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- [Narrator] And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth.
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And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
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And God looked upon the earth,
and behold, it was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, "I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them."
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth
to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life
from under heaven,
and everything that is in the earth shall die.
I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days
and 40 nights.
And every living substance that I have made
will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
And the fountains of the great deep broken up
and the windows of heaven were opened.
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And the rain was upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
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And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife,
and his son's wives with him,
into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
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And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl
and of cattle and of beast,
and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,
and every man, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life
of all that was in the dry land, died.
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It's the story we were all told in our childhood.
Many say it is nothing more than that, a children's fable.
A fantasy to teach morals
and strike the fear of God into children.
A giant ark into which a man gathered at least two
of every animal from the earth.
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A worldwide flood, survived by those few, and by few I mean
at least 16,000 animals, and only eight men and women.
A wooden ship that size couldn't possibly survive a flood
of that enormity.
Surely it is a preposterous story.
That story comes from the Bible,
which tells us that it was mankind's wickedness
that brought God's judgement of a worldwide flood.
Perhaps this judgement has provoked the subconscious reaction
of those who would mock and ridicule the story of Noah
and the flood as mere fiction.
For ages, many people have sought ways to discredit
the story of the worldwide flood,
yet even Jesus spoke of the flood of Noah using it
as an example, warning of another great judgement to come.
- Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will by no means pass away.
But of that day and hour no one knows,
not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noah are,
so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days before the flood,
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark.
And it did not know until the flood came,
and took them all away.
So also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Two men will be in the field;
one will be taken, and the other left.
Two women will be grinding at the mill;
one will be taken, and the other left.
Watch, therefore,
for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known
the hour and what the fiend would come,
he would have watched,
and not allowed his house to be broken in two.
Therefore you also be ready,
for the Son of Man is coming at an hour
that you do not expect.
- [Narrator] Some have zealously and ambitiously travelled
the world in an attempt to use scientific evidence
to explain away what they thought
was the evidence left behind by Noah's flood.
What ulterior motives did these people
have to do such a thing?
Did their ulterior motives taint their scientific analysis?
Was their attempt at science nothing more
than a subtle attack against Christ himself?
To answer these and a great many more questions,
we are going to look at history, archaeology, and geology.
We are going to use modern day science
to unravel the Noah flood.
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- As with many mysteries, our investigation begins
in a most unexpected place, and a most unexpected way.
We are going to wander down many seemingly
unrelated rabbit trails.
Surprisingly, all these rabbit trails eventually come
to the same junction in the road,
one of the most significant events in earth's history,
the worldwide flood of Noah.
Pretty much since the beginning of history,
people have believed in the story of Noah
and the great worldwide flood.
In fact, that story is found in cultures literally,
all around the world.
Even the founding fathers of the sciences,
and in particular the sciences of geology,
all believed Noah's flood as literal history, a fact.
Almost all of the founding fathers of the sciences
were very religious, Bible-believing individuals.
But for some of those people,
the scientific evidence caused them a crisis of faith.
- Nicolaus Steno was a Danish fellow,
born in the early 1600s, and he was very bright.
In fact, as a young man, even in his 20s,
he became the official anatomist to the King of Denmark.
The intellectual centre of Europe was in Florence.
There was what we would call a research centre in Florence
in those days, and all the best scientists
of Europe went there to do their research.
So he would hobnob with the brightest people.
One of the things that intrigued him,
apart from all his studies,
and we have to remember that at that time,
science wasn't divided up neatly as it is today
into anatomy and physics,
and in walking around the mountains around Florence,
down the middle of Italy,
there was a chain of mountains known as the Apennine Chain.
He could go and explore those with a horse
in his spare time,
and he noticed that in the rocks on those mountains,
there were fossils.
And the fossils would seem to lie horizontally
and they would be in different layers and different places.
And we would recognise that and call it stratigraphy today.
He liked what he saw about the Roman Catholics.
He became a fervent Roman Catholic.
And in fact, the Roman Catholic church
eventually made him a Bishop.
He wrote, it was a pamphlet, a publication actually,
called "The Prodromus."
Now things were written in Latin for publication
in those days, and so, this prodromus explained
how the rocks contained the fossils, they were in layers,
and those layers were laid down during the flood.
Oh, well, and you look around,
you find out that those fossils
and that order are sometimes repeated
and it occurred to him, well perhaps that Genesis flood
which he believed in because it was in the Bible,
maybe that flood, there were a number of floods
throughout history that are not recorded beforehand.
Perhaps hundreds of years beforehand
and they're repeated again.
Well, little by little, this then expanded the time frame
of the past from a few thousand
where there was only one flood in the past
and that was the Genesis flood described
in the book of Genesis to multiple numbers of flood.
Now today, this is all accepted of course,
because it's the foundation for the theory
of evolution, which demands vast spans of time.
Shortly later, it was in the late 1600s
when Hutton was born, he was a Scotsman,
and he was walking along the east coast of Scotland one day,
and the fossils in those rocks didn't line up in the order
that would be expected if you accepted evolution.
Now evolution, as I say, this was in the late 1600s,
that wasn't accepted at the time,
it wasn't even known or spoken about at all.
Everybody still spoke about the Genesis flood
and they believed in the scriptures and so on.
But little by little, the foundations for the belief
in the theory of evolution was being laid.
And James Hutton laid a vital part of it
right there at Siccar Point.
When he noticed two layers of rock,
which were evidently out of sequence somehow.
Well, as we know, there is only one flood.
What happened there?
Well, the deposition of sediments in water
can be nicely explained by, everybody knows this,
as Galileo's thermoscope,
that's what it was formerly called,
it's now Galileo's thermometer.
And it's a glass tube which is sealed
and contains nothing more than water,
in which there are suspended these little glass bubbles.
They are different colours, and on the bottom of each one
it's got a temperature on a little tag.
When the water gets warmer, as it would do,
we use this to tell the temperature of the air in the room.
So, the temperature of the current in this room
is in between that one and this one.
It's got temperatures indicated on a little tag there.
I think it says 24 on that one and 22 on this one.
So the temperature is now about 21 in the middle.
That's centigrade, degrees centigrade.
So, the buoyancy of these little things changes,
or at least remains constant, I should say.
Let me start the water buoyancy changes with temperature.
So, if it gets hot, the hot water goes to the top
and the cold water remains at the bottom
and so it would do in the ocean too.
If there was a volcano going off under the ocean,
then all that hot liquid would come out.
It would heat the water, it would boil,
hot water would go to the top and hot water can expand
and it does in the little glass tube
because there's air above it here.
The hot water expands and it becomes less buoyant
and so, these little bubbles
that are now at the bottom can rise to the top
because their buoyancy or density remains fixed.
They are made of glass, they're fixed
and they have a specific weight and size.
So, in this room at the moment,
the temperature is between that one that floats
like the hot water in the room or the hot air,
it's the same, and this one, and these that are sinking
because they're heavier than the water.
So that's how you tell the temperature
in Galileo's thermometer.
And it describes and it shows
this is exactly what was happening during the Genesis flood.
The heavier particles were sink to the bottom.
And remember, if that flood water was say a mile deep,
we don't know how big it was,
but it covered the mountain tops evidently,
and that would have been a mile, if it did that,
it would take some time for the solids suspended
in the water to gradually sink down to the bottom.
So you can appreciate
that there would be a certain specific order
to the ways in which those sediments have settled out.
The heavier ones at the bottom and the lighter ones on top,
which is exactly how we find them.
