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3,500 years ago after the worldwide Flood of Noah's time, but long before the
birth of Jesus Christ

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God inspired Moses to record history - from the beginning.

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These writings became the first five books of the Holy Bible's Old Testament.

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Beginning with Genesis, the first book

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Our history from Adam, the first man, to Abraham, with whom God established
His covenant.

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All leading to God's ultimate plan of redemption: a future new covenant, a New
Testament, someday to come.

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Genesis is the book of our origins, and our destiny. It's a destiny we cannot fully
understand until we go back to the beginning.

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They hijack science; they want to convince the whole world that science is only
possible within an atheistic worldview.

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I have to ask the question: How can you not believe that Somebody designed all of
this?

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Obviously, the genius of God's creative hand screams for the powerful existence of
an Intelligent Designer.

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GENESIS

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Part 1 -- "Paradise Lost"

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The Bible begins with a statement that is so simple a child can understand it, yet so
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"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."

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You see, this argument over God's existence, and of Creation versus Evolution, is
not so much a religious argument.

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Rather, it is an ontological argument, that is, it's an argument concerning the very
nature of reality.

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It's not between science versus religion. No, it's a worldview clash.

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Two different views of origins resulting in two totally different worldviews that clash.

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People are battling over two different histories. You either trust God, or you trust
man.

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It really becomes an issue of authority. Who is the authority?

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Is it God in His Word, the Holy Bible, or instead is it man and man's opinions?

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Really, we only have two possibilities.

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Either the universe, and all of us, came about through a purely natural, physical
process;

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in other words, we just "happened" - or - Somebody (out there) made us.

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I was taught in school that there was a "Big Bang," that there were millions of years,
and man slowly evolved.

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The theory of evolution, atheistic evolution, the Big Bang, and millions of years.

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If we simply happened then there really is no right or wrong.

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We could just live our lives the way we wish to, that has huge consequences.

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Evolution has a lot of unintended consequences that I'm not sure everyone has
thought about.

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Evolution's beliefs relate to ethics. They relate to whether or not the world is
supposed to be good.

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When you find yourself struggling with evil, you ought to ask yourself:

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Well, I thought the world was supposed to be this way? If evolution is true, then get
used to it.

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You see if evolution is true; who am I? You're nothing important.

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You're just a piece of protoplasm that washed up from the cosmic shores.

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If evolution is true, man is just an animal. We're Mother Nature's science project.

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Why am I here? If evolution is true, if Nature is all there is, there's no real purpose.

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Might as well do whatever you feel like. If it feels good, do it!

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You have no meaning. There is no reason for you to exist.

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Where am I going when I die? You're going to go back into the ground and that is
going to be it.

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The lights are turned out on you. You die and become part of nothingness. You're
worthless.

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But instead if there is a God, and in particular the God of the Bible, then the world,
all of reality, is altogether different!

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I used to think that to believe the Bible meant you had to reject science.

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I thought I had to have a "mental lobotomy" in order to start believing the Bible.

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We hear the mantra: "All the scientists believe in evolution."

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Some people today want to insist that you can't do science without believing in
evolution.

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In other words if you are a creationist you cannot also be a scientist.

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But there are thousands of PhD scientists all over the world who don't accept
evolution.

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And many of them don't accept the belief in millions of years.

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I have four advanced educational degrees. Most evolutionist professors I've met
have only three.

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There is a small movement in the evolutionist community to try to get the doctoral
degrees taken away from all professing creationists.

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That's never going to happen but the fact that someone is trying speaks to the
nature of the debate.

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The secularists and the atheists took control of science and its beliefs.

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They took control of all the science journals and all the university science programs.

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They have taken over the museums. They have taken over the state schools. They
have taken over the universities.

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Also the main textbooks and the public schools in almost every country.

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The secularists really have control of the educational system and they want

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their religion of secularism, of atheism, and of naturalism forced upon the students.

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They use political pressure. They use scare tactics. They use the courts as well.

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They will intimidate school districts and take away their autonomy that is given to
them by the US Constitution.

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And if that's what they have to do, if you need laws to protect a theory from criticism,
what does that tell you about the theory?

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In America, there is no real separation of Church and State because the State is
forcing a religion on generations of kids,

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and that is that everything can be explained by natural processes only, i.e. atheistic
evolution.

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They eliminate the supernatural. Their theory is a religion. It is a religion of atheism.

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They hijack science, and they convince the whole world that science is only possible
within an atheistic worldview.

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Even though modern science was born from the womb of the Christian worldview.

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Did you know that modern science was pretty much invented by people of faith, by
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Think of Sir Isaac Newton. I think he needs a better public relations agent:

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All most folks know is that he had an apple fall on his head and that he discovered
gravity.

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He was doing mathematical formulas to show that the idea of math and reason
came directly from a logical Creator who invented the world.

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Isaac Newton, Boyle, Pasteur, Faraday: These scientists were all Bible-believing
Christians.

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Johannes Kepler, who pretty much invented modern astronomy, he didn't see any
problem between science and the Scriptures.

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Most of the early scientists were not materialists.

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Most of the early scientists were theists who believed that there was a God who had
created everything.

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And the reason that we could understand the created world was that there was a
Mind, an incredible intelligence, behind the material world.

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We need to acknowledge that there is a Creator God who put in place an orderly
universe to allow us to understand science.

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Which makes more sense: a rational God who created a rational world that can be
studied rationally;

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Or - an irrational, meaningless process that somehow created a rational world that
can be studied rationally?

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It doesn't even make sense. In a secularized world where there is no right and
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everything just exploded, they believe, and this is what we have?

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Why would we have all these beautiful laws like F = ma or E = mc2?

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In a secular worldview with things like the Big Bang, evolution, the millions of years,

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and a naturalistic origin of life; those are not scientific.

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A lot of people have been duped into believing that they are, but they're not.

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For example, is the Big Bang observable and repeatable? No.

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Is millions of years observable and repeatable? No.

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"Origin of life" Has anybody ever made life from non-life? No.

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Evolution is not a scientific fact. The "millions of years" is also not a scientific fact.

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Evolution and its millions of years - is the greatest myth ever forced onto the minds
of men.

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The reason that most people believe it today is because they have been
brainwashed.

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Are we going to believe man's theories, when man wasn't there during the supposed
millions and millions of years of Earth's history?

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And who really just has t make up stories about what happened in the past?

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When you start to buy into evolution, its millions of years, and some of those ideas,

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you've then opened the door to say, "You don't have to trust the Bible completely."

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If you can't trust the truth of Genesis 1-12, then why should you believe: Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John?

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That is a logical incoherence, because now you're picking and choosing which
Scriptures to believe.

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Hypocrisy in the Church is the greatest deterrent to turning people to Christ, and to
confidence in the written Word, from Genesis to Revelation.

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Genesis is so important because it's the foundation of who God is, and who we are,
and why is the world broken?

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Why do bad things happen to good people? And why do good things sometimes
happen to bad people?

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And does anyone have a fix? All this gets related to us in Genesis. Genesis gives us
the true beginning of history of the world.

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The scientific evidence does not support evolution and millions of years.

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Rather it confirms what Genesis says about a Great Flood of Noah, and about the
age of the Earth.

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God's Word is true from the very first verse.

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And in this debate between Creation versus Evolution, Christians need to always be
standing on the truth of God's Word.

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Stand firm on the authority of the Word of God, starting with the very first verse.

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[Genesis 1:1-13] "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep.

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And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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And God called the light, Day, and the darkness he called, Night.

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And the evening and the morning were the First Day.

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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.

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And let it divide the waters from the waters.

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament

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from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so.

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And God called the firmament, Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the
second day.

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And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one
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And let the dry land appear.

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And it was so.

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And God called the dry land, Earth.

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And the gathering together of the waters He called, seas.

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And God saw that it was good.

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed.

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And the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth.

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And it was so.

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And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind.

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And the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind.

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And God saw that it was good.

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And the evening and the morning were the third day."

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When we read the first chapter of Genesis, we have to ask:

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What kind of text is this? What type of literature is this?

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Is Genesis supposed to be poetry? ls it supposed to be an allegory?

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Don't forget that Genesis is written in historical narrative Hebrew, not in lyrical poetic
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It is written in historical style, and it's meant to be taken as straightforward, literal
history.

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The Bible clearly says that God created everything in six literal days, just like our
days, about 6,000 years ago.

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Jesus Christ himself referred to Genesis on multiple occasions, each time referring
to Genesis as real history.

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There are some people who approach the Biblical text today and they view it through
the lens of modern scientific interpretations.

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For example, they try to insert millions of years in between the first two verses of
Scripture.

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Now in order to add millions of years in between verse 1 and verse 2, you have to
deal with the grammar of the text.

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The Hebrew is very clear in the syntax and grammar.

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Now, there are people who say they don't believe it.

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But no one can say that the Hebrew word "yom" doesn't mean a 24-hour day right
there where it says a day.

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And then it says first day, second day; and at the end, the fifth day and the sixth day.

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Each of those days was an ordinary, approximately 24-hour day.

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In fact, that is why in Exodus 20:11, God said He made everything in six days and
rested for one, as a basis for the seven-day week.

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You see the seven day week actually comes from the Bible. It doesn't come from
any other worldview.

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It doesn't come from any other religion. It doesn't come from astronomical science.

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We have this seven-day cycle that we call the week, and there is no astronomical
basis for this.

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It's something that is fairly universal among cultures, but we find it's given to us in the
first few chapters of Genesis.

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You have the six days of Creation. And then on the seventh day, God rested.

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God made everything in six days. He rested for one.

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That is why we have a seven-day week; that's where it comes from.

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We don't have any "seven millions-of-years" weeks, or something like that!

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There is no way to harmonize evolution and its "millions of years" with the "days" in
Genesis 1.

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If you try to make that order of the events of the Creation Week match with
evolutionary principles, it can't.

