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Dr. Hovind taught science for 15 years. Then he got his PhD in education. He's always had a love for teaching. But one thing that he has discovered is that in many of the science textbooks across America today there are some fallacies; some false information being presented. Why is this information in the science textbooks? What are they trying to prove? Hi, my name is Eric. And in this seminar called: Lies in the Textbooks, you are gonna to find out some of those lies that are being presented, and what you can do about it.
Seminar 4: Lies in the Textbooks
Well, welcome to our seminar on Lies in the Textbooks. My name is Kent Hovind. I taught high school science for 15 years. And now, since 1989, I've been doing seminars on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs. And our goal is to strengthen your faith in God's Word. Now, this is not my wife, that's just a picture of her. We live in Pensacola, Florida. Been there for 16 years. We have three children, one of each, and I got them all married and the dog died. I praised God, so I am home free. And as we mentioned earlier we have four grandkids so far, and that's God's reward for not killing your own kids, when you thought about it. So, we got a whole tribe, and they all live right around me and all work in our ministry. A real blessing to have them right there. God has given us an amazing staff of people at Creation Science Evangelism (CSE). Our purpose is to get people saved, ok. We like science at our place. We have ‘Dinosaur Adventure Land’. We have a science center, a theme park, and a museum, all kinds of cool science stuff. Some people try to say: “Well, you Christians are against science.” No-no-no, I like science. I am against evolution because it is not part of science. Evolution is a lie, ok. There is no scientific evidence to back up evolution. We will get into that in just a minute.  Moral aspects
Now, I like science and I collect public school textbooks; I have hundreds of them. From many many countries. From clear back from 1880, I believe, to 2005 textbooks. I am not against science. We happen to really like the subject. We have all kinds of cool science displays at our museum, in our science entry. You can come down visit ‘Dinosaur Adventure Land’ and see for yourself. I am however against lying to kids. Now in the first three video's we talked about how students are being lied to about the big bang, it didn't happen. They're being lied to about the age of the earth. it is not billions of years old. They're being lied to about the cavemen. There has never been a ‘cave man’. Unless you mean, Osama bin Laden. They're being lied to about the dinosaurs. They did not live millions of years ago. Here we're gonna cover about 30 more lies in the textbooks. There are hundreds we could go through. We are gonna try to hit the highlights. This could go for days, just covering lies in our textbooks. I am gonna hit some of the big ones. Leave some of the little ones go for another time, when we have more time.
Now, I am not against teachers. My mother was a godly woman, led my dad to the Lord on their first date. She retired from teaching public school years ago. Been in heaven now for about 7 years. My brother led me to the Lord. He just retired last year from teaching public school after 34 years. There are many good, godly teachers in the system. There are many good, godly principles. Many good, godly school board members. I am not against schools. I am not against school boards. I am not against teachers. I am not against textbooks. I am against lies. He, let's just keep it in perspective. Is there anyone here who thinks teachers or textbooks should be allowed to deliberately lie to students for any reason? And I mean deliberately. They might be lying and not know they are lying, ok. But if they are deliberately lying, that shouldn't be allowed, should it, ok? Wisconsin has a law that requires textbooks to be accurate.
There are two interpretations of how it got there.
I was in a debate one time and this atheist said: “Hovind, you're so stupid. Don't you know it took millions of years to carve the Grand Canyon?” I said: “Well sir, there's a couple of things you ought to learn about the Grand Canyon.” If you built a dam across Grand Canyon a huge lake would fill in behind it. Covering several states, ok. I mean, it would take a lot of dirt to build the dam. But if you could build a dam across that canyon you'd have a really big lake. I have flown by and taken lots of pictures. I asked the pilot one time; I was going... I said: “Are we going near the Grand Canyon.” He said: “Yeah, about a hundred miles.” I said: “Can you get permission to, you know, divert, go closer?” He said: “Ah, let me see what I can do.” He got permission and we flew right over the top of the canyon! Thoo-thoo... I was taking pictures like crazy, you know. Love studying Grand Canyon. Actually, it's a bunch of useless real estate. I mean, what would you do with it if you had it?, you know. You can look at it and then go home. That is about it, but... I mean, you can't plow it, that's for sure. And you don't want your cows playing out there, but... I said to this professor, I said: “Sir, there is a couple of things to consider about this canyon.” I said: “These two red lines indicate what is called the ‘snow line’, ok. Between those two red lines is a ridge that gets about 6900-8500 feet (2100-2600 m) above see level. Now, the river enters the canyon at the far right over there. At 2800 feet (850 m) elevation. The river flows downhill for 270 miles (435 km). Comes out the other side. If you look at it from a side view, a schematic view, it looks like this. The river comes in 2800 feet elevation. The ground rises up while the river goes down for 270 miles. Now sir, there are a few things to consider about this canyon.” I said: “Did you know that the top of the Grand Canyon is higher than the bottom?” And he said: “Yes, obviously.” I said: “Sir, did you know the river only runs through the bottom?” He said: “Well, yeah.” I said: “Sir, did you know the top is higher than where the river enters the canyon by over 4,000 feet (1,200 m)?” He got a dazed look on his face, like a calf looking at a new gate. I said: “Sir, did you know that rivers don't flow uphill in Tennessee?”
