Participants: Rich Aguilera
Series Code: TCC
Program Code: TCC000003A
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00:11 Where did we come from?
00:14 The Bible says, "In the beginning God created." 00:20 Evolution teaches the opposite. 00:22 No one created, 00:24 it all happened by itself. 00:26 Which one is the truth? 00:30 This is Headquarters, 00:34 Doc M, 00:38 Jacqui, 00:41 and Rich, 00:45 their job, investigate and discover the truth. 00:52 This is The Creation Case. 01:17 Jacqui? 01:19 Yes, Doc M. 01:20 I love getting emails. 01:22 But this one is especially far out. 01:24 Really? What does it say? 01:26 Well, it's from Kevin in Perth, Australia. 01:30 Perth? 01:31 Wow, that's pretty far out. 01:33 It is. 01:34 He writes, "Good day, Doc M. 01:36 How you doing, mate?" 01:38 Doc M, you don't have to try 01:40 and talk with an Australian accent. 01:43 Oh! 01:45 Well, he writes, 01:46 "Last night, I was watching 01:48 my favorite TV show Space City Ranger." 01:50 Oh! 01:51 That's nice. 01:52 "I never miss an episode. 01:54 In this episode General Noah sent RG-89 01:56 back in time a million years in a time machine 01:58 to save planet Aurora. 02:00 I know these are just stories, 02:02 but it seems like all space stories 02:03 take place way in the future or way in the past. 02:07 Is there anything in real life about space 02:09 that can tell us about creation? 02:11 Cheers, Kevin." 02:13 Wow! 02:14 That's pretty impressive. 02:15 He must really like that TV show, 02:17 considering he's never missed an episode. 02:20 Well, I've heard it's a pretty interesting show. 02:23 I guess. 02:24 But can something so far from the truth 02:27 even be that entertaining? 02:30 Yes. 02:32 Doc M, is that a Space Invaders T-shirt? 02:36 What are you talking about? 02:38 Doc M, what is your T-shirt say? 02:46 Space City Rangers Cadet? 02:51 What? 02:52 Tell me, you don't want a cool T-shirt like this. 02:56 No, I'm good. 02:58 I'm just going to get 02:59 this whole space thing over to Rich 03:01 and see if he can investigate it. 03:04 By the way, where is Rich anyway? 03:07 I don't know, but I do recall him 03:10 saying something about trying not to get stuck. 03:15 Stuck? 03:18 What is he up to today? 03:25 I'm okay. 03:27 All right, I'm just going to send this over to Rich now. 03:32 Do you have a creation question for headquarters? 03:35 Send your questions to Doc, Jacqui, and Rich 03:38 by visiting our website at TheCreationCase.com. 04:22 Hey, I think we have a message from HQ. 04:29 It's probably our new assignment. 04:33 Well, I might as well check it now. 04:35 Doesn't look like I'm going anywhere soon. 04:41 Hi, Rich. 04:42 I hoping you're doing well and not stuck or anything. 04:46 How does she know? 04:48 Doc M has your next assignment ready. 04:51 We need you to investigate space. 04:54 Of course, you can't travel to space or anything 04:57 but explore any creation evidence 04:59 about space, 05:01 we can learn from here on planet earth. 05:05 Rich, you're not stuck again, are you? 05:10 He'll be fine, Doc M. 05:12 Last time he was only stuck for two hours. 05:15 We look forward to your report. 05:19 I can explain. 05:20 All I did was I twisted my foot like this. 05:22 Wow! 05:24 I'm okay! 05:26 At least, I'm free again. 05:31 Space. That sounds fun. 05:34 Let's let HQ know I'm on the case. 05:37 Got it. 05:39 Space. 05:42 You know, there is a name for this, 05:44 the study of the universe is called cosmology. 05:49 Cosmology, that's what I'm going to call my report. 05:52 I better get this down in my journal. 05:59 Cosmology. 06:05 Cosmology? 06:07 Where do we begin? 06:09 Hmm, this is a tough one. 06:12 It's getting late, so we better get back to camp, 06:15 and I'll figure this out in the morning. 06:16 Right now, let's get out of this slot canyon, 06:19 hopefully without getting stuck again. 06:26 Help us investigate today. 06:29 Download and print your own free journal study guide 06:32 at TheCreationCase.com. 06:41 Well, we finally made it out of that slot canyon. 06:44 First thing in the morning, 06:45 we'll be starting our investigation. 06:53 Wow, what a great night to look at stars. 06:58 A lot of people look to space for answers 07:00 on how and when everything started. 07:03 Fortunately, the Bible tells us how the universe began. 07:09 It's interesting how man's science books 07:11 are constantly changing, 07:13 as scientists discover they're wrong 07:15 and have to correct them. 07:18 You know, the nice thing 07:20 is that the Bible never changes, 07:22 it never needs to. 07:24 It's the Word of God. 07:26 Still, 07:27 does the Bible say anything about space or cosmology? 