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male announcer: This
presentation is brought to
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you by the friends of
the Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Evidence
continues to mount that the
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mystery of life can only be
explained by some intelligent,
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miraculous intervention.
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Now more than ever, modern
science confirms the extreme
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complexity of life.
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With 21st-century
microscopes, for instance,
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scientists understand
that even the simplest cell is,
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in effect, a virtual
factory containing thousands of
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exquisitely designed
pieces of molecular machinery,
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far more complicated than
the International Space Station,
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and functionally as complex
as a small city at rush hour.
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As we delve deeper
into the cellular realm,
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science reveals a virtual
Lilliputian world so intricate
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that if he could look through
a modern microscope today,
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Darwin himself would
likely to admit the theory
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of evolution was absurd.
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In spite of the mounting
evidence that only a divine
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miracle can produce life, the
modern world still refuses to
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accept the Bible account
that God suddenly created
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life by speaking.
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And it's that same power of his
Word that is recreating millions
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of hearts
around the world today.
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So, join me now as we look
at some of the fascinating Bible
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facts about the
incredible evidence
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of God's creative design.
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Doug: I remember
hearing a story about
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a 2nd-grade
teacher of an art class.
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She told her young
students, "You're now
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free to draw whatever you want."
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She gave them their
paints and they began
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to paint, and she'd go
from one to another and give 'em
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a little advice and
ask what they were doing.
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And she came over
to this one boy and
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he was really goin' at it.
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He was painting furiously.
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You ever seen a
kid when he's into it?
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And his tongue...
kinda out of his mouth.
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And she was lookin'
at what he was doin',
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and couldn't make
heads or tails out of it,
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and she said,
"What are you painting?"
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He said, "I'm painting God."
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She said, "Well, nobody
knows what God looks like."
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He said,
"Exactly, now they will."
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And our message today is talking
about a very important subject:
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"Can You Prove That God Exists?"
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"Can You Prove--?"
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This is the big question.
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This is one of the
most important things
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that people
could ever talk about.
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Now, you may have heard
of the Large Hadron Collider.
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The biggest and most
expensive scientific experiment
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in the world is located 300
feet beneath the countryside
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on the border of
Switzerland and France.
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And I've been in
that region before.
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It is a 17-mile-long tunnel.
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They used the same boring
equipment they used for making
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the Chunnel between France
and England to bore this tunnel.
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It's an instrument, but it
is composed of a tunnel 17 miles
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in a circle, filled with the
most powerful electric-magnet
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accelerators that
scientists can muster.
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It's operated by the
European Organization
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for Nuclear Research.
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And the aim of it all is they're
looking for the mystery of the
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smallest part of matter
that holds everything together.
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They call it, named
after some of the people who
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theorized it, the Higgs boson.
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It's nickname is--who
knows? The God particle.
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They've built this
multi-billion-dollar instrument
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to discover the God particle.
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Well, they conducted a number
of experiments between 2005
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and 2017, and they say they
believe that they've found it.
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With 99% accuracy, they believe
they've discovered the smallest
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subatomic particle that
allows all other particles
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in the universe
to bond together.
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And they say, "If it
wasn't for that particle,
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nothing would exist."
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And therefore, they
call it, "The God particle."
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Man searching for God
in the smallest matter.
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But is there a God?
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Now, we're in church,
so, you know, it's sort
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of a rhetorical question here.
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Do we believe there's
a God? And if so, why?
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How do you prove it?
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Now, some of you have
maybe seen some of the very
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beautifully produced BBC nature
programs by David Attenborough.
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And because he often
talks about evolution,
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some assumed he was an atheist.
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But when asked if
he was an atheist,
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he said, "No, of course not."
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And they said, "Well,
you know, all that you
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said about
nature and evolution."
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They says, "You're
saying you believe in God?"
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He said, "Well, I'm just sayin'
it would be foolish for me to
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say because," he said,
"the universe is so big,"
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and I'm paraphrasing.
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"The universe is so big.
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It's millions of
lightyears across.
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What we see is just so
small, and we've learned
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so much in recent years.
