Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000129
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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:11 >>IF YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT JESUS SAYS - IF YOU CAN SAY, 00:13 'I'M A CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN 00:16 EVOLUTION.' DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN JESUS? 00:21 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:24 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:27 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:30 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:33 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 'AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS'. 00:42 >>TONIGHT I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT 'WHERE DID I COME 00:45 FROM?' AND THIS IS ESPECIALLY DEAR AND 00:49 NEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT 00:52 EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 00:54 AND I SHOULD TELL YOU RIGHT UP FRONT, I'M DOING THIS WITH MY 00:58 PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE. MY DOCTORATE IS NOT IN BIOLOGY. 01:02 I'M GOING TO BE SHARING WITH YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 01:05 NOW, I GAVE A LITTLE BIT OF MY TESTIMONY LAST NIGHT AND WHILE I 01:09 WENT TO 14 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS BEFORE I EVER GOT MY GED AND 01:13 THEN WENT ON TO COLLEGE, MANY OF THOSE SCHOOLS TAUGHT EVOLUTION. 01:18 I WAS A FIRM BELIEVER THAT WE JUST EVOLVED BECAUSE I HAD HEARD 01:23 IT SO MANY TIMES. BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE BACK OF MY 01:26 MIND I FOUND I HAD TO TORTURE MY LOGIC TO ACCEPT IT. 01:31 BUT I THOUGHT, 'EVERYBODY BELIEVES IT' AND YOU'RE LOOKED 01:35 UPON AS FOOLISH IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT. 01:38 AND EVEN THOUGH I HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU COULD 01:41 GET ALL OF THESE INTRICATE ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS AND 01:45 DESIGN AND STRUCTURE THROUGH RANDOM CHANCE, I FIGURED, WELL, 01:51 I'M JUST NOT SMART ENOUGH. 01:52 THERE MUST BE THINGS THAT THE SCIENCE IS JUST NOT EXPLAINING 01:55 ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENS OR THAT I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND YET. 01:59 BUT, YOU KNOW, THEN AFTER - I SHARED WITH YOU - I WENT TO THE 02:04 MOUNTAINS. I STARTED READING THE BIBLE. 02:06 I CAME TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE AND FOR A WHILE THERE I TRIED TO MIX 02:09 THE BIBLE WITH EASTERN RELIGIONS WITH REINCARNATION AND WITH 02:14 EVOLUTION. I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS HAD A 02:16 LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF 02:18 TRUTH IN WHAT HE SAID' AND SO I TRIED TO JUST MAKE IT ALL FIT. 02:23 BUT, YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T MAKE IT FIT. 02:26 WHERE DID WE COME FROM? WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT THAT WILL 02:30 AFFECT EVERYTHING IN YOUR WORLD VIEW. 02:33 YOUR BELIEF ABOUT ORIGINS WILL DEFINE EVERY OTHER BELIEF. 02:39 YOUR WORLD VIEW ABOUT WHERE YOU CAME FROM IS GOING TO HAVE A 02:42 DEFINING INFLUENCE ON EVERY OTHER BELIEF. 02:44 LET ME GIVE YOU JUST A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES HERE. 02:47 WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT DEATH IS GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY WHETHER 02:51 OR NOT YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 02:53 IF YOU THINK WE EVOLVED THEN YOU THINK DEATH IS THE DEAD END - 02:57 YOU'VE JUST SORT OF DECOMPOSED AND THAT'S IT, YOU CEASE TO 02:59 EXIST. WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT SIN AND 03:03 HOLINESS IS GOING TO BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THAT. 03:07 WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT MARRIAGE - I'LL NEVER FORGET, I WENT TO 03:10 THIS SCHOOL, IT WAS CALLED A 'FREE' SCHOOL. 03:15 IT WAS A VERY LIBERAL SCHOOL IN WATERFORD, MAINE CALLED 03:19 'PINEHENGE'. IT HAS SINCE CLOSED. 