Those heavy minerals are usually found on the bottom
of the stratigraphic column
and the lighter ones are found near the top.
- The principles of stratigraphy
that Steno developed are still in use today.
These rock layers are called strata,
which is where we get the word stratigraphy.
It is literally the study of rock layers.
Now Steno made several proposals about the strata
which are still accepted today,
such as original horizontality.
All of these rock layers you see
were originally laid down horizontally, flat.
They were later on buckled and tilted to what they are now.
Steno also proposed the principle of superposition.
This rock layer was obviously laid down first
because it had to be there
before the next layer could be laid on top of it, right?
And so, we logically deduce
that the farther you go down in the rock layers,
the older the rock layers get, right?
Looking around the world,
Hutton argued that the waves of the sea erode the cliffs
and beaches.
The wind, rain and frost breaks up and pulverises the rocks.
Given enough time, entire mountains
could be eroded away like this.
Throughout his 1795 book, "Theory of the Earth,"
Hutton repeatedly pointed to present day processes
in an apparent attempt to avoid supernatural events
in earth's past, in particular,
the supernatural event of Noah's worldwide flood.
Now, Hutton did not come to these conclusions
by scientific deduction or observation,
but rather in a pseudo-scientific fashion.
He was personally disturbed by what he read in the Bible,
and wanted to explain away the evidence
that was perceived to be in support of Noah's flood,
evidence of a story that personally disturbed him.
Hutton's writings were so specific
that he was later labelled an atheist
by the Royal Irish Academy,
an accusation which upset him so much,
he became physically ill.
He died just two years after this.
- [Narrator] Hutton's writings influenced
a young lawyer by the name of Charles Lyell.
Lyell had a passion for geology.
He also had a secret disdain for the history according
to the Bible, and in particular, Noah's flood.
Lyell quite possibly gained this disdain
from reading Hutton's writings
and hearing about the resulting persecution of Hutton.
- Throughout the ages there had been endless attacks
against the Bible.
Some tried to ban the Bible outright.
Some tried to burn it.
Some ruthless individuals even used imprisonment
and mass killing against all those who would dare
to read and believe the Bible.
These attempts to rid the world of the Bible failed.
In fact, all these tactics backfired
and only increased the demand for the Bible.
Yet, Lyell did something no one had ever done before.
He devised a systematic and carefully plotted attack
against the Bible.
His brilliant plan was, without question,
the most effective attack ever launched
against the Holy Book.
What did Lyell do?
He threw rocks!
In a personal letter to George Scrope in 1830,
Lyell revealed his secret intentions.
He wrote,
- I conceived the idea five or six years ago
that if ever the mosaic geology could be set down
without giving offence, it would be in an historical sketch.
- Let me translate the old English for you
so you may fully grasp what Lyell said.
He was saying, "I came up with the idea five
or six years ago that if ever the geology according
to Moses, the Bible, could be discredited
without offending its believers,
I would do it by making up my own history."
Did you catch that?
Lyell took the ideas of James Hutton and ran with them.
A new history.
A history of the earth
which did not involve any of this worldwide flood nonsense
that Moses wrote about in the Bible,
but rather a new history involving deep time.
Who knows how much time?
Millions, perhaps billions of years.
- We must free the science from Moses.
In fact, I'm the spiritual saviour of geology.
Freeing the science from the old dispensation of Moses.
Remember, you must never attack your opponent head on.
That only draws attention to him and his testimony.
To truly convince your intended audience,
you must completely ignore your opponent's argument
and compose your own story
with which to explain away his evidence.
You then focus on telling your story
and telling it very well.
Convincing your jury your story
is the one which best explains the evidence.
- Lyell conceived of the idea that he would sway the public
with his new history, replacing that inconvenient story
of Noah's flood with his own story.
He even formulated a phrase which summed up
and fulfilled his tactic in one catchy saying.
- And what is that evidence?
Simply this, the present is the key to the past.
You see what I did?
I just ruled out a global flood without ever mentioning it,
and replaced it with my own history.
An history that allows only present-day processes,
no worldwide catastrophes.
- Now, this was a good lawyer's tactic,
but it was not good science.
In fact, it was anti-science.
True science studies the evidence,
develops a hypothesis, and then tests the hypothesis
to see if the hypothesis is correct or not.
Lyell simply removed proper scientific procedure
and investigation,
and then by using pseudoscientific methods,
replaced it with his own predetermined new history.
- I merely removed possibilities from the outcome
of the investigation before the investigation began.
I spent considerable time as well, travelling the world,
searching for new evidence
with which should convince the public of my new history.
One of those places I visited was Niagara Falls.
- The birthplace of the Niagara Falls.
It was here that the Niagara River poured over
the escarpment and began to cut the gorge.
As you can see, the water pouring over the falls erodes
a cave in behind the falls.
Eventually the roof of this cave collapses and the falls
move back a few feet.
The water begins to erode a new cave in behind the falls,
and so on.
It is this process that cut the 10 kilometre gorge.
The gears in Lyell's head must have been turning
when he saw the falls and the gorge they were carving.
Here was the perfect opportunity to show
a slow, geological process
that took a very long period of time,
an excellent example of a present day process
that could be measured.
The erosion rates of the Niagara Gorge.
So, did he study the recession rates
in the name of good science?
No, instead he asked the son of a local geologist
how fast the gorge was being eroded.
He estimated the gorge
was being cut at about 0.3 feet per year or so.
So, did Lyell make his estimates on the age of the gorge
based on this man's ballpark estimate?
Nope.
He went on the assumption that the local was exaggerating,
and used an erosion rate of 1-foot per year.
Using this wild guess, it was easy math.
In keeping true to his ambitions and tactics,
Lyell penned his now famous book "Principles of Geology."
He continually hammered home that the present
is the key to the past, and in that book he argued
that the Niagara Gorge was 35,000 feet long,
it had been eroding at 1-foot per year, therefore,
the gorge must be 35,000 years old
and the earth could not possibly be 6,000 years old.
- [Narrator] Everyone who read Lyell's book knew
what he had just done,
because everyone in his day knew that the Bible said
the earth was only 6,000 years old.
Without ever mentioning the Bible, Moses,
or the flood of Noah,
Lyell just refuted it all with "science."
Countless numbers of people who read Lyell's book
were convinced that the Bible was fiction.
One of those people was a young man,
a theologian with an interest in science
who was travelling around the world
on a ship called the Beagle.
His name was Charles Darwin.
- Long after the publication of Lyell's infamous book,
real science was conducted and the erosion rate
of Niagara Gorge was actually measured.
It turns out that the locals' estimate was wrong.
But in the wrong direction.
The falls were actually eroding at an average
of 5 to 6 feet per year.
Using legal arguing tactics and catchy phrases
instead of actual science, Lyell convinced countless numbers
that the Bible was fiction.
The reality was that Lyell's book was fiction.
Had Lyell actually conducted a proper scientific research
and reported the truth?
The erosion rates of the Niagara Gorge
would have been viewed as supporting the history
of the earth according to the Bible.
- [Narrator] Remembering that the original founding founders
of geology considered the rock layers we see around
the world as evidence of Noah's flood.
Lyell had the rocks squarely in his crosshairs.
His mantra, "the present is the key to the past
must be the only mantra permitted."
- He attempted to explain the rock layers around the world
using Hutton's ideas.
These layers weren't formed by a worldwide flood,
but rather by a countless number of times
that the seas happened to sweep over the land.
