Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000169A
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:12 >>I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GOOD REASONS IN GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY, 01:16 ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY THAT ALL SUPPORT CREATION. 01:25 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:28 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:30 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:34 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:36 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:46 >>I'M GOING TO BE TALKING WITH YOU ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF 01:49 CREATION, EVOLUTION, AND LOGIC . AND THE REASON FOR THAT TITLE IS 01:55 BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE SECURE IN LIFE IF YOU DON'T KNOW SOMETHING 02:00 ABOUT THREE THINGS: WHERE YOU'VE COME FROM, WHAT YOU'RE DOING 02:06 HERE, AND WHERE YOU'RE GOING. THESE ARE FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS. 02:12 AND SO, UNDERSTANDING THIS SUBJECT MEANS EVERYTHING. 02:16 AND WHAT CONCERNS ME IS I'M COMING FROM THE OUTSIDE INTO 02:21 CHRISTIANITY - I GREW UP BELIEVING THERE WAS NO GOD, 02:24 BEING TAUGHT AND VERY SECURE IN BELIEVING EVOLUTION, BEING AN 02:29 ATHEIST, IF NOT AT LEAST, AN AGNOSTIC AND I PROBABLY WENT 02:32 BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO, TO A POSITION WHERE NOW I 02:36 BELIEVE FIRMLY IN DIVINE CREATION - 02:40 >>AMEN. >>IN A RECENT CREATION - I'LL 02:43 GIVE YOU REASONS FOR THAT - AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE. 02:46 IT GAVE PURPOSE TO MY LIFE. SO WE NEED A STARTING POINT 02:50 - AND ISAIAH 1:18 - THE LORD INVITES US TO USE OUR HEADS, 02:56 "'COME NOW, LET US REASON TOGETHER,' SAYS THE LORD." 02:59 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GOOD REASONS IN GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY, 03:04 ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY THAT ALL SUPPORT CREATION. 03:10 >>AMEN. >>AND I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT SOME 03:11 OF THESE THINGS WITH YOU. I BELIEVE IN INTELLIGENT DESIGN. 03:17 INTELLIGENT DESIGN SAYS THAT WHEREVER YOU SEE SOME 03:22 SOPHISTICATED DESIGN, THERE MUST BE AN INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT. 03:27 KEEP IN MIND, BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN EVOLUTION WAS BORN, WE HAD 03:33 VERY HUMBLE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. 03:37 WE DIDN'T HAVE THE LABORATORIES WE HAVE TODAY. 03:38 MICROSCOPES - WHEN THEY WOULD LOOK AT A CELL THEY SAW WHAT WE 03:41 WOULD CALL A SINGLE CELL. THEY COULD NOT TAKE THE 03:43 HYPER-POWERFUL SUPER ELECTRON MICROSCOPES THAT WE HAVE NOW AND 03:48 LOOK AT A CELL AND SEE ALL THE INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITY 03:51 IN THAT CELL. WHERE ONCE WE SAW WHAT YOU SEE 03:55 WHEN YOU LOOK AT AN EGG - YOU SEE A SHELL - THE CELL WALL - 03:58 AND YOU SEE THE CONTENTS INSIDE - THE WHITE - AND THEN YOU SEE 04:02 THE YOLK - THE NUCLEUS - AND THAT'S WHAT THEY SAW WHEN THEY 04:05 USED TO LOOK AT EGGS - AT CELLS - JUST VERY SIMPLE THINGS. 04:08 NOW WE KNOW, WITH OUR MICROSCOPES, THERE ARE WORLDS - 04:15 THERE ARE CITIES THAT ARE MOVING AND SWIMMING INSIDE A SINGLE 04:19 CELL. THERE ARE MACHINES, THERE ARE 04:21 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, THERE ARE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, 04:24 THERE ARE CHEMICAL SYSTEMS - ALL WITHIN ONE CELL OF LIFE. 04:27 WE KNOW THAT THE DNA - THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM THAT IT HAS 04:31 INSIDE A SINGLE CELL THAT TRIGGERS WHEN IT SHOULD SPLIT 04:34 AND REPRODUCE ITSELF IS EXTREMELY SOPHISTICATED. 