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Sometimes the fossil record preserves some really astonishing traces of past life, including footprints and even burrows! But how can there be burrows if the fossil record were formed by a singular, catastrophic flood? Leonard Brand wondered this very same question and set out to try to understand how much of a problem this really is. Todd and Paul chat with him about his research on fossil burrows and learn the shocking reality of the fossil record. There just aren't that many burrows at all! What does this mean for the flood or for long age geology? Find out in this latest episode of Let's Talk Creation! #creationism #creationscience

Materials mentioned in this episode

Brand, Leonard and Art Chadwick. Faith, Reason, and Earth History:A Paradigm of Earth and Biological Origins by Intelligent Design, 3rd edition. 2016

Hardcover: https://a.co/d/2VodNGj

Free EPUB: https://cdn.ministerialassociation.org/cdn/eldersdigest.org/files/Faith,%20Reason,%20and%20Earth%20History%20by%20Leonard%20Brand%20and%20Arthur%20Chadwick.pdf

Östring , Sven. Rising Waters, Enduring Faith: Investigating the Historical & Global Reality of the Biblical Flood. 2025.

https://a.co/d/3IQcdAz

Bromley RG. Trace Fossils: Biology, Taphonomy and Applications. 3rd ed. London: Chapman and Hall; 1996.

https://archive.org/details/tracefossilsbiol0000brom

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With yet another Jurassic Park movie in the theaters, popular attention once again turns to dinosaurs, so Todd and Paul made a dinosaur episode! Special guest and T. rex expert Matt McLain tells us all about these "tyrant kings." Where do they come from? What were they like? And most importantly, how can a creationist understand the place of Tyrannosaurus in God's good creation? Check out this latest episode to get the full scoop on T. rex, king of the dinosaurs!

Materials mentioned in this episode

 Schweitzer, M., Zheng, W., Zanno, L. et al. Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex. Sci Rep 6, 23099 (2016).https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23099

Dinosaurs that did not die: Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, GSA Special Papers By: James E. Fassett, Robert A. Zielinski, and James R. Budahn

https://doi.org/10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.307

The Valley of Gwangi. Movie with stop motion by Ray Harryhausen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Gwangi

Fossils and the Flood by Paul Garner and Jeanne Elizabeth

https://a.co/d/4yG96BL

Past Podcast episodes

https://youtu.be/OgpNJpoJEOQ

Episode 34: Dominion: How Creationists Approach the Jurassic World(feat. 3 PhD. Paleontologists)

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When Todd isn't recording podcasts with Paul, what does he do all day? Find out in this episode as Paul learns all about the ministry of Core Academy. From scholarships to retreats to student mentoring, Core Academy is dedicated to training up a new generation of creation scholars. Find out more at coresci.org! Please excuse our sound quality, we are working to fix the issue.

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Ephemera pertaining to the Scopes Trial

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We’re resuming our Creationism 101 series! In this episode, we take a look at the doctrine called creatio ex nihilo. Is it really important that God created everything from nothing? Paul and Todd review all the biblical passages that support creation from nothing and how the early church supported this doctrine. The power of our God is manifested in this, that out of things that are not He makes whatever He pleases!

Materials Mentioned

Justin Martyr Apology 1.59

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/richardson/fathers.x.ii.iii.html

Theolophilus of Antioch Ad Autolychus 2:4 https://www.logoslibrary.org/theophilus/autolycus/204.html

Creation Science 101 Playlist

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How did slow animals like sloths get from Noah's Ark in the mountains of Ararat to the jungles of South America? Is that a death blow to creationist thinking? Paul and Todd give some basic answers to this question and more in their latest episode as they wrap up their short series describing the world after the Flood. Listen in on their conversation to find out how the residual catastrophism of earthquakes and volcanoes and glaciation combine with ideas of diversification within created kinds to explain how animals got to their present homes. All that and sloths too!

Materials Mentioned

Terrestrial Mammal Families and Creationist Perspectives on Speciation by Todd Wood

https://coresci.org/jcts/index.php/jctsb/article/view/4

Rafting: A Post-Flood Biogeographic Dispersal Mechanism by Wise and Croxton

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol5/iss1/37/

A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galapagos Islands by Todd Wood

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Let's Talk Creation episodes

After the Flood 1: The Earth Recovers

https://youtu.be/ikZUWXAbHV8

After the Flood 2: Diversity of Life

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Just what are created kinds anyway? The created kind forms a central part of creation biology, and kinds can even be used to construct a simple post-Flood chronology. In this new episode in our "After the Flood" series, Todd and Paul talk us through all the ins and outs of created kinds. If you've ever wondered what kinds are and how they relate to the Flood, this episode is for you! All that, and Rama the Cama too!