There is no delta. Where is the mud that washed out the Grand Canyon? No one has a clue, ok. That river did not make that canyon! The Grand Canyon is a washed out spillway. There used to be two big lakes, Grand Lake and Hopi Lake. The lakes are long gone, but the beaches are still there. You can still see the beach line. If you look at Grand Canyon, it is pretty obvious that it is a washed out spillway, ok. Almost all rivers around the world come together at what is called acute angles, less than 90°. I mean, the rivers merge and keep going the same, you know, general direction. If you look at the Grand Canyon, the rivers on the lower left are indeed merging at acute angles, less than 90°. But, if you look at the upper right, the rivers are flowing backwards. Why would they do that?
Now, are there any farmers or vets in the crowd that might know what this machine is? What is that brother? That's a calf puller. That's a what...? A calfpuller! Once in a while a cow has a hard time having that baby calf and so they get the calf puller out. Tie the cable around the calf's legs and krr..krr... krr..krr..., jack the calf out of the cow. You got a few tons of pressure there, calf comes right out, no problem. Well, one day this farmer was out pulling a calf. It was a breeched birth, the back feet were coming out first. That is not good, but, you know, happens once in a while. So the farmer had the calf puller out there, he is krr..krr... krr..krr..., trying to pull the calf out of the cow. And a city fella stopped his car to see what on earth is going on. And the farmer said: “Have you seen anything like this before?” Beginnings of evolution theory
 Hey, is it possible for the entire world to go insane? Well, the Bible says: “...the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.” (Rev. 12:9) I think we are living in a time when just about the whole world has gone nuts. They believe they come from a rock 4.6 billion years ago. How dumb can you get? II Peter (3:4) goes on to say: “Where is the promise of his coming?,” that's what the scoffers gonna say, “For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” That is an important phrase. The scoffers are gonna say the way things are happening now is the way they've always been happening. Long, slow, gradual processes. The Bible says, the scoffers are “ willingly ignorant.” (II Pet. 3:5) Willingly ignorant, in the Greek that means, dumb on purpose. They are willingly ignorant of how God made the heavens and the earth, and they're ignorant of the Flood. The world was “overflowed with water and perished.”(II Pet. 3:6) We cover more on that on videotape #2 in our series.
So, back when everybody thought that the earth was a few thousand years old, James Hutton came along and said: “Oh no, it is lots older than that, and it got here by ‘uniformitarianism’.” Oh kids, big word, bold print, that'll be on the test, they always are, ok. Uniformitarianism means, the present is the key to the past.
It is a fact the earth has many layers of sedimentary rock. That is just a fact. You can see them all over Tennessee here. How did they get there? Well, there are two interpretations.
It's true the earth has layers. That's not the question, ok. How did they get there though? I mean, if that layer sat there for 10 million years, waiting for the next one, don't you think it is gonna rain once in a while? In 10 million years? Why are there no erosion marks between the layers? Why are they stacked on top of each other, just like a stack of pancakes? And by the way, why are there no soil layers between the rock layers? I mean, soil builds up on top of rock. Won't you think there'd be some soil build up once in a while? Look, if you get a jar with dirt, rocks, gravel, sand and mud and shake it up, and set it down, it settles into layers for you in a few minutes. It doesn't take long. How many have seen those things you buy at the mall with two pieces of glass, and different colours sand in between? And you flip it over and it makes all kinds of layers, just in a few seconds. It doesn't take long.
