A few years ago, in a nearby
quarry, they set off a blast of
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gelignite, which
dislodged an entrance to a cave.
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We're at the entrance to that
cave, called the Sorret Cave,
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near Jerusalem.
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Inside are some amazing sights.
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It's unfortunate that the
lighting inside the cave doesn't
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permit us to show
it as it truly is.
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It really is quite breathtaking.
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Maybe Revelation 5:13
does have some significance.
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And every creature which is
in heaven, and on the earth,
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and under the earth,
and such as are in the sea,
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and all that are in
them, I heard saying, Blessing,
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and honor, and glory,
and power, be to him who sits
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on the throne,...
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Let's go now and see the
things that are of the sea.
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There's some really fantastic
things in the under water
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observatory here at Elot.
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Let's go and take a
closer look at them, shall we?
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Unbelievable, just
really unbelievable!
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My reason tells me that
this just can't be the result of
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blind evolutionary chance.
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There just has to be
an omnipotent creator
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behind it all, don't you think?
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Besides the wonders of the
land and the sea, there are,
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of course, the
wonders of the heavens.
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These are not confined
to Palestine, of course,
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but Abraham knew
something about these wonders
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of the heavens.
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One night, it says
here, that God spoke to him in
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Genesis 15:5, He brought
him outside and said, Look now
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toward heaven, and count
the stars, if you are able to
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number them:...
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and I suppose Abraham looked
up into those beautiful star
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spangled heavens, and admired
them just as you and I can,
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but you know that it's
very significant that He said to
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Abraham, Just count
the stars if you can.
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Now people thought
they could count the stars.
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I knew one astronomer a long
time ago who carefully counted
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them: 2,200 stars.
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He had it all worked out.
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But then, of
course, came the telescope.
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Now we know that the
heavens are just ablaze with
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burning stars; millions,
and millions, and millions of
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stars across the heavens.
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And not only the
stars, of course,
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that can be seen
by the naked eye.
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I don't know what Abraham saw.
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Perhaps God gave him telescopic
vision in his dream too,
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in this particular
vision that he appeared to him.
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If so, he could have seen most
beautiful planets with their
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rings around them, you
know, and their moons circling
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around them.
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He could have seen the Nebula,
you know that beautiful Nebular
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in Orion stretching across the
sky, millions and millions of
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light years in size, and
the colors absolutely fantastic,
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and other Nebula too.
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There are so many
beautiful sights in the heavens.
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As the telescope sweeps across
the skies, perhaps as Abraham
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could see it, what a
beautiful sight it is!
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You'd have to say, Well, it
just couldn't have all happened.
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There must have
been a creator behind it.
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I'll tell you something else,
too, over here in the book of
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Job 26:7 it says, He
stretches out the north over
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the empty space.
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He hangs the earth on nothing.
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Now that's terribly significant!
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People back then thought that
the earth must be sitting on
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something; four pillars,
or the back of Hercules,
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or on the back of an
elephant or something like that.
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But here the Bible says He
hangs the earth on nothing.
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Today we know that our
planet, like all the rest of the
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universe is suspended in space.
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Now it had to be a
revelation for men to know that;
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for Moses to be able to
write that in the book of Job.
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As so there's plenty of evidence
that it was the Creator who made
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these things.
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It was the Creator who was
there when it was all made.
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And believe me, that's
the best witness, isn't it?
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If you want to know
where the universe came from,
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ask the Creator.
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He was there.
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The scientists
know a lot my friends,
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but they don't know everything.
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They weren't there when
it all happened, but God was.
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I believe the best way to find
out where the universe came from
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is to look in the
sacred books of God.
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The Bible begins where
all good books used to begin,
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and that's at the beginning.
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In Genesis 1:1 it says, In
the beginning God created the
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heaven and the earth.
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What a simple and
sublime statement that is.
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Nothing here about a long,
drawn out evolutionary process.
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Now some people might say,
Yes, but the scientists have the
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evidence on
their side, you know?
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I know that the scientists come
up some evidence, but the most
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important evidence after
all is that of an eye witness.
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And, let's face it, the
evolutionists, no matter how
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cleaver they
were, were not there.
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God was.
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And God tells us, In
the beginning God created
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the heaven and the earth.
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So we have not descended
from beasts, or animals.
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Actually, we're on the way down.
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We have descended from a noble
pair of people: Adam and Eve.
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It was a perfect creation.
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It tells us here in
Genesis 1:31, Then God saw
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everything that he had made,
and indeed it was very good.
