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In Matthew 24, verses 37 through 39,
Jesus takes a look at how the days of Noah would be a picture
of how things would be at the end of time.
As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of
the coming of the Son of man.
He speaks of how they were carrying on their daily
activities, marrying and giving in marriage,
eating and drinking, and they weren't paying attention.
And they didn't know that the Flood was going to come,
despite 120 years of preaching.
So shall it be, He says, in the coming of the Son of man.
History is repeating itself. I'm sure the Lord looks down from
heaven now, Jesus said as it was in the days of Noah,
so will it be in the days of the Son of man.
And we're seeing that in the world today.
The violence in the land, the selfishness, the self worship,
that's out there.
And I think it just is breaking the heart of God.
Perhaps, the single most important practical lesson to
try and find the present-day application for,
is, what does it mean to get on the Ark?
We are living in the judgment hour. We're living in a final
twilight in the world's history, where we're standing on
the threshold of eternity. And people need to realize these are
awesome times. More-so than any other time in history,
because the sun is really going down on the world's probation,
and now is the time when people need to
prepare to meet their God.
What happened before the Flood is going to happen again, right
before the second coming of Christ.
Those who don't have a perspective,
who aren't looking at the scriptural message
they'll go on just as they do with the circumstances of life
and they won't see the end coming.
I'm Jeff Reich, director of Laymen Ministries.
What you're about to witness will be unlike anything,
that you've ever seen before. Not only are we going to
investigate the Flood story,
but we'll trace the roots of evolution and show how it's
influenced western society.
Any most importantly, we'll take a look at how the story of Noah
helps explain the pages of Bible prophecy.
This is the story of Noah and the Flood
like you've never seen before.
Today many Christians are anticipating
the future coming of Christ
and they're wondering what's in store for planet Earth.
They'd do well if they went back and read the story of Noah and
the Flood, because, within that epic story of the Bible,
there is more of the future revealed to us than many know.
In fact, the evidences are all around us.
God, is love.
His nature, His law, is love.
It ever has been, it ever will be.
Every part of creation,
from the tiniest insect that floats in the sunbeams,
to vast galaxies in the far reaches of space.
All are an expression of His unsearchable love.
There's no doubt whatsoever that the world before
the Flood spoke about the love of God.
Everything was absolutely beautiful.
His love was expressed in anything and everything
that you wanted to look at.
From the smallest single-cell lifeform,
to the most complex being, in that of Adam, that He created,
everything was perfect.
If we could be transported back to find out what
was the world was like before the Flood,
you really need to think almost about,
it was like a different planet.
They were surrounded by an abundance of food.
There was an abundance of beauty in nature.
The mountains were not jagged and rough and forbidding and
dangerous like you see today.
They were majestic and tall and rolling and covered with fresh
top-soil, and every kind of flower
that you can imagine. Many think the animals and plants
are extinct today.
There was no extreme colds, no extreme hot,
no extreme dryness, no extreme weather.
And we didn't have those horrific storms
that we have now.
The trees were covered with vines and little tendrils were
wrapped around all in perfect order
and just laden with fruit.
It mentions in Genesis how the water came up,
as a mist came up and watered the land.
The Earth was watered by, like a automatic sprinkler system.
The mist came up from the Earth
according to Genesis chapter two.
Rain was unknown.
Gems and gold and silver were
just abundant on the surface of the ground.
Here you have this paradise if you will,
that was in many respects this perfect biosphere
that would allow humans and animals to flourish.
The life-expectancy of the people, of course being very
long, according to the Biblical record.
When God makes it, He says it's good, good, very good.
And it was in the face of all that, beauty that man sinned.
He was really without excuse because God
had provided everything he needed.
Everything was in harmony and every was, perfect.
It's obvious when we look around us that we do not live in a
perfect world.
In fact, this planet is not even really very friendly
towards human habitation
when you consider that over 70% of the Earth
is covered with water.
Add to that the fact that there are cold barren waste places,
vast deserts, mountain chains... Well, either
this planet's always been like this, or something happened that
fundamentally changed the surface of the whole Earth.
What happened at the Flood
totally changed the geography of the world.
These little tiny bits of nature that are broken, that reveal to
us the true horror of sin,
and what we're seeing in our world is
the consequence of that.
Man began to try to find happiness through selfishness
and through sinfulness and wickedness,
but God is so loving, He said there's still people down there
I can save, I want to save as many as I can.
I'm going to give them a warning. If they have any
threads of redeemable qualities left
and they reach out, I'll save them.
And so He created this Ark, He created a vehicle
through which they might be saved,
and Noah, a messenger through which they might learn.
God is warning us.
God gives us prophetic insights. For us to turn from them,
would be disastrous. Just as it was for those in Noah's day.
The story of Noah and the Flood are in many ways a literal
demonstration of Revelation's prophecies.
So come with us now as we open the prophecies of Revelation,
by going back, to the Days of Noah.
In the days of Noah, there were evident tokens of decay,
but the Earth was still rich and beautiful
in the gifts of God's providence.
The hills were crowned with majestic trees supporting the
fruit-laden branches of the vine.
The vast garden-like plains were clothed with verdure and sweet
with the fragrance of a thousand flowers.
The trees far surpassed in size, beauty, and perfect proportion
any now to be found;
their wood was of fine grain and hard substance, closely
resembling stone, and hardly less enduring.
Gold, silver, and precious stones existed in abundance.
The human race yet retained much of its early vigor.
But a few generations had passed since Adam had access to the
tree which was to prolong life;
and man’s existence was still measured by centuries.
Had that long-lived people, with their rare powers to plan and
execute, devoted themselves to the service of God,
they would have made their Creator’s name
a praise in the earth,
and would have answered the purpose
for which He gave them life. But they failed to do this.
There were many giants, men of great stature and strength,
renowned for wisdom,
skillful in devising the most cunning and wonderful works;
but their guilt in giving loose rein to iniquity was in
proportion to their skill and mental ability.
God bestowed upon these antediluvians
many and rich gifts;
but they used His bounties to glorify themselves, and turned
them into a curse by fixing their affections
upon the gifts instead of the Giver.
They employed the gold and silver, the precious stones and
the choice wood, in the construction of habitations for
themselves, and endeavored to excel one another in beautifying
their dwellings with the most skillful
workmanship. They sought only to gratify the desires of their
own proud hearts, and reveled in scenes of pleasure
and wickedness.
Not desiring to retain God in their knowledge, they soon came
to deny His existence.
They adored nature in place of the God of nature.
They glorified human genius, worshiped the works
of their own hands,
and taught their children to bow down to graven images.
And under the shadow of the goodly trees they set up
the altars of their idols.
Extensive groves, that retained their foliage throughout the
year, were dedicated to the worship of false gods.
With these groves were connected beautiful gardens, their long,
winding avenues overhung with fruit-bearing trees of
all descriptions, adorned with statuary,
and furnished with all that could delight the senses
or minister to the voluptuous desires of the people, and thus
allure them to participate in the idolatrous worship.
The worshipers of false gods clothed their deities with human
attributes and passions,
and thus their standard of character was degraded
to the likeness of sinful humanity.
"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...
The earth also was corrupt before God;
and the earth was filled with violence.”
God had given men His commandments as a rule of life,
but His law was transgressed,
and every conceivable sin was the result.
The wickedness of men was open and daring,
justice was trampled in the dust,
and the cries of the oppressed reached unto heaven.
