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Thanks for joining me
today on It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
To hear some people tell
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the story, if you believe
that God created the earth,
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then you're out of
touch, stuck in the past,
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ignorant of science
and backwards thinking.
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Which would mean, of
course, that the Bible
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cannot then be trusted.
Its opening words say that
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God created the earth
and the opening chapter says
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he did it in six days.
It would also mean that
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Jesus was out of
touch, stuck in the past,
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ignorant of science,
and backwards thinking.
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After all, Jesus
believed the creation story.
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He said in Mark
10:6, from the beginning of
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the creation, God
made them male and female.
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Jesus believed that
God made Adam and Eve,
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plain and simple.
And he believed that
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God made the Sabbath day,
which was given on the 7th day
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of the creation week.
Jesus said in Mark 2:27,
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"The Sabbath was made for
man." Made. In the beginning,
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when God created the
earth. John 1:3 says,
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"All things were made by
him." While in Mark 13:19,
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Jesus referred to "the
beginning of the creation
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which God
created." In the Bible,
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Paul wrote about creation.
Peter wrote about creation.
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John wrote about creation.
But a lot of people today
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do not believe that
God created the world.
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Now, let's ask
ourselves why that might be.
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Is it because
evolutionists are fools?
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Well, I don't
think that's the reason.
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A lot of brilliant,
well-educated people rejected
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the Bible account of creation.
In fact, many evolutionists
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ask important questions about
origins that demand answers.
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So, how is it that the Bible
can say the earth is young,
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just thousands of years
old, and a respected scientist
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relying on accepted
scientific principles and
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practices, would say
that the Bible is wrong and
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not just wrong, but wrong by
millions and millions of years.
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Can intelligent thinking people
be scientifically accurate
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while still believing
what the Bible says on
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the subject of
creation? To find out,
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I visited the creation
museum in Northern Kentucky.
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A stone's throw
from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The museum covers an area of
70K sq ft, a little less than
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two acres,
comfortably bigger than
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a football field, and
it's dedicated to promoting
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the Biblical view of
creation. I spoke with
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Creation Museum
president, Australian, Ken Ham.
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And I started by asking
him about theistic evolution,
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the idea that
evolution is a process used
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by God to effect
creation. Within the church, and
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you know there are
different denominations, and
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so on, you will also find,
as you know, different views
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of eschatology
dealing with end times,
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different views
even of baptism and
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different views of
other issues. By and large,
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when you are arguing
about such things as eschatology
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or baptism or whatever
it is, speaking in tongues,
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or you know, a number
of those different issues,
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you are arguing from the Bible.
It might be people's view of
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the church or people's
view of Israel, or people's view
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of Daniel, or Ezekiel or
Revelation, whatever it is.
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Right. But you see, the reason
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there are
different views of Genesis,
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like theistic evolution,
for instance, is not because
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you are arguing from Scripture,
it's because you are arguing
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outside of
scripture. You are really taking
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the secular view of the
day and you add it to the Bible
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in Genesis, and then you have
to reinterpret the clear words
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of Genesis, which means
that the big issue for me is
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it's an authority
issue. You are unlocking a door
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to say you don't have
to take this as written.
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You are not using God's
word to judge man's word.
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You are using man's ideas
outside of Scripture, which
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you don't get from Scripture.
And then you are forcing them
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onto God's Word. For instance,
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the Bible makes it clear.
God took dust and made a man.
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So if you are going to
believe in theistic evolution,
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you are going to say God
used evolution then the process
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of some ape-like
ancestor changing into humans,
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even in Matthew 19 when Jesus
was quoting Genesis when talking
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about marriage, he was talking
about the one flesh, you know,
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the fact that
Eve came from Adam.
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See, if you are going
to believe in evolution,
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then Adam came from an ape-man
and Eve came from an ape-woman.
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But, the Bible makes it
very clear and Jesus himself,
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who is the Word, and
who is the Son of God,
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Jesus, quoted from Genesis,
talking about your one flesh,
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because the woman
came from the man.
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She did not come
from an ape woman.
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And so, really, for
theistic evolutionists,
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they are really undermining
Biblical authority because they
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are reinterpreting God's
word by forcing man's ideas
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on God's word.
Secondly, they are really
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destroying the whole basis of
marriage, if you think about it,
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and of course, that all
relates too to Christ and his
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relationship to the
church in the New Testament.
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But there is even something
else as well, and that's this.
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All the different positions
on Genesis, they all have
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one thing in
common. What's that?
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Putting millions
of years in the Bible.
