Hi, Cliff Goldstein here,
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welcome to the program
Contending for the Faith.
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This is part of a series
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I'm doing
entitled Faith in science,
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in which we
explore some of the issues
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in science and in faith.
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And this is important
because we are in a day and age
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where science has
achieved a lot of renown.
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So we want to look at
science, what it does?
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What it cannot
do? What it tells us?
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What it cannot tell us?
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Because I really think that
these are more difficult issues
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than most
people tend to realize.
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What is science?
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What are the
limitations of science?
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How does it work?
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How do we know if a
scientific theory is correct?
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What are some of the
misconceptions about science?
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What kind of hope
does science offer us?
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Or is science something
that can be even detrimental
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to human beings?
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These are just a few
of the many questions
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that I want to
address in this series,
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but especially I want to
look at science in regard
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to the question
of religious faith.
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How do faith in
science interact?
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Are they hostel to each other?
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Can they be
harmonized or as some say
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do they do with-- deal
with completely different thing?
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All this and more I plan
to explore in this series
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as I said called
Faith in science.
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Because yes, there is a
lot more faith in science
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than people believe.
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That is there is
belief in science,
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there's things and other words
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that you believe in
science but you cannot prove.
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Science is at the
core of human endeavor
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and as such it comes
with all the weaknesses
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that humans bring
to whatever they do
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and one of the
biggest weaknesses
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is simply that we live with
the fair amount of uncertainty.
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I mean this is reality
on everything that we do.
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Someone once said
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that nature doesn't
give up her secrets easily
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or in the different context,
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but some what the same idea
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Paul says "we see
through a glass, darkly."
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But whether we're
dealing with the things of God
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or dealing with
the things of science
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or dealing with
the things of history
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or the things of
psychology, literature,
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whatever we are
dealing as human beings,
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so we are dealing with them
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with the certain
amount of uncertainty.
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We are dealing with things
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that we just
don't fully understand
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or know or
really could even prove.
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Even things that we
think we know, the most about
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that were the certain
about come with aspects
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that we don't understand
that leave black holes there,
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even some of
the simplest things.
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I want you to listen
to this quote from a book
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called the Beginning of
Infinity, listen to this
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"If you fill a kettle
with water and switch it on,
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all the super
computers on Earth working
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for the age of the universe
could not solve the equations
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that predicts what all
those water molecules will do
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even if we could somehow
determine their initial state
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and that of the
outside influences on them,
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which is itself
an intractable task."
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Now think about that, we
are not talking about here
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what goes on in the inner
recesses of the human mind
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which is a total mystery to us
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or what goes on in the belly
of distant stars or of the sun.
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I mean man of life, all
that's very complicated.
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We are talking here
about a pot of water boiling
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and what does he say,
all the super computers
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in the world working
from the age of the universe,
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couldn't tell us what
those water molecules will do.
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Wow, that's kind a heavy.
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Now my point is simple,
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science like
everything else in life must
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to a certain
degree be taken on faith
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because there
are vast limitations
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on what we has humans
know or even can know.
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In fact there is
a-- in quantum physics
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there is a thing called
the uncertainty principle
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and what it states is at
the most basic level of nature,
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it's impossible
to know for certain--
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to know certain
things about a particle,
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it's not that our tools
are limited or that by the--
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or that we don't
have access to it?
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No, it's by the very nature
of the particles themselves
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certain things about
them just cannot be known.
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If we know one
thing about a particle,
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such as its position,
it's impossible for us
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to know its velocity or
if we know its velocity,
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it's impossible for
us to know its position.
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There is at the
most fundamental level,
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the bottom right level, certain,
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uncertainty built
right in to nature itself.
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At least at the far as
level we can get to at presence.
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But even if we get
away from quantum physics,
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even if we get in to
the realm of everyday life,
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there is a great deal
we have to take on faith.
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Hence the title of the
series Faith in Science.
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Yes, because science is
very much a faith venture,
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as is most
everything we as humans do.
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Anyway this title is as
this talk is called the Rainbow.
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And I can remember one morning,
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I was driving to work
and I saw this beautiful,
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just this beautiful rainbow
that just divided the sky,
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it was a giant McDonalds arch,
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but only instead of
that grows McDonalds yellow,
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it were the wonderful
colors of the rainbow.