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If the days were really millions or billions of years, how could the plants go for a
million years with no Sun?

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They might have lasted overnight, like the Bible says, but not for a million years!

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The plants could survive just fine for twelve hours without sunlight.

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If Genesis 1 was just written by Moses out of his own imagination, he would never
think to put things in the order that they are in.

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It is completely contradictory to the order in which the evolutionists say things
happened.

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They are in that order because that's the order in which God actually created,

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knowing that people would come along and devise their own creation myths,

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and that one day there would be evolutionists with their atheistic creation myth.

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In 1859, Charles Darwin published his book, "On the Origin of Species."

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It was a book that proposed a new theory on how life came to be on planet Earth.

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This theory would strongly contradict the Bible, which had been the predominant,
trusted source of ancient history in the West up until that time.

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Darwin was strongly influenced by Charles Lyell's 1853 book, "The Principles of
Geology."

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Lyell, also influenced by others, reinterpreted geologic history through gradual
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over millions of years - a concept known as: uniformitarianism.

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This view was contrary to catastrophism, which teaches that Noah's Flood can
explain much of what we find in the geologic record.

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Lyell's motivation was to "free the science from Moses".

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Their ideas would soon transform the culture from one that largely trusted in the
Biblical account of history;

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and its implications for cosmology, geology, and biology,

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to one that searched for alternative explanations for everything.

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Did man evolve from animals? Did the universe form itself over billions of years?

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Did dinosaurs go extinct millions of years before man was on the Earth?

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Was there really a worldwide Flood?

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These questions would soon lead many to either make compromises with the Bible,
or even to deny the Holy Bible altogether.

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I've had people say, "Well where did God come from? Who created God?"

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On what page of Shakespeare's work: "Hamlet" do you find Shakespeare?

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Shakespeare is not confined to his book. He's not present within it; he wrote the
book.

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He's not bound by his book. And God is not bound by His Creation.

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When you ask that question, "Where did God come from?" or "Who created God?"

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You are assuming that time is absolute and God showed up on that timeline.

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That is not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is beyond all that.

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God started time. He wasn't created. He is not bound by time. God is that
absolute!

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Everyone knows, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

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Heaven is space. The earth is matter. And then He said, "Let there be light."

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(Most people know that verse by heart too.) That's energy.

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On the first day of the universe, God created: space, time, matter, and energy - all
the components of the universe.

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And the only actual matter in the universe is the Earth at the time, standing in and
out of the water.

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Perhaps it was water that the Earth was made from, and water was actually the first
substance that God made.

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And so, we have matter, space, time, and energy being created on the first day of
the universe.

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The second day is when God actually separates the waters above from the waters
below, and then the expanse is there.

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The third day, God then brings forth the dry land. He raises up the land surface.

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So now you have the first continent, probably only one continent because it says He
gathered the waters together.

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All to one place, which suggests that in the early Earth there was one land mass.

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Just one continent later split up, we believe, during the Great Flood of Noah many
years later.

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It wasn't until the 1960s that geologists began to widely accept "continental drift."

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This was a supposedly new idea that the continents of the Earth had broken up at
sometime in the past and had slowly moved apart.

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You've probably heard the name "Rodinia" or "Pangaea."

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A super-continent on Earth, in which all the continents as we know them were once
connected together.

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This is a concept that the Bible already revealed thousands of years earlier.

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In 1858, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini proposed that the continents had moved apart
rapidly during Noah's Flood, in a catastrophic process.

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Genesis 1:9 states that God gathered together the waters into one place, and He
made the dry land to appear.

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What the Bible had stated all along - that the lands were once connected and then
split apart - geologists started teaching thousands of years later.

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Many people's understanding of the Flood is the understanding they acquired when
they were about four years old.

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The Flood was an incredible catastrophe almost beyond what the human mind can
comprehend.

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This is a catastrophic event of unimaginable proportions.

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Sedimentation on a global cataclysmic-catastrophic scale, burying billions of
creatures suddenly, all in unimaginable amounts of sediment.

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Look at all the fossils. It's almost like the surface of the Earth screams at us, "Hey!
There was a catastrophic event!"

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If something like that happened, what sort of evidence should have been left
behind?

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Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water, all over the Earth!

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Most of the fossil record is a result of the Flood, not millions of years of slow
processes.

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The fossil record documents the reality of the Genesis Flood.

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It was also a tectonic catastrophe: large-scale plate motion, migration of the
continents by thousands of miles.

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Which means that all of the Atlantic Ocean opened up during the Flood; and the
Indian Ocean opened up also, the transforming the Earth's surface.

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It is impossible to walk away from the Biblical text thinking that this was some type of
local Mesopotamian flood.

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This was a Flood of universal proportions in its destruction of the Earth itself; its the
destruction of all mankind.

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The Bible tells us of a worldwide Flood.

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One that radically changed the climate and devastated the continents, thousands of
years before scientists would even propose ice ages.

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The irony is that these same scientists would confirm the possibility of great global
floods

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on planets like Mars, and yet still deny that a global Flood was possible on Earth.

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You see, the Bible already stated there was a worldwide Flood, but they don't want
to validate the Bible.

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They will come up with any other explanation except the truth.

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For 150 days, the waters covered the mountains. They prevailed over the Earth.

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Five months of torrential downpour rain, of the fountains of the great deep being
broken open, and gushing out water from beneath as well.

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The Hebrew words for the great deep, this immediately takes the reader back to
Genesis 1:2, where we have a water-covered Earth.

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Then on the third day, God also makes the plants and the trees of the field with the
fruit in them, with seeds already in them.

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Some people object to that and say, "But wait a minute: the plants were made on
Day 3, but the sun wasn't made until Day 4.

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How can you have plants without light from the sun?"

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But you have light starting on Day 1: God said, "Let there be light."

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We are not told where the light came from. Presumably, He had a source for light.

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Light then exists independent of its source anyway, if you think about it.

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And the Sun was made on Day 4 to be the light-bearer from that time onwards.

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It's interesting: In the Old Testament, God warns the Israelites not to worship the Sun
like the pagans do.

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And I believe one of the reasons that God left the Sun until Day 4, was to show that
He created the light and that He sustains all of that.

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The Sun is just His tool, so don't worship the Sun. Worship God, who made the
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[Genesis 1:14-19] And God said

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Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.

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And let them be for signs,

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and for seasons

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and for days

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and for years.

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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the
earth.

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And it was so.

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And God made two great lights;

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the greater light to rule the day,

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and the lesser light to rule the night.

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He made the stars also.

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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.

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And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.

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And God saw that it was good.

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And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

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Astronomers typically specialize in different fields.

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Some will study planets, some will study galaxies; I happen to study stars.

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Physicists and astronomers have started asking questions. They say, "Why does the
universe appear to be designed?"

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I read this book many years ago called "The Anthropic Principle." It's a huge book of
over a thousand pages.

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The authors draw this interesting story that the world appears to be designed.

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When I got done, they said that it just appears to be designed; there really is no
design there.

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I'm thinking, you look at the evidence and then you deny that the evidence is there?!

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How can you not believe that Somebody designed all of this?

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The secular world says that the Big Bang occurred 14 billion years ago.

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Everything was compacted into one spot.

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It expanded, then the stars formed themselves, and then our Sun formed, and in the
dust around the Sun, the Earth formed.

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It was a hot molten blob, it got covered by water, and then biological evolution
happened.

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But if that's the case, you have any number of problems.

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According to evolutionary theory, or at least atheistic evolution theory, the Big Bang
created everything.

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Gas clouds went out everywhere, and stars contracted from gas clouds out of their
gravity.

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But it's impossible for stars to contract out of their gravity because as soon as you
get a gas cloud that is compressed, it will heat up.

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And hot gases want to expand, and that expansion force is 100x or more powerful
than the force of gravity!

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So it could never happen.

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There are all these "the dog ate my homework" stories about how gravity waves
came from black holes.

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They might do a push-pull thing on gas clouds and make this actually happen.

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But you have a "chicken and the egg" problem here, because don't black holes
come from stars?

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So there have to be stars in the first place! There are many, many questions in
science that have not been answered.

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But there are also many questions that have been answered.

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So far, it is the problem for the evolutionist of the questions that have been
answered.

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Like the coalescence of the stars, like violating the First Law of Thermodynamics.

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Matter and energy cannot be either created or destroyed.

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However the Big Bang insists that had to have happened at least once.

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Many people think the universe popped into existence instantly in a Big Bang, and
that it happened all by itself!

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Somehow matter had spontaneously come into existence, without a prior cause.

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They have some serious problems with the laws of nature.

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I was speaking to the vice president of a group called: the Darwin Coalition, once
and I said,

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"You all believe in spontaneous generation!"

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He said, "We do not!" I said, "Yes you do. You believe it happened at least once,
don't you?"

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Why would any smart person be so easily fooled by such a dumb suggestion?

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That actually his theory does violate the known discoveries and laws of science.

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We have two very important concepts in physics called the: First and Second Laws
of Thermodynamics.

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The first law says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. And equally as valid
as the first law is

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that things are currently running
down; and energy is becoming less useful.

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The useful amount of energy is always decreasing, and we measure this with a thing
called entropy.

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The entropy is always increasing. It's almost as if the world was wound-up like a
clock, and it's been unwinding.

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The second law would seem to argue that the universe has not always existed -
the material universe has not always existed.

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But the first law says you could not have a beginning. So, we have this contradiction.

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We have this tension: Both laws are equally true.

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And yet both laws, if extrapolated into the past, contradict each other.

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The universe has no natural explanation; it doesn't have a physical explanation.

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The other thing they've done in our educational system:

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They said that science can only explain things by natural processes.

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They have even changed the definition of science from:

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"The study of the natural world using the five senses" to be instead: "the search for
only natural explanations."

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But who decided that? That's an arbitrary definition.

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That specifically excludes any possibility of God being involved.

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God has not only been "kicked out" but He is treated as most unwelcome.

