Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
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My name is Tim
Standish, and I'm a scientist.
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Because I'm a scientist,
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I believe in the
Creator God of the Bible.
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Amen and amen.
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I'm Shelley Quinn and
we want to welcome you
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to this program.
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In the first segment,
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you're going to get a
little scientific nugget,
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something that
will reveal the Creator.
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As Paul said in Romans 1:20,
that God's visible attributes,
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even His
eternal power in Godhead
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are seen in the
things that He created.
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And what are we
going to talk about?
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Oh, the second
segment is kind of a Bible
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or life application.
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So what are we
talking about today?
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We are talking about
humans and other animals.
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Okay.
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And before we
get into the science,
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I want to draw your
attention to the way
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in which the
Bible prepares our minds
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to think about both
ourselves and other creatures.
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So let's get back into that
creation account in Genesis.
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We've gone from
Genesis 1 to Genesis 2,
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so Moses has told us,
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up to this point,
about the days of creation.
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And now he goes back
and he fills in some details
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in Genesis Chapter 2.
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So here, he's talking about
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how God created
human beings and he writes,
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"And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground."
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I want you to
notice that, the ground,
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that's what human beings...
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That's what He made us out of.
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"And breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
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and man became a living being."
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So human beings
were formed by God.
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I love that idea
of God forming us.
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He got personal, didn't He?
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Yes, out of the
ground, out of the clay.
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And then, God breaths
the breath of life into Adam,
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and he becomes
this living being.
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It's a little bit
hard for us to understand
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because we've never
seen anything like that.
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This is not
science in the usual sense,
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it's not the kind of
thing we can do experiments on.
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Yes.
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It's a kind of
thing that ultimately,
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we believe by faith,
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but it's also something
that makes an awful lot of sense
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because when we
look at human beings,
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what our bodies are made out of?
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The elements of the earth.
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The elements of
the earth, right.
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We're not made out
of magic pixie dust
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or anything like that.
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We are the same stuff
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that the rest of the
creation is made out of,
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but we have a different form.
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We're not an oak
tree, we're not a mountain,
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we're a human being.
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Now,
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it goes on in the same book,
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the same chapter actually.
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God goes on, and He
says something about...
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Or Mosses tells us
something about the animals.
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So he says, "Out of the ground,
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the Lord God formed
every beast of the field
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and every bird of the air
and brought them to Adam."
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So you can see
here that the animals
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are made out of the same
stuff that we're made out of.
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It shouldn't be
surprising to discover that,
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perhaps, there are
some similarities there.
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So we have some DNA
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that would be
duplicated, if you will.
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Well, yes.
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You know, same
God, same material,
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there's going to be
some similarities there,
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just as we would
expect with a designer.
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If a car was
designed by the same engineer,
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two different cars,
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we would probably expect
some similarities between those.
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We're creations,
so are the animals,
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same God, same material.
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And then I'm going
to jump all the way down
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to the story of the flood,
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and there's an important
detail that comes out in there.
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So here the animals are,
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they're coming on to the ark.
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And it says this about them,
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"And they went
into the ark to Noah,
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two by two,
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of all flesh in which
is the breath of life."
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So there you have it.
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The animals are
made out of the ground
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just as we are formed
out of the ground by God.
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And just as we
have the breath of life,
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the animals also have
the breath of life in them.
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You know why that's not
hard for me to accept by faith
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because here, we can
put a man on the moon,
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we've got the
shuttles and everything.
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All of the
advances that we've made,
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no one has been
able to duplicate,
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taking elements
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and bringing in
that spark of life
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that ignites life.
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Exactly, you know,
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sometimes we will get
excited, and then say,
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"Well, what if life
was created in a lab?"
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Well, what would that show?
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It's very unlikely.
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But if it did happen,
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let's just pretend it
happen, would that happen
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as a result of just
natural forces and chance?
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No.
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It would be...
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We would recognize who
ever did that as a genius.
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An engineering genius. Yes.
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And the organism
that was produced
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as a product of genius
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just as we, as Christians,
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recognize human
beings and the other animals,
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and in fact, the
rest of the creation
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as a product of genius.
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Well, let's continue on.
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Let's look at this connection
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between human beings
and the other animals.
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I'm going to start off
here with a human femur.
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Everybody has one of these
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unless they've had
their legs amputated.
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And probably, familiar
with the morphology of it
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or the shape of them
but if you cut open a femur,
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there is something
very interesting inside,
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up there at the top
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where that ball goes
into the socket of your hip.
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You can see
something called spongy bone.
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And if you look
at that spongy bone,
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it's arranged in
an interesting way.
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What you see... The direction...
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That's right, the direction
in which the bone is oriented,
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is the direction
in which the force
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is exerted on the femur.
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And you see this with
other spongy bone as well.
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What this does
is, it makes our bones
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a little bit lighter
and a whole lot stronger.
