Genesis Conference 2024

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February 25, 2024

Welcome to our annual Genesis Conference! Enjoy our presentations from Dr. John Jackson, Dr. Dan Biddle , Pastor Joe Walters, Dr. Randy Guliuzza, and David Rives. Due to technical difficulties, only some of the sessions were included in this video.

00:09: All right, good morning. Everybody, if you want to get your seats, we're going to get started. It's 10 o 'clock.
00:16: And we are here at the G1 conference, In the Beginning, God Created the
00:22: Heavens and the Earth. That's what we believe. We're going to be sharing that together with one another today. I want to read a
00:28: Bible verse because I'm a pastor and I love scripture. It's Hebrews 11 .3. It says, by faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
00:43: This is what we believe because scripture has declared it. So I want to welcome you here. This is our sixth annual
00:50: G1 conference. This started on a day where I heard Dan Biddle of Genesis Apologetics share a quick thought at a youth conference.
00:59: And I said, we have to do a conference like this every year. And it launched.
01:05: And God has blessed it and grown it. And so this conference last year, we had about 520 people show up.
01:13: This year, we have 700 people coming to the conference. So praise
01:18: God. Oh, my name is Joe Walters. And I have the great honor of being a pastor at a church called
01:25: Encounter Natomas. And so we have some Encounter people here. Yes.
01:31: Awesome. Love you guys. And I also want to just thank William Jessup. The audio video people are amazing.
01:38: All the volunteers, you guys rock. And we just thank you for helping set this up. Can we get a hand for these guys?
01:49: We have booths in the back with resources. And we have a booth in the back that are selling shirts and sweaters.
01:56: And so it looks like this. And I'd appreciate it if you guys take a look at that so we can not bring boxes of clothing home.
02:05: And let's see. What else? Oh, you know, I just want to share this.
02:10: We have different types of attendees. And I would say there's like three types. We have Christians who believe the
02:17: Genesis narrative of creation. And they are excited to learn more and to be able to defend the
02:24: Genesis narrative. We also have Christians that are not quite sure.
02:30: They're skeptical. And we're so glad you're here. And we hope that at the end of this conference that you are going to be affirmed that the
02:38: Bible is true and that the Bible is telling you what you think it's telling you, that God created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh.
02:47: And the third type of person maybe is someone who's not a Christian, but they're learning and they're open.
02:53: I just want to say, I'm so glad that you're here as well. And so we hope that you hear from the
02:59: Lord. We hope that you are changed today. And we're just glad and honored that everybody here is ready to learn.
03:08: So I commend you all for spending the day with us. We're going to worship.
03:15: But first, I'd like to just open in prayer and thank the Lord for what he's doing. Let's pray. Oh, Lord, we praise you.
03:22: We thank you that you are the great creator, that every one of us have been created in your image.
03:29: Lord, that you have blessed us with the heavens and the earth, that you spoke it and it was so.
03:36: And Lord, that you have existed for all of time, the immutable, unchanging, sovereign
03:41: Lord of the universe. And yet, you know us personally, that you love us.
03:47: Lord, that you have redeemed us by the blood of Christ, that you have been born in the flesh, that you have lived a perfect life, that you paid the price on the cross.
03:57: And three days later, you rose up in victory. So we praise you, Lord Jesus, that you are the
04:03: King of kings, the name above every name. So may we praise you today in every way possible.
04:10: In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Let's worship. Come on, Lincoln, we worship him this morning.
04:15: Would you get to your feet? Let's kick this conference off by just giving praise to our
04:20: God in this place. Let's invite him in the room this morning. Let's sing together. You give life, you are love.
04:29: You bring light to the darkness. You give hope, you restore every heart that is broken.
04:44: Come on, tell them today. We sing, great are you, Lord. It's your breath in our lungs.
04:57: So we pour out our praise, pour out our praise.
05:02: It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you only.
05:11: We sing, great are you, Lord. Great are you,
05:17: Lord. Sing that today. We sing, great are you,
05:27: Lord. Yeah, that's it, come on. You give life, you are love.
05:35: You bring light to the darkness. You give hope, you restore every heart that is broken.
05:50: We tell them today, great are you, Lord. Yes, you are, yes, you are.
06:00: We sing, great are you, Lord. Come on, it's your breath, hey.
06:07: It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise, pour out our praise.
06:17: It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you only.
06:26: We sing, great are you, Lord. Great are you,
06:32: Lord. Come on, tell them today. We sing together now. We sing, great, all the earth will shout your praise.
06:49: Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing. Great are you,
06:59: Lord. Come on, let's lift them high this morning, sing it. And all the earth will shout your praise.
07:08: Our hearts will cry, these bones will, tell them. Yes, you are, yes, you are.
07:20: Come on, every voice, sing. And all the earth will shout your praise.
07:26: Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing. Great are you,
07:36: Lord. Come on, it's your breath. It's your breath in our lungs.
07:44: So we, it's your breath.
07:57: We sing, great are you, Lord. You're great.
08:05: Come on, let's start the day just telling them that this morning. Just sing it straight to his heart, tell him.
08:11: We sing, are you, Lord. We sing, great, yes, you are.
08:35: Come on, can we give him praise in his house today? Let's try this one.
08:41: God is good, and all the time, God is good.
08:46: I grew up in the church down in Southern California. My dad's a pastor, and I grew up saying that in church. And I'm not gonna lie to you,
08:51: I always thought it was a little weird. I was like, that's a little culty. Like, as a kid, you're not like, why are we all saying this in unison?
08:58: And I think recently I've realized we say that God is good, and all the time.
09:05: We say that as a group to remind each other how good God's been to us.
09:11: And that's what we get to do today in this conference, and I'm so excited that we get to spend all day reminding each other and hearing about how good
09:19: God is. Amen? Can we just pray and lift this day up to him before we sing one more song together?
09:25: Heavenly Father, you are so good. And we start there. God, we start by telling you how good you are because we have nothing else to offer you.
09:34: God, you've been so good to us when we don't deserve it. And Lord, so today as we learn about your word, as we learn about this beautiful creation that you've given us,
09:44: Lord, we just start by saying thank you. God, because we have nothing else to offer you but our hallelujah.
09:51: God, so today in this place, would you receive our praise? Would you ready our hearts? Would you prepare our minds and prepare our hearts to receive your word?
10:00: Lord, and we start by saying thank you today. It's in your precious name, the name of Jesus. Not by might or by strength, but by the name of Jesus we pray today.
10:07: All God's people said, amen. Words fall short,
10:32: I got nothing new. How could
10:39: I express all my gratitude?
10:47: I could sing these songs as I often do.
10:56: But every song must end and you never do.
11:06: So I throw up my hands and praise you again and again.
11:14: Cause all that I have is a hallelujah.
11:21: Oh, it's not much, but I'm nothing else fit for a king.
11:32: Except for a heart singing hallelujah. Yeah, that's it, come on.
11:48: I got one response. I got just one move.
11:58: With my arms stretched wide, we sing. How we worship you.
12:07: So I throw up my hands and praise you again and again.
12:14: Cause all that I have is a hallelujah.
12:22: Hallelujah. Oh, it's not much, but I'm nothing else fit for a king.
12:32: Except for a heart singing hallelujah.
12:48: Praise my hallelujah today. Come on, let's sing this.
13:03: So come on my soul. Oh, don't you get shy on me. Lift up your song.
13:09: Cause you got a lion inside of those lungs. So get up and praise the
13:16: Lord. For all he's done and all he's gonna do. Come on my soul.
13:22: Oh, don't you get shy on me. Lift up your song. Cause you got a lion inside of those lungs.
13:31: So get up and praise the Lord. Yeah, come on one more time, sing it.
13:38: So come on my soul. Oh, don't you get shy on me. Lift up your song.
13:45: Cause you got a lion inside of those lungs. So get up and praise the
13:52: Lord. Come on. So I throw up my, and praise you.
14:03: Come on, every voice, lift it straight to heaven. All that I, oh, it's not much.
14:24: Except for a heart singing hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
14:37: Singing hallelujah, hallelujah.
14:45: Just your children singing hallelujah, hallelujah.
14:59: Come on, can we give him praise all over his house today? Yeah, all
15:06: God's people said, amen, amen. You can have a seat today. All right, praise
15:12: God. I gotta tell you, I don't think there's another word that's more natural for us to say than hallelujah.
15:18: It just seems like our whole diaphragm is shaped and molded to say that word, which is a praise
15:25: Yahweh. Hallelujah, so thank you Christian for leading us in worship.
15:30: I wanna introduce a friend, Dr. John Jackson. And I just gotta say, spending time with him, he is just a genuine lover of the
15:42: Lord, a genuine lover of people, and it's just a joy to hear his heart, and especially when he is involved in academia.
15:53: And it's an area of this country, it's an area of the world that really needs the word of God.
16:00: And so I'm thankful for him and what he does. He's the sixth president of William Jessup University, and he has a
16:07: PhD from the University of California. The university here has tripled in size in the last 14, 15 years, and now has a full suite of undergraduate, graduate and online degree programs, and is regionally and nationally ranked.
16:22: He is also the author of 10 books, most recently the bestselling book, Grace Ambassador, and speaker about leadership, transformation, and spiritual growth.
16:31: John is married to Pam, and they have five children, two sons in love. And last year, my notes said four grandchildren and one on the way.
16:40: Now it's five grandchildren and one on the way. So praise God for that. I wanna introduce Dr. John Jackson.
16:46: Give him a hand. Thank you so much,
16:55: Joe. I just love being able to be part of this experience. The Lord has been doing amazing things in our midst and amazing things in this community, but I just wanna quickly do a personal thing.
17:07: How many of you grandparents in the room would say that grandparenting is a better deal all in all than parenting?
17:15: Would you agree with that? Yeah, it's amazing. So if you're a parent here, and you're going like, I don't know if I can do this,
17:21: I'm telling you, if you do not sort of destroy your kids, you will get to the point where you get grandkids, and that's the reward, okay?
17:28: That's what you want. Let me ask a quick technical question. Slides, am I operating them?
17:33: It says to just go page down, but I'm wondering, oh, there we go. It is, okay, I got it. Couple more.
17:38: Couple more, okay, good, good, good. Okay, here we go. Now, would it be all right, usually as a speaker what you do is you sort of do a buildup, and then you come in for the conclusion, but I really believe that in a setting like this, it might be good for you to know where I'm coming from on the front end.
17:53: So if I give my conclusions at the front end, would you be okay with that? And then I'll unpack some of that. Before I do,
17:58: I wanna tell you one of my favorite stories. It's a story of a little girl who clearly understood the concept of original sin, a little girl who understood the concept of original sin, and the reason
18:08: I know that was not her behavior, it's that she was in an art gallery, and she was in an art gallery, and she looked up at a painting of Adam and Eve, and you could see something welling up inside of her, and eventually that little girl took her fist out, and she said, you ruined it for the rest of us.
18:27: And you know, something about that statement actually says something about this conference, because I think there's some massive issues in place.
18:37: Let me just start there. I wanna contend that truth matters. Truth matters.
18:43: Now, I absolutely believe that grace matters, and I wrote a book recently called Grace Ambassadors. I am all about followers of Jesus demonstrating and caring and manifesting grace, but we live in a world that is desperate to know that truth matters, and I have an unflinching commitment to the authority of the word of God.
19:02: It's the only secure foundation in life, and when we get cut loose from that foundation, the impacts are devastating.
19:10: Truth matters. Here's my second conclusion. If Genesis 1 to 11 is allegory, then
19:17: Jesus accommodating himself to the ignorance of his audience, or worse, maybe
19:22: Jesus didn't know any better. If Genesis is not true, then humanity, sin, salvation, marriage, family, history, good and evil are all social constructs subject to change dependent upon cultural norms.
19:41: Let me just test this with you. Has anybody noticed that the definition and experience of family has changed in the course of the last few decades?
19:49: Like, we're confused today. What is family, what does it mean, what is it for? All that, we're confused, and what happens if truth doesn't matter, and if Genesis 1 through 11 is just allegorical, then
20:01: Jesus was accommodating himself to the ignorance of his audience, and, or worse yet, maybe we don't really have any foundations for the doctrines of life itself.
20:12: Here's another conclusion. To deny the historical Adam is to stand against the teachings not only of Jesus, but of Moses, Luke, and Paul, and again, either all those people were deceived, or confused, or worse yet, they were intentionally deceiving others.
20:30: So if you decide Genesis 1 through 11 is just allegory, it's just fictional, it's just sort of a grand narrative to help us be comfortable with the poetic meanings of life, what you're doing is flushing
20:42: Jesus. You're flushing Moses, you're flushing Paul, you're flushing
20:49: Luke, you're flushing any of those authorities, and therefore, you will become unmoored from any of the foundations that they laid, and so,
20:58: I would just say this. I would say the bottom line is that when you deny the truth of Jesus, or the truth of Genesis, it's like unleashing an army of termites under the foundation of a wooden home.
21:10: In time, everything crumbles. What we know about free will, about sin, about salvation, about family, gender, identity and marriage all crumble in time.
21:20: I think this, as a pastor, and as a leader of a Christian university, it is the hermeneutical issue of our day, now, maybe the word hermeneutics doesn't mean a lot to you, it's the principle and science of interpretation.
21:33: I think the singular issue for non -Christians, but also for Christians, is is
21:39: Genesis one through 11 historically accurate, or is it simply allegory and myth?
21:45: Let me give you a quick little quotation that I think will help you. Science is the description of, oh,
21:51: I apologize, science is the description of how God chooses to work most of the time, writes Russell Calborn, a professor of physics at the
21:58: University of Cambridge. We know dead bodies don't come back to life according to science, and yet,
22:03: Christianity is built on the observation that Jesus came back to life. I'm very happy to say that at this special moment,
22:09: God was acting differently, that's a professor of physics. B .B. Warfield said this, the unity of humanity in Adam is the postulate, or the teaching, of the entire body of the
22:20: Bible's teaching, of its doctrine of sin and redemption alike, so that the whole structure of the Bible's teaching, including all that we know is its doctrine of salvation, rests on it and implicates it.
22:31: Let me say this to you to make it a little more clear. The God of reason and the God of revelation are one and the same.
22:38: Let me say it again, the God of reason and the God of revelation are one and the same. I don't have time to completely unpack it, but when
22:45: I first got here, Jessup had no math, no sciences, in terms of majors, and so we decided a couple years in, we were gonna add a biology major.
22:53: I had a one -hour interview with a Sacramento Bee. You know, that really great, highly esteemed publication in our region.
23:00: I had a one -hour interview with a Sac Bee, and the reporter consistently pressed into me with this singular question.
23:08: How can you be a faith -based university and add a biology major? Isn't the truth that you have to be a person of faith or a person of science?
23:20: I am telling you, it took me one hour on the phone with that reporter to convince them, as I did a brief survey of the annals of human history, that the greatest scientists who have ever lived and who live today are people who believe in a supreme being, a
23:35: God, who has revealed himself, and that to believe in a God of revelation is not to dismiss reason.
23:43: So if you're a really smart gal or smart guy here today, do not buy the lie of our culture that your brain has to be checked in order to believe in God, in order to believe in the authority of his word.
23:55: All right, so let me just talk a little bit about what I think that God wants you to receive.
24:01: I want you to know that God wants you to be saved. He wants you to be grounded. He wants you to be healed, and he wants you to be equipped.
24:09: And I want you to hear this, that God is the only source of final authority and truth.
24:16: In John chapter eight, verse 31 and 32, Jesus said this. To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, if you hold onto my teaching, you are really my disciples.