I was preaching years ago in Union Center, South Dakota. Now Union Center is right there. It is not even on the map. And South Dakota puts everything they could find on their map, just to kinda fill in the white places, you know. Well, there were 40 people in the whole town; 38 of them came to church. The other two must have been pulling a calf I reckon, I don't know. But we had a great meeting, and the preacher said: “Hey Hovind, let's go to Rapid City, they got a bunch of dinosaurs in the museum there.” I said: “Alright, I like dinosaurs. Let's go!”
That fella drove 50 miles one way that night to come hear me speak in Union Center, South Dakota. The crowd swelled to thirty-nine! We set up a chair in the aisle. Afterwards he talked to me for an hour. He said: “Hovind, is everything I believe about geology wrong?
I like to ask evolutionists, I said: “Guys, your geologic column contains limestone in quite a few places. If I handed you a piece of limestone how would you know if it is 100 million years old Jurassic limestone or 600 million years old Cambrian limestone? I mean, exactly what is the difference?” They'd say: “Well, the only way to tell the difference is by the index fossils.” That is precisely my point. They date the layers by the fossils.
One atheist said: “Well, it is obviously, the only answer would be that aliens visited the planet 500 million years ago. Oh, them aliens will do it every time. Another guy said: “Well, maybe there was a large trilobite, shaped like a shoe, that fell on a small one.” Now, there are some big trilobites, ok. But I don't think they are shaped like a shoe. Actually, the trilobite has the most complicated eyeball ever! Trilobite eyes are unbelievable. And this is one of the first creatures to evolve? And it already has the most complex eye?! Just the eye is one of the most complex features you could have.
No, trilobites are not ‘index fossils’ for anything, ok. There are all kinds of different types of trilobites, and there are probably are some still alive today. Certainly the Baltic isopod is still alive.
Now, Charlie Darwin didn't like round numbers. So he said: “The Wealden deposits are 306,662,400 years old.”
Central Alabama has got a large coal mine with a whole bunch of petrified trees standing up running through two seams of coal, the Blue Creek and the Mary Lee. Now they're gonna tell you in school, for coal to form, a forest has to grow and then it all falls over and turns into a swamp and then it gets buried. And then new mud washes in on top and the coal slowly forms from the forest that was buried. And then thousands of years later another forest grows on top. And a whole new layer of coal forms. So if you find two layers of coal, “Oh, that took thousands of years,” that's what they'll tell you in school. That is simply baloney. We cover more on coal formation on video #6. But, if you look at the samples of trees found in this coal mine, you look at sample A, B, C, D, E, F, G; I mean, every freshman lawstudent could tell ya: “Hey folks, I think I can prove these two coal formations formed at the same time, very quickly,” within a few weeks or months of each other, that's for sure. Probably during the Flood in the days of Noah. We cover more on that on video #6.
In Cookville, Tennessee, how far is Cookville from here?...A 100 miles? ...150 miles. In Cookville, Tennessee there is a coal mine with petrified trees standing, running..., it is coalified at the bottom, petrified in the middle, and coalified on top! Where it went through a second coal seam. Same tree. By the way, why are coal seams generally found on top of layers of rock or clay? Wouldn't that be a pretty poor place to grow a forest? Occasionally, the petrified trees are found upside down running through many rock layers. Now we really got a problem. I have thought about this till my brain hurts. The evolutionists have two ways to solve this.
Mount St. Helens blew thousands of trees into Spirit Lake. Lots of those trees are now stuck in the mud at the bottom of Spirit Lake. They are gonna petrify in standing position. More on video #6 about that. It doesn't take long for things to petrify.
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There is an amazing gem and mineral museum just south of Bloomington, Illinois. In a little bitty tiny town called Shirley Illinois, you got to be trying to find it to get there. But it's worth going to see the Funk Gem and Mineral Museum, ok.
More on petrification on video #6. So kids, when they tell you the layers are different ages, you tell them Kent Hovind said: “They are confused or they're lying!” It is not correct. Those layers all formed, nearly all of them, at the time of Noah's flood. “Eighty to eighty-five of earth's surface does not even have 3 geologic periods appearing in correct consecutive order.”
Even though this geologic column does not exist; except in the textbooks; that teaching is what changed people, in the 1830s, away from believing the Bible to believing in uniformitarianism. This teaching especially affected a young preacher. He just got out of Bible college, studied to be a pastor of a church. His name was Charles Darwin. Anybody ever heard of Charles Darwin? Charles Darwin graduated from Bible college to be a preacher. And he's gonna sail around the world for 5 years first and collect some bugs for some, you know, bugologists back there in England. Charlie brought some books with him. He brought his Bible, of course. He just got out of Bible college, and he brought this brand new book Principles of Geology. Charlie said, that book changed his life forever. He later wrote to a friend and said: “Disbelief crept over me slowly. I felt no distress.” He slowly lost his faith in the Bible.