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You know, and as
I saw it I marveled,
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I marveled that the beauty
at the covering across the sky
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it was beautiful
and at the same time
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I thought of the
promise that God made to Noah,
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the one after the
flood, the promise
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that He would never destroy
the earth by a flood again
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and the rainbow being
the symbol of that promise
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and He said here He says
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"And I will
remember my covenant,
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which is between me and you
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and every living
creature of all flesh.
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And the waters shall no more be
a flood to destroy all flesh."
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Genesis 9:15.
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And when I saw that rainbow
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I thought about the covenant
promise, bariti, my promise.
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And I smiled
because really in a sense me
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just simply being
there, being alive to see
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that rainbow in the sky
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and that I or previous
generations hadn't been
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wiped out with a
world wide flood,
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mabul the Hebrew
word, helped to affirm to me
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that the truth of
that covenant promise.
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Now I realized
to that many people,
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even profess
Christians those who claim
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to believe in the Bible would
have smiled at my reaction.
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They might have a
little perplexed at my naivete,
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I mean I could just
him oh, come on Cliff,
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you can't be
that naive, can you?
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The rainbow, a sign
of God's covenant promise
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not to destroyable
world with the flood
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what are you free?
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Get real.
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No one takes that
seriously anymore.
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There is no scientific
evidence to back that up.
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Well, you know, there
is all sorts of problems
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hear with that,
with that thinking.
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If the flood were only local
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but some there was the
flood was just a local flood.
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So if the flood were
only local then every rainbow
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instead of a sign of
God's covenant promise to us,
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actually becomes a
mockery of that promise.
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You know, not to
promise-- not to do again
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what He did in
Genesis which was destroy
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the whole world with the flood.
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Okay, not some
corner of Mesopotamia.
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If the flood were only
local then God lied to us
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because there been
a lot of local floods
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and that every
one of those rainbows
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in the sky is a-- is a
sign of God mocking us.
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There have been
all sorts of floods,
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okay, so that's the point there.
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If it was just a local flood
the rainbow becomes a mockery.
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But also I sometimes
hear profess Christians say,
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but there is no
scientific evidence for a flood,
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not a worldwide flood.
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Now that's rich, it really is.
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I wonder what would evidence
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for a worldwide flood look like.
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The Genesis flood was a
one time event, a unique event.
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Okay, how then a science
boost dogmatically tells us
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that there is no scientific
evidence for something
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they cannot
examine and replicate.
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What they could do is
they could speculate about
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what they might
thing it would be like.
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And that's fine,
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but that's all
it is speculation,
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guess work about something
they know nothing about.
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What a definitely
is not as hardcore
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scientific proof of anything.
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Science has no more
disproven the worldwide flood
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than it has disproven
the resurrection of Jesus.
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And yet as so often is the case,
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science comes out
and says something
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as highly as speculative
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as there is no scientific
evidence for a worldwide flood
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and the Christians
and so many of them do
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what they usually do.
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They just have
to bow down before.
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Well, science says it,
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and we can't be a bunch
of Bible thumping hicks,
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we have to
believe what science says.
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That seems to be the paradigm,
but I don't want to go there,
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that's not where
my talk is going.
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I want to go
back to the rainbow,
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I want to got to the back--
to back to the sign of bariti,
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My covenant as
God's said, the covenant
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that He would not destroy
the world again by a flood.
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Now many people can
no longer believe that
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because well, they
say, science has shown us,
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what's wrong with you?
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Science has shown
what a rainbow really is.
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Instead of the ancient
midst about being a snake God
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or a path
between heaven and earth
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that the God's
traverse to go back and forth
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or about it being the
belt of tear the sun God
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or whatever
they-- people believed,
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you know, we now
thanks to science have
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a decent understanding
of what a rainbow is.
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At least the basic physical
interactions that create it.
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We know that a rainbow occurs
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when sunlight is
both reflected, refracted,
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refracted and
reflected in drops of water,
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that disperse the
light at various angles.
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Sometimes I think its somewhere
between 40 and 42 percent.
