Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021525A
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00:16 >>I'M GOING TO BE TALKING WITH YOU ABOUT THE 00:18 SUBJECT OF CREATION, EVOLUTION, AND LOGIC, AND 00:24 THE REASON FOR THAT TITLE IS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE 00:29 SECURE IN LIFE IF YOU DON'T KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT 00:31 THREE THINGS: WHERE YOU'VE COME FROM, WHAT YOU'RE 00:36 DOING HERE, AND WHERE YOU'RE GOING. 00:40 THESE ARE FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS THAT REALLY HELP IN 00:44 LIFE - TO HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF WHERE YOU'VE 00:47 COME FROM, WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE, AND WHERE 00:49 YOU'RE GOING. I HAD AN INTERESTING PHONE 00:51 CALL AT THE OFFICE THIS WEEK. 00:56 AN 87-YEAR-OLD MAN CALLED AND - I'M NOT EVEN SURE, I 00:59 DIDN'T ASK BONNIE - DID HE SEE THE PROGRAMS OR 01:01 SOMETHING - IS THAT HOW HE FOUND OUT ABOUT US? 01:04 ANYWAY, SOMEHOW HE FOUND OUT ABOUT US - SAW THE 01:06 NAME 'BATCHELOR' - CALLED AMAZING FACTS. 01:08 TURNS OUT HE GREW UP WITH MY FATHER AND HE'S A 01:10 RELATIVE - HE'S A COUSIN. AND HE JUST BEGAN TO TELL 01:15 ME ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT MY FAMILY. 01:17 AND I CALLED HIM BACK AND I PLUGGED HIM IN WITH 01:20 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY THAT HAD BEEN 01:21 DISCONNECTED. HE KNEW MY FATHER - USED 01:23 TO LIVE WITH THE FAMILY - AND I'M JUST GOING, 'WOW!' 01:26 HE SENT PICTURES OF MY DAD I'VE NEVER SEEN AND I SENT 01:29 HIM SOME PICTURES AND HE WAS SO EXCITED - 01:31 87-YEARS-OLD - HE'S CLEAR AS HE COULD BE. 01:34 AND I THOUGHT, 'WHY - WHY WAS THAT SO PRECIOUS TO ME? 01:38 HOW DOES THAT CHANGE MY LIFE?' 01:40 ALL OF US WANT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT 01:42 OUR ROOTS - WHERE WE'VE COME FROM - BECAUSE IT 01:47 GIVES YOU DIRECTION. IT GIVES YOU PURPOSE. 01:51 IT GIVES YOU AN ORIGIN. AND WE'RE LIVING IN A 01:54 WORLD TODAY WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THERE 01:58 IS NO PURPOSE TO LIFE - THAT WE HAVE COME FROM 02:01 NOTHING AND WE ARE GOING NOWHERE. 02:04 ISN'T THAT REALLY WHAT EVOLUTION TEACHES? 02:06 IF THERE IS NO GOD - OF COURSE, THAT'S ATHEISM AND 02:10 EVOLUTION - IF THERE IS NO GOD AND THINGS ALL 02:14 HAPPENED TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT, THEN THERE IS NO 02:16 PURPOSE TO LIFE AND THEN YOU DIE AND YOU GO NOWHERE 02:19 - WE'VE COME FROM NOTHING AND WE'RE GOING NOWHERE 02:22 AND LIFE HAS NO PURPOSE. AND SO, UNDERSTANDING THIS 02:26 SUBJECT MEANS EVERYTHING. AND WHAT CONCERNS ME IS 02:30 - I'M COMING FROM THE OUTSIDE INTO CHRISTIANITY. 02:33 I GREW UP BELIEVING THERE WAS NO GOD, BEING TAUGHT 02:36 AND VERY SECURE IN BELIEVING EVOLUTION, BEING 02:40 AN ATHEIST IF NOT, AT LEAST, AN AGNOSTIC - AND I 02:43 PROBABLY WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO - TO 02:47 A POSITION WHERE NOW I BELIEVE FIRMLY IN DIVINE 02:51 CREATION - IN A RECENT CREATION - AND I'LL GIVE 02:55 YOU REASONS FOR THAT - AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE. 02:58 IT GAVE PURPOSE TO MY LIFE. 02:59 I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT SUICIDE WHEN I WAS A YOUNG 03:02 MAN BECAUSE LIFE HAD NO PURPOSE. 03:04 I BELIEVE IN CREATION NOW, NOT JUST BECAUSE THE BIBLE 03:09 TEACHES IT, BECAUSE WHEN I FIRST READ THE BIBLE I 03:11 TRIED TO FIT EVOLUTION IN WITH THE BIBLE BECAUSE I 03:15 WAS SURE YOU JUST HAD TO BE AN IGNORAMUS TO 03:17 BELIEVE IN DIVINE CREATION, BECAUSE I COULDN'T EXPLAIN IT. 03:20 BUT THE MORE I STUDIED, THE MORE ILLOGICAL 03:22 EVOLUTION SEEMS TO ME AND I'VE COME WHERE IT'S THE 03:26 ONLY THING I'M LEFT BELIEVING. 03:28 IT'S, TO ME, THE BEST ANSWER, SCIENTIFICALLY. 03:31 SO WE NEED A STARTING POINT - AND ISAIAH 1:18, 03:36 THE LORD INVITES US TO USE OUR HEADS, "'COME NOW, AND 03:40 LET US REASON TOGETHER,' SAYS THE LORD." 03:43 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GOOD REASONS IN GEOLOGY, 03:47 BIOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY - THAT ALL 03:52 SUPPORT CREATION. AND I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT 03:55 SOME OF THESE THINGS WITH YOU. I BELIEVE, IN FACT, THAT 03:59 IT DOES TAKE FAITH TO BELIEVE - A CERTAIN AMOUNT 04:01 OF FAITH - IN CREATION. I BELIEVE IT TAKES MUCH 04:06 MORE FAITH TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. 04:12 WE CAN DEMONSTRATE THE MIRACLES OF LIFE ALL AROUND US. 04:16 WE ARE SURROUNDED WITH ABUNDANT EVIDENCE THAT 04:20 LIFE IS MIRACULOUS - IN THE SYSTEMS - IN THE 04:23 RELATIONSHIPS - LIFE IS MIRACULOUS. 04:28 TO EXPLAIN THAT ALL OF THESE MIRACLES CAME FROM 04:32 NOTHING REQUIRES A GREAT DEAL OF FAITH. 04:35 AND SO, WHY ARE EVOLUTIONISTS SO PASSIONATE? 04:41 AND, YOU KNOW, IN RECENT YEARS, AS INCREASING 04:43 EVIDENCE HAS GROWN FOR DIVINE CREATION OR, AT 04:47 LEAST, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, ATHEISTS - I WAS DOING A 04:51 LITTLE MORE STUDY THIS WEEK IN PREPARATION FOR 04:52 THE MESSAGE AND THE VITRIOL AND THE ANGER THAT 04:57 EVOLUTIONISTS AND ATHEISTS HAVE AGAINST CREATIONISTS 04:59 IS PALATABLE - IT'S REALLY CAUSTIC AND MEAN. 05:05 AND YOU THINK, 'WHAT? THIS IS A BAD SPIRIT.' 05:08 IT'S JUST HATEFUL AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL TELL YOU 05:11 WHY I THINK THAT IS. LET'S START WITH 05:15 THE BEGINNING. WE'RE ALL HERE. 05:18 LET'S ASSUME THAT WE DON'T JUST IMAGINE THAT WE'RE 05:20 HERE, WE REALLY ARE HERE. LET'S ASSUME WE REALLY 05:23 ARE ALIVE - I'M GOING TO ASSUME THAT I'M NOT - 05:26 YOU'RE NOT JUST A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION IN THIS 05:28 UNIVERSE I LIVE IN - THAT YOU ALSO HAVE PERCEPTIONS 05:31 - YOU'RE REAL. HOW DID WE GET HERE? 05:35 IF IT IS BY DESIGN AND THERE'S A GOD, THEN THAT 05:39 MEANS THAT WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD AND WE 05:41 WILL GIVE AN ANSWER TO GOD, SOMEDAY, FOR THE 05:43 LIVES THAT WE LIVE. THAT MEANS YOU CAN'T JUST 05:45 DO WHATEVER FEELS GOOD - THAT YOU ARE NOT JUST AN 05:47 ANIMAL - THERE ARE MORALS - THERE ARE RIGHTS AND 05:50 THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS DEFINING RIGHT AND WRONG 05:53 AND THERE'S A JUDGMENT DAY AND PEOPLE REALLY CHAFF AT 05:59 THE IDEA THAT THEY NEED TO ANSWER TO GOD FOR THEIR 06:01 LIVES, SO THEY TRY TO REMOVE GOD FROM THE 06:03 EQUATION SO THEY CAN DO WHATEVER FEELS GOOD. 06:07 YOU'D BE SURPRISED AT HOW CLOSELY TIED ATHEISM, 06:09 EVOLUTION, AND HEDONISM ARE. 06:13 NOW LOOKING BACK JUST ONE CENTURY, IT'S STILL 06:18 AMAZING TO US THAT YOU COULD HAVE SUCH A 06:21 SOPHISTICATED, INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED 06:23 PEOPLE AS THE GERMAN PEOPLE. THE NAZI FASCISM DID NOT 06:29 COME FROM SOME UNEDUCATED JUNGLE SOMEWHERE. 06:35 IT CAME FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY SOPHISTICATED, 06:37 VERY EDUCATED - YOU HAD SIGMUND FREUD AND YOU'VE 06:40 GOT ALL THESE GREAT INVENTORS AND THEY SAID 06:41 THAT THE ARYAN RACE IS SUPERIOR BECAUSE 'WE ARE 06:44 MORE HIGHLY EVOLVED AND WE NEED TO EXTERMINATE THE 06:47 INFERIOR RACES BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, EVOLUTION 06:50 TEACHES SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.' THIS WAS THE 06:54 THINKING THAT GREW OUT OF EVOLUTION - THAT WE'RE ALL 06:57 JUST ANIMALS AND SOME ARE MORE HIGHLY DEVELOPED. 07:00 BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINAL TITLE 07:02 WAS FOR DARWIN'S BOOK? WE ALL HEAR ABOUT DARWIN'S 07:05 BOOK CALLED THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . 07:07 THAT WASN'T THE WHOLE TITLE. 07:09 LET ME READ TO YOU THE WHOLE ORIGINAL TITLE: THE 07:11 ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR 07:14 THE PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE 07:17 STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. OH, THEY DELETE THAT FROM 07:21 ALL THE MODERN PRINTINGS OF THE BOOK. 07:24 BUT AS HE TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD - NOW DON'T 07:26 MISUNDERSTAND, DARWIN WAS AGAINST SLAVERY. 07:29 BUT IT WASN'T BECAUSE HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 07:31 CERTAIN RACES WERE INFERIOR. 