From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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Hello, I'm Dave Deno and
this is the Carter Report
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with Pastor and
Evangelist John Carter.
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And this is where we
talk about the issues
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that are involved
in the Christian life.
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Today, we're gonna talk
about "Darwinism and Evolution."
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Now we're gonna talk
about an age of meaningless.
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We'll talk about
it in just a moment.
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I wish you would come with me
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to a land of more
than a billion souls
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all in need of
hearing the Gospel of Christ.
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Did you know this, my friend?
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It is the duty of the Christian
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to take the Gospel of
Christ to a lost world.
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And the lost
world I'm talking about
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right now is India,
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land of millions and
millions of pagan gods
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but more than a
billion lost souls.
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India cries out for God.
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We are now back on India TV.
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We're broadcasting
on prime time in India.
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We need your
prayers, we need your support.
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Is it easy in India?
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No, it's the hardest
place we have ever worked.
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Harder than Russia?
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Harder than Russia.
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Harder than America?
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Harder than America.
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Harder than Australia?
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Harder than Australia.
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Because it is a land
that's given over almost
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totally to demonism.
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Now I could tell
you about those demons,
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I could tell you
about the false gods
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but what I want
to tell you today,
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is about the true God
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and the true God who told us
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go into all the world
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and preach the
gospel to every creature.
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We're back in India.
Yes, we're back in India.
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And by the grace of God
we're back in India to stay.
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We want you to come with us.
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We want you to pray for India.
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We want you to give
for India and do it today.
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Please write to me, John Carter
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Post Office Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, California.
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Write to me at
Terrigal in Australia.
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Email me, contact me
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and say, "Yes,
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I'm going to stand with you
in the preaching of the gospel
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to the lost souls of India."
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Thank you in Jesus'
name and God bless you.
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Welcome to the Carter Report.
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Today our topic is "Darwinism
and the Death of Hope. "
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And some of the topics
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before I talk with John,
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John, it is so
good to be with you,
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it's always good to be with you.
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We're talking
about a subject today
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that I think is right smack dab
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in the very middle of
our lives and when I say that
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I don't mean just sort
of out there in society.
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In the middle of our lives,
in many of our families today
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we're talking
about not just Darwinism
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but we're
talking more importantly
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about the death of hope.
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Why is it called that?
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What kind of times
are we living in today?
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Dave, about 150 years
ago, a brilliant Englishman
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by the name of Charles Darwin
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brought to the world
the theory of evolution.
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When he started this theory out,
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Darwin sort of was a
semi-believer in God.
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In fact, he'd been
studying to become a clergyman.
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But as time went by,
as he explored nature,
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he became a person who believed
just in the forces of nature
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and he gave up
belief in a personal God.
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And-- and his
great champion today
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is, is
Professor Richard Dawkins.
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Today there is a great
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new religion in the world, Dave.
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It is a
religion of Neo-Darwinism
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which is the death of
God, that God does not exist.
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Dawkins is the
great high priest of this
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so called new church
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and it is based upon
the idea that man is,
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now wait till you get this,
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man is the product of
time + matter + chance.
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That everything
that exists in the world
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is the product of chance.
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This is taught in
every, every secular university
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in the world.
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And this new
religion is push down
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into the open
minds of young people
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and they come out
of these universities
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with their faith
totally shattered
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because Darwinism,
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when it is followed through
towards logical conclusion,
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gets rid of the God
who made the universe.
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I was playing golf the other day
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and was paired
up with a young man.
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And when he found out what I do,
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he wanted to talk
about it a little bit.
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He was not a believer.
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And he said, "You
know, people my age"
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and I'll never forget this.
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He said, "People my
age, we believe that
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religion really
doesn't have anything for us."
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Totally irrelevant.
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Yeah, "It doesn't have
any meaning in our life.
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In fact, we're
repulsed," his words
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"By the dogma of religion."
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That was his
total view of religion.
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That was as far as he
would even think about it.
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They will tell you this.
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He may be in this
category, I don't know.
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They will tell you,
you can believe in nothing.
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Today, you can
believe in nothing
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except in Neo-Darwinism.
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You can believe in this.
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You can believe in Neo-Darwinism
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which teaches us
that we came from nothing.
