The world was shocked
when Hubble discovered that
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the universe had a beginning.
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People started, many of the
evolutionists started saying,
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"Oh no, the creationists
will take advantage of this."
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Because they had heard about
Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning
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God created the
heavens and the earth."
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There's an interesting
story told by Dr. Stephen Meyer.
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Einstein had heard about this
and he was troubled about it.
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So he tried to put
together a formula to show that
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this really wasn't true
and that the universe had
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been here all
along and it was eternal.
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But he was invited out to look
through Mr. Hubble's telescope.
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There's a newsreel of
actually Einstein coming out
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after looking at the telescope.
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And Einstein comes out and he
says, "I now see the necessity
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of a beginning."
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And then later he said his
fudge factor that he invented
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to keep matter eternal was
one of the greatest mistakes
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of his scientific career.
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So if the
universe had a beginning,
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then it no doubt had a Creator.
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And that's exactly what
the late Stephen Hawkins said
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in his, Brief History of Time.
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Quoting, "So long as the
universe had a beginning,
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we could suppose..."
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And Stephen Hawkins,
it seemed like he could
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never make up his mind.
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"...we could suppose
that it had a creator."
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Well I think Stephen
Hawkins was on to something.
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Genesis certainly
said that it had a Creator.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Now we also live in a
finely tuned universe.
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I've referred to
that several times because
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God runs His universe by laws.
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And He runs our life by law.
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That's to preserve our
freedom and to keep life.
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You have to
protect life with laws.
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And that's how God does it.
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Now our
universe is finely tuned.
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If you just move the
moon just a little tiny bit,
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then life will
cease to exist on earth.
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If you move the
solar system just a hair,
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life will cease
to exist on earth.
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Just change the expanse of the
universe, and the same thing.
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It's just really, not
just a little bit finely tuned,
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this thing is so finely
tuned that they're saying
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it's like 10 to the 37th power.
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I'm going to explain what
that means in just a moment.
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But it's a measurement
that is so fine and so careful.
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But the universe, it
has at least 200 of these
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that they've discovered,
200 of these finely tuned things
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that keep it in balance.
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So what does it mean
that it's finely tuned
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to 10 to the 37th power?
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Well if you were to cover
the North American continent
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in dimes all
the way to the moon,
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which is 239,000 miles...
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By the way, in
comparison, the federal deficit
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or the federal debt
would cover one square mile
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less than two
feet deep with dimes.
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So that gives you
kind of a comparison.
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Next, after you cover the
American continent with dimes
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all the way to the moon,
pile dimes from here to the moon
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on a billion other continents...
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...the size of North America.
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Paint one of those dimes
red in all of those billions
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or probably trillions of
dimes, paint one of them red,
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blindfold a person,
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and ask him to
pick out the red dime.
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His chances of
picking out that red dime
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are 10 to the 37th power.
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In other words,
it's really impossible.
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Fred Hoyle, a
British astrophysicist,
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said this, very
fascinating what he says.
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He says, "A common sense
interpretation of the facts
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suggests that a super intellect
has monkeyed with physics,
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as well as
chemistry and biology,
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and that there are
no blind forces..."
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See, evolution is
based on blind forces.
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"...there are no blind forces
worth speaking about in nature.
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The numbers one
calculates from the facts
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seem to me so overwhelming
as to put this conclusion
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beyond question."
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In other words, a
super intelligence
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has put this together
and fine-tuned the universe.
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Arthur Schawlow, if
I've said that correctly,
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professor of physics
at Stanford University,
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he's a 1981 Nobel
Prize winner in physics,
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he said this about the universe.
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He says, "It seems to
me when confronted with the
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marvels of life
and the universe,
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one must ask this question:
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It's not just why, but how
did all of this come about?"
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He says, "The only
possible answers are religious."
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He said, "I find a
need for God in the universe
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and in my own life."
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What a wonderful testimony.
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There was, some time
back when they discovered
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the universe had a
beginning, there was a picture
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made by someone that here
were scientists working so hard
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and they were trying to
find out all about the universe.
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And they climbed
up the final hill,
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and just as they got over
the hill they found a bunch of
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theologians on the other side.
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Well the answers are found in
Scripture, because it's clear.
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Here's George
Greenstein, he's an astronomer,
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he says, "As we
survey all the evidence,
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the thought
insistently arises..."
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In other words,
it keeps coming up.
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that some supernatural
agency, or Agency," he said,
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"must be involved."
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It's impossible.
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"It's impossible that
suddenly, without intending to,
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we have stumbled..."
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Oh no, he puts it
this way. I'm sorry.
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"Is it possible that
suddenly, without intending to,
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we have stumbled
upon scientific proof
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of the existence
of a Supreme Being?
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Was it God who stepped in,"
he asked, "and so providentially
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crafted our
cosmos for our benefit?"
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Well the answer
is a simple, yes.
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It's a big, yes.
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God put this
whole thing together.
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So the first two discoveries
is the earth had a beginning,
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the universe had a beginning.
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And number two,
it's finely tuned beyond
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human comprehension.
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And the third thing
is the discovery of DNA.
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All of these prove
the existence of God.
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In fact, someone said,
"Who was instructing the cell?
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Who wrote the script?"
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This is Dr.
Antony Flew, by the way.
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And he became a Christian.
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He was a well
known evolutionist.
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And I think he authored
several evolutionistic books.
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He said, "It's legitimate
to ask oneself regarding
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the three billion letter
code instructing the cell.
