through the second one, 18:14 now through the two, through the three, 18:20 through the five, through the eight. 18:28 This is the spiral. 18:30 This shape is seen elsewhere. 18:33 Do you know? In nature. 18:36 Let me show you some pictures on the computer. 18:42 This is my favorite part. 18:45 This is the nautilus shell. 18:46 Do you see the spiral? 18:49 It's there! Yes! 18:52 Another one, 18:53 the galaxies of the universe spiraling in the same way. 18:58 Another yes! Wow! 19:03 Plants and flowers, we see the Fibonacci spiral. 19:07 Wow! 19:09 It's getting more exciting. 19:11 Hurricanes. 19:12 Wow! 19:14 Animals. 19:16 Wow! 19:18 Yes. 19:19 Remember, this is not a random spiral. 19:21 This is an intelligently created mathematical pattern. 19:24 Only God, the Master Designer, who made everything, 19:28 could plant these little clues in the nature we see around us. 19:31 You're excited, aren't you? 19:33 Ah! Me too. 19:35 But again, 19:37 for me, this is why I believe 19:41 God is my Creator. 19:47 Hey, everyone. It's me, Rich Aguilera. 19:50 I'd love to see you at one of our live events 19:52 to see where I'll be speaking, 19:54 visit our website, TheCreationCase.com. 20:00 Good morning. 20:02 Today is the day that we're gonna 20:03 get on the ocean and explore it close up. 20:05 In a few minutes, I'm gonna rent a kayak 20:07 and go out on the ocean. 20:09 You know, I've noticed that 20:11 a lot of the California coast has cliffs. 20:14 Every day, the waves pound on the cliffs 20:17 and erode them. 20:19 So where do you suppose all that rock is going? 20:23 Back in the ocean. 20:27 Each year tons of dirt, rock, and sediment 20:30 goes into the ocean. 20:32 It comes from rivers, 20:33 it could get blown in with the wind, 20:36 or from volcanic ash. 20:38 Scientists can estimate 20:40 how much sediment is going into the ocean 20:42 every year. 20:44 They can estimate how much leaves the ocean too. 20:48 For evolutionists, the results are a problem. 20:52 You see evolution teaches 20:54 that the oceans and the land forms 20:56 have been here for millions of years. 20:59 But at the rate that our land is now eroding into the ocean, 21:02 all our land will have eroded into the ocean. 21:05 The land is eroding into the ocean so quickly 21:08 that evolution doesn't have the millions of years 21:11 that it needs for stuff to evolve. 21:14 Remember, evolution needs millions of years, 21:18 but the rate of erosion 21:19 doesn't allow them that much time. 21:22 That's amazing. 21:23 I think I'm gonna write that down in my journal. 21:27 It seems like land is eroding into the ocean way too fast 21:31 for this to have been going on for millions of years. 21:37 Well, the kayak place is just up ahead. 21:39 I can't wait to get on the water. 22:12 You know, scientists have also measured 22:14 how much sediment there is on the ocean floor. 22:17 The average is about 2,000 feet of sediment. 22:21 If the world is a couple billion years old, 22:24 there should be about 20 miles of sediment in the ocean floor. 22:31 You know, there's some cool rock cliffs here behind us. 22:33 Let me see if we can get a little closer to them. 22:42 If the world has existed for billions of years, 22:45 all the continents should have eroded 22:46 into the oceans 100 times by now. 22:50 Instead, what do we actually see? 22:53 We see an inadequate amount of sediment 22:55 on the ocean floors. 22:57 That provides more proof 22:59 that a global flood happened recently. 23:02 Even though the Bible is not a science textbook, 23:05 I'm glad that God left clues in nature about creation. 23:10 Hey, I think I see some wildlife ahead. 23:12 Let's go check it out. 23:25 Sure enough. There's a bunch of seals here. 23:28 Let's go visit them. 23:33 Here's something fascinating about seals. 23:35 Did you know that they can hold their breath 23:37 for almost two hours? 23:39 Wow! 23:42 Let's go over and see if we can talk to them. 23:49 We should enjoy God's nature everywhere we go. 24:01 You know, I was really amazed 24:03 at the size of the dry salt flats 24:05 we visited in Utah. 24:07 There were miles and miles of nothing but salt. 24:11 And did you see the jeep? 24:13 I had to go through the carwash like five times. 24:16 It's really powerful evidence 24:18 that at some point water covered the entire earth 24:21 like the Bible says. 24:23 Well, I need to finish up my report 24:25 and get it over to HQ. 24:27 Remember, if you want to read it, 24:28 just go to our website. 24:34 At the rate salt is entering the ocean, 24:36 it doesn't appear that a billion years 24:38 could have ever passed. 24:41 Closed fossil shells are evidence 24:44 that they were buried alive. 24:47 There's not enough sediment on the ocean floor 24:50 for it to have been accumulating 24:51 for millions of years. 25:04 You know, salt is used to preserve food 25:07 so that it doesn't rot or go bad. 25:09 It's neat that the Bible says in Matthew 5:13 25:13 that Christians are the salt of the earth. 25:16 What that's trying to say is that one of the things 25:19 we're supposed to do is be like salt 25:22 and help things not go bad. 25:25 That means we should always do good. 25:27 That means we can help others 25:29 and bring joy to the people around us. 25:32 In other words, be a good person, 25:35 don't be a pain to the people around you, 25:38 bring joy to them. 25:40 Well, I hope you'll join me again 25:42 for our next assignment. 25:44 Remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 25:47 especially you. 25:49 Goodnight. 26:01 Bloopers, don't leave yet. 26:07 Like this. 26:12 It's... 26:14 Flood story, doesn't. 26:16 How yours... 26:23 We really don't... 26:30 Catastrophe buried all the... 26:32 Where's my pocket? 26:37 I think I'm gonna write that down in... |
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