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Richard Dawkins,
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the high priest of
this new cult this--
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what could I say, a
fundamentalistic cult.
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He teaches that the
human race came from nothing.
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He knows that there
was a great "Big Bang"
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it happened 13.82
billion years ago,
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that's what astronomers tell us.
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But-- when he's
asked, when he's pressed,
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"Who made the 'Big Bang'?"
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He said, "Nothing."
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So everything, everything
we see came from nothing.
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People are very
interested in nothing
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but this has destroyed
the purpose for living.
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And this is one
of the main reasons
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why we have so many
suicides in the world today.
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Suicide has become
the badge of our despair.
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We see it in the news
it become so unfortunate
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because so many
in Hollywood... Yes.
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have resorted to, to
this area, to suicide.
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Now, Dave,
depression is often caused by
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a chemical imbalance.
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We're not talking about this
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but we're talking about
the depression that says,
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"There is no life after death."
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It's meaninglessness. Yes.
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Richard Dawkins
says, "As the ship sinks,
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goes down into oblivion,
the best thing you can do
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is to stand on
the deck and salute."
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That's Richard Dawkins.
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And this cult
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is one of the fastest growing
religions in the world today,
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it is a religion
and it is a cult.
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If life is
meaningless, what hope is there?
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What is the purpose of life?
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Let me, let me
read you something.
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This is, this is interesting.
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This is amazing.
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This is from Alan
Hayward in his book,
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in "Creation and Evolution."
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"Over the past 25 years,
scientists have discovered an
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exquisite world
of nanotechnology
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within living cells.
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Inside the labyrinthine--
labyrinthine enclosures,
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scientists have
found functioning turbines,
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miniature pumps, sliding clamps,
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complex
circuits, rotary engines,
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and machines for
copying, reading,
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and editing
digital information -
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hardly simple
'globules of plasma'
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envisioned by
Darwin's contemporaries."
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Now there is a choice.
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You can say all of this
that I've just mentioned to you
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is the product of nothing.
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Chance at best? Yes.
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Chance, but it
came from nothing.
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You can say,
this came from nothing
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or it came from the
hand of a Creator God.
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Now the evidence
is coming in today
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that he's showing
that Neo-Darwinism,
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the Darwinian
Hypothesis is fraudulent
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through and through
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and we have evidence to
show it is not based upon fact.
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But the religious
overtones now are so strong
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that people are
dismissing the facts
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and they're holding on
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to their
religion of no God, Dave.
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It's another
religion, it's another cult
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and it destroys men and women.
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But this kind of information
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is not
distributed out to the public.
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No, it's not.
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What you have just read to
me today is a revelation to me.
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I've never seen this in print,
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I've never seen
this on the evening news.
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No, you won't see this.
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Why not?
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I think, Dave, this is--
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I don't think
this is controversial
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what I'm going to say.
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I think people basically note,
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we are all victims
of a great brainwashing.
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And many of the people
who run the evening news
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are the
disciples of the doctrine
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that there is no God.
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God is not popular on
the evening news, is He?
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No, no.
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We live in America
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in an increasingly
hostile environment
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to Christianity
and to the Bible.
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But I want you to know today,
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many scientists
believe that Darwinism,
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it's on the rocks
and in coming years,
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it'll be shown to everybody
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to be the great
fraudulent system that it is.
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You have given me a
quote from Patrick Glynn.
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I wonder if you might share that
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in light of what you're saying?
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Yes, yes.
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He's the
assistant director of George
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Washington
University, Washington DC.
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He was a complete atheist,
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no God complete
Darwinian atheist.
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He said this,
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"The past two
decades have overturned
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nearly all the
important assumptions
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and predictions of
an earlier generation
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of modern secular
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and theistic thinkers
relating to the issue of God.
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Modern thinkers assumed that
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science would
reveal the universe
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to be ever more
random and mechanical,
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instead it has discovered
new layers of intricate order
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that bespeak and
almost unimaginably
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vast master design."
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Now, Dave, and
I want to say this
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to the younger
people who are listening,
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don't be taken in
and don't be brainwashed.
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Stop being brainwashed.