04:38 ONE SCIENTIST PUT IT THIS WAY: PICTURE NEW YORK CITY AT RUSH 04:43 HOUR - I'M SERIOUS - THINK ABOUT NEW YORK CITY AT RUSH HOUR. 04:46 I'VE BEEN THERE. I GREW UP THERE. 04:50 YOU'VE GOT MORE HAPPENING UNDER NEW YORK CITY AT RUSH HOUR THAN 04:53 YOU HAVE HAPPENING IN ALL OF SACRAMENTO DURING THE DAY. 04:57 I MEAN, IT'S VERY BUSY. 04:59 YOU'VE GOT NOT ONLY THE SUBWAYS GOING, YOU'VE GOT THE PLUMBING 05:02 THAT GOES UNDERNEATH THE CITY AND YOU'VE GOT THE FRESH SYSTEMS 05:05 AND THE SEWAGE SYSTEMS, THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS AND THE - THE 05:08 FIBER OPTICS - AND ALL OF THAT'S JUST GOING ON UNDERGROUND AND 05:11 THEN LOOK AT ALL THAT'S GOING ON ABOVE GROUND, WITH ELEVATORS 05:14 GOING UP AND DOWN AND TRAFFIC GOING HORIZONTALLY AND THE 05:17 LIGHTS AND THE PEOPLE AND THE SWARMS AND - ONE - A SCIENTIST 05:22 SAID ONE SINGLE CELL OF LIFE HAS MORE HAPPENING INSIDE THAN NEW 05:28 YORK CITY AT RUSH HOUR. NOW WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT 05:32 LIGHTNING COULD STRIKE A PUDDLE FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO - PICK 05:35 YOUR DATE, IT DOESN'T MATTER - AND PRODUCE SPONTANEOUS 05:39 CELLS OF LIFE? IF IT IS THAT SIMPLE, WHY 05:43 CAN'T WE REPRODUCE THAT SCIENTIFICALLY? 05:45 WHY WOULD WE TEACH, AS FACT, SOMETHING WE CANNOT DEMONSTRATE 05:49 SCIENTIFICALLY? ISN'T THAT UNSCIENTIFIC? 05:54 IF WE SAY, 'OH THIS HAPPENED. THIS WE KNOW.' ALRIGHT, SHOW ME. 05:58 FOR EXAMPLE, THIS WAS BACK DURING THE TIME OF LOUIS 06:00 PASTEUR, THEY WOULD TAKE A LUMP OF MEAT AND THEY - OR A CARCASS 06:06 - AND THEY WOULD SET IT DOWN SOMEWHERE AND IN A FEW DAYS THEY 06:08 WOULD SEE WORMS AND THINGS SPRINGING OUT OF THE CARCASS AND 06:12 THEY SAID, 'SEE, WE WATCH LIFE FORM ALL THE TIME. 06:15 SEE HOW THESE WORMS CAME OUT OF THAT CARCASS FROM NOWHERE? 06:18 NEW LIFE IS CONSTANTLY FORMING.' AND PASTEUR LOOKED AT THAT AND 06:22 HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE NOT NOTICING THE FLIES THAT ARE 06:25 LANDING ON IT LAYING EGGS. 06:27 HE THEN TOOK THE SAME MEAT OR SOMETHING AND HE PUT IT IN A 06:31 VACUUM ENVIRONMENT AND THERE WAS NOTHING. 06:35 AND THEY REALIZED THAT HERE'S A LAW: ALL LIFE IN THE WORLD COMES 06:40 FROM LIFE. WE CANNOT FIND A SINGLE EXAMPLE 06:43 ANYWHERE IN THE OBSERVABLE WORLD WHERE LIFE COMES FROM NON-LIFE. 06:48 WE ARE UNABLE, WITH ALL OF OUR SOPHISTICATED LABORATORIES AND 06:52 EQUIPMENT, TO PRODUCE LIFE FROM NON-LIFE. 06:56 THEY SAY IT HAPPENED ALL OVER THE WORLD SPONTANEOUSLY, WITHOUT 06:59 ANY INTELLIGENCE, BUT IT TAKES INTELLIGENCE TO HAVE 07:05 INTER-WORKING SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATION AND LIFE. 07:10 THEN YOU HAVE - NATURE IS FULL OF WHAT YOU WOULD CALL SYMBIOTIC 07:13 RELATIONSHIPS WHERE DIFFERENT PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND CREATURES 07:20 CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE HELP OF COEXISTING, IN SOME WAY, WITH 07:26 OTHERS. THEY DEPEND ON EACH OTHER. 07:28 THERE ARE PLANTS THAT - AND TREES - THAT JUST WILL NOT 07:31 SURVIVE AND POLLINATE, WITHOUT BEES. 07:34 THERE ARE PLANTS THAT CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT - AND THERE'S A 07:37 CERTAIN FLOWER THAT CANNOT POLLINATE WITHOUT ONE PARTICULAR 07:41 MOTH THAT'S GOT A VERY LONG PROBOSCIS THAT IT USES AND GETS 07:45 DOWN AND IT GOES JUST TO THOSE FLOWERS. 