All language subtitles for The.NOAH.Flood.2025English (SDH)

(grandiose music)

(reels screeching)

- [Narrator] And God saw
that the wickedness of man

was great in the earth.

(soldiers grunting)

(soldier shouting)

And that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart

was only evil continually.

(soldiers chanting)

And God looked upon the earth,

and behold, it was corrupt before God,

and the earth was filled with violence.

And it repented the Lord that
he had made man on the earth,

and it grieved him at his heart.

And 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 of the air;

for it repenteth me
that I have made them."

But Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord.

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 everything that is
in the earth shall die.

I will cause it to rain
upon the earth 40 days

and 40 nights.

And every living
substance that I have made

will I destroy from off
the face of the earth.

And the fountains of
the great deep broken up

and the windows of heaven were opened.

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(ground rumbling)

(ground exploding)

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And the rain was upon the
earth 40 days and 40 nights.

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(rain pouring continuously)

(rain pattering)

And Noah went in, and
his sons, and his wife,

and his son's wives with him,

into the ark because of
the waters of the flood.

(crowd screaming)

And all flesh died that moved
upon the earth, both of fowl

and of cattle and of beast,

and of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth,

and every man, all in whose
nostrils was the breath of life

of all that was in the dry land, died.

(clock ticking)
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(clock ticking rapidly)

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It's the story we were
all told in our childhood.

Many say it is nothing more
than that, a children's fable.

A fantasy to teach morals

and strike the fear of God into children.

A giant ark into which a
man gathered at least two

of every animal from the earth.

(heavy rain pounding)

A worldwide flood, survived by
those few, and by few I mean

at least 16,000 animals, and
only eight men and women.

A wooden ship that size couldn't
possibly survive a flood

of that enormity.

Surely it is a preposterous story.

That story comes from the Bible,

which tells us that it
was mankind's wickedness

that brought God's judgement
of a worldwide flood.

Perhaps this judgement has
provoked the subconscious reaction

of those who would mock and
ridicule the story of Noah

and the flood as mere fiction.

For ages, many people have
sought ways to discredit

the story of the worldwide flood,

yet even Jesus spoke of
the flood of Noah using it

as an example, warning of
another great judgement to come.

- Heaven and earth will pass away,

but my words will by no means pass away.

But of that day and hour no one knows,

not even the angels of
heaven, but my Father only.

But as the days of Noah are,

so also will the coming
of the Son of Man be.

For as in the days before the flood,

they were eating and drinking,

marrying and giving in marriage,

until the day that Noah entered the ark.

And it did not know until the flood came,

and took them all away.

So also will the coming
of the Son of Man be.

Two men will be in the field;

one will be taken, and the other left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill;

one will be taken, and the other left.

Watch, therefore,

for you do not know what
hour your Lord is coming.

But know this, that if the
master of the house had known

the hour and what the fiend would come,

he would have watched,

and not allowed his house
to be broken in two.

Therefore you also be ready,

for the Son of Man is coming at an hour

that you do not expect.

- [Narrator] Some have zealously
and ambitiously travelled

the world in an attempt
to use scientific evidence

to explain away what they thought

was the evidence left
behind by Noah's flood.

What ulterior motives did these people

have to do such a thing?

Did their ulterior motives
taint their scientific analysis?

Was their attempt at science nothing more

than a subtle attack
against Christ himself?

To answer these and a
great many more questions,

we are going to look at history,
archaeology, and geology.

We are going to use modern day science

to unravel the Noah flood.

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- As with many mysteries,
our investigation begins

in a most unexpected place,
and a most unexpected way.

We are going to wander down many seemingly

unrelated rabbit trails.

Surprisingly, all these
rabbit trails eventually come

to the same junction in the road,

one of the most significant
events in earth's history,

the worldwide flood of Noah.

Pretty much since the
beginning of history,

people have believed in the story of Noah

and the great worldwide flood.

In fact, that story is
found in cultures literally,

all around the world.

Even the founding fathers of the sciences,

and in particular the sciences of geology,

all believed Noah's flood
as literal history, a fact.

Almost all of the founding
fathers of the sciences

were very religious,
Bible-believing individuals.

But for some of those people,

the scientific evidence
caused them a crisis of faith.

- Nicolaus Steno was a Danish fellow,

born in the early 1600s,
and he was very bright.

In fact, as a young man, even in his 20s,

he became the official anatomist
to the King of Denmark.

The intellectual centre
of Europe was in Florence.

There was what we would call
a research centre in Florence

in those days, and all the best scientists

of Europe went there to do their research.

So he would hobnob with
the brightest people.

One of the things that intrigued him,

apart from all his studies,

and we have to remember that at that time,

science wasn't divided
up neatly as it is today

into anatomy and physics,

and in walking around the
mountains around Florence,

down the middle of Italy,

there was a chain of mountains
known as the Apennine Chain.

He could go and explore those with a horse

in his spare time,

and he noticed that in the
rocks on those mountains,

there were fossils.

And the fossils would
seem to lie horizontally

and they would be in different
layers and different places.

And we would recognise that
and call it stratigraphy today.

He liked what he saw
about the Roman Catholics.

He became a fervent Roman Catholic.

And in fact, the Roman Catholic church

eventually made him a Bishop.

He wrote, it was a pamphlet,
a publication actually,

called "The Prodromus."

Now things were written
in Latin for publication

in those days, and so,
this prodromus explained

how the rocks contained the
fossils, they were in layers,

and those layers were laid
down during the flood.

Oh, well, and you look around,

you find out that those fossils

and that order are sometimes repeated

and it occurred to him, well
perhaps that Genesis flood

which he believed in
because it was in the Bible,

maybe that flood, there
were a number of floods

throughout history that are
not recorded beforehand.

Perhaps hundreds of years beforehand

and they're repeated again.

Well, little by little, this
then expanded the time frame

of the past from a few thousand

where there was only one flood in the past

and that was the Genesis flood described

in the book of Genesis to
multiple numbers of flood.

Now today, this is all accepted of course,

because it's the foundation for the theory

of evolution, which
demands vast spans of time.

Shortly later, it was in the late 1600s

when Hutton was born, he was a Scotsman,

and he was walking along the
east coast of Scotland one day,

and the fossils in those rocks
didn't line up in the order

that would be expected if
you accepted evolution.

Now evolution, as I say,
this was in the late 1600s,

that wasn't accepted at the time,

it wasn't even known
or spoken about at all.

Everybody still spoke
about the Genesis flood

and they believed in the
scriptures and so on.

But little by little, the
foundations for the belief

in the theory of evolution was being laid.

And James Hutton laid a vital part of it

right there at Siccar Point.

When he noticed two layers of rock,

which were evidently
out of sequence somehow.

Well, as we know, there is only one flood.

What happened there?

Well, the deposition of sediments in water

can be nicely explained
by, everybody knows this,

as Galileo's thermoscope,

that's what it was formerly called,

it's now Galileo's thermometer.

And it's a glass tube which is sealed

and contains nothing more than water,

in which there are suspended
these little glass bubbles.

They are different colours,
and on the bottom of each one

it's got a temperature on a little tag.

When the water gets
warmer, as it would do,

we use this to tell the
temperature of the air in the room.

So, the temperature of
the current in this room

is in between that one and this one.

It's got temperatures indicated
on a little tag there.

I think it says 24 on that
one and 22 on this one.

So the temperature is now
about 21 in the middle.

That's centigrade, degrees centigrade.

So, the buoyancy of these
little things changes,

or at least remains
constant, I should say.

Let me start the water buoyancy
changes with temperature.

So, if it gets hot, the
hot water goes to the top

and the cold water remains at the bottom

and so it would do in the ocean too.

If there was a volcano
going off under the ocean,

then all that hot liquid would come out.

It would heat the water, it would boil,

hot water would go to the
top and hot water can expand

and it does in the little glass tube

because there's air above it here.

The hot water expands and
it becomes less buoyant

and so, these little bubbles

that are now at the
bottom can rise to the top

because their buoyancy
or density remains fixed.

