You and me both.

That would be pretty cool if you did that!

Do Not just think about it, do it.

Follow what you love

Do it dude, life is too short. Do what makes you happy, especially if you have the money to do so.

Truer words have not been spoken. A great tribute to a man who has inspired thousands. He gave us much needed relief and enlightenment throughout the COVID period. Can’t do much much more for humanity. Nick is such an inspiration.

Wholeheartedly agree. And I’ve seen a lot of professors at my time getting my University degree. A1 teacher here.

Geology has fascinated me for years. Still I'm picturing a large pig swimming in jello. "I'm not retarded but I like rocks" -Kill Tony on UKposts 2023

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Thank you Robert.

You here for your fix too?

@@emergentcausality our Nick-fix?😁

Many have

Every night. I’ve watched my favorites so much that it’s my sleeping noise now, but before I knew the lectures word for word I would be up until 03:00 in rapt attention.

I'm not a geologist, but the "shallow subduction" explanation for the Rocky Mountains has always seemed ad hoc and contrived to me. The apparent fact that seismic tomography doesn't support it doesn't surprise me at all. From this and other presentation by Nick Zentner, I am starting to believe that the geologic past of the west coast of North America was much more complex than the traditional model.

The traditional explanation has been that the Farallon plate started subducting at a steeper angle past the Sevier thrust zone. This would've allowed mantle upwelling to form the Rockies. A nice explanation, but not backed up by the newer seismic tomographic evidence.

From another geologist, more than any other science I am sure that geology works on things just not setting well leading to advances.

​@@russlehman2070: I'm not buying this guys explanation on "millions" of years ago. Scientists have no way to accurately figure how old things are unless they actually have something tangible in their hands with a date stamped on it. Their carbon dating method is severely flawed. They talk about how long it takes for coal to form "millions" of years ago, however a father and son team of shade tree scientists took a piece of wood, soaked it in water, put it inside an airtight box that had a heater in it and added pressure into it also, they turned it on for a week, or two and 'POOF!' When they opened the box, the wood was turning into coal, so their theory of "MEELIONS" of years doesn't hold up in my opinion. SO, how do these trees end up so deep below into the earth? I think the answer has been happening in certain states pretty recently actually, we've been seeing stories on t.v. about 'sink holes' opening up in different parts of the world. There was a mining company in Louisiana years ago that was mining salt hundreds of feet below and partly under a large lake. A drilling company had a drill rig floating on the lake and was test drilling for a different type of product. What they did was make a mistake in their calculations and accidently drilled into the roof of the salt mine, which caused the water in the lake to fallow the drill bit down into the salt mine below. The water started pouring into the mine like a jet stream. It was a miracle that all the men working below were able to escape without any injuries or deaths. As the water followed the drill bit, it began to open the bore hole more and more until it was so big, that it swallowed the entire drill rig, then the hole started pulling the trees that were growing nearby the the edge under water and then under ground. The earth swallowed a whole Grove of trees and they sank hundreds of feet beneath. It also emptied all the water in the lake and almost pulled a fisherman and his boat down with it. Hundreds of years from now, some liberal professor will come along, find the wreckage using ground penitrating sonar and swear that "MILIIONS of years ago, man used DRILLING RIGS!" No, just an accidental miscalculation HUNDREDS of years earlier by a guy who wasn't paying close attention and drilled into a salt mine by accident. But those TREES are STILL down there and WILL BECOME COAL. There's sink holes that open up under our feet still all around the planet and swallow trees into the earth. This is how I beleave that wood finds its way underground, gets squeezed under pressure and turned into coal in most likely THOUSANDS of years, NOT "MILLIONS". In order for scientists to be able to accurately calculate "MILLIONS", they would have to take their calculator machine, travel MILLIONS of years back in time, CALCULATE it, then travel BACK to the present time to be able to use it correctly and until THAT'S possible, their calculations are SEVERELY flawed. 👎

Wait a second now, wasn’t the earth created 5,000 years ago.

It seems to me your passion is sitting in a classroom. Now, thanks to UKposts, you can do it in the comfort of your very own home.

Robert, add this in to your understanding: So, basically, the entire Pacific Rim was formed during the last "Feast of Sphenes", which was a terra-forming event said to be how G_d separated the waters from the firmament. Does it fit with your knowledge?

I tried to search for the feast you mention because I never heard of it. Got the Feast of Stephen. He was the first martyr after Jesus died. Obviously nothing to do with the separating of the earth from the sky. It has been a long time since I read Genesis. I looked up firmament too to check its definition. I didn’t check its etymology. I did notice that there was a “vault” mentioned for other biblical definitions but did not pursue that. Unless something like that is part of the meaning of the original phrasing in the oldest known written version, which might be cuneiform, it is from the imaginations of men. The oldest written “Ark” and flood story is in cuneiform. and the ancient tablet was acquired by the British Museum within the last 30 years. Look up Irving Finkel’s “The Ark Before Noah”. Many think Abraham was from Mesopotamia. I theorize the stuff separated from the “sky” was lots of solid objects we call asteroids. Perhaps even larger more rounded objects that might have had a core. Obviously not an already formed planet. At any rate, the “firmament” in the Torah predates the formation of this planet. Your reference doesn’t seem to apply to the subject.

Nick's a hard act to follow, isn't he. That can only come from love -- love for the subject, love for teaching, and love for his students. And BTW, he suffers no fools. If he sees you're not making the effort to pay attention, he's only too happy to call you out. Good for him.