07:33 HE WAS AGAINST SLAVERY BECAUSE HE LOVED ANIMALS. 07:39 HE TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD - HE WAS A 07:41 NATURALIST - HE LOVED ANIMALS. 07:43 HE THOUGHT, 'WE SHOULD BE NICE TO THE ANIMALS.' BUT 07:46 HE DEFINITELY BELIEVED THAT THE ABORIGINES THAT 07:48 HE SAW IN ASIA - IN AUSTRALIA AND MANY OF THE 07:52 ISLANDERS THROUGH THE PACIFIC WERE INFERIOR IN 07:56 THAT THEY WERE NOT AS FULLY EVOLVED AS THE 07:58 CAUCASIANS. SO THAT'S AT THE 08:02 FOUNDATION OF A LOT OF RACISM IN THE WORLD TODAY. 08:09 NOW, I BELIEVE IN INTELLIGENT DESIGN. 08:13 INTELLIGENT DESIGN SAYS THAT WHEREVER YOU SEE SOME 08:18 SOPHISTICATED DESIGN, THERE MUST BE AN 08:21 INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT. KEEP IN MIND, BACK IN THE 08:26 DAYS WHEN EVOLUTION WAS BORN, WE HAD VERY HUMBLE 08:31 SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. WE DIDN'T HAVE THE 08:33 LABORATORIES WE HAVE TODAY. MICROSCOPES - WHEN THEY 08:35 WOULD LOOK AT A CELL THEY SAW WHAT WE CALL 08:37 A 'SINGLE CELL'. THEY COULD NOT TAKE THE 08:39 HYPER-POWERFUL SUPER ELECTRON MICROSCOPES THAT 08:42 WE HAVE NOW AND LOOK AT A CELL AND SEE ALL THE 08:45 INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITY IN THAT CELL. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS BACK 08:50 DURING THE TIME OF LOUIS PASTEUR. 08:52 THEY WOULD TAKE A LUMP OF MEAT AND THEY - OR A 08:57 CARCASS - AND THEY WOULD SET IT DOWN SOMEWHERE AND 08:59 IN A FEW DAYS THEY WOULD SEE WORMS AND THINGS 09:01 SPRINGING OUT OF THE CARCASS AND THEY SAID, 09:03 'SEE, WE WATCH LIFE FORM ALL THE TIME. 09:06 SEE HOW THESE WORMS CAME OUT OF THAT CARCASS FROM NOWHERE? 09:09 NEW LIFE IS CONSTANTLY FORMING.' AND PASTEUR 09:12 LOOKED AT THAT AND HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE NOT 09:15 NOTICING THE FLIES THAT ARE LANDING ON IT LAYING 09:17 EGGS.' HE THEN TOOK THE SAME MEAT OR SOMETHING AND 09:21 HE PUT IT IN A VACUUM ENVIRONMENT AND THERE WAS 09:24 NOTHING. AND THEY REALIZED THAT - 09:27 HERE'S A LAW - ALL LIFE IN THE WORLD COMES FROM LIFE. 09:32 WE CANNOT FIND A SINGLE EXAMPLE ANYWHERE IN THE 09:35 OBSERVABLE WORLD WHERE LIFE COMES FROM NON-LIFE. 09:39 WE ARE UNABLE - WITH ALL OF OUR SOPHISTICATED 09:42 LABORATORIES AND EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE LIFE FROM NON-LIFE. 09:47 AND, AS MUCH AS SCIENTISTS CAN DO NOW, WITH MODIFYING 09:51 SEEDS AND GENES AND STRAINS OF CROPS AND 09:55 ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION AND - THERE'S WONDERFUL 09:57 THINGS THAT MEDICINE CAN DO NOW THAT I - YOU KNOW, 10:01 THE THINGS THAT THEY DO WITH BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS - 10:04 TO HEAL PEOPLE AND - IT'S ALL FASCINATING TO ME. 10:07 AND I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR LEGITIMATE SCIENCE, 10:09 DON'T MISUNDERSTAND. BUT ARE YOU AWARE THAT, IN 10:12 SPITE OF ALL OF THAT, THEY ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO 10:16 PRODUCE ONE SINGLE CELL OF LIFE ARTIFICIALLY. 10:21 THEY SAY IT HAPPENED ALL OVER THE WORLD, 10:23 SPONTANEOUSLY, WITHOUT ANY INTELLIGENCE, BUT IT TAKES 10:27 INTELLIGENCE TO HAVE INTERWORKING SYSTEMS AND 10:32 ORGANIZATION AND LIFE. POINT #3 - THE COMPLEXITY 10:40 OF LIFE - THERE IS SO MUCH COMPLEXITY, I JUST ALLUDED 10:44 FOR - A MOMENT AGO - TO A SINGLE CELL. 10:47 NOW, WHEN WE TAKE OUR HIGH-POWERED MICROSCOPES 10:48 AND WE LOOK AT A SINGLE CELL, WHERE ONCE WE SAW 10:52 WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT AN EGG - YOU SEE A 10:55 SHELL (THE CELL WALL) AND YOU SEE THE - THE CONTENTS 10:59 INSIDE (THE WHITE) AND THEN YOU SEE THE YOLK (THE 11:01 NUCLEUS) AND THAT'S WHAT THEY SAW WHEN THEY USED TO 11:04 LOOK AT EGGS - AT CELLS - JUST VERY SIMPLE THINGS. 11:07 NOW WE KNOW, WITH OUR MICROSCOPES, THERE ARE 11:10 WORLDS - THERE ARE CITIES THAT ARE MOVING AND 11:15 SWIMMING INSIDE A SINGLE CELL. THERE ARE MACHINES. 11:19 THERE ARE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. 11:21 THERE ARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. 11:22 THERE ARE CHEMICAL SYSTEMS, ALL WITHIN ONE CELL OF LIFE. 11:26 WE KNOW THAT THE DNA - THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM THAT 11:29 IT HAS INSIDE A SINGLE CELL THAT TRIGGERS WHEN IT 11:31 SHOULD SPLIT AND REPRODUCE ITSELF. 11:34 IT'S EXTREMELY SOPHISTICATED. 11:37 ONE SCIENTIST PUT IT THIS WAY - PICTURE NEW YORK 11:40 CITY AT RUSH HOUR - I'M SERIOUS - THINK ABOUT NEW 11:43 YORK CITY AT RUSH HOUR. I'VE BEEN THERE. I GREW UP THERE. 11:48 YOU'VE GOT MORE HAPPENING UNDER NEW YORK CITY AT 11:51 RUSH HOUR, THAN YOU HAVE HAPPENING IN ALL OF 11:52 SACRAMENTO DURING THE DAY. I MEAN, IT'S VERY BUSY. 11:57 YOU'VE GOT, NOT ONLY THE SUBWAYS GOING, YOU'VE GOT 11:59 THE PLUMBING THAT GOES UNDERNEATH THE CITY AND 12:01 YOU'VE GOT THE FRESH SYSTEMS AND THE SEWAGE 12:04 SYSTEMS, THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS AND THE FIBER 12:07 OPTICS AND - ALL OF THAT'S GOING ON UNDERGROUND AND 12:09 THEN LOOK AT ALL THAT'S GOING ON ABOVE GROUND WITH 12:12 ELEVATORS GOING UP AND DOWN AND TRAFFIC GOING 12:14 HORIZONTALLY AND THE LIGHTS AND THE PEOPLE AND 12:17 THE SWARMS AND - ONE - A SCIENTIST SAID, 'ONE 12:21 SINGLE CELL OF LIFE HAS MORE HAPPENING INSIDE THAN 12:26 NEW YORK CITY AT RUSH HOUR.' NOW WHAT ARE THE 12:29 CHANCES THAT LIGHTNING COULD STRIKE A PUDDLE FOUR 12:33 BILLION YEARS AGO - PICK YOUR DATE, IT DOESN'T 12:34 MATTER - AND PRODUCE SPONTANEOUS CELLS OF LIFE? 12:39 IF IT IS THAT SIMPLE, WHY CAN'T WE REPRODUCE THAT 12:42 SCIENTIFICALLY? WHY WOULD WE TEACH, AS 12:45 FACT, SOMETHING WE CANNOT DEMONSTRATE SCIENTIFICALLY? 12:49 ISN'T THAT UNSCIENTIFIC? 12:52 IF WE SAY, 'OH YEAH, THIS HAPPENED. 12:53 THIS WE KNOW' - ALRIGHT, SHOW ME - 'WELL, WE 12:56 HAVEN'T' BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT YET. 12:58 WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE' - OH THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, 13:00 THEY'VE ZAPPED AMINO ACIDS AND THEY'VE ARRANGED 13:03 CERTAIN PROTEINS - THEY HAVEN'T CREATED A SINGLE 13:05 CELL OF LIFE IN A LABORATORY. 13:08 ALL LIFE COMES FROM PRE-EXISTING LIFE. 13:12 AND TO HAVE LIFE - I'VE GOT A LITTLE ILLUSTRATION 13:15 HERE I WANT TO - A SOPHISTICATED PIECE OF 13:23 EQUIPMENT THEY DON'T MAKE ANYMORE. 13:29 THIS IS - HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THESE? 13:32 NOW THEY'RE ALL, YOU KNOW, BLACK AND DECKER. 13:34 BUT JUST TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT, YOU HAVE - THIS IS 13:39 THE OLD-FASHIONED EGG BEATER - THIS ONE IS LIKE 13:42 OVER FIFTY YEARS OLD SO I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL. 13:44 YOU HAVE LIKE FOUR PARTS. YOU'VE GOT YOUR HANDLE. 13:47 YOU'VE GOT YOUR CRANK AND YOUR GEARS. 13:49 YOU'VE GOT YOUR TWO BLENDER DOO-DADS THAT HAVE ALSO GEARS. 13:55 IT WORKS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ASSEMBLED WITH 13:58 PREDESIGNED PURPOSES SO THAT WHEN YOU TURN IT, IT 14:02 ACCOMPLISHES A DESIRED ACTION. 14:08 IF YOU SEPARATE THE HANDLE AND YOU SEPARATE THE 14:11 BLENDER PARTS AND YOU SEPARATE THE GEAR AND THE 14:14 CRANK, THEY HAVE NO PURPOSE ANYMORE. 14:19 THERE ARE SO MANY CELLS OF LIFE WHERE YOU'VE GOT A 14:22 MOTOR - DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE CELLS THAT 14:25 PROPEL THEMSELVES - THEY SWIM? 14:27 THEY'VE GOT TAILS THAT TURN AND THEY'VE GOT 14:29 MOTORS AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE BIOLOGICAL GEARS INSIDE. 14:34 FOR THEM TO ALL COME TOGETHER TO WORK THEY 14:36 WOULD ALL HAVE TO BE COMPLETE. 14:39 ANY OF THESE THINGS INCOMPLETE - AS YOU SEE 14:41 THEM NOW - SERVE NO PURPOSE AND THEY WOULD NOT 14:42 WORK. AND SO, SO MUCH OF LIFE IS 14:47 FULL OF EXAMPLES OF THINGS LIKE THIS WHERE THEY ONLY 14:50 OPERATE AS THEY COME TOGETHER IN UNISON. 14:54 THERE WOULD BE NO EXPLANATION, 14:57 SCIENTIFICALLY, HOW ALL OF THESE PIECES WOULD COME 15:00 TOGETHER WITHOUT A PURPOSE. 15:02 WOULD THIS GEAR EVER SAY, 'I'M GOING TO GROW INTO A 15:04 GEAR BECAUSE ONE DAY I'M GOING TO MARRY UP WITH 15:06 BLENDER PIECES AND A HANDLE AND I'M GOING TO MAKE A CAKE.'? 15:10 WOULD THE HANDLE EVER SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO 15:13 GROW INTO THIS SHAPE AS A HANDLE BECAUSE I'M JUST 15:15 ANTICIPATING THAT I'M GOING TO FALL INTO 15:17 POSITION SOMEDAY WITH THE GEAR AND THE BLENDER PARTS 15:20 AND WE'RE GOING TO WHIP CREAM.'