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PART 2 of “QUICK ANSWERS to TOUGH QUESTIONS”
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Wishing you all a happy Thursday on this 14th day of December 2017 and I just heard Minutes ago just less than five minutes ago from a dear friend of mine pastor Josh Fryman of Community Baptist Church in Riverhead, Long Island, New York Who passed on to me? an email about our Beloved modern-day hero of the faith.
Dr. RC Sproul Ligonier ministries has made the announcement official that The Sproul family has shared the sad news with us that our founder. Dr. RC Sproul went home to be with the Lord this afternoon.
Please pray for the Sproul's and further updates will be available soon. So please do that pray for Vesta Sproul his widow and all in the family there in the Sproul household and those who are relatives of the Sproul's and those who worked with RC and I Thank God that I had the opportunity on Several occasions to See and hear him preach in person.
Had the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation with him Actually made him laugh doing an impersonation of John Gerstner who was his mentor and I can remember When RC was Preaching at the Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan at a Bible conference During a break.
I happened to work for a publisher a Christian publisher at the time Calvary Press and they were bringing back into print a Booklet written by Jonathan Edwards called heaven a world of love. It was actually a a chapter out of a larger work by Edwards and they were publishing this book and Knowing of RC Sproul's love for Jonathan Edwards.
I wanted him to endorse the booklet so that we could put his endorsement on the back cover of it and I remember chasing RC Sproul into the men's room and While he was standing there at the urinal I told him about this booklet heaven the world of love.
I told him that we wanted we at Calvary Press wanted him to write an endorsement and Then believe it or not, I don't know maybe three weeks a month later We got the endorsement in the mail RC Sproul wrote the endorsement for it and I was even more blown away When I had the opportunity to interview RC Sproul on the old iron sharpens iron radio program out of New York out of WNYG and WGBB in Babylon, Long Island, New York and.
I.
Asked RC's secretary if if she would be willing to pass on my request to him afterwards to write an endorsement for my program if he enjoyed his interview and I didn't have much hope to hear anything back and then Sure enough.
I got a phone call from RC Sproul's Assistant or secretary And she said dr. Sproul has written you an endorsement for iron sharpens iron radio and He does not use the computer. So do you want me to mail this?
This endorsement that he is typed on letterhead. Or do you want me to scan it and email it myself to you? I said email it to me because I wanted to get it immediately. And I was blown away by what he wrote and many of you have seen that endorsement that he wrote for iron sharpens iron radio on the masthead of my facebook page and also on the iron sharpens iron radio .com website, but I am kind of tongue-tied right now.
Just having heard about this moments ago because of the fact that RC Sproul Was a modern-day hero of mine. I really have benefited much more than I can even mention from his ministry as I'm sure many of you have and he will surely be missed but As much as he may love The members of his family and those who are close to him I'm sure he's not missing anybody right now.
RC Sproul is face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ in Indescribable bliss and As someone once told me when my mother Passed away from pancreatic cancer and went home to the Lord. They said to me Chris is Much as you miss your mom.
Where your mom is now? She doesn't miss being here and she wouldn't return here even for a second just to give you comfort because she is in bliss and joy that we could never even fathom right now, so.
But do pray for obviously the surviving members of the Sproul family because they no doubt will be going through a time of deep grief. And so will obviously those who work closely with him at Ligonier ministries.
But today we have on the program Brian Osborne who is returning to iron trip and design radio for part two of quick answers to tough questions which is a book that has been published by our friends at new leaf publishing group and Brian Osborne is a blogger and a speaker and an author for answers in Genesis and a teacher for the answers Bible curriculum.
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It's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to our trip design radio Brian Osborne.
Chris I'm just thrilled you had it back for a second time. I'm afraid of I scared you off the first time so praise God.
Amen, well praise God.
In studio with me is my co-host Charlie Liebert who is the founder of? Six day creation. Calm. It's great to have you back there Charlie. Hello. Good to see you. No, don't good to see you Brian. And before I even go.
Before I go back to Brian and get more details from Brian. Charlie. It's been a little bit since you've been on the program as a co-host or a guest. Why don't you tell our listeners something about?
Six day creation. Calm. Okay, what's what's going on? I have published three books In the last two years and the latest one has just come out. It has a very interesting title called without three miracles Darwin's dead and it basically says that Darwinism cannot worked cannot work because of three things that are wrong with it.
Number one something from nothing which is impossible. First law. The universe is running down rather than that rather than up. That's the second law and the third one is life from dead stuff. That's called biogenesis and all three of those are scientific laws was violated by evolution, so it's a great book.
