But there is a problem. The nostrils were about the same size as a modern horse's nostrils.

Did they suffocate? Or was there a different atmosphere on the Earth 6000 years ago?

Learn how the environment of the original creation was vastly different from ours today and for over 900 years.

It produced huge plants and animals, and provided perfect conditions for the growth of the dinosaurs.

Seminar 2a - Dr. Kent Hovind - www.drdino.com - English

Seminar 2a - "THE GARDEN OF EDEN"

Well thank you for joining us. My name is Kent Hovind. I taught high school science for fifteen years;

and now for sixteen years I've been doing seminars on creation, evolution, and dinosaurs.

And in this session we are going to talk about (1) what the Garden of Eden was like.

(2) Why did they live to be 900 years old before the Flood came?

(3) What was different about that original creation that we're not seeing today?

And tell you (4) how you can take God's promise that He's going to restore the earth like it used to be.

(You can be in on that if you'd like.) But first of all, this is not my wife; that's just a picture of her.

We live in Pensacola, Florida, about to get hit by a tropical storm here in the next hour or so.

We've had a couple hurricanes since I've been there - not too big of a deal.

But I have three children, one of each. One of each? I've got 'em all married off, and the dog died.

So I made it, and I'm home free! And so far, I have four grandkids,

and that's God's reward for not killing your own kids when you thought about it.

So, hopefully more coming. We've got the whole tribe living right there.

They all live right around me and they all come over every day.

It's wonderful! Got a great family. They all want to serve God with their lives.

The Bible says in Colossians chapter one, "By him (talking about Jesus) were all things created&

And they were created by him and for him." Jesus created everything.

And Jesus said in Matthew 19:4, "Have ye not read,

that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?"

Was that really the beginning? Jesus said it was.

The Bible says that from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

The Bible teaches by one man, sin came into the world and death by sin.

By man came death. Evolution teaches death brought man into the world;

the Bible says man brought death into the world. These two views are totally, totally opposite.

And the Bible says Adam was the first man; and he was 130 when Seth was born; and Seth was 105 when Enos was born.

We've covered all that in the last session.

If you go through the Bible and add up the dates (it's not that hard to do),

you'll come to a date of about 6,000 years ago, 4000 BC for the creation.

That's the date you get from adding up the ones given in the Bible.

So we're going to cover a couple of things now. What was it like before the Flood came?

Is it possible for a person to live over 900 years? You could learn a lot in 900 years!

Many people have never thought of this, but do you realize that Adam spoke every language in the world?

Because there was only one, OK? Married to the prettiest girl in the world too, by the way.

But things were very different back then!

Textbooks in school are going to tell your kids dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.

Is that true? Well, if the earth is only 6,000 years old, that can't be true.

Where do dinosaurs fit in? Well, we'll cover that in a minute.

Did dinosaurs live millions of years ago or have they always lived with humans?

They just had a different name for them - they called them dragons. What was the original creation like?

What did they eat before the Flood came?

What's it going to be like in the 1,000-year reign of Christ?

when the Lord fixes things back like they used to be.

Where did all the water for the Flood come from? And where did it go?

And were there really giant people on this earth over 10 feet tall?

Well, hang on. We're going to try to cover as much of that as we can here; so let's go!

The Bible says in II Peter chapter 3, "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 'em like a lightning rod. The scoffers out there - they hate me!

I'm trying to be nice to 'em, OK, but they just don't like me.

They don't appreciate what a nice, wonderful guy I am.

The scoffers, the Bible says, are going to be walking after their own lust.

You know the reason people scoff at the Bible? It's not because of their science.

They think it is; OK, but no. They scoff at the Bible because of their lust.

They don't want God telling them what to do. That's the bottom line, every single time.

The scoffers are going to say, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, ...

... all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

That's an important phrase; we'll cover that on video #4. But the scoffers are going to say:

the way things are happening now is the way things have always been happening.

Uniformitarianism - we don't have time to cover that now - we'll get to that on part #4.

The Bible says the scoffers are willingly ignorant.

Willingly ignorant! In the Greek that means "dumb on purpose."

The scoffers are dumb on purpose of two things, and here they are.

Number one, "That by the word of God the heavens were of old."

Notice the word "heaven" is plural, "heavens." There's more than one heaven. We'll talk about that in a minute.

The scoffers are ignorant of how God made the heavens by His Word.

"And the earth standing out of the water and in the water."

Now there's a strange phrase. How can the earth be out of the water and in the water?

But look, it says, the heavens and the earth were made by His Word.

Did you know that when God made the universe, he didn't lift one finger?

He didn't turn one screw or pound one nail. He just spoke and every molecule lined up.

That's incredible to think about. When He speaks, the waves lay down; the wind quits blowing.

When He speaks, the dead come to life. When He speaks, the universe is created!

Everything obeys the voice of God, except us. He's having some trouble out of us right now.

But He's going to fix that one of these days when "every knee shall bow and

every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father,"

coming to a city near you. But the scoffers are willingly ignorant of how God made the heavens by His Word,

And they're ignorant of how the earth was standing out of the water and in the water.

In other words they're ignorant of the original creation. What was it like? We'll talk about that in a second.

The second thing they're ignorant of is the Flood. It says "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."

This world was destroyed by a Flood, totally annihilated.

The third thing they're ignorant of is the coming judgment.

