Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
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I'm Tim Standish.
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And usually,
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when I introduce myself,
I say that I am a biologist,
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but I actually have a PhD
in biology and public policy.
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Wow.
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And public
policy is all about laws
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and how people
relate with one another,
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the rules by which a
society will operate.
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Well, Tim, I'm glad you're
here to do this series with us,
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and we're so glad that
you are joining us today.
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We will be talking
about human relationships.
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If we look from the
biblical perspective,
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God made us special,
He made us in His image,
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and He had a plan and
a purpose for our lives.
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And He made man
to dominate the rest,
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to go out, have dominion
over the rest of His creation.
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And when we use
that word domination,
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we do not mean to somehow lord
over the rest of the creation.
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We mean caring for the creation.
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Yes.
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God has entrusted it to us.
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But what about with each other?
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God clearly
defines the relationship
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between humans and
the rest of the creation.
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What about humans and humans?
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Well, here in Matthew,
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we have a record of something
that Jesus Christ Himself said.
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He was talking about
the sacrament of marriage,
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and He said this,
"'Haven't you read,' he,
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this is Jesus,
replied, 'that at the beginning
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the Creator made
them male and female,
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and He said,
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'For this reason
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a man will leave
his father and mother
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and be united to his wife,
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and the two will
become one flesh'?
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So they are no
longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore, what God
has joined together,
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let no one separate.
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So God intended for
there to be perfect harmony
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and unity in
human relationships,
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particularly
between us, between spouses.
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Between spouses, yes.
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There is something beautiful
and glorious about that,
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something that tells
us something about God
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in the relationship
between a man and a woman,
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something incredibly special.
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And of course, we use words
like love to describe that.
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But then sometimes,
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we confuse love
with sensual things...
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Lust. Or lust,
those sorts of things.
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Love is a lot more than that.
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Especially when you
think of God's love,
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it is other-centered love.
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And that's how we grow.
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When you grow in love,
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I mean, we don't
really say follow them.
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Self-sacrificing. Yes.
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It's other-centered,
self-sacrificing love.
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True love is putting the
interest of another being
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before your own.
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And that's God's.
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That's God's, that's God's love.
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Now I want you to compare that.
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Or think about
this in the context
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of what James Rachel
wrote a few years ago.
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He is talking about morality
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from an
evolutionary perspective.
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And he says,
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"An evolutionary
perspective denies that
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humans are different in
kind from other animals,
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and one cannot reasonably
make distinctions in morals
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where none exist in fact."
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You can imagine why
today we have some of these
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strange and confusing ideas
sort of being tossed around
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about how humans
should relate to one another.
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This is a source of that.
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I don't want to blame
everything necessarily on this.
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But certainly, if
you say, "I am an animal.
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And therefore,
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God has no dominion over me."
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I can make up my own things.
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If I feel like doing something,
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I should just be able to
do it because I'm an animal.
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A quick story. Yeah.
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I interviewed a
gentleman who was a sheriff
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who in Northern
California went to high school.
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He worked with gangs.
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And he was meeting
with a group of boys
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that were 17-18 years old.
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And they had
never heard the gospel,
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they never heard
about Jesus and God.
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And when these
young men understood
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that they didn't
evolve from an ape,
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that they were truly made
in God's image for purpose,
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he was able to
rescue 90% of them,
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came out of the gang.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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You know, the gospel
is so transformative.
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Yes.
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You can see the
way that God can,
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in fact, change people's lives.
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We are more than just subject
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to whatever we feel like
doing at any instant in time.
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But this different morality
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has massive
implications in a society
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and the way that
people relate to each other.
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Let's jump back and just,
well, see what Charles Darwin,
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how he applies this,
not just to relationships
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between two individuals
in a marriage or something
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but how he sees
things working out
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for different cultures or
different races of people.
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He says, "I can
see no difficulty
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in the most
intellectual individuals
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of a species being
continually selected.
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And the intellect
of the new species
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thus improved,
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aided probably by effects
of inherited mental exercise.
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I look at this process
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as now going on
with the races of man.
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The less intellectual
races being exterminated."
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He's saying, "Hey,
this extermination of people
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whom he called savages..."
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Some of whom, by the
way, were my ancestors.
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He sees that is
the way it should be.
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That's how
evolutionary progress occurs.
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No regard for the value of life.
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Exactly.
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Obviously, there
can be no possibility
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of racial equality in
the Darwinian view of things
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because it's all about
survival of the fittest.
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Some people, some
groups, some individuals,
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something has to be
more fit than something else.
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So was Adolf Hitler a
fan of Charles Darwin?
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Oh, yes.
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Yeah, we're
actually gonna get to that.
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But first, I wanna contrast this
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with the biblical view,
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which is rooted in creation.
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Here's Paul and he's talking
to Epicurean philosophers here.
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People who believed
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in a
materialistic view of reality,
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and he writes, "From one man He,
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this is God,
made all the nations
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that they shouldn't
inhabit the whole earth.
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And He marked out
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their appointed times in history
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and the
boundaries of their lands."
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He's saying, "Hey,
we're all descended
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from one man,
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Greek, Jew, slave, free,
all those sorts of things."
