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Don’t forget the time change this Saturday!! We lose an extra hour of sleep!!

The Lord speaks to Noah and says: "In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole Earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the Earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark.“ In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. With fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. "Remember," said the Lord, "You must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year." Exactly one year later, a fierce storm cloud formed and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw Noah sitting in his front yard weeping. "Noah." He shouted, "Where is the Ark?" "Lord, please forgive me!" cried Noah. "I did my best but there were big problems. First, I had to get a permit for construction and your plans did not comply with the local codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans. Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a fire sprinkler system and floatation devices. Then my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission. I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I needed the wood to save the owls. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won't let me catch any owls. So, no owls. The carpenters formed a union and went out on strike. I finally negotiated a settlement with the National Labor Union. Now I have 16 carpenters to work on the Ark, but still no owls.

When I started rounding up the other animals, I got sued by an animal rights group. They objected to me only taking two of each kind aboard. Just when I got the suit dismissed, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. Then the Army Corps of Engineers demanded a map of the proposed new flood plain. I sent them a globe. Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking godless, unbelieving people aboard! The IRS has seized all my assets, claiming that I'm building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the State that I failed to register the Ark as a 'recreational water craft‘ and owe some kind of user tax, and late filing fees. Finally the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it is a religious event and therefore unconstitutional. I really don't think I can finish the Ark for another 5 or 6 years!" Noah wailed. The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky. Noah looked up hopefully. "You mean you are not going to destroy the Earth, Lord?“ "No," said the Lord sadly. "The government already has!"

Next to Uzengili, Turkey, GPS: 39.4408N, 44.2347E, Alt 6,450ft

We are talking about the flood of Noah in four parts: Part 4: What effects did the flood have on the earth, and the evidence of the flood.

Steno’s Laws (1600’s) 1) Superposition 2) Horizontality Oldest on bottom, newer on top – like a stack of newspapers 2) Horizontality Layers originally formed horizontally 3) Original Lateral Continuity Layers formed over large areas

They know the age of the fossil by what rock layer it is found in. They know the age of the rock layers by what fossils are found in it. Circular Reasoning!!??

As you get to land animals, they would have fled the waters and drowned as they ran out of mountains to escape on. As we go up the column we find creatures who could flee flood waters better and only became overwhelmed as they could not escape. Maybe these critters are one bottom because they lived on the bottom of the ocean at the time!

“In order for fossils to form, there must be a way to preserve the dead remains of animals and plants for a time so that they do not decay completely. The most common way that this occurs is on the bottom of bodies of water. When an animal or plant dies and falls into the water, the remains are sometimes covered up quickly by sediments. The layers of sediment form a protective covering to slow the process of decay. Over thousands of years, the sediments around the remains harden into rock. The dead animal or plant remains eventually decay leaving an empty space inside the sedimentary rock. Minerals filter down into this space and harden into rock forming a shape just like the animal or plant. This process is called fossilization. The mineral remains are called fossils.” www.lessonplanet.com a resource for teachers FALSE, simply not true! Professor Michael Benton, Ph. D., University of Bristol, Author of over 300 books on Paleontology (all very anti-religious): The rejection of the validity of fossils and of dating by religious fundamentalists creates a problem for them: - They cannot deny that hundreds of millions of fossils reside in display cases and drawers around the world. Perhaps some would argue that these specimens - huge skeletons of dinosaurs, blocks from ancient shell beds containing hundreds of specimens, delicately preserved fern fronds — have been manufactured by scientists to confuse the public. This is clearly ludicrous. - Otherwise, religious fundamentalists are forced to claim that all the fossils are of the same age, somehow buried in the rocks by some extraordinary catastrophe, perhaps Noah’s flood. How exactly they believe that all the dinosaurs, mammoths, early humans, heavily-armored fishes, trilobites, ammonites, and the rest could all live together has never been explained. Nor indeed why the marine creatures were somehow ‘drowned’ by the flood.