They are made of glass, they're fixed

and they have a specific weight and size.

So, in this room at the moment,

the temperature is between
that one that floats

like the hot water in
the room or the hot air,

it's the same, and this one,
and these that are sinking

because they're heavier than the water.

So that's how you tell the temperature

in Galileo's thermometer.

And it describes and it shows

this is exactly what was happening
during the Genesis flood.

The heavier particles
were sink to the bottom.

And remember, if that flood
water was say a mile deep,

we don't know how big it was,

but it covered the
mountain tops evidently,

and that would have been
a mile, if it did that,

it would take some time
for the solids suspended

in the water to gradually
sink down to the bottom.

So you can appreciate

that there would be a
certain specific order

to the ways in which those
sediments have settled out.

The heavier ones at the bottom
and the lighter ones on top,

which is exactly how we find them.

Those heavy minerals are
usually found on the bottom

of the stratigraphic column

and the lighter ones
are found near the top.

- The principles of stratigraphy

that Steno developed
are still in use today.

These rock layers are called strata,

which is where we get
the word stratigraphy.

It is literally the study of rock layers.

Now Steno made several
proposals about the strata

which are still accepted today,

such as original horizontality.

All of these rock layers you see

were originally laid
down horizontally, flat.

They were later on buckled and
tilted to what they are now.

Steno also proposed the
principle of superposition.

This rock layer was
obviously laid down first

because it had to be there

before the next layer could
be laid on top of it, right?

And so, we logically deduce

that the farther you go
down in the rock layers,

the older the rock layers get, right?

Looking around the world,

Hutton argued that the waves
of the sea erode the cliffs

and beaches.

The wind, rain and frost breaks
up and pulverises the rocks.

Given enough time, entire mountains

could be eroded away like this.

Throughout his 1795 book,
"Theory of the Earth,"

Hutton repeatedly pointed
to present day processes

in an apparent attempt to
avoid supernatural events

in earth's past, in particular,

the supernatural event of
Noah's worldwide flood.

Now, Hutton did not come
to these conclusions

by scientific deduction or observation,

but rather in a pseudo-scientific fashion.

He was personally disturbed
by what he read in the Bible,

and wanted to explain away the evidence

that was perceived to be
in support of Noah's flood,

evidence of a story that
personally disturbed him.

Hutton's writings were so specific

that he was later labelled an atheist

by the Royal Irish Academy,

an accusation which upset him so much,

he became physically ill.

He died just two years after this.

- [Narrator] Hutton's writings influenced

a young lawyer by the
name of Charles Lyell.

Lyell had a passion for geology.

He also had a secret disdain
for the history according

to the Bible, and in
particular, Noah's flood.

Lyell quite possibly gained this disdain

from reading Hutton's writings

and hearing about the resulting
persecution of Hutton.

- Throughout the ages there
had been endless attacks

against the Bible.

Some tried to ban the Bible outright.

Some tried to burn it.

Some ruthless individuals
even used imprisonment

and mass killing against
all those who would dare

to read and believe the Bible.

These attempts to rid the
world of the Bible failed.

In fact, all these tactics backfired

and only increased the
demand for the Bible.

Yet, Lyell did something no
one had ever done before.

He devised a systematic and
carefully plotted attack

against the Bible.

His brilliant plan was, without question,

the most effective attack ever launched

against the Holy Book.

What did Lyell do?

He threw rocks!

In a personal letter to
George Scrope in 1830,

Lyell revealed his secret intentions.

He wrote,

- I conceived the idea
five or six years ago

that if ever the mosaic
geology could be set down

without giving offence, it would
be in an historical sketch.

- Let me translate the old English for you

so you may fully grasp what Lyell said.

He was saying, "I came
up with the idea five

or six years ago that if
ever the geology according

to Moses, the Bible, could be discredited

without offending its believers,

I would do it by making
up my own history."

Did you catch that?

Lyell took the ideas of James
Hutton and ran with them.

A new history.

A history of the earth

which did not involve any of
this worldwide flood nonsense

that Moses wrote about in the Bible,

but rather a new history
involving deep time.

Who knows how much time?

Millions, perhaps billions of years.

- We must free the science from Moses.

In fact, I'm the spiritual
saviour of geology.

Freeing the science from the
old dispensation of Moses.

Remember, you must never
attack your opponent head on.

That only draws attention
to him and his testimony.

To truly convince your intended audience,

you must completely ignore
your opponent's argument

and compose your own story

with which to explain away his evidence.

You then focus on telling your story

and telling it very well.

Convincing your jury your story

is the one which best
explains the evidence.

- Lyell conceived of the idea
that he would sway the public

with his new history, replacing
that inconvenient story

of Noah's flood with his own story.

He even formulated a
phrase which summed up

and fulfilled his tactic
in one catchy saying.

- And what is that evidence?

Simply this, the present
is the key to the past.

You see what I did?

I just ruled out a global flood
without ever mentioning it,

and replaced it with my own history.

An history that allows
only present-day processes,

no worldwide catastrophes.

- Now, this was a good lawyer's tactic,

but it was not good science.

In fact, it was anti-science.

True science studies the evidence,

develops a hypothesis, and
then tests the hypothesis

to see if the hypothesis
is correct or not.

Lyell simply removed
proper scientific procedure

and investigation,

and then by using
pseudoscientific methods,

replaced it with his own
predetermined new history.

- I merely removed
possibilities from the outcome

of the investigation before
the investigation began.

I spent considerable time as
well, travelling the world,

searching for new evidence

with which should convince
the public of my new history.

One of those places I
visited was Niagara Falls.

- The birthplace of the Niagara Falls.

It was here that the
Niagara River poured over

the escarpment and began to cut the gorge.

As you can see, the water
pouring over the falls erodes

a cave in behind the falls.

Eventually the roof of this
cave collapses and the falls

move back a few feet.

The water begins to erode a
new cave in behind the falls,

and so on.

It is this process that
cut the 10 kilometre gorge.

The gears in Lyell's head
must have been turning

when he saw the falls and
the gorge they were carving.

Here was the perfect opportunity to show

a slow, geological process

that took a very long period of time,

an excellent example of
a present day process

that could be measured.

The erosion rates of the Niagara Gorge.

So, did he study the recession rates

in the name of good science?

No, instead he asked the
son of a local geologist

how fast the gorge was being eroded.

He estimated the gorge

was being cut at about
0.3 feet per year or so.

So, did Lyell make his estimates
on the age of the gorge

based on this man's ballpark estimate?

Nope.

He went on the assumption that
the local was exaggerating,

and used an erosion
rate of 1-foot per year.

Using this wild guess, it was easy math.

In keeping true to his
ambitions and tactics,

Lyell penned his now famous
book "Principles of Geology."

He continually hammered
home that the present

is the key to the past,
and in that book he argued

that the Niagara Gorge
was 35,000 feet long,

it had been eroding at
1-foot per year, therefore,

the gorge must be 35,000 years old

and the earth could not
possibly be 6,000 years old.

- [Narrator] Everyone who
read Lyell's book knew

what he had just done,

because everyone in his day
knew that the Bible said

the earth was only 6,000 years old.

Without ever mentioning the Bible, Moses,

or the flood of Noah,

Lyell just refuted it all with "science."

Countless numbers of people
who read Lyell's book

were convinced that the Bible was fiction.

One of those people was a young man,

a theologian with an interest in science

who was travelling around the world

on a ship called the Beagle.

His name was Charles Darwin.

- Long after the publication
of Lyell's infamous book,

real science was conducted
and the erosion rate

of Niagara Gorge was actually measured.

It turns out that the
locals' estimate was wrong.

But in the wrong direction.

The falls were actually
eroding at an average

of 5 to 6 feet per year.

Using legal arguing
tactics and catchy phrases

instead of actual science, Lyell
convinced countless numbers

that the Bible was fiction.

The reality was that
Lyell's book was fiction.

Had Lyell actually conducted
a proper scientific research

and reported the truth?