07:30 The Book of Job refers to planet earth 07:32 as suspended in space. 07:35 And Isaiah refers to the earth as being round. 07:39 Remember, some ancient cultures thought the world was flat. 07:51 What about the moon? 07:53 I set up my telescope because it's a beautiful clear night. 07:56 Why don't we take a peek? 07:58 The moon, 07:59 quite an amazing object floating in our sky. 08:02 Secular astronomers have lots of questions 08:05 but few answers about the moon. 08:08 How long is it been there? 08:09 How did it get into such a nice orbit? 08:12 How did it get perfectly around? 08:15 That's not all, 08:17 there's more problems. 08:20 Atheists or people that don't believe in God 08:23 actually did not like the Big Bang Theory 08:26 because it's basically saying 08:28 that our universe simply formed out of nothing, 08:30 all by itself. 08:32 And they're realizing 08:33 that it's not a very scientific explanation 08:36 to say that our wonderful complex universe 08:40 simply created itself. 08:43 Have you ever heard of matter, 08:45 such as stars and planets appearing out of nothing? 08:49 Or energy appearing out of nothing? 08:52 Or what about space? 08:54 How does space get made? 08:56 Or what about time? 08:58 How could the idea of time have created itself? 09:03 I think, I'm going to write that down 09:05 in my journal. 09:11 Believing that a universe could simply create itself 09:14 is not very scientific. 09:20 You know, this is a nice little telescope, 09:22 but people that look deep into space 09:25 use larger telescopes. 09:27 Optical telescopes look into space 09:29 and radio telescopes listen to space. 09:33 We should go visit one. 09:35 There's a radio telescope array 09:37 a couple states away in California. 09:39 An array means there's a whole bunch of them. 09:43 We'll have to go first thing in the morning. 10:09 Telescopes are always located far away from everything. 10:13 To visit a radio telescope, we need to go somewhere so far 10:16 that there's no radio interference 10:18 with their signal. 10:20 You know, today's a great day for a bike ride. 10:22 So I have my bike on the rack, 10:24 and we're going to ride the last little way in 10:26 to the telescopes. 10:33 Scientists build telescopes 10:35 so that they can look and listen into deep space 10:38 and learn about the universe. 10:40 Evolution teaches that in the beginning, 10:42 there was nothing, 10:43 no energy, no space, no matter, not even time existed. 10:48 It sounds a lot like 10:49 what the Bible describes the beginning was like. 10:55 The big difference 10:56 is that the Bible teaches that God was in the beginning. 11:09 So back to evolution. 11:11 They say in the beginning 11:13 that time and space didn't even exist. 11:17 The idea is that somehow, about 14 billion years ago, 11:21 a microscopic object appears out of nowhere 11:24 and starts growing. 11:26 Time, space, and matter is somehow formed. 11:30 They call this the Big Bang Theory. 11:34 Evolutionists think it's crazy 11:36 that an all powerful God created the universe. 11:39 But ask yourself, which is harder to believe 11:42 that a God created the universe 11:44 or that a speck of dust suddenly exploded 11:47 and created the entire universe by itself. 11:51 If you ask me, 11:52 a whole universe appearing by itself, 11:55 that doesn't sound very scientific. 11:58 That's because complex things need a creator. 12:04 This is a radio telescope array. 12:07 Each one of these dishes here are pointing into space 12:09 and collecting information. 12:11 They can detect stuff that we can't see with our eyes 12:14 or even with an optical telescope. 12:16 We need to get a little closer. 12:17 Come on. 12:19 Scientists calculate that 12:21 there are about 1 septillion stars in the universe. 12:25 That's a 1 with 24 zeros behind it. 12:29 We're supposed to believe 12:30 that they all came from a single speck of dust, 12:34 then why is there so much diversity 12:35 in the objects we see in space 12:37 if it all came from a single speck? 12:39 Why do we see stars, and planets, 12:41 and comets, and asteroids and so on 12:44 all made from different substances 12:46 and materials? 12:47 Where did all that diversity come from? 12:52 Wow, what a great view. 12:54 These dishes remind me how big space is. 12:59 I think, I'm going to sketch this place in my journal. 13:12 You know, if we do the math backwards, 13:15 we should actually see 32,000 stars 13:18 forming every second for the last 20 billion years. 13:28 So what do we see in reality. 13:30 In the last couple thousand years 13:32 that man has been studying the stars, 13:34 we have never seen a single new star formed, 13:38 not one. 13:40 Some would say, 13:42 "Maybe they all appeared at once." 13:44 I'd say that sounds like God creating. 