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It was a beautiful world; no
arid deserts, no turbulent seas,
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just a beautiful world
with flowers and trees.
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Even nature was at peace;
even the animals, and the birds.
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Everything was at peace.
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It tells us here in Genesis 1:
30, To every beast of the earth,
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to every bird of the air, to
everything that creeps on the
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earth, in which there is
life, I have given every green
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herb for food.
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And so the tigers were not
to prey on the gentle deer,
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and the cat was not going
to torment the mouse before
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it ate it, not even the birds
were going to eat the worms.
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Just everything was at peace.
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There was to be no death,
and man was to live forever.
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It says here in chapter 2,
verse 9, And out of the ground
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the Lord God made every tree
grow that is pleasant to the
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sight, and good for food;
the tree of life was also in the
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midst of the garden.
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You see, by eating of this
tree of life man would have that
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element which would enable him
never to die; to live forever.
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And that was God's
plan; wonderful plan!
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And so it was to
be a wonderful world.
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And man himself was to
be at peace with all nature.
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God said, See, I have given
you every herb that yields seed,
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which is on the face of all
the earth, and every tree whose
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fruit yields seed; to
you it shall be for food.
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No slaughter houses, no need
of slaying the animals to live.
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God gave man a
wonderful vegetarian diet.
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And the face of
nature was all different.
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It says here in Chapter 2:5,
... the Lord God had not caused
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it to rain on the earth...
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...But a mist went up from
the earth, and watered the whole
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face of the ground.
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Just a gentle dew every morning!
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And so it was a wonderful
world that God had made.
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And as He looked upon it He
was able to say that everything
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was good.
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Now it rather surprises me that
there are many Christians who
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profess to believe the theory
of evolution rather than the
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story of creation.
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I really don't think they
should, you know, because Jesus
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Christ, the author of the
Christian religion, came out
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very strongly on
the side of creation.
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He certainly
was no evolutionist.
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He said here in Mark 10:6,
these are the words of Jesus,
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From the beginning of the
creation God made them male
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and female.
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There's no question about it.
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Jesus Christ upheld
the wonderful origin of man
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as told in the creation story.
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And, of course, Jesus Christ
ought to know because He really
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was the creator.
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I'm reading in Colossians 1:16
where it says, For by him all
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things were created that are in
heaven, and that are on earth,
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and he is before all things,
and in him all things consist.
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So he is both the
creator and the upholder
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of the entire universe.
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But it is true something went
wrong with this wonderful world.
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You see these thistles here?
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Sometimes the flowers on
thistles look very beautiful,
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but I'll tell you, you
grab a thistle and it hurts.
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Something went wrong, you see.
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It was because man sinned that
this curse came upon the world.
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We've got the thorns, and
the thistles, and all the other
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unpleasant things in world.
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In fact a second great curse
came on the world as recorded in
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Genesis 6:5 where it says
that, Then the Lord saw that the
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wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every intent
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of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
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Man just went
continually down hill, you see.
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So the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the
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face of the earth;
both man, and beast...
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This world just became so
terribly wicked God couldn't do
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anything further with it,
and so He said, I just have to
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wipe it all out.
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And so God said to Noah
verse 14, Make yourself an ark
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of gopher wood; make rooms
in the ark, and cover it inside
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and outside with pitch.
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Would you like to know
what that ark looked like?
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Charles Ward is an engineering
draftsman who has given a lot of
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intensive study to the
instructions that were given to
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Noah on the building of his ark.
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He has here a very beautiful
model of what he thinks that ark
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must have looked like.
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Charles, can you tell us,
first of all, what were the
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dimensions of Noah's ark?
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It was 300 cubits
long, 50 cubits wide,
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and 30 cubits deep.
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A cubit being
about elbow to fingertip.
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Well, that means that this
vessel must have been about
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150 meters in length.
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That's an
enormous length, isn't it?
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I suppose there are vessels
that size in existence today,
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in fact even bigger.
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But it was remarkable that there
should have been a vessel that
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size so long ago.
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Charles, what about this
window, or gap on top here?
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I mean, forty days and forty
nights of rain; a lot of water
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must have poured in there.
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Have you got any
ideas as just to how this
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could have been coped with?
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Well, most people when
they draw a model of the ark,
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or make a model, put a window
in the end; a square window.
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But it never would
have been sufficient.
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It would never have given enough
light, or enough ventilation.
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So I've made my
model in that way.
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I have got laid out in
this fashion that I have
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the gap in the top.
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It does say that the windows
should be above, and finished
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in a cube, but not
a cube that's square.