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For us to say we know
there is no God with the little
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perspective of the universe that
we have now is like an ant on
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top of a termite hill saying,
"I now understand the universe."
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Which I thought was a
humble and appropriate response.
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So, could be why the Bible
says, "It's the fool who says,
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'There is no God,'
with some certainty."
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At least we should say,
"Well, we don't know," or,
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"I may not know," or at
least admit you don't believe,
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or say, "I don't
want to believe."
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The Bible even says, if
you want to use the Bible,
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it says, "You can look outside
the Bible to believe in God."
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Psalm 19:1: "The heavens
declare the glory of God;
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and the firmament
shows his handiwork."
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You can look up and
see evidence for God.
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Recently, Eric
Metaxas, he wrote a bold article
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for "The Wall Street Journal"
titled "Science Increasingly
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Makes the Case for God."
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And he comes up with about
seven different points where,
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in just the
natural world around us,
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in the planet,
in the solar system,
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we see evidence that
there must be a design,
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or they'd be no life on earth.
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First point, our planet is
as exactly the right distance
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from the sun so the
temperatures on our planet
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are conductive to life."
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If we were a little
close to the sun, we'd burn.
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There's no life on
Mercury. It's too hot.
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We would be molten.
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You get too far from the
sun, and you're a ball of ice,
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like some of the
moons of Jupiter.
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And so we're just precisely
the right distance so the oceans
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don't boil away,
neither do they all freeze.
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There's a very precise balance.
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We are the perfect
distance from our moon,
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and it has the perfect
orbit to create moving tides and
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circulation of the air to avoid
the stagnation of the seas.
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And many plants and
animals reproduce based
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on the lunar orbit.
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If the earth was a little too
close to the moon as it swept
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around the planet, we'd have
this one continual tidal wave,
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a perpetual tsunami
wiping everything out.
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But it's just the right distance
where there's a gentle motion
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of the tides that
circulates the oceans
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and helps create the climate.
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And just, it's incredible
the delicate balance that
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the planets have on earth.
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Metaxas argues:
"This incredibly rare,
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outlandishly unexpected process,
given all the facts needed to
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occur in just the right
confluence of circumstances that
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at least our solar
system must have been
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specifically designed and
calibrated to give rise to us.
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Otherwise, the odds of
us coming to be would be so
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infinitesimally small that
it's unreasonable to believe it
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could have happened by chance."
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And not just that there would be
a planet with a piece of life,
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but look at the incredible
diversity of life that coexists.
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You start doing
the math on that.
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I'm getting ahead
of myself 'cause math
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is one of the reasons too.
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Dr. Arno Penzias,
still alive today,
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Nobel prize winner for
the discovery of microwaves,
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he said, "Astronomy
leads us to a unique event,
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a universe which was created
out of nothing and delicately
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balanced to provide
exactly the conditions
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requires to support life.
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In the absence of an
absurd, improbable accident,
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the observations of
modern science seem to suggest,
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underline, one might say,
there is a supernatural plan."
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Science really tells us.
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You know, I always think it's
funny if it wasn't so sad when
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you see a different
nature program and they speak as
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though Mother Nature has a mind.
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"Look at how nature
has designed this to happen
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and that to happen."
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And I'm going,
"Does nature think?
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You're saying that
there is something out there
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that's thinking and planning."
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Clearly,
there's a plan involved.
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But they say,
"Don't call it 'God.'
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Whatever you do,
don't call it 'God.'"
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But obviously, I
mean, just think about how
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evolution could explain the
intricacies of our bodies and
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how a piece of skin
would eventually start, through
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exposure to light,
turning into an eyeball.
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Even Darwin said the
eyeball mystifies him.
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He can't find any
scenario or scheme
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where it would develop itself.
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And that's just one of many.
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Abiogenesis, or informally,
the idea of life arising from
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non-living matter such
as simple organic compounds,
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has never ben observed.
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There is not a single
solitary--no matter what you've
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heard, there is not a single
solitary case anywhere in the
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observable world where we have
seen life arising from non-life.