13:50 You know, when I was a kid, I always wanted to go to space. 13:53 I wish we can go there now. 13:55 But, of course, it's kind of difficult. 13:58 Hey, you know what? 13:59 I got a great idea? 14:01 It requires some special effects, 14:02 but I think it will be great. 14:04 Come on. 14:07 Hi, cadets. 14:08 I mean, hello, everyone, Doc M here at headquarters. 14:12 Since we all have space on our brain today, 14:15 not literally, it's time for a lesson in space time. 14:19 You ask what is space time? 14:22 Yes, that sounds like a little strange. 14:24 Let me explain. 14:26 As you probably know, 14:28 the objects in our solar system move in circles. 14:31 Each one of those circles is a measure of time. 14:36 Here's our planet earth. 14:38 It's constantly spinning like this. 14:41 Not that... Well, that fast and faster. 14:45 It spins about a 1,000 miles per hour. 14:48 Whoa! That's fast. 14:51 Anyway, each time our planet spins one time around 14:55 is equals one day. 14:57 What about a month? 14:59 Where does that come from? 15:00 Ah, we need a moon. 15:02 Here's our moon, a month comes from the moon 15:06 while the earth is spinning, 15:08 the moon is orbiting the earth. 15:10 It's slowly going in circles like this. 15:15 When the moon has gone around the earth one full time, 15:18 that makes a month. 15:20 What about a year? 15:22 Good question. 15:23 Where does that come from? 15:25 While the earth spins... 15:29 It's also going around the sun. 15:33 We need a sun. 15:36 And the sun is in the center. 15:39 Ah! 15:43 So the earth is spinning while it's orbiting the sun. 15:49 And each time the earth does one full orbit 15:52 or circle around the sun, 15:54 it equals one full year. 15:56 Ah! It kind of looks like this. 16:05 Great. 16:06 You're doing wonderful. 16:08 But what about a week? 16:10 Where does that come from? 16:15 Did you know that the week has nothing to do with space, 16:19 not the sun, or the moon, or the earth, 16:22 nothing, zippo, null. 16:24 So where did this seven-day period come from? 16:28 For as long as recorded history exists, 16:31 people have been keeping a seven-day week. 16:34 Seems like kind of a mystery, doesn't it? 16:37 Actually, it's no mystery at all. 16:39 The seven-day week comes right from the Bible, 16:42 creation week. 16:44 Pretty neat, uh? 16:45 Well, many people around the world claim 16:47 they don't believe in God 16:49 or they believe that the world evolved, 16:51 they are living their lives in the special time frame 16:53 that God set aside for us when He created us. 16:56 God created us for six days, 16:58 then rested on the seventh. 17:00 Then He told us to live our lives 17:01 by this simple seven-day formula. 17:04 Thousands of years later, 17:06 the planet lives on in that seven-day week. 17:11 The seven-day week has nothing to do with space. 17:14 It's simply more evidence. 17:18 It makes me know God is my Creator. 17:25 Hey, everyone, it's me, Rich Aguilera. 17:28 I'd love to see you at one of our live events. 17:30 To see where I'll be speaking, visit our website, 17:33 TheCreationCase.com. 18:32 Well, I finally got to float like I was in outer space. 18:35 Well, sort of. 18:36 You know, sometimes we forget that it's God 18:38 that created the laws of physics 18:40 like gravity. 18:41 The moon is smaller than earth 18:43 so there's less gravity on the moon. 18:46 If here you weigh 100 pounds, 18:48 on the moon, you would only weigh 16 pounds. 18:52 In deep space, you would weigh nothing, 18:55 you would just float. 19:05 You know, speaking about gravity, 19:07 we can learn a lot about space by studying the stuff 19:09 that falls from the sky and lands on our planet. 19:13 Most of the stuff that falls from space 19:15 burns up in our atmosphere. 19:17 But once in a while meteorites make it through 19:19 and land here on earth. 19:25 Not far from here in Arizona there's a place 19:28 where a meteor did make it through the atmosphere 19:30 and crashed into the ground and left a pretty huge crater. 19:33 We should go check it out. 19:39 The crater here in this very windy place 19:41 is one of the most famous in the world. 19:43 At some point a meteorite came and crashed here 19:47 going approximately 26,000 miles per hour. 19:51 When a meteor crashes into the planet, 19:53 it forms a crater. 19:55 Check out the size of this crater. 19:58 There are other much larger craters in the world, 20:01 but this is probably the most famous one 20:03 in the United States. 20:06 The meteor crater here is over 500 feet deep 20:09 and almost a mile across. 