The world was in its infancy; yet iniquity had become so deep
and widespread that God could no longer bear with it,
and He said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth.”
He declared that His Spirit should not always
strive with the guilty race.
If they did not cease to pollute with their sins the world
and its rich treasures, He would blot them from His
creation, and would destroy the things with which He had
delighted to bless them;
He would sweep away the beasts of the field, and the vegetation
which furnished such an abundant supply of food,
and would transform the fair earth into one vast scene of
desolation and ruin.
A hundred and twenty years before the Flood, the Lord by a
holy angel declared to Noah His purpose,
and directed him to build an ark. While building the ark he
was to preach that God would bring a flood of water upon the
earth to destroy the wicked.
Those who would believe the message, and would prepare for
that event by repentance and reformation,
should find pardon and be saved.
God gave Noah the exact dimensions of the ark and
explicit directions in regard to its construction
in every particular.
Human wisdom could not have devised a structure of so great
strength and durability.
God was the designer, and Noah the master builder.
It was three stories high, with but one door,
which was in the side.
The light was admitted at the top, and the different
apartments were so arranged that all were lighted.
The material employed in the construction of the ark was the
cypress, or gopher wood,
which would be untouched by decay for hundreds of years.
The building of this immense structure
was a slow and laborious process.
Yet the ark itself could not have withstood the storm which
was about to come upon the earth.
God alone could preserve His servants
upon the tempestuous waters.
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his
house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of
the righteousness which is by faith.”
While Noah was giving his warning message to the world,
his works testified of his sincerity.
It was thus that his faith was perfected and made evident.
He gave the world an example of believing just what God says.
All that he possessed, he invested in the ark.
As he constructed that immense boat on dry ground, multitudes
came from every direction
to see the strange sight and to hear the earnest, fervent words
of the singular preacher.
Every blow struck upon the ark was a witness to the people.
Yet they did not turn to God with true repentance.
They were unwilling to renounce their sins.
During the time that elapsed before the coming of the Flood,
their faith was tested,
and they failed to endure the trial.
Overcome by the prevailing unbelief, they finally joined
their former associates in rejecting the solemn message.
Some were deeply convicted,
and would have heeded the words of warning;
but there were so many to jest and ridicule,
that they partook of the same spirit.
The men of that generation were not all, in the fullest
acceptation of the term, idolaters.
Many professed to be worshipers of God.
They claimed that their idols were representations of the
deity, and that through them the people could obtain a
clearer conception of the divine Being.
As they endeavored to represent God by material objects,
their minds were blinded to His majesty and power;
they ceased to realize the holiness of His character,
or the sacred, unchanging nature of His requirements.
As sin became general, it appeared less and less sinful,
and they finally declared that the divine law
was no longer in force;
that it was contrary to the character of God
to punish transgression;
and they denied that His judgments
were to be visited upon the earth.
Had the men of that generation obeyed the divine law,
they would have recognized the voice of God
in the warning of His servant;
but their minds had become so blinded by rejection of light
that they really believed Noah’s message to be a delusion.
It was not multitudes or majorities
that were on the side of right.
The world was arrayed against God’s justice and His laws,
and Noah was regarded as a fanatic.
The world made merry at the folly of the deluded old man.
Instead of humbling the heart before God, they continued their
disobedience and wickedness, the same as though God
had not spoken to them through His servant.
But Noah stood like a rock amid the tempest.
Surrounded by popular contempt and ridicule,
he distinguished himself by
his holy integrity and unwavering faithfulness.
A power attended his words. Connection with God made him
strong in the strength of infinite power,
while for 120 years his solemn voice fell upon the ears of that
generation in regard to events, which, so far as human
wisdom could judge, were impossible.
The world before the Flood reasoned that for centuries
the laws of nature had been fixed.
The recurring seasons had come in their order.
Heretofore rain had never fallen;
the earth had been watered by a mist or dew.
But by their obstinate resistance to the reproofs of
conscience, that generation filled up the measure of their
iniquity, and became ripe for destruction.
The period of their probation was about to expire.
Noah had faithfully followed the instructions which he had
received from God.
The ark was finished in every part as the Lord had directed,
and was stored with food for man and beast.
And now the servant of God
made his last solemn appeal to the people.
With an agony of desire that words cannot express,
he entreated them to seek a refuge while it might be found.
Beasts of every description, the fiercest as well as the most
gentle, were seen coming from mountain and forest
and quietly making their way toward the ark.
A noise as of a rushing wind was heard, and lo,
birds were flocking from all directions,
their numbers darkening the heavens, and in perfect order
they passed to the ark.
Animals obeyed the command of God, while men were disobedient.
Guided by holy angels, they “went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark,” and the clean beasts by sevens.
The world looked on in wonder, some in fear.
Philosophers were called upon to account for the singular
occurrence, but in vain.
It was a mystery which they could not fathom.
God commanded Noah, “Come thou and all thy house
into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.”
Noah’s warnings had been rejected by the world,
but his influence and example
resulted in blessings to his family.
As a reward for his faithfulness and integrity,
God saved all the members of his family with him.
Mercy had ceased its pleadings for the guilty race.
The beasts of the field and the birds of the air had entered
the place of refuge.
Noah and his household were within the ark,
“and the Lord shut him in.”
A flash of dazzling light is seen, and a cloud of glory more
vivid than the lightning descends from heaven
and hovers before the entrance of the ark.
The massive door, which it was impossible for those within
to close, was slowly swung to its place by unseen hands.
Noah was shut in, and the rejectors of God’s mercy
were shut out.
The seal of Heaven was on that door; God had shut it,
and God alone could open it.
For seven days after Noah and his family entered the ark,
there appeared no sign of the coming storm.
But upon the eighth day dark clouds overspread the heavens.
There followed the muttering of thunder and the flash of
lightning. Soon large drops of rain began to fall.
The world had never witnessed anything like this,
and the hearts of men were struck with fear.
All were secretly inquiring, “Can it be that Noah was in the
right, and that the world is doomed to destruction?”
Darker and darker grew the heavens,
and faster came the falling rain.
The beasts were roaming about in the wildest terror,
and their discordant cries seemed to moan out their
destiny and the fate of man.
Then “the fountains of the great deep” were “broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.”
Water appeared to come from the clouds in mighty cataracts.
Rivers broke away from their boundaries,
and overflowed the valleys.
Jets of water burst from the earth with indescribable force,
throwing massive rocks hundreds of feet into the air,
and these, in falling, buried themselves deep in the ground.
The altars on which human sacrifices had been offered were
torn down, and the worshipers were made to tremble at the
power of the living God, and to know that it was their
corruption and idolatry
which had called down their destruction.
As the violence of the storm increased, trees, buildings,
rocks, and earth were hurled in every direction.
The terror of man and beast was beyond description.
Above the roar of the tempest was heard the wailing of a
people that had despised the authority of God.
Others were frantic with fear, stretching their hands toward
the ark and pleading for admittance.
But their entreaties were in vain.
Conscience was at last aroused to know that there is a God
who ruleth in the heavens.
Some in their desperation
endeavored to break into the ark,
but the firm-made structure withstood their efforts.
Some clung to the ark until they were borne away by the surging
waters, or their hold was broken by collision with
rocks and trees.
The massive ark trembled in every fiber as it was beaten by
the merciless winds and flung from billow to billow.
