Science teaches that facts
are superior to superstition,
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John Carter agrees.
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In the following program,
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he presents 10 top
reasons why God exists.
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No superstition, just facts.
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Young man goes to university,
he comes from a Christian home.
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And when he is in his
first class on science,
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the professor says,
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"I want to see
the hands of those
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who believe in
God in the class."
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Nobody moves.
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Everybody is sort of terrified,
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but he comes
from a Christian home,
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and he puts up his hand.
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And for the next 60 minutes,
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he is the butt of every joke.
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And that's why so,
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so many young people
give up their Christian faith
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because they believe,
it's against the facts.
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I want to say right now
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that I believe in true science.
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And I believe in the facts.
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They ridicule him
for an hour or so,
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it happens in every class,
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he's made to feel like
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the village idiot.
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And then the
professor challenges him
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to a debate.
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They're going to get the
best professor on the campus
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who is an
atheist who is going to
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chew him up and spit him out.
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And I will tell
you what happened
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at the close of
this program today.
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Here is a statement
I want to read to you
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from Dr. Will Provine,
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Professor of Biological Sciences
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at Cornell University.
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One of America's
great universities.
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He made this
statement during a debate
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at the great Stanford University
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up the road.
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Listen to the statement.
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"There are no Gods, no purposes,
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no goal directed
forces of any kind.
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There is no life
after death, when I die,
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I am absolutely certain
that I am going to be dead.
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That's the end for me.
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There is no ultimate
foundation for ethics."
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Did you hear this?
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No ultimate
foundation for ethics.
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Of course, he's right.
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If there is no God,
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there is no
foundation for ethics.
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Because if there is
no God, there is no good.
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Now this man is
completely logical.
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"There is no ultimate
foundation for ethics,
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no ultimate meaning to life,
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no free will
for humans, either."
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Of course, he's right.
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Is this thing between
my ears is the product...
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Now listen carefully.
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If it's a product of time
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plus matter plus chance,
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then why should I trust it?
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Why should I
trust his conclusions?
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And why should he?
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If he is right, then
nothing can be known,
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including his beliefs.
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Now today,
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I want to give
you the top 10 reasons
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you can believe in God
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and not be an idiot.
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Top 10 reasons you
can believe in God.
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Number one reason,
science and the universe.
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And firstly, let me say this,
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I believe in true science.
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I believe in the facts.
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I do not believe,
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this is where I might disagree
even here with the audience.
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I do not believe in mere faith.
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I do not believe
in faith in faith.
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I believe in faith
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in the facts.
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And let me talk firstly
about science and the universe.
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The most important statement
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that was ever made
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in the history of this cosmos
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is Genesis 1:1,
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which says in the beginning
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God created the
heavens and the earth.
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Let me tell you
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why it's the most
important statement,
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why it is the most
scientific statement.
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Einstein who gave us
the theory of relativity,
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believed with virtually
every scientist in the world
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that the universe
had always been there.
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This has a name in science,
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it is called the
Steady State Theory.
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Einstein believed in
the eternity of matter,
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all scientists did.
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But Professor Hubble
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after which the
telescope is named
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on one occasion met
with Professor Einstein
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and showed him some photographs.
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And the photographs showed
the red shift in the galaxies,
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that means that the galaxies
are exploding out into space.
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These pictures from Dr. Hubble
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convinced the
great professor Einstein
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that the universe was expanding.
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If the universe is expanding,
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therefore, the
universe had a beginning.
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Thus listen, my
skeptical friend,
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the Bible was right,
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and Einstein and all
his colleagues were wrong.
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The Bible is the only book
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that taught
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that the
universe had a beginning.
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Scientists call it the Big Bang.
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Now I come to the
anthropic principle.
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This is widely used
today by all scientists.
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Anthropic comes from
the Greek word anthropikos.
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Anthropikos means
man, anthropology.
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Listen carefully, this
is pretty solid material,
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I'm giving you simply facts.
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Scientists
today, every one of them
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including Richard Dawkins
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believes that the whole universe
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is so constructed
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so that human beings can exist.
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Do atheists
believe this? Absolutely.
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Everybody who is a
scholar understands
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the anthropic principle
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that means that everything
in the universe was made,
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the purpose of it all is
for the existence of man.
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A millisecond after the Big Bang
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or the moment of creation
four forces came into being,
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these four
forces had not existed
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before the point of creation.
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Now we're not
talking about this world,
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we're talking
about the universe.