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They have totally changed the methodology of science.

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We need to bring the worlds of science and the Bible together for people so they
can see that they mesh fine.

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It is the unbelievers who have the scientific problems, not us.

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From a secular perspective, they can only get light about halfway across the
universe.

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That's why they have astronomical inflation theories and super-inflation theories and
so on - because they have a problem.

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They have a light time-travel problem.

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The problem is actually worse that we sometimes think.

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Alpha Centauri is more than four light years away. God had to get that light here not
in four years, but by the end of Day 4.

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We used to call that "the starlight problem."

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The nearest galaxy to us is 1.5 - 2 million light years away, so wouldn't it take at least
1.5 million years for that light to get here?

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And yes, in straight space, it would. But even the Big Bang theorists will say that
space and dimensions "unfolded."

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Some people take mentions in the Old Testament of God "stretching out the
heavens" like a tent or a canopy

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as Him stretching that light miraculously to get here.

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Bible verses: "He stretches out the heavens as a tent upon a pole to dwell in,"

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"He stretches out the heavens as a curtain", "He that arched the heavens", "He that
bowed the heavens",

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"He stretched out the heavens across the North place"...

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All these Bible verses and many more indicate that the way that God did it was
stretching.

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The telescope has been around for hundreds of years.

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It has played an instrumental role in many of our greatest discoveries about the
universe.

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Telescopes much larger and more advanced than these were used in the early
1900s to measure what became known as the red shift,

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a form of measurement which provided empirical evidence that space was
stretching.

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This meant that space-time itself could actually be manipulated as if it were fabric.

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This understanding would begin to bring answers to some of the biggest mysteries
of the universe.

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But this concept was just a recognition of what the Bible has already revealed.

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In the books of both Isaiah and Job, God said He stretched out the heavens like a
curtain,

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and that He created the heavens and stretched them out.

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These Bible verses gave us further insight to the dimensionality of space

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and showed us that the universe has been stretched since the beginning of creation.

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The implications of this Biblical concept have been better understood in modern
times.

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What's equally extraordinary is that the Bible also revealed that the Earth is round
and that it floats in space, hanging upon nothing:

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amazing scientific insights from the Bible, proclaimed at a time when some ancient
cultures believed that the Earth was flat.

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The Bible has always been - and shall ever be - validated by real science.

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Edwin Hubble is credited with what many people think is perhaps the greatest
discovery of astronomy in the twentieth century.

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It's the idea of what we call the expansion of the universe.

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And if it's expanding, then you would expect more distant objects to appear to be
moving farther away from us.

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As the universe gets larger, there should be a relationship between distance and
that apparent motion between us.

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And we measure that motion by the red shifts.

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Now according to Albert Einstein, if you actually stretch the fabric of space,

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you will also essentially and necessarily have to stretch the fabric of time.

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So, Andromeda is not just 1 .5 - 2 million light years in spatial displacement over that
way.

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It is also time-stretched. We are looking at the galaxy of Andromeda as it looked at
a previous time.

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But we are also looking at a galaxy that has experienced more time than we have if
we are anywhere closer to the center of the stretching.

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William Tifft, back about forty years ago, discovered something interesting in the red
shifts of galaxies.

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The universe consists of concentric "shells" of galaxies, and we are near the center
of that.

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If we are placed there by God for some reason, that's what you might expect.

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Astronomers have more or less ignored Tifft's work over the years and yet it's staring
them in the face.

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In astronomy, as in any other sciences, I think there are evidences that the world is
far younger than many people think.

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Spiral galaxies would be a good example. They actually spin more rapidly at the
center, and more slowly out at the edges.

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Obviously if this thing spins around several times it starts "smearing out" the spiral
arms.

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And as that happens you would spin it out to the point where you would end up with
just a blurry disk.

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They think these galaxies are at least ten billion years old, so these things would be
entirely smeared out.

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But in six thousand years there would not be much smearing taking place.

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In billions of years, it's a problem; in thousands of years, not a problem.

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Comets really do have something to say about the age of the solar system.

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We can divide comets into two groups: short period comets, and long period
comets.

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For short period comets, in only a couple hundred thousand years and they are all
gone: There should not be any left.

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For long period comets, tens of millions or maybe a hundred million years but they
are also all gone.

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So for a billions-of-years old solar system, you have a problem; but for thousands of
years, not a problem.

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We understand that the Sun is powered by nuclear fusion and that could power the
Sun for billions of years.

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As it produces energy like that, it changes its composition inside, and over time it
should slowly brighten.

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And as it does, the Earth would get warmer. Now again, over thousands of years
this is not a problem.

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But if go back a couple billion to three billion years ago when life supposedly first
developed on the planet,

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you have a problem because the Earth would have been far colder.

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It would have been frozen, and nobody thinks that happened.

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So in billions of years, it's a problem; but in thousands of years, not a problem.

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In fact, other planets in our solar system testify to a young universe as well.

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Both the density and magnetic field of Mercury cannot allow for millions of years.

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In 1984, creationist Dr. Russell Humphreys correctly calculated the magnetic fields
of Uranus and Neptune.

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That was several years before the Voyager 2 satellite would actually measure them.

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Humphreys used a vital clue from the Bible: that the universe was made only 6,000
years ago.

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And when the surface of Venus was mapped in the mid-nineties, volcanos, craters,
mountains,

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and other features showed the history of the planet as young.

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Neptune is too hot to be old. Pluto still has nitrogen in its atmosphere.

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The rings of Saturn and Neptune aren't uniform, as they would be after millions of
years.

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So, do we trust in the timeline of men, who are repeatedly wrong and having to
change their beliefs?

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Or do we trust in the Bible, which has never been proven wrong and does not
change.

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[Genesis 1:20-23] And God said

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Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that has life.

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And birds that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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And God created great whales,

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and every living creature that moves,

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which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind.

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And every winged bird after his kind.

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And God saw that it was good.

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And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply.

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And fill the waters in the seas.

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And let birds multiply in the earth.

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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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00:48:49,469 --> 00:48:55,642
A lot of people will say, "It just seems so hard to believe the Bible because of all
those miracles and everything."

396
00:48:55,838 --> 00:48:58,770
Well, the Big Bang is a believed miracle. The evolution of life would have to be a
miracle.

397
00:48:58,967 --> 00:49:04,859
And the changing of that life into all "the origin of the species" all require violations of
the laws of science.

398
00:49:05,057 --> 00:49:09,948
To believe that there is no God, you will have to believe in miracles, but without a
miracle maker!

399
00:49:10,145 --> 00:49:13,910
To believe that evolution is true, you will have to violate some of the main,

400
00:49:14,108 --> 00:49:17,580
and most important principles and laws of science that have been agreed upon.

401
00:49:17,779 --> 00:49:22,002
Not only does the atheistic evolutionary worldview violate the First Law of
Thermodynamics

402
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:27,799
(so that's against a principle of science) but Louis Pasteur proved that "spontaneous
generation" wasn't true.

403
00:49:27,998 --> 00:49:32,095
But all evolutionists - every atheistic evolutionist - actually believes in the
spontaneous generation of life!

404
00:49:32,345 --> 00:49:35,181
This whole evolutionary concept that life came from non-life.

405
00:49:35,557 --> 00:49:39,853
It actually violates a law of science. It is one of the only laws in biology.

406
00:49:40,052 --> 00:49:44,274
It's called the Law of Biogenesis, and it states that life only comes from life, not from
non-life.

407
00:49:44,482 --> 00:49:49,487
The law of biogenesis therefore says that all life comes from pre-existing life.

408
00:49:49,688 --> 00:49:55,452
And yet evolution says that life can come from non-life. Surprise! If you just wait
long enough.

409
00:49:55,869 --> 00:50:01,374
But we see no examples of that today. We can't observe it; we can't repeat it;
people just believe it blindly.

410
00:50:01,575 --> 00:50:04,544
Anytime they have done these sorts of "origin of life" experiments,

411
00:50:04,745 --> 00:50:10,467
where they're trying to take a soup, so to speak, of all these different molecules, add
a little bit of lightning...

412
00:50:10,668 --> 00:50:13,094
cook everything together, add a spark, and out comes...?

413
00:50:14,137 --> 00:50:19,100
Tar. They end up with gunk. They have to do a lot of tweaking to end up with...

414
00:50:19,302 --> 00:50:22,979
amino acids. Is that impressive? Ooohh.

415
00:50:23,182 --> 00:50:27,609
It's not even meaningful information as far as real DNA is concerned.

416
00:50:27,811 --> 00:50:32,322
Every evolutionary story starts with the famous "Miller-Urey Experiments" from the
1950s.

417
00:50:32,525 --> 00:50:37,660
The best yields that they've ever gotten were 80% L-amino acids and 20% D-amino
acids.

418
00:50:37,864 --> 00:50:44,542
That means that every fifth amino acid in a protein series would be lethal to all forms
of life on our planet!

419
00:50:44,746 --> 00:50:48,463
The evolutionists try to get away from this molecular problem of mirror images.

420
00:50:48,667 --> 00:50:56,262
The odds for 250 chemical parts coming together is 2 X 10"476.

421
00:50:56,846 --> 00:51:02,936
That is a 2 with 476 zeros following after it!
2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...

422
00:51:03,311 --> 00:51:08,775
Those are the terrible odds for the first cell to even come into existence - all by itself!

423
00:51:09,109 --> 00:51:17,659
The best they've been able to do is the idea that the amino acids assembled
themselves on the backs of floating crystals in the ocean.

424
00:51:17,865 --> 00:51:22,205
Their schemes and the things they have tried to imagine just don't work.

425
00:51:22,411 --> 00:51:31,297
If you take the cell and you poke a hole in it, you have all the components for the cell
there - and yet no life.

426
00:51:31,504 --> 00:51:34,843
They will say, "That's an origin of life issue and I'm not going to deal with that."

