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 The age of the earth according to the Biblical account
The Bible says in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” When was the beginning? The Bible says that “Jesus created all things in heaven and earth.” (Col. 1:16) Well wait-wait-wait, did God create the heaven and the earth or did Jesus create the heaven and the earth? Well, they are both fine. Jesus is God Almighty in the flesh in spite of what ‘Jehovah's false witnesses’ teach, ok? Jesus said in Matthew 19:4: “Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female.” By the way, that was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, ok. But Jesus said that was the beginning. Same thing in Mark 10:6: “From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.” The Bible says: “Death came into the world because of man's sin.” (Rom. 5:12) Nothing died until Adam sinned. By man came death. (I Cor. 15:21-22) The Bible is real clear on the topic. “Adam was the first man” (I Cor. 15:45) and “Eve was the mother of all living.” (Gen. 3:20)
Now I'm not one of those guys that tries to put an exact date on it. I don't say that it was 4004 BC, October 23rd at two in the afternoon. I don't think you can get that close from Scripture. I think Adam was made in the afternoon because it was just before Eve. It's the only clue I found. I do many debates at universities and speak on a lot of talk shows and stuff, and there's always some atheist that will call in and say: “Hovind, I've got a question; Who did Adam's sons marry?” Hmm, good question and a fair question. I say that's a good question and I'll be glad to answer that. However, you guys are the ones that have a serious problem. The Bible says: “Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife and she conceived.” (Gen. 4:16-17) Well, it doesn't say he found her there. But who was his wife and who did Seth marry anyway? And I think I can answer that. However, compared to the evolutionists we have a minor problem. See, they believe that “18 or 20 billion years ago, there was a big bang where nothing exploded and made everything.” I spoke at a college in Boston one time. They said: “Hovind, you can come speak at our college, if our professors can ask you any questions they want. Because we would like to show the students how dumb you Christians really are.” I said: “I would be honored to come for that.” So I showed up. There were six professors and all their students in the room. You know, I felt like Daniel in the lion's den! I said: “Folks,” I got out my charts, I said: “Folks, I believe the Bible. I believe 6,000 years ago God made everything. And 4,400 years ago, there was a Flood that destroyed everything. Noah saved two of each kind; not species; kind on the ark.” And then I told them what they believe, because most of them don't know what they believe, you know. Twenty billion years ago, big bang. 4.6 billion years ago, the earth cooled down. But, anyway, who did Adam's sons marry? Well, the Bible says: “Adam lived after he begat Seth 800 years and begat sons and daughters.” (Gen 5:4) How many kids could you have in 800 years? Several, right? A friend of mine in Arkansas had 15 kids in 15 years.
And you won't notice this reading the Bible, but when you graph out the dates, it is pretty amazing. You'll realize that Adam lived long enough to know his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson. Noah's daddy could have known Adam for 56 years. Can you imagine a family reunion back in those days? All right, everybody hop on the camel. We are going to go visit great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa Adam. And he is going to tell us what it was like in the garden of Eden, You won't notice this reading your Bible either, but when you graph out the dates, it's like, wow, that's pretty cool! Noah's son Shem lived long enough after the Flood to know Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob had 13 kids, 12 boys, 1 girl. One of those boys was Joseph. He's the guy that got the coat of many colors. And the brothers got jealous and beat him up. And threw him in the pit and he ended up down in Egypt. And he became the ‘Vice Pharaoh’ or whatever they called it. And he invited the brothers to move down and live with them. So Joseph is introducing his dad, Jacob, to Pharaoh. “And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you? And Jacob said, I'm 130 years old: Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers.” (Gen. 47:8-9) I read that verse 36 years ago as a brand new Christian and I thought, what's he saying here? I'm 130, but this is nothing compared to my ancestors? Yeah, when you figure he could have personally known Shem, Arphaxad, Salah, and Eber. You know, if you were 130 but you know a 600-year-old that lives around the corner, you just don't feel so old anymore.
People say: “Who cares? What difference does it make?” It makes a giant difference. Because if you are gonna have billions of years, you are gonna have death before sin. Now you have a heresy. And it is heresy! It's not heresy to believe the earth is billions of years old, but it is heresy to put death before sin. That is a clear heresy, ok. The Bible says: “Death reigned from Adam to Moses.” (Rom. 5:14) “By man came death. ...in Adam all die.” (I Cor. 15:21-22) Who cares about the age of the earth?