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Paul actually lays
this out very, very clearly.
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And this is rooted in the idea
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of we're all descended from Adam
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and we can all
become children of God
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by adoption by the second Adam,
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Jesus Christ
Himself, who is the Creator.
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So prejudice,
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when you see somebody
that's being prejudiced
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because of their
skin color, for example,
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really, they have 99.9999%
more in common with that person.
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They just have
something different externally.
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You know what's interesting,
there are a lot of people
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who try to somehow
quantify differences like this
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and then draw
conclusions from it.
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My view is this,
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"Hey, you know what,
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somebody who is
of African ancestry
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is just as human as I am.
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Somebody who has
an Asian ancestry
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is just as human as I am."
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God made us diverse
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and we are all profoundly equal.
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It doesn't matter
if we are 80% the same.
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We are human beings
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and God made all
humans absolutely equal
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in a very profound way.
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Here's Paul writing again.
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He's writing here actually
to the Galatians, and he says,
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"There is
neither Jew nor Gentile,
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neither slave nor free,
nor is there male and female,
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for you are all
one in Christ Jesus,"
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who, of course, is
our Creator and Redeemer.
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It's a very, very clear message
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rooted in the
biblical view of creation.
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Now let's jump again back
and look at the sorts of things
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that Darwin was writing.
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He says, "There is
reason to believe that
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vaccination has
preserved thousands,
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who from a weak constitution
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would formally have
succumbed to smallpox."
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And you would think,
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"Hey, this is only
a good thing, right?"
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Yes, indeed.
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Now Darwin equivocates on this.
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And I'm giving a
short quote here.
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So anyone who's interested,
I invite them to go and look.
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This is in a book
called The Descent of Man.
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Look this up and
read it in context
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because, you know,
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he's obviously
struggling himself with this,
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how could this be a bad thing.
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But he goes on and he says,
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"Thus the weak
members of civilized societies
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propagate their kind.
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No one who has attended
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to the breeding
of domestic animals
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will doubt that this
must be highly injurious
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to the race of man."
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Ultimately, vaccinations are bad
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because it saves lives.
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Because it saves people.
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You know, the logic
is absolutely incredible.
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Jesus Christ is not
willing that any should perish.
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That's the biblical view.
That's the Christian view.
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Every human being, we want to do
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what we can do to save them.
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Darwinism is to a large degree
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about the week being eliminated
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and, of course,
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viewing human beings as animals.
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Yes.
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But what
happens as we apply that
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in a logical way.
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I'm just gonna give
you this example here.
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But this is not unique.
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This is in a paper published in
the Journal of Medical Ethics.
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This is not in some
crazy fringe sort of thing.
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These are people
who are taken seriously.
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And they write,
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"We claim that killing a newborn
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could be ethically permissible
in all the circumstances
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where abortion would be."
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Now I personally don't think
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that abortion is
ethically permissible,
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but these people do.
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They think that,
you know, in their view,
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if this thing
is not fully human,
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then it's okay
to destroy its life.
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They're talking
about an actual newborn.
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They're talking
now about a baby,
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a baby that's been born.
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And they say,
"Such circumstances,
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where it's okay
to kill this child,
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such circumstances include cases
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where the
newborn has the potential
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to have an at
least acceptable life,
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but the well-being of
the family is at risk."
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I'm not even
going to say anymore.
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Yeah. Adolf Hitler.
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These are ideas
about destroying the weak.
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If you're not strong
enough to protect yourself,
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you don't have rights
are really horrifying.
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Hitler wrote, "By
means of the struggle,
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the elites are
continually renewed.
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The law of selection justifies
this incessant struggle
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by allowing the
survival of the fittest.
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Christianity is a
rebellion against natural law,
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a protest against nature.
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Taken to its logical extreme,
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Christianity would mean
the systematic cultivation
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of the human failure."
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And we know the outcome of this,
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the slaughter of the weak.
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The Bible says, "Defend the weak
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and the fatherless.
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Uphold the cause of
the poor and the oppressed.
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Rescue the weak and the needy.
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Deliver them from
the hand of the wicked."
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That is what we get.
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And of course,
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Marxism also built off
this Darwinian foundation.
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It's all about struggle.
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And we know the
outcome of these things.
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And yet what did Jesus say?
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He said, you know, when I come,
this is what the King will say,
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"Come, you who are
blessed by My Father,
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take your inheritance,
the kingdom prepared for you
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since the creation of the world.
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For I was hungry
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and you gave me
something to eat,
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I was thirsty and you
gave me something to drink."
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And so on.
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It's all about
caring for the weak.
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It's not about destroying people
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who can't protect themselves.
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So what does this
reveal about the Creator?
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His existence
has multiple persons,
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but one being is illustrated
in the sacrament of marriage.
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But in addition to that,
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His care for everyone
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is shown in the way He
defines our relationships,
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love, care, not power
and destroying the weak.
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What we believe
about the sanctity of life,
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about the value of life
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will determine how
we treat other people,
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not only in our personal circles
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but in our government.
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So please stay tuned
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because we have a
human rights attorney
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that will be
joining us to talk about it.
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