something that comes up time and time again is one specific story in the bible
young earth creationists are especially fond of the tale of noah and his ark and a global flood
that wiped out pretty much everyone and everything but many religions still hold the story as true is
there evidence that it happened or is it a story that people need to remember is absolute fiction
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institute for creation research or icr a youtube channel dedicated to giving christians evidence of
the bible's accuracy has a video discussing the evidence for a global flood with almost 7 000
subscribers their channel is committed to finding where science fits the bible trey bowling an icr
research scientist and geologist and i'm not sure if the icr gave him that title or if he learned it
through a university dr timothy clary discussed if there's evidence for a global flood which supports
the noah's ark story let's find out those of us who went to sunday school as kids were taught that
uh when god flooded the earth in noah's day that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights but scripture
indicates that the flood didn't end there could you elaborate well yeah that's a common
misconception actually a lot of people i teach some college classes and a lot of my students
will answer that on the test question that the flood lasted 40 days but reality it lasted
almost a year where on earth does it say a year i'm hoping we find out since genesis claims that
it lasted 40 days in 7 17 and 150 days in 724 just one of the many contradictions in the bible
is there another contradiction and they're on the ark actually over a year
and so it's a very long record of the flood in the bible if you keep reading so you really look
at them 371 days i believe before they got off the ark it seems that recent creationists are the ones
that came up with this random number there doesn't seem to be any biblical reference that i've seen
to even give the notion that it lasted that long thus reaffirming that some folks make up their
own answers and others just say huh sounds good let's go with that it's a lot longer than 40 days
and and we'll as we'll see and we'll talk a little bit here about this the the flood took a long time
just to get to its high point it took 150 days we believe to get to the high point the bible is
kind of clear if you count up the months and the days right looks like everything kind of peaked
about day 150 and then after that it receded but where can you confirm that if you're just
using the bible why should we believe it man it's almost like the bible giving us specific numbers
wants us to know exactly how long it lasted you think though how do you know the bible is right
and giving specific numbers it only says 40 or 150 not over a year so if the flood lasted around
a year 371ish days surely that would have major implications when it comes to the rocks do those
rocks the rocks that we see around the earth show evidence for a global flood oh of course they do
it people ask me all the time you know where's the evidence for the flood and they're always trying
to make the floods small but the flood truly was a global flood the bible everything in the bible
implies a global flood i'd rather science books that pointed to a global flood you know because
science books have testable and repeatable methods that come to the same conclusions why would you
bring birds on the ark if it wasn't a global flood hang on the reason you think it was a global flood
is because birds were supposedly on the ark really and the research that i'm doing i'm going kind of
by continent around the world and i'm on my sixth continent now and all the continents are really
showing the same patterns and that's exactly what you'd expect in a global flood you'd expect every
continent to do the same thing about the same time and that's pretty much what we're seeing but what
are you seeing i could claim to be a scientist of alien terraforming and go continent to continent
looking for patterns that happened at certain times and proclaimed that beings of a far advanced
civilization came to earth and made it habitable billions of years ago but it doesn't make it
true and so it's really groundbreaking research that we're doing that hasn't really been done in
50 years or to the extent that we're doing since there's so much more data
offshore particularly this has never really been done on the extent that we're doing but
it's been a pleasure to you know since i've been in icr to work on this project
and to show people the truth that god's word really is true there really was a global flood
but what are you doing we're doing some things that we hope might confirm some stuff it's very
exciting it sounds like a waste of time and money to me it's just amazing to me how many people
are i was trying to make the floods small you know just a local thing just affected the middle east
but when you look at the rocks we really do see a pattern that's similar on almost every continent
around the world surely similar isn't conclusive you'd want exact things look similar around the
world but are completely unrelated mountain ranges appear around the world because of tectonic plate
movement how they came about is similar you technically could look at these mountain ranges
and say they all appeared at a similar time caused by a large rainbow giraffe called lisa sticking a
straw into the north pole and inflating the earth can you elaborate on that research well what i'm
really working on is a database essentially looking at oil well type of data where
different locations all over the world and now i think are up to about 3 000
columns we call them okay stratigraphic columns which really records the rocks at each location
by latitude and longitude so if you drilled a well right here all the way down to the crust
