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foreign the Rottweilers and fossils remind us of the consequences of sin can we trust what we see in the textbooks and in the museums what is fact and what is fiction what I want to talk about this afternoon is fossils and rock layers the flood not Evolution and millions of years now we get presented in the museums and in textbooks this diagram that you can see on the screen and many people are confused does that represent reality do we find rock layers stacked up like that do we find the
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fossils in that particular order what about the labels on those Rock layers are they for real can we trust what we see in the textbooks and in the museums what is fact and what is fiction and so I want to answer to begin with these questions is The Rock and fossil sequence real or is it simply contrived to make it support evolution and millions of years does it show evolution in the development of life through this so-called geologic column and does it date The Rocks as millions of years old
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according to the geologic time scale you see these diagrams in museums and textbooks that life has supposedly developed from the first chemicals that produce the first cell that diverged through time over millions of years branching into all different organisms that we see today I'm going to shock You by first of all telling you that The Rock layers are real if you don't believe me when you leave the museum pull over on the 275 out here in a road cut and Bang Your Head On The Rocks
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they're real now the other interesting thing is the local rock sequences generally follow the order that's depicted in the geologic column and so the layers here in Cincinnati you can compare with layers in other parts of the world exactly the same section of the geologic column it seems to fit and the other interesting thing is the fossils contained in the Rock sequences generally follow the order of the fossil record the caveat is in those diagrams they don't show you all the fossils that
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are found in the Rock layers they choose the ones that tell the supposed story of evolutionary development so the layers are real and the sequence is real what about the fossils we find in this sequence well we have trilobites and and clams and and sponges and echinoderms and gastropods or snails and as we go up through the sequence of the Grand Canyon Rock layers we've only got Marine fossils now as we go northwards up the grand staircase what do we find we start to
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get not only clams but we start to get terrestrial animals their bones and we're getting a mixture of fresh and water and Marine creatures which you'd expect as the flood came up onto the land and we'll come back to that in a moment but we're increasingly get land fossils as the waters cover the land if you look at that diagram the middle column there you'll see drawings at the bottom of marine life and it's only higher up do you get the animal life and so it does fit the general order
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what we find in the Grand Canyon grand staircase areas does fit so how should we respond to this information we need to start by reminding ourselves what God's word tells us about the history of the Earth the Bible is God's history book of the universe in fact the reality is it's his story what do I mean by that it's all about Jesus Christ it starts with Jesus as the Creator and in the middle you've got Jesus as the Redeemer and at the end you've got Jesus the coming King
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and so what does the bible record about history Earth history well we start with the creation in the beginning God created the Earth was created it was initially covered in water and then on day three we read that God made the dry land he put soil on it and he put Plants and he was preparing it for animals to live in and making it a suitable home for man on day five we read that God made the flying creatures and the sea creatures and then on day six he filled
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the land with the land animals and man the secular time scale says no man is only a late arrival the universe began 13.7 billion years ago the Earth formed four and a half billion years ago see Jesus's time scale is radically different from the secular time scale who do we trust Jesus was there who never tells a lie and who died on a cross so you and I could have an eternal relationship with our heavenly father and live for eternity with with him or to trust the secular scientists who
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weren't there so what do we find in the fossil record is the fossil record a record of life huh that's a record of death you see living things crawling around in the Rocks no you see dead things and you see evidence of carnivalry animals eating enough animals we see evidence of cancer broken teeth fractures that are healed so there was violence Adam and Eve couldn't have been walking on a fossil graveyard in the Garden of Eden because that would be a record of death and destruction before
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they arrived but that's what the secularists say you see we know they are wrong because Thorns are specifically mentioned in scripture they come after Adam and Eve sin so they can't be millions and millions of years old the seculars say no death and disease and suffering and bloodshed you and I into existence but the Bible says no it was man whose sin that brought death so how do we explain the fossils if Adam and Eve weren't walking on a fossil graveyard in the Garden of Eden because
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God had created a very good world to begin with so there couldn't be dead dinosaurs under their feet when did the dinosaurs die well there was a catastrophe see that's the significance of the flood because we're we're talking about a catastrophe that consumed the whole world Genesis 6 5 says the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of the heart was under evil continually what an indictment the world had become so filled with violence and
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wickedness that God said to know I'm going to destroy all land-dwelling air-breathing flesh and with the Earth you go back to Genesis and you read it carefully he specifically said he was going to also destroy the Earth in Genesis 7 we read and the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole Heaven were covered the water Prevail above the highest pre-flood mountains you know the next time someone asks you says to you there's no evidence for the
