A great controversy
rages between good and evil
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and humanity is
caught in the crossfire.
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Satan has crafted his most
cunning end-time deceptions
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but his plans
are doomed to fail.
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Get ready to
anchor your minds in truth
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as the Bible exposes his lies
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and prepares us for
our soon-coming Savior.
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And now live from the
Campus Hill Church of SDAs
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in Loma Linda, California, we
bring you this presentation of:
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Amen and Amen.
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We are here bringing
you a message from the Lord
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in the Campus Hill SDA Church.
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Part of 3ABN's Winter
Camp Meeting continues,
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the blessings continue.
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And we just want to welcome
you and hope that you have been
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blessed thus far, and
there are more blessings coming.
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And during this hour
we have a message from
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Dr. Tim Standish: Darwin
vs. the Creator's Account.
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Also the title is: Delusions,
Illusions, and Reality.
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I would like to read to
you Dr. Tim Standish's little
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biography because I
can't remember all this.
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So: Dr. Tim G.
Standish earned a Ph.D.
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in Environmental Biology
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and Public Policy from
George Mason University.
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His earlier studies
included a M.S. in Biology
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and a B.S. in Zoology
from Andrews University.
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Dr. Standish currently holds
the rank of Senior Scientist
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at the Geoscience Research
Ctr. in Loma Linda, California.
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He also serves
as adjunct professor
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in the LLU Earth and
Biological Sciences Department
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and the Adventist
University of Africa.
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His publications range
from The Molecular Basis
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of Cricket Behavior. That's
right... you heard it right.
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Cricket Behavior to Turtle
Conservation and the Interfaith
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Between Science,
Faith, and Public Policy.
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We know that Satan is attacking
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God and His children
from different angles -
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different directions - trying
to bring before the people
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the idea that
God does not exist.
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But today you're going to hear
exciting and wonderful things
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and we know that
God is real. Amen?
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Amen. Before Dr. Standish
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comes before us with a message
we're going to have a song
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that I will tell
you about in a moment.
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But before this, we're
going to have prayer together.
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So I would like to
encourage you to stand with me.
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Let's go to the Lord in
prayer and ask for His blessing
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upon all that are here present
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and those that are joining
us through the different methods
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that they can watch 3ABN.
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Let us pray together.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we thank you for Your
goodness and mercy unto us.
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And we thank you
that we have the privilege
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of hearing a message
that helps us understand
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that You are our Creator.
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We ask You,
heavenly Father, to bless
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Dr. Standish
with Your Holy Spirit
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that he may speak words
from Your throne of grace
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and that it may be a blessing
to those that are here with us
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and those that are
joining us all over the world.
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We pray that this
would draw us close to Jesus.
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And we ask You for
a blessing upon all
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in the name of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Amen... Amen.
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We now invite Pastor
John Lomacang to come forward.
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He will be singing the
hymn Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
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and then the next word
you will hear will be that of
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Dr. Tim Standish. God bless you.
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Oh soul,
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are you weary and troubled?
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No light in the darkness
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you see?
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There's life for a look at
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the Savior
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and there's life more abundant
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and free.
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Turn your eyes
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upon Jesus.
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Look full in His wonderful face.
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim
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in the light
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of His glory and grace.
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His Word will not fail you
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for He's promised.
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Just believe it
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and all will be well.
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Then go to a world
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that is dying
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with His perfect salvation
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to tell.
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Turn your eyes
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upon Jesus
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and look full
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in His wonderful face.
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim
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in the light
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of His glory
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and grace...
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in the light
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of God's glory
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and grace...
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in the light of
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God's glory
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and grace.
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Amen!
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Sometimes I tell pastors -
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I am only
joking when I do this -
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that I don't want
special music before I speak
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because how can you match that?
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Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
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Why would we
want to look at Jesus?
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I know my reason.
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There is something
beautiful there for you to see,
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and I am a man with
a terrible weakness:
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I like beautiful things.
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I live here in
Southern California,
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and just walking over here
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to the Campus Hill Church
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how much more
beautiful could it be?
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Blue skies; snow
up on the mountains.
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Wow! And now we get to
have this beautiful experience
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together because I
want to talk with you
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about beautiful things.
But just a word of warning:
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there are people who don't want
you to see the beauty out there.
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There is an end-time deception
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that blinds people to beauty.
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Let's read about it.
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Now I don't know about you,
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but I still quite like life.
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I don't want to perish.
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Life is a beautiful thing.
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It's a precious thing.
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Why are these
people going to perish?
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Truth is a beautiful thing
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and yet there are those
who do not want to see it.
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And now come
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some of the most
chilling words in Scripture.
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This is Paul. He's
writing to the Thessalonians -
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Greek people -
and he's warning them.
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He's saying: "If you
don't love the truth,
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if you don't value it,
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there is something that
I'm warning you about. "
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Who's sending it?
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God.
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That frightens me.
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People who do not want truth
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will embrace deception.
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And that deception
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comes from God!
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Wow!
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God provides something else.
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He provides this strong
delusion "that they should
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believe the lie. "
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If we love pleasure
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over what is true,
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we will be deceived
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and we will die.
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Deception can look attractive
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sometimes.
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In fact, that's what
makes it so deceptive, isn't it?
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I mean, who's going
to believe something
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that looks unattractive?
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We like
things... We can be blinded
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by what appears to be beautiful.
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But we need to love truth
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more than anything else.
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I am not going to claim
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to be a prophet, and I
am not going to claim to be
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the final word on what
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THE end-time deception is.
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But I do know what AN
end-time deception is.