When a “educated” person like this has bought into the unprovable age of earth as millions and millions of years old I find it hard to believe everything thing else he says. With all his “education” he has ignored the most important history book in existence. The Bible. Genesis 1:1-2 states: 1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God MOVED upon the face of the waters. Then skip to verse 9. And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry appear: and it was so. 10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering of the waters called he Seas. The separation of the continents came after that. Since it is clear from God’s word the the earth is not millions of years old.

@@larrywaltman3916Thank you, William Jennings Bryan.

hahahaha Yeah, I was thinking the SAME thing! I am coming up on retirement age, planning to travel and move to Thailand (cheap retirement). Thinking maybe I should fly out of Seattle, and take a little drive over to Ellensburg. I was born in Moses Lake but don't remember it. Might just have to take a two week vacation prior to my flight, thanks to Nick!

I made a point of driving to Ellensburg to attend this lecture (my bald head is in a sea of bald heads on the left) because it's the first downtown series he's done in awhile and it's intending to put the entire Baja/BC theory in a condensed form the rest of us can absorb in four hours. It was well worth the four-hour drive, plus I toured Discovery Hall which itself is a marvel; the displays and maps and the Earth's geologic time line etched into the hallway there is something to behold, and puts our existence into stark perspective. Ellensburg itself appears to be a pleasant town -- a college town no doubt but it also has the agricultural economy to build off of. I couldn't stay for all four lectures but the one I picked wound up being the most intriguing one.

I spent a month there in fall 2021 and there's SO much to see there. Wow! I"m going to try to get back this fall for sure!

All the fun is in Yakima. It's the Palm Springs of Washington.

@@M167A1 Nah, _Wenatchee_ is the Palm Springs of Washington now, didn't you know? Nick changed it. Can't remember now which lecture that was but he said we gotta fix the sign.

That is so true! Nick is a gem! I was a geology major fifty years ago when plate tectonics had recently gained acceptance in the US. A very exiting time to be studying geology. Nick takes me back to that era every time I watch one of his live streams or videos.

He strikes me as a real truth seeking scientist. His book knowledge is quite vast, its fun when he spots an anomaly in the field he gets visibly disappointed with the books.

@@davedavis5809 I like that if he doesn't know something, he is humbe enough to say so. Then after a similar concept comes up in questions later on, he'll give an answer if his research shows a new fact has come up.

I miss the time when professors didn't waste words, were organized and didn't think geology (or any science) had to be casual to interest the public and when they didn't shy away from presenting tough theories without looking dumb and didn't act like 12 years old. Clearly this lecturer style is not my cup of tea.

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Sharon You can now take the next step. Look at all the Expanding Earth Videos , Neal Adams, Samuel Warren Carey, James Maxlow, and videos showing the seas covering the continents, and then leaving the continents, and intertwine them with the Videos by Nick Zentner. This is your Top Gun Maverick Moment. Launch !!!!

@@michaelclark5626 Wait for me Sharon!

I've traveled the world analyzing mountains. Let me save you time. 70% are broken off tree trunks 25% are mining tailings. 5% IDK. Laugh, Ignore or Accept.

African American hills 😂😂😂😂

I'm for some reason reminded that the crash test dummies are named Larry and Vince. 😀

It’s not only the Rocky Mountains between Alberta and Vancouver, There are other separate mountain ranges , And even west of Vancouver Vancouver island has its own range , And even a little more west the Olympic mountain range of North West Washington State

Save her years of programming....I've traveled the world analyzing mountains. Let me save you time. 70% are broken off tree trunks 25% are mining tailings. 5% IDK. Laugh, Ignore or accept.

Nick's focus has always been on the Cordillera, and he'll be the first to tell you that his knowledge of your area is rudimentary at best, if not nonexistent. HOWEVER....I recently watched a UKposts video of Myron Cook, a geologist from Wyoming, explain the geomorphology of the Gulf Coast, and I think you'll find your answer there.

He has them online.

You are not worthy

It seems to me you just testified that your 20 years were wasted on hypotheticals; which is essentially, "science falsely so called." (1Timothy 6:20) "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." (Romans 1:22)

@@libertypastor1307 wtf lol

@@noone-ft9lw You wouldn't understand.

SAF began to take shape around 20 million years ago; and as the fault expanded, the NW trajectory of the Pacific Plate began to pull the coastal accretion northward along the fault and launched a clockwise rotation of the Western States. Thus began Basin & Range extension and the gradual lifting of the Sierra Batholith, which continues to this day.

The Intermontaine Superteraine is the Third largest exotic Terraine that makes up North America, so when North America hit it, it hit hard!

that's LOT of bald heads 😮

@@RYOkEkEN My bald head was one of them. I noticed the same thing when I played this back a couple weeks after the lecture. A whole lot of us who attended were dating ourselves just having our backs to the camera.

This was a great intro class. I think I'll watch the 1st one you did before this. This was so good I just stayed here for whole lecture. I'm so glad I found this! I have a new discipline to add to my ongoing learning. Thankyou Nick !

Now having seen the lecture in replay after being there, my head seemed to move around a lot more than I realized. But yeah, I was locked in, no question. Nick's approach can do that to ya.

They're old and pretending they're young and in cowidge - and probably most of them never went to college so it's a part of their life they consider "missing." Some old people like to do stuff like that. It's called play acting. Gramma/Grampas often take up stuff the grand babies are doing - maybe to better relate to them.

@@mikezylstra7514 Spoken like a true Gen-Z Harvard student.

Geology is so cool that way!!

Exactly!

I look out at the Stuart Range from my home. Now I can imagine that the pluton was only the caboose of a long northbound train. Thanks Professor!