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flood you want to say to them well wait a minute read to them what it says in Genesis and say if that is true what evidence would you look for All Flesh died wouldn't you expect to find billions of dead things better than Rock lives laid them all over the Earth and that's exactly what we find seventy percent of the Earth is covered in fossil bearing sedimentary rocks laid down by water but get a fossil fish in the first place look at the beautiful state of preservation of that fish
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well there's a fish about to have his breakfast he doesn't get time to swallow it before he's buried and fossilized you get the point you can't preserve a fossil like that where he's just about to take a Chomp and is Frozen in an instant in fact here's another example from a museum in Germany that's the Marine reptile six feet long giving birth to a baby one minute mother is about to give birth to a baby Split Second later she's buried in tons and tons of mud fossilization had to be
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catastrophic virtually instant and rapid here's a fossilized jellyfish jellyfish are soft they melt in the Sun or get ripped apart by the wind and the waves or these cry noise look at the the heads of those crinoids oracilities they're delicate they have been preserved or the wings of this wasp how do you fossilize a wasp like that if it's not rapidly and catastrophically buried or flowers these are soft organisms that would not be preserved I mean you get a flower
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today and leave it out what's going to happen to it it's going to wither die and fall apart no to preserve these organisms you need rapid catastrophic deposition on a mass scale so what do the fossils show they show evidence of death disease and destruction they show evidence of Rapid burial in a catastrophe the flood they also show evidence of sudden appearance fully formed and complex without any ancestors in the layers beneath them let me unpack that for you
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even a simple seller's complex you ask any microbiologist who looks down a microscope and I will tell you that the cell you can fit on the size of a pinpoint is incredibly complex in fact one biologist said the cell is as complex as a city the size of New York or London because it's got a brain a control center or a nucleus it's got transport networks it's got factories it's got powerhouses It's got all the ingredients that make up a mega City so what do we find in the
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fossil record we go from life to complex life cells fully formed fully functioning ready it's the same no matter what level we look at these flat wounds there's no hit of any ancestors in the lives below them they appear suddenly in the fossil record fully formed fully complex like this trilobite you know most people think well that's three low try low bite three lobes got three sections to its body by the way you see it's got a head that's the left hand end see those two knobs
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that's the eyes of the trilobite they're being fossilized our lenses not these things that I have to wear but inside here the lenses in my eyes are made up of organic tissue not so the trilobite eyes the lenses are made up of lime the same mineral that's in Limestone calcite and we can actually study the fossilized eye of the trilobite and here it is it's made up of multiple lenses all all focusing in different directions at the same time incredibly complex so this
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creature could look in all directions and have everything in Focus what is going across the ocean floor we with our Ingenuity have only made similar lens systems the last 50 years by intelligent input and design if that's the case today what was it at the time of the trilobite do we find any ancestors or trilobites below that could indicate how such a complex eye could develop all of its own accord absolutely not you know it's like this millions of years of wind and water obviously carved
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out the president's head you and I can all see the evidence of intelligent planning design and input here was Charles Darwin in 1859 why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduate organic chain and this perhaps is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory so he realized there were none none of these missing links what was his explanation
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the explanation lies as I believe in the extreme imperfection of the geologic record well in 1859 they hadn't explored most of the world so we can excuse Charles Darwin but what about today when geologists and scientists have been in every corner of the globe trilobites are always trilobites they don't change into something else they're different shapes with different ornamentation different sizes but they're always trilobites or brachiopods or lamp shells they have different
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ribs they've got the same overall body plan they look different from one another but there's similarities in all their features it's just like dogs are always dogs from Chihuahuas to Great Danes they're all dogs they look different but there you know that they're dogs when you see them we also see that once a creature appears in the fossil record it stays the same it was Stephen Gould who coined the word stasis it means staying the same let me give you some examples you can go to the
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bottom of the Grand Canyon and we see there in the Grand Canyon these huge Mound looking things these Dome things the technical term is stromatolite what are they well their mats fossilized mats of slime that lived in the tidal Zone near the beach the sand grains go over the mat and the mat grows up on the sand grains and binds the sand grains together and then the next tie brings in more sand Graves it keeps up piling up and growing these domes how do we know that because
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the same slime is doing exactly the same thing today or you can see this fossil fish in the fossil record called the coelacanth supposed to have died out 65 million years ago until 1938 we found it living off the coast of Madagascar we've even videotaped it swimming off Japan and off Indonesia the ginkgo's and the fossil record are identical to the living ones we recognize beetles in the fossil record because they're identical to the living beetles so we find evidence of death disease
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destruction we find evidence of Rapid Barrel in a catastrophe we find evidence of death Extinction and we find evidence of Rapid mass destruction and burial on a global scale in the flood yes we don't find the fossils as individuals we find them on Mass if you don't believe me go off the 275 into one of those Road cuts and that's exactly what the limestones the hard layers that you'll find and all the road Cuts around Cincinnati full of corals clams brachiopods and Chronos all broken
