AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:03.30\00:00:11.34 >>IF YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT JESUS SAYS - IF YOU CAN SAY, 00:00:11.37\00:00:13.64 'I'M A CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN 00:00:13.68\00:00:16.11 EVOLUTION.' DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN JESUS? 00:00:16.14\00:00:21.25 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:00:21.28\00:00:24.35 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:24.39\00:00:27.22 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:27.26\00:00:30.16 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:00:30.19\00:00:33.19 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 'AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS'. 00:00:33.23\00:00:42.07 >>TONIGHT I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT 'WHERE DID I COME 00:00:42.10\00:00:45.37 FROM?' AND THIS IS ESPECIALLY DEAR AND 00:00:45.41\00:00:49.61 NEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT 00:00:49.64\00:00:52.51 EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 00:00:52.55\00:00:54.38 AND I SHOULD TELL YOU RIGHT UP FRONT, I'M DOING THIS WITH MY 00:00:54.42\00:00:58.75 PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE. MY DOCTORATE IS NOT IN BIOLOGY. 00:00:58.79\00:01:02.56 I'M GOING TO BE SHARING WITH YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 00:01:02.59\00:01:05.33 NOW, I GAVE A LITTLE BIT OF MY TESTIMONY LAST NIGHT AND WHILE I 00:01:05.36\00:01:09.13 WENT TO 14 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS BEFORE I EVER GOT MY GED AND 00:01:09.16\00:01:13.47 THEN WENT ON TO COLLEGE, MANY OF THOSE SCHOOLS TAUGHT EVOLUTION. 00:01:13.50\00:01:18.54 I WAS A FIRM BELIEVER THAT WE JUST EVOLVED BECAUSE I HAD HEARD 00:01:18.57\00:01:23.45 IT SO MANY TIMES. BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE BACK OF MY 00:01:23.48\00:01:26.55 MIND I FOUND I HAD TO TORTURE MY LOGIC TO ACCEPT IT. 00:01:26.58\00:01:31.65 BUT I THOUGHT, 'EVERYBODY BELIEVES IT' AND YOU'RE LOOKED 00:01:31.69\00:01:35.42 UPON AS FOOLISH IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT. 00:01:35.46\00:01:38.33 AND EVEN THOUGH I HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU COULD 00:01:38.36\00:01:41.03 GET ALL OF THESE INTRICATE ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS AND 00:01:41.06\00:01:45.33 DESIGN AND STRUCTURE THROUGH RANDOM CHANCE, I FIGURED, WELL, 00:01:45.37\00:01:51.07 I'M JUST NOT SMART ENOUGH. 00:01:51.11\00:01:52.31 THERE MUST BE THINGS THAT THE SCIENCE IS JUST NOT EXPLAINING 00:01:52.34\00:01:55.68 ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENS OR THAT I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND YET. 00:01:55.71\00:01:59.51 BUT, YOU KNOW, THEN AFTER - I SHARED WITH YOU - I WENT TO THE 00:01:59.55\00:02:04.62 MOUNTAINS. I STARTED READING THE BIBLE. 00:02:04.65\00:02:06.59 I CAME TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE AND FOR A WHILE THERE I TRIED TO MIX 00:02:06.62\00:02:09.96 THE BIBLE WITH EASTERN RELIGIONS WITH REINCARNATION AND WITH 00:02:09.99\00:02:14.10 EVOLUTION. I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS HAD A 00:02:14.13\00:02:16.70 LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF 00:02:16.73\00:02:18.83 TRUTH IN WHAT HE SAID' AND SO I TRIED TO JUST MAKE IT ALL FIT. 00:02:18.87\00:02:23.37 BUT, YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T MAKE IT FIT. 00:02:23.41\00:02:26.91 WHERE DID WE COME FROM? WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT THAT WILL 00:02:26.94\00:02:30.78 AFFECT EVERYTHING IN YOUR WORLD VIEW. 00:02:30.81\00:02:33.68 YOUR BELIEF ABOUT ORIGINS WILL DEFINE EVERY OTHER BELIEF. 00:02:33.72\00:02:39.79 YOUR WORLD VIEW ABOUT WHERE YOU CAME FROM IS GOING TO HAVE A 00:02:39.82\00:02:42.82 DEFINING INFLUENCE ON EVERY OTHER BELIEF. 00:02:42.86\00:02:44.96 LET ME GIVE YOU JUST A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES HERE. 00:02:44.99\00:02:47.50 WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT DEATH IS GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY WHETHER 00:02:47.50\00:02:51.40 OR NOT YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 00:02:51.43\00:02:53.77 IF YOU THINK WE EVOLVED THEN YOU THINK DEATH IS THE DEAD END - 00:02:53.80\00:02:57.41 YOU'VE JUST SORT OF DECOMPOSED AND THAT'S IT, YOU CEASE TO 00:02:57.44\00:02:59.81 EXIST. WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT SIN AND 00:02:59.84\00:03:03.28 HOLINESS IS GOING TO BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THAT. 00:03:03.31\00:03:07.05 WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT MARRIAGE - I'LL NEVER FORGET, I WENT TO 00:03:07.08\00:03:10.69 THIS SCHOOL, IT WAS CALLED A 'FREE' SCHOOL. 00:03:10.72\00:03:15.86 IT WAS A VERY LIBERAL SCHOOL IN WATERFORD, MAINE CALLED 00:03:15.89\00:03:19.53 'PINEHENGE'. IT HAS SINCE CLOSED. 00:03:19.56\00:03:22.60 AND JUST ALMOST ANYTHING WENT. 00:03:22.63\00:03:24.47 IT WAS A 'HIPPIE' SCHOOL IS THE BEST DEFINITION. 