07:47 JUST THAT FLOWER NEEDS JUST THAT MOTH IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AND 07:52 THERE'S NO SCENARIO THAT YOU CAN CREATE, THROUGH HISTORY, THAT 07:55 WOULD CREATE AN EXAMPLE FOR WHY THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY. 08:00 YOU'VE GOT THE - THERE ARE BIRDS AND ANIMALS THAT COEXIST AND 08:03 THEY PROTECT AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER. 08:05 YOU GO IN THE OCEAN AND YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING FROM THE SEA 08:08 ANEMONE THAT LIVES WITH THE CLOWN FISH AND IT STINGS 08:12 EVERYTHING BUT THE CLOWN FISH AND THE CLOWN FISH PROTECTS AND 08:14 CLEANS THE ANEMONE AND THEY JUST ALWAYS SEEM TO HAVE HAD THIS 08:18 RELATIONSHIP. LITTLE BIRDS THAT RIDE ON THE 08:20 BACKS OF THE RHINOS AND PICK OFF THEIR TICKS. 08:23 AND I - I MEAN, I CAN JUST GO THROUGH A - YOU'VE GOT, IN YOUR 08:25 BELLY - I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT YOU'VE GOT BACTERIA. 08:29 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY'RE FRIENDLY BACTERIA - LET'S HOPE 08:32 THEY ARE - AND YOU NEED THEM TO HELP YOU DIGEST FOOD. 08:36 AND IF YOU TAKE AN ANTIBIOTIC AND IT KILLS ALL THE FRIENDLY 08:39 BACTERIA, THEN YOU'VE GOT TO EAT SOMETHING LIKE YOGURT, WHICH 08:41 SHOULDN'T BE EATEN BY ANYBODY BECAUSE IT'S CALLED 'YOGURT' AND 08:44 THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HELP GIVE YOU FRIENDLY BACTERIA AGAIN AND 08:49 THERE IS SO MUCH COMPLEXITY AND INTER-WORKING SYSTEMS IN LIFE, 08:55 THAT TO SAY THIS ALL HAPPENS SPONTANEOUSLY - IT DOESN'T 08:58 MATTER IF YOU GIVE IT MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS, IT BECOMES 09:01 LUDICROUS. THEN YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING 09:04 CALLED THE LAW OF ENTROPY. THIS IS THE SECOND LAW OF 09:07 THERMODYNAMICS AND, BASICALLY, IT SAYS THAT NATURE TENDS FROM 09:12 ORDER TO DISORDER IN ISOLATED SYSTEMS. IT'S A LAW OF LIFE. 09:17 LET'S SUPPOSE THAT YOU'VE GOT A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN AND IT'S - 09:21 YOU'VE GOT ALL THE ROWS ARE CAREFULLY WEEDED AND EVERYTHING 09:25 IS IN ORDER AND YOU'VE GOT THINGS STACKED. 09:27 YOU'VE GOT YOUR CORN, YOUR, TOMATOES, YOUR MELONS, OR YOUR 09:30 ZUCCHINI AND IT'S ALL GROWING AND IT'S NICE. 09:32 YOU'VE GOT SOME FLOWERS JUST FOR GOOD LOOKS AND - BUT YOU DIE AND 09:36 YOU DON'T TEND THE GARDEN, YOU DON'T WATER THE GARDEN - 09:38 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GARDEN? IT'LL ALL BREAK DOWN TO THE 09:42 COMMON DENOMINATOR OF CHAOS. YOU'VE GOT A BEAUTIFULLY BUILT 09:46 HOUSE WITH A MANICURED YARD AND THE OWNER DIES AND NO ONE 09:49 TAKES CARE OF THE HOUSE. WHAT HAPPENS? 09:51 ROOF FALLS IN - IT WILL TURN BACK, GIVEN ENOUGH TIME, TO THE 09:54 ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH. IT JUST REDUCES TO CHAOS AGAIN. 09:59 AND SO, IN LIFE, WHERE YOU SEE ORDER AND DESIGN AND STRUCTURE, 10:06 THERE HAS TO BE AN OUTSIDE INTELLIGENCE AND POWER THAT IS 10:10 INTRODUCING THAT ORDER AND DESIGN OR IT JUST DEFIES THE LAW 10:15 - THE SECOND LAW - OF THERMODYNAMICS. 10:18 THEN YOU'VE GOT A FLOOD OF EVIDENCE THAT WE'RE SURROUNDED 10:21 WITH AROUND THE WORLD. THE FOSSIL RECORD, AROUND THE 10:25 WORLD, SAYS THAT THERE WAS A GREAT FLOOD. 10:30 THE THEORY WAS WHAT CAUSED THIS MASS SUDDEN EXTERMINATION OF 10:34 THE DINOSAURS? THEY SAID, WELL, A VIRUS SOMEHOW DEVELOPED. 