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You cannot take a piece
of rock and plant it and
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get a sunflower plant.
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Even a seed.
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You can't make a
seed, something simple.
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Now, when they first
started teaching this idea
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of spontaneous generation,
and the idea that life arises
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from non-life, they'd
look at a cell and say,
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"Oh, you know, it
looks like a little bit of--"
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They were looking
under primitive telescopes,
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and all they saw was
what you see in an egg.
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They saw there's this
wall. There's a protoplasm.
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There's a nucleus.
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And they said, "Maybe
that could happen by itself."
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But now, with
their super microscopes,
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they look at a cell, and there's
a virtual city of factories
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and activity and chemical
reactions that are taking place,
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and all these
machines that are in there.
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I'm using "machines."
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They're biological,
but they're moving around,
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and they swim, and they propel
themselves, and they talk.
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They have language
where they're talking to the
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other machines and saying,
"We need a little more of this.
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No, less of that."
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The cell has got
so much going on.
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The idea that lightning might
hit a piece of water and develop
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one of those is beyond absurd.
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Biology in plants and
animals is a miracle that
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makes it very clear that
there was a design involved.
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There had to be a Creator.
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And you are composed of
billions of those little things
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that are all
talking to each other.
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And do you
realize you could have
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one single fertilized cell--?
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The moment after
fertilization takes--
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you got one cell of life.
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Do you realize, in
that one microscopic thing,
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it's saying,
"This is gonna be Bill.
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He's gonna have red hair.
He's gonna have green eyes.
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His teeth are gonna be strong.
His heart is gonna be average.
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He's gonna be roughly
this tall, and he's gonna
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be quicker than most."
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I mean, just all this
interesting information,
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"And Bill's
gonna have freckles."
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And it's all contained in
the DNA of one single cell.
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All that information's stored.
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"God said, 'Let the earth bring
forth living creature according
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to its kind: cattle and creeping
things and beasts of the earth,
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each according to their kind.'"
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Do we observe
evolution in the world?
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Yes, microevolution,
Darwin saw microevolution.
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He saw finches on Galapagos
that developed their beaks
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differently so they could
eat different kinds of food,
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but they were all finches.
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There is not a single example
you can see anywhere in the
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world of macroevolution, where
a cat turns into an alligator,
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'cause they are different kinds.
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There are little
cats and there are lions.
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They're all cats.
See what I'm saying?
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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We'll be back in
just a moment with the
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rest of today's presentation.
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Where do we really come from?
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Are you the
byproduct of random chance, or
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are you a unique
creation with a special purpose?
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Today, many would have us
believe that we're nothing more
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than the
offspring of primeval ooze.
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But the Bible and science
say something very different.
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But how can you know
for sure whether evolution
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or Genesis are true?
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What does the
fossil record really say?
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And what about Noah's flood?
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To shed more light on this
and answer these questions,
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Doug: Then
you've got mathematics.
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Now, I'll admit, I'm a little
bit out of my league now because
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it wasn't my best
field going through school.
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I did very well in history,
but not so good in math.
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But I do remember Isaac Newton,
who was considered among the
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greatest mathematicians
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as well as
physicists of the 17th century.
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Other physicists sought his
help in finding mathematical
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equations that would
help predict the workings
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of the solar system.
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He found these
answers in mathematical laws,
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and he did that in
the laws of gravity based
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on his discovery of calculus.
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All the space missions depend
on Isaac Newton's science of
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calculus to predict how they can
orbit these vehicles and use the
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gravitational pull
of a certain amount of
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mass to then sling them back.
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Whether it's a
satellite going off,
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like the Voyager 1 and 2 that
have now left our solar system,
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they basically were able
to sling themselves using the
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force of gravity after
orbiting these planets.
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Or the lunar missions
that return back to earth,
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all those
mathematical equations,
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they give us great
dependability to say,
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"This is the law.
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This is how the law
works. It does not vary.
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It does not alter."
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And, I mean, for me,
deep math is what we call the
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multiplication table,
but it still works there.
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Seven times seven, that's one I
still remember because you need
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it for Bible
prophecy, is always forty-nine.