down to the crust hang on aren't you supposed to be a geologist we'd record how many meters
in this case instead of feet we do it in metric but we do shame hey look now i know i live in the
u.s now but metric is much easier to use in my honest british opinion yeah but it's just three
times feet so it's not a big deal but you just you know how many meters or you know feet of
limestone sandstone shale all the way down to the crust and we're seeing a lot of similar things
and we also keep track of what we call the mega sequences they used to be called sequences
uh secular geologist lawrence sloss came up with these sequences he noticed that there was major
flooding events on the continents now even though the secular community doesn't believe in a global
flood they do see evidence of a lot of major floods that did take place but they of course they
inject millions of years in between right so secular geologists say floods plural i guess
we should remember that part they still see the pattern that these continents were flooded
now they haven't done again multiple continents like we're working on there's a difference
between flooding and being underwater and secular scientists don't work on all the continents you're
working on well that's just rubbish it's very dishonest to try and discredit a group of people
by saying something which can easily be refuted it would take far too long to name all of the
research facilities on each continent but they did see the evidence in north america that there was
a major six major flooding events six you just said it six events not one six and so we use
those events kind of a instead of using words like jurassic and triassic we use these mega sequences
like sock tippecanoe kaskaskia and those types of names so he named them differently okay used
north american tribes of people versus most of the traditional geology time scales based on european
names and to kind of differentiate you but it kind of lumps things together into six major packages
and so what happened even the secular committee believes that the sea level rose at different
times and then went down rose and went different times but we see that as chapters of the flood
something which can be explained through science we see that as something that fits our narrative
right thus confirming that information is taken and squeezed to confirm something written in a
book that has never been demonstrated to be the word of a god as the sea level was coming in uh
the plate movement was causing the ocean crust to rise and ocean crested pushed these tsunami-like
waves higher and higher but initially it was very minimal flooding so the earliest mega sequence
just shows minimal flooding and you only see a little bit of flooding of the edges of the
continents in the second sequence a little bit more and third seed against a little bit more
and then when you get to the fourth sequence fourth out of six you see huge amounts of flooding
that took place and so suddenly there was a big change and we kind of tied that back to day 40 of
the flood so the first three events happened in the first 39 days of the biblical flood
even though it's been demonstrated scientifically that these geological periods have happened over
millions of years we're going to make it fit the story of noah and say it
must be day 40. this isn't evidence of a great flood it's evidence that the earth
changed over a huge period of time which talks about the ark was now floating or was launched
as my colleague jim johnson says the hebrew kind of implies the ark was launched around day 40 of
the floods so we think those first few sequences might have actually been the first 40 days
when you have minimal flooding and then suddenly you have higher flooding levels and we know we're
playing the land at that point right because the ark is now being flooded and so it might have even
early on might have just been shallow seas being flooded the language used here is very telling
might have might have might've there's no actual evidence so we would just come up with some
suggestions and because it sounds about right for the story we'll accept it would you like a side
of confirmation bias with your misinterpreting the evidence burger and the the fossils reflect
that to some respects they show only marine fossils in those first three sequences well yeah
wasn't north america mostly submerged before it looked like it did today the western interior
seaway would have caused most of those fossils to be there and talking of the fossil record at the
time of the fourth event which is being referred to the creatures around wouldn't have been lions
and tigers since the first cat-like creatures wouldn't appear in the fossil record for around
another 45 million years but more like spinosaurus protoceratops and gallimimus why aren't any of
those depicted in the popular stories oh at least ken ham tries to cover that with his arc encounter
by the way i'm still not convinced that the ark was ever a real thing it does really
fit the data the fossils and the rocks and the extent of the progressive flooding that we see
really does make sense and shows this is all around the world well it doesn't but
okay so if there's only marine you said marine fossils in the first three sequences what goes
on beyond that well once you get to the fourth sequence where you see more extensive flooding
and we think then you're starting to flood these kind of swampy lowland areas on the land
because you see animals like reptiles and you see the first major coal scenes show up all at
once and so we don't think it's a coincidence that all of a sudden you see land animals
in great numbers in the fossil record but of course they're mixed with marine fossils as well
and you see coal seams shown up in great amounts at that same level and so the beginning of that
fourth sequence is really when things started to go bad if you were a human you didn't get on the