00:03:24.50\00:03:27.64 AND WE WERE IN THE CAFETERIA ONE DAY AND ONE OF THE FACULTY CAME 00:03:27.67\00:03:32.37 IN AND SHE WAS CRYING - SHE TRIED TO HIDE IT - SHE WAS 00:03:32.41\00:03:34.78 PREGNANT AND SHE WAS CRYING AND I JUST OVERHEARD AS SOME OF THE 00:03:34.81\00:03:38.25 OTHER GIRL STUDENTS WERE TALKING TO THIS TEACHER AND SAYING, 00:03:38.28\00:03:41.15 'WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?' AND SHE SAID - SHE JUST BROKE 00:03:41.18\00:03:43.89 DOWN AND SAID, 'MY HUSBAND'S HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH ANOTHER 00:03:43.92\00:03:46.96 FACULTY MEMBER.' AND SHE SAID, 'HE'S A SCIENCE TEACHER' AND HE 00:03:46.99\00:03:54.73 SAID THIS SHOULD NOT BOTHER HER BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ANIMALS AND 00:03:54.73\00:03:57.87 THIS IS PERFECTLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR. 00:03:57.90\00:04:01.20 AND SO I REMEMBER THINKING TO MYSELF, LOGICALLY, IF I BELIEVED 00:04:01.24\00:04:05.17 IN EVOLUTION, WHAT HE WAS ARGUING MADE SENSE. 00:04:05.21\00:04:07.71 THERE'S NO MORALITY IF THERE'S NO GOD. 00:04:07.74\00:04:10.11 YOUR IDEA OF MORALITY IS NOT WORTH A NICKEL MORE THAN MINE IF 00:04:10.15\00:04:12.85 THERE'S NO GOD. WHO DEFINES WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG? 00:04:12.88\00:04:16.82 EVERY COUNTRY AND EVERY CULTURE CAN JUST MAKE UP THEIR OWN 00:04:16.85\00:04:19.19 RULES. BUT IF THERE IS A GOD AND IF HE 00:04:19.22\00:04:22.69 IS THE TRUTH, THEN THERE'S ABSOLUTES. 00:04:22.72\00:04:24.36 IT'LL DEFINE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MARRIAGE, WHETHER OR NOT 00:04:24.39\00:04:28.50 THERE'S A DAY OF REST, THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE, 00:04:28.53\00:04:32.70 THE WORDS OF JESUS. IT'LL AFFECT EVERYTHING FROM 00:04:32.73\00:04:38.01 ADULTERY, HOMOSEXUALITY, SUICIDE - IT'LL AFFECT YOUR VIEWS ON 00:04:38.04\00:04:43.28 RACISM, WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 00:04:43.31\00:04:47.62 YOU KNOW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DARWIN'S BOOK 'ORIGIN OF 00:04:47.65\00:04:49.52 SPECIES' AND THEY STOP RIGHT THERE. 00:04:49.55\00:04:51.02 BUT THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK. 00:04:51.05\00:04:53.62 YOU KNOW WHAT THE WHOLE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL IS? 00:04:53.66\00:04:55.96 'THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR THE 00:04:55.99\00:04:59.23 PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.' WHEN 00:04:59.26\00:05:04.33 DARWIN WENT TO AUSTRALIA HE WAS CONVINCED THE ABORIGINES THERE 00:05:04.37\00:05:07.07 WERE SOMEWHERE ON THE CONTINUUM OF THE MISSING LINK. 00:05:07.10\00:05:10.04 THAT'S WHERE THAT'S GOING TO LEAD. BUT, YOU KNOW, 00:05:10.07\00:05:13.54 IN THE BIBLE - LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM ACTS 00:05:13.58\00:05:15.88 CHAPTER 17. ACTS CHAPTER 17 AND THIS IS PAUL. HE'S IN ATHENS. 00:05:15.91\00:05:23.42 IT WAS THE CENTER OF LEARNING BACK IN HIS DAY AND HE'S WAITING 00:05:23.45\00:05:27.82 FOR HIS FRIENDS TO COME AND WHILE HE'S WAITING HE'S 00:05:27.86\00:05:29.59 WANDERING AROUND THE TOWN AND HE JUST SAW THERE WERE IDOLS 00:05:29.62\00:05:32.79 EVERYWHERE AND THEY HAD SO MANY IDOLS THEY MADE AN IDOL TO A GOD 00:05:32.83\00:05:35.16 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS. THEY JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE 00:05:35.20\00:05:37.00 THEY DIDN'T LEAVE ANY GODS OUT. VERY PLURALISTIC CULTURE BACK 00:05:37.03\00:05:41.34 THERE AMONG THE PHILOSOPHERS IN ATHENS. 00:05:41.37\00:05:46.54 IT SAYS IN VERSE, ACTUALLY, 21, "FOR ALL THE ATHENIANS AND THE 00:05:46.57\00:05:49.28 FOREIGNERS WHO WERE THERE SPENT THEIR TIME IN NOTHING ELSE BUT 00:05:49.31\00:05:51.71 EITHER TO TELL OR TO HEAR SOME NEW THING." 00:05:51.75\00:05:53.62 LOTS OF PHILOSOPHY - 'YOU'VE GOT YOUR TRUTH, I'VE GOT MY TRUTH, 00:05:53.65\00:05:56.15 THERE'S NOTHING ABSOLUTE.' "THEN PAUL STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE 00:05:56.18\00:06:01.12 AREOPAGUS AND SAID, 'MEN OF ATHENS, I PERCEIVE THAT IN ALL 00:06:01.16\00:06:05.36 THINGS YOU ARE VERY RELIGIOUS; FOR AS I WAS PASSING THROUGH AND 00:06:05.39\00:06:09.60 CONSIDERING THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP, I EVEN FOUND AN ALTAR 00:06:09.63\00:06:12.63 WITH THIS INSCRIPTION: 'TO THE UNKNOWN GOD'; THEREFORE THE ONE 00:06:12.67\00:06:17.61 WHOM YOU WORSHIP WITHOUT KNOWN, HIM I PROCLAIM TO YOU:'" - I 00:06:17.64\00:06:21.71 HAPPEN TO KNOW THAT ONE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 00:06:21.74\00:06:24.11 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM - "'GOD, WHO MADE THE WORLD AND 00:06:24.15\00:06:29.52 EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES 00:06:29.55\00:06:33.86 NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS. 00:06:33.89\00:06:35.86 NOR IS HE WORSHIPED WITH...ANYTHING SINCE HE GIVES 00:06:35.89\00:06:38.56 TO ALL LIFE, BREATH, AND ALL THINGS.'" - AND NOTICE - "'AND 00:06:38.59\00:06:42.36 HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL ON ALL 00:06:42.40\00:06:46.74 THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HAS DETERMINED THEIR PRE-APPOINTED 00:06:46.77\00:06:50.01 TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS,'" - NOTICE WHY 00:06:50.04\00:06:54.28 - "'SO THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, IN THE HOPE THAT THEY 00:06:54.31\00:06:57.41 MIGHT GROPE FOR HIM AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE IS NOT FAR FROM 00:06:57.45\00:07:02.05 EACH ONE OF US.'" HE IS NOT FAR FROM EVERY ONE OF US. 00:07:02.08\00:07:05.39 EVERY ONE OF US - HE'S NOT FAR. BUT HE SAYS HE CREATED US - 00:07:05.42\00:07:10.66 WE'RE CAUGHT IN THIS QUANDARY OF SIN - TALK ABOUT THAT IN OUR 00:07:10.69\00:07:14.23 NEXT PRESENTATION - AND HE WANTS US TO SEEK FOR HIM. WE NEED TO 00:07:14.30\00:07:19.87 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS. WELL, LET ME 00:07:19.90\00:07:24.61 GIVE YOU A FEW REASONS THAT I BELIEVE THAT EVOLUTION 00:07:24.64\00:07:26.37 IS IMPOSSIBLE AND I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE TIME TO COVER THEM ALL, 00:07:26.41\00:07:29.08 BUT AMONG THE REASONS ARE THE LAWS - FIRST AND SECOND LAWS OF 00:07:29.11\00:07:34.12 THERMODYNAMICS AND ENTROPY. NOW, I KNOW MANY OF YOU ARE 00:07:34.15\00:07:38.15 STUDYING THESE THINGS NOW AND I'LL JUST GIVE YOU THE VERY 00:07:38.19\00:07:40.82 SIMPLE DEFINITION. FOR INSTANCE, THE FIRST LAW OF 00:07:40.86\00:07:43.66 THERMODYNAMICS: ENERGY CAN BE CHANGED FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER 00:07:43.69\00:07:47.76 BUT IT CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED. 00:07:47.76\00:07:50.90 YOU'VE ALL HEARD THAT BEFORE - THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. 00:07:50.93\00:07:53.80 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH MATTER AND ENERGY IN THE 00:07:53.84\00:07:56.71 UNIVERSE AND IT CAN ONLY BE ALTERED - YOU CAN TURN MATTER 00:07:56.74\00:08:00.04 INTO ENERGY AND ENERGY INTO MATTER BUT YOU CANNOT CREATE NEW 00:08:00.08\00:08:03.35 ENERGY OR MATTER. WELL, WE SEE THERE'S A LOT OF 00:08:03.38\00:08:05.68 ENERGY AND MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE. 00:08:05.71\00:08:07.72 HERE'S THE BIG QUESTION: WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM? 00:08:07.75\00:08:11.79 EVERYBODY - EVOLUTIONISTS, CREATIONISTS - IS GOING TO BE 00:08:11.82\00:08:14.86 STUMPED AT THIS POINT AND YOU'VE GOT TWO OPTIONS. 00:08:14.89\00:08:21.00 YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT ALL OF THE LIFE AND THE ORGANIZATION AND 00:08:21.03\00:08:25.07 STRUCTURE THAT WE SEE IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE RESULT OF 00:08:25.10\00:08:30.11 EVER-EXISTING GAS PARTICLES THAT SOMEHOW COLLIDED AND BEGAN TO 00:08:30.14\00:08:33.11 EXPLODE AND THROUGH AN INFINITE NUMBER OF VERY CONVENIENT SMALL 00:08:33.14\00:08:38.61 EXPLOSIONS OR ONE GREAT BIG EXPLOSION FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF 00:08:38.65\00:08:42.88 SMALLER EXPLOSIONS AND THINGS SPIRALING OFF INTO GALAXIES, 00:08:42.92\00:08:46.99 THAT ALL THAT YOU CAN SEE, ALL THE INTERWORKING PERFECT SYSTEMS 00:08:47.02\00:08:50.86 - THE EARTH THE PERFECT DISTANCE FROM THE SUN SO THAT WE DON'T 00:08:50.89\00:08:54.10 MELT OR FREEZE AND THE PERFECT CYCLE IN THE ECOSYSTEM BETWEEN 00:08:54.13\00:08:57.70 THE PLANTS AND THE ANIMALS AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS 00:08:57.73\00:09:01.90 BETWEEN EVERYTHING FROM ANTS THAT TAKE CARE OF APHIDS AND 00:09:01.94\00:09:06.91 BEES AND FLOWERS AND JUST SO MANY MYSTERIES OUT THERE. 00:09:06.94\00:09:10.55 YOU CAN BELIEVE ALL THAT IS A RESULT OF MATTER THAT COLLIDED 00:09:10.58\00:09:14.35 AND EXPLODED AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE MATTER CAME FROM. 00:09:14.38\00:09:18.69 EVERY EVOLUTIONIST WILL SAY, 'WELL, SOMETHING WAS ALWAYS 00:09:18.72\00:09:21.19 THERE.' RIGHT? OR YOU CAN SAY, 00:09:21.22\00:09:26.06 'I DON'T KNOW WHERE GOD CAME FROM BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS 00:09:26.09\00:09:29.70 THIS ULTIMATE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE THAT LIVES, 00:09:29.73\00:09:33.00 SOMEHOW, IN AND OUTSIDE OF TIME AND SPACE THAT IS FROM 00:09:33.03\00:09:36.04 EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING AND HE IS MUCH BIGGER THAN I AM 00:09:36.07\00:09:39.97 BUT HE'S MADE ME IN HIS IMAGE AND THE BIBLE REVEALS WHO HE IS 00:09:40.01\00:09:44.31 AND HE HAS FEELINGS AND EMOTION AND THOUGHT AND LOVE. 00:09:44.35\00:09:48.38 YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT OR YOU CAN WORSHIP GAS PARTICLES. 00:09:48.42\00:09:52.42 NOW SOME ARE GOING TO SAY, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, I BELIEVE IN 00:09:52.45\00:09:56.46 A CREATOR BUT I ALSO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. 00:09:56.49\00:10:01.70 I THINK THAT GOD CREATED THROUGH EVOLUTION.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT 00:10:01.73\00:10:05.60 BEFORE? AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO 00:10:05.63\00:10:07.57 INSULT ANYBODY HERE - I'VE GOT DEAR FRIENDS THAT BELIEVE THAT - 00:10:07.60\00:10:11.57 BUT I WOULD RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH THEM. 00:10:11.61\00:10:14.44 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN RECONCILE THE TWO. 00:10:14.48\00:10:16.91 SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF THE 00:10:16.95\00:10:20.05 BIBLE AND THEY SAY, 'UP UNTIL YOU GET TO ABRAHAM, GOD SPOKE TO 00:10:20.08\00:10:24.35 US THROUGH MYTHS AND THOSE THINGS AREN'T TO BE TAKEN 00:10:24.39\00:10:27.99 LITERALLY. THEY'RE JUST SYMBOLS. THEY'RE STORIES. 