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The philosopher, an
enthusiastic Darwinist,
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Daniel Dennett wrote about it
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and he said this:
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Up until this point in his book
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he had been writing or
talking about something
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he and his friends used to
talk about when they were young:
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universal acids. Ironically,
I remember talking about it
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with my own friends as well.
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The idea of a universal
acid... it is something
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so powerful that it
dissolves, it melts, it destroys
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everything that it
comes into contact with.
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So you can't put
universal acid into a test tube.
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It's not a real thing...
it's just sort of an idea
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that sometimes young
people like to talk about.
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It would destroy the
glass of the test tube.
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And what would happen once
the universal acid got out?
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It would dissolve everything.
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It would
dissolve the whole world.
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It would dissolve the
whole universe, wouldn't it?
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So universal acid's kind
of a fun thing to talk about
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as long as it's not real.
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But look at this. Now he starts
talking about Darwin's idea.
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This is Darwin's
theory of evolution.
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He says:
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Are you familiar with
the concept of a world view?
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This is how we perceive reality.
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God tells us in Scripture
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that we are
"fearfully and wonderfully made"
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and that changes our
whole view of humanity.
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Not just ourselves. I'm
fearfully and wonderfully made
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but so are you.
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And as a consequence
of that, you are valuable.
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You are
beautiful; you are special.
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A revolutionized world
view. This changes our view.
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In the Darwinian view of things
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you are literally not together
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by chance and some
natural laws and things.
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There's no
guidance; there is no plan.
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You are full of bad designs.
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You are not
fearfully and wonderfully made.
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There might be some
elegant things in there
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but there's also lots
of rubbish and garbage
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left over from this evolution
that you've been through
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from single-celled organisms
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through worm-like
things and reptiles
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and on and on.
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You see all of
reality differently.
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Your world view is changed;
it is like a universal acid.
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It destroys the
universe in one sense
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and provides an illusion
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instead of a real
universe... one in which:
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You can still recognize
that somebody is a human being,
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but a human being
is a different thing.
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A human being is
not beautiful any more.
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Several years ago I
had a beautiful experience.
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Something went
wildly wrong in Israel
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and as a consequence of that -
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I know this seems unlikely -
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I wound up in Athens
with my friend Darius.
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It was kind of fun. I
always think about the irony
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of being with
somebody named Darius in Athens
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given the history
of people named Darius
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and the history of
Athens. But anyway,
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there we were together
and we went out walking.
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And we saw off in the
distance the Acropolis.
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Soon we found
ourselves in the Agora
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and it struck us: "Wow!
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This... This is where Paul went
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and talked about truth. "
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And in that marketplace
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he met some philosophers.
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People who love wisdom.
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And they thought to themselves:
"Maybe this guy has some wisdom
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to share with us. We love it; we
like hearing different ideas. "
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And they invited him up the hill
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to the right of the Acropolis.
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Sometimes we call it Mars Hill.
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The Areopagus.
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And up there on the Areopagus
they could look to the left
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and see all of those
temples up on the Acropolis.
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And it must have sparkled
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as they walked up
that road to get there.
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Can you imagine having
that as a teaching tool
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as you talk with people?
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There it was...
and it was all new
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or relatively new at the time.
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A lot newer than it is now.
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It must have been amazing!
As Paul looked over there
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and I'm willing to bet
you that he was gesturing
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and pointing
towards those temples
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as he said these
words to the philosophers:
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Everything comes from God.
We can't give Him anything back
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that He needs.
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"And He has made from one
blood every nation of men. "
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Can you see how he is telling
the story of creation here?
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Athens was a cosmopolitan city.
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People were coming in
from all over the place.
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The philosophers who were
there... we know that they...
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they weren't all
just natives of Athens.
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They came from all over
the place. Zeno of Citium
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for example, the father
of the stoic philosophers,
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came from somewhere
completely different.
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Many of them you hear a
place name that is far away
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associated with them.
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And yet Paul is pointing out
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"Look at this: God made
us. He made us through one man.
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He made us one
blood. Doesn't matter
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whether you think you are
Caucasian. It doesn't matter
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whether you think you're Asian.
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It doesn't matter whether you
think you're a Native American
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or an African
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or anything else you
want to come up with.
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All of these things
that we think divide us
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God points out
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are artificial.
They are not real.
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We are all one blood.
00:22:04.49\00:22:06.79
A beautiful, beautiful thought.
00:22:06.99\00:22:09.56
When you walk into a
Christian church you see exactly
00:22:09.96\00:22:13.40
what I see in front of me
right now. And this is true
00:22:13.60\00:22:17.30
all over the world.
People of different races
00:22:17.50\00:22:22.47
altogether, all in harmony,
all worshiping our Creator
00:22:23.17\00:22:29.11
and Redeemer.
00:22:29.31\00:22:30.71
All of us recognizing
that we are descendants
00:22:30.91\00:22:35.12
of Adam and we are saved by
the blood of the second Adam.
00:22:35.52\00:22:41.42
Just to prove to you that
I've been to the Acropolis
00:22:44.16\00:22:49.53
I'd like to show
you an image of that.
00:22:53.13\00:22:56.71
There I am. Now, when
you're up there on the top
00:22:57.31\00:23:00.54
you realize that people
exhibited some pretty bad
00:23:00.74\00:23:03.68
decision making up
there. Somebody decided that
00:23:03.88\00:23:07.78
the Parthenon would
make a good storage place
00:23:07.98\00:23:13.96
for explosives.
00:23:14.16\00:23:15.86
And they did that during a war.