10:38 BECAUSE IT HAPPENS - YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE AIDS COMES 10:40 FROM - SOME VIRUS DEVELOPED AND JUST WIPED THEM ALL OUT. 10:43 THEN - THAT DIDN'T SATISFY THEM - THEY SAID, 'NO, THERE WAS A 10:47 SHORTAGE OF FOOD. THERE WAS A FAMINE. 10:49 THEY ALL STARVED OFF.' AND THEN THEY SAID THE BIRTH OF SOME OF 10:52 THE PRIMITIVE MAMMAL RODENTS BEGAN TO EAT ALL OF THEIR EGGS 10:56 AND IT KILLED THEM ALL OFF. AND THEY HAD ALL THESE THEORIES, 10:59 BUT THE PROBLEM WAS, THE EVIDENCE - THE FOSSILS OF 11:03 THE DINOSAURS ARE IN COPIOUS GRAVEYARDS WHERE THEY ARE 11:08 COVERED WITH SILT, WHICH WAS ONCE MUD. THEY DIED IN A 11:13 CATACLYSM OF WATER. SO FINALLY, AFTER ONE EXCAVATION 11:21 AFTER ANOTHER ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE EVIDENCE COULD NOT BE 11:24 DENIED, THERE WAS SOME GLOBAL CATASTROPHE OF A FLOOD. 11:27 SO THEY SAID - THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SAY THERE WAS A GLOBAL FLOOD 11:31 SO THEY SAY AN ASTEROID STRUCK THE EARTH AND CAUSED A TSUNAMI, 11:36 WHICH CAUSED A FLOOD, WHICH - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT 11:40 NOW? THAT'S THE GOING THEORY NOW. 11:42 WELL, ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? 11:44 NOT AN ASTEROID, BUT THERE WAS A FLOOD. 11:46 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT ABOUT 11:49 THE GREAT DEBATE BETWEEN EVOLUTION AND CREATION? 11:52 WELL, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR YOU THAT I THINK WILL MAKE ALL 11:54 THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD; IT'S CALLED HOW EVOLUTION 11:57 FLUNKED THE SCIENCE TEST . WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT DOES 12:00 THE FOSSIL RECORD REALLY SAY? AND HOW ABOUT THE GEOLOGICAL 12:05 EVIENCE FOR THE FLOOD? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 12:07 MACRO AND MICRO EVOLUTION? SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SHARE 12:10 WITH YOUR FRIENDS WITH CONFIDENCE AND HELP THEM 12:13 UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO 12:16 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 12:20 AND ASK FOR OFFER #169. AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE 12:24 THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ IT AND THEN SHARE 12:26 IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT, 12:29 BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 12:33 THE FOSSIL RECORD TELLS US EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS: 12:36 THAT THERE WAS A MAJOR CHANGE ABOUT 4,000 YEARS AGO THAT 12:41 TOTALLY DISRUPTED THE WORLD. THERE'S A FLOOD OF EVIDENCE 12:44 THAT SUPPORTS THAT. NOW, THEN - I WANT TO EXPLAIN: 12:48 I DO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, BUT LEST SOMEONE STOP THE TAPE RIGHT 12:53 THERE, LET ME EXPLAIN - I BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU 12:55 CALL MICRO-EVOLUTION. WE SEE EXAMPLES OF 12:58 MICRO-EVOLUTION ALL AROUND US. IF YOU LOOK AT THE PERSON NEXT 13:02 TO YOU, YOU WILL SEE EXAMPLES OF MICRO-EVOLUTION. 13:06 (LAUGHTER) MICRO-EVOLUTION IS WHERE THE RABBITS - THE COMMON 13:11 HARE THAT IS LIVING OUT IN THE DESERT - AFTER A FEW 13:15 GENERATIONS, FOR SOME REASON, GOD HAS DESIGNED THEIR DNA, FOR 13:18 SURVIVAL REASONS, THEY WILL DEVELOP BROWN FUR, WHERE THEY 13:22 CAN MELT INTO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. AND YOU WILL HAVE A HARE - IT IS 13:26 STILL A HARE - AND IT WILL BE UP IN THE ARCTIC AND IT WILL HAVE 13:29 WHITE FUR SO IT CAN BLEND INTO ITS ENVIRONMENT. 