00:10:28.02\00:10:30.93 IT'S NOT SCIENCE.' BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE 00:10:30.96\00:10:34.20 REST OF THE BIBLE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN A LITERAL 00:10:34.23\00:10:36.36 SIX-DAY CREATION. 00:10:36.40\00:10:37.73 LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A FEW VERSES THAT EXPLAIN WHY. 00:10:37.77\00:10:40.64 FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BELIEVE IN JESUS - IF YOU 00:10:40.67\00:10:45.11 BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT JESUS SAYS - IF YOU CAN SAY, 'I'M A 00:10:45.14\00:10:47.61 CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN 00:10:47.64\00:10:49.68 EVOLUTION.' DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN JESUS? 00:10:49.71\00:10:52.58 LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS - JOHN 5:46 AND 47, "FOR IF YOU 00:10:52.61\00:10:57.32 BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE 00:10:57.35\00:11:01.22 ABOUT ME. BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIS WRITINGS, 00:11:01.26\00:11:05.59 HOW WILL YOU BELIEVE MY WORDS?" COULD THAT BE ANY MORE PLAIN? 00:11:05.63\00:11:10.50 YOU SAY, 'OH, I LOVE THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT BUT I DON'T 00:11:10.53\00:11:12.37 BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, MOSES - MOSES WAS EXAGGERATING' OR 'YOU 00:11:12.40\00:11:16.74 CAN'T REALLY TAKE THOSE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS - HE WAS 00:11:16.77\00:11:19.67 STRETCHING THE TRUTH.' OH REALLY? 00:11:19.71\00:11:21.51 THE GUY WHO GAVE US THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT YOU CLAIM TO 00:11:21.54\00:11:23.28 BELIEVE WAS STRETCHING THE TRUTH WHEN HE WROTE THE FIRST ELEVEN 00:11:23.31\00:11:26.65 CHAPTERS? IT DOESN'T WORK. YOU CAN'T DO THE TWO. 00:11:26.68\00:11:29.55 NOT IN MY OPINION. AGAIN, LUKE 16:31 - JESUS IS SPEAKING, 00:11:29.58\00:11:33.69 "IF THEY DO NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY 00:11:33.72\00:11:37.29 BE PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD." YOU'LL PROBABLY 00:11:37.33\00:11:41.60 HAVE PROBLEMS BELIEVING THE RESURRECTION TOO IF YOU DON'T 00:11:41.63\00:11:44.30 BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN SPEAK THINGS INTO EXISTENCE. YOU KNOW, 00:11:44.33\00:11:48.84 ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I THINK PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH EVOLUTION, 00:11:48.87\00:11:51.44 IT'S THE DATING METHODS THAT GIVE THEM SUCH A HARD TIME. 00:11:51.47\00:11:57.01 OH, I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE VERSES BEFORE I GET TO THAT. 00:11:57.05\00:11:59.21 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE PAUL - I JUST READ PAUL IN ACTS BUT HERE'S 00:11:59.25\00:12:02.62 ANOTHER ONE: ROMANS 5:14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM 00:12:02.65\00:12:06.39 ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE 00:12:06.42\00:12:11.03 SIMILITUDE OF ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION, WHO IS THE FIGURE 00:12:11.06\00:12:13.43 OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME." JESUS. 00:12:13.46\00:12:15.23 PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT JESUS IS REAL AND HE SPEAKS ABOUT ADAM IS REAL 00:12:15.26\00:12:19.50 AND HE SAID SIN BEGAN WITH ADAM. 00:12:19.53\00:12:21.34 IF YOU THINK THAT THERE WERE MILLIONS OF YEARS OF ANIMALS 00:12:21.37\00:12:26.78 KILLING EACH OTHER AND DEATH AND MUTATION AND BLOODSHED AND 00:12:26.81\00:12:30.78 VIOLENCE AND CARNIVORES AND THEN ALONG COMES ADAM AND HE SINS, 00:12:30.81\00:12:36.82 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SIN BEGAN WITH MAN. 00:12:36.85\00:12:40.56 IT DIDN'T BEGIN MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE MAN. 00:12:40.59\00:12:42.72 AND, YOU KNOW, NO DISRESPECT, I USED TO GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. 00:12:42.76\00:12:46.19 YOU KNOW, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, FOR SOME TIME NOW, HAS SAID 00:12:46.23\00:12:49.13 EVOLUTION IS AN OPTION FOR DEDICATED CATHOLICS AND I THINK, 00:12:49.16\00:12:54.57 'HOW DO YOU DO THAT?' AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, AT SOME 00:12:54.60\00:12:56.07 POINT ALONG THE WAY GOD INJECTED A SOUL INTO MAN.' AND I'M JUST 00:12:56.10\00:13:01.48 TRYING TO PICTURE THAT DAY WHEN MAN WENT FROM BEING A GORILLA TO 00:13:01.51\00:13:05.78 BEING A HUMAN AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S OUT THERE DRAGGING HIS 00:13:05.81\00:13:11.69 KNUCKLES AND THERE'S SOME LITTLE SPARK, HE LOOKS UP AND 00:13:11.72\00:13:15.96 ALL OF A SUDDEN GOD SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, NOW YOU'RE A MAN 00:13:15.99\00:13:19.86 AND YOU'VE GOT A SOUL. 00:13:19.89\00:13:21.40 UP UNTIL THEN YOU WERE JUST AN ORGANISM.' YOU KNOW, I JUST 00:13:21.43\00:13:25.07 DON'T - THAT DOESN'T REALLY DO MUCH FOR MY SELF-ESTEEM FOR ONE 00:13:25.10\00:13:29.17 THING, AND IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM VERY NOBLE AND IT CONTRADICTS 00:13:29.20\00:13:32.57 THE BIBLE. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM BELIEVING 00:13:32.61\00:13:35.14 THAT GOD CAN SPEAK THINGS INTO EXISTENCE. 00:13:35.18\00:13:39.91 YOU KNOW, LET ME LOOK AT - REALLY QUICK - A FEW EXAMPLES OF 00:13:39.95\00:13:42.78 WHY I THINK THE DATING DILEMMA IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO 00:13:42.82\00:13:45.55 CONSIDER. WE ARE TOLD, FOR INSTANCE, THAT 00:13:45.59\00:13:48.62 DINOSAURS DID NOT LIVE CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH MAN AND 00:13:48.66\00:13:52.66 THEY LIVED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE - YOU KNOW HOW 00:13:52.69\00:13:55.03 LONG A MILLION YEARS IS? CAN YOU EVER COMPREHEND HOW 00:13:55.06\00:13:57.60 THINGS CAN CHANGE IN A MILLION YEARS? 00:13:57.63\00:13:59.53 LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN OUR LIVES - JUST WHAT'S HAPPENED TO 00:13:59.57\00:14:02.90 THE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR TIME - MILLIONS OF YEARS. AND THEY 00:14:02.94\00:14:07.84 SAY THAT THESE DINOSAURS LIVED 65 MILLION YEARS AGO. 00:14:07.88\00:14:11.38 WELL, BACK IN 1990, IN THE UNITED STATES THEY FOUND - THEY 00:14:11.41\00:14:16.08 WERE ACTUALLY DISSECTING THE THIGH BONE OF A TYRANNOSAURUS 00:14:16.12\00:14:19.19 REX AND THEY FOUND WHAT APPEARS TO BE SOFT TISSUE AND BLOOD 00:14:19.22\00:14:23.09 CELLS AND IT JUST CAUSED, KIND OF, AN IMPLOSION IN THE 00:14:23.12\00:14:26.49 PALEONTOLOGY COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING IN THEIR SCHEME 00:14:26.53\00:14:31.33 THAT WOULD EXPLAIN HOW YOU COULD GET A TYRANNOSAURUS THIGHBONE 00:14:31.37\00:14:36.71 THAT IS 60 MILLION YEARS OLD - IT DOESN'T MATTER - 30, 60, 100 00:14:36.74\00:14:41.21 - THAT'S STILL GOING TO HAVE SOFT TISSUE IN IT. 00:14:41.24\00:14:44.91 AND THEY WERE BEGINNING TO WONDER IF THEY WERE GOING TO GET 00:14:44.95\00:14:46.82 SOME SAMPLING FROM THOSE BLOOD CELLS AND THEY STARTED TALKING 00:14:46.85\00:14:50.35 LIKE JURASSIC PARK, YOU KNOW, ALL OVER AGAIN. 00:14:50.39\00:14:55.22 BY THE WAY, LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - THIS IS FROM NATIONAL 00:14:55.26\00:14:57.99 GEOGRAPHIC - HARDLY A CREATIONIST MAGAZINE. 00:14:58.03\00:15:01.56 "A TYRANNOSAURUS REX FOSSIL HAS YIELDED WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE 00:15:01.60\00:15:04.23 ONLY PRESERVED SOFT TISSUE EVER RECOVERED FROM A DINOSAUR TAKEN 00:15:04.27\00:15:07.90 FROM A 70-MILLION-YEAR-OLD THIGHBONE. 00:15:07.94\00:15:12.67 THE STRUCTURES LOOK LIKE BLOOD VESSELS, CELLS, PROTEINS 00:15:12.71\00:15:15.28 INVOLVED IN BONE FORMATION." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. 00:15:15.31\00:15:19.01 THEN FOLKS WILL SAY, WELL, WE KNOW HOW OLD THE PLANET IS 00:15:19.05\00:15:23.08 BECAUSE WE TAKE THESE ICE CORES IN GREENLAND AND AT THE 00:15:23.12\00:15:27.86 ANTARCTIC AND WE CAN LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT LAYERS IN THE ICE 00:15:27.89\00:15:31.89 CORES AND EACH OF THOSE LAYERS REPRESENTS ONE YEAR - YOU KNOW A 00:15:31.93\00:15:35.43 SEASON - AND SO WE FIND THAT THERE'S ANYWHERE BETWEEN 80,000 00:15:35.46\00:15:40.47 AND 130,000 LAYERS AND WE KNOW THAT THE POLAR CAPS AND 00:15:40.50\00:15:43.94 GREENLAND HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 130,000 YEARS SO HOW CAN YOU 00:15:43.97\00:15:47.28 BELIEVE - THAT'S THE CRAZIEST MANIPULATION OF EVIDENCE I HAVE 00:15:47.31\00:15:50.81 EVER SEEN. LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES WHY. 00:15:50.85\00:15:54.35 I'VE LIVED IN SOME VERY COLD PLACES AND I'VE SEEN, IN ONE 00:15:54.38\00:15:56.79 SNOW STORM, ON TOP OF A CAR, LOTS OF DIFFERENT LAYERS BECAUSE 00:15:56.82\00:16:00.56 THE SNOW CAME DOWN COLD AND THEN IT GOT A LITTLE WARMER AND IT 00:16:00.59\00:16:03.63 CAME DOWN WET AND THEN IT FROZE DURING THAT NIGHT AND THERE WAS 00:16:03.66\00:16:06.36 A LAYER AND MORE SNOW CAME DOWN AND YOU'LL SEE - HOW MANY OF YOU 00:16:06.39\00:16:08.60 HAVE SEEN THAT BEFORE? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 00:16:08.63\00:16:10.60 LAYER AFTER LAYER AND THEY'RE TRYING TO PERPETRATE THAT ALL 00:16:10.63\00:16:12.97 THESE LAYERS REPRESENT A WHOLE YEAR. 00:16:13.00\00:16:15.40 NOW, THAT'S EASY FOR ME TO SAY THAT, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU A 00:16:15.44\00:16:17.24 LITTLE EVIDENCE. ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE LOST SQUADRON? 00:16:17.27\00:16:21.68 1942 - SIX P-38S WERE COMING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOING TO 00:16:21.71\00:16:26.35 THE WAR EFFORT - WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE - OVER GREENLAND WITH TWO 00:16:26.38\00:16:29.58 B-29S - BRAND-NEW PLANES - THEY GOT LOST IN BAD WEATHER OVER 00:16:29.62\00:16:34.99 GREENLAND. THEY FINALLY REALIZED RATHER 00:16:35.02\00:16:37.29 THAN CRASH LAND THEY'D CIRCLE, THEY'D DO EMERGENCY LANDINGS - 00:16:37.33\00:16:41.53 MOST OF THEM DID IT WITH THEIR GEAR UP - ONE LEFT HIS GEAR DOWN 00:16:41.56\00:16:44.70 - HE FLIPPED. BUT THEY WERE ALL FINE. 25 CREW MEMBERS - 00:16:44.73\00:16:48.04 THEY WERE ALL RESCUED BUT THE WAR WAS GOING ON. 00:16:48.07\00:16:49.90 THEY WERE ALL REDEPLOYED. THEY LEFT ALL THOSE PLANES UP 00:16:49.94\00:16:52.24 THERE IN GREENLAND OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. 