03:22 AND JUST ALMOST ANYTHING WENT. 03:24 IT WAS A 'HIPPIE' SCHOOL IS THE BEST DEFINITION. 03:27 AND WE WERE IN THE CAFETERIA ONE DAY AND ONE OF THE FACULTY CAME 03:32 IN AND SHE WAS CRYING - SHE TRIED TO HIDE IT - SHE WAS 03:34 PREGNANT AND SHE WAS CRYING AND I JUST OVERHEARD AS SOME OF THE 03:38 OTHER GIRL STUDENTS WERE TALKING TO THIS TEACHER AND SAYING, 03:41 'WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?' AND SHE SAID - SHE JUST BROKE 03:43 DOWN AND SAID, 'MY HUSBAND'S HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH ANOTHER 03:46 FACULTY MEMBER.' AND SHE SAID, 'HE'S A SCIENCE TEACHER' AND HE 03:54 SAID THIS SHOULD NOT BOTHER HER BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ANIMALS AND 03:57 THIS IS PERFECTLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR. 04:01 AND SO I REMEMBER THINKING TO MYSELF, LOGICALLY, IF I BELIEVED 04:05 IN EVOLUTION, WHAT HE WAS ARGUING MADE SENSE. 04:07 THERE'S NO MORALITY IF THERE'S NO GOD. 04:10 YOUR IDEA OF MORALITY IS NOT WORTH A NICKEL MORE THAN MINE IF 04:12 THERE'S NO GOD. WHO DEFINES WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG? 04:16 EVERY COUNTRY AND EVERY CULTURE CAN JUST MAKE UP THEIR OWN 04:19 RULES. BUT IF THERE IS A GOD AND IF HE 04:22 IS THE TRUTH, THEN THERE'S ABSOLUTES. 04:24 IT'LL DEFINE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MARRIAGE, WHETHER OR NOT 04:28 THERE'S A DAY OF REST, THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE, 04:32 THE WORDS OF JESUS. IT'LL AFFECT EVERYTHING FROM 04:38 ADULTERY, HOMOSEXUALITY, SUICIDE - IT'LL AFFECT YOUR VIEWS ON 04:43 RACISM, WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT EVOLUTION AND CREATION. 04:47 YOU KNOW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DARWIN'S BOOK 'ORIGIN OF 04:49 SPECIES' AND THEY STOP RIGHT THERE. 04:51 BUT THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK. 04:53 YOU KNOW WHAT THE WHOLE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL IS? 04:55 'THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR THE 04:59 PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.' WHEN 05:04 DARWIN WENT TO AUSTRALIA HE WAS CONVINCED THE ABORIGINES THERE 05:07 WERE SOMEWHERE ON THE CONTINUUM OF THE MISSING LINK. 05:10 THAT'S WHERE THAT'S GOING TO LEAD. BUT, YOU KNOW, 05:13 IN THE BIBLE - LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM ACTS 05:15 CHAPTER 17. ACTS CHAPTER 17 AND THIS IS PAUL. HE'S IN ATHENS. 05:23 IT WAS THE CENTER OF LEARNING BACK IN HIS DAY AND HE'S WAITING 05:27 FOR HIS FRIENDS TO COME AND WHILE HE'S WAITING HE'S 05:29 WANDERING AROUND THE TOWN AND HE JUST SAW THERE WERE IDOLS 05:32 EVERYWHERE AND THEY HAD SO MANY IDOLS THEY MADE AN IDOL TO A GOD 05:35 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS. THEY JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE 05:37 THEY DIDN'T LEAVE ANY GODS OUT. VERY PLURALISTIC CULTURE BACK 05:41 THERE AMONG THE PHILOSOPHERS IN ATHENS. 05:46 IT SAYS IN VERSE, ACTUALLY, 21, "FOR ALL THE ATHENIANS AND THE 05:49 FOREIGNERS WHO WERE THERE SPENT THEIR TIME IN NOTHING ELSE BUT 05:51 EITHER TO TELL OR TO HEAR SOME NEW THING." 05:53 LOTS OF PHILOSOPHY - 'YOU'VE GOT YOUR TRUTH, I'VE GOT MY TRUTH, 05:56 THERE'S NOTHING ABSOLUTE.' "THEN PAUL STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE 06:01 AREOPAGUS AND SAID, 'MEN OF ATHENS, I PERCEIVE THAT IN ALL 06:05 THINGS YOU ARE VERY RELIGIOUS; FOR AS I WAS PASSING THROUGH AND 06:09 CONSIDERING THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP, I EVEN FOUND AN ALTAR 06:12 WITH THIS INSCRIPTION: 'TO THE UNKNOWN GOD'; THEREFORE THE ONE 06:17 WHOM YOU WORSHIP WITHOUT KNOWN, HIM I PROCLAIM TO YOU:'" - I 06:21 HAPPEN TO KNOW THAT ONE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 06:24 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM - "'GOD, WHO MADE THE WORLD AND 06:29 EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES 06:33 NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS. 06:35 NOR IS HE WORSHIPED WITH...ANYTHING