13:32 YOU WILL SEE GREAT DIVERSITY OF SPECIES THAT HAVE EVOLVED WITHIN 13:38 THEIR SPECIES. AND ON THEIR PICTURE HERE I PUT, 13:41 AS AN EXAMPLE - EXHIBIT A - OF WHAT WE WOULD CALL 13:44 MICRO-EVOLUTION IS LOOK AT THE INCREDIBLE VARIETY OF DOGS. 13:49 YOU'VE GOT LITTLE BITTY DACHSHUNDS - THEY'VE GOT DOGS 13:53 WITH NO HAIR AND THEN THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE RACERS. 13:59 AND THEN THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE JUST COVERED WITH WRINKLES 14:01 THAT CAN BARELY WALK AND THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE - JUST GOT 14:04 LONG HAIR AND THEY CAN'T EVEN SEE THE EYES. 14:07 AND THEY'RE EVERY STRIPE AND TYPE - THEY'VE GOT BIG OLD 14:11 FLOPPY EARS AND INKY DINKY EARS AND PUDGY FACES AND LONG NOSES 14:15 AND - IN THE ORIGINAL DOGS - NOAH DID NOT TAKE, ON THE ARK, A 14:20 DACHSHUND AND A MALTESE AND A GERMAN SHEPHERD AND A 14:25 ST. BERNARD AND A BEAGLE AND A LHASO APSO AND ALL THE OTHER 14:27 DOGS. HE DIDN'T TAKE - HE TOOK TWO DOGS. 14:30 AND LOOK AT ALL THE VARIETY OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT WE SEE 14:36 TODAY, HOW MANY PEOPLE DID THEY ALL COME FROM? 14:41 ADAM AND EVE AND THEN, ONCE AGAIN, FROM EVERYBODY THAT WAS 14:44 ON THE BOAT - ON THE ARK. AND LOOK AT ALL THE VARIETY - I 14:48 COULD GO AROUND THE WORLD TODAY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I'VE TRAVELED 14:50 QUITE A BIT, AND I CAN GO TO THE DIFFERENT ISLANDS OF POLYNESIA 14:54 AND I CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FIJIANS AND THE 14:57 SAMOANS, AND THE PEOPLE FROM NEW GUINEA, AND THE ABORIGINES, 15:02 AND IT SAYS, BECAUSE OF THE BREEDING AND THE GENES, 15:09 DIFFERENT TRAITS BECOME DOMINANT. 15:12 SO I BELIEVE IN MICRO-EVOLUTION. BUT WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE IS 15:16 SOMETHING THAT IS HALF DOG AND HALF CAT. 15:20 YOU DO NOT SEE CROSSING HAPPENING BETWEEN THE TYPES. 15:24 THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. AND THE BIBLE SAYS GOD MADE EACH 15:27 ONE AFTER THEIR KIND - WE WOULD SAY SPECIES. 15:31 YOU'LL HAVE GREAT DIVERSITY AMONG THE SPECIES, BUT THE 15:34 SPECIES DO NOT CROSS. IN THE FOSSIL RECORD THERE IS 15:38 NO EVIDENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL FORMS BETWEEN SPECIES. 15:42 HORSESHOE CRABS ARE STILL HORSESHOE CRABS. 15:46 AND THIS IS WHAT THEY SEE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD AS WELL. 15:50 SO THERE ARE MISSING LINKS. THEY'RE - THE TRANSITIONAL FORMS 15:57 BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT CREATURES ARE STILL MISSING. 16:01 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN THE TEXTBOOKS WHERE THEY'VE GOT THE, 16:04 YOU KNOW, THE MONKEY WALKING ON HIS KNUCKLES AND THEN SLOWLY HE 16:07 STARTS TO WALK A LITTLE MORE ON HIS FEET AND HE GETS MORE AND 16:09 MORE ERECT UNTIL YOU'VE GOT HOMO ERECTUS AND THE MAN IS STANDING 16:12 UP AND HE'S GOT THE NORMAL GAIT AND THEY SHOW ALL THESE THINGS 16:15 IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOKS. 16:17 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE CREATURES - THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE IN THE 16:23 TRANSITION BETWEEN THE MONKEY AND THE MAN DOES NOT EXIST. 16:29 YOU WILL HAVE AN EXPEDITION WORKING IN AFRICA - THEY ARE 16:31 BEING FUNDED BY A UNIVERSITY OR SOME PRIVATE SUPPORTER OR SOME 16:34 DEEP POCKET - AND THEY ARE DIGGING, LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF 16:39 HUMAN EVOLUTION. AND IF THEY DON'T PRODUCE 16:43 SOMETHING, THEIR FUNDING DRIES UP. 16:45 THEY ARE EXTREMELY MOTIVATED TO FIND SOMETHING. 