The erosion rates of the Niagara Gorge

would have been viewed
as supporting the history

of the earth according to the Bible.

- [Narrator] Remembering that
the original founding founders

of geology considered the
rock layers we see around

the world as evidence of Noah's flood.

Lyell had the rocks
squarely in his crosshairs.

His mantra, "the present
is the key to the past

must be the only mantra permitted."

- He attempted to explain the
rock layers around the world

using Hutton's ideas.

These layers weren't formed
by a worldwide flood,

but rather by a countless number of times

that the seas happened
to sweep over the land.

Of course, the seas rarely
transgress onto the land.

So if one transgression
produces one layer,

then the rock layers
really add up to many,

many thousands, perhaps millions of years.

So then Lyell visits

the fossil cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia

and encounters the numerous
polystrate fossil trees

scattered throughout the cliffs.

Polystrate is a term for
fossils that cut through

more than one layer of rock.

Poly for many,

strate for the strata of
rock they cut through.

In the case of the polystrate
trees here at Joggins,

they're actually not trees,

but giant hollow reeds known as lycopods.

The numerous polystrate fossils

would certainly seem to
cause a problem for the idea

that the layers happen over
many, many years, wouldn't they?

After all, the top of the plant
is not going to stick around

for even tens of years while
the trunk slowly gets buried,

let alone thousands or millions of years.

But Lyell was not about to give up yet.

He put his creativity to work again

to create another facet
of his new history.

Lyell concocted the story that these trees

were buried right where they grew

by one of the numerous
transgressions of the sea.

So with a little bit of creativity,

Lyell converted another
"challenge" into another "evidence"

with which to prop up his new history,

and emblazon in the minds of the readers,

the present is the key to the past.

But once again, either Lyell
did not see the evidence,

or did not report it.

The lycopods have rootlets
radiating out from the roots,

yet some of the fossil polystrate plants

have had their rootlets stripped off.

Evidence that the plants were
ripped up by catastrophe,

transported by water, and
buried where they are now,

and not buried where they grew.

Occasionally, we find polystrate plants

that were buried upside down.

Last I checked, plants don't
grow upside down very well,

so the more likely explanation
is once again, a flood.

Do we see present-day
processes rip up trees,

bury them upside down?

If we did, we would call it a catastrophe.

We certainly would not call it long

and slow geological process.

- [Narrator] And so we see
the beginnings of the war,

a war waged by a scant
and very determined few.

A war where science was
flung around in word,

but not in practise, in
order to add authority

to those who wanted to push an ideology.

An ideology that was
secretly rooted in trying

to discredit the story
of Noah and the flood.

A carefully planned attack
intended to convince people

that the present was the key to the past.

Not the Bible.

A war that attempted to
replace God's judgement

and a worldwide flood with deep time.

So is the present the key to the past?

Or is the Bible the key to the past?

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When we look into both the fossil record

and the biblical record of
the world before the flood,

we see an incredible place.

According to the Bible,

people lived to almost 1,000 years old,

and there were giants in the land.

Virtually all life had larger counterparts

in the fossil record.

Dragonflies had three-foot wingspans.

Cockroaches were a foot in length.

Lycopod plants got up to 120 feet tall.

Sheep were six feet tall.

In the oceans, we find
tortoises the size of cars,

and sharks that were a hundred feet long.

It appears that animals
did not eat each other

in order to survive.

As we read in Genesis 1:30,

"And to every beast of the earth,

and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing

that creepeth upon the
earth wherein there is life,

I have given every green herb for meat.

And it was so."

What is presently our Arctic Circle

had such a stunning array of animals

But the only place in modern
times with such variety

is the African Serengeti, the
usual suspects of mammoths

and mastodons, but also
the woolly rhinoceros,

camels, lions, bears, donkeys, horses,

and a slew of small animals.

The mammoths alone
numbered in the millions.

- This is Cape Spear in Newfoundland.

It's the most easterly
point of North America.

England is over that way,
about 3,000 kilometres away.

Yet conventional thinking believes

that quite possibly in the past,

England would have been right here.

This idea of continental
division or continental drift

is actually an old idea,

and the source of this idea
may come as a surprise.

The idea came from the Bible.

- [Narrator] In the 1800s,

Antonio Snider-Pellegrini
was reading his Bible

and read the Genesis account of creation,

where in chapter 1 it reads,

"And God said, 'Let the waters
under the heaven be gathered

together unto one place,

and let the dry land
appear.' And it was so.

And God called the dry land earth,

and the gathering together
of the waters called he seas.

And God saw that it was good."

Pellegrini deduced

that if the waters were
gathered into one place,

then the land must also
have been in one place.

But the land was presently
broken up into continents,

so he deduced that the
continents must have divided

and drifted, probably at
the time of Noah's flood.

He then began to experiment

with fitting the continents
together like puzzle pieces.

He also found identical plant fossils

in both Europe and the United States,

the same plant fossils found
on the east coast of Canada.

This added further weight to his theory

of continental division,
which he published in 1858,

almost six decades

before Alfred Wegener proposed
his plate tectonics model.

- And of course, this continental
division is now claimed

to have taken many,
many millions of years,

thus allegedly discrediting
the history of Earth

according to the Bible.

Isn't it interesting that a biblical idea

was hijacked by those trying
to replace Noah's flood

with deep time, in order
to discredit the Bible

from which came the idea
of continental division?

- [Narrator] And so we
get a glimpse of the world

that then was, a gigantic supercontinent

that was globally warm,
everything was larger, healthier,

and lived longer, except
there was one problem,

the violence and wickedness of man.

In Genesis 6, we see a sad statement

of the regret of God himself.

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.

And it repented the Lord that
he had made man on the earth,

and it grieved him at his heart.

And 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 of the air.

For it repenteth me that I have made them,

but Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord.

The Lord said to Noah,

'Noah, the end of all
flesh has come before me,

for the earth is filled
with violence through them.

And behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.

Make thee an ark of gopher
wood, rooms shalt thou make

in the ark, and shalt
pitch it within and without

with pitch; and this is the fashion

which thou shalt make it of.

The length of the ark
should be 300 cubits,

the breadth of it 50 cubits,
and the height of it 30 cubits.

A window shalt thou make to the ark,

and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above;

and the the door of the ark shalt thou set

in the side thereof.

With lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it.

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 everything that is
in the earth shall die.

But with thee, will I
establish my covenant,

and thou shalt come into
the ark, thou and thy sons,

and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.

And of every living thing of all flesh,

two of every sort shalt
thou bring into the ark

to keep them alive with thee.

They shall be male and female,
of fowls after their kind,

and of cattle after their kind,

of every creeping thing of
the earth after his kind,

two of every sort shall come
unto thee to keep them alive.

And take thou unto thee
of all food that is eaten,

and thou shalt gather it to thee,

and it shall be for food
for thee and for them.'"

And so for some 100 years,

Noah constructed the ark following

the exact plan given by God himself.

It was huge in its dimensions.

The dimensions given were in cubits,

which is the measurement from
the elbow to the finger tip.

Today, that would be an
average of about 18 inches

or a foot and a half.

That means that Noah's ark

would have been
approximately 450 feet long,

150 feet wide and 90 feet high.

In other words, it was the size of a ship.

The Santa Maria sailed
across the Atlantic Ocean

and it was much, much
smaller than the ark.

- Wait, wait, wait.

Is it even possible for
one man and his family

to build such a huge ship?

Was there even really a global flood?

I mean, maybe the story of
Noah's flood was just allegory?

Maybe it was a flood
that just hit his area?

How do we even know if
Noah actually built an ark,

let alone what it looked like?

Even if Lyell was wrong about his science,

maybe he was right about
there never having been

a worldwide flood,

and instead the earth is
billions of years old.

Maybe the present is the key to the past.

Conveniently, Lyell has provided
us with a way to test both

his theory and the biblical
account of history,

present day processes.

Let's take a look at some
present day processes.

Here at Joggins,

the stunning tides of the Bay of Fundy

are the highest in the world.

