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Jim Scudder, Jr - Ellies Grand Rafting Adventure (Part 1)

July 19, 2025 | 26:0

Jim Scudder, Jr - Ellies Grand Rafting Adventure (Part 1)
Travel to The Grand Canyon with Jim Scudder and winner's of InGrace's Adventure Trip Giveaway - Ellie Yarbrough and Family.
#Journey #Nature #WalkwithGod #PersonalStory #Testimony #Cancer

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Jim Scudder, Jr.: InGrace | Jim Scudder, Jr - Ellies Grand Rafting Adventure (Part 1) | July 19, 2025
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  • Jim scudder jr.: today on "ingrace," we're in arizona
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  • At the grand canyon.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: are you looking for hope?
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  • My amazing parents taught me to look for hope in the lord,
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  • And that gave me a passion to explore god's
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  • Incredible creation.
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  • I'm jim scudder jr.
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  • Let's go an adventure together and find hope "ingrace."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: i had seen the grand canyon from the rim, i had hiked
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  • Down a few miles, i had even piloted an airplane over it, but
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  • Many people had told me how amazing an experience it would
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  • Be to raft the colorado river through the grand canyon.
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  • This would be the most challenging "ingrace" adventure
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  • We had ever tried to film.
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  • No electricity, sand, water, sun, off-grid for a week?
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  • Sounds like fun.
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  • It took several years to plan, and we were even able to bring
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  • Two amazing answers in genesis scientists with us: geologist
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  • Dr. andrew snelling would show us the rocks, and astronomer
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  • Dr. danny faulkner would show us the stars framed by the canyon.
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  • We also wanted to give a trip away to a deserving family, and
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  • One application video really caught my eye, the yarbrough
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  • Family from south carolina.
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  • Jim: awesome, yeah, you guys have had some real struggles
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  • With you, heather, right, going through cancer treatments?
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  • Heather yarbrough: yes, yes, tragedy struck in 2001 when i
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  • Was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer.
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  • After a year of intense chemo and an agonizing decision to
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  • Have my leg amputated, i was declared cancer-free.
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  • Scot: doctors told us we would never have children,
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  • But after seven years of prayer and steadfast faith--
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  • Ellie rae: along came me!
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  • When i was just 18 months old, mama got sick again.
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  • She had part of her lung removed and she was told
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  • She had months to live.
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  • Our faith was put to the test, but we claimed luke 1:37.
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  • Over the past 20 years, mama's been through so much, and i
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  • Truly believe that our family deserves this trip.
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  • We have so many medical bills and can't financially
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  • Afford it, and i know that mom would just love to share
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  • Her testimony with the world.
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  • Heather: it's been a tough 20 years, it has, but you
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  • Know what, god has been good.
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  • Jim: listen, we're really excited to have you guys apply.
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  • Your video was really, really good.
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  • We feel like you guys are the perfect family, so we've decided
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  • To give you guys the trip.
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  • [yarbroughs cheering]
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  • Heather: thank you so much. i'm gonna cry.
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  • Scot: this is so great.
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  • Jim: the "ingrace" film crew and i set off from chicago,
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  • Driving through the beautiful mountains of colorado, utah's
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  • Incredible red sandstone, and arizona's unmatched landscapes.
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  • Some of the passengers on our raft trip flew from las vegas
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  • In a small plane, landing on the narrow airstrip in
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  • Marble canyon, arizona, where i met them.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: we're about to see our folks coming in from las vegas.
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  • About half the group is there, half the group is here.
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  • Jim: it was also great to finally meet the
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  • Yarbrough family in person.
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  • Jim: hey.
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  • Ellie rae: hey, it's so great to finally meet you.
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  • Jim: you must be ellie rae. how are you?
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  • Ellie rae: i'm so good, how are you?
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  • Nice to meet you, too.
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  • Jim: and scot? scot: hello, sir.
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  • Jim: awesome, good to meet you, and heather.
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  • Heather: can i hug you?
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  • Jim: yeah, yeah.
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  • Jim: well, we're ready for an adventure, dr. snelling.
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  • Dr. andrew snelling: great weather, beautiful scenery.
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  • Jim: and you just got off a rafting trip.
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  • Dr. snelling: yeah, five days ago.
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  • Jim: are you ready for another one?
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  • Dr. snelling: i guess so.
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  • Jim: alright, this is my first time, so i am
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  • So excited about it.
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  • Dr. snelling: well, you're in for a treat.
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  • Jim: yeah, okay, so i wanted you to show us what
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  • The plan is for today.