? 15:23 NO, THEY ALL HAD TO BE TOGETHER WITH THE DESIGN 15:28 FOR A PURPOSE FROM THE BEGINNING. 15:31 CELLS ARE INFINITELY MORE COMPLEX THAN THIS EGG 15:33 BEATER. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 15:36 AND THEY HAVE INTERWORKING PARTS THAT ALL HAVE A 15:38 PURPOSE AND THEY WOULD NEVER COME TOGETHER - 15:41 SPONTANEOUSLY OR ACCIDENTALLY - TO DO THAT. 15:45 SO, THAT'S JUST ONE SIMPLE DESIGN. 15:47 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE EXAMPLE OF THE MOUSETRAP 15:49 BEFORE. I JUST WANTED TO BE 15:51 DIFFERENT SO I DIDN'T USE A MOUSETRAP, I GOT AN EGG 15:54 BEATER, BUT IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE. 15:56 AND SO - THEN YOU ALSO LOOK AT LIFE - AND, BY THE 16:01 WAY, THIS IS CALLED IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY . 16:06 ONCE YOU GET IT DOWN TO ITS SIMPLEST FORMS, YOU 16:10 CAN'T BREAK IT DOWN ANY SMALLER. 16:11 NONE OF IT WORKS WITHOUT THE OTHER. 16:14 IT ALL HAD TO COME TOGETHER AS A WORKING UNIT. 16:17 THERE'S NO EXPLANATION IN EVOLUTION FOR THAT. 16:20 AND, BY THE WAY, THAT THEORY WAS DEVELOPED BY AN 16:22 EVOLUTIONIST THAT SAID IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE - 16:24 EVOLUTION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 16:26 THEN YOU HAVE - NATURE IS FULL OF WHAT YOU WOULD 16:28 CALL SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS WHERE 16:32 DIFFERENT PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND CREATURES 16:36 CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE HELP OF CO-EXISTING, IN 16:42 SOME WAY, WITH OTHERS. THEY DEPEND ON EACH OTHER. 16:44 THERE ARE PLANTS THAT - AND TREES - THAT JUST WILL 16:46 NOT SURVIVE AND POLLINATE WITHOUT BEES. 16:50 THERE ARE PLANTS THAT CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT - 16:53 THERE'S A CERTAIN FLOWER THAT IT CANNOT POLLINATE 16:55 WITHOUT ONE PARTICULAR MOTH THAT'S GOT A VERY 16:58 LONG PROBOSCIS THAT IT USES AND GETS DOWN - AND 17:02 IT GOES JUST TO THOSE FLOWERS. 17:04 JUST THAT FLOWER NEEDS JUST THAT MOTH IN ORDER TO 17:07 SURVIVE AND THERE'S NO SCENARIO THAT YOU CAN 17:09 CREATE THROUGH HISTORY THAT WOULD CREATE AN 17:12 EXAMPLE FOR WHY THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY. 17:16 YOU'VE GOT THE - THERE ARE BIRDS AND ANIMALS THAT 17:18 COEXIST AND THEY PROTECT AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER. 17:21 YOU GO IN THE OCEAN AND YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING FROM 17:23 THE SEA ANEMONE THAT LIVES WITH THE CLOWN FISH AND IT 17:27 STINGS EVERYTHING BUT THE CLOWN FISH AND THE CLOWN 17:29 FISH PROTECTS AND CLEANS THE ANEMONE AND THEY JUST 17:32 ALWAYS SEEM TO HAVE HAD THIS RELATIONSHIP. 17:35 LITTLE BIRDS THAT RIDE ON THE BACKS OF RHINOS AND 17:37 PICK OFF THEIR TICKS AND - I MEAN, I CAN JUST GO 17:39 THROUGH A - YOU'VE GOT, IN YOUR BELLY - I HATE TO 17:42 TELL YOU THIS BUT YOU'VE GOT BACTERIA. 17:45 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY'RE FRIENDLY BACTERIA 17:47 - LET'S HOPE THEY ARE - AND YOU NEED THEM TO HELP YOU 17:51 DIGEST FOOD. AND IF YOU TAKE AN ANTIBIOTIC AND IT KILLS 17:54 ALL THE FRIENDLY BACTERIA, YOU'VE GOT TO EAT 17:56 SOMETHING LIKE YOGURT, WHICH SHOULDN'T BE EATEN 17:57 BY ANYBODY BECAUSE IT'S CALLED YOGURT, AND THAT'S 18:01 SUPPOSED TO HELP GIVE YOU FRIENDLY BACTERIA AGAIN 18:04 AND THERE IS - THERE'S SO MUCH COMPLEXITY AND 18:09 INTERWORKING SYSTEMS IN LIFE THAT TO SAY THIS ALL 18:12 HAPPENED SPONTANEOUSLY - IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU 18:14 GIVE IT MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF YEARS, IT BECOMES LUDICROUS. 18:18 AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE - SOME OF 18:21 THOSE OTHER ISSUES CONNECTED WITH THAT. 18:24 THEN YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING CALLED THE LAW OF ENTROPY. 18:26 THIS IS THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS AND, 18:30 BASICALLY, IT SAYS THAT NATURE TENDS, FROM ORDER TO 18:34 DISORDER, IN ISOLATED SYSTEMS. 18:37 IT'S A LAW OF LIFE. LET'S SUPPOSE THAT YOU'VE 18:39 GOT A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN AND IT'S GOT - YOU'VE GOT ALL 18:42 THE ROWS ARE CAREFULLY WEEDED AND EVERYTHING IS 18:46 IN ORDER AND YOU'VE GOT THINGS STACKED. 18:48 YOU'VE GOT YOUR CORN AND YOUR TOMATOES AND YOUR 18:50 MELONS - YOUR ZUCCHINI - AND IT'S ALL GROWING. IT'S NICE. 18:53 YOU'VE GOT SOME FLOWERS FOR GOOD LOOKS AND - BUT 18:57 YOU DIE AND YOU DON'T TEND THE GARDEN. 18:58 YOU DON'T WATER THE GARDEN. 18:59 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GARDEN? 19:01 IT'LL ALL BREAK DOWN TO THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF 19:05 CHAOS. YOU'VE GOT A BEAUTIFULLY 19:07 BUILT HOUSE WITH A MANICURED YARD. THE OWNER DIES AND NO ONE 19:11 TAKES CARE OF THE HOUSE, WHAT HAPPENS? 19:13 ROOF FALLS IN - IT WILL TURN BACK, GIVEN ENOUGH 19:15 TIME, TO THE ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH. 19:16 IT JUST REDUCES TO CHAOS AGAIN. 19:20 AND SO, IN LIFE, WHERE YOU SEE ORDER AND DESIGN AND 19:25 STRUCTURE, THERE HAS TO BE AN OUTSIDE INTELLIGENCE 19:30 AND POWER THAT IS INTRODUCING THAT ORDER AND DESIGN OR JUST 19:36 DEFIES THE LAW - THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. 19:39 THEN YOU'VE GOT A FLOOD OF EVIDENCE THAT WE'RE 19:42 SURROUNDED WITH AROUND THE WORLD. 19:44 THE FOSSIL RECORD AROUND THE WORLD SAYS THAT THERE 19:48 WAS A GREAT FLOOD. DOESN'T OUR BIBLE TELL US 19:52 THERE WAS A GREAT FLOOD? YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK 19:54 ABOUT WHAT CAUSED THE DEATH OF THE DINOSAURS - AND I USED TO 19:57 STUDY PALEONTOLOGY. MY DREAM, BEFORE I BECAME 19:59 A CHRISTIAN, I WANTED TO DO PALEONTOLOGY. 20:03 I HAD ANOTHER FRIEND - A GIRL IN SCHOOL - AND SHE 20:05 AND I, WE HAD DREAMS THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE 20:07 PALEONTOLOGISTS AND TRAVEL THE WORLD AND DIG UP 20:09 DINOSAUR BONES AND FERVENTLY BELIEVED THAT 20:11 EVERYTHING WAS MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD. 20:15 AND THE THEORY USED TO BE - AND I CAN TALK TO YOU 20:17 ABOUT THE TYRANNOSAURUS REX AND THE TRICERATOPS 20:19 AND THE STEGOSAURUS AND THE BRONTOSAURUS AND - THE 20:21 THEORY WAS, WHAT CAUSED THIS MASS SUDDEN 20:25 EXTERMINATION OF THE DINOSAURS? 20:27 THEY SAID, 'WELL, A VIRUS SOMEHOW DEVELOPED.' 20:31 BECAUSE IT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE 20:32 AIDS COMES FROM - SOME VIRUS DEVELOPED AND JUST 20:35 WIPED THEM ALL OUT. THEN THAT DIDN'T 20:37 SATISFY THEM. THEY SAID, 'NO, THERE 20:39 WAS A SHORTAGE OF FOOD. THERE WAS A FAMINE. 20:41 THEY ALL STARVED OFF.' AND THEN THEY SAID, 'THE BIRTH 20:44 OF SOME OF THE PRIMITIVE MAMMAL RODENTS BEGAN TO 20:48 EAT ALL OF THEIR EGGS AND IT KILLED THEM ALL OFF.' 20:50 AND THEY HAD ALL THESE THEORIES, BUT THE PROBLEM 20:52 WAS THE EVIDENCE - THE FOSSILS OF THE DINOSAURS 20:57 ARE IN COPIOUS GRAVEYARDS WHERE THEY ARE COVERED 21:01 WITH SILT, WHICH WAS ONCE MUD. 21:04 THEY DIED IN A CATACLYSM OF WATER. 21:09 SO FINALLY, AFTER ONE EXCAVATION AFTER ANOTHER 21:14 ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE EVIDENCE COULD NOT BE DENIED. 21:17 THERE WAS SOME GLOBAL CATASTROPHE OF A FLOOD. 21:20 SO THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SAY THERE WAS A 21:23 GLOBAL FLOOD SO THEY SAY AN ASTEROID STRUCK THE 21:26 EARTH AND CAUSED A TSUNAMI, WHICH CAUSED A FLOOD. 21:30 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT NOW? 21:33 THAT'S THE GOING THEORY NOW. 21:34 WELL ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? 21:36 NOT AN ASTEROID, BUT THERE WAS A FLOOD. 21:38 THEY CAN'T FIND THAT ASTEROID BECAUSE IT 21:40 VAPORIZED, BUT THEY SAY AN ASTEROID HIT THE WORLD AND 21:44 IT CAUSED A FLOOD AND IT WIPED THEM ALL OUT BECAUSE 21:47 THEY'RE ALL COVERED WITH SILT IN THESE MASS GRAVEYARDS. 21:50 AND EVERYWHERE YOU GO IN THE WORLD - I REMEMBER I 21:53 WAS WITH - I LIVED IN NAGEEZI, NEW MEXICO - 21:56 8,000 FEET - KAREN WENT THERE WITH ME A FEW YEARS 21:58 AGO AND THEY HAD THESE MASSIVE SECTIONS THAT YOU 22:04 COULD FIND SEASHELLS EVERYWHERE. 