SINCE HE GIVES 06:38 TO ALL LIFE, BREATH, AND ALL THINGS.'" - AND NOTICE - "'AND 06:42 HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL ON ALL 06:46 THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HAS DETERMINED THEIR PRE-APPOINTED 06:50 TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS,'" - NOTICE WHY 06:54 - "'SO THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, IN THE HOPE THAT THEY 06:57 MIGHT GROPE FOR HIM AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE IS NOT FAR FROM 07:02 EACH ONE OF US.'" HE IS NOT FAR FROM EVERY ONE OF US. 07:05 EVERY ONE OF US - HE'S NOT FAR. BUT HE SAYS HE CREATED US - 07:10 WE'RE CAUGHT IN THIS QUANDARY OF SIN - TALK ABOUT THAT IN OUR 07:14 NEXT PRESENTATION - AND HE WANTS US TO SEEK FOR HIM. WE NEED TO 07:19 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS. WELL, LET ME 07:24 GIVE YOU A FEW REASONS THAT I BELIEVE THAT EVOLUTION 07:26 IS IMPOSSIBLE AND I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE TIME TO COVER THEM ALL, 07:29 BUT AMONG THE REASONS ARE THE LAWS - FIRST AND SECOND LAWS OF 07:34 THERMODYNAMICS AND ENTROPY. NOW, I KNOW MANY OF YOU ARE 07:38 STUDYING THESE THINGS NOW AND I'LL JUST GIVE YOU THE VERY 07:40 SIMPLE DEFINITION. FOR INSTANCE, THE FIRST LAW OF 07:43 THERMODYNAMICS: ENERGY CAN BE CHANGED FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER 07:47 BUT IT CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED. 07:50 YOU'VE ALL HEARD THAT BEFORE - THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. 07:53 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH MATTER AND ENERGY IN THE 07:56 UNIVERSE AND IT CAN ONLY BE ALTERED - YOU CAN TURN MATTER 08:00 INTO ENERGY AND ENERGY INTO MATTER BUT YOU CANNOT CREATE NEW 08:03 ENERGY OR MATTER. WELL, WE SEE THERE'S A LOT OF 08:05 ENERGY AND MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE. 08:07 HERE'S THE BIG QUESTION: WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM? 08:11 EVERYBODY - EVOLUTIONISTS, CREATIONISTS - IS GOING TO BE 08:14 STUMPED AT THIS POINT AND YOU'VE GOT TWO OPTIONS. 08:21 YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT ALL OF THE LIFE AND THE ORGANIZATION AND 08:25 STRUCTURE THAT WE SEE IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE RESULT OF 08:30 EVER-EXISTING GAS PARTICLES THAT SOMEHOW COLLIDED AND BEGAN TO 08:33 EXPLODE AND THROUGH AN INFINITE NUMBER OF VERY CONVENIENT SMALL 08:38 EXPLOSIONS OR ONE GREAT BIG EXPLOSION FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF 08:42 SMALLER EXPLOSIONS AND THINGS SPIRALING OFF INTO GALAXIES, 08:47 THAT ALL THAT YOU CAN SEE, ALL THE INTERWORKING PERFECT SYSTEMS 08:50 - THE EARTH THE PERFECT DISTANCE FROM THE SUN SO THAT WE DON'T 08:54 MELT OR FREEZE AND THE PERFECT CYCLE IN THE ECOSYSTEM BETWEEN 08:57 THE PLANTS AND THE ANIMALS AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS 09:01 BETWEEN EVERYTHING FROM ANTS THAT TAKE CARE OF APHIDS AND 09:06 BEES AND FLOWERS AND JUST SO MANY MYSTERIES OUT THERE. 09:10 YOU CAN BELIEVE ALL THAT IS A RESULT OF MATTER THAT COLLIDED 09:14 AND EXPLODED AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE MATTER CAME FROM. 09:18 EVERY EVOLUTIONIST WILL SAY, 'WELL, SOMETHING WAS ALWAYS 09:21 THERE.' RIGHT? OR YOU CAN SAY, 09:26 'I DON'T KNOW WHERE GOD CAME FROM BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS 09:29 THIS ULTIMATE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE THAT LIVES, 09:33 SOMEHOW, IN AND OUTSIDE OF TIME AND SPACE THAT IS FROM 09:36 EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING AND HE IS MUCH BIGGER THAN I AM 09:40 BUT HE'S MADE ME IN HIS IMAGE AND THE BIBLE REVEALS WHO HE IS 09:44 AND HE HAS FEELINGS AND EMOTION AND THOUGHT AND LOVE. 09:48 YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT OR YOU CAN WORSHIP GAS PARTICLES. 09:52 NOW SOME ARE GOING TO SAY, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, I BELIEVE IN 09:56 A CREATOR BUT I ALSO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. 10:01 I THINK THAT GOD CREATED THROUGH EVOLUTION.