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Do you know, it is the same
in any language of the world.
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Doesn't matter your culture,
doesn't matter your religion,
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7 times 7 is 49.
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And so, there is actually great
interest in math as explaining
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God because math is much deeper
than the multiplication table.
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The argument is
that mathematical laws,
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in order to be
properly relied upon,
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must have attributes that
indicate an origin in God.
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They are true everywhere.
That means they're omnipresent.
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They're true
always. They are eternal.
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They cannot be
defied or defeated.
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That means they're omnipotent.
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They're rational and they
have language characteristics.
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That makes them personal.
Notice what I just said.
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Math is omnipresent,
omnipotent, eternal.
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It's omniscient, it has
a personal relationship.
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It sounds like it
expresses the mind of God.
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Albert Einstein said, "The
most incomprehensible thing
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about the universe is
that it is comprehensible."
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I mean, even in the
math that God has written.
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Then you've got the
concept of good and evil.
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Actually, this is the point
that many people turn to to say,
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"There can't be a God."
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They say, "If there
was a God, why do so many
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innocent people suffer?
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If God is
all-powerful, all-knowing,
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why's there so
much evil in the world?
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And evil in the world
proves there is no God."
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And I'd say, "No, actually,
evil proves there is a God,
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not that God is evil.
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But the reason
you know that there is
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evil is because God is good.
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How do you know a
line is crooked unless
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you knew what straight was?
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The reason you are even able to
identify evil is because there
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must be a definition for good.
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And what is that definition?
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You know, the
Bible says, Jesus said,
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"Only God is good."
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Matter of fact, in English, we
get the word "God" from "good."
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When you tell a person, "Good
morning," it used to originally
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be, "God morning,"
'cause "God" and "good"
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are synonymous together.
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So, in order to
protest against evil,
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a person must first
have some transcendent idea
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of what is good.
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People around the
world agree that evil
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must be restrained and punished.
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Even atheists agree
with that, most of 'em.
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Why?
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If it is
survival of the fittest,
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then what would it matter?
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Why is there any right or wrong?
Is there any purpose to life?
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Why would atheists
teach in a university?
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What good is knowledge?
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They say, "Oh, it's
good to be informed."
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Why?
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How do you have any
definition of what "good"
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and "bad" is unless
there is some moral value,
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unless there's a God?
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Do you see what I'm saying?
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So, all of it is gonna
eventually come back to there
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needs to be an
original model for morals,
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for right and wrong, and
that's gonna indicate that
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there's a God,
there's a Creator.
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I was driving home
from work two days ago,
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and during rush
hour, and I came upon,
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at a light, a group of Geese.
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There were probably a dozen of
'em that were--I pulled out my
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camera and snapped this.
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It's very busy traffic.
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You can see, there
was actually three--one
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of 'em's not in the picture.
00:20:38.83\00:20:40.14
Three adult geese where
shepherding probably eight
00:20:40.17\00:20:43.30
or ten baby geese
through very busy traffic.
00:20:43.34\00:20:48.08
Now, at this point,
you see the light is red.
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The light wasn't
red the whole time.
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And yet, what do
you think the cars did?
00:20:51.88\00:20:54.58
Why did the cars stop and let
these dumb goose cross the road?
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Doesn't evolution teach
survival of the fittest?
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Shouldn't we prove
that we, with our cars,
00:21:03.29\00:21:05.33
are more intelligent
than they are and just,
00:21:05.36\00:21:08.43
you know, render them extinct?
00:21:08.46\00:21:12.13
Why did everybody wait?
00:21:12.17\00:21:13.80
And I bet some of
them were atheists.
00:21:13.84\00:21:17.84
They waited for the
goose to cross the road.
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[laughing]
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Because you know what?
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Everybody has sort of a built-in
intrinsic understanding.
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There is a self-evident
truth of certain things
00:21:27.85\00:21:31.92
being right and wrong.