They rise and fall some 15
metres, 45 feet, twice a day.

As the tides rise and fall,

the water action erodes the cliffs away,

breaking up the rock with
waves and frost into sand,

which is washed away.

You can see that the rock
layers are tilted to the south.

The layers are different kinds of rock,

and so, of course, some
rocks are harder than others.

The softer rocks get eroded away first,

which leaves behind the harder rocks,

which jut out of the water as reefs.

Now this is called differential erosion.

The rocks erode differently.

Differential erosion.

This is a slow present day
process that we can observe

and even measure.

- [Narrator] Differential
erosion is the process

by which different types of
rock or sediment are eroded

at different rates.

Notice how quickly sand is eroded...

(water splashing)

And limestone erodes at a slower rate.

(water splashing)

Sandstone is the slowest
to erode of the three.

(water splashing)

Now imagine if all three are eroded

at the same time together,

this is exactly what happened at Joggins,

where the rocks eroded at different rates.

The waves caused the erosion

and the continual
collapse of the shoreline,

leaving ridges where the
harder rock eroded slower

than the softer rock.

Softer and weaker rocks
are rapidly worn away,

whereas harder and more
resistant rocks remain

to form ridges, hills or mountains.

- But now we take a look up
at the top of the cliffs,

where the exact same rock layers

have been sheared and have
not been eroded differently.

Something has cut all the rock
layers off perfectly flat,

and whatever cut the
rocks didn't care one bit

about whether the rock was hard or soft.

This flat surface is
called a planation surface.

It has been planed flat.

This planation surface at
Joggins apparently picks up again

about 100 kilometres to the east

and heads up through the
Cape Breton Highlands.

In fact, all of the
mountains have had their tops

cut off flat at the same
elevation in a planation surface.

At the north end of the
Cape Breton Highlands,

if we look to the south,
we can see just how far

and flat the mountains have been cut off.

If we turn around and
look towards the island

of Newfoundland, we see the
flattened mountains continue.

If we cross the Cabot Strait

and head to the isle of Newfoundland,

we are met with mountains

that have also been cut off
flat at the same elevation

as the mountains over 100
kilometres away in Cape Breton.

If we follow this mountain
chain up through Newfoundland,

all the mountains are planed off flat.

It's as if some giant with a planer

and a dislike for mountains
got bored one afternoon

and shaved down all the mountains.

They go on like this for
hundreds of kilometres,

going back onto the mainland in Labrador.

- [Narrator] And so the mystery thickens.

What on earth could do this?

We saw what long and slow
geological processes do.

They do not cut planation surfaces.

They cause differential erosion.

Maybe a glacier cut these mountains flat.

By definition, glaciers flow downhill.

There is no downhill.

The steepest slope of the
flat surface leans downhill

at 0.15 degrees.

Glaciers carve gouges, not flat surfaces.

And the gouges leave behind moraines.

None of this is visible on
this massive plain surface.

- But these planation surfaces

are found literally all over the world.

We're standing on top of one here

at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park

on the border of Alberta
and Saskatchewan in Canada.

We're on top of a mountain
that, as you can see,

has been cut incredibly flat.

We're over 1,000 metres, 3,500
feet above sea level here.

What slow, present day processes

could cut the top off a
mountain perfectly flat?

Interestingly, we have a small hint

as to what went on here at Cypress Hills.

The top of the mountain is
covered in rounded boulders

made of an extremely hard
rock called quartzite.

Quartzite is basically sand
that has been compressed

under tremendous heat and pressure

and turned into an extremely hard rock.

Now, interestingly, these
rocks are also peppered

in strange, circular marks.

But the strangest thing
of all about these rocks

is that they didn't come
from Alberta or Saskatchewan.

They came from 800 kilometres,
500 miles away in Idaho.

What on earth has happened here

that would move rocks 800
kilometres, plane mountains flat,

and make these strange
circular marks in these rocks?

- [Narrator] Throughout the world,

we find hundreds of
water gaps and wind gaps.

This is a classic example of a water gap.

Water has cut through a
mountain producing this canyon

or gap in the mountain.

But here's the thing,
water finds its own level.

If we turn to the side,

we find the water could have
gone around the mountain.

Why and how did the water
go up and over the mountain

to cut a canyon through it?

The Grand Canyon is probably
the most famous water gap.

The Canyon cut through
the Colorado dome uplift,

but the water could have gone
around the dome to the south.

Instead, it cut a gargantuan
canyon right through

the middle of the uplift.

One scientist looking at
the numerous water gaps

we find around the world remarked

that it almost looked like
the river went out of its way

to cut through the mountain.

The question then arises, did
the river form the canyon,

or did the canyon form the river?

Other canyons which were
cut in this fashion,

but have no water
flowing through them now,

are called wind gaps.

They pose the same mystery
as they were originally cut

by flowing water.

But water that had to flow uphill

in order to cut the canyon,

when the water simply could
have gone around the mountain.

- Here in the beautiful
badlands of Alberta, Canada,

we find copious numbers
of fossil dinosaur bones.

It's a great mystery as
to what exactly it was

that killed the dinosaurs.

We mostly find the dinosaurs ripped apart

and mixed together, often
different dinosaurs ripped apart

and mixed together.

When we do find their
bones still together,

the dinosaurs are almost invariably

in horrible death throws,
the head pulled back

as far as it can go, indicating
its struggle to stay alive.

What on earth happened to these dinosaurs?

One of the most common fossils found

in the dinosaur bone beds
is not the dinosaurs,

but rather fishes and clams,

which have been buried alive
in the "closed position."

When a clam dies, it falls open.

Clams which are rapidly buried
can also burrow their way

out of remarkably deep sediments,

but these clams were buried
alive with the dinosaurs,

along with lots of fish remains.

While we are told that the dinosaurs

were killed by an asteroid
striking the earth,

the reality is that there is
huge problems with that theory.

The crater that was supposedly
formed by the asteroid

is the Chicxulub crater on the
Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.

There was a rare mineral called iridium

that is found in asteroids.

This rare mineral is also
found in a rock layer

called the KT boundary,

the contact between the
Cretaceous and Tertiary layers,

where the dinosaurs are claimed to vanish

from the fossil record.

So it was suggested that the dinosaurs

had been killed by an asteroid.

But an asteroid won't rip dinosaurs apart

and mix up their bones.

The dinosaurs, buried with
their heads pulled back

are doing so undoubtedly because of water.

Asphyxiation will cause an
animal, or even a human,

to pull their head back as they are dying.

Also, scientists discovered
that dead chickens,

when put in cold water,
instantly pull their heads back.

Finding fish and closed clams
buried with the dinosaurs

is clear indication that
the dinosaurs were killed

in a flood, not by some asteroid.

But this was no meandering
river during spring flood.

The layers in which
these dinosaurs are found

are provincial in size.

For example, the Morrison
Formation covers 10 states

and 3 Canadian provinces.

This was not some present day
process that made this layer.

This was a massive flood on
the scale of a worldwide flood.

- [Narrator] We have several
mysteries presented to us.

How on earth do you cut a canyon

through a mountain with water?

When the water can go around the mountain,

by using present-day processes, you can't.

How do you shave flat the tops
of entire mountain chains?

There are no present-day processes

that we know of which do this.

- How do you rip up extremely
hard rocks in Idaho,

transport them 800 kilometres,

pounding them against
each other, rounding them,

and making a flat-topped mountain

in Canada 3,500 feet above sea level?

Present day processes cannot
explain any of this evidence.

However, as it all turns out,

all of these mysteries are
simply explained with one answer.

A worldwide flood.

(dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Noah's Ark
is almost always portrayed

as a boat shape.

But what was its form and how do we know?

- Well, the interesting thing
is there are a few people,

definitely not the
majority, but a few people,

who would say that the Bible
actually doesn't tell us

what Noah's Ark looked like.

Now, I'm the kind of guy
that looks at things,

researchers things, gets back
into the Hebrew and the Greek

to see if statements like this are true.