The cries of the beasts within expressed their fear and pain.
But amid the warring elements it continued to ride safely.
Some of the people bound their children and themselves upon
powerful animals, knowing that these were tenacious of life,
and would climb to the highest points
to escape the rising waters.
Some fastened themselves to lofty trees on the summit of
hills or mountains;
One spot after another that promised safety was abandoned.
As the waters rose higher and higher, the people fled for
refuge to the loftiest mountains.
Often man and beast would struggle together for a
foothold, until both were swept away.
From the highest peaks men looked abroad
upon a shoreless ocean.
The solemn warnings of God’s servant no longer seemed
a subject for ridicule and scorning.
How those doomed sinners longed for the opportunities
which they had slighted!
How they pleaded for one hour’s probation, one more privilege
of mercy, one call from the lips of Noah!
But the sweet voice of mercy was no more to be heard by them.
Love, no less than justice, demanded that God’s judgments
should put a check on sin.
The avenging waters swept over the last retreat,
and the despisers of God perished in the black depths.
By the word of God "the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished:
but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day
of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
Another storm is coming.
And sin and sinners will be destroyed.
God is love,
yet there's a limit as to how long He will endure evil.
So we saw that God that God sent a flood of water to wash away
the evil of that age, but one question remains.
Could a world-wide catastrophe occur and not leave behind some
evidence that it actually happened?
The global Flood is more than just a story written in a book.
It's written in the Earth itself.
And these physical evidences remain
as a witness and a warning to us.
So now let's take some time, to investigate, the Judgment.
One of the most unique and beautiful features of the Grand
Canyon are the various different colored sedimentary layers
that run along the canyon walls for miles.
These layers are made of sandstone and limestone and
that's what creates that rainbow in the rocks.
It's one of the things that makes the Grand Canyon
so awesome to look at.
But not only are these layers unique to the Grand Canyon,
they give us our greatest clue, on how the canyon was formed.
The rock layers that we see, everywhere on the earth are
generally in layers.
The sedimentary rocks are almost all deposited by water.
We see the rock layers consist of turbidites.
Washed in material and with the catastrophism that was going on
you would have turbiditic action and the washing in of material.
So water brings mud or sand or even coarser materials,
carries it and deposits it in a layer.
That's typically how the rocks in the geologic column form.
And then there are different kinds of sediments so they end
up making rocks that look very different,
right on top of eachother.
But there's a question of this one layer formed, and then how
much time passed until the next layer came on top of it.
The commonly held belief is that over millions of years
an ocean advanced over the entire continent,
and deposited a sedimentary layer and then retreated,
leaving the ground dry once again.
In this dry period lasting tens of millions of years this
sediment would have been exposed to weathering
and erosion.
And if it just sits there without being covered up fairly
quickly, then a lot of things happen.
Plants grow on it, roots go down through it, animals borough
through it, flowing water will carve channels and gulleys
through it and so it doesn't just stay undisturbed.
Tens of millions of years of weathering and erosion would
create an enormous amount of uneven terrain between these
two layers, such as hills and valleys.
But this is not what we see.
There is little variation between these layers.
They're extremely flat.
And these time spans that supposedly occur between two
layers, can be ten million years, it can be 15 million,
it can be up to 150 million years like you see in one place
in the Grand Canyon, in deposits in the Grand Canyon.
You expect a lot of erosion then, in fact so much erosion
that the whole record should be gone a long time ago.
Average rates of erosion are about 61 millimeters
per thousand years.
With the same rate of erosion of 61 millimeters per
thousand years, we should not be looking for
300 feet of erosion,
not 3,000 feet or erosion, but 30,020 feet of erosion
over a period of 150 million years.
All the sedimentary layers in the Grand Canyon combined
should have eroded six times over,
and yet, these layers are flat,
telling us these layers were deposited rapidly
in quick succession.
So is it realistic to think that 150 million years passed
and nothing happened to this layer.
It was not eroded out into serious gulleys, and it looks
likely that there wasn't that time in between
those different layers.
The weather is always changing
and the surface of the earth is always changing with it.
Thunderstorms, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and wind
among other factors
are always changing and sculpturing
the surface of our planet.
These elements are always depositing sediment or eroding
sediment, resulting in irregular surfaces.
If you have time, then you're going to have change.
So when we look at the contact points between these layers of
sediment and see no evidence of erosion and no evidence
of deposition, this idea that millions of years went by and
nothing happened to the surface? It just doesn't add up.
These are turbidite layers, often graded coarse to fine,
which defies uniformitarian principles.
It had to be rapid deposition.
When you a gap of 100 million years you'd have a couple miles
of erosion. Yet, you look at the gap and it's flat.
If it had taken a lot of time
you should have irregular erosion at the gaps.
So the erosional feature is saying, uh oh, hey,
short time, not long time.
The flatness of the layers and so on, tells you about a past
that is entirely different.
And this is the kind of data
you'd expect from the Genesis Flood.
Millions of years of erosion is missing, because it was never
there. This is what the rocks are telling us.
But erosion is not the only thing missing,
in fact, entire layers of sediment representing tens of
millions of years are also missing.
Here in the Grand Canyon you can see right behind me this light
colored rock, that's Coconino Sandstone.
It's sandwiched right on top of this darker color here
it's called Hermit Shale.
There's a layer of sediment missing between
the Coconino Sandstone
and the Hermit Shale, called the Schnebly Hill Formation.
Here we can see the lighter colored Coconino Sandstone and
sitting beneath that is the Schnebly Hill Formation
that was missing from the Grand Canyon.
Beneath the Schnebly Hill Formation is the Hermit Shale,
though somewhat obscured by the vegetation in the valley.
This is the Schnebly Hill Formation. It's more than 800
feet of rock, representing about six million years.
And the problem that science has, is that it cannot just
remove that rock layer because in the mind of the modern
geologist each rock layer is associated with time.
So removing a rock layer means you've removed a block of time.
So the solution to them would be, well,
the bottom layers formed, the missing ones must have been
there because the time was there,
but here in this area there must have been a period of erosion
that took them away
to the previous layer. Thus not leaving a trace and
then the next one was deposited on top.
The problem with that is that the contact is absolutely flat
like one glass sheet on top of another one,
leaving no evidence of those erosional features which would
show deep leeching, washouts, any one of those scenarios,
they're not there.
Why are they a challenge to the long geologic ages?
Because there is no erosion there.
The Schnebly Hill Formation is missing from between these two
layers and there is no evidence of any erosion.
This tells us that there was little to no time between
the formation of these layers
and that they were deposited rapidly in a catastrophic event.
This is why the Schnebly Hill Formation is missing in-between
these layers in the Grand Canyon
and is seen yet, in another location only 90 miles away.
So the Grand Canyon is a beautiful geological example
of catastrophism
and it defies modern theories
as to how these unconformities came about.
Here is the Redwall Limestone
sitting on top of the Mauv Limestone.
Between these two layers we should see the Temple Butte
Formation representing up to 155 million years of time.
Instead, it's completely missing.
There's no evidence of the 5.8 miles of erosion we would expect
to see over this period of time.
There's no evidence of erosion, no evidence of deposition.
Just a flat contact.
But you cant have an area
of 30 or 40, 50,000 square kilometers
that have a flat surface
that sits there for 100 million years.
A hundred million years after all is enough time to erode
North America down from its current elevation to base level,
to sea-level, 6-7 times.