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  • Dr. snelling: okay, well, we're here at river mile zero.
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  • Everything's measured from this launch site,
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  • Which is lees ferry.
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  • We're gonna motor downstream, we pass through the paria riffle.
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  • The paria river comes in on river right.
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  • We refer to river left and river right as we face downstream.
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  • That's got a huge drainage all the way back up to bryce canyon.
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  • We get here, we're gonna get to the navajo bridges.
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  • We'll be just below there.
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  • We're gonna look at the coconino sandstone, we'll
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  • Have lunch there, then we're gonna do a few more, then
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  • We'll hit our first serious rapid at badger, and then just
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  • Above soap creek, we're gonna pull in and we're gonna see
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  • Some fossilized footprints.
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  • Then we go through soap creek rapid, so that's
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  • A decent-sized rapid.
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  • We hope to camp, depending on how far we get, somewhere
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  • Around here, river mile 23 1/2.
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  • Jim: so, 23 miles today.
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  • What is the length of this entire trip?
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  • Dr. snelling: the length is just over 187 miles, so we're gonna
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  • Do roughly between 20-30 miles a day to cover the distance.
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  • Jim: oh, wow, lord, we're so thankful that we can be here.
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  • Lord, help us to appreciate you, your provision, your creation.
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  • We recognize you as the creator and we thank you for
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  • Creating us in your image.
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  • And lord, help us to glorify you today in all that we do.
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  • We ask for protection and safety in the name of
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  • Jesus christ we pray, amen.
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  • Jim: yarbrough family, we're ready to launch.
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  • Are you ready, ellie?
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  • We got you your ellie-cam, okay, good.
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  • Here, turn it on and start filming him so
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  • We can film the filmer.
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  • Any last words?
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  • Female: lord help us. no, no, we're excited.
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  • We're super excited.
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  • Jim: scot, how about you?
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  • Scot: so excited, we're finally here, we're taking off.
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  • We're gonna have a fabulous time.
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  • Ellie rae: got our life vests on, ready to hit the river.
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  • Heather: let's do it. team yarbrough adventure.
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  • Jim: alright, so first stop. andrew, what do you call this?
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  • Dr. snelling: well, we're across from lee's ferry.
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  • We're in the rock units that are above the rocks found
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  • In the grand canyon, okay?
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  • And i'll point out, we'll to go a vantage point and i'll go
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  • Through the layers up there.
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  • But we have in front of us here a fossil log,
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  • About 70-90 feet long.
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  • The closest leaves fossils, in other words, the fronds from
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  • The tree fern are found several layers further down.
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  • We're talking about tens of millions of years.
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  • So, that's a problem straightaway if you've got the
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  • Log and the foliage separated by that length of time.
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  • So, this log got buried during the flood, and the sandstone is
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  • Saturated, you've got the silica coming out of the volcanic ash,
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  • And it's gotta petrify this very, very rapidly indeed.
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  • Jim: alright, so first impressions, you have this
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  • Beautiful overview, what are you thinking?
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  • Heather: god's glory is amazing.
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  • His creation, it's just mind-boggling.
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  • Jim: ellie, how about you?
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  • Ellie rae: it looks cold. it looks really nice.
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  • Jim: it looks cold and you wanna jump in, right?
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  • And scot?
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  • Scot: this river is beautiful. i cannot wait to explore.
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  • Heather: he's ready to fish.
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  • Dr. snelling: now, the conventional wisdom is that the
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  • Colorado river carved out the canyon over the last 6 million
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  • To 17 million years, depending who you talk to and whichever
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  • Part of the canyon they're referring to.
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  • Over that length of time, you'd expect a lot of
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  • Debris to be on those slopes.
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  • But if a lot of water and a little bit of time carved out
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  • The grand canyon, what would happen?
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  • It would flush it all out, and because it's only recent, there
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  • Hasn't been enough time for the debris to build up.
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  • I'll make this point now very clearly and you will see.
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  • The rapids are formed, the rapids in the river
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  • Are formed by flash floods in the side streams, the side
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  • Canyons, bringing in debris.
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  • The debris gets dumped in the channel of the colorado river.
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  • Now, what does that tell you?
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  • It tells you that the colorado river, even in flood,
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  • Doesn't have the power to clean out it's channel.
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  • The colorado river is being filled in.
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  • So, if it was millions of years of colorado river water flow,
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  • How could it possibly carve out the canyon?
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  • You understand my point?
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  • The logic is clearly unmistakable.