It turns out that there
is plenty in the Bible

to give us a basic idea

of what Noah's Ark really did look like.

Now if you were to ask the question,

if we were to start with the Bible alone,

could we get an idea what
Noah's Ark looked like?

Now, it's an interesting question

and it's actually an
easy question to answer.

Dozens and dozens of times individuals

have approached Scripture alone
using proper hermeneutics,

exegetical techniques,
taking a look at the Hebrew

in the Old Testament,
taking a look at the Greek

in the New Testament.

It's important to look not
just at the Old Testament,

but at the New Testament as well.

Now, let me just summarise this.

Starting with the Reformation, of course,

Martin Luther a very famous individual

in the history of the church,

especially the evangelical church,

Martin Luther in 1523 depicts the Ark

in one of his publications as a box

or a chest if you will.

What you find is Johannes
Buteo in 1554 discusses

the New Testament word "kibotos."

You see the New Testament calls
Noah's vessel a "kibotos,"

the very same word by the way
is the Ark of the Covenant

in the New Testament.

One Greek word discussing both
of those particular vessels.

Now, there's no doubt that
the Ark of the Covenant

was a box-shaped vessel.

Why in the world would the
Holy Spirit pick that word

to describe Noah's Ark
if it was not a box-like

or chest-like vessel?

In 1554, Johannes Buteo says
that the Ark was a chest.

Now, of course, that's based

on the New Testament word kibotos,

as well as the Old Testament word tebah.

Now, Buteo says that a chest
needs no further definition,

and I think I agree with him.

Now, Johannes Buteo was a geometrist,

and he says that a chest is
a parallelepiped rectangle.

Now, what in the world is
a parallelepiped rectangle?

Well, if you take a look at

what geometrists talk about
there, it's a box shape,

but more on the rectangular side.

Now, you can go down the line,

and you can take a look
at Benito Arias Montano,

another scholar, 1569.

You can take a look at
scholars in the 17th century,

such as John Wilkins did a
study on the ark in 1668,

followed by Matthew Poole in
1669 and I have his commentary

and he discusses Hebrew
he discusses also the fact

that the New Testament calls it a kibotos,

Noah's kibotos and that is
a box or chest specifically

made out of wood.

And this is important
because some people say,

well, wait a minute how
come in the Septuagint

that is the Greek version
of the Old Testament,

translated well before the time of Christ

by supposedly 70 to 72 scholars.

These were Hebrew scholars,
Jewish individuals.

If kibotos is a good substitute
for the Hebrew word tebah,

then why is it not used
for the vessel of Moses?

Because in Exodus 2:3, we
see exactly the same word

in Hebrew, tebah, that Moses' mother took.

that meant procured or had
made, and she took this tebah,

which was made out of papyrus reeds.

And some people say it's obvious

if it's made out of papyrus
reeds, it cannot be square.

Well, that's actually just totally false.

I spent much time studying

the archaeology of the ancient Egyptians.

And what you'll find is from
the very earliest dynasties

all the way through the
time of Moses afterwards,

that the Egyptians made
many box-shaped vessels

out of papyrus reeds.

Now, if we take the text as written,

she was to take a chest
made out of papyrus reeds.

The interesting thing is,

the Egyptians actually did make
chests out of papyrus reeds.

They weren't actually
baskets, they were chests.

Now, if I was going to put
my baby in the Nile River,

I think I'd want some
kind of inherent covering

so that the birds and vultures

don't pick the eyeballs out of them.

Now, kind of a weird thing to
think about, but it's true.

So everything in scripture is consistent.

It meshes together.

God told Noah, "Build
thee an ark" in English.

And that word in English
comes from the Latin "arca"

which also means a box or a chest.

So the very fact that we're
talking about an ark in English,

most of us don't know the
real definition of it,

but an ark is a chest or a box.

And that goes back to the word "kibotos"

in the New Testament, as well as "tebah"

in the Old Testament.

Some believe that "tebah"
is an Egyptian loan word

from "debat," which means
a chest or a coffin.

So from scripture alone,
it has been studied dozens

and dozens of times,

and whether you're talking
about Martin Luther,

Johannes Buteo, Benito Arias Montano,

John Wilkins, Matthew
Poole, Athanasius Kircher,

and many others,

they all basically came
to the same conclusion

a box-like vessel with the dimensions

that are given in Genesis,

300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits.

Now sometimes the roof system
of these vessels differed

because scripture doesn't
give us those specifics,

sometimes the roofs came to a point,

sometimes they were completely flat,

sometimes they were vaulted or rounded.

But nevertheless, dozens
and dozens of scholars

have already looked at the Bible alone,

and they have come up with fundamentally

the same conclusion.

Over 90% of the scholars
from the early 1500s

to the early 1700s agreed
on what the Ark looked like

from the Bible alone.

Now, here's what's interesting.

When you take a look at what
the early church believed

about Noah's Ark, now,
there was discussion

amongst individuals such as Origen,

trying to figure out

how do all these animals fit on the Ark.

And so, he actually decided that the cubit

that was being used in scripture

was the Egyptian geometric
cubit, almost 10 feet.

Now in 1554, Johannes
Buteo says, "This is crazy.

A normal cubit of about a foot and a half

or 18 inches would be sufficient

to fit all the animals required."

You see, and so origin actually
stretched this way beyond

what it needed to be.

Johannes Buteo points out in 1554

that if we're consistent
with that particular cubit,

then we have David and Goliath,
and David reaches down,

and he picks up the head of Goliath,

which now is almost 10 feet in diameter.

Of course, an absolute impossibility.

And so it's clear that
we're talking about probably

an 18 to maybe 22, 22.5 inch cubit.

A regular cubit, not an
Egyptian geometrical cubit.

Nevertheless, the early church
did quite a bit of artwork

related to Noah and the ark.

For example, there are several depictions

that are found under the city
of Rome in the catacombs.

And what you'll often
find is Noah standing

in a literal box, perhaps
about three feet in diameter,

just a box floating on the waters.

And here comes a dove
with an olive branch.

And Noah has his hands
spread out like this.

That is the 2nd to 3rd century.

You'll also find other similar depictions

of Noah standing in a literal
chest maybe 4.5 feet across.

You'll see the lid in the background,

you can see the latch and the keyhole.

Now this has to get to
certain people's minds

and get them to ask the question,

why in the world would anybody

depict Noah's Ark as a
literal box or chest?

Well, the answer is actually quite simple,

because of the words of scripture.

And so we see that the first
500 years of the early church,

almost exclusively, they
depict Noah's vessel

as a literal box or a literal chest.

If we fast forward a few hundred years,

a few more hundred years,

a few more hundred years after that,

we see that these chests grow in size.

They become bigger.

They become larger.

And finally, at about the
time of the Reformation,

We see that the scholars not
only took the basic shape

that's discussed in scripture,

but they took the details
and the dimensions

that are discussed in the book of Genesis,

and they put them together
to finally accurately depict

this box-like chest-shaped
structure known as today,

"Noah's Ark."

- So we know that the Ark
would have been box-shaped.

The whole point of the Ark
was not to transit anywhere,

but rather its purpose was
simply to survive the flood.

The conventional ship
shape was not needed,

only a barge shape.

But many engineers and
sceptics have claimed

that such a large ship could
not be built out of wood.

Now, they speak by the
experience of those in England

who, in the middle ages,

attempted to build very
large wooden ships.

The ships would break apart
under their own weight

and the stresses of the waves.

The English were building wooden
ships a mere 300 feet long,

with steel reinforcing,
and gaps would appear

in the hull of the ship letting water in.

Such arguments actually reveal

a bit of modern-day arrogance.

We can't do it, therefore
it cannot be done.

After all, we're smarter
than our ancestors,

we have modern technology
and stuff, right?

And yet there is still much contention

over how the ancients built things

like the pyramids of Egypt.

The Trilithon stones of Baalbek in Lebanon

were used to the foundation
of the temple of Jupiter.

The stones are an estimated
1,000 tonnes each.

