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?
00:18:55.03\00:18:56.36
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,
00:19:01.87\00:19:04.57
unless there's a God?
00:19:04.61\00:19:05.94
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,
00:19:10.55\00:19:14.18
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,
00:19:21.46\00:19:24.79
at a light, a group of Geese.
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There were probably a dozen of
'em that were--I pulled out my
00:19:28.36\00:19:31.73
camera and snapped this.
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It's very busy traffic.
00:19:33.84\00:19:36.77
You can see, there
was actually three--one
00:19:36.81\00:19:38.81
of 'em's not in the picture.
00:19:38.84\00:19:40.14
Three adult geese where
shepherding probably eight
00:19:40.18\00:19:43.31
or ten baby geese
through very busy traffic.
00:19:43.35\00:19:48.08
Now, at this point,
you see the light is red.
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The light wasn't
red the whole time.
00:19:49.88\00:19:51.85
And yet, what do
you think the cars did?
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.59
Why did the cars stop and let
these dumb goose cross the road?
00:19:54.62\00:19:59.26
Doesn't evolution teach
survival of the fittest?
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Shouldn't we prove
that we, with our cars,
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.23
are more intelligent
than they are and just,
00:20:05.27\00:20:08.37
you know, render them extinct?
00:20:08.40\00:20:12.07
Why did everybody wait?
00:20:12.11\00:20:13.74
And I bet some of
them were atheists.
00:20:13.78\00:20:17.78
They waited for the
goose to cross the road.
00:20:17.81\00:20:20.22
[laughing]
00:20:20.25\00:20:22.12
Because you know what?
00:20:22.15\00:20:23.75
Everybody has sort of a built-in
intrinsic understanding.
00:20:23.79\00:20:27.76
There is a self-evident
truth of certain things
00:20:27.79\00:20:31.86
being right and wrong.
00:20:31.89\00:20:34.10
And we all knew intrinsically
it would be wrong to hurt those
00:20:34.10\00:20:40.94
innocent creatures,
and especially when you saw
00:20:40.97\00:20:42.84
the parents putting
their lives on the line
00:20:42.87\00:20:44.44
to try and get their
flock across the road.
00:20:44.47\00:20:48.21
Winston Churchill said: "Men
occasionally stumble over the
00:20:48.24\00:20:50.55
truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as
00:20:50.58\00:20:53.65
though nothing had happened."
00:20:53.68\00:20:55.88
The evidence is there
if a person wants to know,
00:20:55.92\00:20:57.89
"Is there a God?"
00:20:57.92\00:20:59.72
And man, I think,
is an example of that.
00:20:59.75\00:21:04.33
"What a piece of
work," Shakespeare said,
00:21:04.36\00:21:06.26
"what a piece of work is man!
00:21:06.29\00:21:07.66
How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculty,
00:21:07.66\00:21:10.13
in form and moving how
express, how admirable,
00:21:10.17\00:21:13.60
in action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a
00:21:13.64\00:21:16.00
god--the beauty of the
world, the paragon of animals!"
00:21:16.04\00:21:21.48
Humans think in the abstract.
00:21:21.51\00:21:23.95
We're able to
record and communicate,
00:21:23.98\00:21:25.88
now digitally record.
00:21:25.91\00:21:28.02
We're free moral
agents. We've got personalities.
00:21:28.05\00:21:30.89
We're virtually unpredictable,
unlike goldfish and ants.
00:21:30.92\00:21:36.49
People are so unique
because the Bible says,
00:21:36.52\00:21:40.53
Genesis 1:26: "God said,
'Let us make man in our image,'"
00:21:40.56\00:21:45.33
clearly, man is the
dominant species on the planet.
00:21:45.37\00:21:47.90
You can see what he's
made from, the heavens.
00:21:47.94\00:21:51.81
"Let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
00:21:51.84\00:21:54.01
and the birds of
the air, and the cattle,
00:21:54.04\00:21:55.54
and over all of the earth."
00:21:55.58\00:21:58.31
Man has learned more
in the last 200 years.
00:21:58.35\00:22:03.89
We didn't know about microbes
and microwaves and radio waves
00:22:03.92\00:22:07.29
and light waves, and there's
so much that we've learned,
00:22:07.32\00:22:10.09
to think that, just
in this one generation.
00:22:10.13\00:22:14.00
God also has made
us for a relationship,
00:22:14.00\00:22:19.60
which is proof of
God, and God wants to have
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.20
a relationship with us.
00:22:21.24\00:22:22.54
Jeremiah 31:3: "The Lord
has appeared to me of old,
00:22:22.57\00:22:26.34
saying, 'Yes, I have you
with an everlasting love;
00:22:26.37\00:22:29.21
therefore with lovingkindness
I have drawn you.'"
00:22:29.24\00:22:33.28
But do you know what
some of the best evidence is?
00:22:33.31\00:22:36.62
It's in Jesus.
00:22:36.65\00:22:39.92
I know he is a
biblical character,
00:22:39.95\00:22:41.49
but history also records Jesus.