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The universe came into
being 13.8 billion years ago.
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How do you know? It's a fact.
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It can be
observed. It is the truth.
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It is the truth.
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Four forces came into being.
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The strong nuclear
force, the weak nuclear force,
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electromagnetism, and gravity.
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These forces had
never existed before.
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Listen to this.
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Universe is born
13.8 billion years ago.
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These four
forces come into being,
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if they had been
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out of sync, out of balance.
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Look at this.
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Is it possible to believe this?
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If these forces had
been out of sync and...
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I'm going to try to
give you the figure.
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Here it is.
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One quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth
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of one quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth
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of one quadrillionth of 1%,
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the universe would
have exploded or imploded.
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And there would be
no meeting here today.
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There would have
been no universe.
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This is why many atheists
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have said this could not
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have happened by itself.
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This has to be evidence
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for a tremendous mind.
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If I say to you today,
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"I want you to move your chair
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by a billionth of an inch,
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and if you miss it
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you're going to be destroyed,
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it will be your end."
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You would say, "I can't do it."
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The universe is
balanced in every area
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the anthropic
principle one quadrillionth
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by one quadrillionth
by one quadrillionth
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by one quadrillionth
by one quadrillionth.
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How did it happen?
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Now I have some atheist
friends and I respect them.
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Now we're not trying
to talk personalities,
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we are talking facts.
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Someone was in charge.
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Professor Antony
Flew was a famous atheist
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in the same status
as the great professor,
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the Englishman Richard Dawkins.
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"I do not
believe in God," he said.
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"It's all mystery,
hocus-pocus, smoke and mirrors."
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But in 2004, he
surrendered to the evidence
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and he wrote a book entitled,
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There is a God.
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He had written a
book, There is No God.
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One of the greatest
atheist in the world
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but an honest man,
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he came in out of the code.
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There's a mysterious
force in the universe,
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some of you have heard about it,
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and some of you haven't.
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It is called dark
matter and dark energy.
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Most Christians are
oblivious to these truths.
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I said do have shame.
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More than 90% of the universe
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is composed of dark
matter and dark energy
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that nobody comprehends or
understand or even seen it,
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we know it's there
because of its force.
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Dark energy drives
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the expansion of the universe
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at just the right speed.
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It is incredibly fine
tuned, any faster or any slower,
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there would be no planet earth,
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and you would
not be here either.
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I want you to think about this.
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This is not easy to think about.
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I want you to think of
the United States of America.
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We cover the
United States of America
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with dimes a foot deep,
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but then we go to the moon.
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Dimes to the moon.
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And then we do it with another
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bunch of United
States of America,
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so we've got multiple
United States of America
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covered with dimes
reaching to the moon.
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How many dimes?
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Billions, and billions,
and trillions, and trillions,
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and trillions, and
trillions, and trillions...
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It seems to be infinite.
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And one of those dimes
has got a black mark on it.
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And you are told to walk out,
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on one of these
United States of America
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covered in dimes to the moon,
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and on the first go
you pick out the dime
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that's marked with the X.
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What's chance is
there of that happening?
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Let me tell
you, it's impossible.
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In the same way,
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the odds are
impossible that dark energy
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just happened and
operates by itself.
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Now, there's a
gentleman whom I greatly admire,
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who has come here,
and I've interviewed him,
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Dr. Johnson, he
has two doctorates,
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you can see him on one
of our television programs.
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Got two doctorates, one of
them is in information science,
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he is a genius.
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He once was an atheist.
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He says in information science
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we know there
are three scenarios,
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remember, possible,
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probable, impossible.
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The anthropic principle
gives overwhelming evidence
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that there is a creator,
a designer, a mastermind
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because these things
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could not possibly
happen by themselves.
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That these things
could have just happened
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are completely impossible.
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And that is called
information science.
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Number two reason,
information and life.
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An amazing text is
John 1:1, astounding.
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It says, "In the
beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God."
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In the Greek it says in
the beginning was the Logos,
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and from Logos we get logic,
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it means information.
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Atheism says this, and
the atheist needs to be
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very, very honest
as I must be honest.
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But the atheist can be as
bigoted as any religionist.
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And so the atheist also has
got his problems with bigotry,
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which he must try to overcome.
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I would say by the grace of God.
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But the Bible
says in the beginning
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was the Logos or information.
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You know what atheism says,
"In the beginning was chaos."
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Total chaos that
came out of nothing.