We have essentially one
crane in the entire world

that can lift those stones,

yet the ancients somehow
built a temple with them.

You can quickly see why
some have appealed to aliens

and superior technology, it is a mystery

as to how on earth the ancients

could have accomplished such a feat.

The reality is, it was
just built by smart people.

Once carving the stone,

one simply builds wheels
around the stones,

which are then literally
rolled into place.

So we see the ancients performing

incredible engineering feats
at least 2,000 years ago

that rival what we can do

with our alleged modern
technologies and machinery.

As Mladyov and Mladyov
point out in their paper,

the construction of the
Great Pyramid of Giza

was a monumental project
on multiple levels.

We know approximately how long it took

to build the Great Pyramid.

According to Herodotus,

it was all constructed during
the reign of Pharaoh Khufu,

which was a maximum of 23 years.

The workers cut, moved and emplaced

an estimated 2.3 million stones
just in the Great Pyramid.

If we use 23 years as figure,
working 365 days a year,

that's 8,395 days to
construct the pyramid.

That means cutting, moving and
placing 274 blocks per day,

with the blocks weighing an average

of almost three tonnes each.

Think about how this could
be done in modern times.

Even with modern, heavy
equipment involved,

it would be a daunting task.

Some of the blocks found by Egyptologists

had the words "this side up"
written in hieroglyphics.

The explanation is simple.

Just like the Trilithon stones of Baalbek,

the blocks were simply
rolled from the quarry

to the construction
site using the "rockers"

that Egyptologists have found.

Four rockers convert
the block into a wheel.

Not far from Egypt,

in an ancient shipwreck
found off the coast

of the Greek island Antikythera,

we find incredible ancient technologies,

such as the Antikytheran mechanism,

an incredibly complex geared device

which predicted the locations
of the planets and moons.

It was estimated to be
about 2,000 years old.

The complexity of this
device rivalled that

of complex mechanical systems
not known until 1900 years

after its construction.

Did the ancients really lack intellect

and technical knowledge?

The most shocking of all is
that during the early 1400's,

the Chinese built a fleet of
"treasure junks" or ships,

which some estimates
say were up to 600 feet

or 180 metres long, one-third
again larger than Noah's ark.

They had nine masts made from bamboo

and were reported to carry
500 passengers or more,

as well as an enormous
amount of cargo, treasure.

Of course, sceptics incited
engineering specifications,

saying such ships were impossibly large.

They couldn't possibly stay
afloat without breaking up.

Then in 1962, the rudder post
of one of these treasure ships

was excavated by archaeologists.

The rudder post was 36 feet long,

indicating a ship upwards
around 500 feet long.

Just because we don't
know how they did it,

does not mean they couldn't do it.

And so it is with Noah.

Just because we don't know how he did it,

does not mean he couldn't do it.

The Bible tells us that God
specifically instructed Noah

to build the ark out of gopher wood.

What on earth is gopher wood?

The word is unique, appearing
only once in the Bible.

God's instructions unto Noah
on how to build the ark.

Now, there is no gopher tree.

As Arnold Mendez points out,

we can deduce what the gopher wood is

and also obtain some
profound theological insight

which may enlighten us
in our understanding

of this strange war on Noah's flood.

When we look up the word
"gopher" in the dictionary,

we find many forms of the word.

Gopher, gofer, gaufer and gaufre.

They all refer to a laminating
or layering process,

such as the layers of a biscuit

or the layers of lace in a dress.

- [Narrator] The French settlers
named groundhogs gophers

because they dug tunnels
underground in layers.

Gophers were actually
named after the layering

or wafer process.

In fact, here in Canada,

where we have two official
languages on everything,

you can even see gopher on this package

of sugar wafer cookies.

The cookies are layered wafers.

Gopher is not a type of wood,
but rather a wood process.

A cross-laminating of
wood into layered sheets,

using pitch within and without.

Tradition states that Noah
used a form of birchbark resin

to glue the gopher wood together.

The Greeks and Romans were known

to use birchbark resin as well.

In fact, Neanderthal spears were found

to have their spearheads glued on with it.

It was astonishingly strong,

rivalling our modern-day superglues.

Again, we see how our ancestors
were anything but stupid.

In fact, birchbark resin
is simple to make as well.

Noah's family would simply
put birch bark in a vessel,

specially made for the job.

It had a lid to keep oxygen out,

and a hole in the bottom

from which the birch oil would drip.

Loading it with birch bark, a
fire is built around the pot

which literally bakes
the oil out of the bark.

The oil drips from the
hole into a catch pot.

The oil is then further refined over heat

to get it at just the right temperature.

When it is poured out onto
the wood, it quickly hardens

into a strong, almost plastic state.

It acts as both a glue
and a waterproof sealant

for the gopher wood.

Noah was instructed to put
pitch both on the inside

and outside of the walls.

Obviously, it's waterproof.

The reality is that Noah's Ark

was made of essentially
really thick plywood.

- But not only was the
construction unusually strong,

they also had different
building materials.

Remember how we mentioned

that plants were larger in the past?

Well, trees were no exception.

And fossil trees have been
found that were estimated to be

at least 450 feet, or 135 metres tall.

- [Narrator] By comparison,

the statue of Christ the Redeemer
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

is 125 feet tall.

The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet tall,

and the Brooklyn Bridge rises to 276 feet.

Even the Great Pyramid
at Giza is 430 feet high.

Now imagine trees that were 450 feet tall.

- That means that Noah could possibly

have used full-length beams of wood

with which to build his ark.

This would mean the ship
could be built with very few,

possibly no joints in the
entire length of the hull.

Thus, he did not have the weak joints

which we have to put into
our modern ships today,

due to the size limitations of our trees.

- [Narrator] But there are multiple ways

in which one could laminate
the wood to construct the ark.

You could stack the wood in
layers on top of each other,

much like how the grain elevators

of the West were constructed.

But most likely what Noah did
was to construct the walls

in vertical layers, like this.

Think of a bridge.

If a bridge is constructed
with square elements

at 90 degree angles, the
bridge won't be very strong.

When a downward force is applied,

like when a vehicle
goes across the bridge,

it will bend, and then in time will break.

The highest strength of wood
is in its tensile strength.

That is, when it is
pulled along the grain.

Taking this fact into account,

you can make the bridge incredibly strong

by making cross-strengthening X's.

If there's a vehicle in
the centre of the bridge,

its weight is acting
downward on the bridge,

and it's pulling these diagonal members.

This is called being in tension.

To balance that out, when it
hits this vertical member,

this one is in compression.

We follow that to the end.

Tension, compression,
tension, compression.

Noah's Ark was essentially a box.

Any stress pushing down
on one of the walls

would make the wall want
to flex and fall flat.

If you make a box, the entire
box will want to fall flat.

If you add X structures to
the wall, it will distribute

the load and strengthen
the wall considerably.

If you do the same with
the top, bottom and sides,

then this box will be incredibly strong.

Now envision many, many of
these X structures built

into the walls of Noah's Ark,

layer upon layer of these X structures.

This would make the Ark incredibly strong.

As it turns out, even the
layered construction method

of Noah's Ark had profound
divine inspiration and symbolism.

- In the original Hebrew
language, that word "gopher"

is very similar to two other
words, "kofer" and "kaphar."

Often in Hebrew, related words

are found to have one minor change,

and this produces a profound
play on words in the Hebrew

as all three related words

were carefully used to
describe the construction

of the Ark of Noah.

"Kaphar" means to purge,
make an atonement,

make reconciliation, or
to cover over with pitch.

"Kopher" means the price of
a life, a ransom, a bribe,

asphalt, a covering of pitch,
or the name of a plant.

When we read Genesis 6:14
with these words we read,

"Make thee an ark of gopher wood;

rooms shalt thou make in
the ark, and shalt kaphar it

within and without with kopher."

The play on words harkens
back to the sacrifice

which covers our sins, an atonement.

Jesus Christ is presented
in the scriptures

as our atonement,

the Son of God who would
be sacrificed for us

to cover our sins.

