Frank Sherwin, MA

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• Frank Sherwin, MA

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Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great
waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Psalm
7719
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Scripture references to oceans

• Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake
  forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When
  I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick
  darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up
  for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no
  further and here shall thy proud waves be
  stayed?
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• Job 388-11

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Ocean Origin?

• Secular science does not know where the oceans
  came from
• The origin of the water in the oceans is
  unclear.

the University of New South Wales School of
Environmental Sciences
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Ocean Origin?

• There are several theories about the origin of
  the seas, but no single theory explains all
  aspects of this puzzle.

- Herbert Swenson US Geological Survey Publication
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Water . . . from space?

• For decades many planetary scientists speculated
  that water for the oceans came from a rain of
  comets (so to speak) over millions of years
• But further research (a 1999 Caltech study) threw
  a wet blanket on this idea.

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Early Earth Cold vs. Hot

• According to evolution, Earth began as a molten
  rock with no water. This is speculation only (no
  one was there to observe and take notes).
• Scripture teaches Earth began as a non-molten
  planet covered with water (Genesis12) - we have
  the word of One who was there and left us a
  written record.

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The Age Of The Earth

• What will the Christian listen to
• Secular science
• or
• Scripture?

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Geologic Ages

• Scripture says not a word in regard to this
  secular philosophy

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Billions of years old?

• The Lord Jesus was a young-earth creationist
• He was there at The Beginning (John1) and taught
  that men and women were made essentially at the
  same time as the cosmos itself - from the
  beginning (Mark106).
• (See also Luke1150 John 844)

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Since The World Began. . .

• ...God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
  prophets since the world began.
• Acts
  321

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World-wide Young Earth Indicators
The Oceans The Continents The Sea-floor The
Atmosphere
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What about radiometric dating?

• Christians need to remember that calculations
  (e.g. U decaying to Pb) leading to billions of
  years are based on the arbitrary assumption of
  uniformitarianism, which is not only unprovable,
  but contrary to Scripture (see II Peter 33-6).

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Invertebrates
animals without a backbone

• A vast majority of creatures of the seas are
  those without a backbone and include corals, sea
  slugs, worms, brachiopods, jellies, sea stars,
  clams, and arthropods (the phylum Arthropoda is
  the largest group of animals on Earth -
  according to S.J. Gould).

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Crustaceans

• The most familiar of the arthropods are crabs and
  lobsters which belong to the group called the
  crustaceans.
• Where did they come from?
  Evolutionists do not know

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Arthropod origin?

• As Darwin noted in the Origin of Species, the
  abrupt emergence of arthropods in the fossil
  record during the Cambrian presents a problem for
  evolutionary biology. There are no obvious
  simpler or intermediate forms either living or
  in the fossil record that show convincingly how
  modern arthropods evolved from worm-like
  ancestors. Consequently there has been a wealth
  of speculation and contention about relationships
  between the arthropod lineages.

Osorio, Daniel, Jonathan P. Bacon, and Paul M.
Whitington. 1997. The evolution of arthropod
nervous systems. American Scientists, May-Jun.
244-253.
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Fish Origin?
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Fish origin?
Yet the transition from
spineless invertebrates
to the first backboned fishes
is still shrouded in mystery, and many theories
abound...
Long, John A. 1995 The Rise of Fishes. Baltimore,
MD The Johns Hopkins University Press. 30
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Origin of whales?

• ...the evolutionary origin of whales remains
  controversial among zoologists.

Gibbons, J. Whitfield. 1999. Whale. Comptons
Interactive Encyclopedia 2000 CD-Rom.
Available The Learning Company, Inc. File
Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia. Path Word
search/Evolutionary origin of the whales.
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Living fossils

• A living Jurassic shrimp (Neoglyphea
  caledonica) was recently discovered alive well
  in the Coral Sea. Evolutionists thought the
  shrimp was extinct for 50 million years !