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The idea of millions of years
came from atheists, Deists,
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people who believed
in naturalism, who wanted
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to explain life without
God, wanted to get rid of
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the flood of Noah's
day, and they want to come up
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with a way of explaining
the world without God and
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so back in the late
1700s, early 1800s, these people
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postulated the idea
that the fossil layers we see
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over the earth's
surface, were laid down over
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millions of years, and
that happened before man.
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And so you'll find that every
one of the compromised positions
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is people trying to come up
with some new sort of way or
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different way to fit millions
of years and/or evolution,
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sometimes, into the
Bible. And if you believe in
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millions of years,
here's my challenge for people.
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If you take Genesis 1:29, 30,
and you read it exactly the same
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way that Jesus quotes from
Genesis, then Adam and Eve ate
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fruit, all vegetarian, and
the animals were vegetarian,
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they ate plants.
Now man wasn't told
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to eat meat until
after the flood Genesis 9:3
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when God allowed
that out. But originally,
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they were all vegetarian.
In the fossil record,
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supposedly existing
millions of years before man,
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if you believe in millions
of years, as a Christian,
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you've got lots of examples
of animals eating each other,
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fish eating each other,
bones in the stomachs of
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other animals, and so
on. What are they going
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to do with that? Ok.
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Number two:
Doesn't the Bible clearly
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tell us in Genesis that
as a result of the curse,
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thorns and thistles
came into existence?
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That's correct.
The fossil record,
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said to be millions of
years before man, right?
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There's a lot of examples
of fossil thorns said to be
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hundreds of
millions of years old.
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Wait a minute!
You've got all these thorns,
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millions of years
before man sinned?
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Then thorns didn't
come after the curse.
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There are many examples of
diseases in the fossil bones.
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There are brain
tumors. For instance, there's a
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brain tumor in
a dinosaur fossil,
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evidence of
abscesses, arthritis, cancer,
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all sorts of diseases.
In fact, there are even
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medical researchers
today who use the fossil bones
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to help people understand
how to look for certain diseases
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and so on. Now,
when God finished
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creating everything,
he said everything he made
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was very good. So, if
you are going to believe
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in millions of
years, God said brain tumors
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were very good,
cancer was very good.
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See, from a perspective
of Scripture, you can't have
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brain tumors, cancer, arthritis,
abscesses that you see
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in the fossil record,
animals eating each other,
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thorns, supposedly
millions of years before man.
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And so, therefore, the
whole fossil record has
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to come after
sin. And when you look
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at the fossil record, you
see these fossils laid down
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in sedimentary
layers over the earth.
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How would explain
billions of dead things buried
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in rock layers,
laid down by water
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or over the earth. I mean,
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70% of the earth's surfaces is
covered in sedimentary strata.
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You know what the
Bible actually tells us?
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What's that? That
there was a global flood.
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And if there really was a
global flood, you'd expect
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to find billions of dead
things buried in rock layers,
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laid down by water,
all over the earth, and
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that's what you find.
And that's what you find.
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And you know what you find?
Billions of dead things, buried
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in rock layers laid down
by water all over the earth.
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So what should you think
when a fossil is discovered that
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seems to indicated human
beings were on Earth millions
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of years ago -
when the Bible says
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no such thing? In
a way, that evidence
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that we do have a Lucy
is strong enough to actually
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draw out a particular
interpretation which is she
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was some kind of ape.
More in just a moment.
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This is It Is
Written, thanks for joining me.
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I'm John Bradshaw
Today I'm discussing creation
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and evolution with
Ken Ham, the President of
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the Creation Museum
in Northern Kentucky.
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Ken's been teaching
creation for decades, so I asked
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him about "Lucy". In
1974, Donald Johanson
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an American anthropologist
working in Ethiopia
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discovered fossilized remains
of what became known as "Lucy".
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Lucy was actually
about 40% of a skeleton.
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Many people believe
this skeleton to be several
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millions of years old,
and either a direct ancestor
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of today's human
beings, or closely related.
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If Lucy is actually a
human - or human ancestor -
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and is 3 million-plus years old,
there goes the idea of a young
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Earth that is less
than 10,000 years old.
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So I asked Ken Ham if
40% of an old skeleton
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gives enough evidence
of human beings living
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millions of years ago.
In a way, that evidence
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we do have of Lucy is strong
enough to actually draw out
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a particular interpretation
that she was some kind of ape.
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And it is interesting.
See, when you dig up a skull,
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you can make, by
using artistic license,
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you can make the head
on that skull look ape-like
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or human-like. You
can take an ape skull and
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make it look a bit human-like.