00:16:52.27\00:16:54.54 BUT THEY MARKED THE LONGITUDE AND THE LATITUDE. 00:16:54.58\00:16:56.85 WELL, THEY GOT COVERED QUICKLY BY SNOW, BY THE TIME THE WAR WAS 00:16:56.88\00:16:59.48 OVER, AND THEY WEREN'T EASY TO LOCATE. 00:16:59.51\00:17:01.48 YEARS LATER, SOME AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS WENT LOOKING FOR THE 00:17:01.52\00:17:05.25 LOST SQUADRON BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THOSE PLANES - THEY WERE 00:17:05.29\00:17:08.42 BRAND-NEW FROM THE FACTORY - IF YOU COULD FIND THEM AND RECOVER 00:17:08.46\00:17:10.89 THEM AND RESTORE THEM, THEY'D BE WORTH A FORTUNE. 00:17:10.93\00:17:13.73 WELL, THEY SPENT A FORTUNE FINDING THEM. 00:17:13.76\00:17:16.60 THEY FINALLY GOT THIS GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND 00:17:16.63\00:17:19.20 THEY WENT BACK AND FORTH. 00:17:19.23\00:17:20.74 THEY FOUND OUT THAT THEY'D DRIFTED ABOUT A MILE FROM WHERE 00:17:20.77\00:17:24.27 THEY LANDED BECAUSE THE CAP WAS MOVING, AND THEY BORE DOWN WITH 00:17:24.31\00:17:28.34 THIS HOT MOLE - IT WAS A BIG THING WITH HOT WATER GOING 00:17:28.38\00:17:30.95 THROUGH IT - AND IT JUST WOULD BORE RIGHT DOWN INTO THE ICE. 00:17:30.98\00:17:33.68 YOU KNOW HOW DEEP THOSE PLANES WERE? 00:17:33.72\00:17:36.42 260 FEET DEEP - IN EXACTLY 50 YEARS - AND IN THAT 260 FEET 00:17:36.45\00:17:45.23 THERE WERE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF LAYERS IN THE ICE 00:17:45.26\00:17:50.23 THAT EVOLUTIONISTS WOULD SAY THOSE PLANES ARE ABOUT 50,000 00:17:50.27\00:17:53.74 YEARS OLD. WELL, THEY WERE NOT 50,000 00:17:53.77\00:17:57.71 YEARS OLD. THEY ACTUALLY WENT DOWN THERE. 00:17:57.74\00:18:00.24 THEY BUILT A CAVE AROUND ONE OF THEM. 00:18:00.28\00:18:02.38 THEY TOOK IT ALL APART - PULLED IT UP AT GREAT EXPENSE - 00:18:02.41\00:18:05.61 REASSEMBLED IT - IT'S THE ONLY PERFECTLY RESTORED P-38 AND IT'S 00:18:05.65\00:18:10.45 - THEY CALL IT, RIGHT NOW, 'THE GLACIER GIRL'. 00:18:10.49\00:18:13.25 I THINK THERE'S A PICTURE OF IT UP ON THE SCREEN. 00:18:13.29\00:18:15.66 SO YOU'VE GOT - THEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE ICE CORES. 00:18:15.69\00:18:19.46 THEN YOU'VE GOT THESE ANIMALS THAT THEY CLAIM ARE EXTINCT, 00:18:19.49\00:18:24.60 LIKE THE COELACANTH. 00:18:24.63\00:18:27.70 THEY SAID THAT THIS FISH LIVED BETWEEN 300 MILLION YEARS AGO 00:18:27.74\00:18:33.01 AND BECAME EXTINCT 65 MILLION YEARS AGO AND THEY SAID IT WAS 00:18:33.04\00:18:36.78 ONE OF THE MISSING LINKS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS BECAUSE IT 00:18:36.81\00:18:40.02 HAD THESE LITTLE PROTO-LEGS AND IT WOULD TRY TO WALK UP OUT OF 00:18:40.05\00:18:43.22 THE BEACHES ONTO THE LAND AND THEY HAD THIS WHOLE SCENARIO 00:18:43.25\00:18:45.62 WRITTEN UP ABOUT THE COELACANTH FOSSILS THAT THEY FOUND AND 00:18:45.65\00:18:48.62 'THEY'RE ALL EXTINCT NOW' UNTIL THEY WERE FISHING OFF OF SOUTH 00:18:48.66\00:18:52.53 AFRICA IN 1938 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? THEY DUG UP A 00:18:52.56\00:18:58.37 COELACANTH. THEY PULLED UP A LIVE ONE. SINCE THEN THEY'VE 00:18:58.40\00:19:01.70 FOUND MANY MORE. AND, YOU KNOW, THE AMAZING THING WAS IT WAS 00:19:01.74\00:19:05.74 EXACTLY LIKE THE FOSSILS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 65 MILLION 00:19:05.77\00:19:10.51 YEARS AGO. AS FAR AS I KNOW THEY'RE STILL ALIVE IN THE WORLD 00:19:10.55\00:19:13.72 TODAY. I LIVED IN NAGEEZI, NEW MEXICO ON THE INDIAN RESERVATION 00:19:13.75\00:19:17.19 AT 8,000 FEET IN THE MIDDLE OF NORTH AMERICA AND THERE WERE 00:19:17.22\00:19:20.59 SEASHELLS EVERYWHERE. AND THEN I'VE GOT FRIENDS WHO 00:19:20.62\00:19:24.13 SAY YOU CAN FIND SEASHELLS ON MOUNT EVEREST AT THE 26,000-FOOT 00:19:24.16\00:19:28.63 LEVEL. THERE ARE CLAMS THAT ALL DIED IN 00:19:28.66\00:19:30.70 VAST VOLUMES - THEY'RE CLOSED, WHICH MEANS THEY DIED SUDDENLY. 00:19:30.73\00:19:33.97 WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE ON MOUNT EVEREST? 00:19:34.00\00:19:36.47 ALL AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE GRAND CANYON TO SO MANY OTHER 00:19:36.50\00:19:39.84 THINGS THAT YOU SEE - THE COAL FIELDS AND THE OIL - THERE'S 00:19:39.87\00:19:43.91 EVIDENCE THAT THERE HAS BEEN A MASSIVE GLOBAL FLOOD. 00:19:43.95\00:19:48.08 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR YEARS SCIENTISTS SAID 'OH, THAT'S JUST 00:19:48.12\00:19:50.69 - NO - FAIRY TALES - BIBLE - THERE'S NEVER BEEN A GLOBAL 00:19:50.72\00:19:54.19 FLOOD.' BUT THE EVIDENCE AFTER EVIDENCE - ALL THE FOSSILS ARE - 00:19:54.22\00:19:57.39 THINGS DIED RAPIDLY. SO FINALLY THEY SAID, 'IT WASN'T 00:19:57.43\00:20:00.96 NOAH, IT WAS AN ASTEROID.' WELL, WHAT DID THE ASTEROID DO? 00:20:00.96\00:20:05.90 BIG FLOOD. