Sources

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Sources

• Mike Riddle, Institute for Creation Research,
  www.icr.org, Noahs Ark the Flood, A Key to
  Understanding Creation
• Was the Flood global?Answers in Genesis

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Know The Truth
Philosophy
Geology
Biology

• Exploring the claims of evolution against the
  astonishing revelations of empirical science
• - Gods creation revealed!

Physics
Paleontology
Creation
Astronomy
Psychology
Anthropology
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Still to Come

• Noahs Ark
• Where do races come from?
• Where did Cains wife come from?
• Creation Science evidence
• - Adaptation
• How to read evolutionary material
• What to do from here with this information.

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WEEK 11

• GENESIS
• FLOOD

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Foundational Scriptures
Genesis 11 in the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth John 11 in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God
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Romans 118-25 NO EXCUSE!
For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine
naturehave been clearly seen, being understood
from what has been made, so that men are without
excuse...
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UNIFORMITARIANISM

• The theory that all geologic phenomena may be
  explained as the result of existing forces having
  operated uniformly from the origin of the earth
  to the present time.

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GENESIS FLOOD

• The Genesis Flood radically altered history.
• The Genesis Flood was violent, covered the entire
  Earth, and largely formed the geologic column

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PERSPECTIVES

• Which perspective, uniformity or the Genesis
  Flood gives a more accurate depiction of what we
  see today?

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PERSPECTIVES

• To understand (measure) biological and geological
  phenomena correctly, your perspective is
  IMPORTANT!

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Who Was Destroyed?

• And of the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I
  have created from the face of the earth both
  man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
  fowls the air ...
• Genesis 67

Note not just man but all land animals and birds
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Who Was Destroyed?

• And of the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I
  have created from the face of the earth both
  man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
  fowls the air ...
• Genesis 67

Note not just man but all land animals and birds
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Gods Warning to Noah

• And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
  upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is
  the breath of life, from under heaven and every
  thing that is in the earth shall die.
• Genesis 617

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Biblical Account of the Flood

• The fountains of the deep broke open (711)
• And the rain was upon the earth 40 days and 40
  nights (7-12)
• The waters prevailed and increased greatly (718)
• The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth
  (719)
• The waters lifted the Ark (450 feet long)
• The waters covered the mountains by 15 cubits
  (720)

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Biblical Account of the Flood

• All flesh died that moved upon the earth (721)
• All in whose nostrils was the breath of life died
  (722)
• Only Noah and his family survived.
• The waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days
  (724)
• The flood lasted 1 year and 11 days (711, 814)
• And the waters receded from off the earth
  continually (83)
• 5 months after the start of the flood, the Ark
  came to a rest upon Ararat (84)

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New Testament

• Matthew 2438-39
• Luke 1726-27

Jesus stated the Flood was a real event
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TSUNAMI DAMAGE
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KATRINA DAMAGE
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MT ST HELENS
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MT ST HELENS
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Natural Disaster Comparison

• Tsunami, Katrina, and Mt. St. Helens in
  comparison to Genesis Flood is like comparing a
  grain of sand to an entire beach
• The Flood occurred about 1,600 years after
  creation
• Population at time of Flood over 1-billion

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Understanding Genesis Flood

• God knows the heart of Man
• I am the Gate

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The Heart of Man
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The Gate

• JOHN 10 1"I tell you the truth, the man who does
  not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs
  in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
  2The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd
  of his sheep. 3The watchman opens the gate for
  him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls
  his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When
  he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead
  of them, and his sheep follow him because they
  know his voice. 5But they will never follow a
  stranger in fact, they will run away from him
  because they do not recognize a stranger's
  voice." 6Jesus used this figure of speech, but
  they did not understand what he was telling them.
  