24:25: Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. So many times we think of ourselves as people who love
24:33: Jesus, but truth is optional. Can I tell you that if you love
24:38: Jesus, you must obey his teaching? If you love Jesus, you must accept him as the truth.
24:46: Truth came to the planet, and truth has a name. His name is Jesus. The consequences of denying
24:54: Genesis one through 11 are that you are denying Jesus as the
24:59: Christ. It is not optional for you to say, I believe in Jesus, I love Jesus, but I dismiss the truth.
25:06: That is not an option that's available to you. You accept Jesus for who he claimed to be, you accept
25:12: Jesus for what he said, or you say, no, I think he was a nice guy, a good teacher, maybe a prophet, but he was not who he said he was, which was
25:19: God come in the flesh. The reality is a lot of people say, hey, wait a minute, we actually live in a world where we understand truth differently.
25:28: We used to have absolute truth, and then we moved to relative truth, but now
25:35: I think we've moved past relative truth, or at least to an extreme version, we now believe in experiential reality.
25:42: In other words, it's not just that truth is relative, it's that my experience of truth is what defines truth for me.
25:51: It's an extreme form of individualism. In other words, if you experience today different than me, your experience of today is the truth, well, it's the truth for you, and my truth as I experience it is the truth for me.
26:07: There's not only no such thing as absolute truth, but we can't even say that everybody in this room is experiencing relative truth.
26:16: Experiential reality says every single person's experience of truth is the reality for them.
26:25: So the danger of that, I wanna just give you a quote, the definition of the new tolerance, the definition of the new tolerance is that every individual's beliefs, values, and lifestyle and perception of truth claims are equal.
26:39: There is no hierarchy of truth, your beliefs and my beliefs are equal, and all truth is relative.
26:47: I'm gonna leave that up on the screen for just a moment, because I want you to hear this. This is the prevailing wisdom in higher education, in media, and to a lesser extent in many aspects of government today.
27:06: It is the notion that there is no hierarchy of truth, that truth is completely dependent and relative to the individual experience of truth.
27:17: Dads, moms, grandmas, grandpas, students, you need to understand that's the worldview or the perspective that you're gonna be taught in the context of almost every higher ed setting, except for a truly biblical,
27:32: Christ -centered educational experience. That is a worldview that is in direct conflict with scripture.
27:38: It's a worldview that's directly in conflict with the book of Genesis. I wanna share a quote with you now, contrasting that with Dr.
27:45: Francis Schaeffer. He was the founder of Labrie in the early 1970s, ended up really shaping a whole movement.
27:51: He said, if there's no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
27:58: By absolute, we mean that which always applies to all people, that which provides a final or ultimate standard.
28:05: There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values.
28:13: If there are no absolutes beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict.
28:25: We are merely left with conflicting opinions. Now, let me just test this. Have you been in any social settings in the last decade or so, where you started to talk to somebody about something meaningful and important, and you ask them, why do you believe this?
28:41: And they said, I just do. I just do.
28:46: I just believe that is now completely acceptable as the basis for a worldview.
28:52: Why do you believe that? Why do you think that? Why do you behave that way? I just do. The previous quote to this one says, basically, there is no hierarchy.
29:02: By the way, if I told you today that I just believe it's okay for me to key your car, you might go, that works for you, but it does not work for me.
29:11: That's one of the reasons we have laws. One of the reasons we have values that are codified in laws is because we've agreed together as a society that there are certain standards.
29:20: Simplest place to start is the 10 Commandments. The 10 Commandments give a basic moral framework, a basic moral foundation for life.
29:29: But if the 10 Commandments don't govern you because you don't accept them, then I'm left to a culture of anarchy.
29:36: I believe the stakes are so high. They're so high that I'm willing to commit to this conference, not only being at Jessup, but I'm willing to commit to you that this conference,
29:49: I think, is addressing the critical hermeneutical issue of our day. Now, what was interesting is it was gonna happen that I was gonna miss this conference.
29:59: I was gonna be, actually, in Germany at a Bosch plant, the Bosch, the manufacturer. I was gonna be at a
30:04: Bosch factory in Germany, and a set of circumstances intervened, and I was not able to take that trip, which allowed me to be here personally.
30:11: And I'm grateful for that, because I wanted to share with you, the people who are leading and organizing this conference, they are pushing ahead in a really rough area of water.
30:22: They take a lot of shots. So as you hear the people who are teaching that come after me, I want you to know this.
30:27: They're contending for and carrying a challenging message. A lot of our world today is pushing against them.
30:35: So I want to just ask you very quickly the question, do you like bumper stickers?
30:41: Does anybody like bumper stickers? Okay, if you like bumper stickers, I want to just give you a couple bumper stickers.
30:48: This was a very popular one from years ago, and it seems good on the face of it.
30:54: God said it, I believe it, that settles it. That's kind of cool, right?
31:01: That fits on a bumper sticker, that seems good. When you read that, you go like, okay, that's awesome.
31:07: I like that. But I actually think it's terribly deficient. So here's another bumper sticker.
31:16: God said it, I interpret it, and to the best of my ability, keeping in mind the limitations and filters imposed by my worldview, that doesn't entirely settle it, but it does provide a trustworthy, if incomplete, platform on which to base my values and decisions.
31:37: That doesn't fit well on a bumper sticker, but it kind of gives you a basic sort of moral orientation.
31:48: Here's what I think is the truth. God said it, that settles it, whether we believe it or not.
32:00: Folks, that's the truth. I may not like what's in scripture, I may not understand what's in scripture, but I want you to hear this.
32:11: There is no conflict between right science and right scripture. There is no conflict between right science and right scripture.
32:23: We either have an incomplete understanding of science, which has been demonstrated over and over and over again in human history, or we have an incomplete understanding of scripture, which has sometimes also occurred.
32:39: But because God is a God of reason and he's a God of revelation, there is no conflict between right science and right scripture.
32:48: I wanna close with this. Genesis matters, and you matter.
32:56: If Genesis is not true, then Jesus is not true. And we'll simply devolve into whatever truth fits our personality, our circumstances, our context.
33:07: And I wanna say this to you very, very clearly. Truth matters, foundations matter, grace matters.
33:22: So I wanna contend today for us to live contending for truth, but I wanna contend for us living redemptively.
33:32: It would be the easiest thing in the world to finish today and say, truth matters, I'm gonna pound that into people.
33:38: I've seen very few people in the course of my life who've been pounded into the kingdom, but I've seen lots of people who've been loved into the kingdom.
33:47: Jesus never betrayed truth, but he lived full of grace. Our calling is to be full of grace and truth, just as Jesus was.
33:59: Genesis matters, and Jesus matters, and you matter, and so do your friends and neighbors who don't yet know him.
34:08: God bless you, thank you. Wow, that was amazing.
34:17: I totally endorse and agree everything that he just said.
34:24: When you think about Genesis and one of the things that he was talking about is the connection to so many different important aspects and issues of everyday life, marriage, male -female distinction, worship.
34:36: I mean, how many of the Psalms have a worship narrative that God spoke things into existence in the creation narrative?
34:43: Are we to take those pages out if we don't agree with the way the psalmist saw
34:49: Genesis? And that Jesus believed this, that Paul believes this, that Moses believes this is, wow,
34:56: I'm super encouraged by that. Thank you again, Dr. John Jackson. So I also want to introduce
35:02: Dan Biddle. Dan Biddle, PhD, is president of Genesis Apologetics, and like I said,
35:08: I met him about six years ago, and it was a godly encounter, and what he said encouraged me so much, and we've been friends ever since.
35:17: And he is all in on this, and he puts his heart and soul and resources into this conference, so I love you,
35:26: Dan, and appreciate you so much. Genesis Apologetics is a 501c3 organization dedicated to training youth pastors, parents, students, and anyone who will listen about Genesis, creation, and the flood.
35:41: Daniel has authored, edited nine books, and several articles on these topics, produced two films on Genesis. Actually, I think it's three films now, and 100 -plus training videos in the
35:53: Genesis Apologetics YouTube channel, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, tens of millions of views.
36:01: Daniel has given hundreds of presentations to thousands of people on these topics. Daniel's professional background includes undergraduate and graduate work in theology and apologetics, training as a behavioral scientist,
36:13: PhD, industrial organizational psychology, and 20 years' experience in expert witness, consulting, testimony in state and federal cases involving scientific research methods, statistics, and psychometrics.
36:29: Daniel and his wife, Jenny, live in Folsom, California, and enjoy their four adult children and has a grandchild on the way, congratulations.
36:37: While Daniel has been a Christian since age 11, his position on the specific chronology of Genesis remained undeclared until 2011, when the evidence surrounding the fossil record, dinosaurs in particular, flood geology, and biblical exegesis led him to the historical position on the
36:56: Genesis account. May you welcome Dr. Dan Biddle. How are you guys doing?
37:06: Well, welcome to the most attended conference we've had so far. I think we busted through the 680 mark, which is great.
37:13: I am so excited to be here, you guys. And, you know, the Lord likes to be an influencer in our lives, and sometimes he has us change gears a little bit.
37:22: Well, you have in your conference notes about 40 PowerPoint slides that I was gonna do, and about three days ago,
37:28: I got convicted to ditch all of them. So we're gonna do a little stage act instead, but I'm going to try to cover all of the content that you guys have in your slides, but I'm gonna have a brief introduction first.
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38:05: We have two different products. The first is called the Debunking Evolution, or just go to debunkevolution .com.
38:11: It's a program for fifth to 10th graders who are going through and being taught about the evolution, the top 10 pillars of evolution that are taught in public school.
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38:25: It's video -based and book -based. Our leading book is called Answers to the Top 50
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39:00: It basically plums into a lot of our leading videos that are on YouTube. And let me just start with a quick Bible verse and then we're gonna go into my stage act here, if you will.
39:11: So 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 13 says this. For this reason, we also thank
39:18: God without ceasing because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which is also effectively at work in those who believe.
39:34: So look at those three words there, welcoming the truth, not as if it's the word of men, but the truth of the word of God, and therefore it will effectively work in those who believe.
39:46: So if you want God's word to effectively work in you, you have to have a high regard for scripture, take it and consume it and allow it to change your life.
39:56: The Bible is the only book that has supernatural power. When you receive those seeds of God and digest them, it will change your thinking and your heart and your mind, and therefore will change your actions and your behaviors.
40:08: I was not a creationist until about 12 years ago. I came to a talk by the guy who's with your kids now.
40:16: His name is Big Wave Dave is his nickname. He's in with 80 of your kids now, but I came to a talk that he gave at a local church here, and the talk was titled something like, "'Dinosaurs
40:26: Walked with Man.'" And I thought, this guy is crazy. What a looney tune. What person would believe that dinosaurs lived so recently with man?
40:34: This is crazy, but I'm gonna go see his talk. So I went in as a skeptic, but as an evidence guy,
40:41: I spent about 20 years of my career as a testifying expert in state and federal court cases dealing with research and statistics, so I knew what a good evidence package looked like.
40:52: And about halfway through Dave's talk, I'm like, oh my gosh, I think this guy's onto something.
40:58: Theologically, he conveyed, he says, well, Adam was the one who was created to take dominion over everything that God had just created.
41:05: And then he named everything, and then when Adam fell, everything under his dominion fell with it.
41:12: And then animals turned carnivorous and turned against each other, and everything under his dominion fell. And what about dinosaur soft tissue?
41:19: What in the world is this soft tissue doing inside of dinosaur bones if they're really 65 million years old?
41:25: And why is it that every people group, every major people group around the entire world has these myths and legends about these dragon -like creatures that look an awfully high degree of similarity between continents, like what's going on with this?
41:40: Evidence after evidence after evidence. So I took about a 90 -day hiatus, I bought thousands of dollars worth of DVDs and books, and I plunged into everything he said and vetted it out.
41:51: I flew up to Montana, did Dinosaur Reach up there, I flew up to Canada, looked at the dinosaur beds up there, and about halfway through this research project,
42:00: I became not just convinced but completely convinced that Genesis 1 to 11 is real history.
42:07: And I'm gonna explain to you how that works, at least how I was persuaded.
42:13: So let's start with the present, way, way, way over here, we've got February 10th, 2024.
42:19: We can't confirm what's happening today to the millisecond, to the very second I'm standing up here on stage.
42:26: We've got YouTube and news programs and data on our phones. We know exactly what's going on today, and we can predict things and recite things with milliseconds worth of accuracy.
42:36: But if I take 1 ,000 years step backwards, what's going on now?
42:42: We can only be certain about some things back about 1 ,000 years ago, maybe at the day level or the week level or the month level, but we have a good regard of what's going on about 1 ,000 years ago.
42:54: We know the Viking Age was then and it came and rose and kind of subsided around that time.
43:00: We know about the battled Hastings at 1066, but history is getting a little bit less specific and a little bit more hazy.
43:08: If we go back another 1 ,000 years to about the time of Christ, we know that Christ lived and died and was crucified and resurrected, we believe that as Christians, about 2 ,000 years ago, still no controversy.
43:22: We have good, solid evidence there. Now what about if we go about 1 ,000 years back?
43:28: Now I might start losing some of you because history gets a little bit more opaque if we go back 1 ,000 more years, about 3 ,000 years ago, but this is the time of King David.
43:39: He picked up five stones, put one in a sling like this and threw one right into Goliath's head, knocked him dead, cut off his head.
43:46: That happened about 1 ,000 years ago. This is the time of King David. So if we keep going back,
43:52: I'm gonna run into Moses, sandwiched in between 2 ,000 BC and 1 ,000
43:57: BC, around 1 ,500 BC is when Moses lived and Moses was the recipient of something that God wrote with his own hands.
44:07: So Exodus chapter 31 says that God wrote with his own hand on stone tablets the
44:14: Ten Commandments. And on the fourth of those Ten Commandments, God wrote to Moses, or wrote this to everyone who was receiving it.
44:22: For in six days, the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
44:31: Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. So communication involves a sender and a receiver.
44:42: The sender in this situation was God himself, the maker of heaven and earth. And he told
44:47: Moses, I created in six days, the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them.
44:54: And then Moses conveyed that to the Israelites. So if I was one of the Israelites who was the receiver of that communication,
45:01: I have some choices because God said for in six days, he created everything that I can possibly see around me.
45:07: God didn't say, well, God could have said it could have created in six seconds or six minutes or six months, but God said six days as the
45:17: Israelites would understand six days. God didn't say you're gonna work for six long era and take a break or six gaps and take a break or 6 million years and take a break.
45:28: God told them to order their work week with six days and then a
45:33: Sabbath and six days and a Sabbath. That's because he could have created in six milliseconds, but he chose to take six ordinary earth rotation days because he's
45:43: God as the creator and he put us in charge to take dominion over the earth and he wanted us to work in that same cycle, six days of work, then a rest.
45:53: So if I was the receiver of that communication, I have to ask myself this very real question, what did
45:59: God want me to believe? When God said the fourth commandment and he wrote it on stone with his own hand and I'm the receiver of that and God said for in six days,
46:09: I created everything and he told that to me, am I supposed to spend that or am I supposed to receive it with the authority of God?
46:17: And I think that applies to me today. That was a very convincing theological argument that really convinced me that the six days,
46:24: God wanted me to believe and wanted the Israelites to believe that their normal earth rotation days.
46:31: Let's keep going back another thousand years. So now we're at 2000 BC and now we're about to enter into the area of controversy.