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Who wrote the script?
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Who placed this
working code in the cell?"
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Do you know that the
trillions of cells that you have
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in your body, that
every one of those cells
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has a transportation system,
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has all kinds of
manufacturing going on?
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It's an
incredible complex machine.
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Every one of the
three, or how many,
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trillions of
cells are in your body.
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As one person said,
every cell in your human body
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is busier and more
complex than New York City.
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How about that?
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But who wrote the script?
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Who wrote the instructions?
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That's what
Antony Flew has said.
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President Clinton
congratulated those who had
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constructed the human genome.
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And that was in 2000.
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He said, "Today we
are learning the language
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in which God created life.
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"And we're gaining,"
he says, "ever more awe
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for the complexity,
the beauty, and the wonder
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of God's most
divine and sacred gift."
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Dr. Francis Collins,
the director of the project,
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followed Clinton to the
podium, and he stated this.
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He said, "It is humbling
for me and awe inspiring
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to realize that we have
caught the first glimpse
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of our own instruction book
previously known only to God."
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Your DNA is marvelous.
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I don't have time to tell you.
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The DNA can be read
forward and backward,
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and there's a whole
bunch of other complexities
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that go with it.
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Try writing a paragraph,
just one small paragraph,
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that you can read
forward and backward
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and make any sense out of it.
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It's an incredible thing.
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Werner Gitt, he's the professor
of Information Systems.
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These are people that
tell us how you put information
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together, like computers and
all of those kinds of things.
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And he put it succinctly.
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He said, "The basic flaw
of all evolutionary views
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is the origin of the
information in living things,
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in living beings."
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And he goes on to say, he
says, "It's never been shown
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that a coding
system and information
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could originate itself."
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He said, "The
information theorems predict
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that this will
never ever be possible."
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He's saying it's
impossible that this information
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came from nowhere, that
it just generated itself.
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And that's what evolutionists
would have you to believe.
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That kind of crazy stuff.
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He goes on to say, "A purely
material origin of life..."
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And that's what
evolutionists are.
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They believe it's all material.
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"...is thus ruled out.
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The coding system
used for living beings
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is optional from an
engineering standpoint."
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Well I've got to get to
John Lennox for a little bit.
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John Lennox is a
pure mathematician
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from the University of Oxford.
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He's a fellow of
mathematics, he's world known.
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And he's a Christian, he's
a wonderful Christian person.
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I've really enjoyed him.
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And he gets into these debates.
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You know, there was the debate
about, or the book that was
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written, The God
Delusion; he counters that.
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He says, "No, it's
the atheist delusion."
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And this is why he
says it's a delusion.
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He says, "Well you
evolutionists, don't you believe
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that you mind, your
brain, came because of
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millions and
zillions of all kinds of,
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by chance, little things?
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That's how your
brain came into existence?"
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He says, "So tell me, how
can you trust your brain?"
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He says, "No, the
universe was created.
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And your brain was created
so that you can appreciate
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what God has
done in His universe."
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He says there are
a lot of things that
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science can't tell you.
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He says, you know,
Aunt Matilda makes a cake.
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And he says, your
science can tell you a lot of
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good things about her cake.
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You know, maybe
how hot it was baked,
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and what's in the
icing, etcetera, etcetera.
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But he says, there's one thing
that science cannot tell you
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about Aunt Matilda's cake.
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And that is, why Aunt
Matilda made the cake.
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And then, of course, he
noted that laws have an agent.
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That's one of the
big things they say now.
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"Oh yeah, well all these
laws, the law of gravity,
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that's what makes it all work."
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He says, "What?"
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He says laws
have to have an agent.
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He says, in essence, and I'm
paraphrasing some of his stuff,
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and my apologies to him,
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but he says, the law of
two plus two equals four
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will not put money in your bank.
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No, in order to get
money in your bank account,
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you have to have an agent.
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You have to have
somebody that put it there.
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Somebody puts
those laws into effect.
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The law itself
doesn't make anything.
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The agent makes the law work.
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You know, he says the
evolutionists always say,
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"Well, where did your God
come from if He created it?"
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Well, I love his answer.
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He says, "Well listen,
we got rid of created gods.
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We got rid of
created gods a long time ago.
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We don't believe as
Christians in created gods.
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Our God didn't
come from anywhere.
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Because our God always has
been and He always will be."
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He tells the story, he
said, eating dinner with an
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evolutionist because
of some kind of program,
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and the evolutionist
looked at him and said,
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"Oh no, this is not
going to be a very good night."
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And he says, "Listen..."
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They got down to
the discussion, he says,
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"Tell me," he says,
"this menu, you can tell me
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a lot about this menu, but
tell me what the letters mean.
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Where did that come from?"
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The man said, "I've spent
a lifetime in my laboratory
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trying to figure out how
the information got in there."
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And then, of course,
you've got dinosaurs today
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who are said to be
70 or 80 million years,
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and they've got soft tissue.
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Well the list could go
on, and I've run out of time,
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but I want to tell you,
you can trust the Bible.
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You can trust the
Creator of the universe.
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He has a purpose for your life.
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He can do wonderful and
marvelous things for you.
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He created you, He
made you in His own image.
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And He loves you.
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He wants you to be His child.
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Don't listen to
these evolutionists.
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They don't know what
they're talking about.
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Don't listen to the atheists.
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Don't let them rob you
of the beauty and the power
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and the love of God,
your heavenly Father,
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your Creator who
really loves you.
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