The Apostle Paul took it a step farther,

saying that we "put on
Christ like a garment,"

Christ covers us.

So even the very method of
construction of Noah's Ark

was symbolic of Christ.

The Ark was an atonement,
even using the same word

for Christ elsewhere in the Bible.

But the symbolism between
Noah's Ark and Christ

goes far beyond the
construction of the craft.

In fact, the powerful and
meticulous allusions to Christ

may be one of the very reasons

why people are so
tenacious in their attack

on the story of Noah and the flood.

Noah's flood was the first
judgement on all of mankind.

From 120 years, Noah warned
the people of God's judgement

to come and pointed to the ark

as salvation from the judgement to come,

provided freely by God.

All the people had to do
was heed the warning, obey,

and get on the ship.

- [Narrator] 2,500 years later,

a man claiming to be
the son of that same God

came to earth.

There is only two places in the Bible

where God sent an angel to name
a baby that was to be born.

Mary, the mother of
Jesus, and to Zacharias,

the father of the man who
would be Jesus' cousin,

John the Baptist.

One could understand why
God would go out of his way

to send an angel to name the baby

that would be God's only begotten son.

But it is highly unusual
the lengths that God went

to tell Zacharias to name his
son of miraculous birth, John.

Why John?

We read that John the
Baptist was the voice

in the wilderness who would
symbolically baptise people

in the Jordan River.

Ultimately, he was to
baptise Jesus Christ himself.

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And God would show John a
sign so that he would know

that Jesus was the Christ, God's only Son.

The sign was the Spirit of
God, descending upon Christ

in the form of a dove.

We must first ask, why on
earth was John performing

this strange ritual known as baptism?

Well, baptism was
symbolic of Noah's flood.

In fact, this entire event was
to bring home the symbolism

of Noah's flood to the Jews

who intimately knew the
story of Noah and the flood.

At the end of the flood,
Noah had released a dove

which first came back with
an olive branch showing

that dry land was available
again and plants were growing.

When Noah released the dove again,

it never returned until the
time Christ was baptised.

Why did the Spirit of God
take on the form of a dove?

Because it was symbolising
Noah and the great judgement ,

the flood.

- John the Baptist was even
given the same name as Noah.

Hebrew reads from right to left.

And Noah is spelt in a number of ways,

Nu, Nun, Noah, Noa, Noe, No, and Nao.

Many other languages such
as Greek read left to right.

And so when transliterating
names from Hebrew,

often the names would be
transliterated backwards

because the reader was reading
in a different direction

than the Hebrew.

And so we see Noah's name
in other languages as,

Aon, On, Oan.

And so you can start to
see how the name Noah

actually appears in other languages.

Oannes, Johan, Johanne, John, Jan, Ian.

You can see the feminine forms, Joanne,

Joanna, Hannah, Ioanna, Joan,
Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice,

and Jean.

They are all the same name
and they all mean God's grace.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of God.

- [Narrator] Noah was the
voice crying in the wilderness.

He warned of the judgement to come

and pointed to the ark of
salvation from this judgement .

One only needed to believe.

John the Baptist, even
given the same name as Noah,

was also the voice in the wilderness,

warning of the final day
of judgement to come

and pointing to Christ as the salvation

from that judgement to come,

which was freely given to all
who would believe on Christ.

John baptised Christ,
symbolising the flood of Noah,

and the Spirit of God
descended upon Christ

in the form of a dove,
another nod of symbolism

to the first great judgement
upon mankind, the flood of Noah,

and a nod to the grace and mercy of God

to all those who would
simply believe and listen

to the warning.

The Bible tells us that God
closed the door on Noah's ark,

sealing the fate of both who
listened to God's plea to obey

and those who did not listen.

For 120 years, Noah warned
the people of the judgement

to come, and all they had to
do to escape God's judgement

was believe and take salvation.

- Whose fault was it
that those people died?

Whose fault was it that
those children died?

Like Noah, John the Baptist warned

of the coming final judgement
and pointed to Christ

as the salvation from
the judgement to come,

a judgement that has yet to be seen.

Perhaps this gives us insight into the war

against the story of Noah and the flood.

The evidence all over the world
left behind by Noah's flood

is a constant reminder
of the judgement of God,

and a warning of the final judgement ,

the great white throne
judgement at the end of days.

Perhaps this war against
the Bible had nothing to do

with science, but was, understandably,

people not wanting to be
reminded of their own mortality,

and the fact that they
were at the mercy of a God

who could very well judge them.

Some mock the idea of Noah's flood,

asking why God couldn't
have been more creative

in his method of judgement .

Such mockers fail to realise

that they have just profoundly
answered their own question.

If God used something like fire,

it would essentially
leave behind no evidence.

Instead, a global flood leaves
behind global scale evidence.

Evidence so provocative

that the mockers spend incredible time

and effort trying to
explain away that evidence.

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- [Narrator] The question
"Did the flood happen?"

and "How did the flood happen?"

are two completely separate questions.

We could affirmatively answer one

without being able to answer the other,

we may be able to demonstrate
that a worldwide flood

did happen and yet not
know the hows or whys.

We certainly have no lack of records

of a catastrophic flood that
left an indelible impression

on the minds of mankind.

Hundreds of cultures around
the world have legend,

history or mythology of a time

when the world was devastated by a flood

and a scarce few were saved
on board a floating vessel

of some sort with animals.

And you need to understand,
this is like wandering

through the jungles and
encountering a tribe

that has been isolated
from the rest of the world

and finding out that they have a story

like that of Noah and the ark.

But with all of these stories
of a flood and a boat,

how do we know which one is correct?

In fact, many sceptics have claimed

that the biblical account
of Noah and the ark

has simply been plagiarised
from the Epic of Gilgamesh,

an ancient story found
written on clay tablets.

Such an accusation misses the point

that perhaps the Epic
of Gilgamesh was written

with a flood story because
there was a great flood.

And to determine whether
or not the biblical story

of Noah and the flood was copied
from the Epic of Gilgamesh,

one merely has to take the time

to read the Epic of Gilgamesh

to see that it is radically different

than the biblical account
and simply not feasible.

For instance, the Ark in the
Epic of Gilgamesh was a cube.

Cubes do not work well in the seas,

they are horribly unstable,

and would be constantly flipping.

On the other hand, models
built to the dimensions

of Noah's Ark in the Bible
proved incredibly stable

in wave tank tests, even able to roll up

to almost 90 degrees and would
still settle out upright.

Research conducted

at the world-class
Korean Research Institute

of Ship and Ocean Facility
in South Korea showed just

how feasible the design of Noah's Ark was,

at least according to
the biblical account.

The other accounts we find around

the world bear similarities
to the biblical account,

but have obviously been
distorted over time,

transforming the accounts
into obvious mythology.

The biblical account is
the only feasible account.

Nevertheless, the fact that
we find hundreds of legends,

myths, and historical
records of a giant flood

is powerful evidence that there
has been a worldwide flood.

Once again, we need to
actually look to see

what the Bible says about
this worldwide flood

in order to determine what
exactly would have happened.

We find the flood account
itself in chapter 7 of Genesis.

In looking at the grammar of the passage,

Barrack and Sigler pointed out

that the water did not get high enough

to float Noah's ark until the 40th day.

That's over five weeks.

Noah's flood did not happen overnight

and the waters continued
to rise for months.

We read that Noah's Ark
landed on Mount Ararat

on the 150th day.

The flood did not happen overnight.

It took weeks to cover the land.

So from this description, we
can deduce several things.

The tides are influenced
by the moon and the sun,

pulling on the oceans, which makes a wave

which races around the Earth.

About every 12 hours you get a high tide.

Right now, our tides
stop when they hit land.

What researchers discovered
in computer models

was that if you submerge the continents,

the wave can build up
higher and higher each time

it goes around the planet.

And so we would see two
things during the onset

of the flood.

You would have tidal waves every 12 hours,

but each tidal wave would
be higher than the last

because the floodwaters were rising.