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So great engineering feat there.
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Really great engineering.
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I look at this,
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and I think
about those buttresses
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that you see on gothic churches,
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the buttress is coming out.
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They're also carrying lines
of force down to the ground
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so that they're actually
quite strong structures,
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but they're using less material
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than older kinds of
construction methods allowed.
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So there's an
engineering principal
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that translates over there.
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It's kind of fun.
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This kind of bone
you find in human beings
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and you also find
it in other creatures.
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So you can see there...
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That's you. Yes.
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There are human beings on
the back of this elephant.
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And the elephant has bones
that when we cut them open,
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they have a similar
kind of structure to our own.
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On the other hand,
if we look at birds,
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they have very
specialized needs.
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Their bones need to
be as light as possible
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and as strong as possible.
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In addition to that,
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there are some spaces in
there to keep things light,
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you know, to lighten them.
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So if we look
inside a bird's bone,
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we see this.
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Almost like a honeycomb.
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It does look little bit
like a honeycomb, doesn't it?
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These spars
basically inside the bones,
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really make them very
strong and yet very light.
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So they're different
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but they're
different for a reason
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because of the
demands of flight.
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That's what's going out, so...
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So they were
engineered in their design
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for the purpose?
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For the specific
purpose that they serve.
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So what we're seeing here
is, there are similarities
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which indicate a single
design or single origin.
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But also
differences to suit the purposes
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to which these are being put,
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which indicates in a thought
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about each
individual kind of animal.
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Let's look at one
other thing that has do
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with the
arrangement of skeletons.
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This is a tortoise.
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And if you look
inside a tortoise,
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you can see that its
skeleton has an amazing
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different arrangement of things.
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The clavicle is inside the ribs.
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So this is...
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It's this bone
here on your back,
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imagine what it
took to move that inside,
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that's a whole
reengineering of things.
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So while we have
the same general design,
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we have a back bone, and
ribs, and things like that.
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Tortoises and
turtles have this incredible
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reengineering or
different engineering thing
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for the specific
purpose that they need.
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And when you look at
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all the other
organisms that are out there,
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we've just been
looking at vertebrates.
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But the
invertebrates are so diverse,
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the snails, the
insects, the sea urchins,
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they all have similarities
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which point to
a single designer,
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and yet spectacular differences.
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Oh, here's a jelly fish.
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You could go on and on and on
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about these
profound similarities
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and profound differences
that you see between these.
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You know, when
you look at even like
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all the
different kinds of birds,
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my husband's a birder.
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And it is so
amazing to see the diversity
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within a single species,
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but then you start
considering everything
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that God has
created, He loves diversity.
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He loves diversity.
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And He's very good at it.
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He doesn't make things different
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just for the sake of
making something different.
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He is making different things
that are profoundly beautiful.
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Okay.
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But when you say
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if animals and people are
made of the same substance,
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we all have the breath of life.
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What is the difference
between animals and people?
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There's a profound,
profound difference.
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And it has to do with
relationships, relationships.
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So I have a pet
dog, her name is Jill.
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Okay.
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There is obvious differences
between my dog and my daughter.
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Yes.
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But I have a different kind
of relationship with my daughter
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than I have with my dog,
but we have a relationship.
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I love my dog. Yes.
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And she loves me.
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I know that when I go
home for making these programs,
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I'm going to get a loud
and joyous welcome from her.
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You see,
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God made human beings
to fit a specific purpose
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in His creation.
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It's actually
written about in Genesis 1,
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it's laid out there
right at the very beginning.
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This is what God said,
this isn't Moses, this is God.
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Then God said, "Let
Us make man in Our image,
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according to Our likeliness.
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Let them have dominion
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over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air,
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and over the
cattle, over all the earth,
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and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth."
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So God made us like Him.
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He formed us in some
profound way to be like Him.
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And He gave us a
relationship both with Him
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and with the
rest of the creation.
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Yes, so we...
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And He created us to dominate,
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that was the
purpose is we were to,
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in a loving way like Him,
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oversee everything
that happened on earth.
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Well, we are in charge,
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which means
we're responsible too.
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Yes, yes.
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And that's a very big deal.
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We're not to lord it
over the rest of creation,
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we are to treasure it.
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So what does this
reveal to us about the Creator?
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Well, His love of
diversity is demonstrated
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in the variety
of other organisms,
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so many different things,
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and His love of
diversity is evident
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in the rest of creation.
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It's not just the animals,
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it's everything,
He loves diversity.
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God made diverse organisms
to have a relationship with us
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just as we have a
relationship with Him.
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So by looking at this, we
see God's love of diversity.
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Yes, and you know,
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it is so exciting
that God loved us so much
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even to make animals
that with whom we could relate
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and have these
special creatures in our life.
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Well, we hope
that you'll stay tune,
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we'll be back
in just 60 seconds.
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