Jesus said: “Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.” (John 5:46)  Scientific evidence that support a young universe and earth
Well, the Bible clearly teaches about 6,000 years. Let's see what the scientific evidence says. In 1999 the world's population crossed over the 6 billion mark. Now if you believe in evolution, you got a problem. You think man's been here for 3 million years. In 3 million years the population would have grown. Right now there'd be about 150,000 people per square inch. That would be crowded. No, man's not been here for millions of years. God told Adam to replenish the earth (Gen. 1:28); fill it with kids. Have lots of kids, ok! “He formed the world to be inhabited,” Isaiah 45 (v. 18) tells us, ok.
These guys for the New World Order want to reduce the population of the world to a half billion. See, Satan was told by the Lord in the garden of Eden: “You are going to crawl on your belly and eat dust all your life.” Then the Lord said: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head.” (Gen. 3:14-15)
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Well, regardless of what happens in the future, the population today tells us man has only been here about 4,400 years. They said: “It looks like there has been a genetic bottleneck. The whole population was reduced to just a few thousand just a couple thousand years ago.”
There's more about that in the book, In the Beginning by Walt Brown, excellent book by the way. The moon goes around the earth. How many knew that already? The moon goes around the earth. Did you know that as the moon goes around the earth, it is gradually getting farther away? We are slowly losing the moon. It's leaving us a couple inches a year, no big deal. Nothing to worry about; plus nothing you can do about it anyway. But the moon is getting farther from the earth every day. Now kids, this is gonna be complicated, so listen carefully. The moon is getting farther from the earth every day. So that means that it used to be closer. How many can figure this out with no help at all?
Various creationists have come up with this list of arguments that they have distributed. It is listing arguments that they then advice to not use. One of these listed arguments was the one about this ‘moon dust’. Dr. Hovind used this in his 1998 version of this same seminar, but hasn't been using it at least since 2003. I did however found on some forum a reaction from Dr. Hovind that he nonetheless didn't seem to agree with the faultiness of the argument itself. And I tend to agree with that. He was however persuaded not to use it anymore. You can consult the argument here (this will redirected you to the 1998 seminar, separate window). So, judge for yourself. –Website owner.
I mentioned in a seminar years ago that comets is an indication that the solar system is less than 10,000 years old. And an atheist went home and devoted an entire website against me, anti-Hovind website. There are now over a 1,000. One guy told me there is closer to 2,000 anti-Hovind websites. I'm so proud of myself. Well, this one scoffer on his website said: “Hovind, don't you know that a Dutch astronomer back in 1950? His name was Jan Oort. He proposed (that means, he hoped; he wished; he prayed) that there was a great shell of comets out there, Nobody's ever seen this Oort cloud. Oort never saw the Oort cloud. The whole thing is based on a mathematical mistake.
The liberals do it to us all the time, and we fall for it. I'll show you how easy it is to do, ok. Suppose I said watermelons are blue on the inside until you cut the skin. Prove I'm wrong. Hmm, that's called shifting the burden of proof. That would be pretty hard to do, wouldn't it? As soon as you cut the skin, oh see, it turned red. I was right; it was blue a second ago. He says I have to prove there's no Oort cloud. Now wait, wait, wait, Dave, here's what we know. We know we have comets. We know they don't last more than about 10,000 years. We know the Bible says the earth is 6,000 years old. I don't have a problem with comets. But he wants to make it look like I have a problem with comets, when he's the one who's got the problem. The Bible says: “The heavens declare the glory of God.” (Ps. 19:1) It's interesting.
Everything about the evolution theory is backwards to the Bible. Every single thing, absolutely backwards! These theories don't match. Everything's backwards.
These theories are polar opposites. People say: “Couldn't God use evolution to create?” Well He could have, but it's not the God of the Bible, that's for sure. The God that would use evolution is cruel, wasteful, and retarded. It's not a God you would want to pray to, that's for sure. We cover more of that on video 7 of the blue series of tapes back there.