Materials Mentioned

Species Variability and Creationism by Todd Wood

https://www.grisda.org/origins-62006

Evolution, Creation and Science by Frank Marsh

https://archive.org/details/evolutioncreatio0000mars

Hybridizing Old and New World camelids: Camelus dromedarius x Lama guanicoe by Skidmore et al.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.1999.0685

Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia: A scientific assessment of the craftsmanship and age of the Camel Site reliefs by Gaugnin et al.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X21003771

A refined baramin concept by Wood et al.

https://www.academia.edu/3354097/A_revised_baramin_concept

Let's Talk Creation episodes

Episode 31: Created Kinds: Studies in Baraminology (feat. Dr. Jean Lightner)

https://youtu.be/gcrepvc4eHA

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Ever wonder what happened after the Flood? In this first episode of a three-part series on the world after the Flood, Paul and Todd present a basic outline of the geology and climate as the world recovered from the greatest catastrophe it has ever suffered. The ground was shaky, giant volcanoes blew their top, and it rained a lot! The aftershocks of the Flood continue to devastate our world even today! Check out this episode for all the details, as Todd and Paul begin exploring the world After the Flood.

Other References

Runaway Subduction as the Driving Mechanism for the Genesis Flood by John Baumgardner

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol3/iss1/14/

The Declining Power of Post-Flood Volcanoes by Steve Austin

https://www.icr.org/article/declining-power-post-flood-volcanoes/

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, Nebraska: A Post-Flood/Ice Age Paleoenvironment by Akridge and Froede

https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/1000/

Mount St. Helens and Catastrophism by Steve Austin

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol1/iss1/5/

The Yellowstone Fossil "Forests" by Harold Coffin

https://www.grisda.org/origins-24005

Physical Evidence for a Post-Flood Lacustrine Depositional Environment for Hopi/Bidahochi Lake by Nate Loper

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/icc_proceedings/vol9/iss1/70/

The Green River Formation: a large post-Flood lake system by John Whitmore

https://creation.com/the-green-river-formation-within-a-biblical-geological-framework

How Do Creationists Explain the Ice Age? by Christian Ryan

https://newcreation.blog/how-do-creationists-explain-the-ice-age/

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Geologists Marcus Ross and Tom Zoutewelle join Paul and Todd in this special episode! Last year, Paul and Marcus attended a creationist conference in France with Tom, and in this episode Todd learns all about French geology. What sort of rocks can we see in the Paris Basin? What is the Paris Basin anyway? How does the Paris Basin display the geology of the Flood? Find out in this episode!

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Forty-five years ago, on May 18, 1980, Mt St Helens erupted and changed creationism forever. The explosion showed us how rapidly geological features could form during a catastrophe and gave us a laboratory to understand the formation of coal. The deadly eruption also reminds us to heed the warnings of coming destruction and judgment. With so many warning signs, no one needed to die at Mt St Helens unless they chose to stay. Join Paul and Todd as they chat with Bill Hoesch, director of the Mt St Helens Creation Center, about this milestone in creation research!

Visit the Mount Saint Helens Creation Center https://www.mshcreationcenter.org/

Link to Google Maps view of Spirit Lake. https://maps.app.goo.gl/tjkyy9CE3oVJAT6S9

Zoom in to see the log mat. Zoom out and move south to see the mountain.

Books Mentioned

Footprints in the Ash: The Explosive Story of Mount St. Helens by John Morris and Steve Austin

https://a.co/d/4A6fDsx

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As Paul and Todd continue their series on natural evil, join them as they chat with Nate Labadorf about curses in the Bible. In the Ancient Near Eastern culture of the Bible, curses went hand in hand with blessings. You can't understand the one without the other. As we look to the curse pronounced in Genesis 3, it's important to look even closer to understand how it relates to blessing. Nate takes us through all of these points as we ponder the consequences of the curse in creationism.

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