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY NOW. 00:20:05.93\00:20:10.37 THEY EVEN TELL YOU IT LANDED NEAR THE GULF - THE GULF OF 00:20:10.41\00:20:13.48 MEXICO. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 00:20:13.51\00:20:15.81 AND THEN THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY, 'WE CAN DATE ROCKS'. 00:20:15.84\00:20:19.08 AND WE USE POTASSIUM ARGON AND A NUMBER OF OTHER METHODS TO DATE 00:20:19.11\00:20:22.22 ROCKS AND - BUT YOU DON'T HEAR THEM CONFESS THAT THEY WILL DATE 00:20:22.25\00:20:26.45 THESE VOLCANOES AND SAY, 'YEAH, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS MANY 00:20:26.49\00:20:29.06 MILLION YEARS OLD.' AND THEN SOME WHO CHALLENGED THESE 00:20:29.09\00:20:34.00 GEOLOGISTS WHO WERE TESTING THESE ROCKS, THEY SAID, 'WELL, 00:20:34.03\00:20:36.13 WE'VE GOT BRAND-NEW ROCK FORMATION HERE IN NEW ZEALAND OR 00:20:36.16\00:20:39.13 IN GREENLAND, LET'S TEST THAT.' AND THEY GO TO TEST A NEW 00:20:39.17\00:20:42.94 FORMATION THERE IN NEW ZEALAND AND THEY ACTUALLY CAN - THEY HAD 00:20:42.97\00:20:47.41 THIS ONE FORMATION THAT WAS SURROUNDING TREES THAT THEY KNEW 00:20:47.44\00:20:50.31 THE TREES HAD BEEN THERE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:20:50.35\00:20:52.28 VOLCANIC FLOW HAD COVERED THESE TREES THAT WERE A THOUSAND YEARS 00:20:52.31\00:20:56.02 OLD AND THE VOLCANIC ROCK CAME UP AT 465,000 YEARS OLD 00:20:56.05\00:21:04.26 ACCORDING TO THEIR POTASSIUM ARGON DATING AND THE OTHER, I 00:21:04.29\00:21:08.43 UNDERSTAND, VERY SOPHISTICATED METHODS THEY USE FOR DATING IT. 00:21:08.46\00:21:12.00 BUT THEY GET THESE VASTLY DIFFERENT MEASUREMENTS. 00:21:12.03\00:21:14.87 I'VE GOT A FRIEND WHO WAS AN EVOLUTIONIST - WORKED IN A 00:21:14.90\00:21:17.17 DATING LAB AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE WILL ASK WHEN 00:21:17.21\00:21:20.54 THEY SUBMIT SOME ARTIFACT IS BASICALLY, 'HOW OLD DO YOU WANT 00:21:20.58\00:21:23.51 IT TO BE?' YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW HOW THEY TELL 00:21:23.55\00:21:27.98 HOW OLD THE DIFFERENT LAYERS ARE IN THE STRATA? 00:21:28.02\00:21:31.85 BASED ON THE FOSSILS THAT ARE FOUND THERE. 00:21:31.89\00:21:34.62 DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY TELL HOW OLD THE FOSSILS ARE? 00:21:34.66\00:21:37.53 BASED ON THE LAYERS WHERE THEY FIND THEM. 00:21:37.56\00:21:41.33 SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE CIRCULAR REASONING. 00:21:41.36\00:21:44.57 FOR ME, YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE 00:21:44.60\00:21:46.57 THINGS IS? YOU'RE GOING TO THINK, 'OH, 00:21:46.60\00:21:50.01 PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE GETTING SAPPY.' A BUTTERFLY. 00:21:50.04\00:21:55.21 I MEAN, JUST TAKE - YOU'VE HEARD IT BEFORE - THE MONARCH 00:21:55.24\00:21:58.01 BUTTERFLY. TO ME, HOW YOU CAN HAVE THIS 00:21:58.05\00:22:02.78 LITTLE EGG - TINY, ALMOST LIKE A PINHEAD - UNDERNEATH A LEAF. 00:22:02.82\00:22:07.96 THAT BUTTERFLY KNOWS THAT IT'S ONLY ON THAT PLANT IT CAN LAY 00:22:07.99\00:22:10.89 ITS EGG. WHERE - HOW'S IT KNOW THAT? WHO TEACHES IT THAT? 00:22:10.93\00:22:14.36 OUT OF THE THOUSANDS OF PLANTS IN THE WOODS IT KNOWS IT'S THE 00:22:14.36\00:22:16.30 MILKWEED. THAT THING HATCHES OUT. MOM'S PROVIDED THAT IT'S 00:22:16.33\00:22:20.57 BORN RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS EVERYTHING IT NEEDS. 00:22:20.60\00:22:22.37 IT EATS VORACIOUSLY AND WHILE IT'S EATING VORACIOUSLY, DAY 00:22:22.40\00:22:26.44 AFTER DAY IT'S GAINING A LOT OF WEIGHT. 00:22:26.47\00:22:29.94 IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER AND IT'S 00:22:29.98\00:22:31.88 GROWING SO FAST IT GROWS OUT OF ITS OWN SKIN AND IT MOLTS AND 00:22:31.91\00:22:35.02 SHEDS ITS SKIN SEVERAL TIMES AND IT BURGEONS OUT AND AS IT SPLITS 00:22:35.05\00:22:37.85 IT COMES OUT OF ITS SKIN IT'S JUST A BIGGER CATERPILLAR AND 00:22:37.89\00:22:41.09 IT'S A BRIGHTER CATERPILLAR AND IT'S GETTING BIGGER 00:22:41.12\00:22:42.79 AND BIGGER AND BIGGER. 00:22:42.82\00:22:43.86 BUT THEN ONE DAY SOMETHING HAPPENS AND ITS MIND - IT 00:22:43.89\00:22:46.49 TRIGGERS AND IT SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, THIS NEXT MOLT IS GOING TO BE 00:22:46.53\00:22:49.53 DIFFERENT.' AND IT LODGES ITSELF UNDERNEATH A LEAF AND IT TURNS 00:22:49.56\00:22:55.44 INTO A CHRYSALIS AND BEGINS TO HARDEN. 00:22:55.47\00:23:00.14 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THAT POINT? 00:23:00.18\00:23:02.44 IT BASICALLY DISASSEMBLES ITSELF AND IT TURNS INTO A SOUP OF 00:23:02.48\00:23:10.82 CELLS AND IT GOES FROM THE MUSH THAT THE CATERPILLAR HAD INSIDE 00:23:10.85\00:23:15.99 AND - BY THE WAY, A BIRD CAN'T EAT IT BECAUSE MILKWEED'S 00:23:16.02\00:23:17.83 POISONOUS AND SO IT EVEN PROTECTS ITSELF BY EATING WHAT 00:23:17.86\00:23:21.10 IT EATS. BUT SOMEHOW IT THRIVES ON IT. 00:23:21.13\00:23:23.97 AND IT BASICALLY DECOMPOSES INTO THIS VIRTUAL SOUP AND THOSE 00:23:24.00\00:23:30.71 CELLS RESTRUCTURE AND REORGANIZE AND THEY COME BACK TOGETHER IN 00:23:30.74\00:23:34.38 JUST A MATTER OF A FEW DAYS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW, WHERE IT 00:23:34.41\00:23:38.45 HAD THESE LITTLE STUBBY LITTLE RUBBER LEGS, IT'S GOT THESE 00:23:38.48\00:23:41.85 ELEGANT LONG LEGS AND ELEGANT WINGS AND ANTENNAE AND BEAUTIFUL 00:23:41.88\00:23:48.79 COLORING ON THE WINGS AND A PROBOSCIS. 