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Start to think for
yourself and realize
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that some of the
greatest scientists
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in the world today
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are saying that
the Darwinian Theory
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is absolutely
riddled with inconsistencies
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and falsehoods.
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It is a great deception.
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When we talk with young people
like the one that I described.
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Yeah.
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And we challenge them
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as you have been challenging us,
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to not accept
simply what they're told
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but to look into it themselves.
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So many times
They're hesitant to do that.
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They will not put in
the work, why won't they?
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This new religion,
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and I hate it to
be called a religion.
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Richard Dawkins doesn't like us
to call him like a high priest.
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It is because it is a
religion that does away
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with personal
accountability to God.
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There's no God and
there's no judgment.
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And man is the master
and the maker of all things.
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Why do we want to
escape accountability?
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We want to escape
accountability, Dave,
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and this is getting to
the very heart of the matter
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because of the
doctrine of original sin,
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because we are
born in a state of sin.
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And man is born
naturally alienated to God.
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And when Darwin started to
preach his idea of evolution
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150 years ago,
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many scientists said
to him, "It's not true,
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you'll never prove it."
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And it hasn't been
proved to this day,
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we can talk about this
also when we talk about
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the lack of
transitional life forms.
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But it appealed to so
many of the elite in England
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because it got rid
of oppressive religion.
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Now they said, "We
don't like religion
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and we don't like preachers
telling us what we ought to do.
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We don't like the Bible
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and we don't like
the thought of a God
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who is calling us to account."
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If we do not
have Accountability,
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then we don't have guilt.
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That's right.
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And we don't have to
behave the way scripture says
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God wants us to behave.
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We're gonna
talk more about this.
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We're gonna talk about
the flaws in Darwinism.
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We're gonna talk about something
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called the anthropic principle
and I'm fascinated by this.
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We'll do this in just a moment.
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Don't go away.
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Did you ever have
a sense of destiny?
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Did you ever feel that
God has put His hand upon you
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for some tremendous task
that you really got a purpose,
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that God has called you
for such a time as this?
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I have that sense,
that conviction today
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because God is opening up
doors for us in Latin America.
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And in Latin
America, my good friend,
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There's a revolution going on.
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It's not a
revolution in the streets.
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It is a revolution
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in the hearts of men and women.
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That's why the Carter Report
is going to go to El Salvador.
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We are renting
an outdoor stadium
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with room for
more than 60,000 souls.
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And we're
planning a baptism in the--
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on the Sabbath afternoon
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of more than
5,000 born again souls
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in El Salvador,
in Latin America,
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where there is a
revolution going on,
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where the Holy
Spirit is being poured out.
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Don't you want to be a
part of this great purpose,
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this great task, this
God designed outreach,
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the Latin America?
00:16:29.89\00:16:32.04
Would you please
write to me, John Carter
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Post Office Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, California.
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Tell me, I'm
going to support you.
00:16:37.12\00:16:39.65
Write to me in
Australia, tell me,
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I'm going to support
the preaching of the gospel.
00:16:41.64\00:16:44.85
Write to me today and support
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the preaching of the Word of God
00:16:47.21\00:16:49.83
around the world.
00:16:49.86\00:16:51.39
But right now, in Latin America.
00:16:51.42\00:16:54.87
Thank you and God bless you.
00:16:54.90\00:16:56.64
Welcome back to
the Carter Report
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with Pastor and
Evangelist John Carter.
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I'm Dave Deno and
today we're talking about
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Darwinism, evolution
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and the loss of
meaning in our society.
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John, you have
described I think very vividly,
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what is going on
in this generation
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and why so many
don't even want to consider
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the truth of the Bible.
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They don't want to
consider that there is a God.
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They don't even want to
investigate it themselves.
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Before we took our break,
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I mentioned something
called the anthropic principle,
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this is
fascinating, tell us what it is.
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Dave, it comes from
the Greek word anthropos
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and it means man.
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The anthropic
principle says this
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and this is
scientific, this is true.
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That everything
in the vast cosmos,
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in all of the universe,
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everything exists
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for the existence of
human beings, everything.
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The universe, now do
atheists believe this?
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Yes, they do
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but they ignore the
logical consequences
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of the anthropic principle.