And here the contact between the Redwall Limestone and the
Mauv Limestone is flat, telling us there was little or no
passage of time between their formation. The 150 million years
missing from between these two layers does not conform
to the geological column. And for this reason a sign has been
placed here by the park service marking it as yet,
another unconformity.
We've looked at just a few of these unconformities and in each
instance there was no erosion or deposition taking
place in the supposed periods of millions of years.
These are serious problems for evolutionists,
but they pale in comparison to what is called
the Great Unconformity,
a gap of over a billion years of missing time.
And guess what. The contact between these two layers
is flat, just like the others.
It is interesting as we go down to the level of the Colorado
river we find what we call the Precambrian.
The volcanic material sits there and it's pretty rough and
pretty jumbled and then the Cambrian sediments that come in
over that, lay over that. And then now they become very
non-jumbled layer after layer.
I became keenly aware of that Great Unconformity that lies
between the Precambrian and the Cambmrian
there in the Grand Canyon. You can't miss it,
it's with you all the time.
The Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon represents
1.2 billion years of time that is missing between the
Precambrian and the Cambrian layers. Over this amount of time
we should see up to 45 miles of uneven erosion.
That's nearly enough erosion to erode away the entire 25 miles
of the earth's crust, twice.
Yet, the Cambrian sits flat on top of the Precambrian layer.
And once again, the contact point between these two layers
is horizontal,
telling us that the deposition of these layers is not the work
of 1.2 billion years of erosion,
but empirical evidence for a widespread water-based
catastrophe that occurred rapidly
in a short period of time.
Then you come to the Cambrian layer, and all of the sudden
things change dramatically.
Most of your animal phyla appear all of the sudden
in that Cambrian layer.
Not only isolated species but whole phyla appear suddenly.
Now that's mind-boggling.
If you take a phylum that's a huge category of creatures.
A phylum Mollusca for example is every single snail and slug
down to squids and Octopi and all the creatures
that belong to this group.
And they all appeared simultaneously?
At the same time?
That doesn't leave much room for slow evolutionary processes.
This is a double problem for evolution here that we have,
and evolutionists are aware of this and they call this
the Cambrian explosion.
The Cambrian explosion is the period referred to in the
Cambrian layers where animals appear fully-formed in the
fossil record. These fully-formed fossils
consist of the data we observe.
Since the Precambrian layer does not contain fossils of
animal phyla or intermediary species,
this leaves the concept of origins from interconnected
evolutionary steps, ever to exist in the realm of theory.
So what does that talk about? Is that about evolution?
Hardly. It's about creation.
This Precambrian layer often called the basement rock, only
contains fossils of single-celled organisms and some
soft-bodied creatures such as worms or jellyfish.
This fits the Biblical record, because, before the Flood
there was no severe weather patterns or large catastrophes
to bury and fossilize larger animals.
The Cambrian layer however right above it, is the first
sedimentary layer deposited by the Flood.
And this is why in it, we see whole phyla of animals appearing
suddenly, and fully-formed.
There are no traces of intermediary species or slow
evolutionary processes because no such things ever occurred.
These sedimentary layers in the Grand Canyon are not evidence
for evolution.
They are unbiased testimonies of a catastrophic flood.
And when we look at the size of these deposits, they tell us
that this catastrophic flood was a global event.
The Grand Canyon is there and you can see the layers on the
side of it but all those layers go hundreds of miles
up through Arizona and Utah and Wyoming and Montana
and even into Canada, the same layers.
The Tapeats Sandstone at the bottom of the Grand Canyon was
the first layer deposited by the Flood.
It spans all the way from Mexico up across North America and
even into Greenland.
The Morrison Formation covers 400,000
square miles from New Mexico to Canada and the St. Peter's
Sandstone covered approximately 500,000 square miles.
When I thought about looking at those layers the way they are,
they're all flat. There are no cuts between them.
Not only are the layers themselves laid down rapidly but
there's not millions of years between them for erosion.
The lack of erosion between the sedimentary layers in the Grand
Canyon shows they were deposited rapidly
in a catastrophe, but the fact that these layers extend for
hundreds of miles, spanning several states and even up into
Canada shows the scale of the catastrophe was much larger than
anything the world has witnessed in modern times.
In terms of worldwide Flood evidence, we look at the
sediments and looking at the structure of the sediments,
the fossils that are found in the sediments and what not, we
have what we call the geologic column.
And we find the Cambrian, the Ordovician, the Silurian, the
Devonian, the Carboniferous and the Permian.
Those are just some of the major structures that we see. We can
find those in the United States. We can go over to
Europe and guess what, we find the same sequences, we go to
Asia we find the same sequences,
we go to Australia we find
the same sequences. Not only do we find the same sequences in
structure, and content, but also the fossil content.
To me this says, something had to happen worldwide, if not
simultaneously, awfully close to simultaneously
for all of this to happen and all of the sedimentary
structures to come down.
I try to focus on those things in the record that make us aware
of the global aspect of the Flood.
For example what we call the Cretaceous chalks that are found
all over the world.
And a chalk layer is deposited in water. And it's the calcium
carbonate skeletons of Foraminifera, marine
organisms, and you have masses of these creatures.
And you have this layer and it spreads
continent wide to continent
to continent and it can only be deposited under water, therefore
the whole world must have been under water
at the same time.
This is such compelling evidence for a universal flood, that you
have to really, really have to stretch the imagination
to make it a periodic incursion or regression.
And those are just one of the kinds of deposits that tell us
you had things happening on a worldwide scale,
because you have chalk in a number of parts in the world,
all at the very same place in the geologic record.
We will find that they sit on a iron containing sand, that we
call Glauconitic Sandstone. And we will find the
Glauconitic Sandstone in England. We can find the same
structures here in the United States in Alabama
and that area, we can find them in Australia and guess what,
they're all sitting on Glauconitic Sandstones,
they all have the same types of fossils,
the whole business, it's there,
but it's evidence there was continuity across the world.
I'm here at the south rim of the Grand Canyon at an elevation of
7,200 feet above sea level.
I'm currently standing on what is called
the Kaibab Limestone Formation.
This sedimentary rock is found all over Nevada, Utah, Arizona
and even as far away as the state of California,
and it's teeming with marine fossils. The fact that you find
fossils here tell us that this layer had to be laid
down rapidly in order for fossilization to occur.
There are certain kinds of limestone formation,
characteristic limestone formations you find in the Grand
Canyon and other areas in the Paleozoic. You find those in
Europe and in Asia and in other parts of the world.
You find these limestones very typical
of being global in their distribution.
As you go up the record there are things that are
characteristic here, that are around the world.
You go up a little higher you have different things that are
characteristic around the world, you go up a little higher
and you have other features of the rocks that are
characteristic around the world and we could go on.
There are many examples of this.
And so why are those things so global? I think it's best
explained by a global catastrophe.
The widespread distribution of chalk and other sedimentary
layers is consistent with what we would expect to see
in a worldwide catastrophe. But the fossils themselves, which is
often thought to be evidence for evolution,
are in reality, further evidence for the Genesis Flood story.
Finding the same fossils in the same layers worldwide to me
is another strong salient point
that there was a global flood, a global phenomenon.
And when we look at the fossil record, we will find smaller
less complex fossils at the bottom, and as we traverse up
the geologic column we will
find larger and larger complexity.