As Darwin sailed around the world, he stopped off at the Galapagos Islands. Here on those islands, he noticed there were 14 different varieties of finches. Little tiny birds with a little tiny beak, but the beak shapes were different. Now the Grant's
See, this word ‘evolution’ has six meanings. We've been through this before, so I'm gonna go through it kind of quickly.
So whenever you discuss evolution, you have to define what you're talking about. If you're talking about #6, I'm with you. I agree that happens. If you're talking about the first 5, that doesn't happen. That is something you believe happens, ok. Watch how they change the definition for the kids. They say, ok boys and girls, “Evolution is change over time.” Oh, is that really what they mean? Watch this carefully now. Most evolutionists will say: “Well, macro-evolution is just micro with longer periods of time.” No, it's not. They had a big conference on this very question in Chicago. They said: “The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. ... the answer can be given as a clear, No.”
I grew up in Illinois, corn country. Did you know there are so many kinds of corn up there, they have to number them? You'd be driving down the highway, and there's a sign that says BX65. Don't mix it with XL29, something will explode. Well, folks, you can cross-breed corn from now to the cows come home, and you always going to get corn. You're never gonna get a hamster, a tomato or a whale to grow on your cornstalk. It just ain't gonna happen, ok. There is a whole variety of dogs in the world, and they might have had a common ancestor, a dog. This Mexican textbook says: “The horse and the zebra had a common ancestor.” You know, horses, zebras and asses can all be crossbred. They have a competition in California, who can get the weirdest animal. They'll get zorses, zonkeys, zeonies, z-donks, zebrass, and shebras. Here's a zebra who forgot to put his pj's on. Here's a herd of zebroids running around.
You know, in the last hundred years, the Kentucky Derby has gone from an average running speed of 127 seconds down to 123 seconds. Even in the old days, they had some pretty low times turned in, ok.
The sugar beets were used for years when sugar got expensive. They wanted to get sugar out of beets. So they tried to do selective breeding to increase the sugar content in sugar beets. They raised it from 6% to 17%, but could not... they ran into a brick wall, they can't go past 17, and... the further they got away from the normal wild sugar beet, the more problems they started having. Now you got to babysit the field and spray pesticides and bugicides and everything else on it, ok, because its disease resistance goes down.  Genetic information already present; Bacteria resistance to drugs is a loss of information
People say: “Don't bacteria become resistant to drugs?” Well, that's because they lose information, not gain it. I'll show you. Dr. Spetner points out: “This is based on a misunderstanding. For the mutations that cause antibiotic resistance still involve information loss. For example, to destroy bacterium, the antibiotic streptomycin attaches to part of the bacterial cell called ribosomes. Mutations sometimes cause a structural deformity in ribosomes. Since the antibiotic cannot connect with the misshapen ribosome, the bacterium is resistant. Even though this mutation turns out to be beneficial, (for the moment) it still constitutes a loss of information, not a gain. No ‘evolution’ has taken place. The bacteria are not ‘stronger’. In fact, under normal conditions with no antibiotic present, they are weaker than their non-mutated cousins.” The evolution theory philosophy
[list of persons that lost their faith as a youth listed on seminar slides that are not named here above, see here] It's amazing how many thousands of people down through history have lost their faith because of this evolution teaching.
The list is really long. We'll have to quit now. But “75% of kids from Christian homes who go to public schools lose their faith after one year of college.”
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The Bible says in the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Don't lie! Proverbs (19:5,9) says: “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.” God hates liars. The Bible says: “...they delight in lies.” (Ps. 62:4), ok. “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ...a lying tongue.” Then a couple of verses later: “A false witness that speaketh lies.” (Prov. 6:16-17,19) Out of the seven things God hates, two of them are liars. He must really hate them. He lists them in there twice, ok. Jesus said: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)
Now, I am not trying to get evolution out of the public schools, I'm not. I think that any theory should be allowed to be taught, if you don't have to lie to support your theory. That's false evidence, ok. I'm not trying to get creation into the schools. And I think Christians that work on either of those are wasting their time. And many people have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to accomplish those two goals. It's futile, it's not gonna happen. I am however trying to get lies out of the textbooks. I think we'll find that if we take the lies out of the books there is nothing left to support evolution. Well, that is their problem. They shouldn't have picked such a dumb theory to begin with, ok. It's not my fault, ok. 
