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[Music] Good evening, there are people who are Good evening, there are people who are convinced that if they say one word, they will give, as they say, a knockout to all believers, and this word is dinosaurs. Dinosaurs. We found dinosaurs. What do you say? How does your Torah deal with this? Today we will talk not only about the Zoroastrians, but also about some other very interesting things. And it seems that not only are there no questions here, there are no questions here, there are answers here. In 1924, a man named Wagner, a German geologist, sat down and opened the map. He said, "The world map is very interesting. When you look at it and you observe the continents, you see them as a kind of puzzle that has spread out. Don't you take North and South America and bring it closer to our block of Europe and Africa? You see our block of Europe and Africa? You see that it connects. The rift in Africa connects perfectly with South America. North America connects to Europe. Australia fits in very wonderfully under Asia. And it looks like a block that has slowly spread out. Therefore, we will talk about the migration of the continents that in the past, x years ago, actually. There was one large continent and for years ago, actually. There was one large continent and for some reason it slowly drifted. In the 1930s and 1940s, they didn't give much importance to this theory. But in the 1960s, in fact, after research by an American general named Hess, who during World War II examined the ocean floor and discovered that it was not as uniform as had been thought until then, but that even in the oceans at the bottom there were
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- 0:04[Music] Good evening, there are people who are…
- 3:45moved to move such a large continent? It's impossible to explain it. With the easy excuse…
- 7:25dust all over the globe that caused darkness and therefore a lack of oxygen in the…
- 11:06the formation of fossils of trees and plants. But in order for oil to be formed,…
- 14:46was born in 1948. This is very reminiscent of the year of the establishment of the…
- 18:28giant monsters, monsters that of course the Holy Spirit, blessed be He, was not comfortable with.…
- 22:14long migration, and even then the Holy Zohar tells us, and he crossed the seven pillars.…
- 25:56Cold and heat. Summer and winter. Day and night will not cease." The Midrash says, "Rashi…
- 29:42Unfortunately, there are those who take it in the opposite direction. It's the power of choice.…
- 33:25important coal and oil minerals were created from the flood, as we said, the people of…
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