22:06 DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO UP ON A MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 22:09 AT 20,000 FEET YOU'RE GOING TO FIND GIANT CLAMS? 22:14 THAT IS A LONG WAY FROM THE OCEAN - WAY UP - AND 22:18 ALL OVER THE WORLD WE SEE EVIDENCE THAT THINGS WERE 22:22 RADICALLY CHANGED BY A FLOOD. 22:25 YOU KNOW HOW YOU GOT TO CHURCH TODAY? 22:27 MOST OF YOU? DINOSAUR. HOW MANY OF YOU 22:32 REMEMBER SINCLAIR GAS? WHAT WAS THE LOGO 22:34 FOR SINCLAIR GAS? IT'S A LITTLE 22:36 DINOSAUR, RIGHT? YOU KNOW WHY? 22:38 THEY SAID THAT THE OIL CAME FROM A PREHISTORIC 22:42 WORLD THAT WAS COVERED BY A FLOOD THAT TURNED INTO 22:47 THESE INCREDIBLY COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF OIL AND COAL. 22:53 WELL THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS HAPPENED. 22:55 AND WHAT'S INTERESTING IS - YOU KNOW WHERE YOU FIND 22:57 A LOT OF THAT? SIBERIA? ONCE FERNS - THEY'VE GOT 23:05 WOOLY MAMMOTHS THAT DIED WITH FERNS IN THEIR MOUTH. 23:07 NOW IT'S SIBERIA - NO FERNS UP THERE. 23:09 WHOLE ENVIRONMENT OF THE WORLD WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY 23:12 DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IT IS TODAY. 23:13 THEY'VE GOT FOSSILS OF DRAGONFLIES - BY THE WAY, 23:15 THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE DRAGONFLIES TODAY EXCEPT 23:18 THEIR WINGSPAN IS 24 INCHES. 23:20 CAN YOU IMAGINE THOSE BUZZING AROUND? 23:22 YOU'D BE SCARED HALF TO DEATH THEY'D HAUL OFF YOUR KIDS. 23:24 A DRAGONFLY - CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW BIG THE 23:27 MOSQUITOS MUST HAVE BEEN BACK THEN? 23:31 NOW THESE ARE FOSSILS AND EVOLUTIONISTS WILL AGREE 23:34 WITH THIS - THAT THEY WERE THERE. 23:36 AND THE MAMMALS - THEY HAD BEAVERS 13 FEET TALL. 23:39 THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT WAS DIFFERENT. 23:41 THERE WAS VEGETATION ALL - THE WORLD WAS LIKE A 23:43 GARDEN. A LOT MORE OXYGEN. THE ENVIRONMENT WAS VASTLY 23:48 DIFFERENT AND SOMETHING CATACLYSMIC HAPPENED TO 23:51 OUR WORLD THAT WAS WORSE THAN AN ASTEROID. 23:55 IT WAS THE FLOOD OF NOAH. IT SAYS THE HEAVENS SPLIT. 23:58 WATER CAME OUT OF THE EARTH IN GREAT JETS. 24:01 CONTINENTAL DRIFT - ALL THESE THINGS CHANGED AND 24:05 THE FOSSIL RECORD TELLS US EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE 24:09 SAYS THAT THERE WAS A MAJOR CHANGE ABOUT 4,000 24:12 YEARS AGO, THAT TOTALLY DISRUPTED THE WORLD. 24:16 THERE IS A FLOOD OF EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS THAT. 24:19 WHAT ABOUT THE LIVING FOSSILS? 24:22 THIS, TO ME, I THINK IS VERY INTERESTING. 24:26 FOR INSTANCE, ON THE SCREEN HERE YOU'RE GOING 24:27 TO SEE THAT'S A COELACANTH. A COELACANTH - THEY FOUND 24:31 THESE FOSSILS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. 24:33 THEY SAID THESE WERE ANCIENT CREATURES - 65 24:37 MILLION - BASED ON THE FOSSILS, THEY SAY THEY 24:39 LIVED 65 MILLION YEARS AGO AND THOSE LITTLE STUBBY 24:43 FINS THEY HAVE ARE PROTO-LEGS. 24:45 THAT MEANS THEY WOULD CRAWL ALONG ON THE BOTTOM 24:48 OF THE SEA FLOOR AND THEY WERE GRADUALLY DEVELOPING 24:50 LEGS AND WOULD SOMEDAY CRAWL OUT ON TO LAND AND 24:54 THEY SAID THEY WERE EXTINCT - COELACANTH. 24:57 IT IS, KIND OF, A PRIMAL-LOOKING FISH BUT, 24:59 YOU SEE, THAT'S THE ARTIST'S RENDERING ON THE 25:01 RIGHT THERE. ON THE LEFT YOU SEE 25:03 SOMEONE SWIMMING WITH A COELACANTH. 25:05 THAT'S BECAUSE IN 1928 THEY FOUND A LIVING 25:09 VERSION OF THE COELACANTH IN THE WATERS OFF OF SOUTH 25:13 AFRICA AND THEY FOUND OUT THEY'RE STILL VERY MUCH 25:15 ALIVE, THEY JUST HAD NOT CAUGHT THEM BEFORE. 25:17 THEY LIVE IN VERY DEEP OCEANS AND THEY DON'T DO 25:19 VERY WELL WHEN THEY BRING THEM UP. 25:21 SO YOU TRY AND GET THEM TO WALK THEY DON'T LIKE THAT 25:23 AT ALL. THEY DIE WHEN YOU BRING 25:24 THEM UP BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT USED TO THE LOW 25:26 PRESSURE AND - 65 MILLION YEARS AND THEY STILL HAVE 25:31 NOT GOTTEN THOSE FEET WORKED OUT YET. 25:34 (LAUGHTER) I MEAN, EVEN A CHILD COULD DO THE 25:37 REASONING ON THIS. THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 25:40 WHEN THEY - THEY HAVE ALL THESE THEORIES - THEY HAVEN'T CHANGED. 25:43 65 MILLION YEARS - THEY SAY SHARKS - THE ONLY 25:46 THING ABOUT SHARKS TODAY IS THEY'RE SMALLER. 25:48 THEY USED TO HAVE A SHARK CALLED MEGALODON - BIGGER 25:51 THAN ANY GREAT WHITE SHARK. 25:52 I - IN MY DRAWER, I'VE GOT A MEGALODON TOOTH THAT - 25:57 NATHAN KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT - ANCIENT 25:59 PETRIFIED SHARK TOOTH - LOOKS JUST LIKE SHARKS 26:03 TODAY, THEY'RE JUST BIGGER. 26:07 EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGED. 26:09 THE HORSESHOE CRABS, I THINK, IS THE NEXT EXAMPLE 26:12 I'VE GOT. THERE YOU'VE GOT HORSESHOE 26:15 CRAB - ON THE LEFT YOU'VE GOT A FOSSIL. 26:17 THEY SAY - HUNDRED MILLION - YOU KNOW HOW LONG A 26:19 MILLION YEARS IS? HUNDRED MILLION YEARS OLD 26:25 - HUNDRED MILLION YEARS - WHY HAVE THOSE HORSESHOE 26:28 CRABS - DO YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO THE - HOW MANY OF 26:30 YOU HAVE BEEN TO THE ATLANTIC COAST AND SEEN 26:31 THE HORSESHOE CRABS THAT CRAWL UP ON THE SHORE? 26:33 WE USED TO SEE THEM WHEN I LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY. 26:36 THEY'RE - YOU FLIP 'EM OVER, THEY'RE SCARY LOOKING. 26:38 AND ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS START GRABBING IN 26:40 THE AIR WITH ALL THESE CLAWS AND PINCERS ON THEM. 26:42 THEY HAVE NOT IMPROVED THEIR APPEARANCE IN A 26:46 HUNDRED MILLION YEARS. AND YET, SOMEHOW THEY STILL SURVIVED. 26:50 YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE OTHER CREATURES WOULD HAVE 26:51 KILLED THEM OFF BECAUSE THEY'RE SO UGLY. 26:53 THEY STILL - THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY IF YOU WANT 26:56 TO KNOW WHAT A PRIMITIVE EYE IS - THE EYE IS SO 26:58 COMPLEX - MOST OF WHAT'S COMING INTO YOUR BRAIN IS 27:01 COMING THROUGH YOUR EYE RIGHT NOW - AND THEY'VE 27:03 GOT WHAT THEY CALL A 'PRIMITIVE EYE' - HOW COME 27:05 THEIR EYES HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANY BETTER? 27:08 ALL THEY CAN DO IS KIND OF SEE LIGHT AND DARKNESS - 27:10 HUNDRED MILLION YEARS. IT'S JUST NOT LOGICAL TO ME. 27:17 I THINK THE ONLY LOGICAL EXPLANATION IS THE MIRACLE 27:22 OF CREATION. >>AMEN. 27:24 >>NOW - THEN - I WANT TO EXPLAIN - I DO BELIEVE IN 27:27 EVOLUTION BUT - LEST SOMEONE STOP THE TAPE 27:30 RIGHT THERE, LET ME EXPLAIN. 27:32 I BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU CALL 'MICRO-EVOLUTION'. 27:35 WE SEE EXAMPLES OF MICRO-EVOLUTION ALL AROUND US. 27:39 IF YOU LOOK AT THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU, YOU WILL SEE 27:41 EXAMPLES OF MICRO-EVOLUTION. 27:44 MICRO-EVOLUTION IS WHERE THE RABBITS - THE COMMON 27:49 HARE THAT IS LIVING OUT IN THE DESSERT, AFTER A FEW 27:53 GENERATIONS, FOR SOME REASON, GOD HAS DESIGNED THEIR DNA - 27:56 FOR SURVIVAL REASONS - THEY WILL DEVELOP BROWN FUR WHERE 28:00 THEY CAN MELT INTO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. 28:02 AND YOU WILL HAVE A HARE - IT IS STILL A HARE - AND 28:05 IT WILL BE UP IN THE ARCTIC AND IT WILL HAVE 28:07 WHITE FUR SO IT CAN BLEND INTO ITS ENVIRONMENT. 28:10 YOU WILL SEE GREAT DIVERSITY OF SPECIES THAT 28:14 HAVE EVOLVED WITHIN THEIR SPECIES. 28:17 AND ON THE PICTURE HERE, I PUT AS AN EXAMPLE, 28:19 'EXHIBIT A' OF WHAT WE WOULD CALL MICRO-EVOLUTION. 28:22 LOOK AT THE INCREDIBLE VARIETY OF DOGS. 28:26 MOST - THINK ABOUT - JUST THINK ABOUT IT - DOGS. 28:32 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, WE 28:34 ALMOST NEVER SAW A PIT BULL. 28:37 NOW I SEE THEM ALMOST EVERYWHERE I LOOK. 28:41 I THINK THEY HAVE - THEY'VE BEEN MASS BRED. 28:47 YOU'VE GOT LITTLE BITTY DACHSHUNDS - SEE THAT POOR 28:50 LITTLE DOG THERE, IT LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE MOUSE NEXT 28:52 TO A COKE CAN. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONE OF 28:55 THE TALLEST DOGS IN THE WORLD LIVED UP 28:57 IN GRASS VALLEY. IT WAS CALLED 'GIBSON' 28:59 - DIED RECENTLY. IT WAS A GREAT DANE. 29:01 SHE TOOK HIM AROUND AND WE SAW HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES. 29:03 EIGHT FEET HIGH WHEN HE STOOD UP. 29:06 DO YOU KNOW THEY'VE GOT HORSES THAT ARE SMALLER THAN DOGS? 29:10 AND THEN THEY'VE GOT CLYDESDALES. 