The psalmist said: “When I consider thy heavens...” (Ps. 8:3) By the way, heavens is plural; we get into that more on video #2. He said: “When I consider...” Kids, you'd do yourself a favor every once in a while to shut off that TV, and go outside, and consider the heavens. Go see what God has done. The psalmist said: “While I was musing, the fire burned.” (Ps. 39:3) He said: “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon, the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him?” (Ps. 8:3-4) You know it is interesting? A person that spends his time considering what God has done is just not impressed with what man can do. And some of you parents ought to go home and look in your kid's bedroom. And if what you see all over the wall are pictures of sports heroes; you listen carefully; you are training your kids to meditate on what man can do, not what God can do. And his brain, his thinking process, is going to be about that deep. You know the depth of his understanding is, “Wow, he threw the ball through the hoop. Ooh, ooh...” Who's gonna care in a thousand years? Who's gonna care in five years? Does anybody know who won the Stupid Bowl, eh Super Bowl, five years ago? Does anybody care? It doesn't matter, does it? All those grown men out there fighting over that one ball, and they can all afford to go buy their own. No, I mean it's not sinful. It is just dumb to pay a guy five million dollars to carry a pig bladder down a cow pasture through some plumbing. It's not gonna last, folks. Think about things that are going to last forever, like what God has done. Meditate on that.
The earth is spinning about 1,000 miles per hour at the equator. But the earth is slowing down. “The earth actually slows down about a thousandth of a second every day.” The Sahara desert has what is called a prevailing wind pattern. The wind almost always blows the same way. This creates a serious problem. The hot air comes off the desert, kills the trees next door, and that area becomes desert. Well, I have a theory about that. Now here's my theory. I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood. Now it's pretty hard to have a desert under a flood. You got to admit that would be tough, ok. So the desert couldn't start growing until the floodwater went down. So I predict, based on the Bible, the biggest desert in the world would be less than 4,400 years old. It is! Wow, maybe the Bible is right.
You know when they drill into the ground, sometimes they hit oil? The oil is under incredible pressure in some places, up to 20,000 pounds per square inch (psi). It will come squirting up out of the ground, 20,000 psi. Well, the guys who study the rocks on top of the oil say: “You know, it just can't handle that pressure for more than about 10,000 years.” I know the weight of rock supplies pressure, but the pressure in the well is greater than the weight of overburden. They say it should have cracked the rock and leaked off in less than 10,000 years. Ok, well then, now I have got two questions: “Where did the oil come from? And why is it still under pressure?” Well, most scientists agree that oil comes from organisms that are squished. “They're changed by heat and pressure into oil.”
I have a theory about the oil, and here is my theory, ok. I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood, ok. In that Flood, lots of critters and people drowned. They got buried by the gravel, and the rocks, and the mud, and the sand, and it got pretty heavy after a while. And it squished them, krrrr... into oil. So the oil's down there today from the people and animals that drowned in that Flood. Which means if you stop to think about it, you drove over here tonight on some of your ancestors. Well, Noah's uncles anyway. Next time you're at the gas station, pumping him in there, you can say: “Bye, Grandpa. You should have listened to Noah; he told you it was gonna rain!”
I said: “Fellas, aren't you assuming those are annual rings?” See, they didn't know about the ‘lost squadron’, apparently. But, in World War II, some airplanes ran out of gas and landed in Greenland. Has anybody ever heard of the Lost Squadron? Ok. It's been on TV a bunch of times. Well, the airplanes got left there in 1942. They went on and fought the war, everybody forgot about them. Until a rich millionaire from Kentucky got a brilliant idea. Go find those airplanes and bring them home. He went there looking for the airplanes. They had to use ground-penetrating radar to penetrate the ice, and they located the planes. I visited the museum and saw the guy who dug out the airplane, his name is Bob Garden. I said: “Bob, when you went down to get to that airplane, did you melt..., did you go through ice rings?” He said: “Oh yeah, many hundreds of them.” I said: “Now wait a minute. How can there be hundreds of ice rings in 48 years? Shouldn't there be somewhere around... 48?” He said: “Who told you those are annual layers?” He said: “That doesn't represent summer, winter, summer, winter. It represents warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, cold.” You can get five of those in one week in Knoxville, can't you? Yeah, but here's a guy still calling them annual layers. Now either he is ignorant, or he is lying. I hope he is just ignorant because ignorance can be fixed. You see, stupid is forever, but ignorance can be fixed. That is the difference by the way. A guy that works with the Eskimos said: “Brother Hovind, I got 15 layers of snow on my car in 8 hours. Not 15 inches, 15 distinct layers of snow!”