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Light enters a rain drop
at one point is reflected
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to the back of
that drop at another,
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okay, and then you
know, creating the colors
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that we see and even a
host of colors that we don't.
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Each tiny
droplet of water or mist
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acts as like a kind
of prism, which will--
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which disperses the
light into the various colors.
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Some of the-- this light
reflects back on the droplet,
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and is reflected a second time
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and it just spreads out
drops at different angles
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and distinctively
different colors to the eye.
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It involves
things like refraction
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and turn over
reflection and dispersion.
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All of which at one level
it's fairly well understood.
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Again we think of each this
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as millions of
drops as tiny prisms,
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such as we played
at when we were kids.
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This is now how we understand
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to least to some degree
has rainbows are formed.
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Therefore-- therefore the
Bible story about the rainbow
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being a sign of God's
covenant is proven false.
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Right or wrong?
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Well, I don't know about you,
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but don't you see
something kind of wrong
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with that kind of thinking?
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I mean big time wrong.
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It's a keen to
saying something like this.
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Let's try to put
this in little formal,
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more formal logic.
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When science explains something,
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it means that God had
nothing to do with it.
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That's point number one.
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Point number two,
Science explains rainbows.
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Therefore, point number three,
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God had nothing to do with it.
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This is what formulaic
calls a valid argument,
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but not a sound one.
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The conclusion might logically
follow from the promise,
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but the promise is wrong
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and so the
conclusion is wrong as well.
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I mean, where
did we get this idea?
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Very commonly
held that once we have
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a scientific
explanation for something,
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and please don't get me
started on what this notion
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of what a
scientific explanation is,
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that can be quite controversial
and we'll be looking at that.
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But where did we get this idea
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that once science helps
us understand the mechanisms,
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the physical
mechanisms of some phenomena
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then suddenly, automatically,
God drops out of the picture.
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Now we know how it
works physically, therefore,
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get rid of your
Creator, get rid of your God.
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Let me read you a
quote from someone
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who is always been one
of my favorite authors.
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He the late
Christopher Hitchens.
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He is one of the
so called New Atheist,
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so there is
really nothing new about
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their writings and ratings.
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And I always like
Christopher Hitchens,
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right even after he died
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I put his picture on
iPad for a week or two.
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But you know, he wrote this
book called "God Is Not Great,
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How Religion Poisons Everything"
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and I was kind of it's not one
of his better literary moments,
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and I was sorry to see
Hitch go down this path.
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But anyway in it he wrote this,
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he wrote "Religion has
run out of its justifications.
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Thanks to the
telescope and the microscope,
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it no longer offers
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and explanation of
anything important."
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And I thought what in the world
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was poor Hitch
talking about here.
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What has the telescope shown us
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that nullifies
the existence of God?
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What has the microscope shown us
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that makes the
idea of God irrelevant?
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In fact, what has
science anywhere ever proven
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and I think that's
a very difficult word.
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What has science ever proven
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that negates the
existence of God?
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Well, people sometimes
think, oh, what about Galileo?
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When the Galileo trial
with the church and all that?
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Look what happened there
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and how science disproved
teachings of the Bible and God.
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Well, if you ever
study the story of--
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it's really something,
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there is so much this
information about that,
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that whole Galileo thing.
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You know, Galileo,
there is the irony,
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Galileo was accused of heresy
for teaching things supposedly
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that had nothing
to do with the Bible.
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They weren't even in the Bible,
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he was surpassingly
teaching things against Bible,
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yet they weren't against Bible,
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they weren't-- the Bible
never talked about these things.
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Where does the Bible
say that the earth sits
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at the center of the universe
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and that the planets and
stars all are orbit around it?
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Where does the Bible say that?
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These are even taken directly
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or inferred from the
teachings of Aristotle,
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which the church had co-opted
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and federally it becomes
teachings of the Bible, okay.
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They weren't
teachings of the Bible,
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this Galileo was
convicted of heresy,
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not heresy to Paul,
not heresy to Moses,
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not heresy to Jesus,
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but to the prevailing
scientific theory of the time.
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That of Aristotle a pagan Greek
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who had been dead
for 2,000 years by then.
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Anyway that again
that's a whole other talk.
