Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your co-hosts for today John DeLin

And I am super excited to have with us in studio Dr. Simon Sotherton joining us from Australia. Hey Simon

Good. I don't know you. Thanks for joining us. Good to be here. And we have of course in studio with us

Herato Sumano. Hey, Arrato. Hey, John. So glad to have you. Yeah, really excited about this. Excellent. All right

So as you all know, we have been working with Dr. Sotherton to be talking about science and science

and Mormonism and specifically how science and Mormon doctrine sometimes come in conflict. This

is the next part in that series. We are trying to do one of these per month. I believe last time we

did Adam and Eve and the garden and today we are here to cover Noah's flood and you know a

discussion of Noah's flood in the context of what the scientific body of research are. So Simon,

take it away. What do you got for us today? Okay, well the global flood or the flood of Noah has

always been a particularly troubling thing for me. In fact, if I was to most people would think that

it was DNA that took me out of the church but in fact it was it was really Noah's flood and

the beliefs that the church teaches concerning the flood of Noah that sort of washed me out of

the church and in many respects. And we'll talk about that a little bit later on but before we go,

I just want to sort of give some highlights of what we're going to talk about today. Firstly,

most importantly, we're going to be joined by Professor David Montgomery from the University of

Washington in Seattle. He's got a PhD, I think he's got a degree out of Stanford and a PhD out of

the University of California in Berkeley. He's also a very prolific writer on mostly on

soil and or dirt which is a very, very crucial subject for the survival of human society.

I know in Australia, a soil is a very, very delicate commodity and we need to care for our soils

and he's done an awful lot of work in this area in the northern hemisphere in particular.

So after we've talked about doctrine, we'll invite David to join us. So I'm really looking forward

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