When the flood started,
the first tidal wave

would bring in and lay
down a layer of sediments

because the sea floor was rising,

the next tidal wave would
come in higher than the last,

laying down another layer of
sediment on top of the first.

The next tidal wave would
come in higher again,

laying down another layer of sediment.

This happened over and over, and again,

until all the ground was covered in water,

with nothing stopping the
onslaught of the tidal waves.

During low tide, dinosaurs
and people would walk around

on the freshly laid tidal flats,

making footprints in the
mud that would later harden

into fossil footprints.

And so, if a worldwide flood happened,

we would see rock layers
laid down all over the world,

which is exactly what we see,
and is precisely the evidence

that Lyell and others tried to
explain away with deep time.

But could Lyell's mantra be correct?

Is the present the key to the past,

or is the Bible the key to the past?

But just as significant

as the flood encroaching upon the land,

is the water leaving the land.

The water leaving the land
is what would have done

such dramatic sculpting of the landscape.

In fact, several of our mysteries
are solved quite simply.

Coriolis forces are what cause hurricanes

to rotate counterclockwise
in the northern hemisphere,

and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

It's caused by the rotation of the Earth.

Presently, we have such
currents in our oceans,

but these are restricted
by the continents.

When the continents are submerged,

massive currents are unleashed,

free from the constraints of land masses.

Computer models have
revealed that these vortices

can reach speeds of 40
to 80 metres per second,

which is equivalent to 140
to 280 kilometres per hour,

or 90 to 180 miles per hour.

- Water moving at velocities
well below those numbers

produces what engineers call cavitation.

The water is moving really fast,

and so when it goes over a bump,

it cannot make the tight corner.

What happens is it produces
a perfect vacuum bubble,

which sucks the water down into place.

The water is quite heavy

and acts as an incredibly powerful hammer.

Cavitation can literally pulverise steel,

and that's why cavitation is
so carefully taken into account

when designing propellers on ships.

- [Narrator] Imagine a flood
of biblical proportions,

a deluge so powerful
it reshapes the earth.

Amid this chaos, a hidden
force sculpted the bedrock.

Cavitation, a process where
water's fury turns explosive.

Cavitation occurs when water flows so fast

that local pressure drops
below the vapour pressure

of dissolved air, forming
bubbles of vapour and gas.

In the extreme conditions
of a cataclysmic flood,

with water rushing through
steep, constricted channels,

these bubbles form in the
cores of powerful vortices,

swirling eddies shed from
obstacles in the flow.

As these bubbles are swept
into higher pressure zones,

they collapse with devastating force.

Each collapse is like
a miniature explosion,

capable of pitting and fracturing
even the toughest bedrock.

In a flood of Noah's scale,

with velocities far exceeding
those of modern rivers,

cavitation would have been
widespread and relentless.

A global scale flood suddenly becomes

the only feasible explanation
for entire mountain chains

having their tops shaved off flat.

It was a gigantic sheet
flow of water moving

at incredible velocity

as the floodwaters of
Noah's flood left the land.

We all watched in horror the
incredible destructive power

of the tsunamis that hit Indonesia in 2004

and Japan in 2011.

Yet these walls of water were
moving at very slow speeds,

a mere 20 to 30 kilometres per hour.

- But do you remember
that mystery of the rocks

with the strange circular marks on them?

Well, those circular marks are caused

by the rocks hammering against each other.

In the West, this wall of water
picked up boulders in Idaho

and transported the
rocks at highway speeds

to Alberta, Canada,
pounding the rocks together

until the water finally slowed
enough to drop the rocks,

producing a mountain 3,500 feet
above what is now sea level.

These rocks are really heavy.

The calculations are
pretty straightforward.

For water to pick up these rocks,

it would have to be flowing at a minimum

of interstate highway speeds,

some 110 kilometres an hour
or 70 miles per hour minimum.

The mystery is solved
by one simple solution,

a global flood.

- [Narrator] There are
no present-day examples

of water flows picking up
boulders, hammering them

against each other

and dropping off the rounded
rocks 800 kilometres away

from their source.

The present can not be
the key to the past,

but a worldwide flood would
certainly explain this mystery.

The continents submerged
causing the global floodwaters

to achieve incredible speeds in vortices,

ripping up solid rock in Idaho

and forming plain top
mountains with them in Alberta,

Saskatchewan and Montana.

The Bible is the key to the past.

The mystery of the hundreds of water gaps

and wind gaps found all over the globe

is also suddenly explained
with one simple assumption,

a historic, world-wide flood.

The reason water gaps are a
mystery at present is simply

because of the philosophical assumption

that there has been no world-wide flood,

and thus, you are forced into the corner

of having to explain how on
earth water defied gravity

in order to start cutting a canyon.

If the water is starting
above the mountaintops,

then water gaps make complete sense

as the water was just
simply moving and thus,

cut through any mountains
that rose up in its path.

There are no present-day
processes cutting water gaps

and wind gaps through mountains.

The present cannot be the key to the past.

The Bible is the key to the past.

The Indonesian tsunami
measured some 30 feet high

and the water was perhaps
travelling at bicycling speeds.

Eight countries

as much as 6,000 kilometres
apart from each other

had an estimated 275,000
killed by the waves.

Yet flattened mountain
tops all over the world

indicate walls of water
moving at highway speeds

thousands of feet above sea level.

There are no present-day
processes producing

such features, and if
we saw such an event,

we would certainly not call it a slow

and gradual geological process.

We would call it a catastrophe.

The present cannot be the key to the past.

The Bible, with its history
of the worldwide flood,

holds the key to the past.

- The Morrison Formation,

a layer of rock famous
for its many dinosaurs

and clearly laid down by
a flood covers 10 states

and three Canadian provinces,

we do not have any present-day
processes producing massive,

provincially-sized layers
of sediments like this.

And if we did, we would
call it a catastrophe,

and not a slow and
gradual geologic process.

The present cannot be the key to the past.

But the Bible does contain
the key to the past,

the historical record of a global flood.

It all makes sense with a global flood.

The flood of Noah left a changed world.

Anti-theists like Lyell
and Darwin sought to change

the history of the world,
replacing the genuine history

of a worldwide flood with deep time.

While God alone can judge
their motives, it would appear

that they were trying to rid their lives

and the world of the
history of God's judgement .

The evidence of the Noah
flood is profound, worldwide,

and overwhelming.

So what would provoke people
to so cunningly devise

a scheme to rid the
world of the Great Flood?

Could it be because the
evidence of God's judgement

was literally all around
them, all over the world?

Could it be the allusions between
the judgement of the flood

and the great judgement to come,

as well as the allusions
between the ark of Noah

and Jesus Christ, were too offensive?

Could it be that subconsciously,

they were attempting to
escape the future judgement

that Christ warned about?

A judgement He even compared
to the flood of Noah?

Were they trying to evade the ultimatum

that Christ gave,

behaving much like the
people did before the flood.

Mocking, and desperately trying to ignore

the pending judgement , perhaps in hopes

it will just go away or
not come in their lifetime.

The problem with that, is
that the door finally closed

on those who did not board the ark.

What side of that door would you be on?

What side of that door will you be on

at the next great judgement ?

♪ I pray for you ♪

♪ I pray for you ♪

♪ See my tears ♪

♪ Can you see me? ♪

♪ Can you see me? ♪

♪ Love ♪

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♪ I pray for you ♪

♪ I pray for you ♪

(dramatic music)

♪ From the mountains to the ocean wide ♪

♪ The waters rose cold
through endless night ♪

♪ All of life held in silence ♪

♪ Where did the devil
return before to share? ♪

♪ Now the sky has to meet the rainbow ♪

♪ Shines bright as an angel's eyes ♪

♪ Arms of mercy always now ♪

♪ 'Cause love endures
this long we're lost ♪

♪ Morning light spills on emerald fields ♪

♪ New bring life, awakens and heals ♪

♪ Every heart finds strength to forgive ♪

♪ All again we'll unclog your lips ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

(dramatic choir music)

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