Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
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I'm Tim Standish.
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I'm a scientist,
but I'm also a Christian
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and there really
shouldn't be a but in there.
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Of course, scientists,
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it can and in fact
should be Christians.
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That means that I believe
the biblical record of history.
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Amen. Amen.
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But we're just very
excited that you're with us
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and we are very excited
that those of you at home
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or in your car,
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whether you're
watching by TV or internet,
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we thank you so
much for joining us.
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And this is to me,
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I'm so excited
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because creation
science is something
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that many people have,
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their views have
changed a little over the years.
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And we see Christians
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who are kind of
amalgamating almost,
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I don't know if
that's the proper word,
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but they're taking evolution
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and they're taking
the little from the Bible
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and they're doing this and that
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and coming up with
all kinds of ideas.
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So I'm excited
about this series.
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What are we
gonna talk about today?
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Well, we're gonna
talk about evidence.
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Remember that
science is all about
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empirical evidence.
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And occasionally, I
actually, quite commonly,
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I hear what seems to me
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to be a ridiculous
statement which is,
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there is no evidence
for a recent creation.
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We're gonna disprove that today.
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Well, we're gonna
look at some evidence,
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that's for sure.
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And obviously each person
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has to draw
their own conclusions.
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But I will tell you that, again,
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this is from my
perspective as a scientist.
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Actually there
is abundant evidence
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of the recent creation of life.
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Now, I'm concentrating on
life because I'm a biologist.
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Life is what I study. Amen.
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I'm not a geologist.
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So I won't try to go
too far down that way.
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But I will
compare what geologists
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and what the
biological evidence say.
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Okay. All right.
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So I want to start
off with a Bible text.
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And this is Isaiah,
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which is one of
my favorite books.
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By the way, a book
that is full of the creation
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interestingly enough,
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the creation
and the new creation
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that God's promised.
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So Isaiah write this, he said,
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"Lift up your
eyes to the heavens,
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look at the earth beneath,
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the heavens will
vanish like smoke,
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the earth will
wear out like a garment
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and its
inhabitants die like flies.
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But my salvation
will last forever,
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my righteousness
will never fail."
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Amen.
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God
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makes this
incredible promise here to us.
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Yes, the earth is old.
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Now, that doesn't
mean that life is millions
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or hundreds of
millions of years old
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or billions of years older,
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even according to some people,
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but thousands of
years old is a long time
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and none of us can go back.
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Probably, none of us
can genuinely figure out
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the exact date on which
God started the creation.
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We get these dates
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by via calculations
that have some error in them.
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But what is
obvious both by looking
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at genealogies in
the Old Testament,
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and also by looking at genealogy
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in the New Testament
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because we have the
genealogy of Jesus Christ,
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and we know how many people
there were from Adam to Jesus.
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By looking at those things
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we can know with a
reasonable degree of assurance
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that life is thousands of years,
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not millions of years old.
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Amen. Now, that's data.
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That's a real record of reality.
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What do we see when
we look at the creation?
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So let's start off
by talking about clocks.
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Because we all know that
there isn't a clock out there
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on palm trees,
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or on human beings,
or on anything else.
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There isn't an actual clock.
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But there are things
that act like clocks.
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But sometimes those
clocks give two different times.
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I don't know if you've ever
seen a clock tower like this
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with the faces with
different times on them?
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No.
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But that is
sort of the situation
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that we
sometimes see with science.
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Now remember,
we're interpreting data
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to come up with the
times that are being estimated.
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So let's start off here.
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This is, well, actually
one of my favorite places,
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it's south of
Sydney in Australia
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place called Coalcliff.
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And you can see
why. Yes, beautiful.
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Can you see that
beautiful line of coal there?
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This is why Australia is
the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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There's huge
amounts of coal there
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in this basin around Sydney.
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And here's the thing.
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Do you see what a straight line
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that is between the
coal and the sandstone
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that's on top of it?
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Yes.
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When you do something
called radiometric dating,
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what you find out
is that supposedly,
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there was five million years
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that coal was on
top of the earth.
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And then the
sandstone came along
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and pile up on top of it.
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So I want you to just
think about that a little bit.
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What do you think would happen
if that coal was sitting there
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with just air above it
for five million years?
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I'm into far guessing.
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Well, you would expect
some kind of erosion maybe?
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Or some kind of,
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or maybe the coal
would get lit on fire?
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Maybe, it'd be
struck by lightning?
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Maybe, it was
underwater so it didn't burn?
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But if it was underwater,
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then you'd expect
erosion or something.
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And then you've got to
dump all of this, coal, sorry,
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this sands on top of
it to make a sandstone.
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Really, five million years.
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What the evidence
is most reasonably
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interpreted as there as many
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is actually very
little time at all.
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Because there is no erosion.
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Because there is no erosion
and the coal is still there.
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You cannot leave coal
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sitting out on the earth surface
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for five million years.
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Make sense. Yes.
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So there's a kind of logic here.
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We're looking at
two different clocks
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and they're
telling us different times
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at this place called Coalcliff.
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First of all, there
is that radiometric clock
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and that says
five million years.
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But the flat
interface between the layers
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says a short period of time.
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So you got two clocks telling us
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two different periods of time.
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And these flat gaps in
time that we see there.
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They're actually quite common.
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There are...
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You can see them, for
example, in the Grand Canyon.
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You're in the United States,
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where there are
millions of years missing there
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also between layers and
yet it's absolutely flat.
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No erosion,
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no indication that there
was actually any time there.
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They're called paraconformities.
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And as I said, they
show up all over the place.
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The paraconformity
visible at Coalcliff
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covers about
97,000 square miles.
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That's an incredible
area, absolutely flat.
