Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000013A
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00:10 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, "In the beginning God created." 00:20 Evolution teaches the opposite. 00:22 No one created, it all happened by itself. 00:26 Which one is the truth? 00:30 This is Headquarters, 00:34 Doc M. 00:38 Jacqui, 00:41 and Rich, 00:44 their job, investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:19 Wait a minute, what are these? 01:23 Oh, those are some pictures 01:25 that I need for my school assignment. 01:28 Look at your chubby cheeks. You're just the cutest. 01:32 Don't you have any baby pictures? 01:34 Believes, I have. Can I see them, please? 01:37 Pretty, pretty please. 01:38 All right, but only because 01:40 my mom sent me one just the other week. 01:42 Okay. 01:47 I have it here, I might just get you 01:49 through an old picture, and here it is. 01:52 Oh, my goodness, you're so cute. 01:56 Oh, look at you. 01:58 Look at you, you're a little boy. 02:03 Did you see the other letter that came? 02:05 No. I haven't read it yet. 02:06 It came with something. So cute. 02:14 What does it say? 02:15 It's from a girl named Alana in Santa Cruz, California. 02:20 It says, "Hi, Doc M, I love the beach 02:22 and what's really cool is hunting for fossils. 02:25 I'm sending you a clam I found and a seashell." 02:33 A seashell? 02:37 I just got the clam. 02:39 I don't see any shells, nowhere. 02:41 "Last time I took a friend fossil hunting. 02:44 I told her these fossils were there since the flood. 02:46 She thought I was crazy. 02:48 And I told her, "We have to look 02:49 at the evidence around the fossils." 02:52 She's getting it. 02:53 "She was pretty confused about the whole thing. 02:55 I didn't know what else to say. 02:57 Can you help me make her understand? 02:59 Thank you, Alana." 03:01 She has nice handwriting. 03:02 She does, it's really cute. 03:05 You know, there is stuff that's buried. 03:09 People put super old dates on it, 03:11 say it's old, 03:13 but we have to be careful and study the evidence. 03:18 It's like this picture of me. 03:21 Is this old or new? 03:22 Old. 03:26 Careful. 03:28 How do you know? 03:29 Well, you're little, 03:32 but you still look like you... 03:35 It doesn't have a date, 03:38 but you're close. 03:42 It is. 03:43 Yeah, well, you're right. 03:45 There is no date, 03:46 so we have to look at the evidences, the clues. 03:50 Is this Rich's new assignment? 03:52 Exactly right. I'll go tell him. 03:56 Where is Rich? 03:59 He said something about the forest 04:02 and studying gravity. 04:04 Gravity? 04:06 Well, seems simple enough. 04:13 Oops. 04:14 What was that? 04:15 I think I just found a seashell. 04:19 Do you have a creation question for Headquarters? 04:22 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, and Rich 04:25 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 06:14 Hey, I think we got a message from HQ, 06:17 must be our new assignment. 06:19 I gotta get down from here. 06:37 Hi, Rich. 06:38 This is Jacqui at HQ. 06:40 I hope you weren't just hanging around 06:42 waiting for your next assignment too long. 06:44 Hanging, good choice of words. 06:46 I have your new assignment from Doc M. 06:49 Today, we need you to investigate fossils. 06:53 Hey, Rich, if you can see me, 06:56 there's all sorts of old stuff buried in the ground. 07:00 Those fossils must tell some story. 07:06 Yeah, the fossil record, 07:07 the things we need to find in the ground, 07:09 it seem to tell a different story 07:11 to different people. 07:12 Some scientists say fossils are evidence 07:14 that our world is millions of years old. 07:17 Other scientists say fossils aren't that old. 07:20 We've got to get to the bottom of this. 07:22 We do need to get to the bottom of this. 07:25 Please investigate fossils. 07:27 See if the fossil record 07:28 provides any evidence for creation. 07:31 Happy digging. 07:32 Is he gonna have to dig? 07:36 Well, I guess we look forward to your report. 07:41 Fossils, interesting. 07:43 I better let them know I got the message. 07:47 Got message. 07:50 Will dig around 07:55 for information. 07:59 Get it, dig around? 08:03 Another message. 08:05 Very funny. 08:06 I thought it was funny. 08:10 All right, fossils, 08:11 I better write that down in my journal. 08:19 Fossils. 08:23 It's hard to know what happened 08:25 hundreds or thousands of years ago, 08:26 because no one's alive today that was alive back then. 08:29 Fossils provide us clues, and then 08:31 we come up with the best conclusions we can. 08:36 You know, not far from here is a place called Mesa Verde. 08:39 Why don't we start our investigation there? 08:42 It will help us understand how to figure out 08:44 what happened in the past. 08:46 We're off to Colorado. 08:49 Help us investigate today. 08:52 Download and print your own free Journal Study Guide 08:55 at TheCreationCase.com. 09:16 Well, we have arrived in Mesa Verde. 