Of course, the seas rarely transgress onto the land.
So if one transgression produces one layer,
then the rock layers really add up to many,
many thousands, perhaps millions of years.
So then Lyell visits
the fossil cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia
and encounters the numerous polystrate fossil trees
scattered throughout the cliffs.
Polystrate is a term for fossils that cut through
more than one layer of rock.
Poly for many,
strate for the strata of rock they cut through.
In the case of the polystrate trees here at Joggins,
they're actually not trees,
but giant hollow reeds known as lycopods.
The numerous polystrate fossils
would certainly seem to cause a problem for the idea
that the layers happen over many, many years, wouldn't they?
After all, the top of the plant is not going to stick around
for even tens of years while the trunk slowly gets buried,
let alone thousands or millions of years.
But Lyell was not about to give up yet.
He put his creativity to work again
to create another facet of his new history.
Lyell concocted the story that these trees
were buried right where they grew
by one of the numerous transgressions of the sea.
So with a little bit of creativity,
Lyell converted another "challenge" into another "evidence"
with which to prop up his new history,
and emblazon in the minds of the readers,
the present is the key to the past.
But once again, either Lyell did not see the evidence,
or did not report it.
The lycopods have rootlets radiating out from the roots,
yet some of the fossil polystrate plants
have had their rootlets stripped off.
Evidence that the plants were ripped up by catastrophe,
transported by water, and buried where they are now,
and not buried where they grew.
Occasionally, we find polystrate plants
that were buried upside down.
Last I checked, plants don't grow upside down very well,
so the more likely explanation is once again, a flood.
Do we see present-day processes rip up trees,
bury them upside down?
If we did, we would call it a catastrophe.
We certainly would not call it long
and slow geological process.
- [Narrator] And so we see the beginnings of the war,
a war waged by a scant and very determined few.
A war where science was flung around in word,
but not in practise, in order to add authority
to those who wanted to push an ideology.
An ideology that was secretly rooted in trying
to discredit the story of Noah and the flood.
A carefully planned attack intended to convince people
that the present was the key to the past.
Not the Bible.
A war that attempted to replace God's judgement
and a worldwide flood with deep time.
So is the present the key to the past?
Or is the Bible the key to the past?
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When we look into both the fossil record
and the biblical record of the world before the flood,
we see an incredible place.
According to the Bible,
people lived to almost 1,000 years old,
and there were giants in the land.
Virtually all life had larger counterparts
in the fossil record.
Dragonflies had three-foot wingspans.
Cockroaches were a foot in length.
Lycopod plants got up to 120 feet tall.
Sheep were six feet tall.
In the oceans, we find tortoises the size of cars,
and sharks that were a hundred feet long.
It appears that animals did not eat each other
in order to survive.
As we read in Genesis 1:30,
"And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life,
I have given every green herb for meat.
And it was so."
What is presently our Arctic Circle
had such a stunning array of animals
But the only place in modern times with such variety
is the African Serengeti, the usual suspects of mammoths
and mastodons, but also the woolly rhinoceros,
camels, lions, bears, donkeys, horses,
and a slew of small animals.
The mammoths alone numbered in the millions.
- This is Cape Spear in Newfoundland.
It's the most easterly point of North America.
England is over that way, about 3,000 kilometres away.
Yet conventional thinking believes
that quite possibly in the past,
England would have been right here.
This idea of continental division or continental drift
is actually an old idea,
and the source of this idea may come as a surprise.
The idea came from the Bible.
- [Narrator] In the 1800s,
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini was reading his Bible
and read the Genesis account of creation,
where in chapter 1 it reads,
"And God said, 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth,
and the gathering together of the waters called he seas.
And God saw that it was good."
Pellegrini deduced
that if the waters were gathered into one place,
then the land must also have been in one place.
But the land was presently broken up into continents,
so he deduced that the continents must have divided
and drifted, probably at the time of Noah's flood.
He then began to experiment
with fitting the continents together like puzzle pieces.
He also found identical plant fossils
in both Europe and the United States,
the same plant fossils found on the east coast of Canada.
This added further weight to his theory
of continental division, which he published in 1858,
almost six decades
before Alfred Wegener proposed his plate tectonics model.
- And of course, this continental division is now claimed
to have taken many, many millions of years,
thus allegedly discrediting the history of Earth
according to the Bible.
Isn't it interesting that a biblical idea
was hijacked by those trying to replace Noah's flood
with deep time, in order to discredit the Bible
from which came the idea of continental division?
- [Narrator] And so we get a glimpse of the world
that then was, a gigantic supercontinent
that was globally warm, everything was larger, healthier,
and lived longer, except there was one problem,
the violence and wickedness of man.
In Genesis 6, we see a sad statement
of the regret of God himself.
And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, "I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air.
For it repenteth me that I have made them,
but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
The Lord said to Noah,
'Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me,
for the earth is filled with violence through them.
And behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood, rooms shalt thou make
in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without
with pitch; and this is the fashion
which thou shalt make it of.
The length of the ark should be 300 cubits,
the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits.
A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above;
and the the door of the ark shalt thou set
in the side thereof.
With lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth to destroy all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life from under heaven,
and everything that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee, will I establish my covenant,
and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons,
and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark
to keep them alive with thee.
They shall be male and female, of fowls after their kind,
and of cattle after their kind,
of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,
two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive.
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,
and thou shalt gather it to thee,
and it shall be for food for thee and for them.'"
And so for some 100 years,
Noah constructed the ark following
the exact plan given by God himself.
It was huge in its dimensions.
The dimensions given were in cubits,
which is the measurement from the elbow to the finger tip.
Today, that would be an average of about 18 inches
or a foot and a half.
That means that Noah's ark
would have been approximately 450 feet long,
150 feet wide and 90 feet high.
In other words, it was the size of a ship.
The Santa Maria sailed across the Atlantic Ocean
and it was much, much smaller than the ark.
- Wait, wait, wait.
Is it even possible for one man and his family
to build such a huge ship?
Was there even really a global flood?
I mean, maybe the story of Noah's flood was just allegory?
Maybe it was a flood that just hit his area?
How do we even know if Noah actually built an ark,
let alone what it looked like?
Even if Lyell was wrong about his science,
maybe he was right about there never having been
a worldwide flood,
and instead the earth is billions of years old.
Maybe the present is the key to the past.
Conveniently, Lyell has provided us with a way to test both
his theory and the biblical account of history,
present day processes.
Let's take a look at some present day processes.
Here at Joggins,
the stunning tides of the Bay of Fundy
are the highest in the world.
They rise and fall some 15 metres, 45 feet, twice a day.
As the tides rise and fall,
the water action erodes the cliffs away,
breaking up the rock with waves and frost into sand,
which is washed away.
You can see that the rock layers are tilted to the south.
The layers are different kinds of rock,
and so, of course, some rocks are harder than others.
The softer rocks get eroded away first,
which leaves behind the harder rocks,
which jut out of the water as reefs.
Now this is called differential erosion.
The rocks erode differently.
Differential erosion.
This is a slow present day process that we can observe
and even measure.
- [Narrator] Differential erosion is the process
by which different types of rock or sediment are eroded
at different rates.
Notice how quickly sand is eroded...
(water splashing)
And limestone erodes at a slower rate.
(water splashing)
Sandstone is the slowest to erode of the three.
(water splashing)
Now imagine if all three are eroded
at the same time together,
this is exactly what happened at Joggins,
where the rocks eroded at different rates.