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT 10:05 BEFORE? AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO 10:07 INSULT ANYBODY HERE - I'VE GOT DEAR FRIENDS THAT BELIEVE THAT - 10:11 BUT I WOULD RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH THEM. 10:14 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN RECONCILE THE TWO. 10:16 SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS OF THE 10:20 BIBLE AND THEY SAY, 'UP UNTIL YOU GET TO ABRAHAM, GOD SPOKE TO 10:24 US THROUGH MYTHS AND THOSE THINGS AREN'T TO BE TAKEN 10:28 LITERALLY. THEY'RE JUST SYMBOLS. THEY'RE STORIES. 10:30 IT'S NOT SCIENCE.' BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE 10:34 REST OF THE BIBLE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN A LITERAL 10:36 SIX-DAY CREATION. 10:37 LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A FEW VERSES THAT EXPLAIN WHY. 10:40 FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BELIEVE IN JESUS - IF YOU 10:45 BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT JESUS SAYS - IF YOU CAN SAY, 'I'M A 10:47 CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN 10:49 EVOLUTION.' DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN JESUS? 10:52 LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS - JOHN 5:46 AND 47, "FOR IF YOU 10:57 BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE 11:01 ABOUT ME. BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIS WRITINGS, 11:05 HOW WILL YOU BELIEVE MY WORDS?" COULD THAT BE ANY MORE PLAIN? 11:10 YOU SAY, 'OH, I LOVE THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT BUT I DON'T 11:12 BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, MOSES - MOSES WAS EXAGGERATING' OR 'YOU 11:16 CAN'T REALLY TAKE THOSE FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS - HE WAS 11:19 STRETCHING THE TRUTH.' OH REALLY? 11:21 THE GUY WHO GAVE US THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT YOU CLAIM TO 11:23 BELIEVE WAS STRETCHING THE TRUTH WHEN HE WROTE THE FIRST ELEVEN 11:26 CHAPTERS? IT DOESN'T WORK. YOU CAN'T DO THE TWO. 11:29 NOT IN MY OPINION. AGAIN, LUKE 16:31 - JESUS IS SPEAKING, 11:33 "IF THEY DO NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY 11:37 BE PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD." YOU'LL PROBABLY 11:41 HAVE PROBLEMS BELIEVING THE RESURRECTION TOO IF YOU DON'T 11:44 BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN SPEAK THINGS INTO EXISTENCE. YOU KNOW, 11:48 ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I THINK PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH EVOLUTION, 11:51 IT'S THE DATING METHODS THAT GIVE THEM SUCH A HARD TIME. 11:57 OH, I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE VERSES BEFORE I GET TO THAT. 11:59 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE PAUL - I JUST READ PAUL IN ACTS BUT HERE'S 12:02 ANOTHER ONE: ROMANS 5:14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM 12:06 ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE 12:11 SIMILITUDE OF ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION, WHO IS THE FIGURE 12:13 OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME." JESUS. 12:15 PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT JESUS IS REAL AND HE SPEAKS ABOUT ADAM IS REAL 12:19 AND HE SAID SIN BEGAN WITH ADAM. 12:21 IF YOU THINK THAT THERE WERE MILLIONS OF YEARS OF ANIMALS 12:26 KILLING EACH OTHER AND DEATH AND MUTATION AND BLOODSHED AND 12:30 VIOLENCE AND CARNIVORES AND THEN ALONG COMES ADAM AND HE SINS, 12:36 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SIN BEGAN WITH MAN. 12:40 IT DIDN'T BEGIN MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE MAN. 12:42 AND, YOU KNOW, NO DISRESPECT, I USED TO GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. 