And this has led many people to believe that there is an
evolutionary progression
from simple to complex in the fossil record.
Actually there's no such thing.
There's no such thing as a simple animal.
Every animal, every creature ever found, is highly complex.
And a lot of people talk about those as
the first appearances of life.
I would like to propose that we're looking not as a record of
life, but as a record of death.
It's the first appearance of
the preservation of things that are dying.
We have this complex aqueous destruction
the Flood occurring, and as these sediments are settling,
they are also settling
and trapping the life-forms as they die, simple to more complex
to more complex.
Obviously if you're going to cover an environment with a
turbidite that which lives at the bottom will be buried at
the bottom, that which swims at a higher level will be buried
at a higher level, that which is on the top
will be found on the top. And this is exactly what we find.
We find fish that are fossilized
in their position of swim,
sometimes with food in their mouth. That's instantaneous.
Fossils are only created when they're rapidly buried.
In order to have rapid burial, you need to have a catastrophe.
A mudslide from heavy rain or a flood
can cause such a condition.
The fact that there's so many fossils found all over the world
and in the same layers is evidence of rapid burial
on a global scale. Another strong give away that this was
the result of a global flood, is the fact that many of these
animals have been washed together by strong currents,
into what is called fossil graveyards.
Fossil graveyards are something that
most people probably aren't familiar with.
It's the idea you have a mass mortality.
That means a large number of animals were destroyed
and buried, pretty much at the same time.
And probably the most popular
of these types of deposits are the dinosaurs.
But there are areas of concentration, which have always
made me wonder, let's look at what the sediments were doing.
Maybe this is a low area and these things were being washed
in and deposited in kind of little low areas
and concentrated in that way by waters
that were moving these bodies.
We find things like this all over the globe.
For example there are layers in central Utah where there are
Brachiopods. Brachiopods are like clams.
There are, I don't know, billions of these organisms that
make up these layers. That's a fossil graveyard.
It's unconscionably high count of fossils. I'm working on a
bone-bed in Wyoming right now where we have the remains of
10,000 or more dinosaurs.
It certainly speaks of catastrophe.
You don't get bone-beds forming without catastrophes. We found
out in our deposit at least, the bones are not as we would
expect them to be if a bunch of animals
had died over a period of time.
Instead the bones are dis-articulated and
they're sorted according to size.
So they have big bones on the bottom and little bones on top
and the only way you can get that to happen is if you
transported the whole mass of bones as a debris flow, very
rapidly into deeper water and bones sorted themselves
as they traveled.
Take the Karoo basin, I mean, it's massive. And the dinosaurs
and the creatures are orientated in the direction
of stream flow. And the modern thinking would be well, it would
had to have been river basins where these creatures
were deposited, stretching over virtually the entire continent.
That's some river. It doesn't happen today.
You have to imagine such a totally
different world in the past.
There are so many things which point to a universal flood.
The violent forces of the Flood washed thousands of animals into
large areas where they later become fossilized.
However, under different conditions the same plant and
animal debris turned into coal.
Coal is masses of plant material that have been deposited in a
unit and they've been sort of compacted and changed
chemically into coal. Coal deposits could be very extensive
they can be very thick,
up to a thousand feet thick for an individual bed.
We find it in these very flat seams that have usually very
sharp tops and bottoms to them and so on,
which is not the way plants normally grow. This looks
transported. Obviously water deposited.
You find marine organisms in coal fields, which are
terrestrial deposits.
This belies any story that would contradict
the Biblical scenario.
We find massive amounts of coal. We have over in Wyoming
millions and millions of tons of coal. In Australia we have
millions and millions of tons of coal in Europe we have
and back in Pennsylvania and all these sorts of things.
They cover thousands of square miles and you find the same kind
of coal deposits the same place in the geologic record
widespread into Europe going over into Russia
and we could go on.
The widespread distribution of these coal beds is global in
nature and irregardless of their location, these coal beds
also appear in the same place in the geological column,
which shows they were deposited at the same time.
Therefore logic necessitates the conclusion that the
formation of these coal beds is the result of a water-based
catastrophe that occurred globally about the same time.
It's estimated that two to three feet of vegetation is required
to form one foot of coal.
Some coal beds are more than 100 feet thick which would require
more than two to three-hundred feet of vegetation
while covering an area of tens of thousands of square miles.
When scientists look at the amount of coal we have on earth
today, they realize there's no way all the vegetation on the
planet could produce that amount of coal, and I agree.
The difference is they believe the coal formed is millions of
years of accumulated vegetation, but the Bible tells us that the
earth before the Flood was a lush green planet.
It's not implausible to have this come from just the
vegetation that existed just before the Flood.
Many scientists for example believe that the firmament in
its construction allowed the earth to be under a little over
two atmospheres of pressure. And these two atmospheres of
pressure would engender significant growth.
Where we now see vast deserts, mountain ranges and frozen
continents, there was once before the Flood fertile land
and vast forests unlike anything now seen. We find large amounts
of oil in the deserts of the Middle East,
a remnant of it's former green landscape, and from drill cores
in Antarctica scientists have found the continent once
was a tropical forest covered with palm trees. The vast
forests buried in the earth at the time of the Flood
which have now since changed to coal and oil, form the extensive
deposits we see today.
These evidences are among many that testify of God's love for
man in the creation of a beautiful lush green planet,
one that was destroyed by a global water-based catastrophe
as recorded in the Bible.
The Flood is the event that harmonizes what we see in
geology in terms of a recent creation by God
in just six days, a few thousand years ago
as described in the Bible.
There's so much evidence we could not possibly investigate
it in such a short time, but if we step back and look at the
big picture, the earth itself is it's own witness.
We saw how the flat horizontal sedimentary layers in the Grand
Canyon with no erosion between them,
testify to the fact that these layers were laid down rapidly
and not over millions of years.
We saw the size of this catastrophe had to be at least
as large as some of the layers they form which are larger than
some continents affirming its global impact. We saw how
hundreds of millions or even billions of years of expected
deposition or erosion is completely missing between these
sedimentary layers showing that what we see, does not
conform to the evolutionary model. We saw in the first
sedimentary layer containing animal fossils that they were
found fully-formed, not in incremental evolutionary steps.
We see how the existence of fossils in these layers is
evidence of rapid burial as some fish fossils are found with
food in their mouths or in positions of swim.
We saw how massive fossil graveyards
are strong evidence that thousands
of dead animals, fish, mammals and even birds were all washed
together and deposited in low-lands where they were
buried and fossilized. We saw how the massive coal and oil
deposits found today could only be formed by compressed
vegetation from a lush green earth that was destroyed and
buried. We saw how the cretaceous chalk layer formed by
the Flood covers every continent as one would expect from a
global catastrophe. When we sit back and look at our
planet, what do we see? The earth itself tells us it was
once decimated by a global water-based catastrophe.
So why is it with a world full of evidence, that the story of
the Flood as found in the Bible is rejected
by some of the brightest minds in the scientific community
in general?
I'll give you a clue. It has little to do, with the evidence.
The Bible gives us an explanation of history
that the earth and life were created,
were created perfect and then it has changed because of sin.
If that's true, why are so many scientists fully opposed
to that point of view?
And the reason has more to do with worldview
than it does with data.
Leaving religious perspectives out of it
doesn't solve that problem.
Bias is not a religious problem it's a human problem.