00:21:31.95\00:21:34.16
And we all knew intrinsically
it would be wrong to hurt those
00:21:34.19\00:21:41.00
innocent creatures,
and especially when you saw
00:21:41.03\00:21:42.90
the parents putting
their lives on the line
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.50
to try and get their
flock across the road.
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Winston Churchill said: "Men
occasionally stumble over the
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.61
truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as
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though nothing had happened."
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The evidence is there
if a person wants to know,
00:21:55.98\00:21:57.95
"Is there a God?"
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And man, I think,
is an example of that.
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"What a piece of
work," Shakespeare said,
00:22:04.42\00:22:06.32
"what a piece of work is man!
00:22:06.35\00:22:07.72
How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculty,
00:22:07.76\00:22:10.23
in form and moving how
express, how admirable,
00:22:10.26\00:22:13.70
in action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a
00:22:13.73\00:22:16.06
god--the beauty of the
world, the paragon of animals!"
00:22:16.10\00:22:21.54
Humans think in the abstract.
00:22:21.57\00:22:24.01
We're able to
record and communicate,
00:22:24.04\00:22:25.94
now digitally record.
00:22:25.97\00:22:28.08
We're free moral
agents. We've got personalities.
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.95
We're virtually unpredictable,
unlike goldfish and ants.
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People are so unique
because the Bible says,
00:22:36.58\00:22:40.59
Genesis 1:26: "God said,
'Let us make man in our image,'"
00:22:40.62\00:22:45.43
clearly, man is the
dominant species on the planet.
00:22:45.46\00:22:47.96
You can see what he's
made from, the heavens.
00:22:48.00\00:22:51.87
"Let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
00:22:51.90\00:22:54.07
and the birds of
the air, and the cattle,
00:22:54.10\00:22:55.60
and over all of the earth."
00:22:55.64\00:22:58.37
Man has learned more
in the last 200 years.
00:22:58.41\00:23:03.95
We didn't know about microbes
and microwaves and radio waves
00:23:03.98\00:23:07.35
and light waves, and there's
so much that we've learned,
00:23:07.38\00:23:10.15
to think that, just
in this one generation.
00:23:10.19\00:23:14.06
God also has made
us for a relationship,
00:23:14.09\00:23:19.69
which is proof of
God, and God wants to have
00:23:19.73\00:23:21.26
a relationship with us.
00:23:21.30\00:23:22.60
Jeremiah 31:3: "The Lord
has appeared to me of old,
00:23:22.63\00:23:26.40
saying, 'Yes, I have you
with an everlasting love;
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.27
therefore with lovingkindness
I have drawn you.'"
00:23:29.30\00:23:33.34
But do you know what
some of the best evidence is?
00:23:33.38\00:23:36.68
It's in Jesus.
00:23:36.71\00:23:39.98
I know he is a
biblical character,
00:23:40.02\00:23:41.55
but history also records Jesus.
00:23:41.58\00:23:44.09
You will find him
recorded in history.
00:23:44.12\00:23:48.02
In our recent tour of Israel,
our guide was an expert on
00:23:48.06\00:23:51.83
Flavius Josephus, who quoted
that Jesus was a real character
00:23:51.86\00:23:56.46
who lived in a real
time who was crucified.
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.77
Now, if a
person doesn't believe,
00:23:59.80\00:24:04.34
and they're
just believing a lie,
00:24:04.37\00:24:05.67
and the apostles
got together and said,
00:24:05.71\00:24:07.68
"Here, I'll tell you what.
00:24:07.71\00:24:09.04
Let's create our own religion.
00:24:09.08\00:24:10.38
Maybe we can use
it to raise money.
00:24:10.41\00:24:11.75
And let's say this guy
really rose from the dead,
00:24:11.78\00:24:14.75
and let's say he
did all these miracles.
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.12
Let's make this whole thing up."
00:24:16.15\00:24:18.52
You know, if you get a few
people that know that there
00:24:18.55\00:24:20.72
is a conspiracy,
it doesn't last long.
00:24:20.76\00:24:22.92
Somebody leaks,
somebody caves in.
00:24:22.96\00:24:27.40
I remember a few years
ago meeting Chuck Colson.
