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Alaska Adventure: Seward Landscape - The Alakan Fossil Record & Great Flood; The Malbim on Geology

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this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay passing on these roads we see the amazing topography and geology of this region so I want to speak out uh very important principle about the Jewish understanding of geology in general you know if you study the science of the area the area of the Arctic Ocean be it Alaska be it Canada be it Northern Siberia clearly the climate that exists today is different than the climate that once was because if you look in the permafrost they found horses rhinoceroses oxen mammoths Tigers bison beavers and lions and these are creatures that cannot exist in these climates today so the question is how did they get there a question that the malbum deals with is many fossils are found in the deepest layers of the soil that indicate that the age of the universe is older than our tradition of 5783 years so the malbum speaks at length and by the way the svarna also talks about there were traumatic changes at the time of the marble at the time of the great flood where you come the malam explains first the human bones decomposed human bones are the most fragile of all living creatures but then even the bones of massive creatures because of the great earthquakes that opened up the tahim rava the fossils and the bones of animals went extremely deep down into the soil then so what archaeologists may say indicate that the age of the universe is many hundreds of times older than what we maintain our tradition is clear there were traumatic changes at the time of the marble and that accounts for the animals that are found in the depths of the the fossil record teach us something really incredible you know today in Alaska it's a pretty warm day out my understanding is it's from the warmest it gets in uh this area of the world but the for the most uh for the most part it's an extremely cold climate there's a permafrost that's why you have so many mosquitoes you have the tundra area but clearly from the fossil record the climate here in Alaska used to be much more mild so when exactly what was that the plastic says after the Imam promises there will always be day and night there will always be summer winter spring and fall that implies that before the novel there weren't Seasons there wasn't summer and winter spring and Autumn soon thank you so the the Malcolm explains that right now in the current state of the world the Earth is tilted on an angle of 23.5 degrees that tilt of the earth makes it that the sun does not shine on all areas of the earth equally in some areas there are extreme Seasons there's extreme cold there's extreme heat by the equator it's more of an even temperature throughout the year system album buffet and the sperno says the same Before the Flood before the marble the Earth was on a perfect line there was no tilt so if there are no tilt the Sun hits every area exactly the same all areas of the world enjoyed San Diego weather throughout the entire year but because of the marble so Hashem now if you live in San Diego if you have pleasant weather then you're healthier you live longer the modeling says there's less illness says the Melbourne before the Malibu people lived unusually long lifetimes because they didn't have to deal with the extreme the extremities of the seasons of The Winds of the cold of the Heat and everything that difficult and challenging weather brings now that there's a marble the Earth was tilted on a 23.5 degree tilt now you have extreme weather the lifetime the lifespan of man is diminished and now we have four seasons beyond that before the model you didn't really have day and night there was a lot of sunshine and people didn't have to work as much and the mabum says that after the marble Hashem gave man more work to do and the more time to work in order to distract men from their desires on their tivis but the bottom line is system album that once the Earth was tilted on 23 half and a half degree tilt so now they're extreme there's extreme weather but Alaska you should have seen what Alaska was like before the marble it was like San Diego so you had lions and tigers yes and bears and all the animals that are found in the permafrost all used to live here in the 49th states which by the way at the time before the great flood it was not the 49th state but at that time you had all the animals that are found in the fossil record today this is uh our true messera based on the Posse because the true testimony of the Torah that makes the foolish wise this is our response to the uh to the discipline of geology who dig into the depths of the earth and find all of these animals in the fossil record so uh it would have been nice to come to Alaska before the novel but it is pretty nice to come after the model because uh you know it gives more variety to the area okay thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com