Here's my theory, I believe 6,000 years ago God made everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood. As the floodwater was running off, whoosh..., about half of that mud washed out there in 20 minutes. So it looks like it took 30,000 years to get the mud out there. It took about 20 minutes, and then 4,400 years since then, ok. A friend of mine from Louisiana is a pastor of a church. He said: “Brother Hovind, I used to work in the oil field drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling for oil.” He said: “We drilled down through 14,000 feet (4250 m) of mud and hit trees 60 feet (18 m) tall, standing up.”
Here's my theory. I believe about 6,000 years ago God made everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood. And so I predict the oldest tree ought to be somewhere around 4,300 years old. It is! Wow! Maybe that Bible is right, you know! Maybe I ought to read that thing and believe it.
I have a theory about that. I bet you know what it is, don't you? Can you figure it out by now, ok?
Textbook says: “This gorge that the river runs into is 7½ miles (12 km) long. A simple calculation shows it's been 9,900 years.” Here is my theory. You see about 6,000 years ago, God made everything; and 4,400 years ago there was a Flood. As the floodwater was running off, whoosh..., about half of that creek washed out in 20 minutes. So it looks like it took 9,900 years. They forgot the Flood. They also forgot to get the right number. It should have been 8,400 had they used 4.7
A friend of mine in Alabama raises fish. How many have ever gone into a cave and the guide said: “Don't touch the formations; they take millions of years to form.” They all got the same speech, right? What's the one in Kentucky? Mammoth Cave? Or go to Carlsbad Caverns, and they say it took 250 million years. They did a study on these stalactites. And one guy said: “You know, the fastest they can grow is 2.5 inches per thousand years. That's the maximum growth rate.”
You know, at the current rate of erosion, the continents will erode flat in 14 million years? Why do they tell us we've got fossils that are 300 times older than that, still above sea level? They should have washed out to sea 300 times. All you've got to do is fly out west and look at the erosion patterns, and say: “Man, this place was destroyed by a flood.” I mean, the whole world was destroyed by a Flood. Just fly around like I do and look out the window once in a while. The oldest languages in the world are kind of interesting. ‘Origin of Major Writing Systems’ from National Geographic. What do they say? Well, they say that the oldest writing systems in the world started about 3000 BC. 5,000 years ago, the oldest writing systems. Playing tricks on people
If you know, raise your hand, but don't say it out loud. There are about five or six. The rest of you, pay attention, we are gonna try it again.
Anybody new figure it out? ...Two more. The rest of you, pay attention. We are gonna try it one more time. But now I am going to un-brainwash you. See, you didn't realize it, but I had you brainwashed in the first three seconds. I am going to un-brainwash all of you now, just by showing you a couple of pictures. I'll tell the same story word for word, but watch the pictures. You will feel yourself get un-brainwashed. It's the coolest feeling. Are you ready? Here goes.
You say: “Brother Hovind, is it that easy to get brainwashed?” Oh yeah! You see, as soon as I said: “A man left home...” You started thinking about a house. And you were off track. And once you get off track, it's pretty tough to get back on.
Now wait a minute, the Bible says before the Flood came, they lived to be 900 years old. How is that possible? Oh, we'll cover that in seminar part #2 tomorrow. What about the Flood? Well, that's covered in video #6. And what about dinosaurs? Well, that's covered on video #3. But listen, you are going to be told in school you started like a slime and you slowly became a human. You be careful, because that philosophy will spoil you. Jesus said: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Col. 2:8) Hey, if a child goes 12 to 16 years to school in your town, how is he gonna view the world? Probably as an evolutionist. If the Bible is right about the beginning, maybe it's right about the end. Everybody ought to find something to do for the Lord. There is a war going on; find something to do. Get busy. Win souls. Be a Sunday school teacher, bus driver; do something for God with your life. If we can help, that is what our materials are for. There's a catalog on the back table back there. As well as our videos. We want to help strengthen your faith in God's Word. We hope you've enjoyed this series on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs.