12:46 YOU KNOW, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, FOR SOME TIME NOW, HAS SAID 12:49 EVOLUTION IS AN OPTION FOR DEDICATED CATHOLICS AND I THINK, 12:54 'HOW DO YOU DO THAT?' AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, AT SOME 12:56 POINT ALONG THE WAY GOD INJECTED A SOUL INTO MAN.' AND I'M JUST 13:01 TRYING TO PICTURE THAT DAY WHEN MAN WENT FROM BEING A GORILLA TO 13:05 BEING A HUMAN AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S OUT THERE DRAGGING HIS 13:11 KNUCKLES AND THERE'S SOME LITTLE SPARK, HE LOOKS UP AND 13:15 ALL OF A SUDDEN GOD SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, NOW YOU'RE A MAN 13:19 AND YOU'VE GOT A SOUL. 13:21 UP UNTIL THEN YOU WERE JUST AN ORGANISM.' YOU KNOW, I JUST 13:25 DON'T - THAT DOESN'T REALLY DO MUCH FOR MY SELF-ESTEEM FOR ONE 13:29 THING, AND IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM VERY NOBLE AND IT CONTRADICTS 13:32 THE BIBLE. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM BELIEVING 13:35 THAT GOD CAN SPEAK THINGS INTO EXISTENCE. 13:39 YOU KNOW, LET ME LOOK AT - REALLY QUICK - A FEW EXAMPLES OF 13:42 WHY I THINK THE DATING DILEMMA IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO 13:45 CONSIDER. WE ARE TOLD, FOR INSTANCE, THAT 13:48 DINOSAURS DID NOT LIVE CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH MAN AND 13:52 THEY LIVED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE - YOU KNOW HOW 13:55 LONG A MILLION YEARS IS? CAN YOU EVER COMPREHEND HOW 13:57 THINGS CAN CHANGE IN A MILLION YEARS? 13:59 LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN OUR LIVES - JUST WHAT'S HAPPENED TO 14:02 THE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR TIME - MILLIONS OF YEARS. AND THEY 14:07 SAY THAT THESE DINOSAURS LIVED 65 MILLION YEARS AGO. 14:11 WELL, BACK IN 1990, IN THE UNITED STATES THEY FOUND - THEY 14:16 WERE ACTUALLY DISSECTING THE THIGH BONE OF A TYRANNOSAURUS 14:19 REX AND THEY FOUND WHAT APPEARS TO BE SOFT TISSUE AND BLOOD 14:23 CELLS AND IT JUST CAUSED, KIND OF, AN IMPLOSION IN THE 14:26 PALEONTOLOGY COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING IN THEIR SCHEME 14:31 THAT WOULD EXPLAIN HOW YOU COULD GET A TYRANNOSAURUS THIGHBONE 14:36 THAT IS 60 MILLION YEARS OLD - IT DOESN'T MATTER - 30, 60, 100 14:41 - THAT'S STILL GOING TO HAVE SOFT TISSUE IN IT. 14:44 AND THEY WERE BEGINNING TO WONDER IF THEY WERE GOING TO GET 14:46 SOME SAMPLING FROM THOSE BLOOD CELLS AND THEY STARTED TALKING 14:50 LIKE JURASSIC PARK, YOU KNOW, ALL OVER AGAIN. 14:55 BY THE WAY, LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - THIS IS FROM NATIONAL 14:58 GEOGRAPHIC - HARDLY A CREATIONIST MAGAZINE. 15:01 "A TYRANNOSAURUS REX FOSSIL HAS YIELDED WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE 15:04 ONLY PRESERVED SOFT TISSUE EVER RECOVERED FROM A DINOSAUR TAKEN 15:07 FROM A 70-MILLION-YEAR-OLD THIGHBONE. 15:12 THE STRUCTURES LOOK LIKE BLOOD VESSELS, CELLS, PROTEINS 15:15 INVOLVED IN BONE FORMATION." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. 15:19 THEN FOLKS WILL SAY, WELL, WE KNOW HOW OLD THE PLANET IS 15:23 BECAUSE WE TAKE THESE ICE CORES IN GREENLAND AND AT THE 15:27 ANTARCTIC AND WE CAN LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT LAYERS IN THE ICE 15:31 CORES AND EACH OF THOSE LAYERS REPRESENTS ONE YEAR - YOU KNOW A 15:35 SEASON - AND SO WE FIND THAT THERE'S ANYWHERE BETWEEN 80,000 15:40 AND 130,000 LAYERS AND WE KNOW THAT THE POLAR CAPS AND 15:43 GREENLAND HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 130,000 YEARS SO HOW CAN YOU 15:47 BELIEVE - THAT'S THE CRAZIEST MANIPULATION OF EVIDENCE I HAVE 15:50 EVER SEEN. LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES WHY. 15:54 I'VE LIVED IN SOME VERY COLD PLACES AND I'VE SEEN, IN ONE 15:56 SNOW STORM, ON TOP OF A CAR, LOTS OF DIFFERENT LAYERS BECAUSE 16:00 THE SNOW CAME DOWN COLD AND THEN IT GOT A LITTLE WARMER AND IT 16:03 CAME DOWN WET AND THEN IT FROZE DURING THAT NIGHT AND THERE WAS 16:06 A LAYER AND MORE SNOW CAME DOWN AND YOU'LL SEE - HOW MANY OF YOU 16:08 HAVE SEEN THAT BEFORE? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 16:10 LAYER AFTER LAYER AND THEY'RE TRYING TO PERPETRATE THAT ALL 16:13 THESE LAYERS REPRESENT A WHOLE YEAR. 16:15 NOW, THAT'S EASY FOR ME TO SAY THAT, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU A 16:17 LITTLE EVIDENCE. ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE LOST SQUADRON? 16:21 1942 - SIX P-38S WERE COMING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOING TO 16:26 THE WAR EFFORT - WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE - OVER GREENLAND WITH TWO 16:29 B-29S - BRAND-NEW PLANES - THEY GOT LOST IN BAD WEATHER OVER 16:35 GREENLAND. THEY FINALLY REALIZED RATHER 16:37 THAN CRASH LAND THEY'D CIRCLE, THEY'D DO EMERGENCY LANDINGS - 16:41 MOST OF THEM DID IT WITH THEIR GEAR UP - ONE LEFT HIS GEAR DOWN 16:44 - HE FLIPPED. BUT THEY WERE ALL FINE. 25 CREW MEMBERS - 16:48 THEY WERE ALL RESCUED BUT THE WAR WAS GOING ON. 16:49 THEY WERE ALL REDEPLOYED. THEY LEFT ALL THOSE PLANES UP 16:52 THERE IN GREENLAND OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. 16:54 BUT THEY MARKED THE LONGITUDE AND THE LATITUDE. 16:56 WELL, THEY GOT COVERED QUICKLY BY SNOW, BY THE TIME THE WAR WAS 16:59 OVER, AND THEY WEREN'T EASY TO LOCATE. 17:01 YEARS LATER, SOME AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS WENT LOOKING FOR THE 17:05 LOST SQUADRON BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THOSE PLANES - THEY WERE 17:08 BRAND-NEW FROM THE FACTORY - IF YOU COULD FIND THEM AND RECOVER 17:10 THEM AND RESTORE THEM, THEY'D BE WORTH A FORTUNE. 17:13 WELL, THEY SPENT A FORTUNE FINDING THEM. 17:16 THEY FINALLY GOT THIS GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND 17:19 THEY WENT BACK AND FORTH. 17:20 THEY FOUND OUT THAT THEY'D DRIFTED ABOUT A MILE FROM WHERE 17:24 THEY LANDED BECAUSE THE CAP WAS MOVING, AND THEY BORE DOWN WITH 17:28 THIS HOT MOLE - IT WAS A BIG THING WITH HOT WATER GOING 17:30 THROUGH IT - AND IT JUST WOULD BORE RIGHT DOWN INTO THE ICE. 17:33 YOU KNOW HOW DEEP THOSE PLANES WERE? 17:36 260 FEET DEEP - IN EXACTLY 50 YEARS - AND IN THAT 260 FEET 17:45 THERE WERE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF LAYERS IN THE ICE 17:50 THAT EVOLUTIONISTS WOULD SAY THOSE PLANES ARE ABOUT 50,000 17:53 YEARS OLD. WELL, THEY WERE NOT 50,000 17:57 YEARS OLD. THEY ACTUALLY WENT DOWN THERE. 18:00 THEY BUILT A CAVE AROUND ONE OF THEM. 18:02 THEY TOOK IT ALL APART - PULLED IT UP AT GREAT EXPENSE - 18:05 REASSEMBLED IT - IT'S THE ONLY PERFECTLY RESTORED P-38 AND IT'S 18:10 - THEY CALL IT, RIGHT NOW, 'THE GLACIER GIRL'. 18:13 I THINK THERE'S A PICTURE OF IT UP ON THE SCREEN. 18:15 SO YOU'VE GOT - THEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE ICE CORES. 18:19 THEN YOU'VE GOT THESE ANIMALS THAT THEY CLAIM ARE EXTINCT, 18:24 LIKE THE COELACANTH. 18:27 THEY SAID THAT THIS FISH LIVED BETWEEN 300 MILLION YEARS AGO 18:33 AND BECAME EXTINCT 65 MILLION YEARS AGO AND THEY SAID IT WAS 18:36 ONE OF THE MISSING LINKS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS BECAUSE IT 18:40 HAD THESE LITTLE PROTO-LEGS AND IT WOULD TRY TO WALK UP OUT OF 18:43 THE BEACHES ONTO THE LAND AND THEY HAD THIS WHOLE SCENARIO 18:45 WRITTEN UP ABOUT THE COELACANTH FOSSILS THAT THEY FOUND AND 18:48 'THEY'RE ALL EXTINCT NOW' UNTIL THEY WERE FISHING OFF OF SOUTH 18:52 AFRICA IN 1938 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? THEY DUG UP A 18:58 COELACANTH. THEY PULLED UP A LIVE ONE. SINCE THEN THEY'VE 19:01 FOUND MANY MORE. AND, YOU KNOW, THE AMAZING THING WAS IT WAS 19:05 EXACTLY LIKE THE FOSSILS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 65 MILLION 19:10 YEARS AGO. AS FAR AS I KNOW THEY'RE STILL ALIVE IN THE WORLD 19:13 TODAY. I LIVED IN NAGEEZI, NEW MEXICO ON THE INDIAN RESERVATION 19:17 AT 8,000 FEET IN THE MIDDLE OF NORTH AMERICA AND THERE WERE 19:20 SEASHELLS EVERYWHERE. AND THEN I'VE GOT FRIENDS WHO 19:24 SAY YOU CAN FIND SEASHELLS ON MOUNT EVEREST AT THE 26,000-FOOT 19:28 LEVEL. THERE ARE CLAMS THAT ALL DIED IN 19:30 VAST VOLUMES - THEY'RE CLOSED, WHICH MEANS THEY DIED SUDDENLY. 19:34 WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE ON MOUNT EVEREST? 19:36 ALL AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE GRAND CANYON TO SO MANY OTHER 19:39 THINGS THAT YOU SEE - THE COAL FIELDS AND THE OIL - THERE'S 19:43 EVIDENCE THAT THERE HAS BEEN A MASSIVE GLOBAL FLOOD. 