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.66
And things went wrong...
00:23:20.06\00:23:23.26
that's why it looks
00:23:23.87\00:23:26.47
so damaged today.
00:23:26.87\00:23:31.44
But when we look at it
00:23:31.84\00:23:35.94
we see some interesting things.
00:23:36.14\00:23:37.91
Now I need to give
you a warning right now
00:23:38.11\00:23:40.45
because I'm going to
start talking about some math.
00:23:41.02\00:23:45.92
And you may be a
little bit like those students
00:23:46.32\00:23:50.43
that I've had over the years
00:23:50.63\00:23:52.13
who've shown up in
general biology class
00:23:52.33\00:23:56.83
and expressed shock and surprise
00:23:57.03\00:24:00.04
to learn that
biology involves mathematics.
00:24:00.24\00:24:04.81
But it does and it's fabulous!
00:24:05.41\00:24:08.88
So don't panic...
00:24:09.38\00:24:11.58
don't panic because you
don't have to be a genius
00:24:11.78\00:24:16.48
mathematician. I want you
00:24:16.69\00:24:19.29
to just look at the shape
00:24:19.49\00:24:23.53
of the Parthenon up there.
Remember: this is something
00:24:23.83\00:24:28.40
that Paul was seeing as
he talked about these temples
00:24:28.60\00:24:33.70
made with men's
hands. And I will tell you
00:24:34.10\00:24:37.17
it is beautiful even as a ruin.
00:24:37.37\00:24:40.88
And what you can see
00:24:41.24\00:24:44.71
very clearly in this building
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.52
but only really if you
take a trip to Nashville...
00:24:49.92\00:24:55.66
I know that seems
improbable, doesn't it?
00:24:55.86\00:24:58.29
But if you take a trip
to Nashville you will see
00:24:58.49\00:25:02.56
that there is the
Acropolis there...
00:25:02.76\00:25:07.24
sorry, the Parthenon there.
00:25:07.44\00:25:09.97
It has been reproduced.
And so you can see it
00:25:10.17\00:25:13.71
a little bit more clearly.
And you can see that there's
00:25:13.91\00:25:15.88
something interesting
about those proportions.
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.98
The Acropolis, sorry,
the Parthenon is a beautiful
00:25:20.02\00:25:23.22
building. It's a beautiful
building. Why is it beautiful?
00:25:23.42\00:25:27.96
Well, there happen
to be certain dimensions
00:25:29.02\00:25:33.96
that are appealing to our eyes.
00:25:34.16\00:25:37.87
If you draw a
square starting on one side
00:25:39.13\00:25:44.07
and going to the top
and going to the bottom
00:25:44.47\00:25:48.14
it doesn't cover it. But
then if you do another square
00:25:48.34\00:25:53.58
that takes you from the
top to the other side of the
00:25:53.78\00:25:57.62
Acropolis, still
doesn't really do anything.
00:25:57.82\00:26:00.82
But then if you do another
square underneath that square
00:26:01.02\00:26:04.29
at the edge going to the bottom
00:26:04.49\00:26:05.89
and then you start filling
it in with another square
00:26:06.09\00:26:09.73
all of a sudden you find
00:26:09.93\00:26:11.27
that the entire thing is
actually defined by squares.
00:26:11.43\00:26:15.07
And the space that
you have left over inside
00:26:15.27\00:26:19.61
is exactly the same shape
00:26:19.81\00:26:24.15
as the rectangle
formed around the outside.
00:26:24.65\00:26:29.58
And so you can fill
that one in with squares
00:26:29.78\00:26:32.32
and you get the same pattern.
00:26:32.52\00:26:34.19
And you fill in the little
tiny bit of remaining space
00:26:34.39\00:26:37.43
with more squares... and
it actually goes on forever.
00:26:37.63\00:26:40.56
It's a kind of interesting...
interesting, interesting shape.
00:26:41.16\00:26:47.07
If we start looking at
the proportions of that shape,
00:26:50.21\00:26:55.21
there is some interesting
mathematics going on with it.
00:26:55.61\00:26:59.75
It turns out that if
we take that first...
00:27:00.15\00:27:04.32
just the side of
that first square
00:27:04.72\00:27:08.42
and we call it a.
00:27:09.22\00:27:12.03
And we look at the ratio of a
00:27:12.63\00:27:16.53
to the next
square which we'll call b
00:27:16.73\00:27:20.57
it turns out that it's the same
as the ratio of those two sides.
00:27:21.64\00:27:26.84
And the same is true as
you go through all of these
00:27:28.31\00:27:32.31
combinations of squares.
00:27:32.71\00:27:35.42
Kind of fun, isn't it?
This is not math with numbers.
00:27:35.82\00:27:39.75
This is math with squares, and
squares are relatively simple
00:27:40.16\00:27:44.93
kinds of shapes. We
call this kind of rectangle
00:27:45.13\00:27:49.96
that's made up with this
infinite number of squares
00:27:50.17\00:27:53.23
a golden rectangle.
00:27:53.44\00:27:56.30
And if we take
00:27:58.04\00:28:01.21
the ratio of the two sides
00:28:01.41\00:28:05.21
we get an interesting number.
00:28:05.61\00:28:08.48
And this is where
things really become fun, yeah?
00:28:09.38\00:28:14.39
That number
00:28:16.79\00:28:18.86
is a
00:28:21.20\00:28:25.43
plus b
00:28:26.67\00:28:28.00
divided by a
00:28:28.77\00:28:30.84
which happens to
equal a divided by b.
00:28:31.24\00:28:36.58
That's kind of
weird... kind of weird.