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Well, that makes it pretty easy then; we just add up the dates. The Bible says Adam was 130 when Seth was born. (Gen. 5:3) Seth was 105 when Enos was born. (Gen. 5:6) Enos was 90 when Cainan was born. (Gen. 5:9) You go through the Bible; you add up the dates; it's not hard to do. You can make a chart like this pretty easily. If you get my seminar notebook, the last page folds out to be that chart, or we've got them laminated like this one. If you want them for placemats when your skeptic friends come for lunch. You can really stir up a conversation with one of those things. We got quite a few placemats our ministry offers. Different things to make kids read that instead of the cereal box. But if you add up the dates in the Bible, you are gonna get about 4000 BC for the creation. Not millions of years ago, but 4,000. 
And I can't prove this but I think I figured out why God made Adam first. I think God made Adam first because he didn't want any advice on how to do it. How many would agree with that one? By the way, BC means, Before Christ. Almost all the new textbooks are changing it to say BCE, Before the Common Era. Christ is gone from the schools, folks. Textbooks says the earth is billions of years old. Jesus said the creation of Adam was the beginning. Well, was He lying? Did He not understand science? Or was He right? How old is the earth? When was the beginning? “Thou Lord in the beginning has laid the foundations of the earth.” (Heb. 1:10) How old is this earth? Could that date of 4000 BC be correct? 
And “4.6 billion years ago the earth cooled down and it was a hot ball of rock. Earth began as a hot ball of rock.”
And that first life-form found somebody to marry; now there's a good trick; and something to eat, of course, and slowly evolved into everything we see today. That's the big bang theory. So great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa was soup. 
It rained on the rocks for millions of years, turned them into soup and the soup came alive. One professor was really upset. He said: “Hovind, do you realize that there are hundreds of varieties of dogs in the world?” I said: “Oh yeah, there's a bunch.” He said: “You mean to tell me that you believe all those dogs came from just two dogs on Noah's ark? Do you expect me to believe that?” I said: “Sir, would you look at what you are teaching your students? You're teaching your students that all those dogs came from a rock.” He didn't have any more questions after that. 
before the first woman ate the first man out of house and home. I do tell a lot of Adam-and-Eve jokes. I'll just tell you right now. And this one lady said: “Now just where would you men be without us women?” I said: “In the garden of Eden.” But it'd be lonely; it wouldn't be worth it, ok. 
Anyway, textbook says the earth is billions of years old. Jesus said the creation of Adam was the beginning. Now, was He lying? Was He stupid? Or was He right? How old is the earth? Do the books in this town teach the kids the earth is billions of years old? Are they gonna learn this in school when they go back? Of course they are! “4.6 billion years ago...” Even some Christians are teaching the earth is billions of years old. Some people who really sincerely, honestly love the Lord! This list of folks tells some of those, just a few of those, who teach that the earth is billions of years old.
That little city has 25 billion square feet. The world's not overcrowded, folks. Have you driven across Nebraska? Or Kansas? Or New Mexico? Or Texas? Drive across Texas. Have any of you driven across Texas? You can go for three days. Are we still in Texas? Yeah, nothing out there but flat rabbits, I tell you what. The world's not overcrowded. Drive across Tennessee, for heaven's sake. It's not overcrowded. Look, if it's overcrowded where you are, move! Because there is plenty of room out there, other places, ok? Back when Jesus was here, the world's population was only about a quarter of a billion! It looks like the whole population growth curve started about 4,400 years ago. 
We got people on the other side who think we should reduce the population of the earth. That is Satan's plan, of course. 
Satan knows that someday some seed of the woman is going to bruise his head and he's not looking forward to that. So he has decided he's gonna kill every human being on the planet. Satan's goal is to kill all of humanity to thwart God's plan. God said: “Fill the earth with kids; have a bunch of kids.” Satan says: “No, we are going to reduce it to zero.” Remember when Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus in Bethlehem? What did he do? Killed all the children. (Matt. 2:16) Let's be sure to get the right one. Let's just kill them all. And Satan's gonna try to kill every human being on the planet. 
By the way, Monsanto is real busy on working on genetically modified foods. They banned them in Europe. But 70% of everything you eat now contains genetically modified foods, causing all kinds of problems with health. Get the book: Seeds of Deception, if you want a whole lot more on that. Or ‘Engineered Extinction’ from The New American magazine about how our food is being tampered with to reduce the population.