It just was published in the last couple months the promotion is just beginning now on social media. The other two relate to evangelism and I've talked about those before. I'll get those again another time.
Thanks Chris.
That's six day creation. Calm. Yeah, that's the website. Yes six day creation. I come. Okay. I know even though we've had you and many other Members of the staff there at answers in Genesis on the program before and they have given an explanation of that we have been getting New listeners contacting us nearly every day who are discovering and joining the iron trip and Zion radio audience.
So I'd like you to repeat some of that information. Tell us about answers in Genesis and exactly what you do there.
Yeah, sure, no, absolutely. As you mentioned earlier, I'm a speaker for the ministry often author I. The main thing I do the travel speak a whole lot on these biblical authority issues. Defending God's Word from the very first verse begins a year usually all over the states.
I actually just went to Africa. I got just do a conference over there be part of a conference over there. So speak to these issues and the ministry itself. We like to say that we're not this is not a debate ministry.
It's not about winning a debate about the age of the earth or or dinosaurs and stuff like that. What we're all about is act today. So we as Christians can stand on God's Word know what we believe while we believe it and then use that foundation to boldly proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And so that's the behind. The creation was Cincinnati also the mayor with the Ark and kind of more than creation museum but the point of that is to be in about salvation and to proclaim the gospel boldly and.
So praise God and tell us about the answers. Bible curriculum.
Yeah, absolutely. You know, we recognize they can they can forget a lot of it just a few days. So get the resources the books or DVDs in your hands. So resourcing is a big part of our ministry. Is a curriculum does as it goes through the Bible chronologically.
You know.
If you never study the Bible that way going through the Bible chronologically is amazingly powerful. When you see the people and the major events in their proper order the Bible all of that right. In the gospel we're answering skeptical questions equipping Christians of all ages to that.
Really there's just nothing like it on the market is just everything that it does and just great. And let me.
Remind our listeners of our email address if you'd like to join us on the air. It's Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. If you have a question, see HR is Arnzen at gmail .com. Please give us your first name your city and state and your country of residence if you live outside of the USA and Please only remain anonymous.
If the question you're asking is about a personal and private matter and That's Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. Well the last time That we had you on the program among the things that we already discussed.
So we will try our best not to repeat ourselves unless a listener writes in a question that Would require that we repeat ourselves and some in some ways it may be good for certain things to be repeated.
But.
We already addressed Much of the section in your book about a perfect creation. We addressed the argument against an old earth. At largely due to that requiring death before the fall which we as Young earth creationists and Christians do not believe that was a possibility.
According to what we read from God's Word, obviously we addressed.
The.
Issue of the theory of aliens inhabiting the planet Earth. And that we are their descendants.
We.
Addressed the issue of debunking the myth that Darwin had a deathbed recantation of Evolution which seems to be a popular myth that it's being spread by Christians. We discussed the devil's first lie to Adam and Eve and we discussed the one of the most popular questions that Skeptics of Christianity Pose to Christians and that is who was Cain's wife.
Where did he find her? We discussed the fact that we are all of one race in spite of the common usage for centuries in terms of human beings having different races a Black white yellow red brown, etc.
But we discussed that we are all one race the human race and we all are different shades of brown. It's really what it is. We discussed issues involving the age of the earth. We discussed issues in involving the the size of the arc.
And we addressed Radiometric dating and I forget was that like an alternative to e-harmony the radiometric data.
Would I.
Would like to start actually with a question already that I received from a listener because I think it's a very good one. You already addressed it On the last program. In part, but I'd like you to add just add to it we have Abraham in Meridian, Idaho who says in your opinion, what are one or two?
Scientific facts evidences that pose a challenge to a creationist. And you the last time you answered that question as.
The the.
Radiometric dating was was probably the the toughest. But perhaps if you want to explain that further before you go on to other things that might be tough or at least would give you you know a moment for pause.
So, I mean some of the answers. I don't know this for a fact, but I'm assuming that there could be some answers that involve speculation on your part rather than something That is clearly indicated in the inerrant word.
But give us some of the and you don't have to stick to one or two as Abraham is requesting. So if you want to start if you want to start with explaining the radiometric dating part and then move on to others.
Sure, I would actually I think I'll broaden the scope just a little bit the question to kind of bring home a key point. Of what we really deal with. Sure. I would first say this I think that as I speak at a lot of places and engage a lot of people the questions I hear most include the rock layers and the so-called geologic column and different things like that and it's a type of evolutionist thrown in the mix and so forth and and We have to grow up you so be ready much your dating or just install.