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  • You need a lot of water and a little bit of time, and we'll
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  • Come to explaining that later in the trip.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: evolution says that the colorado river
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  • Carved out the grand canyon over millions of years.
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  • But what does the evidence say?
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  • Jim: alright, so we're officially in the not rapids but
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  • Ripples, but it's kinda getting rough.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: alright, so here we are, we're doing the ellie-cam.
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  • We got our second stop, and we're under the bridge,
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  • So show everyone.
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  • Ellie rae: so, we're under the, what is it, navajo bridge.
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  • Jim: and there's condors around, so maybe people
  • 00:11:52.506 --> 00:11:54.508
  • Will see some condors.
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  • So, what do you think so far, ellie?
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  • Ellie rae: it's really fun, yeah.
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  • Dr. snelling: why is the grand canyon unique?
  • 00:12:00.715 --> 00:12:03.517
  • It's probably unique because of the geology here.
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  • Other canyons have one or two layers exposed, the grand canyon
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  • Area spans the whole scope of the biblical view of earth
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  • History, and so it's unique in that respect.
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  • But it's also where we get away from the rim world, and
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  • It's an opportunity for personal reflection.
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  • It's an opportunity for, in the creation around us,
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  • You know, getting closer to our lord and savior,
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  • And to worshiping our creator.
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  • Jim: okay, ellie, this is quiz time.
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  • You've been taught a few things already today by a phd geologist
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  • And people that believe in millions of years say this took
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  • Many thousands of years to form.
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  • And they say this was a desert.
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  • And so, they measured the slant and they said that sand dunes
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  • Above water would form at, like, 30 to 33 degrees, and
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  • Underwater they form, do you remember the degrees?
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  • Yeah, it's, like, less.
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  • It's, like, ten degrees less underwater, so they came and
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  • Measured all of these and they found out that these were 20-22
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  • Degrees, which means all of the coconino sandstones were
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  • Formed underwater, pretty cool?
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  • Now you know.
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  • Jim: we just started what andrew said is the rim rock, and it's
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  • Just coming up off the river, and it's going up, and we're
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  • Going down, so he said when you're standing at the south rim
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  • Of the grand canyon, you're standing on that, but when we
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  • Get there, we're gonna be 7,000 feet below the top of that.
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  • So he said this is going up, obviously the river is
  • 00:13:48.356 --> 00:13:50.524
  • Going down, and i never knew that until today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: dr. snelling, we're in stop number three and
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  • There's something interesting in the coconinos.
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  • Dr. snelling: it's a fallen block of coconino sandstone.
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  • What's unusual here is we see the footprints going up the
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  • Slope of the cross bed of some critter, probably a reptile or
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  • Amphibian that was underwater.
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  • You can see the claw marks, it's one, two, three claws, four.
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  • You can see the pushback of the heel, and it was obviously
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  • Digging its toes in to make it's way up there.
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  • You can see where it's been pushed aside a little
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  • Bit to the right there.
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  • Jim: and that doesn't happen in dry sand.
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  • Dr. snelling: no, and they're always going up the slope, never
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  • Down the slope or across.
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  • Jim: so that tells you that this critter is trying to escape
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  • To get up out of the water.
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  • Dr. snelling: in dry sand, you don't form them like that.
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  • It had to be wet sand.
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  • We don't find the bodies of these.
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  • Jim: where are the bodies found?
  • 00:14:58.893 --> 00:15:01.662
  • Dr. snelling: way up in the sequence, tens of millions of
  • 00:15:01.662 --> 00:15:04.799
  • Years higher in the sequence, and that's a problem
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  • To the conventional wisdom.
  • 00:15:08.602 --> 00:15:11.072
  • Jim: before we floated out of cell phone range for good, we
  • 00:15:11.072 --> 00:15:13.908
  • Got to talk with scot's mom.
  • 00:15:13.908 --> 00:15:16.110
  • She was the one who watched "ingrace" and told her
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  • Son's family about the giveaway.
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  • Jim: listen, i'll make sure scot behaves himself.
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  • Do i need to know anything about him?
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  • [laughing]
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  • Okay, here's scot, bye-bye.
  • 00:15:31.325 --> 00:15:34.528
  • She told me some good stuff.
  • 00:15:34.528 --> 00:15:40.101
  • Male: we're takin' on water! woo!
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  • Jim: come on, there you go, nice.
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  • Yeah, yeah!
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: i survived my first grand rapids.