00:23:48.82\00:23:51.79 AND INSTEAD OF NOW EATING MILKWEED, IT GOES FOR SWEET 00:23:51.83\00:23:54.46 NECTAR. ITS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IS DIFFERENT. IT'S GOT EYES THAT 00:23:54.50\00:23:58.40 ARE DIFFERENT. ITS BRAIN IS DIFFERENT. 00:23:58.43\00:24:00.37 IT COMPLETELY REFORMS ITSELF AND IT EMERGES KNOWING HOW TO FLY. 00:24:00.40\00:24:09.28 AND IT NEVER GETS - YOU KNOW AN EAGLE TEACHES ITS YOUNG HOW TO 00:24:09.31\00:24:12.51 FLY. THEY GET FLYING LESSONS. IT EMERGES KNOWING HOW TO FLY. 00:24:12.55\00:24:16.58 NO FLYING LESSONS. 00:24:16.62\00:24:17.75 AERODYNAMIC DESIGN - COULD THAT BE AN ACCIDENT? BUT WAIT, 00:24:17.79\00:24:23.39 THERE'S MORE. GET YOUR CREDIT CARD OUT. WE'LL DOUBLE - NO. 00:24:23.43\00:24:28.73 THEN THE MONARCH - THE ONES THAT ARE BORN IN THE NORTHEAST - THEY 00:24:28.76\00:24:33.60 ARE BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO MIGRATE 2,000 MILES ALL THE WAY 00:24:33.64\00:24:40.74 TO MEXICO AND THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE. 00:24:40.78\00:24:45.31 THEIR PARENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE BECAUSE THE 00:24:45.35\00:24:47.85 GENERATIONS THAT COME BACK FROM MEXICO - SEVERAL GENERATIONS 00:24:47.88\00:24:51.09 HAPPEN ALONG THE WAY BACK TO THEIR ULTIMATE DESTINATION IN 00:24:51.12\00:24:54.02 THE NORTH. THEY DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER 00:24:54.06\00:24:56.22 BUTTERFLIES THAT HAVE EVER BEEN TO MEXICO. 00:24:56.26\00:24:59.56 THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO ONLINE AND BOOK A TRIP TO MEXICO. 00:24:59.59\00:25:03.93 AND SOMEHOW, THEY FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO THIS PLACE IN THESE 00:25:03.97\00:25:08.87 REMOTE MOUNTAIN WOODS IN MEXICO WHERE THEY SPEND THE WINTER. 00:25:08.90\00:25:13.07 IT'S CALLED A SUPER-GENERATION. THEY SOMEHOW SURVIVE AND HOW 00:25:13.11\00:25:20.55 COULD THAT EVER HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT? 00:25:20.58\00:25:24.62 YOU KNOW, FOR ME, METAMORPHOSIS IS SUCH A MIRACLE - HOW GOD CAN 00:25:24.65\00:25:30.43 TAKE SOMETHING THAT IS A - IT'S BASICALLY A WORM - AND TURN IT 00:25:30.46\00:25:34.83 INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL ELEGANT CREATURE. 00:25:34.83\00:25:38.33 AND WHAT HE DOES FOR A BUTTERFLY HE CAN DO FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. 00:25:38.37\00:25:44.27 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS VERY SIMPLISTIC, BUT IT'S A MIRACLE. 00:25:44.31\00:25:49.18 I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT EXCEPT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT IN SIX DAYS 00:25:49.21\00:25:53.98 THE LORD MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT 00:25:54.02\00:25:57.32 IS IN THEM. I BELIEVE THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT WORKS FOR ME. 00:25:57.35\00:26:02.59 MY WHOLE WORLDVIEW MAKES SENSE, BASED ON THE BIBLE. 00:26:02.62\00:26:06.06 THAT THERE IS A CREATOR AND I BELIEVE THAT HE'S GOT A SPECIAL 00:26:06.09\00:26:09.60 PLAN FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. 00:26:09.63\00:26:13.00 >>I WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW 00:26:13.03\00:26:15.50 TO DEAL WITH. I JUST SAID TO MYSELF, I SAID, 00:26:15.54\00:26:19.44 'GOD, IF YOU'RE REAL SHOW YOURSELF TO ME.' AND THEN, 00:26:19.47\00:26:23.31 I THINK, ONE DAY AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE THEY WERE WATCHING THE 00:26:23.35\00:26:25.81 'FINAL EVENTS IN BIBLE PROPHECY'. 00:26:25.85\00:26:27.95 THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY THE DOUG PREACHED AND THINGS 00:26:27.98\00:26:30.69 THAT I FELT THAT TOUCHED ME. NO MATTER HOW BAD A OF SINNER 00:26:30.72\00:26:34.72 YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE LORD JESUS LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT 00:26:34.76\00:26:37.99 YOU'VE DONE. >>I AM SO THANKFUL TO GOD FOR 00:26:38.03\00:26:42.50 AMAZING FACTS, FOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ESPECIALLY HIS 00:26:42.53\00:26:47.17 BOOK 'THE RICHEST CAVEMAN'. IF IT WASN'T FOR THESE, I WOULD 00:26:47.20\00:26:52.67 NOT BE HERE TODAY. GOD WAS ABLE TO USE THESE TOOLS 00:26:52.71\00:26:58.25 TO REACH THE UNREACHABLE. 00:26:58.28\00:27:05.35 >>HI FRIENDS. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BETTER 00:27:05.39\00:27:06.82 UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT ABOUT THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN 00:27:06.86\00:27:09.72 EVOLUTION AND CREATION? WELL, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR 00:27:09.76\00:27:12.43 YOU THAT I THINK WILL MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. 00:27:12.46\00:27:15.20 IT'S CALLED, 'HOW EVOLUTION FLUNKED THE SCIENCE TEST'. 00:27:15.23\00:27:19.17 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW 'WHAT DOES THE FOSSIL RECORD REALLY 00:27:19.20\00:27:21.34 SAY?' 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