You can take a human skull
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and make it look
ape-like. If you want Lucy
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to be
human-like, you want to have
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short arms, because
apes have longer arms.
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And so, therefore,
where the broken bones are,
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they put them together
but when you look at them,
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they are tapered,
indicating that they
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should be apart. And
so we put them apart to
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where we believe they should
be, showing she really had
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long arms, right?
Like an ape, which is what
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the discoverer of
Lucy said she was.
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Then, when you look
at the leg bones, well,
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for the leg bones,
they want the opposite
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to happen. Because
apes have shorter legs
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so they want them to have longer
legs, so for the leg bones,
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they actually put those
bones apart whereas when we look
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at them, it looks like
they should be together
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and so, they do the
opposite of what they should do
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because they want to
make it into something that it
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really is not. But
when you've just got
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the bones and you don't
have the flesh and the hair
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and you can't see it
and so that's how people
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can be indoctrinated
in evolution because
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an evolutionist can take
those bones and arrange them
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in a particular way and
you know, shorten the arms,
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and lengthen the legs,
or the rest of it, you know,
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do what they want to do
with them, and then put flesh
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and hair on them and make it
look sort of half human-like.
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They can make the eyes look
a particular way and make it
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look a bit humanlike,
and that's what they do.
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I asked Ken Ham a question
I think everyone has asked
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at some time or another:
how do you fit dinosaurs into
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the Bible story,
when the science tells us
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dinosaurs lived
millions of years ago?
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You've got
crocodiles, and the nautilus,
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and horseshoe crab and so
on. You've got these creatures,
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that according to evolutionists,
lived before dinosaurs,
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and then must have
lived with dinosaurs years ago
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and then supposedly dinosaurs
died out, then all these others
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lived on and they are
still living with us today.
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So, the point is,
these creatures are living
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with us today so why is
it even from an evolutionist
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perspective, why is it so
stupid to think that dinosaurs
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could not live with people?
Now most people have the wrong
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idea about dinosaurs.
They think they are all
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great big monsters. A ha
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Well the word dinosaur
was first invited in 1841
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by an
Englishman, Sir. Richard Owen
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and it comes
from two Greek words,
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Dino Sauros and translated,
it means terrible lizard.
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And so people get the
idea that they are all great,
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big monsters. The
average size of a dinosaur
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is only the size of a
sheep, a shepherd dog.
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That's the average
size. There are many dinosaurs
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as small as chickens. The
mosasaurus when it hatched
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out of an egg, was
only the size of a mouse.
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So we shouldn't get the
idea that dinosaurs were all
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great big monsters.
Secondly, people think that they
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were hundreds, and hundreds, and
hundreds of different types of
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dinosaurs.
Actually, there is only about
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50 families of dinosaurs,
which means about 50 kinds.
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Kindom, phylum, order,
class, family, genus, species.
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We would say, in most instances,
not all, but most instances,
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that the kind would be
more at the family level
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of classification.
And we have actually had,
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for instance, some scientists
working on how many kinds of
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land animals are
there on the earth.
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Not species, but how
many kinds, actual kinds.
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Because you know deer and moose
are the same kind, alpacas,
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llamas, one hump
camels, two hump camels are all
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the same kinds,
zebras, horses are all
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the same kinds.
That's why at the petting zoo
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here, we have a zorse
and a zedonk and so on.
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Actually our scientists believe
there is probably about a
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thousand kinds of
land animals which means..
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50 odd kinds of dinosaurs
And 50 kinds of dinosaurs,
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well there's 50
families of dinosaurs,
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so there are about 50 kinds.
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We would say dinosaurs were
made on day six because all land
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animals were made on day
six of the creation week.
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We believe those
days are ordinary days.
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The Hebrew word Yom, when
it's used with evening, morning,
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number or night
means an ordinary day.
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24 hour period
The only reason that
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many Christians don't believe
that is not because of what
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the Hebrew words mean,
it's because they are trying
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to force millions of
years into the Bible.
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You take It Is Written, in fact,
that's where our 7-day week
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comes from, Exodus 20:11, the
basis of the Fourth Commandment:
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In six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth and rested
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on the 7th day and God blessed
the Sabbath day and made it holy
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and so a seven day week is
based upon the creation week.
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You know, if God made
everything in six million years
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and rested for
millions of years,
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we could go into
retirement now. Yes we could.
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So you see those
days are ordinary days.
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On day six, God
made the land animals
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and he made the first
two people, Adam and Eve.