16:49 AND SO, WHEN THEY FIND ANY KIND OF ANCIENT GORILLA BONE - 16:54 ORANGUTAN BONE - THEY WILL GET EPOXY AND AN ARTIST AND THEY 16:59 BECOME VERY CREATIVE AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A 17:01 LITTLE DIFFERENCE HERE IN THE SKULL SHAPE. 17:03 WE THINK THIS WAS A TRANSITION.' AND THEY START TO PATCH IT 17:07 TOGETHER, THEY CALL IT WHAT THEY WANT AND THEY SAY, 'WE FOUND THE 17:09 MISSING LINK.' THEY HAVEN'T. WE HAVE COMPLETE SKELETONS OF 17:13 DINOSAURS WITHIN A CERTAIN SPECIES - MANY OF THE DINOSAURS 17:17 - COMPLETE SKELETONS. THERE IS NO COMPLETE SKELETON - 17:20 IF MAN HAS BEEN AROUND FOR THE MILLIONS OF YEARS THAT THEY TELL 17:24 US, THEN HOW COME WE CAN'T FIND ONE COMPLETE SKELETON? 17:28 WE JUST FIND THESE LITTLE PIECES AND A LOT OF IMAGINATION AND 17:31 THEY CREATE IT. IT'S JUST NOT THERE, FRIENDS. 17:36 WELL, SOME SAY, 'WELL, BECAUSE THERE'S SIMILARITY AMONG SPECIES 17:39 - AND THERE ARE CERTAIN SIMILARITIES AMONG 17:40 SPECIES, THAT MEANS THAT THEY ALL EVOLVED FROM A COMMON 17:43 SOURCE. NOW I JUST PUT A PICTURE 17:46 UP HERE ON THE SCREEN. YOU'VE GOT A CORVETTE, YOU'VE 17:51 GOT A FORD 350 TRUCK, AND YOU'VE GOT A YAMAHA MOTORCYCLE. 17:56 THEY ALL WERE MADE AT DIFFERENT FACTORIES. 18:00 DO THEY HAVE CERTAIN THINGS IN COMMON? 18:02 >>YEAH. >>WELL, LET'S THINK ABOUT IT. 18:05 DO THEY ALL HAVE, LIKE, RUBBER TIRES? 18:07 >>YES. >>OR AT LEAST SOME 18:09 DERIVATIVE OF THAT. DO THEY ALL HAVE INTERNAL 18:12 COMBUSTION SYSTEMS? >>YES. 18:15 >>UNLESS ONE OF THEM'S ELECTRONIC AND THAT WOULD BE A 18:16 SHAME. DO THEY ALL HAVE ELECTRICAL, 18:21 LIKE, LIGHTING SYSTEMS? >>YES. 18:23 >>DO THEY HAVE AN EXHAUST SYSTEM? 18:26 >>YES. >>GOT AN INTAKE SYSTEM. 18:28 >>YES. >>THEY'VE GOT A LUBRICATION 18:30 SYSTEM. THEY'VE GOT AN ACCELERATION - ACCELERATOR. 18:36 DO THEY HAVE BRAKING SYSTEMS? >>YES. 18:38 >>WHY DO THEY HAVE ALL THESE IN COMMON? 18:40 OBVIOUSLY THAT PICK-UP TRUCK WAS ONCE A CORVETTE THAT CAME FROM 18:45 THE MOTORCYCLE THAT ORIGINATED WITH A ROLLER SKATE. (LAUGHTER) 18:50 NO, THE REASON THEY SHARE SO MANY THINGS IN COMMON IS BECAUSE 18:53 THEY ALL OPERATE IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT. 18:57 THEY ALL OPERATE UNDER CERTAIN LAWS AND SO THEY SHARE A LOT OF 19:02 THINGS IN COMMON. THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE TAIL 19:04 LIGHTS TO SAY WHEN THEY'RE BRAKING. 19:05 THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE HEADLIGHTS SO THEY CAN DRIVE AT 19:07 NIGHT. WHY DO YOU FIND SIMILARITIES 19:09 BETWEEN PEOPLE AND MONKEYS AND DOGS AND CATS. 19:14 THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THEY HAVE IN COMMON, NO QUESTION 19:16 ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE BY THE SAME GOD WHO SAID, 19:21 'I THINK I'LL MAKE ONE WITH A LITTLE DIFFERENCE THIS WAY AND, 19:23 YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO ADD THIS. THIS CREATURE - I'LL MAKE IT 19:25 DIFFERENT, BUT SOME SIMILARITIES I LIKE. 19:27 I'M GOING TO ADD THAT AND THIS AND MAKE THIS.' AND THEY ALL 19:30 LIVE IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT. WE NEED SYSTEMS TO PROPEL 19:33 OURSELVES SO WE'VE ALL GOT LEGS OR FINS OR WINGS. YOU KNOW, IT'S 19:37 AMAZING TO ME - FLYING FISH? >>YES. 19:42 >>GOD MADE FISH THAT KEPT JUMPING OUT OF THE WATER SO LONG 19:45 THAT AFTER MILLIONS OF YEARS THEY DEVELOPED AERODYNAMIC 19:48 DESIGN? NO, I'M BEING FACETIOUS, PLEASE. 