29:13 THEY'VE GOT DOGS WITH NO HAIR. 29:16 I DON'T KNOW WHY ANYONE WOULD BREED CHIHUAHUAS. 29:19 I'M SORRY IF YOU'VE GOT A CHIHUAHUA, BUT THEY ARE 29:22 JUST AN AMALGAMATION, IN MY OPINION, POOR THINGS. 29:24 THEY JUST SHAKE AND QUIVER ALL THE TIME AND YAP AND - 29:31 I WAS WITH PASTOR ROSS, I THINK, AND SOMEBODY WALKED 29:34 BY US AND THEY HAD ONE OF THOSE DEAR LITTLE 29:36 DACHSHUND DOGS AND THIS THING, ITS BELLY WAS 29:39 DRAGGING ON THE GROUND AND ITS LEGS WERE FULLY 29:41 EXTENDED - AND I THINK THEY WERE BRED TO GO INTO 29:46 TUNNELS OR SOMETHING. 29:48 AND THEN THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE - THEY'RE RACERS. 29:52 AND THEN THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE JUST COVERED IN 29:53 WRINKLES - THEY CAN BARELY WALK. 29:55 AND THEN THEY'VE GOT DOGS THAT ARE - THEY'VE GOT 29:57 LONG HAIR AND THEY CAN'T EVEN SEE THE EYES. 30:01 AND THEY'RE EVERY STRIPE AND TYPE. 30:04 THEY'VE GOT BIG OLD FLOPPY EARS AND INKY DINKY EARS 30:06 AND PUDGY FACES AND LONG NOSES AND - WE WERE AT A 30:09 CAMP MEETING UP IN OREGON THIS WEEK - THEY HAD A 30:11 RUSSIAN - UP IN OREGON THIS WEEK AND THEY HAD A 30:13 RUSSIAN WOLFHOUND AND, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKED LIKE AN 30:17 ANTEATER - BIG LONG BENT NOSE ON IT. 30:20 JUST ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF DOGS. 30:23 WELL, HOW DO YOU GET THEM? 30:24 BECAUSE GOD, WHEN HE DESIGNED THE FIRST 30:25 ORIGINAL DOGS - BY THE WAY, GO BACK ONE SLIDE, 30:28 SHERLE - I WANT YOU NOTICE THIS MAGAZINE COVER. 30:30 THIS IS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AND THE TITLE 30:33 OF THIS ARTICLE IS CALLED, ' FROM WOLF TO WOOF - LIKE 30:36 'WOOF-WOOF'. AND THEY SAY THAT THEY CAN 30:39 TRACE THE DNA OF EVERY DOG IN THE WORLD BACK TO TWO 30:41 ORIGINAL DOGS THAT WERE PROBABLY VERY WOLF-LIKE. 30:45 YOU NOTICE THAT IN THE WILD, THE DOGS - LIKE THE 30:48 COYOTES AND THE WOLVES - THEY FARED PRETTY WELL. 30:50 IN THE ORIGINAL DOGS - NOAH DID NOT TAKE, ON THE 30:54 ARK, A DACHSHUND AND A MALTESE AND A GERMAN 30:59 SHEPHERD AND A SAINT BERNARD AND A BEAGLE AND A 31:01 LHASA APSO AND ALL THE OTHER DOGS - HE DIDN'T 31:03 TAKE - HE TOOK TWO DOGS. AND LOOK AT ALL THE 31:07 VARIETY OF PEOPLE. YOU CAN SHOW 31:09 THE NEXT SLIDE. IN THE WORLD THAT WE SEE 31:12 TODAY, HOW MANY PEOPLE DID THEY ALL COME FROM? 31:18 ADAM AND EVE - AND THEN, ONCE AGAIN, FROM EVERYBODY 31:19 THAT WAS ON THE BOAT THAT WAS ON THE ARK. 31:22 AND LOOK AT ALL THE VARIETY. 31:24 I COULD GO AROUND THE WORLD TODAY, YOU KNOW, 31:26 BECAUSE I'VE TRAVELED QUITE A BIT, AND I CAN GO 31:27 TO THE DIFFERENT ISLANDS OF POLYNESIA AND I CAN SEE 31:30 THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FIJIANS AND THE 31:33 SAMOANS, AND THE PEOPLE FROM NEW GUINEA, AND THE 31:37 ABORIGINES AND - IT SAYS BECAUSE OF THE BREEDING 31:43 AND THE GENES, DIFFERENT TRAITS BECOME DOMINANT. 31:46 SO I BELIEVE IN MICRO-EVOLUTION, BUT WHAT 31:50 YOU DO NOT SEE IS SOMETHING THAT IS HALF DOG AND HALF CAT. 31:56 YOU DO NOT SEE CROSSING HAPPENING BETWEEN THE 31:59 TYPES. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. 32:02 AND THE BIBLE SAYS GOD MADE EACH ONE AFTER THEIR 32:04 KIND - WE WOULD SAY 'SPECIES'. 32:07 YOU'LL HAVE GREAT DIVERSITY AMONG THE 32:09 SPECIES, BUT THE SPECIES DO NOT CROSS. 32:12 IN THE FOSSIL RECORD THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THE 32:15 TRANSITIONAL FORMS BETWEEN SPECIES. 32:18 HORSESHOE CRABS ARE STILL HORSESHOE CRABS AND THIS 32:22 IS WHAT THEY SEE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD AS WELL. 32:26 SO THERE ARE MISSING LINKS. 32:30 THE TRANSITIONAL FORMS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT 32:35 CREATURES ARE STILL MISSING. 32:37 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN THE TEXTBOOKS WHERE THEY'VE 32:40 GOT THE, YOU KNOW, MONKEY WALKING ON HIS KNUCKLES 32:42 AND THEN SLOWLY HE STARTS TO WALK A LITTLE MORE ON 32:44 HIS FEET AND HE GETS MORE AND MORE ERECT UNTIL 32:46 YOU'VE GOT HOMO ERECTUS AND THE MAN IS STANDING UP 32:48 AND HE'S GOT THE NORMAL GAIT AND THEY SHOW ALL 32:51 THESE THINGS IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOKS. 32:53 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE CREATURES - THE FOSSIL 32:57 EVIDENCE - IN THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE 33:01 MONKEY AND THE MAN DOES NOT EXIST. 33:05 YOU'LL SEE IN THAT TIME MAGAZINE, ON THE COVER, 33:06 YOU SEE HOW THERE'S PARTICLES OF BONE? 33:09 AND THEN THEY FILL A LOT IN WITH EPOXY AND RESIN. 33:12 LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE PRACTICAL INPUT INTO HOW 33:19 SOME OF THESE SUPPOSED MISSING LINKS ARE FOUND. 33:23 FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS NO COMPLETE SKELETON OF ANY 33:25 MISSING LINK THAT THEY'VE FOUND. NONE. ZERO. 33:28 THEY FIND PIECES OF BONE - YOU WILL HAVE AN 33:32 EXPEDITION WORKING IN AFRICA - THEY ARE BEING 33:33 FUNDED BY A UNIVERSITY OR SOME PRIVATE SUPPORTER OR 33:36 SOME DEEP POCKET, AND THEY ARE DIGGING - LOOKING FOR 33:40 EVIDENCE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. 33:43 AND IF THEY DON'T PRODUCE SOMETHING, THEIR FUNDING 33:46 DRIES UP. THEY ARE EXTREMELY MOTIVATED TO FIND SOMETHING. 33:52 AND SO, WHEN THEY FIND ANY KIND OF ANCIENT GORILLA 33:56 BONE - ORANGUTAN BONE - THEY WILL GET EPOXY AND AN ARTIST. 34:01 THEY BECOME VERY CREATIVE AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, 34:03 THERE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENCE HERE IN THE SKULL SHAPE. 34:06 WE THINK THIS WAS A TRANSITION.' AND THEY 34:09 START TO PUT IT TOGETHER AND THEY HIRE AN ARTIST AND 34:11 THEY DRAW PICTURES ABOUT WHAT MISTER - MISTER LUCY, 34:17 MRS. LUCY, AN ALL THOSE OTHER LITTLE LUCYS LOOKED 34:19 LIKE AND - I'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT HOW I 34:26 SAY THIS, BUT IF YOU LOOK AROUND IN THE WORLD TODAY, 34:31 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND, EVEN IN THIS ROOM, PEOPLE WITH 34:34 ALL DIFFERENT SHAPED SKULLS. NOW DON'T LOOK! 34:37 (LAUGHTER) COULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL SELF-CONSCIOUS. 34:41 (LAUGHTER) SOME PEOPLE, WE'VE GOT DIFFERENT 34:43 FOREHEADS AND DIFFERENT EYEBROWS AND DIFFERENT 34:46 SIZES AND SOME PEOPLE ARE TALL AND SOME PEOPLE ARE 34:49 SHORT AND THAT DOES NOT MEAN, WHEN THEY FIND ONE 34:53 OF THESE - EVEN AMONG GORILLAS THEY FIND 34:55 INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY AMONG THE SKULL SHAPES. 34:58 AND EVEN AMONG HUMANS. THEY PATCH IT TOGETHER, 35:00 THEY CALL IT WHAT THEY WANT, AND THEY SAY, 'WE FOUND THE MISSING 35:02 LINK.' THEY HAVEN'T. WE HAVE COMPLETE SKELETONS 35:05 OF DINOSAURS WITHIN A CERTAIN SPECIES - MANY OF 35:09 THE DINOSAURS - COMPLETE SKELETONS. 35:11 THERE IS NO COMPLETE SKELETON - IF MAN HAS BEEN AROUND 35:15 FOR THE MILLIONS OF YEARS THAT THEY TELL US, THEN 35:18 HOW COME WE CAN'T FIND ONE COMPLETE SKELETON. 35:20 WE JUST FIND THESE LITTLE PIECES AND A LOT OF 35:22 IMAGINATION AND THEY CREATE IT. 35:24 IT'S JUST NOT THERE, FRIENDS. 35:28 AND, BY THE WAY, JUST BECAUSE THEY FIND BONES IN A CAVE 35:32 DOESN'T MEAN THAT CAVEMEN LIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. 35:34 YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMEONE WHO LIVED IN A CAVE AND 35:36 HERE WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, RIGHT? 35:39 (LAUGHTER) SO JUST BECAUSE THEY FIND - DOESN'T MEAN 35:42 EVERYONE - THERE WERE PEOPLE LIVING IN CAVES THE 35:44 SAME TIME THEY HAD PEOPLE BUILDING PYRAMIDS. 35:47 IT DOESN'T MEAN ONE EVOLVED FROM THE OTHER. 35:49 THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN VERY SOPHISTICATED 35:50 CITIES TODAY AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN CAVES 35:53 TODAY - SAME TIME IN HISTORY. WELL, SOME SAY BECAUSE 35:57 THERE'S SIMILARITY AMONG SPECIES - AND THERE ARE 36:00 CERTAIN SIMILARITIES AMONG SPECIES - THAT MEANS THAT 36:02 THEY ALL EVOLVED FROM A COMMON SOURCE. 36:06 NOW I JUST PUT A PICTURE UP HERE ON THE SCREEN. 36:08 YOU'VE GOT A CORVETTE, YOU'VE GOT A FORD 350 36:13 TRUCK, AND YOU'VE GOT A YAMAHA MOTORCYCLE. 