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Dinosaurs are land
animals. Dinosaurs were beside
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Adam and Eve. See, I
have people say to me,
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"but the word
dinosaur is not in the Bible."
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I say, well, of course not.
You know, why isn't the word
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dinosaur in the Bible?
Well, the same reason you
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don't have the
word email in the Bible.
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Right? It's a modern word.
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Sure The word dinosaur is
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a modern word. It
was made up in 1841.
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In fact, I do believe there is
a dinosaur described in detail,
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in the Bible, more
than most other animals.
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In the book of Job, Job 40:15,
he says "behold, Behemoth,"
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talking to Job and about
this animal that lived with him,
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he said he was a
chief of the ways of God.
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The Hebrew language there
implies it's the largest land
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animal God made and
the largest animal we
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know of that lived on the
land from what we found is one
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of the Sauropod dinosaurs.
Now they did grow very large,
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by the way, but
even they had some eggs,
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which would not have
been much bigger than the size
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of a football. That's
the biggest egg we found,
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you know, dinosaur eggs.
But, Behemoth, everything about
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it is big and strong.
Has a tail like a cedar tree.
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You know. And some
of the Bible notes,
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I notice in some of the
Bibles say it was an elephant or
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hippopotamus.
Have you ever seen an
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elephant's tail? It
looks like a piece of rope
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dangling down. Or if
you see a hippo tail,
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you know, it's
like a flap of skin.
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You know, a cedar
tree? No, I don't think so.
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It's more, we
believe the description of a
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Sauropod dinosaur. You
see, people say, well what
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happened to the dinosaurs?
Well, why aren't you interested
00:18:13.39\00:18:15.69
in the dodo bird? What
happened to the dodo bird?
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What happened to.. what?
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The Moa? The Moa in New Zealand.
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That's right. Great
big bird, 9 feet tall.
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It's gone now. Gone.
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I mean, there are hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds
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of animals that
have become extinct.
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But people think it's
the dinosaurs that are
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the big mystery but
there are lots of animals
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that are becoming extinct.
Because of changing conditions
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and I mean that's why we have
endangered species programs.
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I tell people the reason
dinosaurs became extinct is we
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didn't start our endangered
species programs early enough.
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Today on It Is Written
I'm talking with Ken Ham
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about creation and evolution.
I asked Ken why what a person
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believes about creation and
evolution really matters at all.
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Do you believe Jesus Christ
bodily rose from the dead?
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Oh yes I do. Where
did you get that from?
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Right out of the
Bible. Out of the bible?
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Yeah. So you take that as the
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authoritative Word
of God. Most definitely.
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So you believe in
the virgin birth too?
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Sure, it's right
there in the Bible.
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Now wait a
minute, wait a minute.
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Secular scientists say that
you can't have a man rising from
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the dead, and you
can't have a virgin birth.
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You know, if I was to go through
the Bible and what I call
00:21:51.01\00:21:53.81
our mainline
churches, and I was to say:
00:21:53.81\00:21:56.34
Do you believe fed thousands
of people is a miracle?
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Oh, they'll say yes,
sure. They'll say yes.
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How do you know? The Bible says.
00:22:00.92\00:22:02.62
Do you believe
Jesus walked on water?
00:22:02.62\00:22:04.39
Oh yes. How do you know?
00:22:04.39\00:22:06.09
The Bible says. Do
you believe that a man was
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.19
swallowed by a fish? And
lived in a fish for three
00:22:08.19\00:22:10.09
days? How do you know?
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The Bible says. As soon
as you get to Genesis in
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this day and age, and
even in the church and you say,
00:22:14.13\00:22:16.23
what God created in six
days, man was made from dust,
00:22:16.23\00:22:18.43
woman from his side,
there was a global flood,
00:22:18.43\00:22:20.20
death came after
sin, here is what we hear.
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Oh no. Why not?
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Well because outside of
scripture here, because these
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ideas of millions of
years, because of evolution.
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You've got to reinterpret
the days, you've got to do this
00:22:27.88\00:22:29.98
and here's the point.
What is happen is this.
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If we don't take a stand on
the creation account in Genesis
00:22:33.28\00:22:36.65
and we allow outside
ideas to reinterpret that,
00:22:36.65\00:22:42.09
we are unlocking a door
and the door we are unlocking
00:22:42.09\00:22:44.59
is we are telling coming
generations that you don't
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.60
have to take God's
word as written here.
00:22:47.60\00:22:49.66
It puts them on a slipperly
slide of unbelief through
00:22:49.66\00:22:52.23
the whole of Scripture.