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So I've made a cubit
wide running all the way down
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the canopy.
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Of course I've got gaps in these
decks too so the light can get
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right down to the bottom,
and the stale air can get out.
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I've got water troughs
running all the way down the ark
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so as it rocks, and it
rains, water can fall down into
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those troughs.
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Does this
device illustrate that?
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Well, this here
is a type of a pump.
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I'd never seen one of these
before in my life, but the idea
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came to me while I was
working on this project.
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It has a system of channels,
and as you just rock it gently
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back and forth it will
lift up all of the fluid and
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spill it out the side.
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Perhaps they had a
couple of those in Noah's ark;
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one at each end.
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Of course we can't be positive
of that, but still it's a
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possible suggestion, isn't it?
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Now what do you
think about the animals?
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There must have been
a lot of animals there.
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Have you got any idea
about the cubit capacity?
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I notice on your
diagram, and in this,
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it had three decks, right?
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Yes.
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So have you got any idea about
the cubic capacity, or the floor
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capacity of this vessel?
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Yes, the average animal would
have been about the size of a
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small dog, and it would have
had about the size of about this
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table for each small dog,
or two tables for two dogs.
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Two mice would have had
about the size of a shoe box.
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Two elephants about the
size of the average front yard.
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So you reckon they
could all fit in here?
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Yes, there's no doubt about it.
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It was plenty of space to spare.
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I believe that this section
would be the habitable part
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of the ark, and the ends could
have been used for the storage
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of food.
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Now, they all had to eat.
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Yes.
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Do you think that Noah
could have gathered enough food
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and stored it here for the
time that they were in the ark?
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Have you done
any figures on this?
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Yes, I have, and there would
have been more than three times
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as much capacity in the ends
for the amount of time that they
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were in the ark.
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Well, the Biblical record
said that there was a flood,
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and it was a big one.
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In Genesis 7:19 it says, And
the waters prevailed exceedingly
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on the earth; and all the high
hills under the whole heaven
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were covered.
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Now I don't imagine that the
hills and mountains were as high
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as they are today
because mountains like Everest,
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Kench, and Younger, and so
forth, indicate that they were
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faulted; they
were pushed upwards.
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So before the flood they could
have just been rolling hills,
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but according to the Biblical
record the whole earth was
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submerged beneath
the waters of the flood.
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That changed the
whole surface of the earth.
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It also meant that fossils
were locked in, and that means
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creatures, shellfish,
and animals were buried
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under the slushy waters and mud,
and they were locked in there
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and so preserved.
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We find the fossils today.
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Now what evidence is there that
we can find to support this from
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an archeological point of view?
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A very interesting bit of
evidence, let me tell you.
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In 1872 George Smith was
translating tablets in the
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British Museum, a keen young
fellow who'd learned to read the
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cuneiform script, and one day
he was translating tablets there
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from Nineveh.
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He found a tablet that just
sounded like the flood story.
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He read the translation
to a group of scientists.
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That got into the newspapers
and it created such a sensation
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that the Daily Telegraph
came and offered him a thousand
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pounds if he'd go out and find
the rest of the tablets because
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he had only one broken piece.
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Well, George Smith wasn't about
to turn down an offer like that,
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even though it
seemed like looking for
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a needle in a haystack.
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Out he went to Nineveh.
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Would you believe it? one
week later he found another
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ten segments of this
tablet; eleven altogether.
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They're in the
British Museum today.
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They are known as
the Gilgamesh Epic.
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Now, you know the story in the
Bible, how there was the flood,
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and only eight
people went in there.
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All the rest were
drowned and destroyed.
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The whole of
mankind was destroyed.
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After the flood had been
on the surface of the earth,
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the waters dried
up after 150 days.
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Noah sent out a dove and a
raven, and finally he and all
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the animals left the ark.
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Well, in the translation of the
Gilgamesh epic we find virtually
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the same story.
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I'll read just a few
snatches of it, shall I?
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Gilgamesh I will reveal
unto thee a hidden, and a secret
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of the gods will I tell thee.
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Surepak, a city that thou
knowest and which now lies in
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ruins on the
bank of the Euphrates.
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When that city was old and
there were yet gods within it,
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the great gods
decided to bring on a deluge.
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Lord of Shurapak, Son of
Eubo Tattoo, destroy thy house
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and build a vessel.
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Abandoning riches, do
thou seek out living kind.
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Despising possessions,
preserve what has life.
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Thus load in the vessel
the seed of all creatures.
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When something of morning
adorned I commanded that the
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land be assembled,
the boys fetching pitch.