The next verse says, "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, ...

... reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."

See, the scoffers are ignorant of the creation. They don't want to admit God created the world,

because that would mean He owns it. They don't want to admit there was a Flood, because,

you know, that proves God has the authority to judge His creation. They don't like that idea.

And they sure don't want to admit there's a coming judgment!

I like that bumper sticker: "Jesus is coming, and, boy, is he mad!" That's the truth!

Well, sadly many Christians are also ignorant of what that original creation was like,

and what that Flood did to this world; and so because of their ignorance of the creation and the Flood,

it causes Christians to compromise the clear teaching of God's Word.

Genesis chapter one, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." By the way in Genesis 1:1,

it's heaven, singular. Later it's always "heavens" plural. When He first made it, it was heaven, one heaven.

Then later he divides it up into three slices: first heaven, second heaven, third heaven.

We'll cover that in a second; but look at verse five.

It says the evening and the morning were the first day. Notice that word "the," t-h-e.

In English that is called the definite article, THE first day.

This is King James Version, which I use and I recommend everybody use if you speak English.

I collect other versions of the Bible. I'm not afraid of them;

but folks, there's been some very serious changes made in some of these other versions.

Many have left out the blood in dozens of places; many have taken away the deity of Christ.

Some serious changes. Many have taken out over 200 verses! We cover more of that on Video #7.

We discuss why the King James is best. But I got down my Revised Standard Version,

that I got for perfect attendance in fourth grade at the Methodist Church.

I was raised in an extremely liberal Methodist church in the Peoria [Illinois] area.

Not all Methodists are liberal, but mine really was.

Our church had two pulpits; it was really strange! They had one pulpit were they read the Bible from,

and then the preacher would walk over to the other pulpit where he would preach from.

It took me a long time to figure out why they did that,

but finally I figured out it's because what he's reading over here

is so far from what he is saying over there, they had to separate them into two pulpits, you know.

But I had perfect attendance in fourth grade,

and they gave me the "reviled substandard perversion" [RSV] of the Bible.

And so I got down my Bible collection and I was going to see how they treated the Genesis story. You know, what differences are there?

And it says in the "reversed version" [RSV], "there was evening and there was morning, one day."

Now wait just a minute! What happened to "the first day"?

How many "the first days" are there in history? One. How many "one days" are there in history?

All of them, any of them, right? Why did they call it "one" day.

Then down in verse eight they called it "a second day" instead of "the second day".

Well I found out the guys who did the "reviled version" do not believe in a literal six-day creation.

And just about every other translation available changes it from "the first day" to "one day."

You can check it out for yourself. These people, many of them, believe in what's call the gap theory.

How many have ever heard of the gap theory before? The gap theory was made up in 1814,

by a Scottish preacher named Thomas Chalmers. He said, "There's a gap between verse one and verse two,

and there's millions or billions of years in there." Nobody thought of the gap theory till the 1800s,

until after it became popular to teach the earth was millions of years old.

See, in 1795 a book was written that said the earth is millions of years old;

and Christians, some of them, believed it and said, "Wow, we've got to make the Bible say that."

And so they scrambled with compromised positions: gap theory, day-age theory, progressive creation...

We'll cover more on that in a minute. But the gap theory was one of the ones they came up with in 1814,

to teach that maybe there's millions or billions of years between the first two verses.

That's what I was taught when I went to Bible college. That's what the Scofield Reference Bible teaches too.

They say between the first two verses of Genesis, there is ample scope for all the geologic eras.

They say there's a pre-Adamite rebellion; and the judgment of Lucifer happened.

Now, just a minute, was anybody here before Adam? Was there a pre-Adamite rebellion?

And exactly when did Lucifer get judged and fall from heaven? Well, we'd better see what the Scripture says.

Genesis 1:2 says, "The earth was without form and void." In Hebrew that's "tohu waw bohu,"

which means "unformed and unfilled." Without form means..."without form."

And void means "void", you know, empty. It doesn't mean destroyed; it just means it's not done yet, that's all.

There's a good book on the table out there. If you want to go down deep, stay down long, and come up dry,

you can read this one on "Unformed and Unfilled;" or if you want a shorter condensed version,

get the one that I wrote about "The Gap Theory."

To me it's one of the most dangerous heresies in the history of Christianity, the gap theory; and it is heresy.

This house, for instance, is unformed and unfilled. Nobody's living in it, but it's not destroyed!

Unformed and unfilled doesn't have to mean destroyed.

Now there is a verse in Jeremiah that uses the same phrase, "without form and void."

In this case, the Jeremiah passage is talking about a city that has been destroyed.

He looked at "the mountains...they trembled, the hills moved lightly...there was no man, the birds...fled."

This can't be talking about the creation. The birds weren't made till day five.

This is not talking about the creation. This is talking about a city that's been judged.

This passage has nothing to do with the creation. This house also is unformed and unfilled.

The Bible says in Exodus 20, "In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is."

What do you suppose He meant by that? This is part of the Ten Commandments.

He wrote this on a rock with His finger. God does not stutter!

It looks to me like He is trying to tell us that He did it all in six days.

Now would that include Lucifer? Would that include the angels?

That would include everything, wouldn't it? Everything in heaven and earth.

The question is not what does it say; the question is do you believe what it says?

So if somebody says, "Lucifer fell from Heaven before the creation."