So does Alabama. “Textbooks shall be adequate and current...,”)
This is a textbook from about 100 years ago. It says: “God created the heavens and the earth in six days.”; “Prayer is a duty, but it is vain to pray without a sincere desire of heart ...”; “God governs the world with infinite wisdom ...”.
Acktually, I was in Chickasha, Oklahoma, a couple of weeks ago. It was supposed to be a debate, but none of the professors would debate me. So they scheduled an evolution seminar two days after I was gone. They let me come and speak on creation, the student group got me in there. Here is a poster they put up right next to my poster. The poster was inviting people to come to the evolution seminar. “Interested in Evolution? Well come on down! Evolution lectures with Dr. Mather and Dr. Reigh.” It says: “Hear BOTH sides of the issue.” Well, we invited them to debate. They could have heard both sides all together. Here the kids get nine months of evolution teaching, I come in for two hours, and they panic. And then they got to say: “Hear both sides...”? Both sides? They're not going to present both sides. They are gonna present one side, the evolution side; which is what they already got for nine months. )
This is a chart showing how the atheists feel that the different states are doing with the teaching of evolution.
It has always amazed me how two people can look at the same thing and come to opposite conclusions of what they are looking at. You know, two people can look at Grand Canyon. One of them believes in evolution. He looks at the canyon and says: “Wow, look what the Colorado River did ...for millions and millions of years.” The Bible believing Christian stands there and looks at the same canyon and says: “Wow, look at what the Flood did in about 30 minutes.” Now, how was that canyon formed? Textbook says: “Over millions of years the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon from solid rock.” Oh, now hold on a second, ok. It is a fact that the Grand Canyon exists. I have been there a bunch of times. I taught earth science for 15 years. I love studying Grand Canyon. 
And the guys who believe in evolution are always trying to erase the line. The line between their interpretation and try to include it as if it is part of the fact. No, no, it is just your interpretation guys, ok. This textbook says: “The Colorado River has cut through layer upon layer of rock over millions of years...”
Actually some of the water from Wyoming drains through the Grand Canyon. It has a huge drainage pattern. Here is a picture of it, satellite false color image. You can see Grand Canyon right there. A big gash, right across a ridge in the mountains. You folks in Tennessee know where the ridge is. Not really a mountain, just a big long ridge, ok.
They got too full, and went over the top and washed out that canyon in a hurry. Any farmer that has ever built a dam to hold water for his cows will tell you. Once the water goes over the top of the dam, pfoow..., it's all over with. That's why they guard the levy like crazy during flood seasons, don't they? Get out there with sandbags. You don't want it to even get started. Thoomph..., gone in a flash, ok. This river flows down, this way, obviously it started at the top, must have been a big lake up there. Even El Paso, Texas is called ‘El Paso’ because it's the pass, ok. I bet there used to be a big lake backed up behind El Paso. 
That dried up and left the white sands of New Mexico behind. That's another long interesting story, but...
The rivers run backwards, hit the main channel, turn around and come back the other way. It is called a barbed canyon. There aren't many places like this on the planet. Well, this is evidence that a lake is draining. And as the water was running of the spillway backwards into the channel, it turns around, off the dam. Water runs off the dam to the low place, turns around, comes back out through the crack, to the breach in the dam. Grand Canyon was not made by the Colorado River over millions of years. That is one of the lies you kids are gonna face in your textbooks. It is just not geophysically possible for that to happen. 
The city fella said: “I have never seen anything like this.” The farmer said: “Do you have any questions?” The city fella said: “Yes sir, I have one question that has been bogging me for 10 minutes.” The farmer said: “Well, what's your question?” And the city fella said: “How fast do you figure that calf was going when it ran into that cow?” No, no, no, no, no! We are not separating a wreck here, fellas. You know, it is possible for two people to be looking at the same thing and one of them is getting the wrong idea at what he is looking at. 
The Bible warned us that's what's gonna happen. “Knowing this first, there shall come in the last days scoffers.” Did you know there are people that scoff at the Bible? I deal with them on a regular basis. I attract them like a lightning rod, tsjeee-poogh.... They scoff, it says, because of “their lusts.” There is no scientific reason for them to reject the Bible. They just don't like that book because it chaps their hide. So they are scoffing because of their lusts, not because of their science, ok. Even Huxley admitted: “I suppose the reason we leapt at the Origin of Species was that the idea of God interfered with our sexual morés.”