36:16 THEY ALL WERE MADE AT DIFFERENT FACTORIES. 36:20 DO THEY HAVE CERTAIN THINGS IN COMMON? 36:23 >>YES. >>NOW LET'S THINK ABOUT IT. 36:26 DO THEY ALL HAVE LIKE RUBBER TIRES - OR AT LEAST 36:29 SOME DERIVATIVE OF THAT? >>YES. 36:31 >>DO THEY ALL HAVE INTERNAL COMBUSTION 36:33 SYSTEMS? >>YES. 36:35 >>UNLESS ONE OF THEM WAS ELECTRONIC - AND THAT 36:37 WOULD BE A SHAME. (LAUGHTER) DO THEY ALL HAVE ELECTRICAL - 36:41 LIKE LIGHTING SYSTEMS? >>YES. 36:44 >>DO THEY HAVE AN EXHAUST SYSTEM AND AN INTAKE SYSTEM? 36:49 THEY'VE GOT A LUBRICATION SYSTEM. 36:51 THEY'VE GOT AN ACCELERATION - ACCELERATOR? 36:57 DO THEY HAVE BRAKING SYSTEMS? >>YES. 36:59 >>THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS I CAN POINT OUT 37:00 THAT ARE IN COMMON. THE ONLY THING IS, I DON'T 37:02 KNOW THAT THE MOTORCYCLE'S GOT A WINDSHIELD WIPER, 37:05 BUT THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE IN COMMON. 37:07 WHY DO THEY HAVE ALL THESE THINGS IN COMMON? 37:09 OBVIOUSLY, THAT PICK-UP TRUCK WAS ONCE A CORVETTE 37:13 THAT CAME FROM THE MOTORCYCLE THAT ORIGINATED 37:16 WITH A ROLLER SKATE. (LAUGHTER) NO, THE REASON 37:20 THEY SHARE SO MANY THINGS IN COMMON IS BECAUSE THEY 37:22 ALL OPERATE IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT. 37:26 THEY ALL OPERATE UNDER CERTAIN LAWS AND SO THEY 37:30 SHARE A LOT OF THINGS IN COMMON. 37:31 THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE TAILLIGHTS TO SAY WHEN 37:33 THEY'RE BRAKING. THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE 37:34 HEADLIGHTS SO THEY CAN DRIVE AT NIGHT. 37:36 WHY DO YOU FIND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PEOPLE AND MONKEYS AND 37:41 DOGS AND CATS? THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS 37:44 THEY HAVE IN COMMON, NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 37:46 BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE BY THE SAME GOD WHO SAID, 'I 37:49 THINK I'LL MAKE ONE WITH A LITTLE DIFFERENCE THIS WAY 37:52 AND, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO ADD THIS. 37:53 THIS CREATURE - I'LL MAKE IT DIFFERENT BUT SOME 37:55 SIMILARITIES, LIKE I'M GOING TO ADD THAT AND THIS 37:56 AND MAKE THIS AND - AND THEY ALL LIVE IN THE SAME 38:00 ENVIRONMENT. WE NEED SYSTEMS TO PROPEL 38:02 OURSELVES SO WE'VE ALL GOT LEGS OR FINS OR WINGS. 38:05 YOU KNOW, WHAT'S AMAZING TO ME? FLYING FISH. 38:10 GOD MADE FISH THAT KEPT JUMPING OUT OF THE WATER 38:14 SO LONG THAT AFTER MILLIONS OF YEARS THEY 38:15 DEVELOPED AERODYNAMIC DESIGN? 38:18 NO, I'M BEING FACETIOUS - PLEASE. 38:21 BUT THE IDEA THAT THERE ARE FISH THAT FLY. 38:25 THERE ARE - THEY DON'T REALLY FLY, THEY GLIDE - 38:28 THEY DON'T FLAP, BUT THEY GLIDE A LONG WAY. I'VE SEEN THEM. 38:30 THERE ARE SQUIRRELS THAT FLY. 38:35 WHY DO SOME FLY AND OTHERS DON'T? 38:38 THERE ARE SNAKES IN INDONESIA THAT JUMP FROM 38:40 TREES AND THEY CAN FLATTEN THEIR RIBCAGE AND 38:42 GLIDE. THEY'VE GOT FROGS THAT 38:44 WILL SPREAD OUT THEIR TOES AND FLY. 38:48 BUT WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING TO ME IS THE BIRDS THAT FLY. 38:52 NOW YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY MANY TIMES, I'M A PILOT SO 38:56 I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT I KNOW A LITTLE BIT 38:57 ABOUT AERODYNAMIC DESIGN AND WHAT'S REQUIRED IN 39:01 ORDER TO ACHIEVE AND TO MAINTAIN - IT'S IMPORTANT 39:04 TO MAINTAIN FLIGHT WHEN YOU'RE A PILOT - 39:06 >>YES. (LAUGHTER) 39:08 >>AND WHAT'S NEEDED FOR THAT. 39:11 THE IDEA THAT LIZARDS COULD JUST KEEP RUNNING 39:14 OFF CLIFFS AND SOMEHOW, BEFORE THEY CRASHED ON THE 39:17 BOTTOM, DEVELOP SOMETHING AERODYNAMIC AND HOLLOW 39:23 BONES AND FEATHERS AND PASS THAT ON TO THEIR OFFSPRING. 39:26 YOU CAN GIVE ME BILLIONS OF YEARS AND I JUST CAN'T 39:28 SEE ANY SCENARIO WHERE THAT WOULD HAPPEN. 39:32 THE BIBLE SAYS THE LORD MADE THE FISH AND HE MADE 39:34 THE BIRDS AND HE MADE - HE ACTUALLY, KIND OF, MADE 39:38 CREATURES IN ORDER OF THEIR IMPORTANCE AND 39:40 COMPLEXITY, MAKING FIRST THE ENVIRONMENT - HE MADE 39:44 THE VEGETATION AND THEN HE MADE - OH, PEOPLE SAY, 39:46 'PASTOR DOUG, GOD DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE SUN 'TIL THE 39:51 FOURTH DAY.' THAT'S ONE REASON I DON'T BELIEVE IN 39:53 THIS LONG SCHEME WHERE EACH OF THE DAYS OF CREATION WERE 39:56 ACTUALLY LONG EPICS OF THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF YEARS. 39:59 GOD MAKES THE VEGETATION ON THE THIRD DAY AND HE 40:01 DOESN'T MAKE THE SUN UNTIL THE FOURTH DAY. 40:03 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, HOW DO YOU HAVE GOD SAYING 'LET 40:07 THERE BE LIGHT' IF HE DIDN'T MAKE THE SUN? 40:09 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GOD IS LIGHT. 40:11 IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS.' AND WHEN GOD CAME TO THIS 40:13 DARK ORB AND SET IT TURNING, HE SEPARATED DAY 40:16 FROM NIGHT AND HE MADE THE VEGETATION ON THE THIRD DAY. 40:19 AND AS THE WORLD'S GOING AROUND - DAY 1 - DAY 2 - 40:21 DAY 3 - IT'S SHINING AGAINST HIM. HE IS THE SON OF 40:24 RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT ARISES WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS. 40:27 THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. HE GETS TO DAY FOUR AND 40:30 HE MAKES OUR GALAXY, I BELIEVE, WITH THE SUN, 40:33 THE MOON, AND THE STARS. I BELIEVE THERE ARE MANY 40:34 OTHER GALAXIES THAT PRE-EXISTED OUR WORLD. 40:37 I BELIEVE THERE'S LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS AND OTHER 40:39 PARTS OF THE UNFALLEN UNIVERSE. 40:43 AND HE MAKES THINGS IN THEIR COMPLEXITY AND HE 40:46 MAKES THE PLANTS - THE DIRT FIRST, AND THEN THE 40:48 WATER, AND THEN THE PLANTS, AND THEN MAKES THE 40:51 SEA CREATURES AND THE LAND CREATURES AND HE MAKES MAN 40:55 AND, THE MOST COMPLEX OF ALL, HE MAKES WOMAN, 40:58 FINALLY, (LAUGHTER) AT THE END. TRUE. NO, IT IS TRUE. 41:02 A WOMAN'S BODY IS MUCH MORE COMPLEX THAN A MAN'S. 41:05 AND SO GOD DOES ALL THIS AS THE CROWNING ACT OF HIS 41:09 CREATION - MAKES MAN IN HIS IMAGE. 41:11 THAT GIVES YOU SOME PURPOSE - >>AMEN. 41:13 >>IN LIFE - THAT YOU COME FROM GOD AND WE WILL - 41:16 GOD HIMSELF WILL LIVE WITH US. 41:18 WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO GOD. 41:19 SO DON'T BE DECEIVED BY SOME OF THAT CONFUSION. 41:24 YEAH, THERE'S SIMILARITIES - AND THEN THERE'S THE 41:26 DATING DILEMMA - THIS IS SO IMPORTANT - I'VE ONLY 41:28 GOT A FEW MOMENTS TO TALK ABOUT IT. 41:30 THE WHOLE EVOLUTIONARY SCHEME RISES OR FALLS ON THE DATING. 41:38 SINCE WE CANNOT OBSERVE ANY SPONTANEOUS LIFE 41:42 HAPPENING, WE CANNOT PRODUCE ANY SPONTANEOUS 41:44 LIFE HAPPENING ANYWHERE IN OUR WORLD. 41:46 IN ORDER FOR IT TO HAPPEN, THE WAY THAT THAT'S 41:49 ACHIEVED IS JUST SAY, 'WE'VE GOT MILLIONS OF 41:51 YEARS - MILLIONS OF YEARS HAVE GONE BY BUT THE 41:58 DATING METHODS THEY USE - CARBON-14 DATING, RADIO 42:01 ISOTOPE DATING - THEY'RE ALL ASSUMING THAT THE 42:05 ENVIRONMENT IS THE SAME TODAY AS IT WAS 6,000 42:09 YEARS AGO. AND THE BIBLE SAYS IT 42:11 WAS RADICALLY DIFFERENT. LET ME READ SOMETHING 42:13 TO YOU FROM COMPTON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA . 42:17 "N-14" - OR CARBON-14 - "INTERACTS WITH COSMIC RAYS. 42:21 SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT COSMIC RAYS HAVE BEEN BOMBARDING 42:25 THE ATMOSPHERE EVER SINCE THE EARTH WAS FORMED." 42:28 - THEY'RE BELIEVING IT'S CONSTANT - "WHILE THE 42:30 AMOUNT OF NITROGEN IN THE ATMOSPHERE HAS REMAINED 42:32 CONSTANT," - THEY'RE ASSUMING THAT; THEY DON'T 42:34 KNOW - "CONSEQUENTLY, C-14" - OR CARBON 14 42:38 FORMATION - "IS THOUGHT TO OCCUR AT A CONSTANT RATE. 42:42 ALTHOUGH THE CURRENT RATIO OF C-14 TO OTHER CARBON 42:44 ATOMS IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS KNOWN, SCIENTISTS ARE NOT 42:48 CERTAIN THAT THIS RATIO HAS BEEN CONSTANT. 42:51 ERRORS IN RADIO CARBON DATING CAN BE CAUSED BY 42:54 INACCURATE RADIATION OR PARTICLE COUNTS, 42:56 CONTAMINATION OF A SAMPLE WITH MORE MODERN CARBON 42:59 AND STRAY RADIATION STRIKING THE COUNTER USING 43:02 RELATIVE DATING METHODS, SCIENTISTS ARE ABLE TO 43:04 DISTINGUISH WHICH EVENTS OCCURRED, BUT THEY'RE NOT 43:07 ALWAYS ABLE TO ESTABLISH EXACTLY WHEN THEY 43:09 OCCURRED." YOU KNOW HOW MOST OF THE DATING - THE ANCIENT DATING 43:13 - IS ACHIEVED? YOU'VE GOT TO LISTEN CAREFULLY. 