19:53 BUT THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE FISH THAT FLY. 19:56 THERE ARE - THEY DON'T REALLY FLY, THEY GLIDE, THEY DON'T 19:59 FLAP. BUT THEY GLIDE A LONG WAY. 20:01 I'VE SEEN THEM. THERE ARE SQUIRRELS THAT FLY. 20:06 WHY DO SOME FLY AND OTHERS DON'T? 20:09 THERE ARE SNAKES IN INDONESIA THAT JUMP FROM TREES AND THEY 20:12 CAN FLATTEN THEIR RIB CAGE AND GLIDE. 20:15 THEY'VE GOT FROGS THAT WILL SPREAD OUT THEIR TOES AND FLY. 20:20 THE IDEA THAT LIZARDS COULD JUST KEEP RUNNING OFF CLIFFS AND 20:24 SOMEHOW, BEFORE THEY CRASHED ON THE BOTTOM, DEVELOP SOMETHING 20:29 AERODYNAMIC AND HOLLOW BONES AND FEATHERS AND PASS THAT ON TO 20:33 THEIR OFFSPRING. YOU CAN GIVE ME BILLIONS OF 20:35 YEARS AND I JUST CAN'T SEE ANY SCENARIO WHERE 20:38 THAT WOULD HAPPEN. YEAH, THERE'S SIMILARITIES AND 20:40 THEN THERE'S THE DATING DILEMMA. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. 20:43 I'VE ONLY GOT A FEW MOMENTS TO TALK ABOUT IT. 20:45 THE WHOLE EVOLUTIONARY SCHEME RISES OR FALLS ON THE DATING. 20:54 SINCE WE CANNOT OBSERVE ANY SPONTANEOUS LIFE HAPPENING, WE 20:58 CANNOT PRODUCE ANY SPONTANEOUS LIFE HAPPENING ANYWHERE IN OUR 21:01 WORLD. IN ORDER FOR IT TO HAPPEN, THE WAY THAT THAT'S 21:04 ACHIEVED IS JUST SAY 'WE'VE GOT MILLIONS OF YEARS. 21:08 MILLIONS OF YEARS HAVE GONE BY.' BUT THE DATING METHODS THEY USE 21:15 - CARBON-14 DATING, RADIOISOTOPE DATING - THEY'RE ALL ASSUMING 21:20 THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS THE SAME TODAY AS IT WAS 6,000 YEARS AGO. 21:25 AND THE BIBLE SAYS IT WAS RADICALLY DIFFERENT. 21:28 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU CALLED COMPTON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA . 21:32 "N-14" - OR CARBON-14 - "INTERACTS WITH COSMIC RAYS. 21:37 SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT COSMIC RAYS HAVE BEEN BOMBARDING THE 21:40 ATMOSPHERE EVER SINCE THE EARTH WAS FORMED," - THEY'RE BELIEVING 21:44 IT'S CONSTANT - "WHILE THE AMOUNT OF NITROGEN IN THE 21:46 ATMOSPHERE HAS REMAINED CONSTANT." - 21:48 THEY'RE ASSUMING THAT. THEY DON'T KNOW - "CONSEQUENTLY, 21:51 C-14 OR CARBON-14 FORMATION IS THOUGHT TO OCCUR 21:55 AT A CONSTANT RATE. ALTHOUGH THE CURRENT RATIO OF 21:58 C-14 TO OTHER CARBON ATOMS IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS KNOWN, 22:02 SCIENTISTS ARE NOT CERTAIN THAT THIS RATIO HAS BEEN CONSTANT. 22:06 ERRORS IN RADIO CARBON DATING CAN BE CAUSED BY INACCURATE 22:09 RADIATION OR PARTICLE COUNTS, CONTAMINATION OF A SAMPLE WITH 22:13 MORE MODERN CARBON, AND STRAY RADIATION STRIKING THE COUNTER. 22:17 USING RELATIVE DATING METHODS, SCIENTISTS ARE ABLE TO 22:20 DISTINGUISH WHICH EVENTS OCCURRED, BUT THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS 22:22 ABLE TO ESTABLISH EXACTLY WHEN THEY OCCURRED. 22:26 YOU KNOW HOW MOST OF THE DATING - THE ANCIENT DATING - IS 22:28 ACHIEVED? YOU'VE GOT TO LISTEN CAREFULLY. 22:31 THEY FIND A FOSSIL WITHIN A CERTAIN STRATA - AT A CERTAIN 22:36 DEPTH IN THE EARTH - AND THEY SAY, 'BECAUSE IT WAS FOUND AT 22:39 THIS DEPTH, IT MUST BE THIS MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.' WELL, 22:45 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THAT DEPTH IS THAT MANY MILLIONS OR 22:49 THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD? 'BECAUSE OF THE FOSSILS WE FOUND THERE. 22:53 THESE ARE VERY ANCIENT FOSSILS AND WE FOUND THEM AT THAT DEPTH. 22:56 THAT DEPTH MUST REPRESENT A VERY LONG TIME AGO.' WELL, HOW DO YOU 23:01 KNOW THAT THAT DEPTH IS SO ANCIENT? 