00:28:36.98\00:28:40.05
It's a strange
number, and being strange
00:28:40.25\00:28:44.39
we give it a Greek letter.
00:28:44.59\00:28:46.35
And that Greek letter is phi.
00:28:46.76\00:28:49.99
One of the best Greek
letters out there because you do
00:28:50.99\00:28:53.26
all kinds of fun "puns" with it.
00:28:53.46\00:28:57.13
"Phi am I here this morning? "
00:28:57.33\00:28:59.10
"Phi do I exist? "
00:28:59.30\00:29:01.14
They're not that
good really, are they?
00:29:02.34\00:29:03.97
And this particular number
00:29:04.37\00:29:08.18
is an irrational number.
00:29:08.58\00:29:11.71
That means it goes on forever.
00:29:12.11\00:29:15.28
It's not like 1.25 or something
like that and ending there.
00:29:15.78\00:29:21.72
It's an irrational number.
00:29:22.12\00:29:24.19
It goes on for eternity.
00:29:25.09\00:29:28.13
For infinity.
It's a divine number.
00:29:28.33\00:29:32.63
A really special one.
00:29:32.83\00:29:34.57
Oh, another really
cool thing about it
00:29:34.77\00:29:37.74
is that if you do 1/phi
00:29:37.94\00:29:42.31
you get exactly the same number
as if you did phi minus 1.
00:29:42.71\00:29:48.18
And it goes on forever as well.
00:29:49.38\00:29:51.35
We symbolize that with
lower case phi. Don't worry,
00:29:51.75\00:29:55.89
you don't have to memorize this.
00:29:56.09\00:29:58.36
But you've probably heard of
another number that's kind of
00:29:58.76\00:30:01.90
like this called pi...
00:30:02.10\00:30:04.77
which is the tastiest
number in the Greek alphabet.
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.60
Yeah. It also goes on forever.
00:30:09.20\00:30:15.11
And out there in the universe
00:30:15.71\00:30:18.31
there are all sorts of
things that involve pi.
00:30:18.51\00:30:21.72
It turns out that
there are all sorts of things
00:30:22.02\00:30:25.05
that involve phi as well.
00:30:25.25\00:30:28.29
And we call that ratio
00:30:29.66\00:30:33.09
of this golden number
00:30:33.29\00:30:37.33
phi to 1 the golden ratio.
00:30:37.53\00:30:42.37
Now what's so
special about all of this?
00:30:42.77\00:30:44.67
Remember how I said that the
00:30:44.87\00:30:48.14
Parthenon is a par-
ticularly attractive building?
00:30:48.34\00:30:51.51
It just is. It looks right.
00:30:52.91\00:30:55.78
Why?
00:30:58.39\00:31:00.06
It's because it
has this ratio in it.
00:31:00.26\00:31:05.19
By the way, I realize
00:31:05.59\00:31:07.33
that my computer here
also has a similar ratio.
00:31:07.53\00:31:12.27
Yes. That's an
attractive kind of rectangle.
00:31:12.67\00:31:16.10
Start walking around.
Start looking at buildings
00:31:17.67\00:31:21.01
and things like that.
You'll see some are really ugly.
00:31:21.21\00:31:23.31
Then there are other buildings
that are quite attractive.
00:31:24.31\00:31:26.75
Just putting things like
pillars in front of a building
00:31:29.02\00:31:31.79
is not particularly attractive.
00:31:32.59\00:31:34.42
BUT putting pillars in front
of a building with beautiful
00:31:34.82\00:31:40.73
dimensions to it, something
like that golden rectangle,
00:31:40.93\00:31:45.13
and the whole thing kind
of works together in a very
00:31:45.33\00:31:47.54
beautiful way.
00:31:47.74\00:31:49.10
Anyway, these golden rectangles
00:31:51.11\00:31:55.61
appears all over it.
00:31:55.81\00:31:58.88
It's... Just all
over the building you see
00:31:59.08\00:32:01.95
somebody sat down and
was putting that in there.
00:32:02.15\00:32:06.45
All over the place.
00:32:06.65\00:32:08.76
Now you've gotta be
careful with this sort of thing
00:32:09.56\00:32:12.36
because there's something
call confirmation bias.
00:32:13.16\00:32:18.73
Have you ever met
somebody who sees something
00:32:19.70\00:32:22.14
in everything
that they encounter?
00:32:22.34\00:32:25.74
I remember encountering
a very interesting guy.
00:32:26.64\00:32:28.91
A very intelligent man
who was seeing Hebrew writing
00:32:29.11\00:32:35.08
everywhere.
00:32:35.48\00:32:36.82
Pictures from outer space.
00:32:36.95\00:32:39.32
"Look at that! Hebrew writing. "
00:32:39.82\00:32:42.12
At first... I mean, he
was absolutely completely
00:32:43.76\00:32:47.73
serious about it
and didn't seem to be
00:32:48.60\00:32:54.00
completely insane or anything.
00:32:54.20\00:32:56.14
But, you know, I was kind of
looking at these things thinking
00:32:57.07\00:33:01.11
"Well that would be
rather unusual if this picture
00:33:01.31\00:33:03.98
of the earth from
space happened to show some
00:33:04.18\00:33:06.31
Hebrew writing and I'm
certainly not seeing it. "
00:33:06.51\00:33:10.79
Am I the blind one? let's say.
00:33:11.39\00:33:17.36
There was no
Hebrew writing there.
00:33:17.96\00:33:19.93
So we do have to be
a little bit careful
00:33:20.13\00:33:22.73
about
overstating things sometimes.