• 7Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the
  truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8All who ever
  came before me were thieves and robbers, but the
  sheep did not listen to them. 9I am the gate
  whoever enters through me will be saved.a He
  will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10The
  thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy I
  have come that they may have life, and have it to
  the full.
• 11"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd
  lays down his life for the sheep. 12The hired
  hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So
  when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the
  sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the
  flock and scatters it. 13The man runs away
  because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for
  the sheep.
• 14"I am the good shepherd I know my sheep and
  my sheep know me 15just as the Father knows me
  and I know the Fatherand I lay down my life for
  the sheep. 16I have other sheep that are not of
  this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too
  will listen to my voice, and there shall be one
  flock and one shepherd. 17The reason my Father
  loves me is that I lay down my lifeonly to take
  it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay
  it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay
  it down and authority to take it up again. This
  command I received from my Father."

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Gods Heart

• Lot Example
• Only Noah heard Gods voice and responded.
• Water Baptism

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Physical Evidences for Genesis Flood

• Earths geologic features require a catastrophic
  explanation
• Large coal, oil, ore deposits are not forming
  today

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Physical Evidences for Genesis Flood

• Igneous Rock like granite are formed by
  catastrophic event - VOLCANOES!
• Sedimentary Rock like sandstone are formed by
  catastrophic event EXTREME WATER PRESSURE!
• St. Peter Sandstone covers U.S!
• Like limestone are formed by catastrophic event -

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Physical Evidences for Genesis Flood

• Q What would one expect to find with a worldwide
  flood that killed and buried everything? 
• A One would expect to find billions of dead
  things buried in sedimentary rock layers laid
  down by water all over the world.  Does anything
  like this exist?  Of courseit is called the
  fossil record

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Physical Evidences for Genesis Flood

• Great fossil beds exist requiring rapid burial at
  massive scale
• Mountains made of ocean-bottom rocks, ocean
  fossils on continent interior mountains, fossils
  of warm habitat plants/animals near the poles

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FOSSIL BEDS
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Geologic Column
Steven Austin (Ph.D. Geology), Ten
Misconceptions about the Geologic Column, Impact
137, Nov. 1984.

• The notion that the earths crust has an onion
  skin structure with successive layers containing
  all strata systems distributed on a global scale
  is not according to the facts.
• Data from continents and ocean basins show that
  the ten systems are poorly represented on a
  global scale

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GEOLOGIC COLUMN

• Approximately 77 of the earths surface area on
  land and under the sea is missing seven or more
  (70) of the strata systems.

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GEOLOGIC COLUMN

• 94 of the earths surface has three or more
  systems missing beneath
• 99.6 has at least one missing.
• Only a few locations on earth (about 0.4 of its
  area) have been described with the succession of
  the ten systems beneath.
• The entire geologic column, exists only in the
  diagrams drawn by geologists.

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Non-Geological Flood Evidences

• Origin of civilization is near ark landing
  (based on archeology)
• Written history appears 5-6,000 years ago
• Pottery, agriculture, domestication, metallurgy,
  cities date lt11,000 years ago

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Other Flood Evidences

• Tree ring studies of oldest living trees
  (Bristlecone pines) date to 5,000 years ago
• Population statistics suggest a thousands of
  years (vs. a million) population build up
• Radiocarbon dating age distribution analysis
  shows large spike of death about 5,000 years ago

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Social Evidence
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Flood Controversy

• Local Flood Theories are advocated by
  Evolutionists
• Local Flood is totally inconsistent with the Bible

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Local Flood?

• Why would Noah have to build an Ark?
• He could have walked to the other side of the
  mountains and escaped. God could have simply
  warned Noah to flee, as He did for Lot in Sodom

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Local Flood?

• Why was the Ark big enough to hold all the
  different kinds of land vertebrate animals in the
  world?
• If only Mesopotamian animals were aboard, or only
  domestic animals, the Ark could have been much
  smaller.

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Local Flood?

• Why did God send the animals to the Ark to escape
  death?
• There would have been other animals to reproduce
  those kinds even if they had all died in the
  local area. Or He could have sent them to a
  non-flooded region.

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Local Flood?

• Why would birds have been sent on board?
• Birds could simply have winged across to a nearby
  mountain range!

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Local Flood?

• It makes Jesus a fool..
• Jesus believed that the Flood killed everyone not
  on the Ark (Matt. 243739)

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Conclusion

1. The Genesis Flood is a viable event from which to
   look at biological and geological phenomena.
2. More Importantly, Do you hear Gods Voice calling
   you?