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But the anthropic
principle says that
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everything in the universe,
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everything that we can see
and the things we can't see
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are fine tuned so that
the human race can exist.
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Let me give you an example.
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Imagine, Dave, I've
got here a little dime,
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can you imagine it?
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Got it.
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Is it heavy? No, very light.
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Very small, it has tiny mass.
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What I'm going to say,
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a great scientist
said to me some time back
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and I said, "Does
anybody else believe this?"
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He said,
"Everybody believes this,
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everybody who knows science."
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If the universe
were bigger or smaller
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by the mass of a dime
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there could be no
life on planet earth.
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How so?
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Because it is so
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the forces that hold
the universe together
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as so finely tuned.
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We are sitting on
the edge of a knife.
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Everything is so finely
tuned so that life can exist.
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Let me give you another one.
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A milli, milli, millisecond
after the point of creation
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which scientists
call the Big Bang.
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Okay.
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They were four great
forces that came into existence,
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they had not existed before.
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Strong nuclear
force, I'm going by memory.
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A weak nuclear force,
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electromagnetism
I think and gravity.
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These forces had
not existed before
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and so and time had not
existed before that neither.
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Time came into existence
at the point of creation
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and so God is not in
time, time is in God.
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So you got four forces
that come into existences.
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If those forces,
Dave, had been out of sync,
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now this is scientific truth.
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By one quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth
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of one quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth
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of one
quadrillionth of one percent
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the universe would have
either imploded or exploded
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and they would
have been no galaxies
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and no planet earth.
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What you're saying is
that there is a divine balance
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to all things?
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Overwhelming, overwhelming.
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We're just-- when you
come down to our planet
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we're just the right
distance from the sun,
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just the right
distance from the moon.
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And, and you could
go on time after time,
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you can talk about gravity.
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I talk about-- I
have a lecture on gravity.
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You think of an old radio dial
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and it is a
trillion miles across, Dave,
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trillion miles that goes
right across the universe.
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And it's calibrated in
not inches but centimeters.
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Okay.
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And it is, we've
got it lined up to zero.
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This is
negative, this is positive,
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this controls gravity.
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If we turn it one
centimeter to the right,
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the universe explodes.
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If we turn it one
centimeter to the left,
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the universe
implodes, it falls to pieces.
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It's a meter, imagine,
a trillion miles across
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and gravity is so fine tuned.
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This is the anthropic principle
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which is amazing
evidence for the unbiased mind
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to believe in a great designer,
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and a great
Creator and if He exists,
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then life has got meaning.
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All of this
flies in the face then
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of the theory of evolution.
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Absolutely.
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So Richard
Dawkins and his colleagues
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when you press them,
they will tell you that,
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they won't say
it in these words,
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but I'll say
these words for them.
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If you leave hydrogen gas
alone by itself long enough,
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it will become
people singing and dancing.
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Now this is true.
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This is what atheism teaches.
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If you go back to the Big
Bang and you say to Dawkins
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another atheists,
where did it come from?
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They will say, "Well,
it came from nowhere."
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John, it takes more faith.
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It takes more faith
to believe in nothing
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than to believe in the design.
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Amazing amount
of faith Dawkins has
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and every atheist, any person-
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and that is why
today a vast number of--
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a large number of
astrophysicists and astronomers
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have become theists.
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Because when they look
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at the amazing
balance in the universe,
00:23:14.87\00:23:18.85
when they study the
anthropic principle,
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they are forced to say,
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"This could not
have happened by itself,
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we are not the product
of time + matter + chance."
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Let's go back to Darwinism then.
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What evidence would you
give to show that Darwinism then
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is a deception and a delusion?
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Dave, let me
read you a statement
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also before I answer that one
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from Philip Adams, a scientist,
an atheist, evolutionist.
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"We are as significant
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as the eight
billionth grain of sand
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beyond the final palm tree
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in the most distant
oasis in the Sahara."
00:23:58.91\00:24:02.11
That is very bleak.
00:24:02.14\00:24:03.64
That is why we have suicides,
many suicides at least,
00:24:03.67\00:24:08.21
depression, that is why
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.81
when the
atheists took over Russia,
00:24:10.84\00:24:14.74
you had vast numbers of
people who were put to death.