00:33:23.57\00:33:28.20
But when you
look at that Parthenon
00:33:29.27\00:33:33.31
you do see that ratio showing
up over and over and over again.
00:33:33.51\00:33:38.48
Maybe the person who
designed it just had much better
00:33:39.51\00:33:42.65
taste than I have naturally.
00:33:42.85\00:33:44.62
Or maybe - much more probably -
00:33:45.69\00:33:48.82
they knew something
about phi and they realized
00:33:49.02\00:33:53.70
there is something
pleasing to the eye about it.
00:33:53.90\00:33:56.46
And so they were putting
it in all over the place.
00:33:56.87\00:34:00.30
Taking advantage of some
geometry if you want to call it
00:34:00.50\00:34:03.64
that, some math...
this fabulous number.
00:34:03.84\00:34:07.64
Phi... it's just everywhere,
and once you start looking
00:34:07.84\00:34:12.41
you see it. We know
00:34:12.81\00:34:18.09
that the Parthenon was
designed by brilliant men.
00:34:18.29\00:34:23.86
We know that it was
made with men's hands.
00:34:24.53\00:34:28.16
I'm a biologist.
00:34:30.17\00:34:32.43
And I've already
confessed to you that I love
00:34:33.60\00:34:35.90
beautiful things. I
have the unusual privilege
00:34:36.10\00:34:40.11
of being married to the most
beautiful woman in the world.
00:34:40.31\00:34:44.41
Some of you might be, too.
00:34:45.81\00:34:47.75
When I look at her face
00:34:52.22\00:34:54.76
of course I see a lot
more than golden ratios.
00:34:56.22\00:35:01.96
However, in her face
00:35:02.96\00:35:07.60
there are golden
ratios all over the place.
00:35:07.80\00:35:10.84
She IS the most
beautiful woman in the world!
00:35:11.04\00:35:14.14
It's amazing!
00:35:15.14\00:35:16.61
If I did this with your faces,
00:35:18.95\00:35:21.68
I would see
something similar as well.
00:35:21.88\00:35:24.79
Yes there's variation there,
00:35:28.09\00:35:31.23
but you know what?
Human faces are beautiful
00:35:31.43\00:35:37.20
AND they happen to have a whole
lot of golden ratios in them.
00:35:38.37\00:35:43.07
You can decide
whether that is by chance.
00:35:44.11\00:35:48.78
You can decide whether
evolution just somehow or other
00:35:49.18\00:35:52.91
zeroed in on that.
00:35:53.31\00:35:55.55
But we don't see
evidence of that in nature.
00:35:57.12\00:36:02.49
We don't see a fossil record
00:36:02.79\00:36:05.36
that slowly
slowly slowly zeroes in
00:36:05.56\00:36:09.16
on golden ratios
and things. By the way,
00:36:09.36\00:36:11.93
there are golden
ratios all over your body.
00:36:12.43\00:36:15.47
The distance from
your elbow to your wrist
00:36:18.07\00:36:23.08
and from your wrist to
the tip of your fingers
00:36:23.88\00:36:28.82
is close to a golden ratio.
00:36:29.52\00:36:31.92
One of my favorites...
some of these are inside us.
00:36:33.72\00:36:38.63
Hopefully, no one's
ever going to see them.
00:36:39.13\00:36:41.33
But you know how your
skull is knit together
00:36:41.83\00:36:46.84
with these interesting kinds
of joints that we call sutures?
00:36:47.24\00:36:51.51
There happens to be a joint here
00:36:52.97\00:36:55.21
and then there's a joint
that goes all the way across
00:36:56.21\00:36:59.05
up here. And then there's a
joint right here at the back.
00:36:59.25\00:37:02.65
And if you have a beautiful
Neanderthal-kind of skull
00:37:03.28\00:37:07.16
like mine, you have
a lovely occipital lobe
00:37:07.36\00:37:11.29
bump back here so
you can easily find it.
00:37:11.49\00:37:15.23
It turns out that the
ratio from here to here
00:37:15.43\00:37:19.37
and from here to the back
00:37:19.77\00:37:23.27
is a golden ratio.
00:37:23.47\00:37:24.97
And it's not just in humans.
00:37:25.37\00:37:27.94
You also see it in other
organisms... other mammals.
00:37:28.14\00:37:31.31
Kind of amazing.
00:37:31.71\00:37:33.08
And probably at
this particular point
00:37:33.58\00:37:36.08
I should make a
confession to you.
00:37:36.28\00:37:40.02
Yes, not only am I married
to the most beautiful woman
00:37:40.82\00:37:45.39
in the world, I
have a girlfriend
00:37:45.59\00:37:48.86
and her name is Jill.
00:37:50.47\00:37:52.60
And I think she's the most
beautiful dog in the world.
00:37:53.00\00:37:55.70
What a gorgeous
gorgeous creature!
00:37:57.01\00:37:59.31
Gift from God! She's just
so full of love and perfection.
00:38:00.88\00:38:06.11
When I watch her
move it's amazing.
00:38:06.51\00:38:09.38
Every day I know that
I'm going to come home
00:38:11.55\00:38:15.09
and there is going to
be an excited welcome.
00:38:15.49\00:38:19.69
And it's not just
because it's supper time.
00:38:19.89\00:38:22.76
I've been staying at home
and writing the last few days.
00:38:25.63\00:38:29.54
I never need to
worry that I'll be alone.
00:38:31.27\00:38:34.11
Jill is always
there... right by my side.