427
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,721
But you have to deal with it, because there is no point in dealing with any of these
other things

428
00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:43,143
if you cannot even get an organism in the first place. The problems are
exponential

429
00:51:43,350 --> 00:51:47,397
People in the field actually know this but go along with it anyway because, well,

430
00:51:47,605 --> 00:51:53,361
(they believe) the other disciplines of science are where the real proof is.

431
00:51:53,570 --> 00:51:56,823
So, the geologists think that the real proof is with the paleontologists.

432
00:51:57,032 --> 00:51:59,242
The fossil-studiers think the geophysicists have the proof.

433
00:51:59,451 --> 00:52:02,829
The geophysicists think it's the astrophysicists that have the proof.

434
00:52:03,038 --> 00:52:06,249
Everyone gets to the airport but thinks that somebody else has bought the tickets!

435
00:52:06,458 --> 00:52:09,252
They would never do this in any other area of their lives.

436
00:52:09,461 --> 00:52:14,674
They are denying the obvious because of their starting point: that there is no God.

437
00:52:14,884 --> 00:52:19,846
A lot of people are enticed by this idea because it takes God out of the picture.

438
00:52:20,056 --> 00:52:23,349
Here's another way in which young people are being conned.

439
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:30,315
When they read their textbooks and it's talking about changes in finches' beaks or
changes you see in dogs, the word "evolution" is used.

440
00:52:30,526 --> 00:52:37,155
But then the word "evolution" is also used for molecules-to-man, so it's a "bait and
switch" trick.

441
00:52:37,366 --> 00:52:41,701
Just like all the other sequences, like chimps gradually turning into humans,

442
00:52:41,913 --> 00:52:44,037
and this little Bambi-looking thing turning into horses,

443
00:52:44,249 --> 00:52:49,459
those kinds of things that have been used for evolution really don't belong in the
textbooks.

444
00:52:49,671 --> 00:52:53,755
Alan Feduccia, the head of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill,

445
00:52:53,967 --> 00:52:58,843
says that it will be the paleontological embarrassment of the twentieth century,

446
00:52:59,056 --> 00:53:03,473
the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs. They are not a related lineage at all.

447
00:53:03,686 --> 00:53:07,143
I get the question of dinosaurs all the time. Consider dragons.

448
00:53:07,356 --> 00:53:12,523
We see dragon legends in cultures all over the world. We find petroglyphs, cave
drawings and etchings.

449
00:53:12,737 --> 00:53:17,195
And many of these are images of dragons are creatures that we would call
dinosaurs today.

450
00:53:17,403 --> 00:53:20,990
But the word "dinosaur" didn't exist until it was invented in 1841.

451
00:53:21,205 --> 00:53:26,162
So before 1841 , very often the word "dragon" would have been used.

452
00:53:26,377 --> 00:53:29,290
"Dragon" is more of an overarching term.

453
00:53:29,505 --> 00:53:32,460
It would include flying reptiles and sea reptiles, as well as things like the dinosaurs.

454
00:53:32,675 --> 00:53:37,215
Now when it comes to evidence of dinosaurs and man living at the same time,
believe it or not we have an immense amount.

455
00:53:37,430 --> 00:53:39,842
When we look at ancient histories from various cultures

456
00:53:40,058 --> 00:53:46,015
We get very detailed descriptions of creatures that today, in our modern world, we
would call dinosaurs.

457
00:53:46,266 --> 00:53:48,643
In Genesis, in chapter 1,we're told that on Day 6,

458
00:53:48,859 --> 00:53:55,066
God created the beasts of the earth and everything that creeps upon the earth.

459
00:53:55,283 --> 00:54:02,198
This would of course include dinosaurs. In the past dinosaurs were simply known
as: dragons.

460
00:54:02,415 --> 00:54:10,748
Even as late as the early 1900s, dictionaries described dragons as "now rare" and "a
huge serpent."

461
00:54:10,966 --> 00:54:19,757
Not only do we find dinosaurs in cave drawings, carvings of figurines, and even in
cultural legends from the not-too-distant past,

462
00:54:19,976 --> 00:54:25,471
but the Bible speaks descriptively of creatures that sound like - dinosaurs.

463
00:54:25,690 --> 00:54:33,938
In the book of Job, God tells Job to behold the "behemoth" - a creature that Job
would have known.

464
00:54:34,157 --> 00:54:40,653
In fact, God specifically says that He made the behemoth along with mankind.

465
00:54:40,873 --> 00:54:48,328
And it describes behemoth as having a tail that sways like a cedar tree, and bones
as strong as iron.

466
00:54:48,548 --> 00:54:52,457
He's so big that a raging river is nothing to him.

467
00:54:52,677 --> 00:54:59,547
The description of this massive creature fits the huge sauropod dinosaurs we know
of from the fossil record.

468
00:54:59,768 --> 00:55:05,887
The Bible describes in great detail a creature that sounds just like a dinosaur,

469
00:55:06,108 --> 00:55:12,393
thousands of years before paleontologists would rediscover and rename them.

470
00:55:12,977 --> 00:55:16,314
My daughter, when she was younger, came home from her kindergarten class

471
00:55:16,536 --> 00:55:20,902
with a book that said that dinosaurs lived 100 million years ago.

472
00:55:21,124 --> 00:55:23,154
That is just an assertion, they are just saying it.

473
00:55:23,376 --> 00:55:24,947
They didn't observe this; you can't repeat this.

474
00:55:25,170 --> 00:55:32,455
It is man - fallible, imperfect men - who separate man from dinosaurs by about 65
million years now.

475
00:55:32,678 --> 00:55:35,458
You either start with what God has to say, or start with what man has to say.

476
00:55:35,681 --> 00:55:40,254
God, who has always been there; He is perfect and infallible, and He's the one who
says...

477
00:55:40,478 --> 00:55:43,341
that people and dinosaurs walked the Earth together.

478
00:55:43,565 --> 00:55:47,428
A lot of people scoff at that, but if you look back in history, nobody scoffed at that
until recent times,

479
00:55:47,652 --> 00:55:51,224
when people started to buy into this concept of millions and billions of years.

480
00:55:51,448 --> 00:55:58,689
One of the things that really helps to convince people of the millions of years is that
chart of the "geological column,"

481
00:55:58,914 --> 00:56:04,195
where you see the rock layers and then you have the timeline on the side with the
millions of years.

482
00:56:04,420 --> 00:56:06,072
And then you have the bottom-dwelling sea creatures.

483
00:56:06,297 --> 00:56:11,119
And then fish, and amphibians, and reptiles, and dinosaurs, and birds, and
mammals, and people.

484
00:56:11,344 --> 00:56:14,414
How did that "geological column" get developed?

485
00:56:14,639 --> 00:56:24,006
It was back in the late 18th and early 19th century (1800s) that they started to use
certain "index fossils" to date a rock layer.

486
00:56:24,215 --> 00:56:29,178
"Oh, well that rock layer is this old because we know that the rock layers that have
those fossils are this old."

487
00:56:29,405 --> 00:56:34,267
You might ask, "How did they know how old the fossils were?" Good question. They
didn't.

488
00:56:34,494 --> 00:56:40,064
They were making an assumption about the history of life. That assumption is
invalid.

489
00:56:40,606 --> 00:56:44,652
Remember this? The geologic column.

490
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:53,369
You were probably taught in school that each layer represents a different period of
time, and it was deposited over millions of years.

491
00:56:53,598 --> 00:56:59,459
In reality, each layer is simply showing the order of how things were buried.

492
00:56:59,687 --> 00:57:04,839
Both land and sea creatures alike are found throughout the geologic column.

493
00:57:05,068 --> 00:57:11,471
Sea creatures are found from the lowest to the highest layers and even on top of
mountains.

494
00:57:11,700 --> 00:57:21,063
In fact, 75% of the Earth's land surface is made up of sedimentary layers, which are
rock layers that formed in water.

495
00:57:21,294 --> 00:57:26,694
Geologists also confess that the Earth is riddled with massively eroded features

496
00:57:26,925 --> 00:57:33,910
like the Grand Canyon in America, the Blyde River Canyon in South Africa, and the
Capertee Valley in Australia.

497
00:57:34,141 --> 00:57:39,624
And yet, they still refuse to acknowledge a worldwide Flood.

498
00:57:40,208 --> 00:57:43,419
Remember those prophetic verses in the Bible's Second Book of Peter? [2 Peter
3:5-9]

499
00:57:43,651 --> 00:57:53,137
"There shall come in the last days scoffers who are willingly ignorant that the Earth,
being overflowed with water, perished."

500
00:57:53,370 --> 00:58:00,478
2,000 years ago, Peter warned us that this rejection of truth would happen.

501
00:58:01,562 --> 00:58:06,526
Fossils are actually not the evidence of the history of life.

502
00:58:06,759 --> 00:58:13,199
They are the evidence of the death of all life during Noah's Flood, and how all those
things got buried.

503
00:58:13,433 --> 00:58:15,743
There are sea creatures all the way through the rock record.

504
00:58:15,977 --> 00:58:19,121
And we find sea creatures on the tops of our highest mountains!

505
00:58:19,372 --> 00:58:24,710
There are sea creatures on the tops of the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, and the
Rockies. How did they get up there?

506
00:58:24,945 --> 00:58:27,922
Creatures that don't have any hard parts; like fossilized worms.

507
00:58:28,157 --> 00:58:34,512
Even fossilized animal manure; that's not going to be fossilized slowly over hundreds
or thousands of years.

508
00:58:34,747 --> 00:58:40,142
Those are some of the Biblical and scientific reasons why we should not accept
those millions of years.

509
00:58:40,378 --> 00:58:46,649
A lot of people think that the Biblical chronology couldn't be true because the Bible
says that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

510
00:58:46,885 --> 00:58:50,987
That is very, very different than saying that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

511
00:58:51,181 --> 00:58:53,447
How do we know that it is 4.5 billion years?