46:41: Not for me, I'm very decided on what's about to happen next but this is about the time of Abraham and the first thing
46:48: I wanna point out to you guys that's starting to get a little bit interesting about where I'm standing on the stage right now is this guy
46:54: Moses, well, he lived 120 years. That's a long time to live in today's earth atmosphere and this guy
47:02: Abraham who lived around 2000 BC, this piece of PVC right here represents how long
47:10: Abraham's lifespan. So we have about every foot is 100 years. So Abraham lived 175 years or about one and three quarters of a foot.
47:20: Well, wait a second, 175 years old, that vastly outlives the centurions that live today.
47:27: Today, if you eat really good, there's a couple of pockets around the world where you can become a centurion, you can live 100 years but this guy is living 175 years and that's just 4 ,000 some years ago.
47:38: Well, what's going on? Let's go another five generations back. Now we're at Peleg and Peleg lived to be 239 years old.
47:48: So what's going on with that? That's a very interesting piece of history and then we go back five more generations.
47:54: Wait a minute, now we're at Shem. He's got six feet of life here. He lived to be 600 years old.
48:01: Well, that's far beyond how old we could live today. So something must be going on the further back
48:08: I go back in biblical past. And when we get to Noah, my gosh, 950 years old.
48:14: What's going on with the Bible here? He lived, he was 600 years old when the flood came and he lived 350 years after the flood.
48:23: Imagine that, going through the flood with all your PTSD and living 350 years afterwards but then he had
48:31: Shem and then we have Peleg here and then we have Abraham at 175 years.
48:37: And if people live only a hundred years today, that's only about a foot off the ground. So I spent 20 years as a testifying expert in state and federal court cases.
48:48: My face has dwelt with SPSS and Excel for hundreds of hours. I could say
48:54: I'm sick and tired of numbers and curves and regression and things like that. But when I saw this,
49:00: I immediately knew I had two choices. Either these lifespans are real actual recorded lifespans that are following along what's called a power law curve or in their real ages and something went on in the past, it's not going on now, that's one choice.
49:19: They're real actual lifespans and real actual ages. Or I have option number two, that somehow over thousands of years, over about 3000 years of Bible transcription, these ancient sheep herders using little feather pens like this, writing on animal parchments, carried a multi -generational lie about writing these ancient lifespans of people who were living 950 years.
49:47: And then the guy would pass the torch to the next Bible transcriber and he would say, well, what you need to do is just make sure you kind of taper
49:54: Noah's life down because no one's gonna believe that. And he has to go from 950, maybe 600 and 239 and then pass that lie down and then the next guy is gonna have to receive it and do the same thing for 3000 years of Bible transcription.
50:08: I don't think that's possible because it would be so embarrassing for a scribe back here to write, yeah, our patriarchs lived 950 years.
50:17: You'd be a laughingstock, no one would believe that. So something's going on in this ancient past where I'm standing on this stage here that's not happening today.
50:29: So I can get about 2100 years or so over to Abraham, the
50:34: Masoretic text says that the flood's about 2350, the Septuagint pushes it back a little bit more, but regardless,
50:41: I'm in the flood zone now and it makes perfect sense to me as a statistician because what
50:46: I see, the evidence is on this rope. It's not an individual's lifespans, it's in the pattern that I can detect as a statistician because when
50:56: I throw a regression on this, it has an R square of 0 .95 and that means that 95 % of the data points that these guys' lifespan falls along a perfectly predictable power law curve.
51:09: So something's going on here where you take all of humanity before the flood, millions of people, and shove just eight of them on a boat.
51:17: You have a human bottleneck, then they get off the ship, they begin interbreeding and our genes begin mutating exponentially.
51:28: And the lifespans, I wouldn't believe it, it went from 950 down to 100 or 950 down to 200 right after the generation, but it started tapering along a perfectly predictable statistical curve that none of these old guys writing with feathers could have invented.
51:47: They don't know polynomial math, we do. We know power law curves, they didn't.
51:53: They were writing something that's not by chance and it absolutely proves Noah's Flood from a statistical standpoint because our genes are exponentially increasing in mutations now and they were back then because these guys were living all kinds of years.
52:08: So if I keep going, if I look at the flood, I would also expect to see some other things before the flood that I don't see now, like this giant
52:18: Maga Nera. This is a huge dragonfly that exists in the fossil record. Well, why don't we see this thing today?
52:24: Two and a half foot wingspan, the size of an eagle flying around over ponds and grabbing whatever it can.
52:30: These creatures are in the fossil record, but huh, I wonder how good it could survive in today's Earth's climate or Earth's atmosphere.
52:37: What about giant pterodactyls like Quetzalcoatlus and other ones that have a 53 foot wingspan that weighed 600 pounds?
52:47: How's that gonna get along flapping its wings with today's pressures? It seems like there used to be a different world that existed that's not the same world that we have today.
52:58: What about these big sauropod creatures? 120 feet is some of the biggest ones that they've found,
53:05: Argentinosaurus, Titanosaurs. These creatures weighed over 100 ,000 pounds, but their nostrils were only about twice the size of a modern day horse.
53:16: How can you put enough oxygen in a 100 ,000 pound beast that it could live in today's
53:22: Earth's climate? Probably couldn't. The Bible gives me a clue to this in 2
53:27: Peter 3. It says, there was a world that then was, which was destroyed by water.
53:34: So I can keep going here. Well, what about ancient writing? Because don't we have writing that we have records that we can go back?
53:43: Well, the Chinese and the Hittites and the Egyptians, they write all the way back to about here.
53:49: We got plenty of writing. We've even got examples like this Chinese writing on the underside of a turtle shell.
53:56: And the Hittites, we have an ancient medical document, but the Egyptians preferred that goes about 1800
54:01: BC. We have cuneiform, but cuneiform has to be dated when it goes beyond this time using carbon -14 dating, which has got some challenges to it.
54:12: But all of human writing for all the different leading groups, the Chinese, the Hittites, the Egyptians, the
54:17: Jewish folks, it goes back. And all of a sudden, it's just gone. How on the, what could cause all the human writing on Earth?
54:25: I could open a sixth grade textbook today in the state of California that says, yep, human writing goes back for 5 ,000 years.
54:32: Well, humans have been smart for a long time and evolutionists believe that Homo sapiens have been around for about 100 ,000 years.
54:39: But wait a minute, we just came up with writing 5 ,000 years ago? Why is it all gone? If history just kept going and there was no flood event,
54:48: I should be able to go back tens of thousands of years with all kinds of writing from all kinds of different societies, but I can't.
54:54: It just disappears. It's all gone about this time. Well, what about carbon -14 dating?
55:02: Well, did you know that several studies have been done on carbon -14 dating and if you date the outside of a seashell, you get one date, and if you date the inside of the seashell, you get another date.
55:13: Some studies have shown you can carbon date living snails and it says they're 27 ,000 years old.
55:20: Carbon -14 is a useful tool, but it's limited. I'm on an international panel of experts that focus on carbon -14 dating and some of the people on this panel are the people who actually pull the handles on accelerator mass spectrometer machines and they're all young Earth creationists.
55:37: And the consensus with the people who are really working with the tool is that carbon dating works great to about this range.
55:45: It's pretty reliable. But then when you start getting to between 300 and 700
55:51: AD, it's got a flat spot. No one can figure that out. When you go back to about 1500
55:56: BC, there's this thing called the carbon -14 anomaly. It always misses it by a couple of hundred years.
56:02: Even Libby, the guy who invented carbon -14 dating, says, yeah, I always miss the Egyptian chronologies by 500 years.
56:10: Did you know that things like forest fires, volcanic explosions like ashfall, Earth's magnetic pull to the moon, solar flares, atomic activity, industrial manufacturing, all these things can mess up carbon -14 dating.
56:26: So it's a useful tool, but it's a thumbnail tool. And speaking of carbon -14 dating, why is it that dinosaur bones taken from all kinds of different geological layers have carbon -14 in them?
56:40: So carbon -14 is supposed to have a maximum shelf life of up to 60 ,000 years, but when they take these bones, like this triceratops brow horn that goes on the tip of his nose, they find carbon -14 in these bones.
56:53: But these bones are supposed to be 100 million years old. So if that's the case, then carbon dating, all the carbon should be gone, but it's not.
57:02: The carbon -14 is still in here. In fact, it gets worse for evolutionists because it's not just carbon -14.
57:08: They're now up to a list, secular scientists are up to a list, a database of 122 peer -reviewed secular science journals that have established 16 different types of bio -organic materials that are in dinosaur bones.
57:24: Fecs, histones, proteins, blood cells, blood vessels, but the most condemning one is collagen.
57:31: Collagen, by most estimates, has a maximum shelf life of about 100 ,000 years. Some people would stretch it out to about 900 ,000 years.
57:38: But collagen, which is the soft matrix that holds these bones together, is still present in dinosaurs, and they just established less than 10 years ago, yep, it's not contamination, it's collagen that's organic to the creature at the molecular level.
57:55: They're certain now, they're finding collagen in these bones. Well, if you take a dinosaur bone or a cow bone and whatever, and throw it in a pile of mud, it should only last for maybe 5 ,000 years, 10 ,000 years, or 100 ,000 years tops, but they're finding these dinosaur bones filled with collagen.
58:11: So if this collagen is not proving that it's young and we want to hold to the ancient history of Earth, I would have to say, well, this
58:21: Triceratops died maybe 100 ,000 years ago. Do you know what I'd have to do to my timeline today?
58:26: I'd have to march right off the 6 ,000 years of Earth history, grab this bone and chuck it all the way past San Francisco into the
58:33: Pacific Ocean. That's how far 100 ,000 years ago is given our timescale today.
58:40: And but wait a second, if you do that, we know that these bones are filled with carnivorism and cancer and all kinds of animals eating each other and scraping their teeth off of their bones and everything.
58:53: We've got bloodshed and all kinds of nasty stuff that happened in this pre -flood world.
58:59: And evolutionists would also say that this thorn is dated in a layer that's 250 million years old.
59:06: Well, wait a second. Where did thorns and thistles come from? From Adam and Eve and the curse of sin.
59:12: They didn't even exist until Adam was here to mess everything up. Because when he did, then the plants produced thorns and thistles.
59:21: So I'd have to take this thorn and thistle and chuck it all the way, way, way deep in the
59:26: Pacific Ocean 200 million years ago before Adam was even here to produce it. So what that does is that puts the character of God and maligns it because if we say that death, suffering, sin and bloodshed and thorns and thistles existed for millions of years before Adam was here, we're saying that God's very good earth that he created on the sixth day, he said it was very good and told everything to eat plants was not his original design.
59:56: We're saying if death, sin, bloodshed existed before Adam and Eve were here, that was God's perfect world.
01:00:03: So when I explain this to teenagers, I show them my cell phone and say, hey, let's watch this video together of a big, huge lizard, a
01:00:14: Komodo dragon, eating a deer alive. Let's just check this out. And I show them the first five seconds and they're like, oh no, don't show me the rest because this poor deer is there and it's getting eaten alive.
01:00:25: Well, I said, well, where did that come from? Is that God's original good design? Do you think God is gonna use that process of death, murder, bloodshed and random mutations and natural selection to generate better fit deers over time?
01:00:37: Or is that where we came from? Or is that Komodo dragon that's eating this deer, is it screaming alive?
01:00:45: Is that the result of something that we did? Because when Adam and Eve sinned, they collapsed the dominion and everything under their dominion fell.
01:00:55: So this thorn and thistle definitely can't be 250 million years old. So let's talk about humans real quick.
01:01:01: This is good evidence that humans had to be created and breathe in into existence out of dust because you can't take something like the human hearing system here and assemble it through random mutations over millions of years.
01:01:16: I don't care if I take a barrel here of mud and amino acids and light and electricity and stir it in a pot for 5 billion years, you're never gonna get anything close to this.
01:01:28: This is an interdependent machine that has five separate components that had to be assembled in a certain order and they all had to be there present at the same time for it to work.
01:01:38: We've got our outer ear, which is designed to capture sonar waves. It goes in to a mechanical system where three little bones use leverage to amplify the sound signals and wiggle the little cochlea over here, which is a hydraulic system.
01:01:52: So it's gone from sonar to a mechanical system to a hydraulic system, which changes the ratios of calcium and potassium in here with these 20 ,000 little tiny hairs that are inside your cochlea and it converts that to a chemical process, which goes to an electrical process.
01:02:09: So a little nerve that's wrapped around your brain takes what's heard as sound and interprets it as speech in real time.
01:02:18: You can't make this stuff up. This had to be breathed into existence right out of the outset.
01:02:24: So you can't evolve something like this. So let's go ahead and conclude by bringing this back to Jesus because here's my fossilized thorns.
01:02:35: And if I go all the way back over to here, is there any chance that it's just a happenstance that Jesus took a crown of thorns, symbolizing taking the curse of death, sin, destruction, and bloodshed that the first Adam way back here 6 ,000 years ago brought and he triumphed over it by putting it over his head.
01:02:58: So that's why it's very metaphorical and very interesting from a symbolic standpoint.
01:03:05: Jesus said, yep, I know Adam produced this and I know it's not millions of years ago, but he messed up just recently.
01:03:10: I'm gonna take this and triumph over it through the crucifixion. So guys, thank you very much for going through this quick journey of history with me.
01:03:20: All right. Wow, that was awesome.
01:03:31: I can't imagine having those around today. That thing is freaky. Okay, I wanna just share some thoughts with you from the word of God.
01:03:43: And I got saved as a person, I was 21. And like a lot of 21 year old guys,
01:03:51: I was arrogant. I loved science. I actually wanted to be an astronaut. I know that's kind of childish, but I loved space.
01:03:59: I loved science. And it was, and so I firmly held on to everything
01:04:06: I had learned in school. And so, but something happened to me, I got saved and I was transformed.
01:04:13: I've never been the same since, 25 years. But for an early part of my
01:04:18: Christian walk, I held on to both what I had grown to know in science and also what
01:04:24: God's word had said. I just didn't know how to bring those two together. So if you're there right now, I know where you've been.
01:04:30: I know how it can be challenging. And so, but I want you to know as Dr.
01:04:37: John Jackson shared that the creation narrative of Genesis is absolutely integral to the
01:04:43: Christian worldview. How we see things, the Christian worldview, the lenses that we look through to see everything, why everything is the way it is.
01:04:53: And the Christian worldview is the only system of thought that is cohesively consistent with itself.
01:05:03: The only worldview. It answers the questions, the deepest questions of our heart and soul of the physical realities and the spiritual realities that we witness every day.
01:05:19: Now, on the other hand, the dominant worldview that is taught today is not just that truth is relative, but that the only things that exist is of material, this materialistic worldview.
01:05:36: The naturalistic worldview. And it is inherently incoherent.
01:05:42: We're not wrestling against like the big, broad scientific community that has all the white coats and the proof of what they're saying is true.
01:05:52: We're dealing with a worldview that is foolish. That's what scripture says.
01:05:59: But it's not just because what scripture says it's foolish, but it's obviously foolish. If you spend some time really thinking about it.
01:06:06: Let's take a look at some of these things. There's a willingness to believe in this world. In miracles, scientific miracles, not the miracles of the
01:06:17: Bible. Like what? Well, the Big Bang. The Big Bang theory is basically saying that there was nothing.
01:06:25: Before anything exists, there was nothing. And this nothing exploded.
01:06:35: Now, just try to picture nothing. You can't. There wasn't even just void.
01:06:43: It wasn't black. It wasn't just space. There was no time. There was no material. What exploded?
01:06:52: Nothing exploded. And then when nothing exploded, because zero times something turned into some huge number, which we know is mathematically false.
01:07:06: Not only did nothing explode, miracle number one, but miracle number two is this explosion created order and beauty and systems that function together.