00:38:34.91\00:38:38.58
Sometimes she
snores quite loudly
00:38:38.98\00:38:41.58
but she's there.
I know she's there.
00:38:41.78\00:38:44.35
She is absolute perfection.
00:38:44.75\00:38:47.69
Wherever we
look, wherever we are
00:38:48.69\00:38:52.79
in the world there is
this beauty that is reflected
00:38:54.20\00:39:00.17
in this golden ratio.
00:39:01.17\00:39:03.97
Golden ratios happen to be
related to something called
00:39:04.17\00:39:07.71
Fibonacci Sequences.
00:39:07.91\00:39:09.51
And just as I walked over here
00:39:09.91\00:39:12.05
I wasn't just enjoying the
sunshine. I happened to look
00:39:12.45\00:39:15.28
down and I saw this pinecone.
00:39:15.68\00:39:18.29
And it turns out
that the way these scales
00:39:19.12\00:39:22.66
pack together is described by
00:39:23.06\00:39:26.63
the Fibonacci Sequence.
00:39:26.83\00:39:28.33
If you look down
from the top... In fact,
00:39:28.53\00:39:31.37
you can see all of these curves
coming up here to the top.
00:39:31.57\00:39:35.60
You see the same thing in many
different biological things.
00:39:36.00\00:39:41.44
What you don't see
00:39:43.51\00:39:45.38
is stuff gradually
evolving towards it.
00:39:45.58\00:39:49.75
There are fossil pinecones
and guess what? They exhibit
00:39:49.95\00:39:53.59
exactly the same thing.
00:39:53.79\00:39:56.02
Sometimes people point out
that there are practical reasons
00:39:57.79\00:40:02.36
why you would want
to pack things together
00:40:02.56\00:40:05.40
in that way...
and yes, there are.
00:40:05.60\00:40:08.80
But underneath everything
there is the mathematics.
00:40:09.97\00:40:14.94
If you don't start
with the mathematics,
00:40:15.44\00:40:20.25
you are not going to
end up with the beauty.
00:40:20.82\00:40:24.95
Mathematics is something
00:40:27.06\00:40:29.99
that is purely in your head.
00:40:30.93\00:40:34.63
I did my Ph.D. working on
the most beautiful molecule
00:40:35.86\00:40:40.44
in the world.
00:40:40.94\00:40:42.50
And the great
thing about this molecule
00:40:44.14\00:40:46.57
is that it's found in
every single living thing.
00:40:46.78\00:40:50.75
It's called DNA.
00:40:50.95\00:40:52.85
And there are many many many
wonderful and beautiful things
00:40:53.98\00:41:00.09
that we could
talk about with DNA.
00:41:00.29\00:41:02.86
But I just want
to point out to you
00:41:03.53\00:41:06.76
that one turn of
that double helix
00:41:06.96\00:41:11.77
happens to fit
inside a golden rectangle.
00:41:12.63\00:41:15.47
AND when you look at DNA
00:41:17.34\00:41:21.14
there's something
called the major groove
00:41:21.34\00:41:23.85
and the minor groove.
00:41:24.05\00:41:26.41
It turns out that the
ratio of the major groove
00:41:28.62\00:41:31.99
to the minor
groove... it's a golden ratio.
00:41:32.19\00:41:35.46
That's one reason
why when you look at DNA
00:41:37.36\00:41:40.03
it looks so cool.
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.33
It's just a
really really cool shape!
00:41:43.60\00:41:47.27
And it conforms
to this fascinating
00:41:48.07\00:41:52.31
fascinating geometry.
00:41:52.51\00:41:55.28
The reason for that is because
00:41:57.71\00:42:01.38
that ratio of the
width to the length
00:42:01.78\00:42:05.85
of one twist of DNA
happens to fall into
00:42:06.05\00:42:11.63
what's called the
Fibonacci Sequence
00:42:11.83\00:42:13.66
and the Fibonacci
Sequence approximates
00:42:14.06\00:42:18.63
the golden ratio. And
the further you go along
00:42:18.83\00:42:21.97
the Fibonacci Sequence the
closer the approximation is.
00:42:22.17\00:42:25.71
It's amazing...
it's absolutely amazing
00:42:25.91\00:42:31.15
and beautiful... and
it's not the sort of thing
00:42:31.55\00:42:36.18
that you slowly
slowly zero in on.
00:42:36.38\00:42:41.42
It's either
perfect from the start
00:42:42.06\00:42:46.13
or not at all.
00:42:46.43\00:42:49.00
The mathematics which
is completely abstract -
00:42:49.60\00:42:54.97
completely a product of minds -
00:42:55.17\00:43:00.24
must be right first.
00:43:00.64\00:43:04.18
And if it's not, no living thing
00:43:05.85\00:43:10.69
exists because
everything depends on DNA.
00:43:10.99\00:43:16.89
There's another
interesting thing
00:43:17.79\00:43:20.13
about this business of
filling in the golden rectangle
00:43:20.33\00:43:24.40
with squares.
00:43:24.60\00:43:27.40
If you start drawing
curves in those squares,
00:43:27.80\00:43:32.94
you get a very
interesting kind of spiral
00:43:33.14\00:43:36.68
and you see it in
lots of different places.
00:43:40.28\00:43:44.62
One place that you
see an approximation of it
00:43:45.92\00:43:48.62
is actually in your cranium.
00:43:48.82\00:43:51.03
This is like the
beginning of a spiral,
00:43:52.86\00:43:54.93
and if you go around like
this and if you kept on going
00:43:55.13\00:43:59.23
inside your skull
itself approximates
00:43:59.43\00:44:04.34
that shape. That's one
of the reasons why going
00:44:04.54\00:44:07.14
bald isn't so bad.