The waves caused the erosion
and the continual collapse of the shoreline,
leaving ridges where the harder rock eroded slower
than the softer rock.
Softer and weaker rocks are rapidly worn away,
whereas harder and more resistant rocks remain
to form ridges, hills or mountains.
- But now we take a look up at the top of the cliffs,
where the exact same rock layers
have been sheared and have not been eroded differently.
Something has cut all the rock layers off perfectly flat,
and whatever cut the rocks didn't care one bit
about whether the rock was hard or soft.
This flat surface is called a planation surface.
It has been planed flat.
This planation surface at Joggins apparently picks up again
about 100 kilometres to the east
and heads up through the Cape Breton Highlands.
In fact, all of the mountains have had their tops
cut off flat at the same elevation in a planation surface.
At the north end of the Cape Breton Highlands,
if we look to the south, we can see just how far
and flat the mountains have been cut off.
If we turn around and look towards the island
of Newfoundland, we see the flattened mountains continue.
If we cross the Cabot Strait
and head to the isle of Newfoundland,
we are met with mountains
that have also been cut off flat at the same elevation
as the mountains over 100 kilometres away in Cape Breton.
If we follow this mountain chain up through Newfoundland,
all the mountains are planed off flat.
It's as if some giant with a planer
and a dislike for mountains got bored one afternoon
and shaved down all the mountains.
They go on like this for hundreds of kilometres,
going back onto the mainland in Labrador.
- [Narrator] And so the mystery thickens.
What on earth could do this?
We saw what long and slow geological processes do.
They do not cut planation surfaces.
They cause differential erosion.
Maybe a glacier cut these mountains flat.
By definition, glaciers flow downhill.
There is no downhill.
The steepest slope of the flat surface leans downhill
at 0.15 degrees.
Glaciers carve gouges, not flat surfaces.
And the gouges leave behind moraines.
None of this is visible on this massive plain surface.
- But these planation surfaces
are found literally all over the world.
We're standing on top of one here
at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.
We're on top of a mountain that, as you can see,
has been cut incredibly flat.
We're over 1,000 metres, 3,500 feet above sea level here.
What slow, present day processes
could cut the top off a mountain perfectly flat?
Interestingly, we have a small hint
as to what went on here at Cypress Hills.
The top of the mountain is covered in rounded boulders
made of an extremely hard rock called quartzite.
Quartzite is basically sand that has been compressed
under tremendous heat and pressure
and turned into an extremely hard rock.
Now, interestingly, these rocks are also peppered
in strange, circular marks.
But the strangest thing of all about these rocks
is that they didn't come from Alberta or Saskatchewan.
They came from 800 kilometres, 500 miles away in Idaho.
What on earth has happened here
that would move rocks 800 kilometres, plane mountains flat,
and make these strange circular marks in these rocks?
- [Narrator] Throughout the world,
we find hundreds of water gaps and wind gaps.
This is a classic example of a water gap.
Water has cut through a mountain producing this canyon
or gap in the mountain.
But here's the thing, water finds its own level.
If we turn to the side,
we find the water could have gone around the mountain.
Why and how did the water go up and over the mountain
to cut a canyon through it?
The Grand Canyon is probably the most famous water gap.
The Canyon cut through the Colorado dome uplift,
but the water could have gone around the dome to the south.
Instead, it cut a gargantuan canyon right through
the middle of the uplift.
One scientist looking at the numerous water gaps
we find around the world remarked
that it almost looked like the river went out of its way
to cut through the mountain.
The question then arises, did the river form the canyon,
or did the canyon form the river?
Other canyons which were cut in this fashion,
but have no water flowing through them now,
are called wind gaps.
They pose the same mystery as they were originally cut
by flowing water.
But water that had to flow uphill
in order to cut the canyon,
when the water simply could have gone around the mountain.
- Here in the beautiful badlands of Alberta, Canada,
we find copious numbers of fossil dinosaur bones.
It's a great mystery as to what exactly it was
that killed the dinosaurs.
We mostly find the dinosaurs ripped apart
and mixed together, often different dinosaurs ripped apart
and mixed together.
When we do find their bones still together,
the dinosaurs are almost invariably
in horrible death throws, the head pulled back
as far as it can go, indicating its struggle to stay alive.
What on earth happened to these dinosaurs?
One of the most common fossils found
in the dinosaur bone beds is not the dinosaurs,
but rather fishes and clams,
which have been buried alive in the "closed position."
When a clam dies, it falls open.
Clams which are rapidly buried can also burrow their way
out of remarkably deep sediments,
but these clams were buried alive with the dinosaurs,
along with lots of fish remains.
While we are told that the dinosaurs
were killed by an asteroid striking the earth,
the reality is that there is huge problems with that theory.
The crater that was supposedly formed by the asteroid
is the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.
There was a rare mineral called iridium
that is found in asteroids.
This rare mineral is also found in a rock layer
called the KT boundary,
the contact between the Cretaceous and Tertiary layers,
where the dinosaurs are claimed to vanish
from the fossil record.
So it was suggested that the dinosaurs
had been killed by an asteroid.
But an asteroid won't rip dinosaurs apart
and mix up their bones.
The dinosaurs, buried with their heads pulled back
are doing so undoubtedly because of water.
Asphyxiation will cause an animal, or even a human,
to pull their head back as they are dying.
Also, scientists discovered that dead chickens,
when put in cold water, instantly pull their heads back.
Finding fish and closed clams buried with the dinosaurs
is clear indication that the dinosaurs were killed
in a flood, not by some asteroid.
But this was no meandering river during spring flood.
The layers in which these dinosaurs are found
are provincial in size.
For example, the Morrison Formation covers 10 states
and 3 Canadian provinces.
This was not some present day process that made this layer.
This was a massive flood on the scale of a worldwide flood.
- [Narrator] We have several mysteries presented to us.
How on earth do you cut a canyon
through a mountain with water?
When the water can go around the mountain,
by using present-day processes, you can't.
How do you shave flat the tops of entire mountain chains?
There are no present-day processes
that we know of which do this.
- How do you rip up extremely hard rocks in Idaho,
transport them 800 kilometres,
pounding them against each other, rounding them,
and making a flat-topped mountain
in Canada 3,500 feet above sea level?
Present day processes cannot explain any of this evidence.
However, as it all turns out,
all of these mysteries are simply explained with one answer.
A worldwide flood.
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Noah's Ark is almost always portrayed
as a boat shape.
But what was its form and how do we know?
- Well, the interesting thing is there are a few people,
definitely not the majority, but a few people,
who would say that the Bible actually doesn't tell us
what Noah's Ark looked like.
Now, I'm the kind of guy that looks at things,
researchers things, gets back into the Hebrew and the Greek
to see if statements like this are true.
It turns out that there is plenty in the Bible
to give us a basic idea
of what Noah's Ark really did look like.
Now if you were to ask the question,
if we were to start with the Bible alone,
could we get an idea what Noah's Ark looked like?
Now, it's an interesting question
and it's actually an easy question to answer.
Dozens and dozens of times individuals
have approached Scripture alone using proper hermeneutics,
exegetical techniques, taking a look at the Hebrew
in the Old Testament, taking a look at the Greek
in the New Testament.
It's important to look not just at the Old Testament,
but at the New Testament as well.
Now, let me just summarise this.
Starting with the Reformation, of course,
Martin Luther a very famous individual
in the history of the church,
especially the evangelical church,
Martin Luther in 1523 depicts the Ark
in one of his publications as a box
or a chest if you will.