But there are people who want to reduce the population of the earth. Go outside of Atlanta, Georgia, to the town of Elberton. Go north about seven or eight miles on Highway 77. And look off to the right. You'll see a place over there where they teach we should reduce the population of the planet. If you look off to the right, you'll see these stones over here, looks like Stonehenge. You drive over there and it is the weirdest place, in the middle of nowhere. You get up and you read them and it says in 12 languages: “The Ten Commandments for the New World Order.” Commandment number one: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 (½ billion).”
Galaxies are spinning, but the stars in the middle go faster than the stars at the outside. So why do we still have spiral arms on the galaxies? They should not be there. Galaxies are evidence that the universe at least is not billions of years old.
Well, if you bring the moon in closer, you start to create a problem, because the moon causes the tides. You folks in Knoxville probably don't worry about the tides. But in Pensacola, you worry about the tides. You see, if the moon was closer, the tides would be higher. There's a law called the inverse square law. If you brought the moon in to ⅓ the distance, you take the ⅓, flip it over and square it. It's nine times the gravitational pull! If you run all the math on this, you'll find out that the moon and earth would have been almost together 1.4 billion years ago. Walt Brown says 1.2 billion years ago is the max life span for the earth and moon. Well, if the moon was whizzing around just above the surface of the earth, that explains what happened to the tall dinosaurs. They got ‘mooned’. 
Comets are flying around through space, but comets are constantly losing material. I mean, stuff blows off the tail of a comet. You can't just keep losing, ok, pretty soon it is gone. You know, it's kind of like your checkbook. See, if your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall, every single time! Well, these comets are always losing material. That's something you just can't keep doing forever. Most astronomer's say: “Comets can't last more than about 10,000 years.”
and new ones keep coming in to replace the ones that are burning out.” So he said that the reason we still have comets is because new ones are replacing the ones that are burning up. They called it the ‘Oort Cloud’ of comets. He said: “This Oort cloud is 50,000 astronomical units away.”
But the scoffer on his website said, Hovind, “if you want to use the comet argument, you know, to prove the earth is young. It's up to you to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Oort cloud and other sources don't exist!”
The word ‘muse’ means, think. Think! The Bible uses that word twice. Think. Now, English is a pretty interesting language, you know. A ‘theist’ is, a person who says he believes in God. If you put the letter ‘a’ in front of a word, it means the opposite. So an ‘atheist’ is, a person who says he does not believe in God. ‘Muse’ means to think. So what is the opposite? You got it. ‘Amuse’ means literally, to not think. Did you know we've got entire parks where you can pay money and go do that. They are called amusement parks, a place to not think. 
The Bible says: “Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.” (Job 12:8) The earth is like a big magnet. Now magnets always lose their strength. The earth's magnet has lost 10% of its strength in the last 150 years. That means, of course, it used to be stronger, since it's getting weaker. And it cannot be more than 25,000 years old. Just the earth's magnetic-field decline limits it to less than 25,000 years. And that also means carbon dating can't work. Give you a few examples here: “The lower leg of a mammoth dated 15,000 years old, but the skin was 21,000.”
But the textbooks will say: “Well, yes the magnetic field is getting weaker, but that's because it's reversing. Ok, it's a pattern of reversals.” No, there are no magnetic reversals in the magnetic field at the bottom of the ocean. We cover that on video #6. This is all part of another theory called, Pangaea. How many have ever heard of ‘Pangaea’ before? That all the continents used to fit together. Well, I bet they didn't tell you they shrank Africa nearly 40% to make them fit, did they? Did they tell you they took out all of Mexico and Central America? “Señor, que pasa donde esta Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala?” And you know, they don't tell you what I think ought to be obvious to a kindergartner. Did you know if you take the water out of the oceans, you will notice there is dirt underneath. People say: “Hovind, do you think the continents were ever connected?” I say: “What do you mean? They are still connected.” I mean, like right now; it is just the low places are full of water, that's all. What do you mean, “were they connected”? Hello! They are still connected. What a dumb theory! We cover more of that on video #6 about Pangaea, in what's called The Hovind Theory. 
He didn't have a watch anyway, as far as we know. But some of these guys would like me to believe that the earth is billions of years old. Man, if you go back billions of years, you are gonna have a problem. The earth would be spinning pretty quick. Get up; go to bed. Get up; go to bed. Get up; go to bed. You'd never get nothing done. Centrifugal force would have been enormous. Man, the winds would have been 5,000 miles an hour from the Coriolis effect.