No matter what we profess, whether we say I'm a Christian
and I reject evolutionary biology
or I'm a evolutionist and
I reject Christianity, or if I'm someplace in the middle
muddling around here,
nonetheless, everything that we do,
everything that we see, everything we say and
understand, our entire worldview, the way we formulate
our concepts, our thoughts of what we see
and know in the world around us are unalterably or unavoidably
affected by these two views.
And that worldview has a very strong influence on what we
notice and the kind of questions we ask.
If you restrict the number of interpretations that you can put
on the data with your worldview
then obviously that's going to restrict the kind of theories
that you can come up with.
So, for example if you're looking at the materialistic
worldview and you're looking at these amazing molecular
machines that I enjoy studying or the information that's
recorded in DNA. There are any number of theories that you
come up with based on that data that you've collected.
But, if you're a materialist,
none of your theories could suggest
suggest that an intelligent mind wrote that information in the
DNA. That's a theory that's not allowed.
Evolution belies the laws of physics. Everything moves from a
higher to a lower grade. There is always a regression.
There is never the reverse. That is the law of thermodynamics
and life defies the law of thermodynamics.
So here you have a theory which basically violates
every single physical law,
and yet it is one of the basic theories which is even enshrined
in legislation. That's mind boggling.
Science is defined as "a systematic enterprise that
builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable
explanations and predictions about the universe."
The problem evolution has,
is that it is not a testable explanation.
Evolution necessitates that in some way, somehow,
something that is not alive, could by itself,
create something that is alive.
This mysterious event has not been observed anywhere in nature
or in the laboratory and therefore it does not pass
the scientific method so it cannot be established
as scientific fact.
All life consists of DNA
which is very complex organized information.
The reason why natural processes cannot and
will never produce life, is because natural processes do not
create or organize information.
Organization requires intelligence.
And where we see evidence of organization,
we see evidence of God.
Therefore the most supreme revelation the study of science
and the natural world can ever grant mankind, supernatural.
is a discovery of the existence of the supernatural.
In-spite of this, the pride of human bias and man's commitment
to a godless worldview,
still influences our courts and educational institutions
which to this day,
mandate by law, evolution be taught as an infallible fact.
People have asked me a question about, why is that science seems
to be coming more and more confident in their
commitment to a completely evolutionary ex-origin of life.
Is that because we've got more data? Well no it really isn't.
It's because there is becoming increasing confidence,
increasing commitment to a worldview
and I think part of that is because of the political battles
over what's going to be taught in public schools.
When they say that you have to teach that, then you are
basically saying, in my personal opinion,
that every teacher has to be a liar, because he has to proclaim
that which is a theory of modern science,
when there are better theories to explain what we see
which are excluded.
If they were to put them both before the students as a matter
of comparison and choice that would be fair.
But the way in which it is today belies comprehension.
You don't talk about God in our textbooks, science textbooks,
scientific articles and so on.
God is out of the picture.
But what if God exists? This is no way to find truth.
So that's how a worldview can constrict things.
One of the things I really appreciate about the Biblical
worldview that Christians embrace is that it's liberating.
We can't say that all reality is only what I can see
mechanistically and so on.
There's nothing that tells us that that's all to reality.
I prefer a broader approach, well let's include God in the
possibilities here and look at the scientific data.
And the scientific data tends to point us towards God.
When you say, well no, I'm not going to get involved with
religion or the Bible because that's not science, I think
you're being unnecessarily restrictive and you are
eliminating the possibility
of you investigating that which might be true.
But science has a certain appeal to the independence of the
human mind and heart.
Science is the realm of the human.
This is what we've done, this is what we know. Whereas religion,
faith, Christianity, that's the realm of God.
I think the main impediment to accepting the Biblical account
of origins is the consequences of accepting it.
Now, the problem of bringing God into the discussion,
is that it inevitably, it brings back in the question of
moral accountability.
And to say that there's morality in an evolutionary
paradigm is to fool yourself.
You can't have a supreme being and lower beings, without
defining that relationship somehow.
And intuitively, we recognize that that's a moral law.
And we may not look very good examined in that light, and so
to escape the concept of judgment, to escape the concept
of moral accountability there's a natural tendency to want
to forget the creator.
And consequently, things like the story of the Flood, the
evidences that are still visible on the earth,
these are things that maybe subconsciously at times, we're
pretty happy to find an alternative explanation.
We're comfortable
moving away from the idea of moral accountability.
Eliminating moral accountability meant re-writing the history of
the world, and this is exactly what happened.
A new worldview was adopted, in particular, a worldview that did
not include the history of the Flood,
thus trying to eliminate God's judgment
and therefore any moral accountability.
But how could such a dramatically different worldview
catch on? Well, the perfect opportunity
arose towards the end of the dark ages.
If we look at popular culture today, the Flood story is not
one that is commonly accepted as literally true.
And so it's easy to look at it and say nobody believes that.
Well, that sort of begs the question a little bit, what
about the last few thousand years?
And the answer is, everybody believed it.
In fact, the universal Flood story has been noted time after
time in cultures scattered around the world.
Every culture it seems has a story of a flood
and they all drew some lessons from it, the lessons may vary
here and there but they believed it.
So why don't we believe it now?
Students will sometimes ask me how did science come to the
point of view that they have now, that denies miracles
and are passionately unwilling to believe in creation, and you
have to go through a little history to explain that.
Our society has been subjected to a whole fabric
of intellectual ideas
set to undermine the history of the Flood, the history of the
world and the history of creation.
The entire surface of the earth had been changed by a
water-based catastrophe.
And this overwhelming evidence can't be erased or removed, so
in the minds of those that rejected the Flood story,
it needed to be re-interpreted.
And this, is how it happened.
All during the Middle Ages, some factors in society were very
autocratic and dogmatic and persecuting people,
making life very hard for people, suppressing them,
and what were those agencies that were doing that?
Well, it was governments and the church.
One of the greatest things that man
wants to have over man, is power.
In the Middle Ages, the church ruled the world.
So, during the dark ages, the medieval time period, for 1500
years you had this nearly monolithic universal,
well throughout Europe anyhow, rule of the Catholic church.
One of the arenas of conflict in the developing new freedom of
thought with the existing structures of the Catholic
church over the last 1500 years was of course the area of
science. And the stories are fairly well known of all these
scientists from Galileo to Newton to Copernicus to
Francis Bacon who came into conflict with the church.
Probably Galileo is the one that is most famous. He promoted
the heliocentric, or the sun at the center
and all the little planets going around, but the church didn't
like that for a variety of philosophical reasons.
To have the earth at the center was
important philosophically.
That was a mark of the perfection of God's creation,
and to have the idea kicked around that
the earth wasn't where we
thought it was and that these other planets weren't going in
perfect circles, that wasn't popular.
So Galileo was called up by the inquisition, placed under house
arrest, threatened with serious punishment,
possibly death. We use that story now, unfortunately,
many times, to create an unworkable antagonism
between Christianity and science.
And that's not what ought to be learned from that lesson,
because, when we look at the teachings of the church through
the dark ages, in many cases, it's not what the Bible says.
The world had been subjected to a very rigid religious thinking
and anything that was slightly out of that
tight box was regarded as contra-truth, contra-God,
contra-Bible and had to be eradicated by force
and by inquisition and by death penalty.
And it came finally to a point in history where
the people were tired of that.