00:22:41.52\00:22:44.03
You will find him
recorded in history.
00:22:44.06\00:22:47.96
In our recent tour of Israel,
our guide was an expert on
00:22:47.96\00:22:51.73
Flavius Josephus, who quoted
that Jesus was a real character
00:22:51.77\00:22:56.40
who lived in a real
time who was crucified.
00:22:56.44\00:22:59.71
Now, if a
person doesn't believe,
00:22:59.74\00:23:04.28
and they're
just believing a lie,
00:23:04.31\00:23:05.61
and the apostles
got together and said,
00:23:05.65\00:23:07.62
"Here, I'll tell you what.
00:23:07.65\00:23:08.98
Let's create our own religion.
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.32
Maybe we can use
it to raise money.
00:23:10.35\00:23:11.69
And let's say this guy
really rose from the dead,
00:23:11.72\00:23:14.69
and let's say he
did all these miracles.
00:23:14.72\00:23:16.06
Let's make this whole thing up."
00:23:16.09\00:23:18.46
You know, if you get a few
people that know that there
00:23:18.49\00:23:20.66
is a conspiracy,
it doesn't last long.
00:23:20.70\00:23:22.83
Somebody leaks,
somebody caves in.
00:23:22.86\00:23:27.30
I remember a few years
ago meeting Chuck Colson.
00:23:27.34\00:23:30.64
He was part of the
Nixon Watergate scandal.
00:23:30.67\00:23:34.51
He was one of the insiders.
00:23:34.54\00:23:36.61
And there was a conspiracy,
and they admitted it.
00:23:36.64\00:23:39.35
And Colson, who
was also an attorney,
00:23:39.38\00:23:41.68
he went to jail for his crime.
00:23:41.72\00:23:43.12
He was converted in jail.
00:23:43.15\00:23:44.82
And he tells how, as soon as
they realized--they all said,
00:23:44.85\00:23:51.63
"We'll stand for the president.
00:23:51.66\00:23:52.96
We're gonna deny everything."
00:23:52.99\00:23:54.30
But as soon as they realized
they were goin' to jail,
00:23:54.30\00:23:56.20
and the attorney
generals began to interview 'em,
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.67
it didn't take very
long for one of 'em to say,
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.34
"I'll turn on all the
others if you'll spare me."
00:24:00.37\00:24:03.00
They were so ready to
lie, and tell the truth,
00:24:03.04\00:24:07.71
whatever they had to
do to save their skin.
00:24:07.74\00:24:09.18
They all ended up
turning and confessing.
00:24:09.21\00:24:12.45
But with the apostles,
they never changed their story.
00:24:12.48\00:24:18.15
They were
stoned. They were beaten.
00:24:18.19\00:24:19.92
They went into
strange countries.
00:24:19.95\00:24:21.69
They were tortured.
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.02
They came away from the torture
and they kept saying the same
00:24:23.06\00:24:25.83
thing, that Jesus
was the Son of God,
00:24:25.86\00:24:28.73
even to the point of
being beheaded like Paul,
00:24:28.76\00:24:33.30
or crucified like Peter.
00:24:33.34\00:24:35.40
If it was a made-up story,
all the evidence would say,
00:24:35.44\00:24:40.11
"Wow, that is the best
trick that's ever been pulled in
00:24:40.14\00:24:43.58
civilization, that they
could keep it together."
00:24:43.61\00:24:46.68
Every one of 'em put
their lives on the line that
00:24:46.72\00:24:48.88
"we were
witnesses of these things."
00:24:48.92\00:24:51.32
And that's how
John ends the Bible.
00:24:51.35\00:24:53.22
He says, "I, John,
saw. These things are true."
00:24:53.25\00:24:57.16
So, if you believe the
Bible, there's no question.
00:24:57.19\00:25:00.50
But even if you're
just gonna look at history,
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.96
Christ said, "The
things that I teach,
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.90
they'll never be forgotten.
00:25:06.94\00:25:08.47
It's gonna go
into all the world."
00:25:08.50\00:25:10.44
How did he know that? He
was an uneducated carpenter.
00:25:10.47\00:25:14.81
It happened,
didn't it? So, in Christ.
00:25:14.84\00:25:17.91
The idea that
someone would live a perfect,
00:25:17.95\00:25:19.51
sinless life and
show so much love,
00:25:19.55\00:25:23.35
that's further evidence
that God is a living God.
00:25:23.39\00:25:26.86
And so, friends, I would like
to submit to you that--you know,
00:25:26.89\00:25:30.56
I would like to close
actually with a Scripture:
00:25:30.59\00:25:33.63
"Lord, you have
been our dwelling place
00:25:33.66\00:25:35.36
in all generations.
00:25:35.40\00:25:37.47
Before the
mountains were brought forth,
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.50
or ever you have formed
the earth and the world,
00:25:39.53\00:25:42.57
even from everlasting to
everlasting, you are God."
00:25:42.60\00:25:47.68
God is eternal. Amen, friends?
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