512
00:58:53,642 --> 00:58:56,409
Because it's only ever stated: "It's 4.5 billion years. We know that."

513
00:58:56,604 --> 00:58:58,869
Well, how do you know that? "Radioactive dating."

514
00:58:59,065 --> 00:59:03,666
A lot of people think that carbon dating proves that the rocks are millions of years
old.

515
00:59:03,861 --> 00:59:09,171
Carbon dating is never used to date the rocks. It is only used to date former living
things.

516
00:59:09,367 --> 00:59:13,926
No evolutionist uses carbon-14, because even if it worked the way they thought it
did,

517
00:59:14,122 --> 00:59:20,391
it can only go out to 110,000 years maximum, even using the new accelerator mass
spectrometer method.

518
00:59:20,587 --> 00:59:27,773
The half-life of carbon-14 is so short (only 5,730 years) that you should not find any
carbon-14 in

519
00:59:27,970 --> 00:59:33,029
anything older than 100,000 years, which should not have even one atom that we
could detect.

520
00:59:33,226 --> 00:59:37,366
The fact that people are routinely finding significant levels of C-14

521
00:59:37,564 --> 00:59:42,371
in all these different fossils indicates something is wrong with the dating methods.

522
00:59:42,569 --> 00:59:49,920
The half-life (the decay rate) of carbon-14 is very short, so it's never used to date the
rocks.

523
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:54,050
It is the other methods: uranium changing into lead, potassium into argon,

524
00:59:54,248 --> 00:59:58,137
rubidium into strontium, and they have really long half-lives.

525
00:59:58,336 --> 01:00:02,141
All of those, including carbon-14, depend on 4 basic assumptions:

526
01:00:02,340 --> 01:00:07,438
1. You somehow have to be able to estimate the original amount of the "parent"
isotope.

527
01:00:07,638 --> 01:00:11,692
2. You have to somehow calculate the original amount of the "daughter" isotope.

528
01:00:11,892 --> 01:00:16,614
There are little detective-forensic ways, but no truly scientific method,

529
01:00:16,814 --> 01:00:21,118
no rigorous ways to actually determine the beginning of that rock.

530
01:00:21,319 --> 01:00:27,958
3. They also have to assume that the rate at which, for example, uranium decays
into lead, has always been constant.

531
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:33,255
But they have only been measuring the decay rates for a hundred years now.

532
01:00:33,457 --> 01:00:36,884
We have learned that pressure, magnetic fields, and heat can change the decay
rates.

533
01:00:37,086 --> 01:00:40,930
Radioactive lutetium decays nine trillion times faster in the plasma state,

534
01:00:41,132 --> 01:00:45,726
and evolutionists, (Big Bang theorists) believe that the whole universe began in a
plasma state.

535
01:00:45,928 --> 01:00:51,315
And one more: 4. You have to assume that the sample has been in a closed system
the entire time.

536
01:00:51,518 --> 01:00:56,028
Scientists who are well-informed on this issue, with PhDs in geology and physics,

537
01:00:56,231 --> 01:00:59,281
They say that there are problems with every one of those four assumptions.

538
01:00:59,485 --> 01:01:07,248
But if even just one of these assumptions doesn't go their way, then the entire
possibility drops to zero.

539
01:01:07,451 --> 01:01:11,836
There is no reason to trust that these methods are giving us the true age of the
rocks.

540
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:17,675
I would play the lottery with my life savings rather than bet on something like that!

541
01:01:17,925 --> 01:01:28,686
In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist and evolutionist, made the first
popularized discovery of soft tissues in a dinosaur bone,

542
01:01:28,891 --> 01:01:34,608
which included blood vessels and cells, DNA and proteins - all of which decay
quickly.

543
01:01:34,814 --> 01:01:36,736
Mary Schweitzer herself said,

544
01:01:36,941 --> 01:01:44,952
"This flies in the face of everything we understand about how tissues and cells
degrade. I can't explain it, to be honest."

545
01:01:45,158 --> 01:01:50,708
Schweitzer can't explain it, and neither can her colleagues, who also cling to the
evolutionary paradigm.

546
01:01:50,914 --> 01:01:55,045
To illustrate the problem, let's travel back to the early 1700s:

547
01:01:55,252 --> 01:02:00,217
That was a time when Biblical catastrophism was the accepted geological view.

548
01:02:00,424 --> 01:02:05,473
If people then found a dinosaur bone (or a dragon bone, as they may have called it)

549
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:10,144
with soft tissue and remnants of blood still in it, would they be confused?

550
01:02:10,352 --> 01:02:15,441
Of course not. They would simply conclude that this was a creature that died

551
01:02:15,649 --> 01:02:20,404
and was buried during or after the Flood, i.e. within the past few thousand years.

552
01:02:20,613 --> 01:02:27,119
Now let's fast-forward to today. Would people be confused to find the same thing in
a dinosaur bone?

553
01:02:27,328 --> 01:02:37,713
Of course, many people would, because the evidence we find doesn't match the
evolutionary time-scale we've been conditioned to believe.

554
01:02:37,923 --> 01:02:42,885
Many textbooks say that the peppered moth, industrial melanism in England, is
evolution.

555
01:02:43,095 --> 01:02:45,429
Well if that's all that evolution is, I believe!

556
01:02:45,639 --> 01:02:50,601
The dark-colored peppered moths were more camouflaged than the light-colored
peppered moths.

557
01:02:50,811 --> 01:02:55,314
As a result, the birds could see the lighter ones and eat them for lunch a lot easier.

558
01:02:55,525 --> 01:02:59,443
It's not an evolutionary event at all. It's a natural selection event.

559
01:02:59,654 --> 01:03:01,779
Natural selection means to pick or choose;

560
01:03:01,990 --> 01:03:06,700
to select from what is already there, traits that were already there, genetic
information that was already there.

561
01:03:06,912 --> 01:03:12,039
This process will never get you from clams or algae sorts of things in the ocean
turning into moths.

562
01:03:12,251 --> 01:03:18,379
It will never get you from monkeys turning into people. This process can't make one
step in that direction.

563
01:03:18,591 --> 01:03:25,469
Natural selection may be able to explain "the survival of the fittest," but it cannot
explain "the arrival of the fittest."

564
01:03:25,682 --> 01:03:31,934
"How did we get moths in the first place?" That's the question evolution claims to
answer but cannot and does not.

565
01:03:32,147 --> 01:03:39,316
Instead, they just go look at how the colors shifted. Before the magic of evolution,
there were white moths and black moths.

566
01:03:39,530 --> 01:03:43,696
After the magic of evolution, there were white moths and black moths.

567
01:03:43,910 --> 01:03:48,659
That would also happen if Darwin was wrong; it doesn't have anything to do with
Darwin's theory.

568
01:03:48,873 --> 01:03:54,415
The types of changes that we're seeing that lead to variation within "kinds" are not
the types of changes that are required by evolution.

569
01:03:55,416 --> 01:04:01,380
There is variation within the kind, but not the evolution of one kind becoming another
kind.

570
01:04:01,595 --> 01:04:09,638
In the creation account, it says that God created "according to their kind," or "after
their kind" - not through any evolutionary processes.

571
01:04:09,854 --> 01:04:14,852
You don't have one "kind" developing into another kind or sort. They are all created
according to their kind.

572
01:04:15,068 --> 01:04:17,855
So even though you get variety, they are not changing into other things.

573
01:04:18,071 --> 01:04:21,567
Bacteria are not changing into more complex creatures.

574
01:04:21,783 --> 01:04:23,611
Yes, you can have great variation within a kind.

575
01:04:23,827 --> 01:04:28,449
You can get different species forming, which is what Darwin really saw. But there
are limits.

576
01:04:28,666 --> 01:04:32,995
There are no mechanisms there at all in genetics to add in new information

577
01:04:33,212 --> 01:04:36,665
that never existed in order to change it into a totally different kind.

578
01:04:36,883 --> 01:04:42,838
Dogs always remain dogs. Cats always remain cats. There is nothing in
observational science to contradict that.

579
01:04:43,056 --> 01:04:46,008
Every animal will bring forth "after its own kind."

580
01:04:46,226 --> 01:04:50,095
You can observe that in the existing creation and in the fossil record.

581
01:04:50,314 --> 01:04:55,476
Genesis passes the tests of the scientific method. Evolution doesn't.

582
01:04:55,695 --> 01:04:59,772
The fact of the matter is that the information is stronger than it has ever been.

583
01:04:59,991 --> 01:05:03,317
In the past five years there has been a quantum jump in the data.

584
01:05:03,536 --> 01:05:08,948
The new discoveries actually go against evolutionary thinking and make it more and
more preposterous;

585
01:05:09,167 --> 01:05:12,242
data that's against the evolutionary theory and actually makes it untrue.

586
01:05:12,462 --> 01:05:20,709
The creationists are finding more and more ammunition in the new scientific data -
not in theories - but in the data,

587
01:05:20,930 --> 01:05:27,716
which prompted (NCSEs) Eugenie Scott to say that facts are a dime a dozen;
theories are what matter in science.

588
01:05:27,937 --> 01:05:32,179
You know what? It is unbelievable what unbelievers have to believe to be
unbelievers!

589
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,599
Come to me when you can "show me the money." Do you have facts or not?

590
01:05:35,821 --> 01:05:39,228
Do you have data? Do you have observations? Do you have the scientific method
or not?

591
01:05:39,450 --> 01:05:45,359
Contrary to what scientist Bill Nye said, we really should tell our children what our
beliefs are and why.

592
01:05:45,581 --> 01:05:48,612
We should not just say, "This is what to believe, Johnny... " but say,

593
01:05:48,835 --> 01:05:54,910
"Here is why we believe this and it's not just faith. We have science. It's really on
our side."

594
01:06:04,753 --> 01:06:09,049
[Genesis 1:24-25] "And God said,

595
01:06:09,842 --> 01:06:19,601
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,

596
01:06:22,938 --> 01:06:30,612
cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after his kind.