00:44:07.34\00:44:08.98
You let people see
that beautiful curve... yes.
00:44:11.61\00:44:15.52
But you also see it in nature.
00:44:16.08\00:44:20.29
And I love show and tell
00:44:20.89\00:44:23.19
so I brought a couple
of examples here with me.
00:44:23.59\00:44:27.10
This is a fossil of
a chambered nautilus,
00:44:28.36\00:44:32.90
and if you look at it
00:44:33.40\00:44:36.87
it approximates that curve.
00:44:37.07\00:44:40.11
Have you ever looked
at one of these things
00:44:40.38\00:44:42.11
and just sort of felt like:
"Man, that's quite beautiful!
00:44:42.31\00:44:44.68
That's a beautiful thing. "
00:44:45.08\00:44:46.61
If you have, it's
probably not surprising to find
00:44:47.68\00:44:51.79
"Yeah, there's something in
there about that golden ratio
00:44:51.99\00:44:55.32
golden rectangle, golden curve,
whatever you want to call it. "
00:44:55.52\00:45:00.70
Now here is a similar
but different creature,
00:45:01.10\00:45:05.70
and when you cut it
open you get that curve.
00:45:06.10\00:45:10.07
This is called an ammonite...
00:45:10.27\00:45:12.07
but not named after
the Ammonites in the Bible
00:45:13.54\00:45:16.18
by the way. Named
after the Egyptian god Amun
00:45:16.38\00:45:20.05
who had horns that curved around
00:45:20.92\00:45:24.79
kind of like this.
It's an interesting thing.
00:45:24.99\00:45:28.72
Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
00:45:28.92\00:45:31.19
Just a few months
ago I was walking along
00:45:32.69\00:45:36.33
the coast in
England... the southern coast -
00:45:36.53\00:45:41.20
There's an area there that
they call the Jurassic Coast -
00:45:41.40\00:45:44.17
and I came across this.
00:45:44.84\00:45:46.64
These are some ammonites.
You can see them actually
00:45:46.84\00:45:51.15
in the rock itself.
These haven't been...
00:45:51.35\00:45:56.35
been removed from the rock.
00:45:56.75\00:45:59.05
And I looked at
these... they were everywhere.
00:45:59.35\00:46:03.99
There were some
nice pretty large ones
00:46:05.26\00:46:07.90
and there were little tiny ones
you know, only about that big.
00:46:08.30\00:46:12.57
And I thought to myself:
"There are people who believe
00:46:16.91\00:46:21.11
that these rocks
are on the order of
00:46:21.51\00:46:26.61
80, 100 million years old.
00:46:26.82\00:46:29.12
And yet when we look at them
00:46:31.45\00:46:33.72
there is beauty,
there is mathematics.
00:46:35.02\00:46:39.29
And this is data; this
is stuff we can observe.
00:46:40.66\00:46:45.23
We can take it in
through our senses.
00:46:45.43\00:46:47.87
It's kind of
tragic... kind of tragic
00:46:48.74\00:46:52.41
that all of this stuff
00:46:52.61\00:46:54.74
is just there. We've got
this record of death, and yet
00:46:54.94\00:47:00.08
it's not just dead...
00:47:00.28\00:47:06.19
it's beautiful as well.
00:47:06.39\00:47:08.36
Other people
have looked at this.
00:47:09.36\00:47:11.59
In fact, in a year that
you might have taken note of
00:47:11.79\00:47:14.06
previously called 1844
00:47:14.26\00:47:16.90
there was a book that came out.
00:47:17.80\00:47:21.17
And it kept pointing out
00:47:22.84\00:47:26.78
all of the dead stuff out
there in the fossil record.
00:47:26.98\00:47:32.51
It pointed out all
the ugly things in nature.
00:47:32.71\00:47:38.02
And Alfred Lord Tennyson
00:47:40.19\00:47:44.53
was struggling with
something incredibly ugly.
00:47:45.03\00:47:48.73
His friend had died
00:47:50.83\00:47:52.93
and over many years he
wrote a poem called In Memoriam
00:47:54.27\00:48:00.24
trying to figure
out what had happened.
00:48:01.91\00:48:04.38
In the writing of that poem
apparently he was influenced
00:48:06.58\00:48:09.65
by that book and he
penned these words. He said:
00:48:10.05\00:48:16.02
This is the view
00:48:34.81\00:48:38.41
that Darwinism
brings to the world.
00:48:39.65\00:48:44.45
Instead of
looking and saying: "No!
00:48:47.79\00:48:51.93
Look! These things...
they're... they're beautiful.
00:48:52.13\00:48:56.46
They're amazing. The
tragedy is that they're dead. "
00:48:56.67\00:49:00.30
And asking:
"Why? What's happening?
00:49:00.50\00:49:05.71
What's the
solution? Where's the hope? "
00:49:06.54\00:49:10.48
The answer that Darwinism
gives - this delusion -
00:49:10.68\00:49:16.25
is: this is the
way it's meant to be.
00:49:16.45\00:49:20.82
This is how you
came into existence.
00:49:21.02\00:49:23.96
Billions of beautiful organisms
00:49:25.46\00:49:29.10
dying, struggling
00:49:29.30\00:49:33.60
so that you could
reach this pinnacle
00:49:35.54\00:49:40.91
that you find yourself on.
00:49:41.11\00:49:42.68
What's the attraction of it?
00:49:43.78\00:49:45.71
If you believe it, you
are master of your own fate.