The Bible says: “...they did not like to retain God in their knowledge.” (Rom. 1:28) “...for this cause God shall send them strong delusion...” (II Thess. 2:11) Anybody that believes they evolved from a rock 4.6 billion years ago, I would say, is strongly deluded. You would have to have help to be that dumb, you could not do it on your own. You have to have years of training and conditioning to believe such a silly idea. Hey, is it possible for a person to go insane? I mean, absolutely loony? Oh yeah, that happens, doesn't it?, ok. Is it possible for an entire group of people to go insane? Can you imagine over 900 people drinking poisoned cool-aid and killing themselves? A whole group went insane.
One of the scoffers in the last days was a guy named James Hutton. Now James Hutton lived in the late 1700s. James wrote a book that said: “The earth is millions of years old.” Now, you need to understand that in the late 1700s most Western people believed the Bible. Or at least they were strongly influenced by Christianity. And everybody thought the earth was about 6,000 years old. That was the common teaching of the day, ok. They taught the kids in the public school, you know, God created the world in six days. Like we saw earlier. But this was also a time of many revolutions. We had the American Revolution; the French Revolution; the Polish, the Spanish, the German... Every country is just about revolting against the idea of a king, and establishing a democracy. 
So they threw off monarchies. And this is known as the age of Anti-Monarchy. So the Bible says to “Honour the king.” (I Pet. 2:17) And some people thought the Bible was an obstacle to their political objectives. And they wanted to discredit the Bible. Keep in mind this all happened early 1800s and late 1700s. 
No, James, I think that the Bible is the only perfect key to the past. But during this time frame Christians instead of fighting against this new teaching of ‘millions of years’, they swallowed it. The Christians accepted the idea of a Gap theory, or Day-age theory, or Progressive creation. They just accepted ‘millions of years’ right into the Bible. When it is obvious to anybody with half a brain and one eye reading the Bible that it does not teach the earth is millions of years old. That's not what it says. So, the Christians did not put up an effective defense, effective resistence to this teaching. And they allowed the church to believe all this. And then when evolution came out; 1859 became popular with Darwin's book; well the Christians just accepted that too! Boy, what a tragedy. That book covers The Great Turning Point in history, if you got like the history of stuff. 
Well, James Hutton's book had a real strong influence on a young lawyer from Scotland, named Charles Lyell. Charles Lyell, the lawyer, hated the Bible. Somebody calculated one time that if all the lawyers in the world were laid end to end around the equator, we would all be better off! Charles Lyell, in 1830, wrote this book right here, Principles of Geology. I've got it here on the table. You can come and take a look at it, it is all marked up. In this book you can see his hatred for the Bible, kinda ooze off every page. He kept calling it “ancient doctrines,” he said: “Oh, you have scriptural authority,”
And kids, you won't have to go to college very far before you're gonna run into a professor that has this mocking attitude toward God's word. How many of you had one when you went through school? It seems like their whole goal in life is to destroy your faith. I had a bunch of them when I went to school. They just wanna destroy your confidence. Well, Charles said his goal was to “free the science from Moses.”
Lyell was the primary guy responsible for inventing what today is known as the ‘geologic column’. How many of you have ever heard of the geologic column before? They divided the earth up into layers and gave them names, you know. Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Archeozoic, all that kind of stuff. Maybe you saw the movie Jurassic Park, named after the Jurassic layer, ok. Each layer of rock was given a name, and an age, and an index fossil. Now keep in mind all this was done in 1830 before there ever was Carbon dating; Potassium-Argon dating; Rubidium-Strontium dating; Lead 208; Lead 206; Uranium-235; Uranium-238; none of those had even been thought of. So they didn't determine these great ages by any radiometric decay method. They just picked the numbers out of the clear blue sky. 
And again, they are always trying to erase that line between the two and make their interpretation become part of the facts, and it's just not, ok. It is just their interpretation, that's all. The geologic column is actually the Bible for the evolutionist. The only place you will ever find it is in the textbooks. It doesn't exist. This guy admits it, he said: “If there were a column of sediments... Unfortunately no such column exists.”