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That, of course, is
just what the Bible says.
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They sealed it with pitch
while the stronger brought
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timber materials.
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I made into the vessel all my
family and kindred, beasts wild
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and domestic, and all
of the craftsmen I made
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into the vessel.
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Came the set appointed time.
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Who was sending the bain?
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Did pour down the rain?
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For six days and seven nights
the wind blew, and the front of
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the storm swept the land.
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The whole of mankind
had returned unto clay.
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When I looked out again in the
directions across the expanse
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of the sea mountain ranges
had emerged in twelve places.
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On Mount Mozia the
vessel had grounded.
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Of course the Biblical
records says Mount Ararat.
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On the seventh days
arriving I freed a dove.
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Forth went the
dove, but came back to me.
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Then I set forth a
swallow and did release him.
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Forth went the
swallow, but came back to me.
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So I set free a
raven and did release him.
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Forth went the raven and he
saw again the natural flowing
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of the waters.
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He ate, flew about, and he
croaked and came not returning.
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I poured a libation and
scattered a food offering.
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The gods smelled the savor.
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The gods
smelled the sweet savor.
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Has aught of
living kind escaped?
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Not a man should have
survived the destruction.
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There's a lot of similarities
between that and the
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Biblical story.
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Now, of course, when the
scholastic world heard about
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this they said,
Ah ha now we know.
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The Bible copied the
story from the Gilgamesh Epic.
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And, of course, there were those
who said, Oh, No, the Gilgamesh
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Epic was copied from the Bible.
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I would point out
that nobody copied anyone.
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This seems to be a common
story among all civilizations.
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There was a journalist by the
name of Rene Neuroburgenn who
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got fascinated by this subject,
and he did a lot of research.
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He went to Mount Ararat a number
of times, and he wrote this book
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called The Ark File.
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He made a point of tracing
all these legends in all the
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different civilizations: South
America, North America, Africa,
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Islands of the Sea.
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He found eighty different
legends in various countries
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of the world, which indicates
that really all mankind must
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have descended from
Noah and his family.
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That's the only way
you can account for all of
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these legends.
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So the evidence is that there
was a dramatic destruction by
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water and mud at the
time of Noah's flood.
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But now let's talk to some of
the scientists to see what they
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say about the evidences.
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There are two
schools of thought David.
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One school of thought uses
the fossils to index the dates
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of the rocks.
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But there's a problem with the
evolutionary thought that uses
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fossils as indexes to dating,
and that is they tend to use
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the fossils to date the
rocks, and the rocks to date the
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fossils, which, if I'm not
mistaken, is a fairly circular
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piece of reasoning.
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The other school of thought,
which seemed to point towards
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a major cataclysm, or
a series of cataclysms,
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that have destroyed all living
matter on the planet at some
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point of time, or
several occasions.
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I, personally, am fully
persuaded from the evidence
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that I see on this earth,
and from the little bit of
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evidence I've picked up
in fossils, and from reading
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the story of nature, that
there've been some massive
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cataclysms on this earth, and
they fit in extremely well with
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the idea that there was a
massive flood that destroyed all
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living matter on the planet,
and it fits in with the story
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of Genesis.
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The cell is not put
together haphazardly.
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Each cell is composed of it's
various parts, which are a very
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important function of that cell.
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First of all, in the nucleus
you have the DNA molecules
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which bares the
inheritable characteristics for
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that organism.
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Each cell of the body has
that code, that genetic code,
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as we call it, designed
to produce a whole organism.
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You can't have one
part without the other.
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Remember it's what lies next to
the other part that's important.
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It's put together
in a designed way.
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This, I believe, is the greatest
aspect of biology that nobody
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can deny, to prove that there
is a designer behind it all.
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How could it
come about by chance?
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Fred, could you tell us in
simple language just how this
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radio dating works?
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Well, David, I think most people
know that green plants take
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carbon dioxide from
the air, from which they
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manufacture food.
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Now the food manufactured
by plants is the basis of all
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animal nutrition.
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Now in the carbon dioxide in the
air there is a certain amount
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of carbon 14, which is a
radioactive form of carbon.
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99% of all carbon is
carbon 12, but this carbon 14,
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which is radio
active, disintegrates at
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a measured rate.
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Now if we take a piece of a
leaf from a tree and it dies,
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then immediately the
carbon 14 intake ceases.
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The amount is fixed, and from
then on becomes less and less.
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If we now examine a piece
of this tissue, that is after a
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lapse of time, and measure the
amount of carbon 14 left in it,
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we can get some sort an
idea of the time lapse since
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that leaf died.