  • 00:16:02.790 --> 00:16:10.197
  • Jim: the adventure we were having with the yarbroughs was
  • 00:16:11.499 --> 00:16:14.401
  • Amazing, but while on this trip, i was anxious to hear
  • 00:16:14.401 --> 00:16:18.672
  • Their story, a story of cancer survival, miracles,
  • 00:16:18.672 --> 00:16:23.444
  • And god's love.
  • 00:16:23.444 --> 00:16:26.313
  • Jim: so, yarbroughs, it's been awesome to have you on
  • 00:16:26.313 --> 00:16:28.215
  • "ingrace" and have an adventure with you.
  • 00:16:28.215 --> 00:16:32.086
  • I think it's a miracle that god brought us together,
  • 00:16:32.086 --> 00:16:34.355
  • So i'd like to hear your story.
  • 00:16:34.355 --> 00:16:35.890
  • You know, start from the beginning.
  • 00:16:35.890 --> 00:16:37.291
  • What has god done for you in your life to bring
  • 00:16:37.291 --> 00:16:39.627
  • You to this point?
  • 00:16:39.627 --> 00:16:41.061
  • Heather: i grew up in a small town in georgia.
  • 00:16:41.061 --> 00:16:43.631
  • My granny took me to church.
  • 00:16:43.631 --> 00:16:45.666
  • My mama occasionally came, but when i was in the fourth grade,
  • 00:16:45.666 --> 00:16:50.337
  • My grandfather was tragically shot and killed, and that kinda
  • 00:16:50.337 --> 00:16:55.543
  • Sent my dad into a tailspin and he began to drink heavily and
  • 00:16:55.543 --> 00:17:00.814
  • Just became an absent father.
  • 00:17:00.814 --> 00:17:03.651
  • And i remember even as a child just praying when i would
  • 00:17:03.651 --> 00:17:06.820
  • Go to church with my granny, just praying that he
  • 00:17:06.820 --> 00:17:08.923
  • One day would come to know the lord and would be able to
  • 00:17:08.923 --> 00:17:12.626
  • Come to church with us.
  • 00:17:12.626 --> 00:17:15.062
  • Fast forward into high school and then even in college, again,
  • 00:17:15.062 --> 00:17:19.466
  • I'm still praying for my dad, and it was hard, and i always
  • 00:17:19.466 --> 00:17:22.670
  • Wondered, you know, why my mama stuck around and why she just
  • 00:17:22.670 --> 00:17:27.908
  • Continued to persevere, you know, through that marriage,
  • 00:17:27.908 --> 00:17:31.412
  • Because it was hard.
  • 00:17:31.412 --> 00:17:32.813
  • It was hard living, you know, in that environment.
  • 00:17:32.813 --> 00:17:35.049
  • So i met scot and of course we fell in love and got married.
  • 00:17:35.049 --> 00:17:38.619
  • And about four years into our marriage, we decided we wanted
  • 00:17:38.619 --> 00:17:42.489
  • To start a family, so we began to try to have a family, and
  • 00:17:42.489 --> 00:17:48.128
  • About that time i started having some pain in my right ankle.
  • 00:17:48.128 --> 00:17:52.333
  • So i went to a doctor and they checked it out, they thought
  • 00:17:52.333 --> 00:17:54.969
  • Maybe they saw a hairline fracture, send me to physical
  • 00:17:54.969 --> 00:17:58.339
  • Therapy, just kind of trying to figure out what was going on.
  • 00:17:58.339 --> 00:18:03.010
  • And it was very scary, i was actually diagnosed with a cancer
  • 00:18:03.010 --> 00:18:06.847
  • Called ewing's sarcoma, and it's a pediatric cancer that
  • 00:18:06.847 --> 00:18:11.018
  • Typically affects boys.
  • 00:18:11.018 --> 00:18:13.320
  • About four months into the chemo, the doctor came in and
  • 00:18:13.320 --> 00:18:16.924
  • Said, "ms. yarbrough, to give you the best chance of survival,
  • 00:18:16.924 --> 00:18:22.196
  • We really need to amputate your right leg."
  • 00:18:22.196 --> 00:18:25.633
  • And, you know, as a woman, that was hard.
  • 00:18:25.633 --> 00:18:29.536
  • I mean, it'd be hard for anybody, but four months after a
  • 00:18:29.536 --> 00:18:31.972
  • Diagnosis, we went through with the amputation and i went
  • 00:18:31.972 --> 00:18:35.976
  • Through about another year of chemo after that, so it ended up
  • 00:18:35.976 --> 00:18:39.413
  • Being about 18 months total of chemo, and it was tough.