00:24:27.40\00:24:30.70
He was part of the
Nixon Watergate scandal.
00:24:30.73\00:24:34.57
He was one of the insiders.
00:24:34.60\00:24:36.67
And there was a conspiracy,
and they admitted it.
00:24:36.71\00:24:39.41
And Colson, who
was also an attorney,
00:24:39.44\00:24:41.74
he went to jail for his crime.
00:24:41.78\00:24:43.18
He was converted in jail.
00:24:43.21\00:24:44.88
And he tells how, as soon as
they realized--they all said,
00:24:44.91\00:24:51.69
"We'll stand for the president.
00:24:51.72\00:24:53.02
We're gonna deny everything."
00:24:53.05\00:24:54.36
But as soon as they realized
they were goin' to jail,
00:24:54.39\00:24:56.29
and the attorney
generals began to interview 'em,
00:24:56.32\00:24:58.76
it didn't take very
long for one of 'em to say,
00:24:58.79\00:25:00.43
"I'll turn on all the
others if you'll spare me."
00:25:00.46\00:25:03.06
They were so ready to
lie, and tell the truth,
00:25:03.10\00:25:07.77
whatever they had to
do to save their skin.
00:25:07.80\00:25:09.24
They all ended up
turning and confessing.
00:25:09.27\00:25:12.51
But with the apostles,
they never changed their story.
00:25:12.54\00:25:18.21
They were
stoned. They were beaten.
00:25:18.25\00:25:19.98
They went into
strange countries.
00:25:20.02\00:25:21.75
They were tortured.
00:25:21.78\00:25:23.08
They came away from the torture
and they kept saying the same
00:25:23.12\00:25:25.89
thing, that Jesus
was the Son of God,
00:25:25.92\00:25:28.82
even to the point of
being beheaded like Paul,
00:25:28.86\00:25:33.40
or crucified like Peter.
00:25:33.43\00:25:35.46
If it was a made-up story,
all the evidence would say,
00:25:35.50\00:25:40.17
"Wow, that is the best
trick that's ever been pulled in
00:25:40.20\00:25:43.64
civilization, that they
could keep it together."
00:25:43.67\00:25:46.74
Every one of 'em put
their lives on the line that
00:25:46.78\00:25:48.94
"we were
witnesses of these things."
00:25:48.98\00:25:51.38
And that's how
John ends the Bible.
00:25:51.41\00:25:53.28
He says, "I, John,
saw. These things are true."
00:25:53.31\00:25:57.22
So, if you believe the
Bible, there's no question.
00:25:57.25\00:26:00.56
But even if you're
just gonna look at history,
00:26:00.59\00:26:03.06
Christ said, "The
things that I teach,
00:26:03.09\00:26:07.00
they'll never be forgotten.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.53
It's gonna go
into all the world."
00:26:08.56\00:26:10.50
How did he know that? He
was an uneducated carpenter.
00:26:10.53\00:26:14.87
It happened,
didn't it? So, in Christ.
00:26:14.90\00:26:17.97
The idea that
someone would live a perfect,
00:26:18.01\00:26:19.57
sinless life and
show so much love,
00:26:19.61\00:26:23.41
that's further evidence
that God is a living God.
00:26:23.45\00:26:26.92
And so, friends, I would like
to submit to you that--you know,
00:26:26.95\00:26:30.62
I would like to close
actually with a Scripture:
00:26:30.65\00:26:33.69
"Lord, you have
been our dwelling place
00:26:33.72\00:26:35.46
in all generations.
00:26:35.49\00:26:37.56
Before the
mountains were brought forth,
00:26:37.59\00:26:39.59
or ever you have formed
the earth and the world,
00:26:39.63\00:26:42.63
even from everlasting to
everlasting, you are God."
00:26:42.66\00:26:47.74
God is eternal. Amen, friends?
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When Susan's and Michael's
whirlwind relationship led to a
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wedding, they had no idea
how hard married life could be.
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Finally, they understood what it
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Michael are joyfully married,
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sharing what they
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and I hope that you'll plan now
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