09:19 It's an awesome location 09:20 because we're over 8,000 feet above sea level. 09:25 This is not your typical mountain though. 09:27 This part of Colorado 09:28 is made up of mesas and cuestas, 09:30 high, flat mountains. 09:33 There are a lot of cliffs here, 09:34 but the reason we came here is because about 800 years ago, 09:37 the ancient Puebloan people built cliff dwellings 09:40 right into the cliffs. 09:41 That's what we came to see. 09:49 They lived here for about 100 years. 09:52 And then 700 years ago, they left, 09:56 they abandoned this place. 10:02 Then hundreds and hundreds of years go by, 10:04 and they rediscover this place in the 1800s. 10:07 And everybody wants to know, what happened here? 10:11 It's a bit of a mystery 10:13 because there are over 4,000 archaeological sites 10:17 and over 600 of these cliff dwellings. 10:20 Thousands of people lived in this area. 10:25 There were a lot of questions but very few answers, 10:29 because the people that lived here 10:30 did not leave a written record, nothing. 10:36 That's when you have no choice 10:37 but to look at the pieces that were left behind 10:40 and try to figure out what happened here. 10:42 It's like a big puzzle. 10:48 Puebloans built some interesting things. 10:51 This is a Kiva. 10:52 Let's go down there. 10:58 I can't see a thing in this place. 11:10 It's important to remember as we investigate fossils, 11:13 that when we find fossils, 11:14 they never come with a written record. 11:17 Our only other choice 11:18 is to start looking around for clues 11:20 to try to understand that fossil. 11:22 Here, archaeologists 11:24 are starting to look for other ways 11:25 to understand these fossils. 11:45 Sometimes museums and textbooks teach 11:47 that fossils are millions of years old 11:50 as if they had a tag on them. 11:52 How could they be so sure? 11:57 The only thing we can do 11:58 is study the stuff that we dig up 12:00 and hope to learn more. 12:03 As we look at the clues, 12:05 we have to always keep in mind that 12:07 no one really knows for sure what happened. 12:10 They're just taking their best guess. 12:13 So when a scientist or museum says 12:15 something is millions of years old, remember, 12:18 they really don't know for sure. 12:22 Mesa Verde provides archaeologists with clues 12:25 about the people that used to live here long ago. 12:27 But does nature provide us any clues about creation? 12:32 Evolution teaches that 12:33 tiny animals like the extinct trilobite 12:35 were some of the very first creatures. 12:40 They teach that simple creatures 12:42 evolved into fish, and reptiles, 12:44 and mammals, and birds, and so on. 12:48 The problem is, 12:50 even though we found thousands of different kinds of fossils, 12:53 there's still not a single piece of 12:55 undisputed evidence showing us that 12:57 any of these creatures changed into the other. 13:01 With so many fossils, 13:02 we should be able to find 13:04 countless examples of these transitional species 13:07 changing from one kind of animal to another. 13:10 That's the real problem with evolution, 13:12 a lack of evidence. 13:14 This is important. 13:15 I'm going to write this down in my journal. 13:23 Undisputed evidence of transitional fossils 13:26 has never been found. 13:30 About 150 years ago, 13:32 Charles Darwin was one of the first persons 13:35 to write about this idea of evolution. 13:38 He wrote that the fossils we find today 13:40 do not provide evidence for transitional species 13:43 but hoped that someday we would find those. 13:46 Over 150 years later, 13:48 and scientists are still searching. 13:52 This really bothered some evolutionists. 13:55 So not long ago, 13:56 they started coming up with different explanations 13:58 for why we don't find those transitional species. 14:01 They called their idea, "punctuated equilibrium". 14:05 I know that's a tongue twister. 14:07 They figured, since we can't find those fossils 14:10 showing those changes, 14:11 some large event must have happened 14:13 and caused everything to change all of a sudden, 14:16 but not all scientists agree. 14:19 There are many other problems too. 14:21 For example, trilobites are found 14:23 in the lowest layers of the geologic column. 14:25 And they say they are examples of simple marine creatures. 14:28 But the... 14:30 Actually, you know what? 14:31 There's a place not too far from here in Utah 14:34 where we can actually go and dig trilobites. 14:36 Why don't we go there now? Come on. 14:45 Hi, everyone, Doc M here at Headquarters. 14:49 Look what I have here. 14:53 A fossilized fish. 14:57 We find millions of these all over the world. 14:59 How do they get preserved so nicely? 15:03 I know the answer, Rapid burial. 15:07 You know a lot of scientists 15:08 look for fossils to prove evolution. 15:10 They look for transitional fossils, missing links. 15:14 Fossils that show one type of creature 15:17 may have turned into another kind of creature. 