43:16 THEY FIND A FOSSIL WITHIN A CERTAIN STRATA, AT A 43:21 CERTAIN DEPTH, IN THE EARTH. 43:23 AND THEY SAY, 'BECAUSE IT WAS FOUND AT THIS DEPTH, 43:25 IT MUST BE THIS MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.' 43:29 'WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THAT DEPTH IS THAT 43:32 MANY MILLIONS OR THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD?' 43:35 'BECAUSE OF THE FOSSILS WE FOUND THERE. 43:37 THESE ARE VERY ANCIENT FOSSILS AND WE FOUND THEM 43:40 AT THAT DEPTH. THAT DEPTH MUST REPRESENT 43:42 A VERY LONG TIME AGO.' 'WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW 43:46 THAT THAT DEPTH IS SO ANCIENT?' 43:49 'BECAUSE OF THE FOSSILS WE FOUND THERE.' 'AND HOW DO 43:52 YOU KNOW THOSE FOSSILS ARE SO OLD?' 43:53 'BECAUSE OF HOW DEEP WE FOUND THEM.' (LAUGHTER) 43:56 THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL CIRCULAR REASONING. 43:59 IT ALL DEPENDS ON 'IS THE RADIOCARBON-14 DATING ACCURATE?' 44:06 THEY CAN ONLY ASSUME IT'S ACCURATE BASED ON WHAT 44:10 THEY TEST IN THE MODERN ENVIRONMENT. 44:13 I'VE GOT A CANDLE ON THE SCREEN THERE. 44:14 LET ME EXPLAIN. YOU WALK INTO A ROOM, YOU 44:16 SEE A CANDLE BURNING, AND YOU SHUT THE DOOR. 44:18 I SAY, 'HOW LONG WAS THAT CANDLE BURNING?' 44:20 YOU'LL SAY, 'WELL, LET ME MEASURE HOW QUICKLY I SEE 44:24 IT BURN AND THAT MIGHT GIVE ME SOME IDEA ABOUT 44:27 HOW LONG THE CANDLE WAS BURNING.' BUT I SAY, 'NO, 44:30 WAIT A SECOND, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TALL IT WAS WHEN 44:33 IT STARTED. FURTHERMORE, YOU DON'T 44:36 KNOW IF IT'S BURNING AT THE SAME RATE NOW AS IT 44:39 WAS BEFORE YOU WALKED IN THE ROOM. 44:41 WHEN YOU WALKED IN THE ROOM YOU MAY HAVE CHANGED 44:42 HOW MUCH OXYGEN WAS IN THE ROOM.' THERE ARE SO MANY 44:46 VARIABLES THAT MAKE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO 44:48 KNOW WITH CERTAINTY, HOW QUICKLY THAT CANDLE HAS 44:50 BEEN BURNING. THAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT 44:53 THEY'VE GOT WITH THE DATING METHODS. NEXT SLIDE - I WANT TO 44:56 SHOW YOU SOMETHING. A FEW YEARS AGO THEY FOUND 45:01 A TYRANNOSAURUS REX THIGH BONE IN MONTANA. 45:05 AND THEN THE PALEONTOLOGIST AND THE 45:07 LABORATORY, THEY CUT, WITH A VERY FINE SAW, A 45:09 CROSS-SECTION, STUCK IT UNDER A MICROSCOPE, AND 45:12 THEY GASPED WHEN THEY SAW, IN THIS THIGH BONE - 45:16 OSTENSIBLY 65 MILLION YEARS OLD - RED BLOOD 45:21 CELLS AND SOFT TISSUE. THEY PULLED A PARTICLE OF THE TISSUE 45:27 APART - AND THIS HAS NOT BEEN PRODUCED BY CREATIONISTS, THIS 45:30 IS PRODUCED BY THE PALEONTOLOGISTS - AND 45:33 THEY SAW IT WAS ELASTIC. IT STILL HAD 45:36 RESILIENCE TO IT. BECAUSE IT WAS SO DEEP IN 45:39 A VERY LARGE BONE, IT HAD NOT FULLY PETRIFIED. 45:43 THEN THEY STARTED TO DREAM ABOUT JURASSIC PARK - 45:45 COULD THEY EXTRACT DNA AND START - INJECT IT WITH AN 45:48 ALLIGATOR OR SOMETHING TO MAKE A NEW MODERN DINOSAUR. 45:51 THEY GOT VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, BUT THEN THEY 45:53 REALIZED, 'WOW, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM. 45:55 WE'VE BEEN SAYING THESE CREATURES WERE EXTINCT 65 45:58 MILLION YEARS AGO.' YOU GO TO YOUR REFRIGERATOR AFTER 46:02 A MILLION YEARS AND YOU SEE HOW ELASTIC THINGS ARE. 46:08 YOU GO TO THEM AFTER TEN MILLION YEARS - DO YOU 46:12 KNOW HOW LONG 65 MILLION YEARS IS? 46:14 I HOPE TO FIND OUT SOME DAY, AMEN? 46:17 >>AMEN. >>BUT IT IS FANTASY SCIENCE TO 46:24 BELIEVE THAT THESE THINGS HAVE GONE THAT LONG. 46:26 AND, YOU KNOW, WHY - WHY WOULD SOME MONKEYS STOP AS MONKEYS? 46:32 IF THERE'S THIS, SOMEHOW, NATURAL DRIVING FORCE TO 46:37 MAKE CREATURES MORE INTELLIGENT AND MORE 46:40 SOPHISTICATED, WHY DID SOME STOP AS HORSESHOE CRABS? 46:46 WHY WERE THEY CONTENT TO STAY THERE? 46:48 WHY DID SOME GO INTO MAMMALS AND BIRDS AND TURN INTO HUMANS? 46:53 WHY DO HUMANS HAVE TEN PERCENT - ONLY USE ABOUT 46:56 TEN PERCENT OF THEIR BRAINS IN THEIR LIFE? 46:58 WHY WOULD WE DEVELOP 80 PERCENT WE DON'T USE? 47:03 MAYBE WE WERE MEANT TO LIVE LONGER. 47:06 WHY DO FISH LIVE LONGER THAN US? 47:08 THERE ARE CERTAIN PIKE - A BOWHEAD WHALE CAN LIVE 200 47:12 YEARS. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? IT'S NOT FAIR. 47:17 IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, FRIENDS. 47:21 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW OLD THINGS ARE - TO DO 47:23 REAL SCIENCE - YOU KNOW HOW GOOD SCIENTISTS WOULD MEASURE? 47:26 THEY WOULD DEVELOP THEIR THEORY AND THEN THEY WOULD 47:28 GO BACK 65 MILLION YEARS AND SAY, 'SURE ENOUGH, 47:31 THIS IS WHEN IT STARTED.' WE HAVE NO WAY TO GO BACK 47:34 IN TIME AND TEST THE THEORY OF TIMING THAT FAR BACK. 47:39 AND SO, IT IS NOTHING BUT A THEORY. 47:42 YOU'RE MOCKED IF YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT'S 47:44 STILL A THEORY. YOU'RE BEING TOLD IT'S 47:46 A FACT BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO REMOVE GOD 47:49 FROM THE EQUATION. THEY'RE TRYING TO GET GOD 47:52 OUT OF THE - THE REALITY OF THINGS EXISTING. 47:59 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE - JUST A COUPLE MORE THOUGHTS HERE. 48:01 I KNOW I'VE GONE A LITTLE OVER, BUT I HOPE YOU DON'T 48:03 MIND. I WON'T DO THIS AGAIN. 48:07 ONE OF THE THINGS THEY SAY - I'LL TELL YOU TWO MORE 48:10 THINGS - LIGHT - WHEN LIGHT COMES FROM THE SUN - 48:16 LIGHT TRAVELS 186,000 MILES PER SECOND. 48:20 EVOLUTIONISTS WILL ARGUE - THEY'LL SAY, 'THE LIGHT 48:23 THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FROM THE STARS DID NOT EVEN 48:26 LEAVE THE STARS UNTIL MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. 48:28 HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT IT'S ONLY 6,000 YEARS OLD?' 48:31 THEY FORGET THE BELLY BUTTON EFFECT. 48:36 WHEN GOD MADE ADAM, WAS ADAM MADE WITH A BELLY 48:40 BUTTON? HOW DO YOU KNOW? 48:44 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A BELLY BUTTON? 48:49 WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO A SCIENTIFIC TEST OF THAT, 48:51 BUT WE'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT. 48:53 BUT YOU SAY ADAM DID NOT HAVE ONE. 48:57 WE DON'T KNOW. TREE RINGS - DID THE FIRST 49:01 TREES THAT GOD CREATE HAVE RINGS ALREADY IN THEM? 49:04 IF - IF - YOU'VE GOT THESE MASSIVE TREES THAT GOD 49:07 SPOKE. DID ADAM HAVE TO LEARN HOW 49:09 TO WALK OR DID GOD MAKE HIM KNOWING HOW TO WALK? 49:12 HOW MANY AGREE HE CAME FACTORY INSTALLED WITH 49:14 CERTAIN SOFTWARE THAT HE KNEW HOW TO WALK. 49:17 DID HE KNOW HOW TO TALK? RIGHT FROM THE FACTORY? 49:19 SO GOD HAS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THINGS WITH A 49:24 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF AGE BUILT IN THEM. 49:26 HE COULD SPEAK - MAKES A MAN FULL GROWN. 49:29 HE DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE REGULAR PROCESS, HE WAS 49:31 ALREADY - A TREE CAN BE MADE WITH RINGS IN IT THAT 49:33 GIVE IT EVIDENCE OF AGE BUT USUALLY 49:36 DENDROCHRONOLOGISTS, THEY STUDY - THEY COUNT THE 49:39 RINGS IN THE TREE TO FIGURE OUT HOW OLD IT IS, 49:42 BUT GOD CAN MAKE A TREE WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 49:43 RINGS IN IT, RIGHT? THE LIGHT - CAN GOD CREATE 49:48 A STAR WITH A LIGHT ALREADY EN ROUTE? SURE. 49:53 HOW ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO ENJOY THE LIGHT ON EARTH 49:54 UNLESS HE MAKES IT WHERE THE LIGHT RAYS ARE ALREADY 49:55 COMING TO YOU SO YOU CAN SPARKLE AND SAY, 49:57 'THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!' YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 50:00 GOD - THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN CREATION BELIEVE GOD MADE 50:02 THINGS WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ACTION ALREADY 50:05 HAPPENING IN THEM - A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF BUILT-IN AGE. 50:08 ADAM WAS NOT MADE SIX MONTHS OLD. 50:10 ADAM WAS MADE 58 YEARS OLD. 50:14 NO, HE WAS MADE FULL GROWN. RIGHT? 50:19 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT AROUND THE WORLD 50:21 CIVILIZATION SUDDENLY SPRANG OUT OF NOWHERE? 