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Somebody said, God
died in the 19th Century
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and man died in the 20th.
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Now to answer your
question, number one.
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Why I don't believe
in Darwinism at all.
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Number one after--
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and great authorities
say this, "After 150 years,
00:24:38.69\00:24:43.40
the vast number of
required missing links
00:24:43.43\00:24:46.63
is still missing."
00:24:46.66\00:24:48.19
Now I have
written an article on this
00:24:48.22\00:24:51.18
and I would
encourage our viewers
00:24:51.21\00:24:54.22
to get the magazine.
00:24:54.25\00:24:56.05
"After 150 years of vast number
00:24:56.08\00:24:59.45
of required missing
links is still missing."
00:24:59.48\00:25:02.53
In his book, The
Origin of Species,
00:25:02.56\00:25:05.57
Darwin said, "We
haven't found them yet
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because we don't have time."
00:25:08.46\00:25:09.93
But in the-- and that
was a legitimate statement,
00:25:09.96\00:25:13.66
but then the geological
column has been explored
00:25:13.69\00:25:17.12
for the last 150 years
00:25:17.15\00:25:19.33
and they have discovered and
cataloged 250 million specimens
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and there are no
transitional life forms.
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This is the science of Darwinism
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and they have forced
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and they look at the
rocks and the specimens to say
00:25:35.75\00:25:39.73
that they appear, the creatures,
00:25:39.76\00:25:42.13
all the creatures appear
suddenly in the fossil record.
00:25:42.16\00:25:47.59
Even Richard Dawkins says,
00:25:47.62\00:25:49.65
"This almost
sounds like creationism."
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Now there's another reason.
00:25:52.08\00:25:53.26
And I can give you plenty
of reasons, Darwin said this.
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He said, "There's
something that worries me
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and keeps me awake at night."
00:25:59.52\00:26:02.07
He said "It is the human mind."
00:26:02.10\00:26:05.00
If the human mind has evolved
00:26:05.03\00:26:07.10
from the lowest
creature in the swamp,
00:26:07.13\00:26:11.23
has come from noting
and simply a product of
00:26:11.26\00:26:15.95
time + matter +
chance said Darwin,
00:26:15.98\00:26:19.08
Then how can we
trust its processes?
00:26:19.11\00:26:23.79
We have just a moment left,
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you believe in a
personal Creator?
00:26:25.86\00:26:29.37
Yes, I do.
00:26:29.40\00:26:30.61
Why? Very briefly, why?
00:26:30.64\00:26:33.16
I believe in a personal
Creator because of scripture
00:26:33.19\00:26:38.57
that presents a
person by the name of Jesus,
00:26:38.60\00:26:41.64
who makes meaning to the
madness of the world today.
00:26:41.67\00:26:46.51
I believe
scripture can be shown true
00:26:46.54\00:26:48.76
because of amazing prophecies.
00:26:48.79\00:26:51.28
And I believe that
scientific evidence today
00:26:51.31\00:26:55.32
is pointing to a great designer.
00:26:55.35\00:26:58.97
I believe in a personal
God because not of blind faith
00:26:59.00\00:27:06.26
but because of
overwhelming evidence.
00:27:06.29\00:27:10.43
And I would say to young people,
00:27:10.46\00:27:11.78
Dave, and everybody watching,
start to believe in God
00:27:11.81\00:27:16.02
because He believes in you.
00:27:16.05\00:27:18.46
And when you believe in
God then you will discover
00:27:18.49\00:27:22.20
that life can be very
sweet and there's meaning.
00:27:22.23\00:27:26.21
And at the end of the
road, there's a heaven,
00:27:26.24\00:27:29.42
a bright shining
light and an endless life.
00:27:29.45\00:27:34.13
That is the end
of our time together
00:27:34.16\00:27:35.48
but it could be
00:27:35.51\00:27:36.55
the very beginning of a new life
00:27:36.58\00:27:38.71
for someone who is
watching with us today.
00:27:38.74\00:27:40.20
We hope so.
00:27:40.23\00:27:41.26
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00:27:41.29\00:27:42.32
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