19:48 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR YEARS SCIENTISTS SAID 'OH, THAT'S JUST 19:50 - NO - FAIRY TALES - BIBLE - THERE'S NEVER BEEN A GLOBAL 19:54 FLOOD.' BUT THE EVIDENCE AFTER EVIDENCE - ALL THE FOSSILS ARE - 19:57 THINGS DIED RAPIDLY. SO FINALLY THEY SAID, 'IT WASN'T 20:00 NOAH, IT WAS AN ASTEROID.' WELL, WHAT DID THE ASTEROID DO? 20:05 BIG FLOOD. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY NOW. 20:10 THEY EVEN TELL YOU IT LANDED NEAR THE GULF - THE GULF OF 20:13 MEXICO. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 20:15 AND THEN THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY, 'WE CAN DATE ROCKS'. 20:19 AND WE USE POTASSIUM ARGON AND A NUMBER OF OTHER METHODS TO DATE 20:22 ROCKS AND - BUT YOU DON'T HEAR THEM CONFESS THAT THEY WILL DATE 20:26 THESE VOLCANOES AND SAY, 'YEAH, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS MANY 20:29 MILLION YEARS OLD.' AND THEN SOME WHO CHALLENGED THESE 20:34 GEOLOGISTS WHO WERE TESTING THESE ROCKS, THEY SAID, 'WELL, 20:36 WE'VE GOT BRAND-NEW ROCK FORMATION HERE IN NEW ZEALAND OR 20:39 IN GREENLAND, LET'S TEST THAT.' AND THEY GO TO TEST A NEW 20:42 FORMATION THERE IN NEW ZEALAND AND THEY ACTUALLY CAN - THEY HAD 20:47 THIS ONE FORMATION THAT WAS SURROUNDING TREES THAT THEY KNEW 20:50 THE TREES HAD BEEN THERE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 20:52 VOLCANIC FLOW HAD COVERED THESE TREES THAT WERE A THOUSAND YEARS 20:56 OLD AND THE VOLCANIC ROCK CAME UP AT 465,000 YEARS OLD 21:04 ACCORDING TO THEIR POTASSIUM ARGON DATING AND THE OTHER, I 21:08 UNDERSTAND, VERY SOPHISTICATED METHODS THEY USE FOR DATING IT. 21:12 BUT THEY GET THESE VASTLY DIFFERENT MEASUREMENTS. 21:14 I'VE GOT A FRIEND WHO WAS AN EVOLUTIONIST - WORKED IN A 21:17 DATING LAB AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE WILL ASK WHEN 21:20 THEY SUBMIT SOME ARTIFACT IS BASICALLY, 'HOW OLD DO YOU WANT 21:23 IT TO BE?' YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW HOW THEY TELL 21:28 HOW OLD THE DIFFERENT LAYERS ARE IN THE STRATA? 21:31 BASED ON THE FOSSILS THAT ARE FOUND THERE. 21:34 DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY TELL HOW OLD THE FOSSILS ARE? 21:37 BASED ON THE LAYERS WHERE THEY FIND THEM. 21:41 SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE CIRCULAR REASONING. 21:44 FOR ME, YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE 21:46 THINGS IS? YOU'RE GOING TO THINK, 'OH, 21:50 PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE GETTING SAPPY.' A BUTTERFLY. 21:55 I MEAN, JUST TAKE - YOU'VE HEARD IT BEFORE - THE MONARCH 21:58 BUTTERFLY. TO ME, HOW YOU CAN HAVE THIS 22:02 LITTLE EGG - TINY, ALMOST LIKE A PINHEAD - UNDERNEATH A LEAF. 22:07 THAT BUTTERFLY KNOWS THAT IT'S ONLY ON THAT PLANT IT CAN LAY 22:10 ITS EGG. WHERE - HOW'S IT KNOW THAT? WHO TEACHES IT THAT? 22:14 OUT OF THE THOUSANDS OF PLANTS IN THE WOODS IT KNOWS IT'S THE 22:16 MILKWEED. THAT THING HATCHES OUT. MOM'S PROVIDED THAT IT'S 22:20 BORN RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS EVERYTHING IT NEEDS. 22:22 IT EATS VORACIOUSLY AND WHILE IT'S EATING VORACIOUSLY, DAY 22:26 AFTER DAY IT'S GAINING A LOT OF WEIGHT. 22:29 IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER AND IT'S 22:31 GROWING SO FAST IT GROWS OUT OF ITS OWN SKIN AND IT MOLTS AND 22:35 SHEDS ITS SKIN SEVERAL TIMES AND IT BURGEONS OUT AND AS IT SPLITS 22:37 IT COMES OUT OF ITS SKIN IT'S JUST A BIGGER CATERPILLAR AND 22:41 IT'S A BRIGHTER CATERPILLAR AND IT'S GETTING BIGGER 22:42 AND BIGGER AND BIGGER. 22:43 BUT THEN ONE DAY SOMETHING HAPPENS AND ITS MIND - IT 22:46 TRIGGERS AND IT SAYS, 'ALRIGHT, THIS NEXT MOLT IS GOING TO BE 22:49 DIFFERENT.' AND IT LODGES ITSELF UNDERNEATH A LEAF AND IT TURNS 22:55 INTO A CHRYSALIS AND BEGINS TO HARDEN. 23:00 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THAT POINT? 