15:20 Something like in between two creatures, for example, 15:24 something in between fish and amphibians, 15:28 I've got a picture for you, let's look. 15:32 A fish would evolve through millions of steps 15:36 over millions of years into an amphibian. 15:42 If some type of fish evolved into some type of amphibian, 15:44 we should be able to find at least 15:46 a few fossils of the steps along the way 15:48 as the fish evolved into the amphibian, 15:51 something again in between. 15:55 Let's look at it this way. 15:57 So the fish would be our white blocks, 16:01 and we have amphibian. 16:02 We expect and we do find 16:04 both of these creatures separate. 16:07 But we would also need for the evolution process 16:10 to be confirmed 16:11 to find one with three white and one red. 16:16 And then we would find one that would be like 16:19 two red ones and two white ones. 16:21 Get a little more in that direction. 16:23 And maybe we would find one that had 16:25 three red ones and one white one. 16:30 Eventually, of course, 16:31 we would find one with all red ones. 16:35 But in real life, all those in between steps don't exist. 16:39 All of them, we only find fish 16:43 and we find amphibians. 16:48 This is a simple example of only fish and amphibians. 16:50 There are millions of other types of creatures 16:52 out there. 16:54 The missing links are, guess what? 16:59 Missing. 17:01 Some of the changes are huge too 17:03 but no fossil evidence that has... 17:06 shows that's ever happened. 17:08 The Bible teaches us that 17:10 God created all the creatures of the earth, 17:11 each one unique and different. 17:13 Yet again 17:15 this is why I believe, God is my Creator. 17:22 Hey, everyone. It's me, Rich Aguilera. 17:25 I'd love to see you at one of our live events. 17:27 To see where I'll be speaking, visit our website, 17:30 TheCreationCase.com. 17:39 During the flood, 17:40 the Bible tells us our planet was covered with water. 17:43 As the waters receded after the flood, 17:45 all this became a giant sea. 17:48 Eventually the sea drained and dried up 17:51 and left behind some pretty amazing landscapes 17:54 and a lot of fossils. 17:56 There's a place up ahead you just have to see. 18:02 One thing for sure, Utah has a lot of incredible landscapes. 18:10 Isn't this an amazing place? 18:12 We've got to stop and go down and check this out. 18:18 What an unusual looking place. 18:21 The rocks here have eroded in such a way 18:24 that many of them look like giant mushrooms. 18:29 These odd formations are called hoodoos. 18:33 Yes, that's a strange name. 18:35 No, I don't know 18:36 who's in charge of making up names. 18:42 Canyons are always a great place 18:44 to see the layers of the earth. 18:48 Hey, even here, we get to see layers of the earth. 18:55 The interesting thing about this location 18:58 is that the rock layers on the top are harder 19:00 than the rock layers on the bottom. 19:04 Oh, here is a great view. 19:12 As you can see, this bottom layer 19:15 has eroded much faster than this top layer. 19:18 You can see it everywhere, hard rock on the top, 19:21 soft rock on the bottom. 19:28 Just think, during the flood all this was underwater. 19:33 Sure looks pretty neat now. 19:37 Wow, this is such a cool place. 19:39 I think I'm gonna sketch this, 19:41 but I think I need to get a little higher. 19:43 I think I'm gonna climb one of these hoodoos 19:45 and sketch in my journal. 19:58 All right, we need to continue driving to Utah. 20:01 We're not too far away 20:03 from where we'll be able to dig for trilobites. 20:05 Come on. 20:19 Since the Bible teaches about a global flood, 20:21 it makes sense 20:22 to find marine fossils very practically everywhere. 20:25 Even in places like Michigan and Ohio, 20:27 which are very far away from the ocean, 20:29 we find fossils of marine animals 20:31 like whales, and sharks, and walruses. 20:34 Here in this part of Utah, 20:36 one of the most common marine fossils we find 20:39 are trilobites, 20:40 these little tiny creatures that are now extinct. 20:44 Well, we made it here to the trilobite dig site. 20:47 I got my bucket and I got my hammer. 20:49 We're going to see if we can dig up some trilobites. 20:51 Come on, let's go. 20:54 The stone here is shale. 20:56 So it's really easy to split open 20:58 and look for trilobites. 21:01 This looks like a good spot. 21:04 You know, sadly, extinction is quite common. 21:10 By looking at fossils 21:11 we can tell that many different types of creatures 21:13 have lived and died in the past. 21:15 They are now found buried in the ground 21:17 or in rocks like this. 21:19 This also fits the flood story because the Bible says that 21:22 all the land animals were wiped out, 21:24 except for the ones on the ark. 21:30 Fortunately God made each animal 21:32 with built-in variety in its DNA. 21:35 Still, sometimes creatures become extinct. 21:40 We also see that in the fossil records, 21:42 animals that don't exist anymore, all kinds, 21:45 birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles. 21:51 Even dinosaurs are just kinds of reptiles 21:54 that are now extinct. 