What you find is Johannes Buteo in 1554 discusses
the New Testament word "kibotos."
You see the New Testament calls Noah's vessel a "kibotos,"
the very same word by the way is the Ark of the Covenant
in the New Testament.
One Greek word discussing both of those particular vessels.
Now, there's no doubt that the Ark of the Covenant
was a box-shaped vessel.
Why in the world would the Holy Spirit pick that word
to describe Noah's Ark if it was not a box-like
or chest-like vessel?
In 1554, Johannes Buteo says that the Ark was a chest.
Now, of course, that's based
on the New Testament word kibotos,
as well as the Old Testament word tebah.
Now, Buteo says that a chest needs no further definition,
and I think I agree with him.
Now, Johannes Buteo was a geometrist,
and he says that a chest is a parallelepiped rectangle.
Now, what in the world is a parallelepiped rectangle?
Well, if you take a look at
what geometrists talk about there, it's a box shape,
but more on the rectangular side.
Now, you can go down the line,
and you can take a look at Benito Arias Montano,
another scholar, 1569.
You can take a look at scholars in the 17th century,
such as John Wilkins did a study on the ark in 1668,
followed by Matthew Poole in 1669 and I have his commentary
and he discusses Hebrew he discusses also the fact
that the New Testament calls it a kibotos,
Noah's kibotos and that is a box or chest specifically
made out of wood.
And this is important because some people say,
well, wait a minute how come in the Septuagint
that is the Greek version of the Old Testament,
translated well before the time of Christ
by supposedly 70 to 72 scholars.
These were Hebrew scholars, Jewish individuals.
If kibotos is a good substitute for the Hebrew word tebah,
then why is it not used for the vessel of Moses?
Because in Exodus 2:3, we see exactly the same word
in Hebrew, tebah, that Moses' mother took.
that meant procured or had made, and she took this tebah,
which was made out of papyrus reeds.
And some people say it's obvious
if it's made out of papyrus reeds, it cannot be square.
Well, that's actually just totally false.
I spent much time studying
the archaeology of the ancient Egyptians.
And what you'll find is from the very earliest dynasties
all the way through the time of Moses afterwards,
that the Egyptians made many box-shaped vessels
out of papyrus reeds.
Now, if we take the text as written,
she was to take a chest made out of papyrus reeds.
The interesting thing is,
the Egyptians actually did make chests out of papyrus reeds.
They weren't actually baskets, they were chests.
Now, if I was going to put my baby in the Nile River,
I think I'd want some kind of inherent covering
so that the birds and vultures
don't pick the eyeballs out of them.
Now, kind of a weird thing to think about, but it's true.
So everything in scripture is consistent.
It meshes together.
God told Noah, "Build thee an ark" in English.
And that word in English comes from the Latin "arca"
which also means a box or a chest.
So the very fact that we're talking about an ark in English,
most of us don't know the real definition of it,
but an ark is a chest or a box.
And that goes back to the word "kibotos"
in the New Testament, as well as "tebah"
in the Old Testament.
Some believe that "tebah" is an Egyptian loan word
from "debat," which means a chest or a coffin.
So from scripture alone, it has been studied dozens
and dozens of times,
and whether you're talking about Martin Luther,
Johannes Buteo, Benito Arias Montano,
John Wilkins, Matthew Poole, Athanasius Kircher,
and many others,
they all basically came to the same conclusion
a box-like vessel with the dimensions
that are given in Genesis,
300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits.
Now sometimes the roof system of these vessels differed
because scripture doesn't give us those specifics,
sometimes the roofs came to a point,
sometimes they were completely flat,
sometimes they were vaulted or rounded.
But nevertheless, dozens and dozens of scholars
have already looked at the Bible alone,
and they have come up with fundamentally
the same conclusion.
Over 90% of the scholars from the early 1500s
to the early 1700s agreed on what the Ark looked like
from the Bible alone.
Now, here's what's interesting.
When you take a look at what the early church believed
about Noah's Ark, now, there was discussion
amongst individuals such as Origen,
trying to figure out
how do all these animals fit on the Ark.
And so, he actually decided that the cubit
that was being used in scripture
was the Egyptian geometric cubit, almost 10 feet.
Now in 1554, Johannes Buteo says, "This is crazy.
A normal cubit of about a foot and a half
or 18 inches would be sufficient
to fit all the animals required."
You see, and so origin actually stretched this way beyond
what it needed to be.
Johannes Buteo points out in 1554
that if we're consistent with that particular cubit,
then we have David and Goliath, and David reaches down,
and he picks up the head of Goliath,
which now is almost 10 feet in diameter.
Of course, an absolute impossibility.
And so it's clear that we're talking about probably
an 18 to maybe 22, 22.5 inch cubit.
A regular cubit, not an Egyptian geometrical cubit.
Nevertheless, the early church did quite a bit of artwork
related to Noah and the ark.
For example, there are several depictions
that are found under the city of Rome in the catacombs.
And what you'll often find is Noah standing
in a literal box, perhaps about three feet in diameter,
just a box floating on the waters.
And here comes a dove with an olive branch.
And Noah has his hands spread out like this.
That is the 2nd to 3rd century.
You'll also find other similar depictions
of Noah standing in a literal chest maybe 4.5 feet across.
You'll see the lid in the background,
you can see the latch and the keyhole.
Now this has to get to certain people's minds
and get them to ask the question,
why in the world would anybody
depict Noah's Ark as a literal box or chest?
Well, the answer is actually quite simple,
because of the words of scripture.
And so we see that the first 500 years of the early church,
almost exclusively, they depict Noah's vessel
as a literal box or a literal chest.
If we fast forward a few hundred years,
a few more hundred years,
a few more hundred years after that,
we see that these chests grow in size.
They become bigger.
They become larger.
And finally, at about the time of the Reformation,
We see that the scholars not only took the basic shape
that's discussed in scripture,
but they took the details and the dimensions
that are discussed in the book of Genesis,
and they put them together to finally accurately depict
this box-like chest-shaped structure known as today,
"Noah's Ark."
- So we know that the Ark would have been box-shaped.
The whole point of the Ark was not to transit anywhere,
but rather its purpose was simply to survive the flood.
The conventional ship shape was not needed,
only a barge shape.
But many engineers and sceptics have claimed
that such a large ship could not be built out of wood.
Now, they speak by the experience of those in England
who, in the middle ages,
attempted to build very large wooden ships.
The ships would break apart under their own weight
and the stresses of the waves.
The English were building wooden ships a mere 300 feet long,
with steel reinforcing, and gaps would appear
in the hull of the ship letting water in.
Such arguments actually reveal
a bit of modern-day arrogance.
We can't do it, therefore it cannot be done.
After all, we're smarter than our ancestors,
we have modern technology and stuff, right?
And yet there is still much contention
over how the ancients built things
like the pyramids of Egypt.
The Trilithon stones of Baalbek in Lebanon
were used to the foundation of the temple of Jupiter.
The stones are an estimated 1,000 tonnes each.
We have essentially one crane in the entire world
that can lift those stones,
yet the ancients somehow built a temple with them.
You can quickly see why some have appealed to aliens
and superior technology, it is a mystery
as to how on earth the ancients
could have accomplished such a feat.
The reality is, it was just built by smart people.
Once carving the stone,
one simply builds wheels around the stones,
which are then literally rolled into place.
So we see the ancients performing
incredible engineering feats at least 2,000 years ago
that rival what we can do
with our alleged modern technologies and machinery.