The process is called desertification. You can read about it in an earth science book. The Sahara desert has been studied very carefully. They did a long study on this and said: “You know what, folks, the Sahara desert is probably about 4,000 years old.”
They learned in 1971 how to make oil in 20 minutes in the laboratory.
I was preaching in Denver one time, and some guys came and they said: “Hovind, we know you teach the earth is only 6,000 years old. We would like to prove to you, you're wrong. Would you come with us, please?” I said: “Sure!” They took me to this big freezer in Denver, Colorado, outside of Denver, in Lakewood. It's the National Ice Core Laboratory, -36° F (-38C) in there. They put this big suit on me, big hat, big gloves, big boots. I was freezing in five seconds when I walked in there. I have got Florida blood, you know? It is real thin. They said: “Hovind, we go to Greenland and we drill holes through the ice.” You know, a government job. “And, we take this big pipe and we drill it down, and we bring this ice core out of the middle of the pipe. And we save it in this big freezer here in Lakewood, Colorado. We have ten ice cores stored in this freezer.” They took me over and showed me one of the ice cores. They said: “You see these rings on here, looks like tree rings, dark, light, dark, light?” I said: “Oh yeah, it's real clear.” They said: “Well what happens, in the summer, the snow melts a little bit, and then it refreezes and makes clear ice. (It shows up dark in the picture.) In the winter, the snow just packs. It doesn't get a chance to melt. And so it shows up as a white layer. So these layers represent, summer, winter, summer, winter, summer, winter, summer, winter. They said: “The deepest hole we've ever drilled is 10,000 feet deep. And we counted these ice rings. And there were 135,000 of them. And now you're going around telling everybody the earth is 6,000 years old. We can prove it is at least 135,000.” 
They melted this hole down to get to the P-38, it was 263 feet below the surface. They melted this hole down to get to the plane, took the plane apart, and brought the pieces back through the hole. And they put them back together in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Not too far from here. How far is Middlesboro from Knoxville? Two hours, maybe? The plane, that's where it's home base is, Middlesboro. Well, the planes were in the ice for 48 years. They were 263 feet down. That's 5½ feet a year. Now, the deepest hole they've ever drilled is 10,000 feet. You divide that by 5½ you get 1,800 years. I know deeper layers get squished, called glacial firn. So really 4,000 years is plenty of time to put all the ice at the North and South Poles. So, why isn't there more ice at the North and South Pole? 
Your kids are gonna be taught that each of the layers of the earth is a different age. They've got Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Archeozoic. Did you know the whole geologic column is baloney? It doesn't exist. We cover that on video #4.
All over the world petrified trees are found standing up connecting these rock layers. A petrified tree connecting a bunch of layers, can't be millions of years difference in the age of the layers. One at Cookville, Tennessee, not far from here. The bottom is coalified; the center is petrified; the top is coalified again. Runs through two coal seams. We cover more on that on video #6 about coal formation. Mt. Saint Helens blew trees into Spirit Lake. They're gonna petrify very quickly, standing up. That's the way they sank to the bottom. They got water-logged. Wood petrifies quickly. 
“The Mississippi River is depositing sediments at the rate of 80,000 tons every hour.”
Here is a picture of the oldest tree on the planet, it's called the Bristle cone pine.
Here is a picture of a coral reef. Did you know the largest reef in the world is in Australia? I had a call from a church in Brisbane one time. They said: “Do you want to come preach over here in Australia?” I said: “I need to pray about this.” He said: “Yes!” I took my whole family over to Australia. 
My daughter and I got to go scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef. It was incredible! Some of the reef was destroyed during World War II by ships and anchors and bombs and stuff like that. So the environmentalists wacko's went out there to see how fast it grows back. They watched the reef grow for 20 years. (It was a government project.) After watching it grow for 20 years, they said the reef is less than 4,200 years old. Ok. Well, than I have a question. If the earth is millions of years old, why don't we have a bigger reef someplace? Why on earth would the biggest reef be only 4,200 years old? 
Here's a picture of Niagara Falls. The textbook says, boys and girls: “The rocky ledge above Niagara Falls has been eroding for nearly 9,900 years.”