00:49:47.52\00:49:52.29
There is no God.
00:49:52.49\00:49:54.66
There are no
commandments you have to keep.
00:49:54.86\00:49:57.53
There is no objective morality.
00:49:57.73\00:50:01.00
Do what feels good.
00:50:03.40\00:50:05.43
Be whatever you want.
00:50:06.50\00:50:08.27
And yet... and yet
00:50:08.47\00:50:12.84
we come back to mathematics.
00:50:13.04\00:50:15.51
This is Eugene Wigner writing,
00:50:17.85\00:50:21.48
and I should tell you
he's a Nobel Prize winner.
00:50:21.68\00:50:25.12
He says these words:
00:50:25.42\00:50:26.82
You see, things
don't have to be beautiful.
00:51:01.09\00:51:04.79
They don't have
to be mathematical.
00:51:04.99\00:51:07.70
But when they are,
they are beautiful.
00:51:09.43\00:51:12.97
And when they're
beautiful they are mathematical.
00:51:14.14\00:51:17.24
And the math comes first
00:51:18.41\00:51:22.68
then the beauty.
00:51:22.88\00:51:25.65
The mind
00:51:26.85\00:51:28.78
comes before the product
00:51:29.65\00:51:35.12
with mathematics
because mathematics
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.73
is the foundation of everything.
00:51:38.93\00:51:43.23
Bertrand Russell, the
great philosopher, wrote:
00:51:43.83\00:51:48.17
But you know what?
I disagree with him.
00:52:19.50\00:52:21.84
Yes, the beauty is there.
00:52:25.64\00:52:29.84
The beauty is true.
00:52:30.25\00:52:32.55
But the beauty
shines through in the art.
00:52:32.75\00:52:36.08
The beauty shines
through in the creation.
00:52:36.28\00:52:39.79
Not just physics or chemistry,
00:52:40.92\00:52:45.03
biology.
00:52:45.33\00:52:47.36
Biology is mathematical, too.
00:52:48.36\00:52:51.90
And it's beautiful, and
that forms the foundation.
00:52:52.10\00:52:56.57
And then we observe
things. We have data.
00:52:56.77\00:53:00.94
Logic and
data... that's science.
00:53:02.08\00:53:05.25
And together in addition
00:53:06.55\00:53:09.18
we have art and beauty
00:53:09.58\00:53:13.46
and emotion.
00:53:14.76\00:53:16.73
When you see things
00:53:16.93\00:53:20.73
lining up together,
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.70
when they form a pattern...
You know there's a joke
00:53:24.10\00:53:26.53
among archaeologists:
three stones in a row
00:53:26.74\00:53:29.60
and you have a wall.
00:53:29.80\00:53:32.07
When you see
major patterns of data
00:53:33.17\00:53:36.14
and they are lining up and all
pointing towards the same thing,
00:53:36.34\00:53:42.18
that thing, that truth
that they are pointing towards,
00:53:43.32\00:53:47.56
is something that we
00:53:47.76\00:53:50.59
can have
reasonable confidence in.
00:53:52.23\00:53:55.26
I am going to end with a truth
00:53:58.83\00:54:04.81
that was voiced
00:54:05.01\00:54:08.71
by probably the greatest
biologist other than God Himself
00:54:09.58\00:54:13.72
mentioned in the Bible:
00:54:14.02\00:54:15.95
King Solomon...
who was a biologist.
00:54:17.12\00:54:20.79
Solomon wrote:
00:54:21.99\00:54:23.69
See, this is where it actually
00:54:33.64\00:54:34.97
gets interesting for me.
00:54:35.00\00:54:36.34
Not only has God made
everything beautiful...
00:54:36.40\00:54:41.14
He's put eternity in our hearts.
00:54:41.54\00:54:44.15
Remember how phi was
an irrational number?
00:54:55.59\00:54:58.63
You're never going
to get the end of it.
00:54:59.96\00:55:01.93
The creation was
made by an infinite God.
00:55:03.03\00:55:08.24
When He comes again, when
He does that new creation,
00:55:09.10\00:55:13.44
when we go to heaven
00:55:16.95\00:55:19.41
and we live with Him eternally,
00:55:19.61\00:55:21.85
His creation is never
going to stop giving us wonder
00:55:24.12\00:55:29.82
and beauty and
things to be amazed about.
00:55:30.03\00:55:33.76
Amen!
00:55:33.96\00:55:35.30
And that is a truth
00:55:36.16\00:55:38.43
that we have to
share with the world today
00:55:39.27\00:55:43.24
that is in the grip
of a profound delusion.
00:55:43.64\00:55:49.11
Let's end with prayer.
00:55:50.71\00:55:52.08
Dear Father, our
Creator and Redeemer,
00:55:53.28\00:55:57.15
I thank you for the
beauty of Your creation.
00:55:57.95\00:56:00.99
I thank you for giving us minds
00:56:02.46\00:56:07.33
and senses to observe
and comprehend the beauty...
00:56:08.90\00:56:14.90
at least to some degree.
00:56:15.30\00:56:17.54
I pray for that wisdom
that only Your Holy Spirit
00:56:18.54\00:56:23.08
can give as we struggle
with end-time deceptions.
00:56:23.28\00:56:28.98
Don't let us be deceived.
00:56:29.18\00:56:31.39
Enlighten us with
Your Spirit of Truth
00:56:31.79\00:56:34.82
and give us a love for
what is true and beautiful
00:56:35.22\00:56:40.20
I pray. In Jesus' name, Amen.
00:56:40.40\00:56:43.70