As Mladyov and Mladyov point out in their paper,
the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
was a monumental project on multiple levels.
We know approximately how long it took
to build the Great Pyramid.
According to Herodotus,
it was all constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu,
which was a maximum of 23 years.
The workers cut, moved and emplaced
an estimated 2.3 million stones just in the Great Pyramid.
If we use 23 years as figure, working 365 days a year,
that's 8,395 days to construct the pyramid.
That means cutting, moving and placing 274 blocks per day,
with the blocks weighing an average
of almost three tonnes each.
Think about how this could be done in modern times.
Even with modern, heavy equipment involved,
it would be a daunting task.
Some of the blocks found by Egyptologists
had the words "this side up" written in hieroglyphics.
The explanation is simple.
Just like the Trilithon stones of Baalbek,
the blocks were simply rolled from the quarry
to the construction site using the "rockers"
that Egyptologists have found.
Four rockers convert the block into a wheel.
Not far from Egypt,
in an ancient shipwreck found off the coast
of the Greek island Antikythera,
we find incredible ancient technologies,
such as the Antikytheran mechanism,
an incredibly complex geared device
which predicted the locations of the planets and moons.
It was estimated to be about 2,000 years old.
The complexity of this device rivalled that
of complex mechanical systems not known until 1900 years
after its construction.
Did the ancients really lack intellect
and technical knowledge?
The most shocking of all is that during the early 1400's,
the Chinese built a fleet of "treasure junks" or ships,
which some estimates say were up to 600 feet
or 180 metres long, one-third again larger than Noah's ark.
They had nine masts made from bamboo
and were reported to carry 500 passengers or more,
as well as an enormous amount of cargo, treasure.
Of course, sceptics incited engineering specifications,
saying such ships were impossibly large.
They couldn't possibly stay afloat without breaking up.
Then in 1962, the rudder post of one of these treasure ships
was excavated by archaeologists.
The rudder post was 36 feet long,
indicating a ship upwards around 500 feet long.
Just because we don't know how they did it,
does not mean they couldn't do it.
And so it is with Noah.
Just because we don't know how he did it,
does not mean he couldn't do it.
The Bible tells us that God specifically instructed Noah
to build the ark out of gopher wood.
What on earth is gopher wood?
The word is unique, appearing only once in the Bible.
God's instructions unto Noah on how to build the ark.
Now, there is no gopher tree.
As Arnold Mendez points out,
we can deduce what the gopher wood is
and also obtain some profound theological insight
which may enlighten us in our understanding
of this strange war on Noah's flood.
When we look up the word "gopher" in the dictionary,
we find many forms of the word.
Gopher, gofer, gaufer and gaufre.
They all refer to a laminating or layering process,
such as the layers of a biscuit
or the layers of lace in a dress.
- [Narrator] The French settlers named groundhogs gophers
because they dug tunnels underground in layers.
Gophers were actually named after the layering
or wafer process.
In fact, here in Canada,
where we have two official languages on everything,
you can even see gopher on this package
of sugar wafer cookies.
The cookies are layered wafers.
Gopher is not a type of wood, but rather a wood process.
A cross-laminating of wood into layered sheets,
using pitch within and without.
Tradition states that Noah used a form of birchbark resin
to glue the gopher wood together.
The Greeks and Romans were known
to use birchbark resin as well.
In fact, Neanderthal spears were found
to have their spearheads glued on with it.
It was astonishingly strong,
rivalling our modern-day superglues.
Again, we see how our ancestors were anything but stupid.
In fact, birchbark resin is simple to make as well.
Noah's family would simply put birch bark in a vessel,
specially made for the job.
It had a lid to keep oxygen out,
and a hole in the bottom
from which the birch oil would drip.
Loading it with birch bark, a fire is built around the pot
which literally bakes the oil out of the bark.
The oil drips from the hole into a catch pot.
The oil is then further refined over heat
to get it at just the right temperature.
When it is poured out onto the wood, it quickly hardens
into a strong, almost plastic state.
It acts as both a glue and a waterproof sealant
for the gopher wood.
Noah was instructed to put pitch both on the inside
and outside of the walls.
Obviously, it's waterproof.
The reality is that Noah's Ark
was made of essentially really thick plywood.
- But not only was the construction unusually strong,
they also had different building materials.
Remember how we mentioned
that plants were larger in the past?
Well, trees were no exception.
And fossil trees have been found that were estimated to be
at least 450 feet, or 135 metres tall.
- [Narrator] By comparison,
the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
is 125 feet tall.
The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet tall,
and the Brooklyn Bridge rises to 276 feet.
Even the Great Pyramid at Giza is 430 feet high.
Now imagine trees that were 450 feet tall.
- That means that Noah could possibly
have used full-length beams of wood
with which to build his ark.
This would mean the ship could be built with very few,
possibly no joints in the entire length of the hull.
Thus, he did not have the weak joints
which we have to put into our modern ships today,
due to the size limitations of our trees.
- [Narrator] But there are multiple ways
in which one could laminate the wood to construct the ark.
You could stack the wood in layers on top of each other,
much like how the grain elevators
of the West were constructed.
But most likely what Noah did was to construct the walls
in vertical layers, like this.
Think of a bridge.
If a bridge is constructed with square elements
at 90 degree angles, the bridge won't be very strong.
When a downward force is applied,
like when a vehicle goes across the bridge,
it will bend, and then in time will break.
The highest strength of wood is in its tensile strength.
That is, when it is pulled along the grain.
Taking this fact into account,
you can make the bridge incredibly strong
by making cross-strengthening X's.
If there's a vehicle in the centre of the bridge,
its weight is acting downward on the bridge,
and it's pulling these diagonal members.
This is called being in tension.
To balance that out, when it hits this vertical member,
this one is in compression.
We follow that to the end.
Tension, compression, tension, compression.
Noah's Ark was essentially a box.
Any stress pushing down on one of the walls
would make the wall want to flex and fall flat.
If you make a box, the entire box will want to fall flat.
If you add X structures to the wall, it will distribute
the load and strengthen the wall considerably.
If you do the same with the top, bottom and sides,
then this box will be incredibly strong.
Now envision many, many of these X structures built
into the walls of Noah's Ark,
layer upon layer of these X structures.
This would make the Ark incredibly strong.
As it turns out, even the layered construction method
of Noah's Ark had profound divine inspiration and symbolism.
- In the original Hebrew language, that word "gopher"
is very similar to two other words, "kofer" and "kaphar."
Often in Hebrew, related words
are found to have one minor change,
and this produces a profound play on words in the Hebrew
as all three related words
were carefully used to describe the construction
of the Ark of Noah.
"Kaphar" means to purge, make an atonement,
make reconciliation, or to cover over with pitch.
"Kopher" means the price of a life, a ransom, a bribe,
asphalt, a covering of pitch, or the name of a plant.
When we read Genesis 6:14 with these words we read,
"Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt kaphar it
within and without with kopher."
The play on words harkens back to the sacrifice
which covers our sins, an atonement.
Jesus Christ is presented in the scriptures
as our atonement,
the Son of God who would be sacrificed for us
to cover our sins.
The Apostle Paul took it a step farther,
saying that we "put on Christ like a garment,"
Christ covers us.
So even the very method of construction of Noah's Ark
was symbolic of Christ.
The Ark was an atonement, even using the same word
for Christ elsewhere in the Bible.
But the symbolism between Noah's Ark and Christ
goes far beyond the construction of the craft.