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Now that's really the
basis of carbon dating.
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Does it really work?
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Have dates been
deduced from this accurately?
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Well, no method of
dating is more accurate than
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its basic assumptions.
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Now there are two basic
assumptions in carbon dating.
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One being that the amount of
radio carbon in the atmosphere
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has been constant over
long, long periods of time.
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And the second is that the rate
of disintegration of carbon 14
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has always been constant.
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Now this is something like
trying to gage the time a candle
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has been burning by measuring
the remaining portion of it.
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You can measure the present
rate of burning, and you can
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make some sort of an educated
guess at the original length of
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the candle, and from that you
could come to a fairly accurate
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measure of the time the
candle has been burning.
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But you can never be precisely
sure that that rate has always
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been the same.
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And has this always worked
accurately as far as the results
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are concerned?
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Well, W. F. Libby, who was
the father, and the foremost
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authority on radio carbon dating
maintains that the radio carbon
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dates, and historical
dates, over a 4,000 year period
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coordinate fairly well.
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So I think within that range
we can be fairly confident of
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carbon dates, but
there are some anomalies that
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take some explaining.
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For instance, there were water
snails, living water snails,
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whose shells dated
at 27,000 years old.
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There was a mammoth
found in the frozen tundra;
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his hair happened to be 26,000
years old, but the peat was only
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5,600 years old.
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So there are
contradictions, eye?
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There are these problems, which
make it difficult to accept
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without some
reservations the carbon dates.
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Have there been examples that
you know of where the scientists
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have made mistakes?
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Well sure, I mean you go back
into history and you find that
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at one time we had what was
known as the floodistic theory
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of burning.
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Now that, of course, has been
proved to be entirely false.
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There are other
mistakes that have been made.
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And then, of course,
there's human pride and ambition
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which comes in with a
desire to achieve fame.
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You must know of the
Piltdown man, which proved to be
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an entire hoax.
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Somebody who wanted to be famous
in finding a missing link.
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And then there was the
Nebraska Man who was fashioned
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from a tooth.
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Just a tooth?
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Just a tooth.
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But it later was
proved that that tooth was
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the tooth of a pig.
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Oh, ha ha.
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Then there was the Java Man.
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There was a Eugene Du Boise
who found the top of a skull,
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and a thigh bone from which
were fashioned the Java Man.
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And now the Java Man appeared
in all the school textbooks as
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a kind of an
apelike ancestor of man.
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But it was shown later on,
revealed, that Du Boise had also
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found obviously human
skulls in the same sedimentary
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deposits, and he could have just
as well associated the human
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skull with the thigh bone, and
had a modern man in place of an
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ape like ancestor.
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Now I'll tell you
something very interesting about
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that word created.
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Where it is used in Genesis 1:1
the Hebrew word from which it is
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translated is the
Hebrew word bar rah.
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Now there's another place where
that word is used, and that is
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in Isaiah 65:17 where God says,
Behold, I create new heavens
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and a new earth:...
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And so that same word.
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It's an act of creation.
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Now this is not just
manufacturing something out of
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something else.
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It's not a case of
making; it's a case of creating.
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It's a divine act.
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So at the end of time God is
going to re-create this world.
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Marvelous!
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More beautiful,
more wonderful, than ever
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it was in the beginning.
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And what a
beautiful place to live!
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But I'll tell you this
too, that same word, bar rah,
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is also used in Psalms 51:10
where it says, Create in me a
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clean heart, O God; and renew
a steadfast spirit within me.
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Now this act of creating in
us a new heart is just as much
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a divine act as bringing
the world into existence.
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And we need it!
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You see, we're so sinful.
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We make so many mistakes.
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So we need to be re-created
so we don't do anything
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wrong anymore.
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So God has promised that He
will re-create us as we were
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in the beginning.
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This is a promise that has been
fulfilled through Jesus Christ,
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who came to this world
and died for us so that
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our sins could be forgiven.
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But to do more than that;
re-create us so that we will be
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fit to live in this beautiful
world, and live forever.
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We could do with a
new earth, couldn't we?
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There are some wonderful things
in this world, but the Bible
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says, Eye has not seen, and
ear has not heard what God has
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prepared for those who love him.
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How would you like to climb
Mount Sinai where God spoke
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the Ten Commandments to Moses?
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Sounds pretty strenuous.
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Well, it's too
strenuous, and too hot for me,
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but that's where
David and the crew will be
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in our next program.
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Do join us then.
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