They were weary of it, the church was losing it's
credibility because of that,
because of the way they had treated people.
The governments, the people were tired of the way governments
had treated them and this led to a movement
among scholars to move away from authority and from any of these
autocratic agencies.
The view of God was one of this wrathful deity who was lurking
in the woods just waiting for the transgressor
to put a foot wrong.
And the kings rules, not of love but out of greed.
Controlled not out of love, but out of fear,
including the church.
In seeing the abusive power that had prevailed over Europe for
1500 years, they utterly rejected the Catholic church,
which of course, in their mind,
meant that they utterly rejected Christianity.
So that gave rise to a more atheistic minded society.
And the mindset of man says, well,
what was this restricting force?
The restricting force to any mind expansion was God.
And therefore let's get rid of Him. Let's get rid of God
so that we can grow intellectually.
And that's what they did in the French Revolution.
Instead of holding the masses in blind submission to her dogmas,
Rome's work resulted in making them infidels and
revolutionists.
They regarded her greed and cruelty as the fruit of the
Bible and they would have none of it.
Rome had misrepresented the character of God and now
men rejected both the Bible and it's author.
This led to the French Revolution and ultimately, the
complete removal of the church's power that it had
maintained over the people for more than a thousand years.
In the French National Assembly, the mob of revolutionaries
declared only reason should be worshiped.
They revealed a beautiful woman adorned in blue drapery
and proclaimed her the goddess of reason.
And they enshrined the goddess of reason.
And reason took the place of faith in God.
They carried this woman on a car to Notre Dame,
destroyed the church and preached atheism to
the masses inside the church every week.
The French people responded to the many centuries of Roman
Catholic oppression and persecution
by establishing a new form of government.
Instead of a nation with a Christian worldview, howbeit,
perverted and ruled by the Catholic church at the time,
a society was formed with an atheistic worldview,
absent of any Christian influence, and this was
called 'The Age of Enlightenment.'
They didn't want to have anything else to do with God.
They saw that God was tyrannical.
People were forced to believe and so now, let's remove
God from the equation altogether.
And that's what happened in the French Revolution, we moved from
a God-centered environment
to a reason-based environment.
Atheism arose, you know, tremendously in France. Look
what happened in France. The Bible was burned.
It was destroyed,
and that's called the 'Age of Enlightenment.'
And so we see this idea of enlightenment,
totally removing God from the picture.
Out of all the segments of French society,
it was the Catholic priests who suffered
the highest per capita mortality rate.
There was a lot of animosity and they took it out on the church.
And in most cases
that means they took it out on Christianity.
In an effort to defend science and reason
as the new ideals for society,
the atheistic endeavor went about to de-Christianize France
in what become known as the 'Reign of Terror.'
Priests were imprisoned or executed. Churches and religious
monuments were vandalized or destroyed.
The word saint, was removed from street signs.
The worship of a deity was forbidden.
Bible were burned publicly and the rallying cry of
the French infidels was "crush the wretch,"
referring to Christ in the form of His church.
Christians became the objects of public hatred.
Many were shot dead while on their knees in prayer
dead while on their knees in prayer
and their bodies left where they fell
at their places of worship.
In the forests where Christians gathered, bodies hung from trees
and scattered the ground everywhere.
All this was the result of the atheistic movement called
'The Great Enlightenment'' and those who thought to dethrone
the Catholic church for it's centuries of torture and
bloodshed were now themselves guilty of the same crimes.
The culminating events coming out of the enlightenment and
then up to the French Revolution
which seemed to indicate the death of Christianity.
All this was as Satan would have it.
His policy is deception
and his purpose is to bring wretchedness upon men,
to deface the workmanship of God, to mar the divine purpose
of love and to thus cause grief in Heaven.
Then, by his deceptive arts, he leads men to throw the blame on
God as if all this misery were the result of the
Creator's plan. When the people found Romanism to be a
deception, he urged them to regard all religion as a cheat
and the Bible as a fable.
The Papacy was... looked like it was going to die.
Society was freed to consider a different alternative.
Let's put it that way.
This 'Age of Enlightenment' this free-thinking, actually was
the beginning of what I would call modern science.
This movement away from authority really, we think of it
in terms of the period of time called the 'Enlightenment.'
You don't have this bridle on you and you can begin to explore
and you can begin to look
and you can begin to use human reason.
People were in fact moving away from their confidence in
governments and in the church and wanted to think for
themselves and bring out more human freedom and this freedom
went many different directions
including moving away from belief in God.
If it hadn't been for the French Revolution
and the mindset that God is not involved in the process,
reason takes the place of God,
then there wouldn't have been a fertile soil
for the development of evolutionary thinking.
The new generation if you wish, of earth science individuals,
most notably Lyell and Darwin, came to the for in the 1800's.
Charles Lyell was a geologist who for the first time
introduced the concept of long periods of time
in the development of geological features and then he
wrote this work, "The Principles of Geology."
These geological views Lyell espoused in his book became
known as uniformitarianism.
Uniformitarianism is the belief that
things as they unfold and happen today
were no different from what they were in the past.
So if something takes a very long time to develop today,
it must have taken a very long time in the past.
Uniformitarianism is basis for believing in the
millions of years of time
so critical to the theory of evolution. The widespread
acceptance of the principle behind uniformitarianism
was foretold in the Bible to be one of the prevailing reasons
why people at the end of time
would deny both creation and the global Flood.
"There shall come a time in the last days scoffers, walking
after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of
His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
This is what uniformitarianism teaches, that all things have
continued at the same rate since the beginning.
But what if there's a catastrophe?
What if you have a major storm and all of the material
that uniformitarianism said would eventually disappear,
disappeared just like that? And that's what we see.
The view that things have remained the same since the
beginning of creation, is a philosophy God warned would
characterize a belief system in the last days,
and this mindset we're told would lead people
to be "willingly ignorant of" the fact, that
"the world that then was being overflowed with water perished."
The prophecy says they will be "willingly ignorant," meaning
they'd be unwilling to consider any evidence for the Flood.
And this is exactly how Charles Lyell described his own views.
Lyell wrote regard fossils saying, "we cannot account for
their present position by the universal deluge.
I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians! those
system which are built with their foundations in the
air, and cannot be propped up without a miracle."
As a naturalist, Charles Lyell
rejected all miracles as an explanation.
But it was not his observations in science that led him to
this conclusion. It was his commitment to his own worldview.
He revealed his bias against the Biblical Flood story
when, in a letter, he wrote,
these views of geological ages will "free science from Moses."
These ideas then, were passed from Charles Lyell, to the young
22 year old seminary student, Charles Darwin.
When Charles Darwin was commissioned to travel on the
Beagle, one of the books he took with him
was Charles Lyell's book on "Principles of Geology."
And here he was reading this information and he comes to the
Galapagos Islands and he sees these finches and the finches
are of such a broad variety so the idea comes, that
obviously these finches must have evolved from a pair
that happened to get to the islands and all the varieties
evolved thereafter.
And then, these geological ideas fit in, this must have
taken time. And Lyell's ideas start kicking in.
He therefore says, if this variety that I see here
developed over time and change took place by natural selection,
then God did not create.
Charles took the ideas of long ages of time that Lyell applied
to geology, and then applied them to biology.
Then he had given biological evolution something it didn't
previously have -- a scientific method by which to operate.
Darwin came up with this, the new theory, the natural
selection, and that was kind of the magic bullet of the day.
