Evidence for a Global Flood and Its Importance for Our Times | Kolbe Center Seminar, Dallas, September 2026
Marine fossils lie on top of the world’s highest mountains. Hugh Owen sets out the evidence that Noah’s Flood covered the whole earth, and why it matters for our times.
Starting from St. Peter’s warning against the scoffers who would deny the Creation and the Flood, Hugh Owen makes the theological case for a global Flood, then turns to the physical evidence: marine fossils on the highest mountains, what it takes to make a fossil, dinosaur graveyards, carbon-14 in dinosaur bones, rock layers that cross continents, the lessons of Mount St. Helens, oversized valleys, water gaps and planation surfaces, Noah’s Ark and the Ice Age. He closes with what the Flood teaches our generation, and with Our Lady of Good Help and the Peshtigo fire.
In this talk:
- St. Peter’s warning and the theological case for a global Flood
- Marine fossils, dinosaur graveyards and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones
- Rock layers across continents, Mount St. Helens and planation surfaces
- Noah’s Ark, the Ice Age, and the Flood’s warning to our generation
Chapters:
0:00 Opening prayer
0:24 St. Peter’s warning: two lies
3:00 The theological case for a global Flood
9:29 The physical evidence
12:41 Marine fossils on the highest mountains
14:26 What it takes to make a fossil
16:06 Dinosaur graveyards
18:01 Carbon-14 in dinosaur bones
21:55 Layers that cross continents
25:05 Mount St. Helens and moving water
26:02 Sediments laid down at once
30:04 Oversized valleys and water gaps
32:38 Planation surfaces
34:34 Noah’s Ark
36:10 The Ice Age
37:43 What the Flood teaches us
39:33 A warning to our generation
41:44 Our Lady of Good Help and the Peshtigo fire
44:58 Closing prayer
About the speaker: Hugh Owen is the founder and director of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. The convert son of Sir David Owen, first Secretary General of International Planned Parenthood Federation, he entered the Catholic Church at eighteen as a freshman at Princeton and served as a teacher, headmaster and director of religious education for many years. He and his wife Maria have nine living children and twenty-two grandchildren and live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He is a member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family.
This talk was given at a Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation seminar at Mater Dei Parish, Dallas, in September 2026. The Kolbe Center is a Catholic apostolate dedicated to proclaiming the truth about the origins of man and the universe, in fidelity to Sacred Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and the constant teaching of the Magisterium.
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