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Solid answersto the 20 most asked questions
about Genesis and science.
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Tsunamis
the power of water unleashed
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami of
December 2004

• A magnitude 9.0 earthquake shook the Sunda Trench
  area the day after Christmas
• The seafloor opened an area the length and half
  the width of California (1,200 kilometer-long
  rupture)
• Energy released was equivalent to about 100
  Hiroshima-magnitude atomic bombs

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Past tsunami evidence

• We can observe wash marks on the shore and
  indirectly in the form of large landslides,
  scarps (a line of cliffs formed by faulting) and
  debris piles lying on the deep ocean floor.

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Mexicos Yucatan peninsula

• One of the largest landslide-generated tsunamis
  yet proposed occurred when the entire continental
  shelf surrounding the Gulf of Mexico region gave
  way, and produced 200-meter-plus tsunamis across
  that region. The trigger? Possibly the Chicxulub
  (extraterrestrial) impact on Mexicos Yucatan
  peninsula.

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So, evolutionists do believe in a world-wide
catastrophe!

• Both creation scientists and evolutionists agree
  there was a global catastrophic event in the
  past.
• Supposedly, 65 million years ago a huge
  meteorite struck a peninsula off the coast of
  Mexicos Yucatan peninsula. This was so
  devastating that it caused the world-wide
  extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Landslide-generated waves

• Underwater mapping of an area off the Hawaiian
  coast reveals extensive landslide debris that
  mantles the Hawaiian Ridge 5 times greater than
  the area of the Hawaiian Islands themselves.
• The mapping project shows a lumpy appearance to
  the deposits strikingly similar to that left by
  the 1980 Mount St. Helens landslide only 1000
  times larger.

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Landslide-generated waves

• These landslides traveled at underwater speeds of
  100 km/hr and unquestionably caused monstrous
  tsunamis.
• How big were they?
• Basalt cobles reef debris are found 375 m
  above present sea level on the island of Lanai.
• Similar landslide debris offshore from both New
  Jersey Oregon testify to past tsunamis.

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Catastrophic geology
a respected scientific field

• Unlike decades ago, many secular scientists today
  have a respect for catastrophic processes in
  geology.
• Examples include
• oilfield geologists in the Gulf region those
  who study Grand Canyon
• anyone involved in volcanology

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The book that started the
modern creation movement
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Catastrophic geology
a re-emerging and respected scientific field
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The Genesis Flood

• Genesis chapters 69 clearly teaches a flood of
  world-wide extent. A simple reading of these
  chapters leads the reader to conclude that God
  had Noah prepare an ark to withstand a
  devastating, cataclysmic event. Indeed, there are
  at least 30 statements of the universal character
  of the Flood and its effects in Genesis

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Noahs Flood punishment for sin

• And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is
  come before me for the earth is filled with
  violence through them and, behold, I will
  destroy them with the earth.
• Genesis 613

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Noahs Flood punishment for sin

• All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of
  all that was in the dry land, died. And every
  living substance was destroyed which was upon the
  face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
  creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven and
  they were destroyed from the earth and Noah only
  remained alive, and they that were with him in
  the ark.
• Genesis 722-23

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Jesus is the Ark of
Salvation

• Just as there was but a single door on the ark -
  and one had to enter Gods protection by
  willingly walking through this door one may
  only enter into Gods peace and protection by
  going through Christ (John 146).

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The Genesis Flood

• Just how much water is on the Earth?

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The Great Flood of Noahs day

• The floodgates of heaven
• The fountains of the
• great deep
• Genesis 711

Rapid deposition on a
regional scale
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2 Peter 356

• For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by
  the word of God the heavens were of old, and the
  earth standing out of the water and in the water
  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
  with water, perished

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Promise of no more floods

• Many local, even regional floods since Noahs
  Flood.
• If Noahs Flood was
• local, God
  broke His promise.

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Mountain ranges

• All the worlds great mountain ranges show
  evidence of earlier higher water levels. These
  evidences give a clear picture of a post-Flood
  world in the process of emerging from a recent
  global cataclysm. Indeed, even Mt. Everest has
  sea shells on the summit!

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Wheres the salt?

• Every year 450 million tons of sodium is dumped
  into the oceans. Only 27 manages to get back out
  each year. The remainder stays to accumulateyear
  after year. We would have the
  present amount in just 42 million yearsfar short
  of the 3 billion years taught by evolutionists.