In fact, the powerful and meticulous allusions to Christ
may be one of the very reasons
why people are so tenacious in their attack
on the story of Noah and the flood.
Noah's flood was the first judgement on all of mankind.
From 120 years, Noah warned the people of God's judgement
to come and pointed to the ark
as salvation from the judgement to come,
provided freely by God.
All the people had to do was heed the warning, obey,
and get on the ship.
- [Narrator] 2,500 years later,
a man claiming to be the son of that same God
came to earth.
There is only two places in the Bible
where God sent an angel to name a baby that was to be born.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, and to Zacharias,
the father of the man who would be Jesus' cousin,
John the Baptist.
One could understand why God would go out of his way
to send an angel to name the baby
that would be God's only begotten son.
But it is highly unusual the lengths that God went
to tell Zacharias to name his son of miraculous birth, John.
Why John?
We read that John the Baptist was the voice
in the wilderness who would symbolically baptise people
in the Jordan River.
Ultimately, he was to baptise Jesus Christ himself.
(dramatic music)
And God would show John a sign so that he would know
that Jesus was the Christ, God's only Son.
The sign was the Spirit of God, descending upon Christ
in the form of a dove.
We must first ask, why on earth was John performing
this strange ritual known as baptism?
Well, baptism was symbolic of Noah's flood.
In fact, this entire event was to bring home the symbolism
of Noah's flood to the Jews
who intimately knew the story of Noah and the flood.
At the end of the flood, Noah had released a dove
which first came back with an olive branch showing
that dry land was available again and plants were growing.
When Noah released the dove again,
it never returned until the time Christ was baptised.
Why did the Spirit of God take on the form of a dove?
Because it was symbolising Noah and the great judgement ,
the flood.
- John the Baptist was even given the same name as Noah.
Hebrew reads from right to left.
And Noah is spelt in a number of ways,
Nu, Nun, Noah, Noa, Noe, No, and Nao.
Many other languages such as Greek read left to right.
And so when transliterating names from Hebrew,
often the names would be transliterated backwards
because the reader was reading in a different direction
than the Hebrew.
And so we see Noah's name in other languages as,
Aon, On, Oan.
And so you can start to see how the name Noah
actually appears in other languages.
Oannes, Johan, Johanne, John, Jan, Ian.
You can see the feminine forms, Joanne,
Joanna, Hannah, Ioanna, Joan, Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice,
and Jean.
They are all the same name and they all mean God's grace.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of God.
- [Narrator] Noah was the voice crying in the wilderness.
He warned of the judgement to come
and pointed to the ark of salvation from this judgement .
One only needed to believe.
John the Baptist, even given the same name as Noah,
was also the voice in the wilderness,
warning of the final day of judgement to come
and pointing to Christ as the salvation
from that judgement to come,
which was freely given to all who would believe on Christ.
John baptised Christ, symbolising the flood of Noah,
and the Spirit of God descended upon Christ
in the form of a dove, another nod of symbolism
to the first great judgement upon mankind, the flood of Noah,
and a nod to the grace and mercy of God
to all those who would simply believe and listen
to the warning.
The Bible tells us that God closed the door on Noah's ark,
sealing the fate of both who listened to God's plea to obey
and those who did not listen.
For 120 years, Noah warned the people of the judgement
to come, and all they had to do to escape God's judgement
was believe and take salvation.
- Whose fault was it that those people died?
Whose fault was it that those children died?
Like Noah, John the Baptist warned
of the coming final judgement and pointed to Christ
as the salvation from the judgement to come,
a judgement that has yet to be seen.
Perhaps this gives us insight into the war
against the story of Noah and the flood.
The evidence all over the world left behind by Noah's flood
is a constant reminder of the judgement of God,
and a warning of the final judgement ,
the great white throne judgement at the end of days.
Perhaps this war against the Bible had nothing to do
with science, but was, understandably,
people not wanting to be reminded of their own mortality,
and the fact that they were at the mercy of a God
who could very well judge them.
Some mock the idea of Noah's flood,
asking why God couldn't have been more creative
in his method of judgement .
Such mockers fail to realise
that they have just profoundly answered their own question.
If God used something like fire,
it would essentially leave behind no evidence.
Instead, a global flood leaves behind global scale evidence.
Evidence so provocative
that the mockers spend incredible time
and effort trying to explain away that evidence.
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- [Narrator] The question "Did the flood happen?"
and "How did the flood happen?"
are two completely separate questions.
We could affirmatively answer one
without being able to answer the other,
we may be able to demonstrate that a worldwide flood
did happen and yet not know the hows or whys.
We certainly have no lack of records
of a catastrophic flood that left an indelible impression
on the minds of mankind.
Hundreds of cultures around the world have legend,
history or mythology of a time
when the world was devastated by a flood
and a scarce few were saved on board a floating vessel
of some sort with animals.
And you need to understand, this is like wandering
through the jungles and encountering a tribe
that has been isolated from the rest of the world
and finding out that they have a story
like that of Noah and the ark.
But with all of these stories of a flood and a boat,
how do we know which one is correct?
In fact, many sceptics have claimed
that the biblical account of Noah and the ark
has simply been plagiarised from the Epic of Gilgamesh,
an ancient story found written on clay tablets.
Such an accusation misses the point
that perhaps the Epic of Gilgamesh was written
with a flood story because there was a great flood.
And to determine whether or not the biblical story
of Noah and the flood was copied from the Epic of Gilgamesh,
one merely has to take the time
to read the Epic of Gilgamesh
to see that it is radically different
than the biblical account and simply not feasible.
For instance, the Ark in the Epic of Gilgamesh was a cube.
Cubes do not work well in the seas,
they are horribly unstable,
and would be constantly flipping.
On the other hand, models built to the dimensions
of Noah's Ark in the Bible proved incredibly stable
in wave tank tests, even able to roll up
to almost 90 degrees and would still settle out upright.
Research conducted
at the world-class Korean Research Institute
of Ship and Ocean Facility in South Korea showed just
how feasible the design of Noah's Ark was,
at least according to the biblical account.
The other accounts we find around
the world bear similarities to the biblical account,
but have obviously been distorted over time,
transforming the accounts into obvious mythology.
The biblical account is the only feasible account.
Nevertheless, the fact that we find hundreds of legends,
myths, and historical records of a giant flood
is powerful evidence that there has been a worldwide flood.
Once again, we need to actually look to see
what the Bible says about this worldwide flood
in order to determine what exactly would have happened.
We find the flood account itself in chapter 7 of Genesis.
In looking at the grammar of the passage,
Barrack and Sigler pointed out
that the water did not get high enough
to float Noah's ark until the 40th day.
That's over five weeks.
Noah's flood did not happen overnight
and the waters continued to rise for months.
We read that Noah's Ark landed on Mount Ararat
on the 150th day.
The flood did not happen overnight.
It took weeks to cover the land.
So from this description, we can deduce several things.
The tides are influenced by the moon and the sun,
pulling on the oceans, which makes a wave
which races around the Earth.
About every 12 hours you get a high tide.
Right now, our tides stop when they hit land.
What researchers discovered in computer models
was that if you submerge the continents,
the wave can build up higher and higher each time
it goes around the planet.
And so we would see two things during the onset
of the flood.
You would have tidal waves every 12 hours,
but each tidal wave would be higher than the last
because the floodwaters were rising.
When the flood started, the first tidal wave
would bring in and lay down a layer of sediments
because the sea floor was rising,
the next tidal wave would come in higher than the last,
laying down another layer of sediment on top of the first.