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My point for now though is this,
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where does we get the
idea that the minute someone
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has a scientific explanation
again a very loaded word
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that the minute they
have that whatever they have
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that the divine is
automatically nullified
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and or pushed out.
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How does the fact
that we now fairly
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well, you know,
understand the physics involved
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in the making of a rainbow?
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How does that it anyway
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we refute or
nullify what the Bible said
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about the rainbow being a sign
of God's covenant with humanity
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that He won't destroy
the world again by water.
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Now, now if the text
had said, when God said,
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I would create
this covenant sign
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through weaving
together angel feathers
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and that mixture
of angel's feathers
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would cause this colorful
rainbow in the sky, okay.
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Now scripture said
that then you know,
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I think we might have a problem.
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Okay, but I don't-- when
I read the Genesis account
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and I read in
Hebrew over and over,
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it doesn't say anything
like that in all-- at all.
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No does the Bible
record, when it first created,
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you know, say that when
put the rainbow in the sky
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did it specifically say that
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it's not gonna be
created out of water droplets,
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reflect-- light reflecting
of a water droplets in the sky
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and acting like prism.
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Did the text ever say
that that won't be what is?
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No, of course not,
I'm being rhetorical.
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This again the whole idea
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that well, now that we
know how the rainbow is made,
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it proves that God
had nothing to do with it.
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That is such a false conclusion.
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It's an assumption
not wanted by the facts.
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The promises do not
lead to the conclusion
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because the
promise that one something
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is understood
scientifically means
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that God must automatically
have nothing to do with it,
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He must be removed from
the picture is not proven.
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Where does that come from?
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It certainly not a
scientific statement,
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it's a philosophical statement
macerating as a scientific one.
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The British poet
John Keats, fear that
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science would one
day "unweave a rainbow."
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But you know,
even if we could parse,
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measure, and predict
and quantify everything
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about a rainbow down to
the inners of each photon
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and to the
underbelly of every quark
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well, would that
prove other than that
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we better
understand the natural laws
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that God use to create the
sign of His committed promise.
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Science no more
removes God from the equation
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then the action of
hormones in the limbic system
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reduces human
love into something
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it came to the-- to
the liver secreting bile.
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Science might one day be
able to explain everything about
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how rainbows are
made even up the 25 digits
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to the right of
the decimal point,
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but it could never explain why.
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And you see this gets
into a whole other area
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in regards to the
question of faith in science,
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especially has it relate
as science relates to faith.
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And that is the
question of exactly
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what does science do anyway?
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Does science really
explain why anything happens?
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I mean the real-- does
it give us the real why
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or does it just
explain how certain mechanisms
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appeared to work.
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See there's a
big difference here
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and it something that
philosophers of science
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have been
debating for centuries now
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or for a long time now.
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Let's go back to the rainbow.
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Why does the
rainbow appear in the sky?
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Why?
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Well, because of the
angle of the sunlight hits
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the water droplets, right?
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Okay, but why
when the sunlight's hit
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the water droplets at this angle
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does the rainbow appears?
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Well, it has to do
with the specific way
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that light is
made and water is made.
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Okay, I don't have
a problem with that.
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But why is a
light made in such a way
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that it interacts
with water droplets
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at a certain angle
you get the rainbow?
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Well, it has to do with
how light-- light wave's act,
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okay, but then
why do light waves
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when interacting
this or certain angel
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create the rainbow?
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Well, it's because light waves
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just act that way they just do.
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They just do?
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What kind of
explanation is that?
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But you know, it's
typical in many ways
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of all scientific explanations.
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At some point your
why comes to a dead end,
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and science can't go further.
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The why has to stop
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because you get
to the very bottom,
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at least according to the rule
00:23:52.39\00:23:53.94
that scientists have
made for themselves about
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what science supposedly
can and cannot do entail.
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But again why?
00:24:02.95\00:24:05.21
Where is the why
answer to the rainbow?
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We have a lot of how's and
yes, it's fascinating to think
00:24:07.83\00:24:11.11
that water and light
can mix in such a way
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and create such a
beautiful phenomena
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as the rainbow really is,
00:24:16.46\00:24:18.78
but the simply say that
the reason it doesn't us
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because well, you know,
take it to any the levels
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we looked at
even the bottom level
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you still don't
have affirm why do you?