01:07:21: And it created that, where'd it go? Oh, the ear, that ear. What he just said about the ear is absolutely amazing.
01:07:28: All those things are happening, which was created out of chaos. And as your ear is doing all those different functions, you can actually simultaneously think, is this guy full of it?
01:07:40: It's an amazing function of the brain, but there's nothing exploded into something that is absolutely harmonious and beautiful, a system of the universe that functions so well.
01:07:55: Order grew out of chaos, giving us a finely tuned system that clearly proclaims a designer.
01:08:05: Another miracle, life from non -life. This means that there was this primordial soup, a bunch of chemicals and atmosphere and lightning and things are happening and then boom, a cell.
01:08:20: And then that cell evolved all the way to you and me. Life from non -life.
01:08:27: Well, that's bizarre, right? That's a miracle to believe that, especially since they have not been able to recreate it.
01:08:39: And I think it was in the 50s, they started doing this experiment and they were like, ooh, we got amino acids.
01:08:46: Look what we did. Step one. Well, you've got a million more steps to go.
01:08:53: And by the way, the fact that you, a mind, were able to create an amino acid and then you're trying to prove that there is a mindless universe that created an entire functioning cell is foolish.
01:09:07: So life from non -life, a century of study and not one time have scientists observed the supposed chemical reaction necessary to create life from non -life.
01:09:21: And then another supernatural miracle that is not supernatural but natural, according to scientists, is evolution.
01:09:30: Not one time though has macroevolution ever been observed, not once. And which,
01:09:36: I'm gonna leave it to the scientists to talk about this, but we need to think about this. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species and yet not one demonstrates an evolutionary transition.
01:09:44: In fact, what they do demonstrate is that they're young, that there's tissue and flesh inside of dinosaur bones completely destroys the narrative.
01:09:56: The faith necessary to believe these things is tremendous. So the question is why?
01:10:03: Why does the natural person hear these things and go, I accept that? But then you bring them historical evidence of the resurrection and they go,
01:10:12: I reject that. Why is there such a fight in the natural human being to push back on this?
01:10:20: I know a lot of people, they hear something because we believe in Jesus because of the Bible says what it says about the historical narrative of him living and dying and resurrecting.
01:10:31: And you try to share that with people and they fight back. And someone else will tell him, you know, that Bible that he's talking about has been rewritten so many times you can't even trust it.
01:10:40: They go, accept it, I'll believe that. I'm not gonna fight that. But you tell them about Jesus and they will do their research to try to prove it wrong, right?
01:10:51: And so what is going on with the human heart that motivates man to reject the obvious design of the universe and accept the foolishness of naturalism and materialism?
01:11:05: I think we'll find our answer in Romans 1. If you have a Bible, bring your Bible, you can open it up, hit that app and go to Romans 1, 18.
01:11:15: And it says this, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
01:11:32: So what do we hear in that scripture? Romans 1, 18 is revealing that God is not hidden, that God has already revealed himself in the natural order to all mankind, leaving man without excuse.
01:11:53: God's design is created so that man would seek God. That the man looks at the moon and the stars and says, there is a creator, there is a designer.
01:12:11: And the truth is that God is not far from anyone. This is what Paul says at Mars Hill, that the creator of every person here, he's not far from you.
01:12:21: However, apart from faith in Christ by the Holy Spirit, man will suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
01:12:31: I don't know if when you're a kid and you were swimming in a pool, or maybe you still do it, you grab one of those balls, like a beach ball or something, and you try to sit on it, and you're sitting on it and you're trying to hold on.
01:12:44: That is like what people do with the truth of God. They know it's there, but they suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
01:12:56: So God reveals himself with what we call natural revelation, a revealing of himself through the natural creation.
01:13:04: Romans 1, 19 through 20 goes on to say, for what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
01:13:13: For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made.
01:13:27: So they are without excuse. Okay, so now we know that what
01:13:34: God is telling us through his scripture is that God is speaking to all humanity in all corners of the earth.
01:13:44: All humanity through his creation, the fine -tuned order and beauty of the universe is a voice, a voice to mankind, the marvel of the galaxies.
01:13:57: And what's even more amazing is as we advance in technology, we get to see more amazing things.
01:14:04: Do you know that when Darwin was writing his theory, the only ability to see a cell was like a little bubble?
01:14:12: Now we have the ability to look inside and what we see is an entire like naval ship worth of engineering.
01:14:20: And we can see with the Hubble telescope even farther into galaxies. What we're seeing is even more beauty and even more design, and yet we continue to reject
01:14:29: God more and more and more in society. So God is speaking to mankind.
01:14:36: Yet it is, what is the motivation? It says in Romans is the unrighteousness of man.
01:14:42: That's what motivates us to suppress the truth. And before I knew the Lord, I absolutely suppressed the truth.
01:14:50: And I absolutely rejected what the voice of God was saying from his natural order. So we have this incredibly fine -tuned universe.
01:15:02: We have this, the engineering of the body that was just discussed with the ear and every other part of our body.
01:15:08: But we also have something else that's spiritual for all mankind. An inner voice, the subconscious, the image of God that speaks to all mankind.
01:15:21: That people who reject God still believe there was a moral law, but there's no law giver.
01:15:28: In their mind, there's a deep desire for love and to be loved, and yet they reject the one who is love.
01:15:40: So all of this makes the Lord of the scripture known plainly to man. Now, the suppression of the truth, what it does, it leads to a darkened heart and a foolish mind.
01:15:53: This is seen in everyone, including me, before Christ redeemed me.
01:16:00: The natural man is far from neutral. This is a big mistake Christians make. They believe that we can go to send people to an institution where they can learn and it's just free of religion.
01:16:12: That's not true. There is no neutrality. Apart from Christ, there's a hostility.
01:16:19: And so we send our kids to these institutions to spend hundreds of thousands of hours being trained by people who reject
01:16:26: God. And we expect them to come home one day loving Jesus. So there is no neutrality.
01:16:38: If creation is the voice that leaves man without excuse, what would man do to suppress this truth?
01:16:45: He would believe in anything but God. How many of you heard of panspermia? This is like, they're like looking at the genetic code and they're like, this is like Beethoven's fifth.
01:16:55: There's no way this could just be thrown together and created by chaos.
01:17:00: This is just impossible. That it evolved. And then someone goes, oh,
01:17:06: I know, aliens. Aliens.
01:17:12: It's like, ooh, that's good. Let's kick the can down the road. Right? Anything but God. And I can show you this because some of the quotes, you'll hear the bias of scientists.
01:17:23: A Nobel Prize winning physiologist, George Wald, 20th century scientist, says this.
01:17:31: There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising in evolution.
01:17:37: The other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility.
01:17:43: Spontaneous generation that life arose from non -living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others.
01:17:53: That leaves us with only one possible conclusion, that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God.
01:18:00: So far, we feel like we got a win here. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which
01:18:08: I know is scientifically impossible, he says. Spontaneous generation arising to evolution.
01:18:16: A Dutch theologian named Henry Bovink concluded that these materialist explanations of the universe are not scientific in character, but are rather religious worldviews masquerading as science.
01:18:34: Okay, so we have two voices of God I've shared with you, the natural voice of nature speaking to mankind, leaving them without excuse.
01:18:44: Psalm 19, one through two says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
01:18:51: Day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge. Romans makes it clear that the created universe reveals
01:18:59: God and man is without excuse. How do the experts suppress the voice of God?
01:19:06: Richard Lewington, American evolutionary biologist and mathematician says this, materialism is an absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door.
01:19:22: As Christians, we must understand that many of the experts have a commitment to materialism and to reject
01:19:28: God. And if any scientists dare say there's a design, they are outcasts and removed from the scientific community, canceled forever.
01:19:38: So the second voice of God is his holy word, the divine revelation of God. All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, breathed out by God.
01:19:52: We have 40 authors of the 66 books of the Bible. They were all inspired by the
01:19:58: Holy Spirit. Every book, every word is God speaking through man. So within the
01:20:04: Holy Scriptures, we find answers to mankind's deepest questions. Every person in time and over history and the philosophers, they should probably,
01:20:14: I would understand that they would ask these types of questions. Origin, where do we come from? Purpose, meaning, what are we here for?
01:20:23: Morality, why is there evil in the world? Why is there suffering? And redemption, what are we gonna do about it, right?
01:20:30: These are the big, big questions. And the secular culture who rejects God is absolutely incoherent and failing to answer these questions.
01:20:40: And we have the scriptures that tell them the answers. The origin is that in the beginning,
01:20:46: God created the heavens and earth and he created man and woman in his image. And so we have dignity and value.
01:20:53: Life has meaning. God created man and woman in his image to glorify
01:20:59: God by enjoying him. God created man for joy and morality.
01:21:08: Why is there suffering in the world? It's because of the fall. That's why there's suffering in the world.
01:21:15: That's why there's evil in the world. And the evil is not just out there, but it's in here.
01:21:21: And so the sickness needs a cure. What do we do about all the evil in the world?
01:21:27: Legislate, right? Rules, laws, prisons, none of it's working.
01:21:36: Wars go on. Murder goes on. Rape goes on. What's the answer?
01:21:42: The answer is the gospel. We have the answer. And the answer is that God in his love sent his son to live the perfect life.
01:21:54: God in the flesh came to live the perfect life. And if you don't believe this,
01:22:01: I hope you can hear me right now because I think deep down you're suppressing the truth. And you know there's a God and you know there's something sick out there and in here.
01:22:10: And the solution for it is that God sent his son to live the life of perfection that you were called to live, but cannot.
01:22:19: And then the price of your sin was paid on that cross on Calvary 2000 years ago by Jesus Christ.
01:22:28: And there's only two ways for man to pay for his sin, either eternal condemnation or by Christ on that cross.
01:22:37: And by faith in Jesus, you receive not just his righteousness, but you receive his resurrection and he pays your price.
01:22:50: This is grace. It's a gift motivated by love. And that resurrection that he conquered sin and death becomes your resurrection today.
01:23:01: And the kingdom of God becomes yours and you become adopted into God's family unto eternity by putting your faith in him.
01:23:13: We have the answers to where do we come from? What's the meaning of life? Do you know how many people are suicidal because they don't understand?
01:23:21: What are we here for? There's no God. The person who has half a mind to think about that for a minute says, we live, we die.
01:23:29: That's it. And if you're not enjoying living, then why not hurry up and die? But we have the answer.
01:23:37: God created us to enjoy him. And that long you have for love that you think you're gonna find in a spouse, in a child, in somebody, it's ultimately found in Christ himself.
01:23:53: So the answers are in the scriptures. And I pray that we trust the word of God and that we all have faith in the one that has loved us from the beginning and brings us into eternity.
01:24:09: Let me pray. Lord almighty, we thank you that you have given us the answers. You've given us your word and most importantly, you've given us your son.
01:24:20: You've given us eternal life in Christ and that is all a free gift. I pray right now,
01:24:26: Lord, if there is a person here in this room who knows that you are omnipresent, that you are here and that you have loved them from the beginning, that they would repent of their sins and believe in Jesus Christ and be saved unto eternity and have the joy of salvation today.
01:24:47: In Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right. Thank you guys.
01:24:53: Praise God. I'd like to, we have one more speaker before we have lunch.
01:25:04: Dr. Randy Guglielmo, he's gonna, I'm sorry. Guglielmo? Okay, Guglielmo, all right.
01:25:11: He gave me this, all right. You know, he spoke last year and it was just transformative for me.
01:25:20: I learned so much and I'm gonna go through his amazing resume here real quick, his bio.
01:25:26: He was appointed as the Institute for Creation Research fourth president in 2020 after serving as ICR's national representative since 2008 where he represented
01:25:39: ICR in scientific debates at secular universities. ICR is now the premier creation science research institute for engineered biological adaptability.
01:25:51: Dr. Guglielmo holds a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota and a master of public health from Harvard University.
01:26:00: He also has a BS in engineering from South Dakota School of Minds and Technology and a degree in theology from Moody Bible Institute.
01:26:08: Dr. Guglielmo is a registered professional engineer, licensed physician and has a board certified, was board certified in aerospace medicine.
01:26:21: He's been in school since he was three years old. Dr. Guglielmo is a registered professional engineer, licensed physician.
01:26:30: Oh, I said that already. Okay, in 2008, he retired from the Air Force where he served as 28th bomb wing flight surgeon and chief of aerospace medicine.
01:26:40: He is the author of numerous books related to creation science. He is a Christian brother and I love him and I'm glad he's here.
01:26:46: Come on. He's taking his
01:27:09: Bible, not because I don't need the Bible and it should come on.
01:27:19: All right, everybody's swapping it out there. So before I even start talking, there it is.
01:27:26: All right, good. I know two things. One, I am the last thing between you and lunch and maybe, maybe, maybe for some of you, the last thing between you and the restroom.
01:27:37: Other than that, if you're older like me, that's like, hmm, that even precedes lunch.
01:27:44: Second, I wanna tell you from someone who is not a resident of California.
01:27:52: I wasn't born here, didn't grow up here, wasn't, I was stationed here for a little bit of time in the
01:27:58: Navy, but I am an American and you're an American and I wanna say to you from one
01:28:04: American to another, I'm tired of Californians getting kicked around by the rest of the country on that.
01:28:14: You guys have a wonderful, incredible state and everybody in the rest of the country knows that.
01:28:24: They know that, particularly the state that I am living in right now, which is Texas. We know that you have a wonderful, incredible state that you are living in and to all of you who are believers here,
01:28:35: I take my hat off to you. This state is worth fighting for, it's worth staying here for, it's worth coming to these conferences for and so I respect you for that and I would say to the rest of the country, who are you to see the speck in another state's eye when you have a beam in your own eye and in fact, the entire country needs prayer and needs repentance and not just California.
01:29:05: So thank you for that right there. I get to wrap everything up today and in fact,
01:29:11: I'm going to wrap up things from a debate, a debate I did in California down south of here, just north of Los Angeles several years ago.
01:29:18: It was hosted by a man named Sean McDowell and he wanted us to answer three key questions.
01:29:24: They were so good, I think you guys should have the answers to these too. Question number one was this. I'm debating two other people who claim belief in God.
01:29:34: One was from Biologos and another one from Reasons to Believe. We had different positions and question number one that we were supposed to ask was, are you open to the, how do you understand and interpret
01:29:49: Genesis one and two? How do you understand and interpret Genesis one and two? Second question was actually two and one.
01:29:57: What is your take on Darwinian evolution? And question two B was, and its compatibility with Christian faith.
01:30:04: And then question three was this. Are you open to the natural world pointing to design?
01:30:12: Now you should have answers to every one of those questions yourselves. But since I was in California and I wanted to be a little countercultural because that's what
01:30:22: California is, is countercultural, I'm gonna start with question number three. Question number three first because it's the most important in many ways.
01:30:32: It's the one that's a stumbling block to questions two and one. So question number three, as you see, we're going to do a whiteboard talk on the screen here, little whiteboard talk.
01:30:42: Oops, picked up the wrong clicker on that. All right, there we go. And this will move.
01:30:48: See, it'll move around like this there. And I can write really fast on this board here.
01:30:55: So here we go. Question number three, are you open to the natural world pointing to design?
01:31:03: One of the people I was debating said, no, absolutely not. Of course, I'm from the Institute for Creation Research. So I would say this.
01:31:09: Yes, yes, of course I'm open to it. And what I see is the workmanship seen in living things is best explained by intelligent design.