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And from total
chaos came information.
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But the Bible says,
"No, life and everything
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came from the Logos,
from the information."
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Listen to this,
think about this.
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In the human body,
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there are 300 trillion cells,
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each cell is full
of digital information.
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Did Darwin know this?
No, he didn't have a clue.
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He thought it was just a blob.
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Look at this book here,
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this is a book of a 1,000 pages.
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The information that
is found in a single cell
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that is so small
that you cannot see.
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Listen to this, young people.
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Listen to this, my
dear atheist friend.
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In every cell there
is a digital information
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that would be contained
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in a book of a 1,000 pages
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and a 100,000 of these.
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It's incredible.
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A 100,000 books,
each book of a 1,000 pages
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and that is the information
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that is put inside a cell.
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Remember, possible,
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probable, impossible.
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Darwin had no idea.
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It is impossible, that
this happened by chance.
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There is only one
possible explanation,
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in the
beginning it was the Word.
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The Word was with God,
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and the Word was God.
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Number three reason,
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number three.
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The mathematical odds.
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There is only one pure science,
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only one pure science,
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not biology or
any of those things,
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it is mathematics.
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The
mathematical odds, the chance
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that something
happens by itself,
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the likelihood of
the spontaneous formation
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of life from inanimate matter,
00:18:33.94\00:18:38.21
the chance that life
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and the cell with all
that tremendous information
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that it could
have a reason by itself
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can be
mathematically calculated.
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Did you know this?
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And the figure is 1
with 40,000 zeros after it.
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Do you know how many
atoms there are in the universe?
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Ten with eighty zeros.
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So is it possible?
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No, it's not possible.
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Is it probable?
No, it's not probable.
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Is it impossible?
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It is totally impossible,
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and I'm talking from
a scientific viewpoint,
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not from a religious viewpoint,
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not from a biblical viewpoint.
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What about science now?
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The mathematical odds
completely against it.
00:19:37.14\00:19:42.61
Now there is a famous
atheist today in the world
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who has tremendous influence
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puts out heaps and
heaps and heaps of books.
00:19:50.75\00:19:53.96
Who was a tremendous debater
00:19:53.99\00:19:56.16
but he seems to be
consumed with a hatred for God.
00:19:56.19\00:20:02.26
He said, "I
don't believe in God."
00:20:02.30\00:20:04.27
And he spends all his
time talking about God.
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What's wrong?
00:20:10.31\00:20:13.04
Well, I happened to
know that this little boy
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was brought up
in a certain church,
00:20:15.98\00:20:18.51
and he was abused by a priest.
00:20:18.55\00:20:21.38
The hatred of God is
a hatred of the priest,
00:20:24.55\00:20:27.66
and the hatred of the church,
00:20:27.69\00:20:29.86
and it's projected against God.
00:20:29.89\00:20:34.46
Possible, probable, impossible.
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Top 10, number
four, here it comes.
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And I want to appeal to those
who still believe in thinking,
00:20:48.41\00:20:51.81
who believe that truth matters,
and who are not so bigoted
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that they won't
think a new idea.
00:20:55.72\00:20:58.75
Many Christians
have never thought
00:20:58.79\00:21:00.96
a new idea in 50 years.
00:21:00.99\00:21:05.26
Their minds are
completely closed.
00:21:05.29\00:21:07.76
They find it
impossible to think new ideas.
00:21:07.80\00:21:12.27
And there are plenty
of scientists the same.
00:21:12.30\00:21:15.40
Because atheism is a religion
just the same as Christianity.
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Now, I personally
believes in the Bible.
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Let me tell you
just a few things.
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I didn't always have
an understanding of truth.
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I set out as the young
man to understand truth.
00:21:33.69\00:21:37.16
I visited all the
Bible lands not once
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but over and over again.
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I studied under the
great German archeologist
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Dr. Siegfried Horn.
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Let me give you...
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I could give you
a 100 illustrations,
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I promise you, I could
give you a 100 illustrations.
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I meet atheists, met them
by the thousands in Russia
00:21:56.85\00:22:00.65
and they say,
"You can't believe it."
00:22:00.68\00:22:04.49
How on earth would they know?
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.56
The truth of the
matter is they don't know.
00:22:07.59\00:22:11.59
Let me give you
these four examples.
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The Bible says
Israel went down into Egypt
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and they became slaves.
00:22:19.10\00:22:21.27
Not long ago, I was in
the land of the pharaohs.