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up and smashed up Briars Owens the limestones are jam-packed with all the broken remains of these creatures everywhere you look when we see fossils do we know that's where they died no do we know where that's where they lived no one thing we know is that's where they bury because we observe them buried in the rocks in that location so how do you get a wild and possum that didn't live together to be buried together the ocean covered the land many of you are familiar with the chalk
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Cliffs of the White Cliffs of Dover the English Channel made up of chalk a type of limestone under the microscope you can see trillions literally trillions of microscopic shellfish and when we look at the fossil record what do we find we find marine fossils throughout the record yes some became extinct but many survived all the way through the flood they didn't have to go on the Ark by the way because they could live in the water and survive in the water through the flood lastly what do
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the rock layers show well they show that the ocean waters flooded over the continents how do I know that because there are Marine fossils in rock layers covering the continents that's right Marine fossils what do you expect if they were Marine the creatures lived in the ocean they'd buried in the ocean well why are they buried up on the continents they had to get transported lifted up by the flood waters and dumped up on the continents and wouldn't you and I expect
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to find widespread rapidly deposited Rock lives because the flood was a global and it went all around the earth yes we find rock lives that can be traced all the way across continents and even between continents let me give you examples the topek Sandstone at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is the first layer of the flood it sits on that erosion surface that marks the beginning of the flood there we can see it that's the view from the south rim of the Grand Canyon that little Cliff at
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the bottom there sitting on top of an erosion surface let's look at it a little bit more closely we can study its characteristics you know what we can trace that sandstone in outcrop and in drill holes all the way across North America across the green land you can go to Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin and you can see exactly the same Sandstone with exactly the same features sitting on exactly the same erosion surface sitting on the same crystalline basement you can see it on a
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road cut in Missouri as well in between the same Sandstone can be traced right across North Africa right over to Southern Israel timna you've got the same Sandstone with the same fossils the same features with the same erosion sitting on the same crystalline basement this is my last example the chalk Cliffs of England remember we looked under the microscope this type of limestone is made up of trillions of microscopic shellfish what I didn't tell you last time is that
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you can trace that Limestone across the northern Island but you can also trace it across Europe to Germany the Netherlands Germany Poland all the way down to Israel Egypt turkey Kazakhstan by the way at the bottom of that cliff a Shepherd boy picked up five smooth stones to slay a giant there's the same chalk pins as on the English Channel Coast and we've got the same Chalk in the Midwest of the United States from Alabama across the Calif to Colorado from Nebraska to Texas that's a global
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scale fossil graveyard made of all these trillions of microscopic shellfish well what do the scientists say about the formation of this Limestone called chalk they say the chalk beds formed over millions of years as lime grain by lime grain and Tiny Shell by tiny shell fell to the ocean floor they say a fraction of an inch every thousand years oh by that that's on the ocean floor where do we find the chalk up on the continent what other fossils are buried in the
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chalk beds well if we go then I bear a chalk in Kansas we find it's full of crinoids perfectly formed crinoids that had to be catastrophically buried or this fish didn't get time to digest its food you see the size of that fish it's 12 foot long would you bury that a fraction of inch every Thousand Years the fish would have digested itself and swam away wouldn't it or in the same chalk bed you've got plyosaur fossils and turtle fossils 10 and 12 feet long across you've got dinosaur fossils and
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bird fossils in the same chalk beds how would you gradual grain by grain a fraction of inch every thousand years on the ocean floor over millions of years bury together such large sea land and air-dwelling creatures on the continents not on the ocean floor see my point only if the ocean waters Rose and swept across the continents catastrophically burying these land and sea and air-dwelling creatures all together in this global scale fossil graveyard that's the chalk beds only the flood
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makes sense of that kind of evidence well is The Rock and fossil sequence rule yes we've learned that today is it simply contrived to make it support evolution in millions of years no it's real does it show any evolutionary development of life in the geologic column no no no no do the fossils date The Rocks as millions of years according to the geological time scale no no no the fossils don't come have labels on them high I'm millions of years old they're just fossils
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do we find Marie creatures buried and fossilized on the continents yes yes yes were the creatures buried rapidly and thus the rock layers formed rapidly yes yes yes do some rock lives have a global extent yes yes are the rock lives and fossils consistent with the global flood yes indeed so you see when we start with God's word as our authority of eyewitness account Earth history the fossil record is consistent with the global cataclysmic Genesis Flood explains the sudden
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appearance of fossil creatures their design complexity and their varieties their death and Extinction the buried order of pre-flood biological communities or biomes and creatures during the Progressive integration of the global flood and The Rock layers where the Marine fossils covering the continents are emphatic evidence as being the result of the global flood so The Rock lies and fossils remind us of the consequences of sin our sin and God's judgment you know imagine that
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man was so wicked and the Earth was so full of violence that God had to go to that extent that extent to start all over again
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