George Sayour
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son
of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in
marriage up to the day Noah entered the Ark. Then the Flood came and
destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:26-27)
"... in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own
evil desires. They will say, 'Where is this "coming" he promised? ... But
they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens
existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these
waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.” ( 2
Peter 3)
Creation – Re-Creation
• 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness
was over the face of the deep. (Gen 1:2a)
• 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the
face of the ground, man and animals and creeping
things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out
from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who
were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed
on the earth 150 days. (Gen 7:23-24)
Creation – Re-Creation
• 2The earth was without form and void, and
darkness was over the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters. (Gen 1:2)
• But the dove found no place to set her foot, and
she returned to him to the ark, for the waters
were still on the face of the whole earth.(Gen
8:9)
Creation – Re-Creation
• 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply
and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the
sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that
moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every
plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with
seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. (Gen 1:28-30)
• And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be
upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon
everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your
hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for
you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. (Gen9:1-3)
What about the Flood?
• How did Noah Build the Arc?
• How did he gather 2 of Every Kind of Animal?
• Could all the animals fit?
• Where did all the water come from?
• How did he care for the animals?
• What about the flood stories in other cultures?
•
https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/was-there-really-a-noahs-ark-flood/
•
http://creation.com/noahs-flood-questions-and-answers
In Support of a Global Flood?
• Marine Fossils on the tops of the Himalayas
• Whale Fossils in the dessert
• Rapid Fossilization
• Underground Oceans
• Global Flood on Mars
• Why do all ancient cultures have a flood story?
• Continents fitting together so nicely?
• Local Catastrophic Events replicating “age” in landscape
• https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/worldwide-flood-evidence/
Where’d All the Water Come From?
• 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all
the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows
of the heavens were opened. (Genesis 7:11)
• 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens
were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and
the waters receded from the earth continually. (Genesis 8:2)
Fossils Showing Rapid Burial
• Fish Eating Fish
• Dinosaurs in a Nest ….. Polystrate Fossils - Trees
Science of Dating (some)
• Radiometric Dating for Volcanic/Igneous Rock
– Potassium – Argon, Uranium – Lead, Strontium - Rubidium
• C14 Dating for
– Radiocarbon to Nitrogen
• Relative Dating
– Igneous to Sedimentary to Fossils
• Evolutionary Phylogenetic Charts
• Earths Natural Processes
– Ice Cores, Tree Rings, Layering of sediment, Erosion
Assumptions of Radiometric Dating
1. When the rock formed there was only the
Parent Element and no Daughter Element
2. Once hardened, it is a closed system. No
parent or daughter elements enter or leave
the system
3. Decay rate is constant
Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand
• Known Lava Flows from 1949, 1954, 1975
• Potassium-Argon Dating Method
• Multiple Tests yielded an age of:
– 270,000 – 3.5 million years old
– when it should be <50 years old!
• So, the Daughter Element (Argon) was present
Cardenas Basalt lavas
(Bottom of Grand Canyon)
• Which is right?
• 516 ± 30 million years
– (the potassium-argon isochron age)
• 1,111 ± 81 million years
– (the rubidium-strontium isochron age)
• 1,588 ± 170 million years
– (the samarium-neodymium isochron age)
Rim of Western Grand Canyon Basalt Flows
• Which is right?
• 500,000 – 1 million years
– the potassium-argon isochron age
• 1,143 ± 220 million years
– the rubidium-strontium isochron age
– Why “older” than the layers at the bottom?
(previous slide)
What Shaped the World?
Billions or Thousands ?
• Uniformitarianism
– Slow, Gradual, and Uniform Processes
• Catastrophism
– Sudden, often-short lived, and violent events
Formed in an “Instant”
• Island of Surtsey
• Aftermath of Mount St. Helens
• Canyon Lake Gorge, TX
• Providence Canyon, GA
• Burlingame Canyon, WA
• Water Wheel in Australia
What About Light and the Universe?
• Speed of Light
– How long it would take us to see distant stars
– Was this always constant?
– How does “space -time” affect light travel
• Studying Objects (ex. Stars) in the Universe
– Mass, Luminosity, Distance, Life cycle of the star
• Measuring the Expansion Rate
– the proportion of regular & dark matter, dark energy
– Estimating the density of the matter in Universe
– Background Radiation
Problems for Old Universe
• https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/ageof-the-universe/evidence-for-a-young-world/
• http://creation.com/young-age-of-the-earthuniverse-qa
A Case Study in Archaeology
• Camel Bones disprove Bible?
In Support of a Global Flood?
• Marine Fossils on the tops of the Himalayas
• Whale Fossils in the dessert
• Rapid Fossilization
• Underground Oceans
• Global Flood on Mars
• Why do all ancient cultures have a flood story?
• Continents fitting together so nicely?
• Local Catastrophic Events replicating “age” in landscape
• https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/worldwide-flood-evidence/
“But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.”
- Jesus (Mark 10:6)
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of
Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to
the day Noah entered the Ark. Then the Flood came and destroyed them all.”
(Luke 17:26-27)
"... in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil
desires. They will say, 'Where is this "coming" he promised? ... But they
deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the
earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of
that time was deluged and destroyed.” ( 2 Peter 3)
Phylogenetic Trees