23:02 IT BASICALLY DISASSEMBLES ITSELF AND IT TURNS INTO A SOUP OF 23:10 CELLS AND IT GOES FROM THE MUSH THAT THE CATERPILLAR HAD INSIDE 23:16 AND - BY THE WAY, A BIRD CAN'T EAT IT BECAUSE MILKWEED'S 23:17 POISONOUS AND SO IT EVEN PROTECTS ITSELF BY EATING WHAT 23:21 IT EATS. BUT SOMEHOW IT THRIVES ON IT. 23:24 AND IT BASICALLY DECOMPOSES INTO THIS VIRTUAL SOUP AND THOSE 23:30 CELLS RESTRUCTURE AND REORGANIZE AND THEY COME BACK TOGETHER IN 23:34 JUST A MATTER OF A FEW DAYS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW, WHERE IT 23:38 HAD THESE LITTLE STUBBY LITTLE RUBBER LEGS, IT'S GOT THESE 23:41 ELEGANT LONG LEGS AND ELEGANT WINGS AND ANTENNAE AND BEAUTIFUL 23:48 COLORING ON THE WINGS AND A PROBOSCIS. 23:51 AND INSTEAD OF NOW EATING MILKWEED, IT GOES FOR SWEET 23:54 NECTAR. ITS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IS DIFFERENT. IT'S GOT EYES THAT 23:58 ARE DIFFERENT. ITS BRAIN IS DIFFERENT. 24:00 IT COMPLETELY REFORMS ITSELF AND IT EMERGES KNOWING HOW TO FLY. 24:09 AND IT NEVER GETS - YOU KNOW AN EAGLE TEACHES ITS YOUNG HOW TO 24:12 FLY. THEY GET FLYING LESSONS. IT EMERGES KNOWING HOW TO FLY. 24:16 NO FLYING LESSONS. 24:17 AERODYNAMIC DESIGN - COULD THAT BE AN ACCIDENT? BUT WAIT, 24:23 THERE'S MORE. GET YOUR CREDIT CARD OUT. WE'LL DOUBLE - NO. 24:28 THEN THE MONARCH - THE ONES THAT ARE BORN IN THE NORTHEAST - THEY 24:33 ARE BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO MIGRATE 2,000 MILES ALL THE WAY 24:40 TO MEXICO AND THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE. 24:45 THEIR PARENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE BECAUSE THE 24:47 GENERATIONS THAT COME BACK FROM MEXICO - SEVERAL GENERATIONS 24:51 HAPPEN ALONG THE WAY BACK TO THEIR ULTIMATE DESTINATION IN 24:54 THE NORTH. THEY DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER 24:56 BUTTERFLIES THAT HAVE EVER BEEN TO MEXICO. 24:59 THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO ONLINE AND BOOK A TRIP TO MEXICO. 25:03 AND SOMEHOW, THEY FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO THIS PLACE IN THESE 25:08 REMOTE MOUNTAIN WOODS IN MEXICO WHERE THEY SPEND THE WINTER. 25:13 IT'S CALLED A SUPER-GENERATION. THEY SOMEHOW SURVIVE AND HOW 25:20 COULD THAT EVER HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT? 25:24 YOU KNOW, FOR ME, METAMORPHOSIS IS SUCH A MIRACLE - HOW GOD CAN 25:30 TAKE SOMETHING THAT IS A - IT'S BASICALLY A WORM - AND TURN IT 25:34 INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL ELEGANT CREATURE. 25:38 AND WHAT HE DOES FOR A BUTTERFLY HE CAN DO FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. 25:44 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS VERY SIMPLISTIC, BUT IT'S A MIRACLE. 25:49 I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT EXCEPT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT IN SIX DAYS 25:54 THE LORD MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT 25:57 IS IN THEM. I BELIEVE THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT WORKS FOR ME. 26:02 MY WHOLE WORLDVIEW MAKES SENSE, BASED ON THE BIBLE. 26:06 THAT THERE IS A CREATOR AND I BELIEVE THAT HE'S GOT A SPECIAL 26:09 PLAN FOR EACH ONE OF YOU. 26:13 >>I WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW 26:15 TO DEAL WITH. I JUST SAID TO MYSELF, I SAID, 26:19 'GOD, IF YOU'RE REAL SHOW YOURSELF TO ME.' AND THEN, 26:23 I THINK, ONE DAY AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE THEY WERE WATCHING THE 26:25 'FINAL EVENTS IN BIBLE PROPHECY'. 26:27 THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY THE DOUG PREACHED AND THINGS 26:30 THAT I FELT THAT TOUCHED ME. NO MATTER HOW BAD A OF SINNER 26:34 YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE LORD JESUS LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT 26:38 YOU'VE DONE. >>I AM SO THANKFUL TO GOD FOR 26:42 AMAZING FACTS, FOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ESPECIALLY HIS 26:47 BOOK 'THE RICHEST CAVEMAN'. IF IT WASN'T FOR THESE, I WOULD 26:52 NOT BE HERE TODAY. GOD WAS ABLE TO USE THESE TOOLS 26:58 TO REACH THE UNREACHABLE. 27:05 >>HI FRIENDS. 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