01:31:19: That's a great answer. And I picked the word workmanship on purpose because as you go to, as we just saw in Romans chapter one, it says invisible things of him, the creator from the things that are made are clearly seen.
01:31:35: And that Greek word that is translated made there is only used one other time in the New Testament in Ephesians chapter two, verse 10, where it says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.
01:31:50: So what Paul is saying is, he says when you look out at the natural world and you're looking at creatures, you're seeing evidences of workmanship, craftsmanship, handiwork, which is the theme throughout the entire
01:32:05: Bible because it says the heavens declare the glory of God. And we always stop there, but don't stop there.
01:32:11: Keep going because it says, and the firmament shows his what? Handiwork, handiwork.
01:32:18: And throughout the scripture, it says we are the work of his hands. We are the work of his fingers. Maybe this isn't figurative language.
01:32:24: Maybe the Lord is telling us that we should start looking for evidences of craftsmanship, i .e.
01:32:32: engineering in every creature. And that's what we're doing.
01:32:38: We're going to look at engineering. We could look at engineering in many, many ways. We could talk about the ear, but I wanna talk about how creatures adapt.
01:32:47: Now look at this. What if you were one of these sighted fish in the lower right -hand side of the screen and you found yourself suddenly swept into a cave?
01:32:56: Now that's a very, very challenging environment. How in the world are you gonna go from a sighted fish like you see in the lower right -hand side of the screen to an unsighted hypopigmented fish and live in a cave where so many things are different, not just light and dark, but the pH of the water, how much oxygen is dissolved in it, how much carbon dioxide, how much food is available?
01:33:19: How in the world are you going to be able to adjust yet we know they do because those sighted fish can adjust to those unsighted fish and they have to do it very, very quickly.
01:33:30: And the story that you're told in school about random genetic mutations, I have to just say is utterly and absolutely absurd.
01:33:38: So if we are going to see workmanship, we should start looking into the fish and see evidences of change and how they're able to change.
01:33:47: And what we actually see today as we read scientific papers, we don't see words like random unless they're just put in as the narrative gloss on it.
01:33:57: We're seeing the words that you see on the screen there. We're seeing adaptation described as regulated, highly regulated, rapid, not slow and gradual, repeatable.
01:34:10: Sometimes the papers say it's even reversible and that the responses are so targeted, so targeted to solving the challenging conditions that they're even predictable.
01:34:21: Now when you're seeing words like those, regulated, rapid, repeatable, predictable, you're seeing words of engineering.
01:34:29: You're seeing words of design. That is what you're seeing and we're going to take on many of these icons of evolution including the cave fish.
01:34:37: Now the fish that I showed you is just one of hundreds, hundreds, we know at least now that over 280 different types of fish can go from sighted to blind.
01:34:51: Sighted to blind and not just fish but many other creatures can go from sighted to blind, lose their pigmentation when they find themselves in caves.
01:34:58: Salamanders, insects, spiders and on and on and on. All of these creatures are able to do it and the story you're told is that over long periods of time genetic mutations build up, they break the systems, break their eyes, break their pigmentation.
01:35:12: We would suggest that that is completely and totally wrong and that probably these organisms were engineered to go into cave environments from the beginning and eyes and pigmentation can be modulated up and can be modulated down in a highly regulated way and this is in fact exactly what we find and this is what we're able to find from our research at ICR.
01:35:35: This is a paper that was published, not by us, by another's in 2013 and they were able to demonstrate through some modulation of some chemicals which are similar to what happens during development that you can go, as you can see on the right hand side of the screen, from an eyed fish with pigmentation to a non -eyed fish without pigmentation in as little as one generation.
01:36:01: One generation. Not over millions of years or eight million years as we were told, but in as little as one generation.
01:36:09: Here was another icon of evolution, Darwin's finches and you're told the exact same story of random genetic mutations and changes leading to all these different beak shapes and that they're going to have some major struggle to survive which is going to lead some to have big beaks when needed and small beaks when needed and other changes.
01:36:26: Well that is also being demonstrated to be wrong because they were able to do research on this paper on finches and two different populations of finches.
01:36:35: One are the rural finches, rural finches which are living like out in the country on the Galapagos Islands, still eating traditional finch food and the urban finches.
01:36:46: Some of these finches have moved in closer to human beings and you know human beings throw trash food and other things out and so these urban finches are eating human trash food and they were able to document not just changes in beaks but other changes in these finches in as little as two generations.
01:37:05: Two generations and you can see them up on the screen, the difference in changes there and it is not a change to their
01:37:12: DNA per se, it is a change to the regulation of that DNA and that is called epigenetic regulation.
01:37:21: It's above the genome. It modulates when genes turn on, how long they run and when they turn off and it does it primarily during development, in other words when these birds are still in the egg and they're still developing.
01:37:35: And here's a quote from the paper in the lower right hand side, it says, growing evidence suggests that epigenetic mechanisms may be involved in what kind of adaptation?
01:37:46: Rapid adaptation to new environments. It's as if the Lord created these creatures to be fruitful, multiply and to fill the earth.
01:37:55: Then of course we're told about these moths, the peppered moths. Of course there wasn't just one moth that turned black during the industrial revolution in England and I'm sure you're familiar with all this story.
01:38:05: Actually we know over 120 different moths turned black as well and how did they turn black?
01:38:13: Well it wasn't through random genetic mutations. In fact this paper published in 2016 pointed out that there was a major piece of mobile
01:38:23: DNA. Now this would probably shock some of you. Your DNA is not static but it can be changed in real time and certain pieces of DNA can be snipped out, relocated on the chromosome and pasted back in and where they're pasted, it changes the expression of the genes and on these black moths, a rather large piece of DNA had been snipped out, relocated to the promoter, the part which promoted black pigmentation during development and over 95 % of all of the black moths had this large piece of transposable
01:39:02: DNA inserted right in the promoter to turn them black and of the white moths, zero, none, had this transposable element.
01:39:14: What an incredible mechanism to let them rapidly adjust to their environment very, very quickly and it's not just these major icons of evolution which are able to detect their environments and rapidly adjust.
01:39:29: Here's another fish. I'm actually looking at the fish on the right. It's a carp, it's called a crucian carp and it lives in lakes with the fish on the left and some of you recognize that, that's a pike or some of you call it a muskie and it's a predator fish and it will eat a bass, it'll eat a trout and it'll eat one of these carp fish.
01:39:51: Now when it eats one of the carp fish and it digests that fish and these little carpy vapors go into the lake water, the cousins of that eaten fish can detect that and within one day, they begin to morph into this shape which is harder and faster for that pike to eat.
01:40:16: Rapid, rapid sensing of what's going on leading to rapid, not just physiological but anatomical changes with these fish.
01:40:28: That's quite incredible. If you said wow and I heard some of you say wow, that's fine, we're wowing the
01:40:35: Lord Jesus who made fish to do this. Here's another fish. This one isn't up in Minnesota, this one's down in the
01:40:42: Caribbean. It's called a reef race, W -R -A -S -S -E, it lives on reefs and you'll see there, there's a male.
01:40:49: The male is the brightly colored fish with blues and greens and the female is the yellow. Now normally in these little schools of fish, there's like one male and about 12 to 15 females and that one male covers all of those females.
01:41:06: What happens if that male dies or if a fisherman comes by and fishes the male out of that little group?
01:41:13: What are those lonely females to do now? Well, not only can they detect that the male is gone in their little group of females there, they detect which one is the biggest and within 24 hours of that male being gone, that biggest female, her ovaries will regress, she'll form testes and she'll morph into a male.
01:41:38: Wow, that's quite incredible. What females have wanted to do forever. I mean, it is just, it's just a remarkable, remarkable ability here to keep that going.
01:41:53: Here's another one. Look at this headline, Medical Press. Mice can warn sons and grandsons of dangers via sperm.
01:42:01: What in the world is this talking about? Well, here's an interesting experiment. It's your tax dollars at work at major universities.
01:42:09: These researchers took male mice, male mice, and put them on an electric pad which could shock their feet painfully, but not lethally.
01:42:17: And they would expose them to cherry blossom odor and shock their feet. Expose them to the odor, shock their feet.
01:42:25: Exposure, shock, shock, shock, shock. And then they took those male mice and they mated them with naive female mice.
01:42:34: In other words, female mice which had never been exposed to cherry blossom odors before. She had pups.
01:42:40: They sacrificed the pups immediately upon birth and they stained through the olfactory region, the nasal region.
01:42:47: And they're looking for olfactory bulbs, sensors, and nerves. And this is what they found.
01:42:53: The sensors and nerves stained blue. So on the left -hand side, there are controls. And you can see the little olfactory bulbs are right here and these are the nerves.
01:43:02: And these are pups whose moms and dads were never exposed to cherry blossom odors.
01:43:08: And these are pups whose dads were exposed to cherry blossom odors.
01:43:14: And you'll notice that there's over a 200 % increase in olfactory bulbs and the nerves that are in these pups.
01:43:22: And guess what they're specific for? Cherry blossom odor. Cherry blossom odor.
01:43:30: And dads passed on epigenetic information to their offspring, warning them and sensitizing them to something which mom and they had never been exposed to.
01:43:39: And it happened in one generation. One generation. And I know you haven't heard about this.
01:43:46: You haven't heard about it on NOVA or National Geographic. You haven't heard about it in school because these are highly engineered and highly regulated mechanisms.
01:43:55: And they operate by the same engineering principles as your cruise control does.
01:44:03: Exactly the same engineering principles with the same system elements.
01:44:10: In other words, your cruise control has a sensor, a speed sensor, and data is sent into a computer on your car that says, if you're slowing down, then do this.
01:44:21: If you're speeding up, then do something different. And there is a connector to your throttle which can actuate and change the speed of your car.
01:44:29: There's input, logic, and output. And those fish, those mice, those moths, they are all operating by the same engineered mechanism with a sensor for what's happening around them, be it cherry blossom odors or whatever.
01:44:48: It's sent in internally at the cellular level where it is acted on by innate logic within them.
01:44:56: If you sense this, then do that. And most of those changes are effected during development while the birds are in their eggs or while things are developing.
01:45:08: Sensors, logic, and output, what you need to operate any adaptable human thing are the exact same mechanisms which are leading to these same kind of adaptations.
01:45:21: And it is not trial and error and hit and miss where the changes are due to the environmental changes.
01:45:27: No, no, no, no, completely different. Just like this space shuttle which was engineered to go through all different kinds of environments and take on those challenges and solve them, these creatures had upfront capacity where the solutions that they need to solve the problems precede the challenge and are not due to the challenge.
01:45:54: Does that make sense? Of course it makes sense. The Lord engineered these creatures not to be passive modeling clay shifted along and molded and shaped by their environments, but he made the creatures, here are the words
01:46:10: I'd like you to remember. He made the creatures, including you and me, to be active problem -solving entities which can detect our challenges, solve those challenges, and were fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.
01:46:28: That's what we are. Not passive modeling clay, you're active problem -solving agents which take on these challenges and the solutions precede the problems.
01:46:39: Wow, during the debate, at the end of talking about all of that scientific stuff, all of it, there was absolute silence in the room because I knew most of those people had never heard of these things before and I knew it was so radically, radically different than random mutation and fractioned out by struggles to survive that they were seeing something that was incredibly highly engineered.
01:47:07: And now you have their attention and now you're beginning to raise doubts in their mind as to why they doubt the
01:47:14: Bible. You're beginning to raise doubts to their doubts and that's what you wanna do.
01:47:21: You wanna raise doubts to their doubts. And so now that I've raised some doubts to their doubts, we come to the second question.
01:47:28: What's your take on Darwinian evolution and its compatibility with Christian faith?
01:47:34: Hmm, now they're listening. I've got doubts to my doubts. Is evolution compatible?
01:47:41: Well, here's a good answer. I know it's a good answer because it's mine. I'm not.
01:47:48: Darwinian evolution, number one, is a weak scientific theory.
01:47:55: In fact, if it wasn't for its atheistic overtones, I would say it is an utterly absurd scientific theory and would be laughed out of most colleges and universities.
01:48:04: It's a weak scientific theory. It's a poor explanation for why creatures look so incredibly designed.
01:48:11: And second, the basic premises of theory cannot be reconciled with biblical
01:48:17: Christian faith. I added one word in there because he said, is it compatible with Christian faith?
01:48:25: So I pulled this word in, biblical Christian faith. There's a big diff. Why is it a weak scientific theory?
01:48:32: Well, I get to summarize things that are to be mentioned. One, if you're gonna talk about life, you're gonna talk about the evolution of life, you gotta get life going.
01:48:41: You've gotta get life going. And there are major origin of life symposiums, usually held annually, and they go on year after year, symposium after symposium, and they never come to an answer for a natural origin of life.
01:48:59: And if you wanna talk to your friends, you can say to them quite confidently that there is not a scientific paper published anywhere on the planet, on the planet, that documents a natural origin of life.
01:49:17: Now that's a pretty, that's a pretty solid statement. And if you doubt that, and if you think
01:49:23: I'm wrong, bring me the paper, and I will change the statement. But I have said this at major universities,
01:49:30: I said it at UC Berkeley just several years ago, and nobody, no faculty member came running up to the front and said, here's the paper which shows by experiment a natural origin of life, because it doesn't exist.
01:49:44: Second, you have to get life going, but you also have to get it to diversify into different kinds of creatures.
01:49:53: And we know, we know by observation, by real observations, that organisms faithfully and consistently reproduce after their kind.
01:50:09: And you know how many exceptions to that have ever been observed in humanity? None, zero.
01:50:15: That's why there's not a scientific paper published anywhere on the planet which documents one creature turning into a fundamentally different kind.
01:50:25: What happens is what all of us see is cats reproduce cats, horses reproduce horses, people reproduce people.
01:50:33: So that's why it's a weak scientific theory, but it's also weak because its predictions stink.
01:50:41: And they predict things which just don't come right. They predict that life should start here in some primitive form, and over long periods of time, it should branch off to the major different body plans of different kinds of creatures.
01:50:56: Wrong. What you actually find at the bottom of the fossil record is almost all of the major body plans show up at once.
01:51:06: The tree is completely upside down. The prediction, the scientific prediction, is totally wrong.
01:51:12: They predict that you would find similar features on creatures due to common ancestry.
01:51:19: In other words, two offspring inherited from their parents who inherited from their parents. But we don't find that at all.
01:51:25: We find similar features on fish and mammals, similar eyes between squids and humans.
01:51:32: The genetics for echolocation in this bat and these whales is genetically identical to each other.
01:51:40: And yet they're separated. They're not even in the same lines. That prediction was totally wrong.
01:51:47: They were told, we were told in school that your appendix is a useless vestigial organ. Wrong. I knew when
01:51:53: I was in medical school in the early 1990s that it had functions in your immune system.
01:51:59: I was told when I was in school that the bone that all of, most of you are sitting on right now, your tailbone, is a useless structure which is left over from our primitive simian past when we all had tails.
01:52:11: Wrong. Once I got into med school, I could see that that bone was anchoring important muscles of your pelvic floor, and I'm glad that yours are working right now.
01:52:22: And so are you. I was told that as little embryos developed that they had gill slits, and they went through a fish stage.
01:52:31: Wrong again. Little folds in the neck which are gonna develop into your jaw and structures in your neck never, ever have gill tissue in them.
01:52:40: Totally wrong on all of that. I was told that there was DNA that was junk, that only 2 % of my
01:52:47: DNA was coding for proteins and the other 98 % was junk DNA. Why would
01:52:52: God put junk in the DNA? If it wasn't evidence for our evolutionary past. Wrong on all of that.