597
01:06:38,662 --> 01:06:41,373
And it was so.

598
01:06:56,055 --> 01:07:04,938
And God made the beasts of the earth after his kind.

599
01:07:25,417 --> 01:07:29,755
And cattle after their kind.

600
01:07:42,935 --> 01:07:51,652
And every thing that creeps upon the earth after his kind.

601
01:08:12,047 --> 01:08:17,845
And God saw that it was good."

602
01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:52,880
Evolutionists believe that approximately 5 million years ago,

603
01:08:53,114 --> 01:08:58,802
humans and today's apes shared a common ancestor back at a biological "fork in
the road."

604
01:08:59,011 --> 01:09:03,015
That creature is often referred to as an "ape-like creature."

605
01:09:03,223 --> 01:09:07,394
They don't like to call it an "ape" because they will argue that this creature evolved
into apes.

606
01:09:07,686 --> 01:09:10,731
And then apes evolving into apes is not impressive.

607
01:09:10,967 --> 01:09:14,610
I'm prepared to accept that ape-like creatures produced apes.

608
01:09:14,846 --> 01:09:22,826
I have a little trouble with the idea that ape-like creatures became humans, and of
course that's the whole realm of the "ape-men."

609
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,663
Most people are taught anthropology from a secular worldview nowadays.

610
01:09:26,858 --> 01:09:29,917
And when they do that, they are taught an entirely different history.

611
01:09:30,112 --> 01:09:35,464
People are taught (and I was taught this when I went to school as well) that we
evolved from some ape-like ancestor out of Africa.

612
01:09:35,660 --> 01:09:39,134
They migrated out of Africa to the Middle East. We got a little bit smarter.

613
01:09:39,330 --> 01:09:42,054
We went from hunters and gatherers to become farmers.

614
01:09:42,250 --> 01:09:44,681
Then after that we developed some civilizations.

615
01:09:44,878 --> 01:09:48,393
We see Mesopotamia, or Egypt, or the Indus Valley; things like that.

616
01:09:48,590 --> 01:09:52,439
Then people got even smarter and we were able to start building boats and going
around to different places.

617
01:09:52,636 --> 01:09:56,735
And all of the sudden, we see places like the Roman Empire pop up.

618
01:09:56,932 --> 01:10:01,281
Then we transfer all the way up to England becoming one of the most powerful
nations on Earth.

619
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:06,370
Then we transfer over to the Americas: and here we are. That's the kind of
anthropology that we were taught.

620
01:10:06,567 --> 01:10:13,293
But if you go back 200 years ago and look at anthropology from that perspective and
for the 2,000 years before that, nobody believed that.

621
01:10:14,336 --> 01:10:17,381
That is actually a relatively new idea based on an evolutionary worldview.

622
01:10:17,579 --> 01:10:21,301
If you start with God and His Word, then Anthropology starts with Adam and Eve.

623
01:10:21,500 --> 01:10:22,886
God creates Adam and Eve!

624
01:10:23,085 --> 01:10:28,642
You see, what the Bible says, what Genesis says, is that on the sixth day of the
world, God made two humans.

625
01:10:28,841 --> 01:10:34,856
He made a whole bunch of monkeys. He never made any "monkey-humans" but
that's what they are always looking for in the fossils.

626
01:10:35,056 --> 01:10:45,242
Over time, one by one, all of the "missing link" fossils have been reclassified as
either over to the human side or over to the monkey side.

627
01:10:45,442 --> 01:10:51,415
Even "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis, discovered by Donald Johanson in 1973)

628
01:10:51,615 --> 01:10:57,170
was dismissed by Johanson himself, saying that Lucy had been dethroned.

629
01:10:57,372 --> 01:11:04,886
Meet "Lucy" - the nasal bones do not protrude. Do you notice any slope at all to the
face? Of course.

630
01:11:06,013 --> 01:11:15,814
Compare the zygomatic arch to the slope: Clearly, ape-like. What about the
forehead: ls it flat or curved? Absolutely flat.

631
01:11:16,440 --> 01:11:21,194
When we look from the side, the bone comes way out on this flat forehead.

632
01:11:21,820 --> 01:11:27,200
And it is very difficult to see if there are orbits (eye sockets) when viewed from the
side.

633
01:11:27,492 --> 01:11:34,249
Finally: cranial capacity. Lucy has a small brain by ape standards; never mind a
much larger human-sized brain.

634
01:11:34,499 --> 01:11:37,294
Lucy had a brain one-third the size of ours.

635
01:11:37,498 --> 01:11:43,342
At full growth, as a full-grown female Lucy was only 65 pounds, 3.5 feet tall: This
was a chimp.

636
01:11:43,546 --> 01:11:47,721
As for the drawings and skeletal diagrams of her standing upright,

637
01:11:47,925 --> 01:11:56,396
this probably would have been very unnatural and painful, the toe bones being
curved even more than on a modern chimp,

638
01:11:56,601 --> 01:11:59,024
and many other things about the fingers too.

639
01:11:59,229 --> 01:12:04,363
Lucy had a "divergent big toe" as they are calling it now as they have discovered
more of the fossils:

640
01:12:04,568 --> 01:12:08,408
that means a thumb on the foot. Lucy was actually a chimp!

641
01:12:08,617 --> 01:12:15,832
The quest for the elusive missing-link fossil between ape-like creatures and humans

642
01:12:16,039 --> 01:12:20,587
has given rise to some of the grossest examples of evolutionary propaganda to date.

643
01:12:20,794 --> 01:12:26,134
"Lucy," whom they claim is our distant relative, is perhaps the worst.

644
01:12:26,341 --> 01:12:32,849
To see why, let's isolate a scanned replica of the Lucy skull (as evolutionists have
imagined it)

645
01:12:33,057 --> 01:12:36,812
and place it next to the skull of a modern chimpanzee.

646
01:12:37,312 --> 01:12:47,572
What becomes immediately apparent is that the two skulls are nearly identical, with
the exception that Lucy's brain cavity is even smaller.

647
01:12:47,823 --> 01:12:53,078
To fuller illustrate this, let's pass the Lucy skull into the chimpanzee skull.

648
01:12:53,870 --> 01:13:02,921
With the two skulls now on top of each other, it seems incredibly clear that "Lucy"
was just a type of chimpanzee.

649
01:13:03,131 --> 01:13:09,344
To further illustrate the point, let's now pass the Lucy skull into that of a modern
human.

650
01:13:09,553 --> 01:13:16,768
To be gracious, even if we scale Lucy up, she still doesn't come close to being
human.

651
01:13:17,727 --> 01:13:21,815
What would your conclusion be on a creature like this? Clearly, it's an ape.

652
01:13:22,026 --> 01:13:29,114
In fact, what is Lucy's scientific name? Australopithecus: That means "Southern
ape."

653
01:13:29,325 --> 01:13:32,534
Whatever else we could say about Lucy, she is an ape.

654
01:13:32,784 --> 01:13:40,584
Let's look at another presumed ancestor of man, or a "pre-homo sapiens." It's
Neanderthal Man.

655
01:13:40,796 --> 01:13:44,212
The problem with Neanderthals is that when I was in college,

656
01:13:44,425 --> 01:13:47,507
they taught us that they were the "missing link" and that they could barely grunt.

657
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:52,387
And now we found out that the hypoglossal canal (a hole at the base of the skull

658
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:59,478
(where a nerve goes out to the mouth and controls our speaking) had a hypoglossal
nerve

659
01:13:59,691 --> 01:14:03,565
that was the same size in Neanderthals - as in modern people today.

660
01:14:03,773 --> 01:14:06,902
Monkeys though have just a little, thin thread-like nerve.

661
01:14:07,115 --> 01:14:11,198
They have the "hardware" but they just don't have the "software drivers" to actually
talk.

662
01:14:11,412 --> 01:14:17,704
They think; they have thoughts and probably emotions, but they just can't do that like
we can.

663
01:14:17,919 --> 01:14:19,998
Neanderthals, however, obviously could talk.

664
01:14:20,213 --> 01:14:24,586
We have every bone in Neanderthal Man's body. There's not a missing bone.

665
01:14:24,801 --> 01:14:28,048
So, we know that the nasal bone is protruded, just as you see it there.

666
01:14:28,507 --> 01:14:35,805
Even this nasal spine down here - which is found just under your nose - the nasal
spine is not found on apes either.

667
01:14:36,021 --> 01:14:43,271
So, we have the spine and we have the protruding nose. What about the slope of
the face? Perpendicular.

668
01:14:43,522 --> 01:14:53,448
What about the curvature of the forehead? It's curved enough that you can see into
the orbits quite easily from the side.

669
01:14:53,665 --> 01:15:04,251
Finally, cranial capacity. If you compare this skull to an adult modern human skull,
it's about 100 cubic centimeters or more larger.

670
01:15:04,468 --> 01:15:09,506
What would your conclusion be? ls this an ape or is this a human? It's obviously a
human.

671
01:15:09,724 --> 01:15:15,929
But if it's a human, we expect to find more than just simply the bones. We expect
some cultural evidence, And we have that.

672
01:15:16,147 --> 01:15:25,772
Since the time that I was in college in the 1970s, we've found turquoise and
pink-colored flax fibers in Neanderthal caves.

673
01:15:25,991 --> 01:15:30,944
They liked colorful clothing. They were built better than us. They also had bigger
brains than us.

674
01:15:31,163 --> 01:15:35,407
In the average human today, the brain case is 1200 cubic centimeters.

675
01:15:35,626 --> 01:15:38,243
But in Neanderthals, it was 1400 cubic centimeters.

676
01:15:38,463 --> 01:15:42,330
We have their burial customs. We have their tools of all different kinds.

677
01:15:42,550 --> 01:15:44,749
They were good hunters. They had strategies.

678
01:15:44,970 --> 01:15:50,672
They took women on their hunting trips. One evolutionist actually said that might be
why they went extinct.