20:15 No one knows exactly 20:16 when this meteoroid crashed into the earth. 20:18 But since it only disturbed the upper layers, 20:21 we assumed it was sometime after the flood. 20:25 Check out how this meteor crater looks from the sky. 20:40 Objects flying through space 20:41 passed by our planet all the time. 20:44 They can also provide us clues about the universe. 20:48 For example, there are meteoroids, 20:50 there's asteroids, and there's also comets. 20:53 A meteoroid also known as a falling star 20:56 is a small sand-sized particle up to a boulder-sized particle 21:00 that flies through space and orbits our sun. 21:03 An asteroid is much larger. 21:05 It's a rock or metal object that's also orbiting our sun. 21:09 On the other hand, a comet is a little different. 21:12 It's made up of ice, dust, and rock particles, 21:15 and they can be huge, even miles across. 21:19 When a comet passes to close to the sun, 21:21 the ice begins to vaporize, and can leave a trail 21:24 thousands of miles long 21:26 that can be seen even here from earth. 21:30 Hey, I also have a picture of a comet here on my phone. 21:33 Check it out. 21:36 Unlike meteoroids, 21:38 which are a quick flash of light in the sky 21:39 as they burn up in the atmosphere, 21:41 comets seem to hang in the sky for weeks at a time 21:45 as they pass by our planet. 21:47 In reality, they're moving over 100,000 miles per hour. 21:53 No one knows exactly for sure how comets form, 21:56 but we do know that every time they pass by the sun, 21:59 they are losing more and more ice, dust, and debris. 22:04 So here's the problem. 22:05 A lot of comets orbit the sun every few years. 22:08 But there's a few out there that have shorter orbits 22:10 and some have longer orbits. 22:14 Since they lose material every time they pass the sun, 22:16 they're getting smaller. 22:19 It also means that some of these comets 22:21 would only last a couple hundred years 22:22 or maybe a couple thousand years. 22:24 The problem is that scientists teach 22:27 that comets were formed from the material left over 22:30 from the formation of planets billions of years ago. 22:33 Comets simply don't have a long enough lifespan 22:36 to have been created a billion years ago. 22:39 Yes, some comets may be pretty old, 22:42 but they will lose material when they pass by a star. 22:46 I'm going to write that down in my journal. 22:55 It is unlikely 22:56 that comets that occasionally orbit near stars 22:59 could be billions of years old. 23:05 Actually, this is a cool spot. 23:07 I think I'm going to sketch this too. 23:24 Remember what the Bible says in Genesis, 23:27 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 23:38 Wow, it's really amazing to think 23:40 just how big space is. 23:43 It's great that many smart scientists 23:45 are trying to peek into deep space 23:48 to figure out what's out there. 23:50 All I know is that there is so much more 23:52 that we don't know compared to what we do know. 23:56 Well, I need to finish up my report and send it to HQ. 24:00 Remember, if you want to read it, 24:02 just go to our website. 24:05 A close look at the universe 24:07 creates a lot of problems for atheists. 24:12 Secular scientists aren't even sure how the moon formed. 24:17 Believing that the universe created itself 24:19 is not a very scientific idea. 24:23 Comets do not have long enough life spans 24:25 to have been created billions of years ago. 24:30 You know, God is like the sun. 24:33 He is the light of this world. 24:35 All good comes from Him just like we need the sun 24:39 for life to exist on this planet. 24:41 The neat thing is that at night we can't see the sun. 24:45 But sometimes, we see the moon 24:47 reflecting the light from the sun. 24:50 Did you know that God has called us 24:52 to be like the moon? 24:54 He wants us to reflect 24:55 His light of goodness to everyone. 24:58 We sometimes forget 24:59 that we can't make our own light, 25:02 we can only reflect God's. 25:05 I hope that everywhere you go, people will always see God 25:09 reflected in the things that you do in your life. 25:13 I hope you'll join me again for our next assignment. 25:16 Remember, God the Creator loves what He creates, 25:19 especially you. 25:21 Good night. 25:32 Wait don't leave. 25:33 We have bloopers! 25:35 Like these crazy winds. 25:37 Stop! 25:39 Wow! 25:40 Object that is also orbiting our sun. 25:43 Orbiting our sun. 25:45 Okay, I kind of fell over. 25:47 Something about... 25:51 Forgot what he said. 25:53 As they orbit our planet. 26:01 Oh, are you done? 26:04 Since we're all have space and that is... 26:07 By our planet. 26:09 I feel like that we're going. |
Revised 2019-02-18