You tell me to believe this bit
00:22:52.23\00:22:55.17
of the Bible over here,
but this bit doesn't matter.
00:22:55.17\00:22:57.61
I can take mans
ideas and reinterpret here,
00:22:57.61\00:23:00.24
but I am not allowed
to do that over here.
00:23:00.24\00:23:02.64
It's hypocrisy. God's
word came under attack at
00:23:02.64\00:23:05.65
the beginning and that attack
has continued down through
00:23:05.65\00:23:09.95
the ages. It's never abated.
00:23:09.95\00:23:11.55
It's the same attack yet it
manifests itself in different
00:23:11.55\00:23:15.16
ways and
different eras of history.
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For instance, when
Peter and Paul were preaching
00:23:17.26\00:23:19.66
about the resurrection,
did they ever get the question:
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Hey, that's all very
well, preaching about
00:23:21.63\00:23:23.77
the resurrection.
What do you do with
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carbon dating? Did
people like Martin Luther,
00:23:25.13\00:23:27.47
when he nailed the thesis on the
door of the church, did someone
00:23:27.47\00:23:29.70
come up to him and say that's
all very well to nail those on
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.51
the door of the church. I
want to know about dinosaurs.
00:23:32.51\00:23:34.51
Well, the word dinosaur
was not invented until 1841.
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My point is this. There
is a particular Genesis 3
00:23:37.48\00:23:41.18
attack in our day.
People in past ages had to deal
00:23:41.18\00:23:46.19
with all sorts of
attacks on the Bible.
00:23:46.19\00:23:48.29
Gnosticism and all
sorts of heresies and so on.
00:23:48.29\00:23:50.19
I believe today that
the teaching of evolution,
00:23:50.19\00:23:54.73
millions of years,
big bang and so on,
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.80
that permeates the world,
wherever you've got an education
00:23:57.80\00:24:00.84
system, access to the
internet, access to television,
00:24:00.84\00:24:04.34
people have heard of
evolution millions of years.
00:24:04.34\00:24:06.84
It permeates museums
around the world, zoos around
00:24:06.84\00:24:10.55
the world, just about everybody
has heard about evolution
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.95
of millions of years.
I believe that it is the
00:24:12.95\00:24:15.02
Genesis 3 attack of our day.
You know, your salvation is not
00:24:15.02\00:24:19.05
conditioned upon the age of the
earth of whether you believe in
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.46
evolution or the
days of creation.
00:24:22.46\00:24:24.86
The condition is upon
faith in Christ, right?
00:24:24.86\00:24:26.86
But believing in evolution
for millions of years doesn't
00:24:26.86\00:24:29.96
necessarily
affect your salvation.
00:24:29.96\00:24:31.97
There are many Christians that
believe in millions of years.
00:24:31.97\00:24:33.77
Many Christians that
believe in evolution.
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.94
But what it does affect is
how the next generation views
00:24:35.94\00:24:39.11
Scripture itself. What
I have given you is a long
00:24:39.11\00:24:43.61
answer to get back to the
fact that the issue is one of
00:24:43.61\00:24:47.42
authority. Who is the authority?
00:24:47.42\00:24:49.52
God or man? And
when you let man be an
00:24:49.52\00:24:52.72
authority over God's word and
reinterpret God's word because
00:24:52.72\00:24:55.72
of outside ideas you are
unlocking a door so the next
00:24:55.72\00:24:58.43
generation tend not to believe
the Scripture as much and the
00:24:58.43\00:25:01.30
next generation doubt and
disbelieve even more and as time
00:25:01.30\00:25:05.70
goes on, you would
expect to see more and more in
00:25:05.70\00:25:09.94
the younger generations
of leaving the church,
00:25:09.94\00:25:13.27
walking away from the
church as exactly what we see.
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That's what we
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What a wonderful
subject: Creation and evolution.
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Why don't we take a
moment now and pray.
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We'll pray to the God of
creation and ask his blessing
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and guidance.
Our Father in heaven,
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I thank you for the
Bible. The Bible that reveals
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to us that In the
Beginning, God created.
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Lord, I look forward to
your continuing creative power.
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The Bible tells us that
you will recreate this earth.
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We will dwell in a
new earth some day.
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The Bible tells us that you
are the God who can recreate a
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broken, human heart.
Lord, would you do that work
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for us? We thank
you today and we pray
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praising you, in
Jesus' name, Amen.
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Thanks for joining me today.
I look forward to seeing you
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again next time.
Until then, remember:
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It is written,
man shall not live
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by bread alone, but by
every word that proceeds
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from the mouth of God.
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