21:57 Evolution has been teaching that over millions of years 22:00 one type of creature has been changing to another. 22:03 If these changes really happened, 22:05 we should clearly see it in the fossil record 22:07 but we don't. 22:09 The fossil record does not show one thing, 22:13 changing into the other. 22:17 Check it out, we found one. 22:23 It's amazing. 22:24 It's been buried here for over 4,000 years. 22:27 And you and I are the first ones to see it. 22:31 Trilobites are found 22:32 in one of the lowest layers called the cambium layer. 22:36 Think I'm gonna dig here. 22:40 Evolution teaches that 22:41 since they're found in the lowest layers, 22:43 they were some of the first and simplest ones to evolve. 22:48 The problem is, they're not simple at all. 22:50 They're actually highly complex little creatures. 22:54 They have compound eyes and hundreds of lenses, 22:57 antennas, complex organs, gills and several sets of limbs. 23:05 Whoo, this is a good spot, found a big one. 23:10 Now we need to carefully chip away the rock around it. 23:19 Evolution requires 23:21 that life had to start with something simple. 23:24 But this is not it. 23:26 These are simply. some of the first creatures 23:28 that got buried alive at the time of the flood. 23:32 You know what? 23:34 I'm gonna write that in my journal. 23:40 Trilobites were some of the first creatures 23:42 buried during the flood. 23:46 Let's keep looking for more trilobites. 23:48 This is a lot of fun. 23:51 You know, every once in a while, 23:53 evolutionists come forward with a new fossil, 23:56 claiming that it's proof of evolution. 23:58 They claim that the fossil is an in-between form of life, 24:02 a transitional species between one creature and another. 24:06 Not long ago scientists discovered a fossil of the fish 24:09 call the coelacanth. 24:12 Secular scientists used to think. 24:14 They became extinct about 60 million years ago, 24:17 and we're never seen again in the higher layers. 24:22 Since the coelacanth was never seen again 24:24 in the fossil record, 24:26 they assumed that it must have evolved 24:27 into animals with four legs. 24:30 Actually, I have a picture of a coelacanth fossil here 24:33 on my phone. 24:37 Well, guess what? 24:38 They never became extinct after all. 24:41 Living coelacanths are now photographed all the time, 24:44 here's one. 24:47 Just because they didn't find the coelacanth in the fossils 24:49 for 60 million evolution years, 24:51 it doesn't mean they ever evolved. 24:54 They never became extinct and they never evolved. 24:57 They're still the same. 25:00 Remember, in the beginning, God created the animal kinds. 25:04 It's that simple. 25:16 That was fun. 25:17 It's truly amazing uncovering things 25:20 that have been buried since the flood, 25:23 things that no other human life has ever seen before. 25:28 It's incredible to think just 25:29 how much stuff is buried all over our planet. 25:33 We've discovered a lot of things 25:34 but in reality, it's a mystery 25:37 just how much stuff is buried and fossilized 25:41 right under our feet. 25:43 Well, I need to finish up my report 25:45 and send it to HQ. 25:47 Remember, if you want to read it, 25:49 just go to our website. 25:52 The fossils we find 25:54 don't prove creatures ever changed 25:56 from one type of creature to another. 25:58 Sometimes 25:59 creatures that supposedly evolved into other creatures 26:02 and became extinct 26:03 are still found alive unchanged. 26:07 There's more proof 26:09 of these in-between transitional fossils 26:12 have never been found. 26:16 Trilobites were not simple creatures. 26:18 They were highly complex, and they were created by God. 26:28 You know, there are a lot of mysteries in this world. 26:31 Many things we will never understand. 26:34 God is one of them. 26:36 There's no way we can grasp who He is. 26:40 To be able to create by just speaking, 26:43 to be someone 26:45 that has no beginning and no end. 26:48 To have so much love for us 26:50 that He would send His precious Son to die 26:53 so that we could be saved. 26:56 Wow. 26:57 Still, we should do everything we can to look for clues, 27:01 so that we can understand our Creator better and better. 27:06 The more clues we find, 27:08 the more we'll understand Him. 27:10 Where do we find these clues? 27:13 The two best places are in the Bible, 27:16 the special book, 27:17 and right here in nature. 27:20 This is His own hand at work, creating. 27:26 I hope you will join me again for our next assignment. 27:29 Remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 27:33 especially you. 27:35 Goodnight. 27:52 Wait, don't go yet. We've got bloopers. 27:58 Other types of... 28:03 See what can never appear to... 28:05 Appear at the end of the fossil record. 28:07 You know, it's... 28:10 All right. 28:11 Where was I? 28:12 Museums and fossils teach... 28:16 It provides archaeologists... 28:19 I hope you weren't waiting just... 28:22 Fossil squirrels. |
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