  • 00:18:39.413 --> 00:18:44.251
  • I mean, it was tough.
  • 00:18:44.251 --> 00:18:45.919
  • Scot: it was a dark time for me, it really was.
  • 00:18:45.919 --> 00:18:51.825
  • Heather: it's okay, it's alright, it's okay,
  • 00:18:51.825 --> 00:18:53.761
  • Baby, it's alright.
  • 00:18:53.761 --> 00:18:57.164
  • Scot: they assured us that she would most likely survive,
  • 00:18:57.164 --> 00:19:01.001
  • So that was encouraging to hear that.
  • 00:19:01.001 --> 00:19:06.173
  • She was beautiful throughout.
  • 00:19:06.173 --> 00:19:08.108
  • Never, not one day, did she ever stop being the
  • 00:19:08.108 --> 00:19:12.813
  • Beautiful young girl i married, not one day.
  • 00:19:12.813 --> 00:19:17.084
  • Bald-headed, one leg gone, didn't change a thing
  • 00:19:17.084 --> 00:19:20.187
  • In my eyes.
  • 00:19:20.187 --> 00:19:21.555
  • The one solid peace of that through it in
  • 00:19:21.555 --> 00:19:24.425
  • God blessing us all was heather.
  • 00:19:24.425 --> 00:19:26.627
  • She had a faith that was just unshakable, and that helped me
  • 00:19:26.627 --> 00:19:31.632
  • To build my faith and to have faith in some of the darkest
  • 00:19:31.632 --> 00:19:35.769
  • Hours that i experienced, a time that i just couldn't find
  • 00:19:35.769 --> 00:19:40.040
  • Hope or had lost perspective of the whole matter.
  • 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:44.878
  • Heather just remained so faithful.
  • 00:19:44.878 --> 00:19:48.782
  • Jim: next time on "ingrace," we will continue on our incredible
  • 00:19:48.782 --> 00:19:52.920
  • Adventure, and we will continue to hear the yarbroughs' story
  • 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:57.391
  • Of trial and triumph.
  • 00:19:57.391 --> 00:20:00.694
  • Jim: we have more to come, so definitely watch the next
  • 00:20:00.694 --> 00:20:02.863
  • Episode of "ingrace."
  • 00:20:02.863 --> 00:20:04.765
  • But before we go today, let me just make sure you know the
  • 00:20:04.765 --> 00:20:07.368
  • Greatest news in the entire world, and that is that there is
  • 00:20:07.368 --> 00:20:11.105
  • A god, and that god loves you.
  • 00:20:11.105 --> 00:20:14.174
  • This evidence that we see around us, these layers of
  • 00:20:14.174 --> 00:20:18.579
  • Stratification is the result of a flood, a global flood,
  • 00:20:18.579 --> 00:20:21.949
  • And that was brought upon us because of sin.
  • 00:20:21.949 --> 00:20:24.952
  • Well, god loves us, but he hates our sin, but we all have sin.
  • 00:20:24.952 --> 00:20:29.289
  • We've all fallen short of the glory of god.
  • 00:20:29.289 --> 00:20:31.525
  • Well, there's good news.
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  • The good news is that he sent his son to pay
  • 00:20:32.860 --> 00:20:35.929
  • For your sins on a cross.
  • 00:20:35.929 --> 00:20:38.465
  • Jesus came, he lived a perfect life, he never, ever sinned,
  • 00:20:38.465 --> 00:20:41.769
  • But yet he was nailed to a cross.
  • 00:20:41.769 --> 00:20:44.571
  • He died for our sins.
  • 00:20:44.571 --> 00:20:46.306
  • He died for your sins.
  • 00:20:46.306 --> 00:20:48.008
  • And if you'll simply trust him, if you'll believe in him, the
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  • Bible says, "for god so loved the world that he gave his only
  • 00:20:51.645 --> 00:20:54.481
  • Begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
  • 00:20:54.481 --> 00:20:58.585
  • Perish, but have everlasting life."
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  • That's the greatest news in the entire world,
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  • And once you've received jesus by faith, your life is gonna
  • 00:21:04.124 --> 00:21:07.394
  • Be one adventure after another.
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  • The colorado river, looking at evidence from the grand canyon.
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  • [cheering]
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  • Dr. snelling: this is a large-scale fossil graveyard
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  • Over a huge area.
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  • You're talking about a catastrophic flood.
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  • Jim: we're talking about marine fossils, too.
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  • Dr. snelling: correct, in the overall context we're talking
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  • About the genesis flood.
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