679
01:15:51,006 --> 01:15:57,304
Recently, they've found what is arguably a cosmetics kit: a couple of scallop shells
unhinged with pigments in them.

680
01:15:57,525 --> 01:16:02,892
They have found what appear to be flutes with holes in positions to be playable
buried with Neanderthal Man.

681
01:16:03,114 --> 01:16:07,606
We found a musical instrument: a bare bone with holes drilled in it like a flute.

682
01:16:07,827 --> 01:16:11,610
I don't know if you've ever heard a monkey play a flute, but it really doesn't work.

683
01:16:11,832 --> 01:16:17,699
We find flowers buried in the graves of their dead. But animals, like monkeys, don't
bury their dead. Only humans do that.

684
01:16:17,921 --> 01:16:22,037
The Neanderthals had art, religion, culture, language. Unquestionably human!

685
01:16:22,259 --> 01:16:30,253
And yet, when I first bought this model of Neanderthal Man it was called a Homo
sapiens, subspecies: Neanderthalensis.

686
01:16:30,477 --> 01:16:32,964
In other words, they gave it a different subspecies name.

687
01:16:33,188 --> 01:16:40,597
Today, the scientific name (the classification) for Neanderthal Man is: Homo sapiens
neanderthalensis.

688
01:16:40,821 --> 01:16:46,436
And that third word is actually the designation of the "variety" of humans that it is.

689
01:16:46,660 --> 01:16:49,439
We modern humans are now classified as Homo sapiens sapiens.

690
01:16:49,664 --> 01:16:54,819
So what creation has been saying all along is true: Neanderthals were people too!

691
01:16:55,044 --> 01:16:59,741
100% human. And that's true for the whole body, not just the skull.

692
01:16:59,966 --> 01:17:02,827
The same experiment can be done with Neanderthals,

693
01:17:03,053 --> 01:17:09,250
which evolutionists still claim is another branch in the transition from apes to
humans.

694
01:17:09,476 --> 01:17:14,798
Let's place the skull of a Neanderthal next to the skull of a modern human.

695
01:17:15,024 --> 01:17:22,222
The Neanderthal has the same facial structures. We all know that everyone has a
uniquely-shaped skull.

696
01:17:22,449 --> 01:17:30,730
Some people have larger heads; some have wider cheek bones, broader jaws and
brow ridges, or more slope to their foreheads.

697
01:17:30,958 --> 01:17:41,157
With the right combination of these traits that we see in people today, it is easy to
see how a Neanderthal is simply a human.

698
01:17:41,491 --> 01:17:44,285
Everyone has been told that there are dozens and dozens

699
01:17:44,514 --> 01:17:50,125
of these solid missing-link fossils - transitional forms - "So-and-So" Man, and Java
Man,

700
01:17:50,353 --> 01:17:53,169
and Piltdown Man, and Cro-Magnon Man, and Neanderthal Man...

701
01:17:53,398 --> 01:17:56,339
Essentially, all of Homo erectus would be just human beings.

702
01:17:56,568 --> 01:18:03,221
Don't just believe modern myths of the "proofs" of evolution like "junk" DNA, like
"missing-link" fossils.

703
01:18:03,513 --> 01:18:07,225
The secular world teaches that you evolved from some ape-like ancestor; that there
was no Adam and Eve.

704
01:18:07,455 --> 01:18:11,020
And since there's no Adam and Eve, then there was no fall into sin back in Genesis.

705
01:18:11,251 --> 01:18:13,565
And that means that there is no need for a Savior.

706
01:18:13,795 --> 01:18:19,237
So, the secular anthropology not only attacks the authority of the Bible - it also
attacks the very Gospel itself.

707
01:18:46,389 --> 01:18:49,392
[Genesis 1:26] "And God said,

708
01:18:54,689 --> 01:19:00,653
Let us make man

709
01:19:07,368 --> 01:19:10,955
in our image,

710
01:19:15,376 --> 01:19:17,962
after our likeness.

711
01:20:13,142 --> 01:20:28,867
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle.

712
01:20:29,868 --> 01:20:40,044
And over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

713
01:21:33,056 --> 01:21:37,977
I was debating the student atheist club president, at the College of New Jersey.

714
01:21:38,179 --> 01:21:47,570
He made the statement in his closing comments that there were "dozens of fossils"
that proved the transition from simians to humans.

715
01:21:47,773 --> 01:21:53,076
And I said, "Now, you said that there were 'dozens' of fossils. Can you name one?"

716
01:21:53,279 --> 01:21:57,705
He said, "Well, the literature is just replete..." blah blah blah, There are so many."

717
01:21:57,956 --> 01:22:02,085
And I said, "I didn't ask for many. I just asked you for one. Just tell the audience
one."

718
01:22:02,752 --> 01:22:07,256
And he said, "Australopithecus africanus." I said to the audience, "Okay..."

719
01:22:07,461 --> 01:22:10,969
I stood up and I said, "Now we're going to learn about modern myths."

720
01:22:11,219 --> 01:22:17,725
One of the common misconceptions that exists in society is that "humans and
chimps are 99% similar."

721
01:22:17,930 --> 01:22:23,773
I am very disillusioned by the idea of using a percentage to describe how similar
humans and chimps are.

722
01:22:23,978 --> 01:22:28,778
You cannot use a percent similarity to describe common ancestry!

723
01:22:28,984 --> 01:22:35,451
One of the most popular misconceptions held by evolutionists is that birds evolved
from dinosaurs.

724
01:22:35,657 --> 01:22:37,578
What proof do they have - you might ask?

725
01:22:37,785 --> 01:22:46,629
Well, just look at their similar design - they might say - pointing out that both birds
and some dinosaurs have hollow bones.

726
01:22:46,836 --> 01:22:52,093
But common features like these - can also be understood as evidence for - a
common Designer,

727
01:22:52,300 --> 01:22:56,931
who didn't need to "reinvent the wheel" every time He created a new kind.

728
01:22:57,139 --> 01:23:04,731
Humans and frogs both have five digits on their lower limbs, but that doesn't mean
frogs and humans share a common ancestor...

729
01:23:04,939 --> 01:23:08,776
unless you believe fairy tales, of course!

730
01:23:08,985 --> 01:23:14,073
It's not too surprising that our chromosomes look a lot the same as a chimpanzee's.

731
01:23:14,282 --> 01:23:20,705
Of all other living things, their biochemistry, their physiology, and their body
structures look the most like us humans.

732
01:23:20,914 --> 01:23:27,462
Their DNA ought to look the most like ours too. For goodness sake, bananas have
DNA that is 50% the same as ours.

733
01:23:27,671 --> 01:23:35,636
So, monkeys should have 80, 90, 98% the same DNA because their bodies look that
much like ours.

734
01:23:35,846 --> 01:23:38,890
If evolution was not true, and there is a Designer instead,

735
01:23:39,100 --> 01:23:41,642
i.e. a Creator God who made those chromosomes in the beginning, then this is what
it would look like.

736
01:23:41,853 --> 01:23:48,107
You start looking at the genome and the DNA differences and you try to figure out:
How different are we?

737
01:23:48,318 --> 01:23:55,948
What makes humans different from everything else? This "image of God" as the
Latin phrase "Imago Dei." what does that mean?

738
01:23:56,160 --> 01:24:00,036
We're not animals. We're different from the animals. Human beings have court
systems.

739
01:24:00,247 --> 01:24:05,541
We believe in justice and truth and in righteousness because we are made in the
image of God. We are moral creations.

740
01:24:05,753 --> 01:24:09,796
When you read through Genesis 1, it comes to the pinnacle at the very end.

741
01:24:10,008 --> 01:24:13,299
Humans are created, and: "behold it was very good."

742
01:24:13,512 --> 01:24:16,219
Now when God says that something is very good, how good is it?

743
01:24:16,431 --> 01:24:18,763
It was a perfect creation where there was no death.

744
01:24:18,976 --> 01:24:24,268
God made the world perfect. There was no death or bloodshed at first according to
Genesis 1:29-30.

745
01:24:24,482 --> 01:24:27,396
Originally, all of the animals were vegetarian, and mankind was vegetarian.

746
01:24:27,610 --> 01:24:29,690
We weren't allowed to eat meat until after the Flood.

747
01:24:29,904 --> 01:24:31,442
That's when God first permitted mankind to eat meat.

748
01:24:31,656 --> 01:24:34,529
People didn't kill animals for food. Animals didn't rip each other up for food.

749
01:24:34,743 --> 01:24:37,281
Both mankind and the animals were vegetarian.

750
01:24:37,495 --> 01:24:41,035
For those who don't believe God's Word, they're living in the present, and they look
around and see death.

751
01:24:41,249 --> 01:24:42,829
So they assume that death has always been here.

752
01:24:43,043 --> 01:24:49,210
When I look at the human body, I see something that looks like it was designed to
last forever, because we keep turning over our parts.

753
01:24:49,425 --> 01:24:54,090
That's the way our body is. We were originally created to live forever.

754
01:24:54,305 --> 01:24:56,676
If your car was operating the way we do, where all the parts kept turning over,

755
01:24:56,891 --> 01:24:59,720
then you scratch the paint and it heals, how long would your car last?

756
01:24:59,936 --> 01:25:02,974
It would last forever. So, with us something went wrong.

757
01:25:03,190 --> 01:25:09,063
And that flaw was sin that came into the world. Decay and death came as a result of
man's disobedience.

758
01:25:09,279 --> 01:25:14,861
So, if evolution is true, you have "millions of years" of death before man ever sinned
to bring about death?

759
01:25:15,077 --> 01:25:20,158
We really have a huge theological problem if we accept those "millions" of years.

760
01:25:20,374 --> 01:25:25,413
If we accept the millions of years, then we are accepting "millions of years" of death
and bloodshed,

761
01:25:25,630 --> 01:25:29,458
and disease and violence - all before man comes on the scene.

