Three area events to examine Higher Education vs. Global Flood

Genesis tells us that God destroyed all land and its inhabitants in judgment of sin within 1700 years of creation and Jesus affirms this in both the accounts of Luke and Mathew, yet modern academia (including many Christian schools) deny a global flood during the human experience. Could the "greatest minds of science" be wildly wrong about something as big as a moving continent or the interpretation of the fossil record? Have geologists been wrong about something this big in the recent past? Could the concept of geologic time be a runaway legend from the 20th century? Is there observable evidence for the biblical account?

On Friday, July 19, Local resident Bill Kolstad, founder of the Reno Tahoe Geology Group, will put the 20th-century geologic time scale on trial at 7:00 p.m. in the A to Z Meeting Room at 3331 Sandy Way (between Tahoe Bowl and BofA) in South Lake Tahoe.

21st century observable evidence combined with local radioisotopic data will contrast the accepted notion of deep time in layman's terms creating a "showdown" between the geologic timescale and the biblical timescale. No charge at this venue, but seating is limited. Q & A session follows this 60-minute presentation.

The next day, Saturday, July 20, the big picture of earth history's most significant geologic events will be examined in the Nevada State Museum Earth Science Auditorium and public exhibit displays using a relatively "recent" catastrophic perspective. If the biblical timeline is a fact, continents now moving imperceptibly would have moved at 15 to 20 mph. A multidisciplinary evidence
approach will address the implications for rock layers spanning the globe, the ice age and the selective extinctions of associated megafauna (mammoth, giant sloth, etc.) from the Great Basin to Siberia. The museum is located in the original Carson City Mint at 600 North Carson Street and admission is $8 for adults. The presentation will begin in the auditorium room adjacent to the mammoth display at 2:30 p.m., but if you arrive early (i.e. noonish) you can tour the rest of the museum first.

Sunday, July 21's event is already full. Author Dennis Petersen will lead the 9:00 a.m. Sunday school class in the Fellowship Hall at Tahoe Community Church addressing the theological relevance of events from the book of Genesis and flood legends from around the world. He will complete the sequence from the pulpit when delivering the Sunday sermon “Search the scriptures to see if these things be true” as part of the regular service which starts at 10:30 AM.

Contact bill.kolstad@gmail.com or (775) 901-0860 for further details.