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To say that the nature of
light it weighs is to do that
00:24:32.32\00:24:35.55
in a sense of just going
all the way back to Aristotle,
00:24:35.58\00:24:39.19
who once said
something that the reasons
00:24:39.22\00:24:41.03
watch fall to the earth
is that rocks love the earth,
00:24:41.06\00:24:45.17
that's why rocks
fall to the earth.
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Well, what isn't why--
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what is the nature of
light waves to do that?
00:24:49.42\00:24:52.25
Even if we got down to the level
00:24:52.28\00:24:53.78
of the nature of
photons themselves,
00:24:53.81\00:24:56.42
it would still be
have to be really more
00:24:56.45\00:24:58.88
only a description
than an explanation.
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And logically there is
no way out of this trap.
00:25:02.53\00:25:07.52
Science, it is now understood
00:25:07.55\00:25:11.13
can take you only so far
than the explanation stop
00:25:11.16\00:25:16.67
without you ever
getting a full why.
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So I have an explanation,
I think I have a why
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that science can't give you.
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Why then do
rainbows appear in the sky?
00:25:30.64\00:25:37.19
Because God created
our world in a such a way
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that when sunlight and mist
00:25:42.89\00:25:44.96
are in right
relationship to each other,
00:25:44.99\00:25:47.92
the mist breaks up
the light by refracting it
00:25:47.95\00:25:50.98
and reflecting it
at different angels
00:25:51.01\00:25:53.80
that create this
electromagnetic waves
00:25:53.83\00:25:57.01
which when
reaching our eyes laminate
00:25:57.04\00:26:00.37
the image of
rainbows in our head.
00:26:00.40\00:26:03.65
And He did it
the why that science
00:26:03.68\00:26:07.45
could never explain to remind us
00:26:07.48\00:26:11.61
of His covenant
promise that never again
00:26:11.64\00:26:15.03
would God destroy
the world by water, okay.
00:26:15.06\00:26:20.70
Now one could justly argue
and I think they would be fair
00:26:20.73\00:26:26.30
that this is not
purely a scientific answer,
00:26:26.33\00:26:29.96
and hey, I agree,
00:26:29.99\00:26:31.87
it's not purely a
scientific answer, okay.
00:26:31.90\00:26:36.27
And that's because
it takes us further
00:26:36.30\00:26:39.74
then where
science can't take us.
00:26:39.77\00:26:43.10
Science can as we saw explain
at least to a certain level
00:26:43.13\00:26:49.70
the how's, the
how's, how this, how that,
00:26:49.73\00:26:53.31
but it never
really gets to the why.
00:26:53.34\00:26:58.61
It's not even close.
00:26:58.64\00:27:01.91
And considering the
nature of how it is practiced
00:27:01.94\00:27:05.69
science never
will get close to it,
00:27:05.72\00:27:09.98
at least as it practice now.
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Yeah, there is no
question, there is no question
00:27:12.90\00:27:18.17
that rainbow I saw that morning,
00:27:18.20\00:27:21.61
that rainbow that
was just beautiful,
00:27:21.64\00:27:24.18
glorious rainbow
and indeed reminded me
00:27:24.21\00:27:29.71
of what God had
said about bariti,
00:27:29.74\00:27:33.77
My covenant that's His covenant,
00:27:33.80\00:27:37.03
His covenant with the world
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never to destroy the
world again with a flood.
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And yes, here I
was evidence to some--
00:27:43.63\00:27:49.89
here I was-- I was
seeing evidence to some degree
00:27:49.92\00:27:54.56
that He had kept His word.
00:27:54.59\00:27:58.57
And as I looked at
it, I thought about
00:27:58.60\00:28:01.37
all that science had taught us
00:28:01.40\00:28:03.94
about how the
rainbow was formed, okay.
00:28:03.97\00:28:07.63
And that's fine,
but nothing in science,
00:28:07.66\00:28:11.28
nothing by any
stretch of the imagination
00:28:11.31\00:28:14.42
showed the reality of
how it came, the one who,
00:28:14.45\00:28:18.53
the only true why of
how the rainbow was created
00:28:18.56\00:28:22.49
and that was God.
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