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They're simply
not places on earth
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that are like that today,
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97,000 square miles
of flatness of flat coal.
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This is obviously
something different
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than we see today.
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And well interpreted
as a short period of time.
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Now, I count this as
a biological evidence
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because coal came from plants.
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So let's look at another thing.
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Here's our coal again,
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this is just
looking at the same coal
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from a different angle.
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And when we look at that coal,
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frequently you
find carbon-14 in coal.
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Now, you've all heard
that carbon-14 means long ages.
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But that's
actually not really true.
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Is this where they
get the carbon dating?
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Yeah.
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This is what
carbon dating comes from.
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The most ancient carbon-14 dates
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you can possibly get
around 100,000 years.
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There are some
variables in there,
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generally, less
than that and a lot less.
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So because the
carbon-14 breaks down very fast,
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you simply, it's
a fast running clock
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and the time runs
out after a while.
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So if carbon-14 is
measured in a coal sample,
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it either had the
carbon-14 put into it
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or it's less than
100,000 years old.
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Now remember that coal
that you're looking at,
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they're supposed to
be millions of years old.
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There should be
no carbon-14 there.
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And this is something
that has been done many times
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in a number of
different types of coal.
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So here is
another line of evidence.
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There have been
a lot of molecules
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that have been found
associated with fossils
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that are supposed to
be millions of years old.
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And the question is,
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you know, how
long the proteins last?
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Do they last hundreds of years?
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If you put a,
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you know, a
piece of steak outside,
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how long does it last?
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Not very long.
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Now, a lot of that's
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because bacteria will come along
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and speed things up
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and some animal
might come and eat it.
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So we know that today,
it disappears very rapidly.
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But even if you
don't have animals
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or other organisms
breaking down these molecules,
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you have water that breaks up.
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You have oxygen,
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they just oxidize spontaneously,
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and other chemical
reactions degrade them
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and they can be
physically broken as well,
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and radiation.
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Radiation is something that
you simply can't get away from.
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And it breaks things down.
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So this exact skeleton here.
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From this exact skeleton,
they have found proteins,
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a whole blood vessels and things
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that they got out of the bones
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for this
particular dinosaur here.
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The idea that
those would have lasted
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for 60 something million
years is very optimistic,
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let's put it that way.
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Very optimistic.
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Reasonably,
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these are
explained as telling us
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that these dinosaurs
did not live that long ago.
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And there have been scientific
papers published about this.
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It's not something
that is fringe science.
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One more thing,
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let's go through
it really quickly.
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Sure.
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It's not that
technical, mutations.
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These are random
changes in DNA sequences.
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Most of these changes
have a very small impact.
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Thankfully, you
know, we'd all be dead
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and you're going to
see why in just a moment.
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Let's imagine that we
have a wife and a husband.
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And they have a
whole bunch of children.
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In fact, they have 10 children.
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And let's just imagine
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that there is a
very low mutation rate,
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1.1, I'm sorry per...
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0.1 mutations per
individual, per generation.
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That would mean that
one of their children
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had a mutation.
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Now you think, "Okay,
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natural selection can
get rid of that child,
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and the rest of them
will be perfectly fine."
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But what would happen
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if you had a
higher mutation rate,
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let's say 0.5
mutations per generation?
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Well, that would
mean 5 out of the 10,
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half of them would not survive,
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if natural
selection selected them out.
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But you'd still have
five, so you'd be fine.
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But what if you had one
mutation per individual,
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per generation?
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It wouldn't
exactly be like this,
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but we're just
illustrating something here.
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That would,
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in this
example, mean absolutely,
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all of your
children had mutations,
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and natural
selection would not be capable
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of getting rid of them.
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So what is the actual
human mutation rate, is it...
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More than one.
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Is it one
mutation per individual,
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per generation or
0.1, what is it exactly?
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There are lots of
estimates about this.
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But generally speaking,
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they're well over 100
mutations per individual,
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per generation.
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The point is this,
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human beings are incapable
of even having enough babies
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to get rid of all
of these mutations.
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So natural selection
is not only improbable,
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it sounds impossible.
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Well, natural selection
isn't gonna fix this problem.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We're going to
accumulate mutations.
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Now, thankfully,
our bodies are so robust
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that we can survive a
whole bunch of mutations.
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But the question then becomes,
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how many
mutations can we survive?
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At what point
are we going to die
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because we simply,
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our genomes are worn out.
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And truthfully, we
don't know exactly.
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But we could be pretty sure
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that it isn't millions of years.
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Yes.
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In fact, it's pretty remarkable
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that we're able to
survive thousands of years,
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which sounds pretty
optimistic or pretty pessimistic
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when you think about it.
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We're all doomed
except for one thing,
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God's salvation.
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We've read the back of the book.
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Exactly, God's
salvation is eternal.
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Yeah.
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And so what does this evidence,
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all of this
evidence that we've seen
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about a recent creation tell us?
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Well, there are a few things
that I would pull out of it.
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Number one, God's mercy.
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The creator's mercy in
not using this death driven
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process of evolution
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over eons of time is very clear.
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The time isn't millions,
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hundreds of millions
of years of suffering,
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struggle and death.
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And secondly,
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His mercy is clear
in not allowing sin
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and suffering to have continued
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over hundreds of
millions of years in the past.
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So we can praise God.
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The time is short.
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Jesus is our Creator
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and He created
thousands of years ago,
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not millions of years ago.
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And He is our redeemer.
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Amen. Amen.
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And I believe
that He is coming soon.
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Amen. So...
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Not millions of years from now.
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So we see that there
is sufficient evidence
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to prove the
recent creation of life
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and we believe it isn't
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more than 6,000
years ago, personally.
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But please stay tuned,
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we've got
something special coming up.
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