762
01:25:29,676 --> 01:25:33,754
But the Bible says that God created the world at the beginning, and that it was very
good.

763
01:25:33,972 --> 01:25:37,133
There was no death, and no disease or natural disasters.

764
01:25:37,351 --> 01:25:42,221
It was sin that brought that death and natural evil into the world.

765
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:45,558
What was the world like in the beginning?

766
01:25:45,892 --> 01:25:54,025
The Bible describes the early Earth as paradise, a lush and beautiful world from
pole to pole.

767
01:25:54,244 --> 01:26:01,449
A world where man, animals, and plants of all kinds lived in perfect harmony.

768
01:26:01,668 --> 01:26:07,747
A world without sickness, disease, pain, or death.

769
01:26:08,122 --> 01:26:12,835
This "Golden Age" of the past, reported to us accurately in the Bible,

770
01:26:13,056 --> 01:26:17,632
is also remembered in the legends of human cultures throughout our history,

771
01:26:17,852 --> 01:26:24,472
where man and animals grew to be larger and live much longer than we do today.

772
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:31,229
Scientific discoveries reveal fossil representatives of every major kind of plant and
animal,

773
01:26:31,450 --> 01:26:35,691
that are many times larger than their present-day counterparts.

774
01:26:35,913 --> 01:26:47,245
There were fossil insects as large as modern dogs, fossil birds with 25-foot
wingspans, fossil trees nearly 900-feet tall.

775
01:26:47,495 --> 01:26:58,130
And fish as big as our modern whales, to name a few. Today, Earth is not paradise
anymore.

776
01:26:58,464 --> 01:27:05,972
So, we must ask: When was: Paradise Lost? And why?

777
01:27:06,196 --> 01:27:11,477
And will we ever see it again?

778
01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:42,008
[Genesis 1:27-31] "So God created man in his own image.

779
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In the image of God created he him.

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Male and female created he them.

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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply.

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And fill the earth, and subdue it.

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And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air.

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And over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth.

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And every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that
creeps upon the earth,

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wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat.

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And it was so.

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And God saw everything that He had made.

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And behold it was very good.

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And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Every civilization has a story - a story of who God is, who we are here, why the world
is the way that it is.

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What the Bible offers is not just a story - but the story. It tells us why we're important.

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It also tells us why the world is broken.

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Why do we all get so frustrated that things shouldn't be this way when we're at a
funeral?

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Why do we find ourselves saying, "Why do bad things happen to good people?

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And why do good things happen to bad people?" Genesis explains that.

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The Fall into sin was a real spiritual and historical event.

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Real people in history actually violated a law of God, that caused our entire race and
the creation to fall.

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When Adam and Eve sinned against God, God cursed the ground, He cursed the
animals, and He sentenced man to die.

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Everything changed. They realized that they were naked.

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They realized that they were ashamed, and the first thing that they did was try to
cover themselves.

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But those coverings were not good enough. The punishment for sin was death, so
the solution had to involve death.

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At the very beginning, when Adam and Eve are making their first mistakes and
shame and guilt are coming into the equation,

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God immediately gives them a solution: He's going to send someone to bring
forgiveness to this problem.

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In fact, He immediately covered them. God comes and says that He covers our
shame and He forgives our guilt.

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The reality of the world is the fact that God exists, and that we are separated from
God by sin.

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We sin by nature. We sin by choice. You can agree with everything I say.

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You can believe that the world is only thousands of years old, and you can think that
God created it.

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But if you believe that God exists - but that's as far as it goes - you've missed the
point.

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You looked at the billboard - you've seen the ad - but you've missed the point.

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The point is this: It's about a relationship with Him; restoring that relationship with
Him!

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And the God of the universe loved us enough to demonstrate His invisible attributes
everywhere.

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So that everyone has evidence of Him. Wherever you live, in whatever time period
you live, through the telescope or the microscope.

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And He's calling out to you to have a relationship with Him. It's not good enough to
just believe in God.

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What good does it do if you lead somebody to believe in an "Intelligent Designer"
who is vaguely defined?

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We need to respond to the Creator and He has spoken uniquely in His Word.

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And He has told us in the Bible how we can be restored to a right relationship with
God.

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God is indeed a God of love, but He is also the Righteous Judge, and sin has to be
accounted for.

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The God of the Bible is not only merciful and kind, but He is also holy and just.

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And every time we sin, we store up His wrath that will be revealed on the Day of
Judgment.

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God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness.

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You are a moral creation: You have to give an account to God for every idle word
you've spoken;

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every deed done in darkness will be brought out into the light.

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And if that happens on Judgment Day and you're found guilty, the Bible says that
you're heading for Hell.

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But look at the Great Flood. Did everybody die in the Flood? No.

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Even though there was a judgment upon sin, the Lord God still sent a means of
salvation.

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That's a lesson for us today. The Great Flood was God's judgment.

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But at the same that judgment was there, He provided an Ark of Salvation.

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For those people in that day, there was a means of escape: Everybody on board
Noah's Ark was spared.

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Those not on board the Ark perished. The same is true in our day and age.

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God provides for us an Ark of Salvation. His name is: Jesus Christ.

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God loves us and He has provided a way of salvation,

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to the point that He sent His own Son into the world to satisfy God's condition of
death as the penalty for sin.

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He took the full penalty of death that should have been ours upon Himself and paid
it in full, by Himself, for us.

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And He wants you to come to Him and find His forgiveness.

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That forgiveness was so costly that He came to Earth and put on matter Himself,
and allowed Himself to be crucified.

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A crown of thorns was pushed into His head. Nails like railroad spikes were
pounded into His wrists and into His feet.

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And He did that not because He had to. He did that because He loved you.

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And He knew that if He didn't; if there was any other way...

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If there was any other way, if it wasn't necessary, then God would not have put His
only Son through it.

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He wouldn't have turned His back on Him and allowed the sin of all humans

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- past, present, and future - to be laid upon His Son, Jesus, as the "scape goat."

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Jesus had to go to the Cross. He had to be crucified.

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He had to die one of the most grueling deaths known in the history of mankind.

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And so, Jesus Christ died for your sins, and my sins, and for the sins of the whole
world.

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We need Jesus Christ. He is the solution to the problem of sin.

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That is indeed the Christian Gospel. That is indeed the Good News of the Bible.

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But it's only good news because it's based on the bad news in Genesis, because of
what Adam and Eve did.

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And because we're all one human race; because we're all descendants of them.

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We're all born with that sin nature and that tendency to sin.

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If there wasn't an original sin, if we aren't born into sin and in need of a Savior,

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if we are born "okay" then maybe we could just be "good" and we wouldn't need
Jesus to die for us.

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But that's just not reality. It's not good theology. It isn't even good logic.

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Just as God made one man (Adam) who brought death into the world, Jesus is the
new man who brings life.

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Just as there was Noah's Ark which had only one way in. Only one way of
deliverance to save you from judgment.

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So too, Jesus Christ comes and says, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life."

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By coming to Jesus, although there is a future judgment coming, He has made a
way of rescue from that judgment.

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Just as Abraham had only one covenant son, Isaac, whom he was willing to
sacrifice,

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Jesus is the only begotten Son of the Promise, and our Heavenly Father was willing
to sacrifice Him.

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And then there's Joseph who was rejected, thrown into the pit, thought to be dead,
but later found to be alive!

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That sounds a lot like Jesus Christ in the Bible's New Testament!

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And then we move into the Exodus and we see that He is the ultimate Deliverer.

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He's the ultimate Passover; He's the ultimate Lawgiver.

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Jesus is all over in Genesis and the deeper you look into it, the more you find that
the whole book points directly to Him.

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And so right here in Genesis, chapter 1, it's all about Jesus Christ.

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We call Jesus Christ "The Word." He is "The Word of God." He is the way by which
we can know God.

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Who has ever had his name used as a cuss word? Nobody except: Jesus Christ.

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He said, "The world hates Me because I testify of its deeds, that they are evil."

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And so we use His name in blasphemy. The name that is above all names. We lust,
we lie, we steal.

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That's why we have suffering, disease, pain, and death.

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But it gives great hope for this fallen creation that is in death,

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that God invaded this world, and through the Cross opened up the doors of
everlasting life for humanity.

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Jesus Christ, the Son of God who is infinite, He became a man and died that infinite
punishment that we all deserve.

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The infinite Son took that infinite punishment from the infinite Father, and that
satisfied the wrath of God.

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Now the Lord God offers us the free gift of salvation as a result.

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And that's the God whom I love. That's the God whom I want to know.

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I want to know Him because He loved me enough not just to sort of watch from a
distance and love everybody.

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He loved me enough to "get in the game" and to die on my behalf. And that is the
story of the Bible.

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Jesus Christ, who walked the Earth as a man, is the One who loved us enough to
take upon Himself our punishment.

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To go to the Cross, to taste death, to shed His blood so that we could be with Him in
Heaven forever.

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Those who reject Him spend eternity separated from God.

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What a horror that any human being could end up in that terrible place: damned in
Hell.

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And so, we plead with people and say, listen, God is rich in mercy and He provided a
Savior in Jesus Christ!

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God became a human being. He suffered and died on the Cross to take the
punishment for the sin of the world.

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We broke God's law and Jesus "paid our fine." It's as simple as that.

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If someone pays your fine, the judge can say, "You're out of here. Your case is
dismissed!"

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That is what God can do for you and I. Our sins can be washed away!

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God can commute our death sentence and let us live forever -

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because of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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What we are commanded to do is repent of our sins and trust only in Jesus.

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Anyone who would repent, who would turn from their sin, who would say,

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"God, I'm a sinner. I deserve Your judgment. But I put my trust in Jesus Christ as my
Lord and Savior."

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That person can be forgiven and restored to a right relationship with the Creator.

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We have to believe in the true and living God who is the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

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And we need to trust in Him for our salvation.