He said: “It's 10,000 years worth of erosion.” The people that lived there said: “Charlie, it erodes a whole lot faster than you think. One good rainstorm and there is a whole lot of erosion takes place.” He figured three feet a year. Purposely to make the Bible look wrong, he hated the Bible. We get into more onto him on video #4. Today Niagara Falls is way back there, split over that island. It's actually two Niagara Falls, the Canadian side and the American side. It has eroded back quite a way just since Charles Lyells’ time. 
When it rains, 30% of the water runs into the ocean, bringing with it mineral salts. The oceans are getting saltier every day. Today they are 3.6% salt. They could have done that in less than 5,000 years. Question: “Why aren't the oceans saltier?” Well, you see 6,000 years ago God made everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood. Now since the Flood's been over, the oceans have gradually gotten saltier. One atheist I debated said: “Hovind, can you please tell me how the fresh-water fish survived the Flood?” I said: “Sir, aren't you assuming the flood was salt water.” He said: “The ocean is salt water.” I said: “Well, it is today. Yeah. During the Flood it was probably mostly fresh water and it has gradually gotten saltier. And today some animals have had to adapt to salt water. And now we have fresh-water crocodiles, and salt-water crocodiles, and they probably had a common ancestor. A crocodile.” He said: “That's evolution.” I said: “No, it's not. Going from a fresh-water croc to a salt-water croc is a minor change compared to your evolution story. You believe they changed from a rock to a ‘crock’. Now, that's a major change!,” ok. 
A guy in Wyoming had a hot mineral spring on his property in Thermopolis, Wyoming; so he stuck a pipe in the ground. The water came out the top of the pipe and bubbled down the side of the top of the pipe, you know. They had a little fountain. They called it the Teepee Fountain. Well, the guy died. They left the pipe sticking in the yard. As the pipe was there, it left behind mineral deposits as the water evaporated. How many have seen these mineral deposits? You get them on your sink up here, ok. The guy died, and about 95 years after the pipe was stuck in the ground, I went to see it. Here it is, back in 1998. That would take some Lime-A-way to scrub that thing clean, don't you think? Yes, a little bit. 
The Chinese said the year 2,000 was the year 4,700. They think they started their calendar with the Flood. They called Noah, Phu Hi. The oldest recorded capital punishment was 3,800 years ago.
That Bible is absolutely right, folks. Absolutely correct, scientifically. The evidence for a young earth is overwhelming. Students aren't taught that. Students are only shown the evidence for an old earth. Remember the coins in the box? They'd better deal with the youngest ones. Not the oldest ones. These books aren't really science books anymore. They are books about evolution. I think it's part of a much bigger picture, for a New World Order. You see, the guys that started this country said: “We hold these truths to be self evident... All men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain rights.” Like you have the right to have a church, or does the government create churches. It is the difference between 501(c)(3) and 508 (c)(1)(A), you better study that out. You have the right to get married, or is the government give the right to get married. There is a difference between a marriage license and a marriage covenant. Big difference! Better study that out.
But did you know that “75% of kids from Christian homes who go to public schools will reject the Christian faith after one year of college”?
But first, I want to try to brainwash everybody. Here's what's gonna happen. I am gonna tell you a little story. As I tell the story, I will brainwash you. Maybe you've never been brainwashed before. It's a harmless procedure. Don't worry about it, ok. When I am done telling the story, I will ask you two simple questions about the story. If you know the answer, I just want you to raise your hand, ok. If you don't know the answer, it will be because you have been successfully brainwashed. Now pay attention, here goes the story. 
Would you like to see how kids get brainwashed in your school system by the millions every year? Millions of kids in America, every single year, get brainwashed. And it's so simple how they do it. They put the kid in kindergarten; he can't even read yet. And they give him a book like this: I Can Read About Dinosaurs. Would anybody like to just take a wild guess at what the first sentence in the book says? “Millions of years ago...” And that kid's being thrown off track in the first five seconds. How many kids are being taught that in your town? Like all of them. That's calling Jesus a liar. Did dinosaurs live millions of years ago? 
Dr. Seuss even says it: “Millions of years before you were born.” Jesus said: “The creation of Adam was the beginning.” (Matt. 19:4) Somebody's wrong, folks! 
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