That's what gave plausibility,
that now we've found a mechanism,
that can account for this change
over long periods of time.
Darwin later become close friends with Lyell,
and it's been said by some that he was the most influential
person in Darwin's life.
Darwin commented on Lyell's view of the Flood and said
"Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith
in the Deluge far more efficiently by never having said
a word against the Bible, than if he had acted otherwise."
In the middle of the 19th century,
things started changing.
Towards the end of that century the scientific community started
excluding God from its interpretations.
Now God has been expelled from the explanatory
menu of the scientific community.
The theory of evolution is become the foundation of our
global society today and the catastrophic results of such a
belief can be seen everywhere in the denial of moral
accountability, the denial of God
and therefore the denial of the Flood.
But perhaps more than any other belief, evolution has pushed our
society closer to the magnitude of the wickedness
that existed in the days of Noah.
"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."
Wickedness and evil is how God defined the thoughts of man
before the Flood. This is all the more applicable to us
when we consider what the Bible has to say
about the thoughts of the wicked.
"The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
When the Bible says that God is not in all his thoughts,
what is really being said is God is not in any of his thoughts.
The wickedness that was great in the earth in the days of Noah
was a godless society that did not seek after Him
or think of Him. With this in mind, we can see a direct
fulfillment in Jesus' prophecy,
that as it was in the days of Noah,
"so shall it also be in the days
of the coming of the Son of man."
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We are getting to the point in this world today, where God is
being so marginalized, even in political systems and laws
that are being made that for all intents and purposes, He's
being written out of human existence and human psych.
So we're at the same point today.
Some of the things that were happening before the Flood
in particular the Bible tells us the land was full of violence
and people were evidently were not
only guilty of committing violence,
it sounds like they were entertained by violence,
which is something that's going on in the world today.
And a lot of sophisticated and kind people would just be
shocked at the idea they would be guilty of murder,
but they don't think twice about being entertained by watching
other people commit murder.
Same thing with the law of adultery. People would say I
would never commit adultery, but they're entertained by
watching and the Bible talks about it's not
just those that do them,
but those that have pleasure in those that do them.
The do whatever you please mindset,
is what we have with us today.
The loss of integrity of the word of God began in the late
1700's and into the 1800's.
The rise of evolution took away the sense of
God is our Creator, that we have a Creator,
that we have a personal God and that there is judgment.
If you believe in evolution,
it's absurd to believe in a judgment.
But if we do not believe that God had
the Flood in the beginning,
why am I going to believe
that He's going to destroy the world by fire?
Doesn't make sense.
So if I can get you to deny the Flood,
then basically I've got a leg up on you in denying
the eternal destruction of the world as we know it.
As our global culture moves away from the idea of moral
absolutes and our culture shuns the need for a standard of
morality, we see suffering crime and misery increasing
proportionately until life itself is not respected.
As things continue to get worse in our world it becomes all the
more apparent why a judgment of justice is necessary
and why it was necessary in the days of Noah.
Evil had perpetuated itself to such an extent
that there was no solution anymore.
It would've continued at that rate for ever and ever and ever.
Which would mean a universe of eternal misery.
Who would want to live in a universe like that
for all eternity?
If you look at parents at their children's graves,
and the agony and the pain that is associated with that.
There must be a judgment. And so God set a limit, before all
mankind should've been engulfed in this and no witness
remained to the love of God and the original intent of Creation,
to live in peace and harmony and love together
with God, then there would've been nothing left to continue
the story about the love of God. So God had to intervene.
God is loving, God is patient, but as He told Moses, while He
is long-suffering and abounding in forgiveness and mercy,
He will by no means clear the guilty.
That there is a time of judgment.
"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
It tells us that there were a hundred and twenty years of
warning, and pleading.
Judgment does not come out of the blue, although those who
have chosen to ignore all the warnings for 120 years in
Noah's case may think it did.
Judgment is always, always has been tempered with mercy.
But mercy, does not make judgment avoidable.
There comes a time when the rain will fall.
And He destroyed this world with a Flood.
And this destruction stands a guarantee for another judgment
that must come later on.
And the Bible says that the later judgment will be by fire.
It will not come by Flood again.
There might be intermittent Floods, but the final judgment
will come by fire.
"Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store,
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men."
The world was baptized by water in the days of Noah.
2 Peter 3, says it will be baptized
by fire when the Lord returns.
And then He's going to make a new Heaven and a new earth, so
the earth is born again you might say after it goes through
this water baptism from Noah's time, but He protected Noah
and his family.
It's going to be baptized with fire at the second coming but He
will once again protect His people.
So the same message that we have here in the Genesis account
must be preached at the end of time as well.
At the end of time the days of Noah will be repeated,
and the rocks and the fossils
of the earth bear witness to this fact.
Like the story of Genesis, the earth itself is
both a record and a prophecy,
warning us of another judgment still to come.
But when?
At the end of time there are three warnings given to man that
immediately precede the second coming of Christ.
These warnings are given by three angels
and have become known as the Three Angels' Messages.
In the days of Noah when the message of judgment was being
given, was the world's first judgment hour,
and now at the end of time, the first angel's message
echoes Noah's warning
by announcing "the hour of His judgment is come."
In part two of "The Days of Noah," we will investigate these
messages and even discover the very year
when this judgment hour announcement is made, and when
the days of Noah for the last generation will begin.
The story of the Ark basically
parallels the Three Angels' Messages.
The Three Angels' Messages of Revelation 14
are God's last message to the world.
It is a end time message and it is a message that actually
prepares the world for the coming of Christ.
Noah followed God's instructions in the preparation of the Ark
and we will see how the Three Angels' Messages
point us back to an ancient structure of God's design,
that reveals the instructions God's people are to follow
in preparation for His second coming at the end of time.
The first angel's message points us to truth, the second angel's
message points us to the counterfeit
and the third angel's message says choose.
And Noah called a people to a choice.
You know, choose. Make your decision,
but know that these decisions are final.
An hour of judgment is coming, people are being warned in
advance because God loves man and wants to save them.
And God will once again see the wickedness of man and say that
the thoughts of his heart and mind are only evil continually
and He will once again bring judgment.
So it's a message of warning, it's a message of love, but it's
a message also that there's impending judgment.
When I came into contact with Biblical truth,
I came into contact with a choice.
I was an atheist, and prophecy told me there was a God.
So I've had to make choices and choices cost you.
When I made the choice no longer to believe in evolution, but
but to preach Creation. It had consequences
because I was a zoologist,
and I was in a secular university
in a zoology department.
So the consequence was that I resign.
No longer willing to compromise
that which I now believe for the sake of financial gain.
You know there's some both encouraging and sobering
things in the Flood story for me.
One is that, you can't wait until a message is popular.
If it's the truth you need to embrace it
no matter what everyone else in the world does.
Someone once said that a dumb idea is still a dumb idea
even if a million people believe it.
And even though Noah was in the minority,
it's clear today he was right.
And God is looking for people who will stand up
even though the truth is not popular.
My Christian faith is not dependent on my science.
Yet one can't help wondering if the two shouldn't coincide
if God is the author of both then why shouldn't the
natural world coincide with the Biblical account?
I'm looking to see if we can't do good science
and make breakthroughs in the world around us by
using the Bible as a starting point.
So it has encouraged me, it has certainly developed confidence
in God's word.
And for that I am grateful.