The next tidal wave would come in higher again,
laying down another layer of sediment.
This happened over and over, and again,
until all the ground was covered in water,
with nothing stopping the onslaught of the tidal waves.
During low tide, dinosaurs and people would walk around
on the freshly laid tidal flats,
making footprints in the mud that would later harden
into fossil footprints.
And so, if a worldwide flood happened,
we would see rock layers laid down all over the world,
which is exactly what we see, and is precisely the evidence
that Lyell and others tried to explain away with deep time.
But could Lyell's mantra be correct?
Is the present the key to the past,
or is the Bible the key to the past?
But just as significant
as the flood encroaching upon the land,
is the water leaving the land.
The water leaving the land is what would have done
such dramatic sculpting of the landscape.
In fact, several of our mysteries are solved quite simply.
Coriolis forces are what cause hurricanes
to rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere,
and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
It's caused by the rotation of the Earth.
Presently, we have such currents in our oceans,
but these are restricted by the continents.
When the continents are submerged,
massive currents are unleashed,
free from the constraints of land masses.
Computer models have revealed that these vortices
can reach speeds of 40 to 80 metres per second,
which is equivalent to 140 to 280 kilometres per hour,
or 90 to 180 miles per hour.
- Water moving at velocities well below those numbers
produces what engineers call cavitation.
The water is moving really fast,
and so when it goes over a bump,
it cannot make the tight corner.
What happens is it produces a perfect vacuum bubble,
which sucks the water down into place.
The water is quite heavy
and acts as an incredibly powerful hammer.
Cavitation can literally pulverise steel,
and that's why cavitation is so carefully taken into account
when designing propellers on ships.
- [Narrator] Imagine a flood of biblical proportions,
a deluge so powerful it reshapes the earth.
Amid this chaos, a hidden force sculpted the bedrock.
Cavitation, a process where water's fury turns explosive.
Cavitation occurs when water flows so fast
that local pressure drops below the vapour pressure
of dissolved air, forming bubbles of vapour and gas.
In the extreme conditions of a cataclysmic flood,
with water rushing through steep, constricted channels,
these bubbles form in the cores of powerful vortices,
swirling eddies shed from obstacles in the flow.
As these bubbles are swept into higher pressure zones,
they collapse with devastating force.
Each collapse is like a miniature explosion,
capable of pitting and fracturing even the toughest bedrock.
In a flood of Noah's scale,
with velocities far exceeding those of modern rivers,
cavitation would have been widespread and relentless.
A global scale flood suddenly becomes
the only feasible explanation for entire mountain chains
having their tops shaved off flat.
It was a gigantic sheet flow of water moving
at incredible velocity
as the floodwaters of Noah's flood left the land.
We all watched in horror the incredible destructive power
of the tsunamis that hit Indonesia in 2004
and Japan in 2011.
Yet these walls of water were moving at very slow speeds,
a mere 20 to 30 kilometres per hour.
- But do you remember that mystery of the rocks
with the strange circular marks on them?
Well, those circular marks are caused
by the rocks hammering against each other.
In the West, this wall of water picked up boulders in Idaho
and transported the rocks at highway speeds
to Alberta, Canada, pounding the rocks together
until the water finally slowed enough to drop the rocks,
producing a mountain 3,500 feet above what is now sea level.
These rocks are really heavy.
The calculations are pretty straightforward.
For water to pick up these rocks,
it would have to be flowing at a minimum
of interstate highway speeds,
some 110 kilometres an hour or 70 miles per hour minimum.
The mystery is solved by one simple solution,
a global flood.
- [Narrator] There are no present-day examples
of water flows picking up boulders, hammering them
against each other
and dropping off the rounded rocks 800 kilometres away
from their source.
The present can not be the key to the past,
but a worldwide flood would certainly explain this mystery.
The continents submerged causing the global floodwaters
to achieve incredible speeds in vortices,
ripping up solid rock in Idaho
and forming plain top mountains with them in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Montana.
The Bible is the key to the past.
The mystery of the hundreds of water gaps
and wind gaps found all over the globe
is also suddenly explained with one simple assumption,
a historic, world-wide flood.
The reason water gaps are a mystery at present is simply
because of the philosophical assumption
that there has been no world-wide flood,
and thus, you are forced into the corner
of having to explain how on earth water defied gravity
in order to start cutting a canyon.
If the water is starting above the mountaintops,
then water gaps make complete sense
as the water was just simply moving and thus,
cut through any mountains that rose up in its path.
There are no present-day processes cutting water gaps
and wind gaps through mountains.
The present cannot be the key to the past.
The Bible is the key to the past.
The Indonesian tsunami measured some 30 feet high
and the water was perhaps travelling at bicycling speeds.
Eight countries
as much as 6,000 kilometres apart from each other
had an estimated 275,000 killed by the waves.
Yet flattened mountain tops all over the world
indicate walls of water moving at highway speeds
thousands of feet above sea level.
There are no present-day processes producing
such features, and if we saw such an event,
we would certainly not call it a slow
and gradual geological process.
We would call it a catastrophe.
The present cannot be the key to the past.
The Bible, with its history of the worldwide flood,
holds the key to the past.
- The Morrison Formation,
a layer of rock famous for its many dinosaurs
and clearly laid down by a flood covers 10 states
and three Canadian provinces,
we do not have any present-day processes producing massive,
provincially-sized layers of sediments like this.
And if we did, we would call it a catastrophe,
and not a slow and gradual geologic process.
The present cannot be the key to the past.
But the Bible does contain the key to the past,
the historical record of a global flood.
It all makes sense with a global flood.
The flood of Noah left a changed world.
Anti-theists like Lyell and Darwin sought to change
the history of the world, replacing the genuine history
of a worldwide flood with deep time.
While God alone can judge their motives, it would appear
that they were trying to rid their lives
and the world of the history of God's judgement .
The evidence of the Noah flood is profound, worldwide,
and overwhelming.
So what would provoke people to so cunningly devise
a scheme to rid the world of the Great Flood?
Could it be because the evidence of God's judgement
was literally all around them, all over the world?
Could it be the allusions between the judgement of the flood
and the great judgement to come,
as well as the allusions between the ark of Noah
and Jesus Christ, were too offensive?
Could it be that subconsciously,
they were attempting to escape the future judgement
that Christ warned about?
A judgement He even compared to the flood of Noah?
Were they trying to evade the ultimatum
that Christ gave,
behaving much like the people did before the flood.
Mocking, and desperately trying to ignore
the pending judgement , perhaps in hopes
it will just go away or not come in their lifetime.
The problem with that, is that the door finally closed
on those who did not board the ark.
What side of that door would you be on?
What side of that door will you be on
at the next great judgement ?
♪ I pray for you ♪
♪ See my tears ♪
♪ Can you see me? ♪
♪ Love ♪
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♪ I pray for you ♪
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♪ From the mountains to the ocean wide ♪
♪ The waters rose cold through endless night ♪
♪ All of life held in silence ♪
♪ Where did the devil return before to share? ♪
♪ Now the sky has to meet the rainbow ♪
♪ Shines bright as an angel's eyes ♪
♪ Arms of mercy always now ♪
♪ 'Cause love endures this long we're lost ♪
♪ Morning light spills on emerald fields ♪
♪ New bring life, awakens and heals ♪
♪ Every heart finds strength to forgive ♪
♪ All again we'll unclog your lips ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
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