So we all drove down to Rapid City. We came to this museum, and the guide met us at the door. He said: “Folks, would you like me to give you a tour?” We said; “That would be great, sir!” Well, the first place we stopped at on the tour was the ‘Geologic Time Chart’. They have it lit up and it is behind glass, that's holy and sacred, don't dear touch that thing, you know. So, we are standing over there, the guide said: “Folks, this layer of rock right here is 70 million years old.” It is so cool, because they always get sanctimonious tone in their voice, you know. “70...million...years...old ...ooh....” [somberly spoken, giving bows] Well, my daughter was 12 years old at the time. She raised her hand. She said: “Mister, how do you know that layer is 70 million years old?” He said: “Honey, that's a good question. We tell the age of the layers by what types of fossils we find in them. They are called ‘index fossils’.” And by the way, that is correct; that is what the textbooks says. “Scientists use index fossils to determine the age of rock layers.”
We walked around the other side. We are standing over here, and the guy says: “Now folks, these bones are about 100...million...years...old.” [somberly spoken and giving bows] My daughter raised her hand again. She said: “Sir, how do you know those bones are 100 million years old?” He said: “Well, honey, we tell the age of the bones by which layer they came from.” She said: “Eh sir, when we were standing over there, you told me that you knew the age of the layers by the bones. Now you are telling me you know the age of the bones by the layers.” she said: “Isn't that ,sir, circular reasoning?” 
I thought, wow, a chip off the old block. That guy had the strangest look on his face. It was almost as if he were thinking. He looked at my daughter, he looked at me. I wasn't about to help him! I thought, wow, this is gonna be good. I have got to hear this. He looked back at my daughter and said: “Wow, you're right. That's circular reasoning.” He said: “I never thought of that before.” 
I teach this stuff at the college.” I said: “No-no-no-no, I like geology. I have a huge fossil collection, rock collection, mineral collection.” I teach earth science, I love studying geology.” I said: “But as far as the layers being different ages,” I said, “Yes sir, I'm sorry, that is all baloney.” It is based on circular reasoning. I'll show you. Here is a textbook that tells kids to “Date the rocks by the fossils.” And on the very next page it says to “Date the fossils by the rocks.” On the next page, and they don't catch it! It's a lie; circular reasoning.
“The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply, feeling the explanations are not worth the trouble as long as the work brings results.”
This textbook shows the kids a trilobite. And it says, boys and girls: “Trilobites make good index fossils. If a trilobite is found in a rock layer, the rock layer probably formed 500 to 600 million years ago.”
A guy sent me, a couple months ago I guess, a whole jar full of trilobites from the Prudhoe Bay water treatment plant up there for the oil refining rig they got. When they arrived in Pensacola, Florida they were still alive in the jar! But I don't know how to keep a trilobite alive. I mean, what do you give them, mouth to what, you know, some resuscitation, but...? They all died. We got them in our museum there. Somebody just sent me a large one that they got down in the Caribbean. About this big [15'] (40 cm). It is in our museum and it was frozen. He said: “Yeah, I pulled it off a rock myself, down in the Caribbean, still alive. They call it for some kind of roach.” Roach? It looks like a big trilobite! 
This textbook shows the kids a graptolite. It says, boys and girls: “This is 410 million years old.”
And when they caught the first one 1938 the scientists looked at it and said: “Wow, would you look at that, they survived for 355 million years.” It never dawned on them once to question the geologic column. That thought never crossed their brains. You don't question the geologic column, it is holy and sacred. You just have to say: “It survived for 355 million years.” It is in the textbooks today.
How can they be that dumb? This lady wrote a book about it, A Fish Caught in Time. Yes, boys and girls, this is “our own great-uncle forty million times removed.”
All over the world petrified trees are found standing up, connecting these different rock layers. Petrified trees standing up, now how long does a dead tree stand up around here before it falls down? 5 years, maybe 10 years, ... 5 million? Oh no, not 5 million, that's for sure, alright. But yet, petrified trees in the vertical position are found all over the planet. I'll just flash through some pictures real quick here. There are all kinds of petrified trees found standing up. And they are running through multiple layers. And the kids are being taught the layers are different ages. And yet here's one tree connecting them all. I am having a hard time believing these layers are different ages, that's what I'm having. 
It ought to be on top of soil, don't you think?, ya. Polystrate fossils are found all over the world. In Joggins, Nova Scotia, there are dozens of petrified trees standing up connecting different rock layers. Scientists just go up there and look at them just say: “Wow, that is curious.” No, it is more than curious. It is devastating to your teaching that the layers are different ages. There is a brochure you can get from our bookstore, it's $2, it has 30-some pictures, colored pictures of petrified trees in the vertical position. 