01:53:00: What's called junk DNA is actually turning out to be highly functional and absolutely necessary for life.
01:53:06: It regulates what the other DNA does that does code for proteins. Wrong on that prediction.
01:53:12: We were taught that humans and chimps were 98, 99 % genetically similar. Totally wrong on that, and I'll delve into that a little bit later in my talk this afternoon.
01:53:22: Wrong, wrong, wrong on all of these predictions, and we should be shouting that from the rooftops.
01:53:30: Your predictions are wrong, and everything you've told us is wrong, and don't just sweep it away quietly under the rug because we won't let you forget.
01:53:39: I was taught when I was a kid that Neanderthals were some creature like this. Some ape -like creature which was called a caveman.
01:53:49: So simple what? A caveman could do it, and now we know that every one of us have
01:53:55: Neanderthal DNA with us because humans and Neanderthals mated with each other. That's the only headline which
01:54:01: I could find which said that, but anyway, we all have that.
01:54:08: It's a weak scientific theory because it depends so heavily, so heavily on imagination.
01:54:15: Look at the right -hand side of the screen there. Look at that artist's rendition of the creature Lucy. I mean, really, if you put lipstick on her, she'd look an awful lot like a
01:54:26: Texan. I mean, and that. It's just incredible there.
01:54:34: You couldn't tell the diff, but on the left -hand side of the screen, these are the bones.
01:54:41: Do you see a little imagination between here and here? Well, that was the 70s.
01:54:47: Nobody does that. Well, wrong again. In 2015, this creature came on the scene, Homo naledi.
01:54:53: On the left is the artist's rendition. On the right -hand side are the bones. It is a weak scientific theory when you need to depend so much on imagination.
01:55:06: Weak on your predictions, wrong on your findings, heavily dependent on imagination, wrong on almost everything you have ever said to anybody about creation and evolution.
01:55:19: So why should we believe it? And not only that, it's not compatible with Christian faith at all.
01:55:26: What do I mean by this? Well, let's just take the story of the history of Adam. Lewis and Mary Leakey, they're both passed away now.
01:55:33: Famous researchers when I was a kid, they wrote a book called Adam's Ancestor, not because they believed in a biblical
01:55:39: Adam, but because they were coming up with an evolutionary tale for the history of mankind as descending from some ape -like creature.
01:55:49: And so their Adam was not the biblical Adam at all. Their Adam was an ape -like creature, which
01:55:55: I hate to say many Christians have even compromised with themselves on that.
01:56:02: Well, what's wrong with that? Where is it inconsistent with the biblical account? Well, first of all, and this is very important, the
01:56:08: Bible says that Adam was a direct creation by God.
01:56:15: He didn't evolve, and this is a big difference. The Bible says God took dust to the ground and he formed him and he made him.
01:56:23: And including Eve, not from the dust of the ground, the Bible says took something from Adam's side and made
01:56:28: Eve. Both direct creations. Evolutionary theory says that's not true at all, that we are a descendant from an ape -like ancestor.
01:56:38: The Bible says that Adam was the first human. Evolutionary theory says that's impossible. We don't even know who the first human was, completely indeterminate.
01:56:46: Which one of these supposed ape -like ancestors was Adam? The Bible says that Adam and Eve were the very first humans and we are all descendants from them.
01:56:56: One couple, one pair. Evolutionary theory says that's impossible.
01:57:02: There had to be a population of anywhere from 10 ,000 to 100 ,000 of these creatures to bring about Adam and Eve.
01:57:10: They were completely wrong on that. But most importantly, the Bible says that Adam and Eve brought sin and judgment into this world.
01:57:20: The Bible says there was a real man who brought real sin and real death that passed to all of us and that we needed a real savior.
01:57:30: And that's why it's incompatible. But not just there. This is another one that's really, really important.
01:57:38: Evolutionary theory says that this right here, this lion taking down this zebra is a good thing.
01:57:47: And that Stephen Jobs, when he gave his commencement address at Stanford University several years ago when he was dying of pancreatic cancer, said that death is very likely the single best invention of life.
01:57:59: It is life's change agent. So via a death, all of the good things have come about.
01:58:08: That's what evolutionary theory says, but the Bible says death is not a good thing. The Bible says death is a curse, and the
01:58:15: Bible says death is an enemy, and the Bible says it will someday be destroyed.
01:58:21: So brothers and sisters, I know you can become you know, almost numb to scenes like this, but you know what that is?
01:58:32: In one word, that's gross. That's gross.
01:58:40: And we should be sick of it. And we should be looking for the day and the time when the lion will lay down with the lamb, and that is no more.
01:58:50: That's what I'm looking for. It is not a good thing. It's also inconsistent with the
01:58:55: Bible because the Bible says that his designs are clearly seen, plainly seen and evident to everybody.
01:59:04: So right here, you recognize these are gears, but these are microscopic gears connecting the back legs of a tiny little insect called a plant hopper, which can launch itself from zero to 700
01:59:19: Gs in a fraction of a second. And in order to launch itself straight, its back legs are connected by microscopic little gears.
01:59:30: Wow. Now, when I see gears, it is totally rational and it is totally reasonable for me to conclude there was a gear, what?
01:59:40: A gear maker. And evolutionary theory says it's all an illusion and that is not the rational conclusion.
01:59:50: So across the board, Christian teaching is completely incompatible with evolutionary teaching.
01:59:59: And then that brings us finally to the last question, which was really the first. How do you interpret and understand
02:00:06: Genesis 1 and 2? That's a question that all of you should have an answer to. Well, here's a good answer.
02:00:13: Genesis 1 and 2 are historical narratives. The first speaker this morning talked about this.
02:00:20: This is real history, not mytho -history, not allegory, not myth.
02:00:27: So the next time someone says, just say it's real history. What is Genesis 1 and 2? It's real history.
02:00:34: Genesis 1 and 2 is what? Real history. It's real history. And the first chapters are real history of how
02:00:42: God created the natural realm. He is telling us this. And how do I interpret it? Well, I give words their normal meaning in their normal context.
02:00:52: Some people say literal, I say normal. Why do I say normal? Because one, when I was at Moody, that's what
02:00:58: I was told. You interpret the Bible normally. But also because in every other area of life,
02:01:06: I interpret literature normally. Now you know that I am a physician and I write people these things, prescriptions, all the time, because when they come to the doctor, they like to come out with something in their hand other than just a bill on that.
02:01:23: So they like to walk out. So this is a prescription. So if some of you with highly evolved peepers can read this, it's a medicine for high blood pressure, atenolol, 150 milligrams by mouth daily.
02:01:39: I mean, how could you get any simpler than that? 150 milligrams by mouth daily.
02:01:45: So you take this script and you take it to your pharmacist and the pharmacist says to you, well, what does
02:01:52: Dr. Galuzza mean by mouth? By mouth. You know, mouth of a river, mouth of a cave.
02:02:00: So he changes your script to say atenolol, 150 milligrams by a natural opening daily.
02:02:08: Hmm, wow. I have no clue where your pills are going on that.
02:02:17: But in context, when I say by mouth, I mean what? Mouth, mouth.
02:02:25: Now, before I was a medical doctor, I was an engineer. I was stationed on Guam and I did a contract.
02:02:31: It was contract for a barracks rehab and the contract said that the contract will apply two coats of paint, two coats of paint.
02:02:41: Well, this contractor came out, mobilized, put on one coat of paint on all of the rooms and demobilized.
02:02:48: Well, we had an inspector that found this and we said the contract says you'll apply two coats of paint.
02:02:55: The contractor sent us a letter that said what the contract means is one coat thick enough to equal two coats of paint.
02:03:05: And he had put on a thick coat. We said no, what the contract means is what?
02:03:12: Two coats of paint. And this went to court. This went to court.
02:03:18: How many of you think the government won? How many of you think this lousy contractor beat us and took our money again?
02:03:25: All right, I wanna see who the cynics are. Well, in this case, the government won.
02:03:31: And this is what the judge said. In contract law, words must be construed to their normal meaning in the context of the specifications, otherwise the intentions of either party becomes unknowable.
02:03:48: Wow, how true that is. So may I encourage you, do the same thing with your
02:03:56: Bible. You interpret the words in the context of that, otherwise the intentions of the
02:04:01: Bible giver becomes what? Unknowable, unknowable. This was an important thing.
02:04:08: In fact, we can do linguistic studies and we can look at the grammar of biblical passages which are purely poetic, and we can look at passages which we know are narrative.
02:04:21: And I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but the scholars can point out that Genesis one to two, three points right up here in narrative passages.
02:04:31: But this is a real foot stomper part of the message. Right here, boom, boom, boom. This was an important issue in the
02:04:38: Reformation. And all of these men right here are famous reformers. Why is this important?
02:04:44: Let me give you a little history. Prior to the Reformation, the church was teaching the people this.
02:04:50: The Bible is somewhat of a mystical book. And you, you, you the person in the pew, you can't read this
02:05:00: Bible and understand it for yourself. You must have a holy man read it and tell you what it says.
02:05:11: You can't understand it, but I can. You can't interpret it, but I can.
02:05:17: And I will tell you what it means. Do you know what that did?
02:05:22: That made you subject to the holy man. That took the authority of the
02:05:28: Bible away and put the authority of the holy man in its place.
02:05:34: And the reformer says, wrong, wrong on every account.
02:05:40: The Bible is inherently clear. The Bible can be understood by the average person with a good translation.
02:05:50: And they said, and this is true, that the doctrine of biblical clarity, that is the average person can interpret it for themselves, is just as important as the doctrine of inspiration and inerrancy.
02:06:05: Because what good is it to have a Bible that is inspired if you can't understand it?
02:06:12: And this was a major Reformation issue right here. Now, what biblical passages did they have?
02:06:18: Well, if you were to turn to Deuteronomy chapter 30, right after Moses gave the law, he said, you don't have to go across the ocean and get someone to come and interpret the
02:06:28: Bible for you. And all of those passages in the book of John, the Lord Jesus said, when the
02:06:34: Holy Spirit comes, he will do what? Lead who? You into all truth.
02:06:42: And then if you turn to the book of Acts, it says the Bereans were more noble than the Thessalonians because the
02:06:49: Bereans, the average person in the pew, were searching their Bibles to see if what the
02:06:55: Apostle Paul said was correct. So if you can check up on the
02:07:02: Apostle Paul by reading your Bible, then you can understand it for yourself. Brothers, if this was a wooden pulpit,
02:07:11: I would pound it until it splintered. I can't tell you how important this is.
02:07:17: Your Christian ancestors gave their lives for this. They gave their lives for this.
02:07:24: You can read it and understand it for yourself. The Bible makes theologians, not the other way around.
02:07:32: And just as it was in the Reformation, where it said, you don't need religious authorities to tell you what the
02:07:38: Bible says, it says that you can understand it for yourself. And today, you don't need science guys to come and tell you how to interpret the
02:07:49: Bible, particularly when those science guys are atheists. You can read it and understand it for yourself.
02:07:56: Biblical clarity is so important. That means you can take a good translation of that Bible, give it to those
02:08:03: Alca Indians who have never heard of Stephen Hawking in their lives, and they can read
02:08:09: Genesis 1 and understand exactly what it means. This is really, really important.
02:08:18: And you are not leading people away from the faith. In fact, just the opposite. This is an incredible study done by two secularists, one from the
02:08:27: University of Indiana and one from Harvard University. And they studied three groups of people, those who thought the
02:08:33: Bible was really not the inspired word of God, those who believe it is, and those who don't know.
02:08:39: And they tracked church attendance from 1990 to 2015. And the churches which were essentially compromised on biblical truth were hemorrhaging members.
02:08:50: But churches who believed in the authority and the clarity of the word of God were maintaining others.
02:08:58: But sadly, the people who were leaving these churches were going to non -affiliate it. So when they say, you're leading people, you're making us look dumb, you're hurting the faith, no, no, no.
02:09:09: It's just the exact opposite. But this is the main reason to give words their normal meaning and their normal context.
02:09:17: Because the Lord Jesus did, and the Apostle Paul did. When someone asked the Lord, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife, he said to them, have you not read?
02:09:28: Have you not read that from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female, quoting from Genesis 1, and then quoting from Genesis 2, said a man shall leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
02:09:43: And then when the Apostle Paul was speaking about the resurrection from the dead, he said, for since by man, speaking of Adam, came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead.
02:09:56: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
02:10:05: Wow. Answers to three key questions. Good answers to those, but there's a fourth one.
02:10:13: Where are you today? The Bible says there's only those people who are in Adam or in Christ.
02:10:22: In Adam, dead and lost in your trespasses and sins. Or in Christ, born again, renewed with hope of eternal life.
02:10:33: Where are you today? That's the fourth key question. I would say to you on behalf of the school, your churches, the pastors,
02:10:42: Dr. Biddle, come to Christ, and he will give you life. Thank you so very much.
02:10:53: Well, we have one more topic to cover here. And this one
02:11:06: I like to call 21 Verses Backed by Science, or The Bible Knows Best.
02:11:16: This has been quite a conference. How many of you have learned way more than you can ever retain today?
02:11:24: Wasn't this great? I want you to make sure that you go back home, you tell all your friends, all your family, bring them back next year.
02:11:32: Let them know about the resources. Back on the back table at the
02:11:37: Genesis Apologetics table, they have my list of the most important and my latest book, 21 Verses Backed by Science.
02:11:42: And they have provided that 100 % free to you. So if you have not already gotten a copy of this, you can go back to the back table at the end and receive 21
02:11:52: Verses absolutely free. It's a great resource. It's what we're about to cover over the next few very short minutes.
02:12:01: All right, we can always start out with talking about Paul addressing the
02:12:08: Romans when he says, the invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power, the
02:12:17: Godhead itself, so that we're without excuse. So often we quote that scripture.
02:12:23: But at the same time, what I've realized is that basically what he's saying here is all you have to do is open your eyes.
02:12:30: And it is so obvious that there is a creator. So what I want to do over the next few moments is go through a very short series.
02:12:38: We can't get to all 21 verses, but that's what the book is for. We're going to go over just a few select references scattered throughout scripture.
02:12:47: And we're going to ask the question, does the Bible know best? Is this good scientific information?
02:12:53: And in fact, let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. Genesis 1 .1,
02:13:00: it says, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And again, that sounds extremely simple.
02:13:05: But as Dr. Henry Morris once pointed out, there is astounding truth and science packed within that single verse, the first verse of scripture.
02:13:15: Because in the beginning is the origin of time itself. God is outside of time. He doesn't need time.
02:13:21: He created it so that we could actually live and have purpose through our days. But he doesn't need time.
02:13:27: He created it right here. In the beginning, that's the creation or origin of time. God created the heavens, and that would be space, and the earth.
02:13:36: Well, the earth is made out of matter. So what are we talking about? Time, space, and matter, the very components of the universe spelled out in the first verse of the
02:13:45: Bible. So is the first verse scientific? Does the Bible know best? Absolutely. What we found is that the atheistic scientific community actually doesn't have the answer to these questions.
02:14:00: Do you realize that the Big Bang Theory tries to explain the origin of time and space, but not matter?
02:14:07: In other words, it can't explain all three of those components. What do they say? They say that 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe were contracted into a very dense spot, which then rapidly expanded, creating space and time as it went.
02:14:20: Well, wait a second. Could you just go over that again with me? Yeah, about 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe was contracted into a dense spot, which then rapidly expanded, creating space and time as it went.
02:14:30: Maybe just one more time. Yeah, 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe. Wait, wait, wait.
02:14:37: Where did all of the matter in the universe come from? Oh, well, we don't know the answer to this question.
