90 Minutes of Geological Evidence for Noah's Flood - Dr. Kurt Wise

One of the challenges of understanding global Flood geology is grasping what the Flood did to the surface of the earth. In our documentary, many of the scientists talk about the enormous sediment layers covering the globe, but we only had a few minutes to introduce this very important topic. During the 2017 IGH Conference, Dr. Kurt Wise explored the impact of the Flood on the earth in a series of three in-depth lectures. This lecture on the “study of sediment,” the first in the series, is an excellent overview of the unique features of the sedimentary shell covering the earth. It provides an enormous amount of evidence for the reality of the global flood.

Specific topics of “Sedimentology of the Flood” include:

0:00 – Introduction
6:45 – Describing the lithostratigraphic column
24:45 – Transcontinental water-lain sediments & paleo-currents
38:45 – Lamination & bioturbation
47:45 – Megasequences & pulses of flood water
1:12:15 – Nautiloid fossil beds in Grand Canyon
1:26:00 – Crossbeds in sandstone

[PetinaGirl]

I have always LOVED the way Dr. Wise LOVES his WORK! HIS excitement is transferred to the viewer, and instills that excitement in the rest of us! I never get tired of watching him and learning from him! Thank you Dr. Wise, and God Bless you!

[johnchristianpreus]

I like this guy. You're a good teacher! Brilliant presentation. Excellent! Thank you!

[HOTxxx]

Agree with those who applaud your enthusiasm to non-geologists, including me. Am forever grateful !

[jamesveen]

The mega-sequences explains it all, and each megasequences tells a story worth "listening" to. This might be the first step in understanding what came about, just few thousands years ago,
and this is the brick missing to understand what all this means. It's breathtaking and fascinating, and thank you for listening too.

[ZokomoTV]

I love seeing the geological evidence for Noah's flood, it's very interesting

[toasty]

I applaud the person who made the subtitles and used video chapters. IT HELPS ME SO MUCH

[caitcrutchfield]

As always an outstanding presentation from Dr. Wise!

I must confess, though, about 10 minutes in I had a strong urge to make a creationist drinking game: take a swig of my coffee every time he says 'lithostratographic column'. 😆

[rougebaba]

An old earth explanation views these distinct layers as evidence of long periods under which different conditions prevailed on the planet. The young earth view is that these layers are evidence of relatively quick processes prevailing during a global flood. Taking the two views on their face, the flood explanation seems to fit the global uniformity of these strata much better than the old earth view. Given how conditions we can observe today lay down sediments in various places, it seems a bit odd to think that these strata would be so uniform across the earth if their formation took many millions of years. Unless one wants to postulate regional floods over ages and ages that just so happened to cover the earth in such a way as to create this global uniformity (which I do not think is something anyone has or would propose) then one is forced to think the uniformity was from a global event, and less likely from a series of events over long periods of time occurring in various locations to the point of the observed uniformity.
As for the abundant existence of fossils in these layers, there is some places were the old earth view seems to fit the evidence as well (if not slightly better) than the flood explanation. But even here I have to admit that uniformity of these fossil beds is better explained by a global event in which conditions were fairly uniform worldwide. Fossils are formed under very particular conditions. To think these uniformities and large nature of fossil beds were created in sequence globally over eons of time is a stretch. The caveat for the old earth view is that the layering of these fossil beds matches (to a certain extent) evolutionary expectations among the various classifications of the animal kingdom. Yet this matching of expectations is not without its problems. Given the old earth explanation, the fossil record would seem to indicate long periods of time in which global conditions were fairly uniform and animals arose and died without much in the way of transitions between them, nor much in the way of transitions between later layers. It would be a story of abrupt starts and stops with long periods of stasis in between. I find that to be as much a miracle as the story of Noah and the flood.

[mpdbenz]

Thank you, Dr. Wise. We are Tennesseans and have noticed those rock differences from East to West Tennessee. Nice to have someone to finally teach us why those differences exist. We've always looked at the layers and formations as Flood evidence, such as the giant run-off riverbed we call The Delta, but have had no teacher good enough until now to explain a lot of what we've seen.

[cameron]

I enjoy and appreciate the videos Dr Wise produces. I studied geology as a second major back in the 80s. I knew back then that the “billions of years” and “incremental change” was questionable. I’ve never stopped.studying and testing flood geology. This is good stuff.

[seans]

I know I never once thought of looking at a lithostratographic column as a child. Love your work sir

[johnmathews]

I'm an 1984 alumni of Carson Newman college. I enjoyed a Geology class I took. I brought home rocks form the limestone out crop. One lesson from the class, rocks tell the truth. Thanks for the video.

[VaxtorT]

I appreciate that you allow comments to be made.
I notice that Answers in Genesis have their comments turned off. I do not think that is very wise of them.

[AimeeHope]

When I was in school I wanted to major in geology..wound up dropping out before could take more than one class. This presentation is awesome. Really makes me want to go back!

[Captain-Awesome]

It would be pretty cool for your job to be roaming around researching and seeing so much of the planet. Normally if I am driving somewhere its to a destination and then right back and few days later.

[kenzeier]

I appreciate the scholarship. I’ve listened to amateurs on other videos who offhandedly make the Bible out to be just myth. Many of those people do not present credentials or references.

To the listener: exam the presenter and whether he’s done his research and if professional.

Wise at least has put in the work to have earned a hearing.

[lynnmitzy]

33:30 giant current ripples...like in Missoula, Montana? The amount and force of water must have been awesome 😲

[stephenjames]

This was a fascinating lecture. Kurt answered a number of long-standing questions I have had about the rock layers I've informally studied in Grand Canyon and around the world.

[WKGWOMANINTN]

Really appreciate the clarity of explanation provided by Dr. Wise. Fascinating topic!

[mattwalmer]

You gotta love a guy that geeks out over chalk and rocks. 😆