“The Earth works in mysterious ways “The Earth works in mysterious ways. Meteorologists tell us a butterfly flapping its wings in Asia can potentially give rise to a storm in the Midwest. Now it seems that intense storms in the Midwest can lead to fish dying in the Gulf of Mexico. Ever hear of a ‘dead zone’? I don't mean the book by Stephen King or David Cronenberg's movie adaptation of it. I'm referring to the scientific term dead zone, which refers to a typically large swath of ocean that is so depleted of oxygen (or hypoxic), that most aquatic life caught in one -- including crabs, shrimp, and fish –- either suffocate to death or escape the region.” Professor Bill Chameides, Duke University The rejection of the validity of fossils and of dating by religious fundamentalists creates a problem for them: - They cannot deny that hundreds of millions of fossils reside in display cases and drawers around the world. Perhaps some would argue that these specimens - huge skeletons of dinosaurs, blocks from ancient shell beds containing hundreds of specimens, delicately preserved fern fronds — have been manufactured by scientists to confuse the public. This is clearly ludicrous. - Otherwise, religious fundamentalists are forced to claim that all the fossils are of the same age, somehow buried in the rocks by some extraordinary catastrophe, perhaps Noah’s flood. How exactly they believe that all the dinosaurs, mammoths, early humans, heavily-armored fishes, trilobites, ammonites, and the rest could all live together has never been explained. Nor indeed why the marine creatures were somehow ‘drowned’ by the flood. - The rejection of dating by religious fundamentalists is easier for them to make, but harder for them to demonstrate. The fossils occur in regular sequences time after time; radioactive decay happens, and repeated cross testing of radiometric dates confirms their validity. Professor Michael Benton, Ph. D.

Too Many Animals: Whitcomb and Morris cite with approval a paleontologist who estimates that the Karroo Formation of southern Africa is believed to contain 800 billion fossil vertebrates with an average size of the fox. There are 126 billion acres on the surface of the earth. Only 30 percent of this area is livable land, giving a land area of 38 billion acres. If 800 billion animals were spread over the 38 billion available acres, there would be 21 animals with an average size of a fox, per acre, from this deposit alone. This does not include all the vertebrate fossil deposits throughout the rest of the world. Assuming that the Karroo beds are only 1% of the fossil vertebrates in the world (the Karroo beds occupy much less than 1% of the sedimentary column) means that 2,100 animals per acre occupied the pre-flood world. Since an acre is 4840 square yards, each animal would have only 2 square yards, or 18 square feet, of territory. That is an area only 4.2 wide by 4.2 feet long. This can be put in a setting so that most Americans can understand. The average house lot is about a quarter acre. Can you imagine every house in your neighborhood surrounded by 525 hungry animals the size of a fox? I, for one, would not venture out of doors. Obviously this is far too many animals. Too Many Plants: If we further consider the quantity of plant matter which must have occupied the single preflood world envisioned by young-earth creationists, these results pale in comparison. There are an estimated 15 x 10^18 grams of carbon contained in the coal reserves of the world. An acre of tropical forest contains 525 kilograms of plant matter per square meter. Assuming an 18% carbon content of plant matter, we have 94.5 kilograms of carbon per square meter. Multiplying this by the number of square meters on land, we have approximately the quantity of carbon contained in coal, 15 x 10^18 grams. One can account for all the carbon in coal only by postulating a tropical rain forest over the entire world. But this is impossible, because many of the animals in the fossil record require low productivity regions to survive. Grazing animals that live on grass can not live in tropical rain forests, because carpeting grasses do not live there.

“Wyoming is a digger’s dream “Wyoming is a digger’s dream. Whether it’s dinosaur bones you seek, or fossils of a different life form, Wyoming offers all kinds of attractions, from museums to quarry tours to actual digs. Fossils of fish, insects, birds, plants and reptiles (including a 13-foot crocodile) are on display at the Fossil Butte National Monument, which holds the largest deposit of freshwater fish fossils in the Western hemisphere. The richest fossil fish deposits are found in limestone layers, about three feet thick, which lie some 100 feet below the top of the butte.” www.wyomingtourism.com Dinosaur National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between the American states of Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah. The nearest communities are Vernal, Utah and Dinosaur, Colorado. This park has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods. .

“Knowing this first, that there shall come 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.’ For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 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.” 2 Peter 3:3-7 “Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.” Jeremiah 2:27

Next week: - Life after the flood - Table of Nations - Nimrod and the founding of Babylon - Tower of Babel Genesis Chapters 9,10,11