02:14:45: I do. In the beginning, God created it. You see, we have the historical and scientific backing up of these principles in the first verse of the
02:14:57: Bible. So what I'm telling you is that the Bible knows best from the very beginning.
02:15:03: As we move forward, is it okay if I give you one more example that is a bird? Can you tell I like birds?
02:15:09: Yeah? Let's look at the arctic tern for a second. The arctic tern is a seabird or a sea swallow.
02:15:15: There's about a million of them out there. So let's take a look at another verse. Jeremiah 8 says the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times, the turtle dove, the crane, and the swallow.
02:15:25: Well, the arctic tern is a sea swallow. So does the Bible know best? Well, the arctic tern is a seabird or a sea swallow.
02:15:34: A million of them out there. They live 20 to 30 years on average. They mate for life, extraordinary birds.
02:15:41: And they will take a particular course when they migrate to take advantage of prevailing winds.
02:15:47: The best way to show you is just to show you. So they might start in Greenland or the Netherlands and they'll pick a set path southward along the
02:15:54: African coast. And once they get to the Southern tip of Africa, they'll turn and fly as far as Australia or even what's the other one down there?
02:16:03: New Zealand. That's right. And then they will turn south and they will spend their summers, our winters in Antarctica, in the warmer areas of Antarctica, following that warmer weather.
02:16:15: And then once it starts to get cold down there and warm up here, they start their journey north again. Many times taking an entirely different path in an
02:16:23: S -shaped curve up the coast of the Americas to find their way right back to where they started. But I don't know if any of you have noticed this, but this is a global map we are looking at.
02:16:33: This is not a short trip. In fact, if you were to follow this, these birds, these
02:16:39: Arctic terns, these sea swallows are traveling about 56 ,000 miles every year.
02:16:46: Let's see if anyone was paying attention. How long do they live? 20 to 30 years. So do the math.
02:16:51: We're talking about over 1 .5 million years that these birds are traveling in their lifetime.
02:16:59: Talk about some frequent flyer points right there. So does the
02:17:04: Arctic tern, does the sea swallow know its appointed times? Does it know where to go, what to do, how to find its way back?
02:17:11: Absolutely. Here's what I'm telling you. The Bible knows best. God has put inside of these birds basically a
02:17:18: GPS that allows them to find their way. Which brings us to Psalm 139 that says, thine eyes did see my substance.
02:17:27: Listen to the verbiage here. Yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.
02:17:36: Well, DNA, it could be expressed like a written book. We talked about this in the last session.
02:17:42: It creates the blueprints that makes you an individual human being made in the image of God.
02:17:49: And you know, DNA is completely one of a kind. Your iris and your retina contain unique patterns not found anywhere else on Earth.
02:17:56: Every palm print is unique. Every fingerprint is unique. We all know that. Your thumbprint is unique.
02:18:03: Look at your thumb for a second. There is not another thumb like that on planet Earth. That makes you somebody.
02:18:12: What I'm telling you is that the Bible knows best. Yes, there's a book inside each and every one of us.
02:18:19: God cares about you. Leviticus 17, let's look at another one, says that the life of all flesh is the blood thereof.
02:18:26: So I was reading and researching for this book right here, and I was reading,
02:18:32: I'm reading these different chapters and these different verses, and I get to this one. And I'm like, oh no, oh no,
02:18:38: I must, this, no, I must be missing something because that's not right.
02:18:44: But the Bible knows best. I must be missing something. And I kept reading it over because I realized that not all life has blood.
02:18:53: And I kept reading it and reading it and reading, and I'm like, you know what, I'm missing it. It specifically says the life of all flesh is the blood thereof.
02:19:03: You see that word flesh? And the more I thought about it, I said, well, you know what, that's true. Not all life has blood, things like sea sponges, things like that.
02:19:13: But flesh, it all has blood. In other words, there's the addition of one word in here that makes this a scientifically accurate statement.
02:19:24: People say, David, surely you don't think that the Bible is a scientific textbook.
02:19:31: Well, of course I don't think it's a scientific textbook. Scientific textbooks have to be revised every single season.
02:19:38: But when it talks about science, it is 100 % true science. When it talks about history, it is 100 % true history.
02:19:46: When it talks about prophecy, 100 % true. When it talks about the gospel, 100 % true.
02:19:52: So here's what I'm telling you, the Bible knows best. Leviticus 11 says, every earthen vessel where into any dead animal falls, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean and you shall break it, break the pot.
02:20:07: The very next verse says, if it's clothing, something you're not eating out of, wash it, use it again.
02:20:13: But if a dead animal falls in an earthenware pot that you're gonna eat out of, break the pot. Well, what is this?
02:20:19: Is this just some kind of a God trying to oppress his people by placing these rules upon them to see if he can get them to break his command so that then he can punish them?
02:20:29: Is that this vindictive God that we have? Or does the Bible know best? Well, I've been to Israel about a dozen times and I have picked up hundreds and hundreds of pieces of pottery.
02:20:41: 99 times out of 100, that pottery is not glazed. Do we know what glazing is?
02:20:47: A few of us. Glazing is the process that seals the earthenware nature of the pottery.
02:20:53: It makes it where germs and microbes can't seep into the earthenware pot so that diseases wouldn't be passed on.
02:21:01: Well, you see, the Israelites didn't know about germ theory. Germ theory wasn't even invented, wasn't even discovered until the time of Louis Pasteur.
02:21:11: And yet God knew about germs and microbes and he gave good cleanliness and health practices to his people to keep diseases away from them.
02:21:21: So what does he say? Well, if a dead animal falls in your pot, just go ahead and break that pot. You don't need the diseases that it's gonna provide.
02:21:28: Did he have to give an explanation why he said this? No, he's God. Trust him.
02:21:35: It's for your own good. But nevertheless, the Bible knows best. Do you know that until the time of the 1800s, to the time of Louis Pasteur and Semmelweis and other scientists, doctors would wear operating gowns full of the blood and bodily fluids of all of their past patients because they were like, look at me, look at how many people
02:21:56: I've worked on. Don't you want me working on you, right? And they're passing on these diseases to the next patient that they work on.
02:22:05: And then these people come along and they're like, well, maybe you should just wash your hands before surgery, maybe kind of change into clean garments and all of that.
02:22:12: And the deaths stopped happening. But we could have clearly seen this from scriptures like wash in running water and break the pot and all these other cleanliness practices that were defined thousands of years before germ theory was realized.
02:22:29: Here's what I'm telling you, the Bible knows best. Which brings us to Job 26 that says that God stretches out the north over the empty place and he hangs the earth upon nothing.
02:22:41: Well, you know, many ancient cultures, including ancient Hindus, believed that the earth was a flat disc like a pancake that sat on the back of a bunch of giant elephants.
02:22:51: And these big elephants, oh, they were standing on top of an even larger turtle. And this massive turtle was floating in a big pool of water and that's what supported earth.
02:23:03: You better be glad those elephants didn't decide to move. That was the scientific theory of some people, the thing of legends.
02:23:12: And yet, what does the Bible say? God hangs the earth upon nothing. Well, what has science shown?
02:23:18: That the earth is basically suspended with space, the blackness of space all around.
02:23:24: He hung the earth upon nothing and he's given it this gravitational dance using real physics and laws and mathematics that keeps it safe.
02:23:33: Isn't that amazing? And yet the Bible knows best. Man got it wrong, the
02:23:39: Bible got it right, scientifically speaking. Isaiah 27 speaks of Leviathan, a dragon in the sea.
02:23:46: Job 41 says, can you draw out Leviathan with an hook? None is so fierce that dare stir him up.
02:23:53: His breath can lift coals. Now, that's some pretty bad breath right there. And a flame goes out of his mouth.
02:23:59: So at this point, a lot of people say, well, that's fantasy. A fire breathing dragon, surely you can't be serious.
02:24:07: You know, there are still creatures alive today, including the bombardier beetle, which you might find in Oklahoma or Texas or places like that.
02:24:14: The bombardier beetle has multiple chambers inside of its abdomen, which contain chemicals. If the beetle feels threatened, it actually has a cannon in its backside and it can aim this cannon at a spider or an ant that is about to attack him.
02:24:29: And then it sprays superheated chemicals with a catalyst that creates a chemical reaction and it sprays this at its attacker.
02:24:40: That's still alive today. That's incredible. It sounds like science fiction, yet it's still alive today.
02:24:47: Best way to do this is just to show you, check this out. Watch this, boom, just like that. And then the beetle gets away, scalding hot chemicals at its attacker.
02:24:57: Do you think that if something like that is alive today, then a fire breathing dragon might've been a possibility?
02:25:03: I think it could have been. But then again, if such a giant, horrible creature existed in the past, surely we would have found it by now.
02:25:13: Well, do you know that creatures have been found, including 50 foot long mosasaurs, extremely giant crocodilian type creatures, some of these things closely match the description of Leviathan in the
02:25:31: Bible. And yet we don't know, all we find are their skeletal remains.
02:25:36: We don't know the way they behaved. They may have been able to shoot fire out of their mouth.
02:25:42: But here's what I can guarantee. If the Bible says that there was a creature, a giant sea dragon that could shoot fire out of its mouth, it existed.
02:25:50: It's only a matter of time until that is discovered. So here's what I'm telling you. The Bible knows best.
02:25:58: Which brings us to Job 36. Behold, God is great and we know him not. Neither can the number of his years be searched out.
02:26:06: Now listen carefully and tell me what we're looking at here. He makes small the drops of water.
02:26:11: They pour down rain according to the vapor thereof, which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
02:26:16: Amos 9, he that calls for the waters of the sea and then he pours them out upon the face of the earth.
02:26:22: The Lord, Yahweh, is his name. What are all these references talking about? What about Ecclesiastes?
02:26:29: The rivers run into the sea, but the sea never gets full, does it? Unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
02:26:36: And Job 37, do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
02:26:43: What are we talking about here? The hydrologic cycle, absolutely. The hydrologic cycle is spelled out time and time and time again in the scriptures.
02:26:54: And yet even the ancient Greek philosophers couldn't figure this out. They were like, well, we see rivers and all that, but where does all the water go and how does it get back?
02:27:02: They didn't clearly understand this until much more modern history. Yet thousands of years ago, there are references to the hydrologic cycle.
02:27:10: Here's what I'm telling you. The Bible knows best. This is one of my favorite of all time.
02:27:17: This is the story of Matthew Fontaine Murray. His story goes something like this. You see,
02:27:22: Matthew was extremely ill one day and he was lying sick in bed. His daughter had a Bible and she said,
02:27:28: I'm gonna read you some scripture. So she sits down on a chair next to the bed and she just opens up to Psalms and she begins to read.
02:27:34: Hopefully this makes you feel better. She turns randomly, randomly, to Psalm eight.
02:27:40: What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor.
02:27:47: Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth.
02:27:53: Well, when she said that, Matthew sat up in bed and he started repeating. He said, paths of the sea?
02:28:00: Paths of the sea? Matthew was a naval commander. And he said, if I ever get out of this bed,
02:28:08: I'm gonna figure out what it means by paths of the sea. And guess what? That he did.
02:28:13: He devoted his life's effort to charting the ocean currents and the paths of the sea.
02:28:19: Paths that ships still use to this very day. There's a monument in Virginia erected in Matthew Fontaine Maury's honor.
02:28:29: It says, to Matthew Fontaine Maury, the pathfinder of the seas, the genius who first snatched from the oceans and the atmosphere the secret of their laws.
02:28:39: But his inspiration was holy writ. What does that mean?
02:28:44: The Bible knows best. In other words, Matthew started with a biblical principle and instead of saying, oh, isn't that great poetry?
02:28:53: He said, you know what? I think the Bible knows best. And I bet you if I start to dive into what the
02:29:00: Bible is telling me and believe it is absolutely true that we might just discover something here.
02:29:06: How many of us would do well to do the same thing? How many of those in the scientific community would do well to follow these same principles?
02:29:16: To actually read the Bible for what it says and then ask the question, does the Bible knows best? How would
02:29:22: I prove this verse if I were able to scientifically study it? That's what some of the greatest men of all times did and they discovered great things.
02:29:32: And I would encourage every young person in the room today. If you're thinking about science, if you're thinking about any field, grab hold of this.
02:29:41: You can stand on it. It is God's word for us. Absolutely true from beginning to end.
02:29:47: In other words, the Bible knows best. So far so good.
02:29:53: But can we say the same for evolution? Let's see if the evolutionary theory holds to the same standard.
02:30:00: I think maybe first we should read the Merriam -Webster dictionary definition of religion, which is a cause, a principle, a system of beliefs that's held to with ardor and faith.
02:30:10: Extreme fervor and faith. Well, you know, people who don't believe in God also usually believe a lot of things.
02:30:19: For instance, they believe that the universe started about 14 billion years ago. Most of them believe that stars coalesced from clouds of dust and gas.
02:30:28: Most of them believe that humans evolved from ape -like creatures over time and chance.
02:30:34: But you know what, to be a religion, those beliefs have to be held to by faith. Isn't that science?
02:30:41: We're talking about evolutionary science, right? No, none of those things I mentioned are actually factually observable.
02:30:49: Nobody was around 14 billion years ago to see the universe coalesce from nothing, were they? Nobody has ever actually observed a star forming.
02:30:59: They've observed clouds parting and new stars behind those dust clouds, but nobody has actually ever officially observed a star being formed.
02:31:09: And even secular astronomers would say, yeah, well, that would take millions of years to observe, so of course we'll never observe it.
02:31:15: It's a faith -based belief. No one has ever seen one type of a creature, one kind of an animal turn into another.
02:31:22: No one has ever seen a giraffe turn into a rabbit. No one has ever seen a crocodile turn into an ostrich, no matter how long you give it.
02:31:33: It is a faith -based belief. And these people hold to all of these faith -based beliefs with extreme fervor, with ardor.
02:31:44: They don't wanna let them go. But what does that make evolution? It's not science.
02:31:51: You said it, I didn't. We have our core ministry, we have an online store, which now has a physical location in the
02:32:04: Wonder Center and Science Museum, but if you're looking for any materials, books, videos, resources, homeschool resources, gifts, anything like that, creationsuperstore .com.
02:32:14: We have over 2 ,000 different resources, easily searchable, creationsuperstore .com,
02:32:21: largest origins -related store in the world. Again, I told you on the last session about Genesis Science Network, 24 -7, free all around the world.
02:32:33: The Wonder Center and the Creation Club. I've hosted documentaries on hummingbirds called
02:32:41: Refracted Glory. I've hosted documentaries with the Creation Research Society on dinosaur soft tissue called
02:32:47: Echoes of the Jurassic. And then we have tons of other resources online.
02:32:53: So I encourage you to get plugged into those. Make sure you get a copy of 21 Verses before we leave.
02:32:59: Also, and I've got one more thing to share to close this out. But before I do that, tomorrow at 6 p .m.
02:33:11: I'm giving a talk at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in North Highlands. And it is a talk different, completely different from what
02:33:19: I just gave, but is probably one of the most important things that young people could ever encounter or learn in these days.
02:33:30: And I'm gonna teach you the language of evolution and we're gonna look at the origin of life issue from an evolutionary perspective and then from a creation perspective.
02:33:40: And there are some things that any child who is going to school, any student who is going to university, anybody who might be taking a biology class needs to know.
02:33:50: So that's tomorrow. Now there's this little thing going on tomorrow. I forget what it is.
02:33:58: But tomorrow at six, I would encourage you to be there because yes, we can all cheer on different aspects in our favorite teams, but at the same time, there is something to be said for real education from a scientific perspective and from a
02:34:13: Christian perspective. And we're gonna do that tomorrow. So if you can, join me there.