50:24 YOU GO BACK 4,000 YEARS, 5,000 YEARS AND YOU'RE 50:28 SEEING MAN HAS SUDDENLY TAKEN THIS LEAP, ACCORDING 50:32 TO THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS, FROM DRAGGING HIS KNUCKLES 50:35 AND STONE TOOLS, TO INCREDIBLE SOPHISTICATION 50:39 AND MATHEMATICAL ABILITY WHERE HE'S BUILDING THESE 50:41 AMAZING MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD. 50:43 THIS IS, OF COURSE, THE GREAT PYRAMIDS. 50:45 I'VE BEEN INSIDE THERE. 50:46 THERE ON THE RIGHT YOU'LL SEE - THAT'S CALLED NAN 50:48 MADOL - THEY CALL IT THE VENICE OF THE PACIFIC. 50:50 IT'S AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN POHNPEI, 50:53 WHICH IS THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM ANYTHING. 50:55 THEY DON'T KNOW HOW THEY MOVED - THOSE STONES ARE 50:56 ENORMOUS - SOME OF THEM 50 TONS. 50:59 THEY DON'T KNOW HOW THE ISLANDERS MOVED THEM. 51:01 YOU ASK THE ISLANDERS; THEY DON'T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED. 51:03 WE'RE NOT GETTING MORE GOD-LIKE. 51:05 WE STARTED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 51:07 WE'RE GETTING MORE MONKEY LIKE. IT'S CALLED ENTROPY. 51:12 MAN USED TO LIVE HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 51:15 HE WAS INFINITELY MORE SOPHISTICATED AND 51:18 INTELLIGENT. WE'VE BEEN LOSING IT. 51:21 NOW, I KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH A THING WITH 51:22 TECHNOLOGY WHERE WE'RE HAVING A SURGE RIGHT NOW 51:24 BUT, YOU KNOW, MAN'S AGE FOR THE LAST SEVERAL 51:29 THOUSAND YEARS HAS BEEN THREE SCORE AND TEN AND - 51:33 NOW GO BACK TO THE GLACIER GIRL. 51:34 LET ME TELL YOU THIS STORY. 51:37 BACK IN 1942, A SQUADRON OF SIX P-38 LOCKHEED 51:41 AIRCRAFT WERE ON THEIR WAY TO GERMANY. 51:43 THEY NEEDED TO RESUPPLY PLANES FOR A BATTLE IN EUROPE. 51:47 THEY GOT LOST IN BAD WEATHER. THEY RAN OUT FUEL CIRCLING 51:50 AROUND BECAUSE THEY LOST RADIO CONTACT. 51:52 THEY FINALLY DECIDED THE ONLY THING TO DO WAS TO DITCH. 51:55 THEY DITCHED IN THE SNOW IN GREENLAND ON A GLACIER 52:00 SOMEWHERE. THEY ALL SURVIVED. ONE PLANE FLIPPED OVER. 52:03 ALL OF THE PILOTS - THE FIRST ONE HAD HIS WHEELS 52:05 DOWN WHEN HE CAME DOWN. THAT WAS BAD - HE FLIPPED 52:08 OVER - BUT HE WAS ONLY MINOR INJURIES. 52:11 THE OTHERS LEFT THEIR WHEELS UP - THEY SLID IN - 52:12 THEY LANDED. THEY WERE EVENTUALLY RESCUED. 52:15 WEATHER CLEARED. THEY GOT RADIO CONTACT. 52:16 THEY CAME AND THEY RESCUED THEM. THE WAR WENT ON. 52:18 THE PLANES GOT COVERED WITH SNOW. 52:22 SOME AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS, YEARS LATER, SAID - IT WAS 52:25 ON RECORD - THEY SAID, 'WE THINK WE KNOW WHERE THEY 52:26 WENT DOWN. THOSE PLANES WOULD BE SO 52:28 VALUABLE NOW BECAUSE THEY WERE BRAND-NEW P-38S. 52:31 LET'S GO DIG THEM UP AND FIND THEM.' THEY SPENT 52:33 YEARS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS - THESE WERE SOME 52:36 RICH AVIATION GUYS - FINDING THE PLANES. 52:39 THEY FINALLY, USING GROUND PENETRATING SONAR - THEY 52:42 FOUND THE PLANES 260 FEET BELOW THE SURFACE. 52:49 NOW I'LL TELL YOU WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT. 52:51 A LOT OF EVOLUTIONISTS SAY, 'WE KNOW HOW OLD THE 52:54 WORLD IS BECAUSE WE COUNT THE RINGS OF ICE IN THE 52:57 ARCTIC LAYERS AND EACH ONE OF THOSE LAYERS, THOSE 53:01 LINES, REPRESENTS A YEAR. THEY FOUND THESE PLANES 53:06 DOWN 20,000 YEARS IN THE ICE. 53:12 THEY LATER CAME TO DISCOVER THOSE LINES DID 53:14 NOT REPRESENT YEARS, THEY REPRESENTED SNOW STORMS. 53:18 IN ONE YEAR YOU CAN HAVE DOZENS OF SNOW STORMS IN 53:21 THAT ENVIRONMENT AND THEN IT WOULD THAW A LITTLE BIT 53:23 AND YOU'D GET A LITTLE LINE IN IT. 53:25 IT WOULD GET COLD AGAIN AND WARM AGAIN AND IT LEFT 53:27 LINES. YOU CAN SEE IT IN ONE 53:29 WINTER ON TOP OF YOUR CAR. 260 FEET DOWN THEY 53:36 RECOVERED THE PLANES. THEY GOT ONE OF THEM. 53:38 THEY GOT ALL THE PIECES OF ENOUGH TO MAKE ONE PLANE. 53:41 THIS IS THE RESTORED PLANE. 53:42 THEY CALL IT THE GLACIER GIRL AND IT STILL FLIES 53:44 AROUND TO AIR SHOWS TODAY. THERE'S A LOT OF FANTASY 53:48 THAT HAS GONE INTO WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT IN THE WORLD. 53:51 I DON'T BELIEVE MOST CONSPIRACIES. EXCEPT ONE. 53:56 THERE IS A VERY REAL CONSPIRACY AMONG THE ACADEMIA OF THE WORLD 54:00 TODAY TO PUSH A COUNTERFEIT VIEW OF ORIGIN ON THE WORLD AS THE 54:06 ONLY SOLUTION. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CAME 54:10 OUT WITH A MAGAZINE THAT SAYS, 'WAS DARWIN RIGHT?' 54:13 BEFORE THE GIVE ANY EVIDENCE, YOU OPEN TO THE 54:14 PAGE OF THE ARTICLE AND IT SAYS - 'WAS DARWIN WRONG?' 54:19 - AND THE ARTICLE SAYS, 'NO. EVOLUTION IS A FACT.' THEY 54:22 HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ANY EVIDENCE. 54:24 IT'S BEING TAUGHT AS A FACT, BUT WHEN YOU REALLY 54:27 THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S NOT LOGICAL, FRIENDS. 54:30 I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN'T EXPLAIN. 54:35 DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM EXPLAINING THINGS ABOUT 54:36 GOD? A LITTLE BIT. WHERE DID GOD COME FROM? 54:41 I DON'T KNOW. BUT YOU ASK EVOLUTIONISTS 54:44 'WHERE DID THINGS COME FROM?' 54:46 'WELL, WORLD CAME FROM THE SUN WHEN IT EXPLODED AND 54:50 IT WAS SENT HURLING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT INTO 54:53 SPACE AND - ' 'WHERE'D OUR SUN COME FROM?' 54:56 'WELL, IT CAME FROM A SUPER NOVA OUT THERE IN 54:58 THE UNIVERSE WHEN A STAR EXPLODED.' 55:00 'WHERE'D THAT STAR COME FROM?' 'WELL, IT CAME FROM GAS 55:02 PARTICLES THAT COLLIDED.' 'WHERE'D THAT COME FROM?' 55:08 'WELL, WE - 'AND EVENTUALLY, DO YOU KNOW 55:10 WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY? 'THERE'S A MYSTERY. 55:12 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SOMETHING CAME FROM.' NOW 55:14 THEY SAY THE BIG BANG - GET THIS - THEY SAY THE 55:16 BIG BANG WAS - ALL THE MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE WAS 55:19 SOMEHOW COMPRESSED TO SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THE 55:21 HEAD OF A PIN. HOW MANY OF YOU 55:23 HAVE HEARD THAT ONE? AND IT EXPLODED. 55:25 WHERE DID THE PINHEAD OF MATERIAL COME FROM? 55:30 EITHER WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO COME TO ONE OF TWO 55:32 CHOICES: YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT ALL BEAUTY AND ALL 55:35 THE ORGANIZATION AND ALL THE WONDERS AND ALL THE 55:37 INTERWORKING DESIGN AND ALL THE SYMMETRY AND ALL 55:39 THE MATH AND THE HEALING AND THE SYMBIOTIC 55:43 RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WORLD AROUND US TODAY ALL CAME 55:46 FROM A PINHEAD THAT EXPLODED, OR THERE'S AN 55:50 INTELLIGENT GOD AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE CAME 55:52 FROM BECAUSE HE IS FROM EVERLASTING TO 55:54 EVERLASTING. >>AMEN. 55:56 >>AND THAT MEANS, IF THERE IS A GOD AND HE DID MAKE 55:58 THINGS THE WAY HE SAYS IN THE BIBLE, THEN LIFE IS A 56:00 MIRACLE AND IT IS A GIFT AND YOU KNOW WHERE YOU 56:04 CAME FROM. YOU WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE 56:06 OF GOD AND HE WANTS TO DWELL WITH YOU. 56:08 YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING. 56:09 HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE FOREVER. 56:11 THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE IS 56:13 THROUGH JESUS AND BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN JESUS COMES 56:15 HE HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE. KNOWING WHERE YOU CAME 56:19 FROM MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. 56:21 I BELIEVE THAT GOD MADE US, FRIENDS. 56:22 WHAT DO YOU THINK? >>AMEN. 56:24 >>I BELIEVE IT WAS A MIRACLE. 56:26 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 56:29 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY 56:30 MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE 56:33 AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 56:38 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO 56:42 PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE 56:45 OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM 56:49 YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 56:51 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. >>DID YOU KNOW THIS BOAT 56:57 COULD SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH 20,000 PEOPLE? 57:00 OR A CAR LIKE THIS ONE COULD REACH 10,000 SOULS 57:03 SEEKING HOPE IN JESUS. 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