Petrified pickle found in a jar. The guy sent me the jar and pickle. He said: “Brother Hovind, I found this in Montana in an old home, the house was ...a junk, the roof was gone, the house was falling apart.” But he said: “Do you wanna petrified pickle for your museum?” I said: “Of course, who in their right mind would not want a petrified pickle!,” you know. Come on down to Pensacola Dinosaur Adventure Land, and see the petrified pickle. 
He said: “Would you like ’em for your museum?” I said: “Of course.” Come on down and see the petrified acorns. 
Not much. Darwin looked at the birds and said: “You know what? I think all these birds had a common ancestor.” I bet you're right, Charles, it was a bird. And then Charlie said: “Well, maybe this proves that birds and bananas are related.” You say: “Oh, he never said that”. He sure did! I knew you wouldn't believe me so I brought his book. It's right here. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. On page 170, Darwin said: “It's a truly wonderful fact that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other.” Isn't he saying the birds and bananas are related? He sure is. This is a lie. 
What Charlie observed is what is sometimes called micro-evolution. Micro-evolution tells us, dogs produce a variety of dogs. That's a fact. It happens, ok? And roses produce a variety of roses. Nobody argues about that. The question is, does it go any farther than that? You may get a big dog or a little dog, but you get a dog every time. And probably the dog, the wolf, and the coyote had a common ancestor. I wouldn't argue about that. We did the test this morning. We had a 5-year-old girl. We said: “Ok, here we have a dog, a wolf, a coyote and a banana. Which one is not like the others?” She got it, the banana. We've got college professors can't figure that out. As National Pornographic eh... Geographic says: “The evolution of dogs from wolves.”
“In other words, ...living things have changed over time.”
The gene pool of the new variety is always more limited. Somebody spent years cross-breeding dogs to develop the Chihuahua. All of that money to make a dog that is 100% useless. I mean, think about it. How long would the Chihuahuas last in the real world. Turn them all loose into the woods. Watch what happens. They run up to the wolf. Yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap. Crunch, end of gene code, right?
Here's BBC News: “It looks like 95% of current dogs came from just 3 original founding females.”
Question: “How much money would you guess has been spent on selective breeding trying to get the fastest horse for the Kentucky Derby?” Millions and millions of dollars. They do the same thing right around here, don't they? Spend lots of money for a Tennessee Walker. What's the most expensive Tennessee Walking Horse that you've ever heard of? A million dollars for one horse? Three million for one horse? That's how much per pound? Man, when I was in Italy, we ate horse over there. It was good too. It tasted like chicken, you know. I don't know if they've gotten to the absolute limits of horse speed or not. I don't know. But I suspect they're getting kind of close, ok? If you really want to win the Kentucky Derby, why don't you breed wings on your horse and fly around the track in 12 seconds? The whole point is, sure, you get varieties, but they're limited. 
There is bunch of different kinds of cows in the world, and they might have a common ancestor, a cow. There is magazines where you order chickens. All right, boys and girls, should we order, you know, Cinnamon Queens, Red Rocks, White Rocks, Cherry Eggers or Brown Leghorns? Well, look what the magazine says: “Jungle Fowl are the original bird from which all varieties and strains of domesticated chickens are derived.”
In California, they got huge fields where they graft English walnut trees onto black walnut stumps. They do it because the black walnut stump, the root system is tough and can handle the weather over there. But the black walnut doesn't taste as good, it doesn't sell for as much money, and it's tougher to crack. English walnuts taste better. They sell for more money, and they're easier to crack, but the root system rots. So they cut them off and stick ’em together. They do it all, over there. Well, they can do it because they're both a walnut. See, you could never graft an English walnut tree onto the back of a turtle. That won't work, see? 
James Hutton wrote a book in 1795, and people began to doubt the earth was 6,000 years old. Charlie Lyell wrote a book in 1830, and people began to doubt the Flood. And Charlie Darwin's book made people doubt the Creator. And by the mid-1800s, people were wondering: “Wow, if God didn't do it, how did we get here? Who's in charge of the world?” That led directly to the rise of communism, Marxism, socialism, Nazism. We'll cover that on seminar part 5, politically incorrect, The Dangers of this Evolution Theory. 
Now ,Darwin didn't originate the evolution theory. It was around before him. He just simply made it popular, ok. But Timothy was warned by Paul here in I Timothy 6 (v. 20): “Ye be careful about avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.” Evolution is not science. Evolution is a religion in every sense of the word. Hitler said: “Let me control the textbooks, I'll control the state.”
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