ark i remember like most of them right only eight people get on the ark only eight people believe
there's going to be a global flood oh here we go people weren't even around 70 million years ago
you're about 68 million years out if we're to go from the end of the cretaceous period you're
even 5 million years out if we were to go from the earliest current known ancestor of primates
purgatorious but i sincerely doubt a tree shrew built an ark big enough to transport dinosaurs
and birds they didn't even have access to lowe's or b and q for the lumber and
once god shut that door the fate of the rest of the world was sealed and unfortunately the
animals that didn't get chosen to be two of each kind and they are their fates were sealed as well
and if that god had ever been demonstrated to exist i would call him an absolute pillock
you don't get to supposedly create living things to kill them when you're done with them
if you've got a puppy but decided you didn't want it anymore so killed it would people think you
were deserving of respect right didn't think so also please only get a puppy if you're willing
to give it a healthy and happy life and so we see a progressive flood we see the fossils match that
progressive flood starting with shallow seas all marine fossils for the first three sequences a
little bit more a little bit more a little bit more and the fourth sequence is when everything
really changed that's the what we call the abserica sequences some people say absaroka
but that sequence was the transition where now suddenly you're now fighting the land because we
see that in not only the extent of the coverage is crater but we also see the fossils change
dramatically from marine to now kind of coal seams that were from swampy type plants lycopods
and that sort of thing that probably lived in the coastal areas and then also animals that lived in
lowland area swamps and even the dinosaurs would be part of that same end of the apserica into
the next sequence is actually when the dinosaurs were buried as well and even if we did accept that
there could have been a global flood wouldn't that exact lineup of coal seams marine fossils and land
creature fossils be observable at the exact same point across the planet in geological time not
just in north america how do the sequences line up with that timeline of that flow that year uh you
said 150 was the highest right well we we've tried to tie that in and uh we've tried to tie that in
sounds exactly the same as this is how we made it fit our story that all this happened over 150 days
the video then goes on to say much more of the same thing and i'll be honest i switched off so
rather than boring you with all that we can skip ahead to see what they say about how this
is linked to the bible but remember you can see the original video in the description to me that
what's amazing is the data that i'm collecting it's a database research because it's based on
the rocks is really confirming exactly what the bible says and you can kind of tie it into those
key dates that the bible gives us yeah well done on ignoring scientific fact square peg and making
it fit in a round hole it still doesn't make it right nor does it demonstrate the bible being true
it's fascinating that you can use the same data and if you just approach it
from a different standpoint and that different standpoint being a wild imagination which i'm
not against until you start asserting it as the truth you come up with a very reasonable
explanation with the global flood as opposed to these millions of years that evolutionists will
will claim reasonable explanation really well again the lack of evidence between the layers
you know you see there's some erosion they talk about these are marked by erosional boundaries
but the erosion is flat erosion you it's kind of as the waves kind of come in like tsunami waves
as they go in they also go back out right and so you're going to get a little bit of erosion off
the top each time but it doesn't mean there was millions of years it could have just been a few
days maybe a week a few hours there really are no words hours hours demonstrably millions of years
or hours because it makes our flood story sound one percent more believable i just
i can't it depends on the layer and so there's a lot of moving in and out of the waves but there
were these major packages these six major packages five rising and then one receding
but you can see a progressive flood really does match exactly with what genesis 7 tells
us all the way up to day 150 and then genesis 8 really talks about the receding phase going down
sticking heavily to the 150 there what happened to the 371 but it's to me it's it's fascinating
because you can see that the truth of god's word right before as the work i'm doing
as i put together these kind of methodical process that i'm going through collecting all this data
all over the world put these data points in and when you get the maps and results
you can see god's word is true you can see god's word is true that's what we're ending on
no actual evidence just trying to take what was there originally and make it fit a story
well there are many things wrong with the story of noah and the great flood like how did kangaroos
make it to australia and sloths to south america from mount ararat there were civilizations going
strong through the time that the flood was written to have actually occurred the egyptians and the
mesopotamians are two examples and they wrote nothing of being flooded to death the boat would
never have been able to have sailed if it was the size and dimensions written and only made out of
wood how could eight people look after hundreds of thousands of creatures for forty days let alone
150 or even 371 days i'm just not convinced how would you have jumped in on this let me know in
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