00:22:21.30\00:22:24.67
I went into the tomb...
00:22:24.71\00:22:26.54
I think it was Rekhmire.
00:22:26.57\00:22:30.38
And there you can see
the Semite slaves in Egypt
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at the time of the Exodus
being beaten by the Egyptians.
00:22:35.95\00:22:42.16
It's history, it
is not a fairytale.
00:22:42.19\00:22:45.56
Number two, Belshazzar's tablet.
00:22:45.59\00:22:50.07
Book of Daniel
talks about Belshazzar
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.77
as being the last
king of the Babylonians.
00:22:52.80\00:22:56.71
The atheists said,
there you go again.
00:22:56.74\00:22:59.57
It's another lie because we know
00:22:59.61\00:23:01.24
from secular historians
the last king of Babylonian
00:23:01.28\00:23:04.78
was Nabonidus.
00:23:04.81\00:23:07.78
Thank you.
00:23:07.82\00:23:09.15
But then this
tablet was discovered
00:23:09.18\00:23:14.26
in the cuneiform, and
I've seen it with my eyes,
00:23:14.29\00:23:18.69
I've looked at it, and
it talks about Nabonidus
00:23:18.73\00:23:24.80
and his son Belshazzar.
00:23:24.83\00:23:29.30
And so Belshazzar
took over the kingdom,
00:23:29.34\00:23:32.27
Nabonidus retired.
00:23:32.31\00:23:33.94
The Bible was right.
00:23:33.98\00:23:37.48
The skeptic was wrong.
00:23:37.51\00:23:39.15
It's okay to admit
you're wrong when you're wrong.
00:23:39.18\00:23:42.45
The Bible talks about King Jehu.
00:23:42.48\00:23:48.12
So many skeptics
said, there they go again.
00:23:48.16\00:23:52.56
The Jehu, a
figment of the imagination,
00:23:52.59\00:23:55.96
and then we discovered
this Jehu kneeling down
00:23:56.00\00:23:59.97
before Shalmaneser.
00:24:00.00\00:24:02.84
These are just...
00:24:02.87\00:24:04.37
"You've just concocted it."
00:24:04.41\00:24:05.74
No, I could show you
hundreds, and hundreds,
00:24:05.77\00:24:10.78
and hundreds of examples.
00:24:10.81\00:24:13.62
If you want to
get into scholarship,
00:24:13.65\00:24:15.35
go and read the
writings of Kenneth Kitchen.
00:24:15.38\00:24:20.79
The greatest
scholar in the world
00:24:20.82\00:24:24.39
where he almost
laughs at people who say,
00:24:24.43\00:24:27.16
"You can't believe the Bible."
00:24:27.20\00:24:31.23
King David is
mentioned in this Bible
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.84
on many occasions.
00:24:33.87\00:24:36.97
But skeptics have said,
there was no King David,
00:24:37.01\00:24:41.04
it's a fantasy.
00:24:41.08\00:24:43.11
I was over in Israel
not that very long ago,
00:24:43.14\00:24:47.68
went into this
museum in Jerusalem,
00:24:47.72\00:24:50.69
and they showed me a brand
new archeological discovery,
00:24:50.72\00:24:55.09
they showed me this tablet.
00:24:55.12\00:24:58.46
And the tablet had
been discovered by a person
00:24:58.49\00:25:01.93
who did not
believe in King David.
00:25:01.96\00:25:06.60
And there written down
00:25:06.63\00:25:09.50
are the words David.
00:25:09.54\00:25:14.34
You see, been to Egypt,
00:25:14.38\00:25:17.88
explored the pharaohs,
00:25:17.91\00:25:21.02
I've been to all the
great archaeological sites.
00:25:21.05\00:25:25.42
Why do I believe?
00:25:25.45\00:25:28.19
I do not believe, my friends,
00:25:28.22\00:25:31.46
because I'm paid to believe,
00:25:31.49\00:25:33.46
if I thought it was
wrong, I wouldn't believe it.
00:25:33.50\00:25:36.73
I don't believe it because
I'm a member of the church.
00:25:36.77\00:25:41.74
I believe it
00:25:41.77\00:25:44.84
because it's the fact,
00:25:44.87\00:25:47.18
it's the truth.
00:25:47.21\00:25:49.21
And let me tell you
something else, Jesus said,
00:25:49.24\00:25:53.28
"You'll know the truth
00:25:53.31\00:25:55.55
and the truth
will make you free."
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