23:04 'BECAUSE OF THE FOSSILS WE FOUND THERE? 23:07 AND HOW DO YOU KNOW THOSE FOSSILS ARE SO OLD? 23:09 'BECAUSE OF HOW DEEP WE FOUND THEM.' (LAUGHTER) THAT'S WHAT 23:12 YOU CALL CIRCULAR REASONING . IT ALL DEPENDS ON IS THE RADIO 23:18 CARBON-14 DATING ACCURATE? THEY CAN ONLY ASSUME IT'S 23:23 ACCURATE BASED ON WHAT THEY TEST IN THE MODERN ENVIRONMENT. 23:28 YOU WALK INTO A ROOM, YOU SEE A CANDLE BURNING AND YOU SHUT THE 23:30 DOOR AND I SAY, 'HOW LONG WAS THAT CANDLE BURNING?' 23:33 YOU'LL SAY, 'WELL, LET ME MEASURE HOW QUICKLY I SEE IT 23:38 BURN AND THAT MIGHT GIVE ME SOME IDEA ABOUT HOW LONG THE CANDLE 23:41 WAS BURNING.' BUT I SAY, 'NO, WAIT A SECOND. 23:44 YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TALL IT WAS WHEN IT STARTED. 23:48 FURTHERMORE, YOU DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BURNING AT THE SAME RATE 23:51 NOW AS IT WAS BEFORE YOU WALKED IN THE ROOM. WHEN YOU WALKED IN 23:54 THE ROOM, YOU MAY HAVE CHANGED HOW MUCH OXYGEN WAS IN THE 23:57 ROOM.' THERE'S SO MANY VARIABLES THAT MAKE IT VERY 24:00 DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO KNOW WITH A CERTAINTY HOW QUICKLY THAT 24:03 CANDLE HAS BEEN BURNING. THAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT THEY'VE 24:06 GOT WITH THE DATING METHODS. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW OLD 24:10 THINGS ARE, TO DO REAL SCIENCE - YOU KNOW HOW GOOD 24:12 SCIENTISTS WOULD MEASURE? THEY WOULD DEVELOP THEIR THEORY, 24:16 THEN THEY WOULD GO BACK 65 MILLION YEARS AND SAY, 'SURE 24:18 ENOUGH, THIS IS WHEN IT STARTED.' WE HAVE NO WAY TO GO 24:22 BACK IN TIME AND TEST THE THEORY OF TIMING THAT FAR BACK. 24:26 AND SO, IT IS NOTHING BUT A THEORY. 24:29 YOU'RE MOCKED IF YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT'S STILL A THEORY. 24:32 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CAME OUT WITH A MAGAZINE THAT SAYS, 'WAS 24:35 DARWIN RIGHT?' BEFORE THEY GIVE ANY EVIDENCE, YOU OPEN TO THE 24:38 PAGE OF THE ARTICLE AND IT SAYS - 'WAS DARWIN WRONG?' 24:42 - AND THE ARTICLE SAYS, 'NO, EVOLUTION IS A FACT.' THEY 24:46 HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ANY EVIDENCE. IT'S BEING TAUGHT AS A FACT, BUT 24:50 WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S NOT LOGICAL, FRIENDS. 24:53 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN'T EXPLAIN. 24:57 DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM EXPLAINING THINGS ABOUT GOD? 25:01 A LITTLE BIT. 'WHERE DID GOD COME FROM?' 'I DON'T KNOW.' 25:05 BUT YOU ASK EVOLUTIONISTS 'WHERE DID THINGS COME FROM?' 25:10 'WELL, WORLD CAME FROM THE SUN WHEN IT EXPLODED AND IT WAS SENT 25:14 - HURLING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT INTO SPACE AND' - 'WELL, WHERE 25:18 DID OUR SUN COME FROM?' 'WELL, IT CAME FROM A SUPERNOVA 25:20 OUT THERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHEN A STAR EXPLODED.' 'WHERE'D 25:24 THAT STAR COME FROM?' 'WELL, IT CAME FROM GAS 25:26 PARTICLES THAT COLLIDED.' 'WHERE'D THAT COME FROM?' 25:31 'WELL, WE...' - AND EVENTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT 25:33 THEY'RE GOING TO SAY? 'THERE'S A MYSTERY. 25:35 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SOMETHING CAME FROM.' NOW THEY SAY, THE 25:38 BIG BANG - GET THIS - THEY SAY THE BIG BANG WAS ALL THE MATTER 25:41 IN THE UNIVERSE WAS SOMEHOW COMPRESSED TO SOMETHING THE SIZE 25:44 OF THE HEAD OF A PIN. HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE? 25:47 IT EXPLODED. 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