02:34:21: We've looked at the origin of science, the origin of time, space, matter, the Arctic turn, blood is life, pass of the sea, break the pot,
02:34:27: Leviathan is a real creature. We've looked at all of these different components, but I always love to end with one of my first passions and that is astronomy.
02:34:36: Through astrophotography, I've been able to take advanced images of space. And for this,
02:34:42: I need a couple of people. We're not gonna have something for everyone, but just at least the first few rows, a couple of volunteers really quickly.
02:34:52: Thank you. Can you just start handing out a few of those? One more volunteer, please. Thank you.
02:35:00: As you're getting these, I want you to know that you are receiving a miniature telescope.
02:35:06: Now, you might be saying to yourself, David, that looks a whole lot like a coffee stirrer. No, it's not. This is a miniature telescope.
02:35:15: And it's gonna be really important in just a second. So again, one of my first passions was astronomy.
02:35:22: I was blown away with the beauty, complexity, and design that we see in the cosmos that points right back to the designer of the universe.
02:35:33: And so let's have another Bible Knows Best moment, our final Bible Knows Best moment. Genesis 15 says, look now toward heaven and tell the stars if you're able to number them.
02:35:45: Well, does the Bible know best? We've actually tried to count the number of stars in the observable universe.
02:35:50: Best estimates so far come to about 10 sextillion. That's a 10 with 21 zeros after it. Basically what that means is you can go to any beach, any desert, anywhere on earth, you can pick up a grain of sand and you can confidently say for every grain of sand, there are at least 1 ,000 stars to go along with this grain of sand.
02:36:12: That's a lot of stars. So I think it's safe to say that no, there's no way that we can possibly know that number.
02:36:19: But for those of you who are able to get your miniature telescope, if you take that outside on a dark night, and what we're gonna do is
02:36:27: I'm gonna put a picture up right now. You hold it at arm's length and you point it at the night sky.
02:36:33: Do it right now. If you point that towards the screen, the
02:36:39: Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of space in between two stars just as big as you can see through your miniature telescope.
02:36:47: And you are looking at that picture right now. That picture is what you can see in this amount of sky held up at arm's length.
02:36:58: But what you see in that photo, those aren't stars. Those are galaxies.
02:37:06: 10 ,000 galaxies in that tiny speck in between two stars.
02:37:14: Each galaxy containing several hundred billion stars.
02:37:21: It's safe to say we'll never know the exact number of stars. And yet God does.
02:37:27: And he calls them all by name. So the Bible knows best. I'm gonna leave you with a parable.
02:37:34: Hebrews 3 says every house is built by some man, but he that built all things is God. Let's imagine you're walking through the woods one day and you happen upon a clearing.
02:37:42: And in this clearing, there's this beautiful log cabin. You're like, whoa, that's so picturesque. Let me take a picture of that. You know what?
02:37:48: I bet you I know how this cabin got in the middle of this clearing in the woods. I bet you that millions of years ago, there must have been a tornado that swept through this area and it started knocking trees down in the shape of the log cabin's walls.
02:38:00: And then I guess a little bit more time went by and then there must have been a sandstorm and the sand blew up against the walls of this cabin and then lightning struck the sand.
02:38:08: And we know what happens when lightning strikes sand. What happens? Glass. So it made the glass window panes of the cabin, naturally.
02:38:15: And then there must have been one more sort of a hurricane that kind of blew the sand away and there's this beautiful cabin sitting there ready today.
02:38:22: Now, we would all laugh at this and the greatest skeptic on planet Earth would laugh if you suggest such a thing.
02:38:30: They're gonna say, David, everybody knows. Somebody had to build this.
02:38:36: This doesn't just happen by chance. And I would say, yes. But if that is just as obvious as it should be, then it is even more obvious that he that built all things in the natural world is
02:38:51: God. Yes, he built this universe and then he created us to live in it.
02:38:58: We messed it up, but even then, he provided a way through Jesus Christ so that we could be with him for eternity.
02:39:06: He loves you. He cares about you. You are wonderfully made. And we need to remember that the
02:39:13: Bible knows best. In a world that shuns absolutes, I'm gonna tell you right now, the
02:39:19: Bible is absolutely true from beginning to end. Thank you all so much for being here and thank you so much for your time.
02:39:32: Okay, guys, if you guys can grab your seats, we will go ahead and get started. I'm gonna go ahead and open this section with I think two, if you were to say, hey,
02:39:47: Dan, put your finger on two verses where you can split history in half.
02:39:52: And at least when it comes to a biblical worldview, I'm gonna share with you just two quick verses that I think for me really are distinguishing with respect to earth's history and earth's geological history.
02:40:05: The first one would be 2 Peter 3, 6, where God says here, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged by water.
02:40:16: And would you like to know when that thing started? The world that deluged, that was covered with water, it all starts in one verse in Genesis chapter seven, verse 11, and it says this.
02:40:30: This is probably the single most informative verse on earth history you could ever pick out of your
02:40:36: Bible, besides, of course, the creation and beginning of all things. But when it comes to the flood, it's this.
02:40:43: In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month, on this day, all the fountains of the great deep split open and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
02:40:58: So that's probably the most informative single verse in scripture, which can inform us about the flood and how the second version of the world started.
02:41:09: So with that, what I'm gonna do is skip in my slide presentation, because we only have about 10 minutes before we're supposed to start the movie.
02:41:18: I just had to weed through about 40 minutes worth of PowerPoint slides, because we're running a little bit behind, and say, what can
02:41:25: I give you guys in 10 minutes that you really need to see before watching the movie? And I think it would be the underlying mechanics of what happened during the flood with what's known as catastrophic plate tectonics.
02:41:37: And it went like this. Here's that verse again. In the 600th year of Noah's life.
02:41:44: Oh, can we change the screen out? Oh, there we go. Okay, perfect. In the, are we broadcasting?
02:41:51: Let me see. How about that? HDMI is plugged in. Are you switching over on your side?
02:41:58: We'll get that up on the screen and then we'll go. Now, is that my screen or are you guys switching it over?
02:42:14: Okay, let's see here. Should I broadcast it again in PowerPoint or? Okay, let's see.
02:42:25: Oh, there you got it, switched over, perfect. Okay, so here we go. There we go.
02:42:31: So there's that verse again. So you guys notice right off the bat that this is reading like a historical narrative.
02:42:37: It's not myth, not allegory. It's talking about this guy, he's 600 years old, and it gives a calendar date. On the second month, 17th day of the month, on that same day were all the fountains of the great deep burst open.
02:42:50: And the Hebrew word for that is baka, and it has the mean to be cleaved. Something happened on the ocean floor that cleaved open the fountains of the great deep on the same day, all the fountains.
02:43:03: So exactly what was that? And whatever it was spread around the ocean floor and then the flood zenith or peaked about 150 days into the flood when the flood waters covered the highest hills by 15 cubits or about 22 feet.
02:43:18: Here's a short animation that shows what that might have looked like. You guys should have audio on this.
02:43:29: About all these processes in just a minute here.
02:44:02: I just want you guys to see the animation of what it might look like here. And then we'll go on.
02:44:10: So just keep that in your mind as we go forward. Creationists believe that Pangaea was split apart during that one day on the flood.
02:44:17: Pangaea began breaking apart. Here's an animation from Dr. John Baumgardner's Terra software program that shows how all the fountains of the great deep were to burst open on the same day.
02:44:28: It's a 40 ,000 mile oceanic rift system, covers the globe about 1 .6 times.
02:44:33: So here we have the Mid -Atlantic Ridge. We believe that there was a Pangaea -like formation when all the continents were once pushed together.
02:44:40: They were broken apart during the flood. Here's what it looks like when you zoom in. It looks like a giant baseball scene that rips through the ocean.
02:44:49: Mid -Atlantic Ridge here is about a 10 ,000 mile tear. When you highlight it here on a bathymetric map where you remove the water, you can see how pronounced it is and how high the ridges are on each side.
02:45:01: That's what we believe were the fountains of the great deep. And it involves seafloor spreading.
02:45:07: So we have the magma that's coming up like this, forming new seafloor, which is rapidly spreading to the right and to the left of these big rifts all over the world.
02:45:17: And when this newly formed seafloor is spreading, it hits the land continents, binds, creates tension, and then releases, sending bidirectional tsunamis in each location, pouring tsunami after tsunami up onto the land, burying the dinosaurs in layers.
02:45:34: And that's exactly how we see them today. Here's an example of one tsunami that happened in Japan. In 2011,
02:45:42: I believe, you can see that one tsunami was due to a 60 -foot seafloor slip where the subducting plate was stuck there under tension.
02:45:50: It released, caused a bidirectional tsunami, killing hundreds of people under tens of feet of mud.
02:45:56: That's just one tsunami. We believe these were happening over and over again in cycles during the flood.
02:46:02: And isn't it interesting that God himself has left us a clue in his word where it says this, and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days, the waters were decreased.
02:46:17: When you drill into the Hebrew, we believe that that can mean tsunamis. The water was washing up the continents and then retreating, leaving a layer of mud and dead creatures, washing back up again, retreating back.
02:46:28: So here we have a good description. It'd be the mechanics of the flood in the Bible. Here's the number one proof you could ever bring out on the
02:46:36: Noah's Flood theory, and in my opinion, would be this whole 14 -state region that's 1 ,800 miles long, 1 ,000 miles wide, one million square miles, and each one of these dots that you see is not just one fossil find.
02:46:53: They're massive fossil bone beds. And a number of these that we're gonna see in the Morrison Formation are 300 feet thick.
02:47:01: Imagine what on earth could take a 300 -foot -thick pancake of mud, lay it down over 13 states, and fill it with every known dinosaur species in the area.
02:47:12: 52 different species of dinosaurs are buried there. Huge, huge region, and it's a massive dinosaur kill zone where we see tens and tens of feet of mud.
02:47:22: This is where we find B -Rex, the big T -Rex. The evolutionists say it was the Chicxulub asteroid that hit way down here that somehow killed all these dinosaurs way up there.
02:47:31: But when you drop the rock over here and do a simulation, that's the evolutionist explanation.
02:47:37: The Chicxulub, the asteroid would hit there, cause some tsunamis and local flooding up into these regions, but certainly can't explain how you have a 14 -state dinosaur kill all the way up here, all the way up to Canada.
02:47:51: So we believe that was the water coming in from the side, going up from the west to the east, and big sheet flows.
02:47:58: And this is exactly how we see the dinosaurs buried today. So something had to happen with this abducting seafloor that was bringing in the water from the oceans in sheets over America from the west to the east and repeating tsunamis coming up back and forth.
02:48:16: So one of the ways that we can show that is because these dinosaurs are buried in a material that's made of three different products, mud, sand, and ash.
02:48:27: So whatever happened to that huge swath of land that I just showed you, 14 -state region, it buried all these millions of dinosaurs with marine life in those three products, mud, sand, and ash.
02:48:41: And the dinosaurs are found in that area, and they're found in the products that killed them.
02:48:46: So mud, sand, and ash were actually responsible for their death. So here's another short video that we'll talk about how they are filled with ash as well.
02:48:57: These rapidly subducting plates resulted in enormous volcanism that spewed megatons of ash that entombed countless dinosaurs in multiple states.
02:49:06: The evidence for this is obvious. For example, the Independence Dike Swarm is a system of linear fissures that erupted during the flood.
02:49:14: This system extends over 370 miles in Southern California and belted out 4 ,000 cubic miles of ash that covered multiple states, leaving behind enormous ash deposits like the
02:49:26: Brushy Basin number, which is 110 meters thick in Eastern Utah and found in 35 other locations around the region.
02:49:35: So here we have it, the key to understanding Noah's Flood. It is the most obvious evidence you could ever hope to feast your eyes on.
02:49:43: How else could you bury 14 states worth of dead dinosaurs in mud, sand, and ash?
02:49:49: And it's very interesting because the ash was formed by the rapidly subducting plates that caused volcanic systems like the
02:49:58: Independence Dike Swarm. So if you just go to Southern California, there's a 375 -mile linear volcano that's down there, like a linear fissure.
02:50:09: And this system, evolutionists say, belted out 4 ,000 cubic miles of ash.
02:50:16: Who was around when Mount St. Helens blew its lid in the 80s? That's a quarter -square mile of ash, and it covered three states.
02:50:25: It was covered with darkness, blew ash hundreds of miles in every which direction with one quarter of one cubic mile of ash.
02:50:33: The Independence Dike Swarm covered half of America with 4 ,000 cubic miles of ash, and it looked something like this in this other animation.
02:50:45: Here comes the magma coming up from the fountains of the Great Deep, creating these big linear fissures as a result of the fountains of the
02:50:53: Great Deep, and it bellows out 4 ,000 cubic miles of ash. And this is why we find dinosaurs in these regions that are buried with those three products.
02:51:03: Mud and sand was brought up from the ocean, blanketing in sheet form, coming back, coming back, coming back.
02:51:09: But at the same time, those mechanics were going on. We have these huge volcanic systems down here bellowing out a lot of ash so that dinosaurs are killed and buried in the products that were responsible for their death, 14 states worth of them.
02:51:24: So here's what it looks like in scale. Here we have the Independence Dike Swarm. That's how much ash it put out.
02:51:30: And not this blue square, but the little tiny blue square next to it is Mount St. Helens, dark in three states.
02:51:36: This is what happened during the flood. Huge amounts of ash were put forward. Okay, so that's basically a summary of dinosaur taphonomy.
02:51:45: That's why we believe the flood buried them in mud, sand, and ash. We have the subducting plates causing the mud and the sand to come up and the ashes from the subductions and the volcanoes.
02:51:57: And we'll close with this and then I'll start the movie. Let's just drill down on the Morrison Formation and look at that specific area very closely here.
02:52:05: Here's the Morrison Formation. That's a huge dinosaur kill zone. Let's zoom in to one little city,
02:52:11: Morrison, just to give you guys a scale evaluation. So we just zoomed in. Here's what's underneath that area.
02:52:18: That 13 -state region has this sedimentary package that's 300 feet thick.
02:52:26: So just stop and think about this for a second. If Noah's Flood happened, it certainly could be probably the only and best explanation for blanketing a 13 -state region with a 300 -foot -tall mud pancake that's filled with dead dinosaurs.
02:52:42: So it's 300 feet thick. By scale, we can fly in a plane, put a nose down. You can see what that would have looked like.
02:52:49: That's 230 feet. We can drop in the Empire State Building for scale. And remember, this is spanning over a 13 -state region.
02:52:58: And you see all these dinosaurs up here? They all bought it, 52 species of dinosaurs buried in that 300 -foot pancake over a 13 -state region.
02:53:10: So I would say as Christians, we have very, very good convincing reasons to believe in something like Noah's Flood when we have these huge dinosaur kill zones.
02:53:20: Okay, so with that, we're two minutes into it. We're gonna jump right into the movie. Fathom has asked that since this is a pre -release, we had to beg, borrow, and steal to get their permission to show this movie before it hit the theaters.
02:53:35: They have requested no cell phones, no recording devices, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
02:53:40: So we do have to monitor that. So please, cell phones down if you can. We can't have any of this footage leak.
02:53:46: You guys have been blessed to watch this movie first. It will be seen by millions of people. It's gonna be translated into 27 languages worldwide.
02:53:54: It's gonna go out in the theaters. Then it's gonna go out on the cable channels for about 90 days. Then we're actually gonna put a free version of it on YouTube because we wanna use it as a ministry tool.