It's not what we're talking about here. What the assumption. I think the biggest fight we face in answering this question is the naturalistic. Narrative of origin is so dominant within our culture today that are inclined to so they hear about the.
Hear about these ideas in the on TV when they watch movies when I watch it as it is called pervasive. They think well if these ideas are so pervasive They must be true even Christians kind of get caught up in that sort of thinking.
And really what we're dealing with here is the same present-day evidence. And so what often we should recognize that evidence exists in the present. They like that's just a style they got here their age and so forth.
You must interpret these presence beyond same past with a worldview conclusions. And that's what the saying especially regards to history like the age. And so that becomes really the big linchpin moment for a lot of people recognizing.
Okay, this is an interpret same evidence and.
Charlie Liebert, I wanted you to also get involved with a Discussion on this you being involved in Apologetics even I know that at least for a brief period. Worked with Ken Ham.
Yes, I work for. I work for incidents about two and a half years back in the 80s. In fact, give my regards to Mark Lloyd and Ken when you see him, okay.
But I'd like you I'd like you Charlie. Other than the things that I've listed I don't know if you can remember them. If you could bring up some things and and Address them to our guest here. Yeah, sure.
And Osborne about things that are common most difficult. Questions that skeptics Approach you with not only unbelievers, but even old earth advocates that that are not softball home run knock him out of the park questions.
These are.
You.
Know that give you reason for pause and then you did. You cannot answer perhaps with absolute certainty because there's no explicit Clear.
Teaching in the scription regard scriptures regarding the question. Yeah, the whole issue here really revolves around worldview and presuppositions. That's that's the heart of the matter and and I dealt with this in the first book that I wrote Called always be ready to give an answer the the the when you encounter unbelievers the most important thing you can do for them is to get them to understand the presuppositions they come to the questions with and The easiest way to do that is what Jesus did is ask them questions.
Why did you ask me that? If I tell you an answer to that does that change your worldview at all? Does that make any more opportunity for you to become a Christian? So you probe to presuppositions because that's where the battle really is.
The battle isn't on the evidence. The evidence is likely like he said before the evidence is real and it's in the present. It's the interpretation of the evidence and it's the glasses you see through to see that evidence.
The issue of races you've talked about the issue of the age of the earth. You've talked about all those things are which glasses you're looking through you look through biblical glasses. With a scriptural worldview to know that the earth is Basically about six thousand years old and was created by God in six days.
Are you looking through the worldview that says well? I'm not really sure about how it was created or where it was. That makes a big difference because people come to questions then with that presupposition I I've had encounters with atheists where I've simply asked them.
Would you ever would you ever consider Christ? They say no and I say well our conversations over then I don't watch I answer questions. There's no point in answering your questions. If you if you've closed your mind to the possibility, of course, I've got to be careful with that one.
Because when I was a hardcore atheist One person witnessed to me and when my conversion would happen that memory came back so you still need to plant the seeds. But got to remember that the discussion may be going nowhere and don't get frustrated.
Just continue to plant the seeds.
Well, you gave how to approach tough questions, but you didn't actually give us an example of anything. Okay?
The toughest question that that I deal with is. Well, there's really two parts. The first one is I'm materialist. I believe only that only in things I can see feel a sense or touch therefore There can't be a God.
That's one of the questions. The other one is well, what about that native in Africa that never heard the gospel? Does he still go to hell? That's a question you have to deal with and that question takes some time to deal with.
You can't deal with that in 30 seconds. That Takes a explanation because you've got to get to the nature of man a man's lost condition. You've got to explain get them to understand that first and then you've got to understand that God's mercy comes by God's grace alone.
Obviously though that isn't really a tough question for a Christian who knows. The answer to that the even R .C. Sproul who we know is now in glory. He had a sermon once that I heard at a Bible conference.
What about the poor innocent native in? Africa and he after a Probably a half-hour sermon at least he concluded there is no poor innocent native in Africa. They may be poor of course, but they're not they're not innocent.
There is no innocent person.
I had I had one fellow one time respond with. Are you kidding? They eat each other?
Well, obviously that's that's broad-brushing the issue there. I know it is but it was very funny time, right? But I guess you don't really know of any tough questions. Then do you Charlie?
I'll be honest I've been a Christian over half my life and and and I've gotten to the point where I think I can answer most questions except.
The ones that are impossible. Well, I I have a question that see I'm not a scientist I don't know how to answer this kind of a question. But and perhaps both of you can answer and I'll start with you Brian I know an old earth Creationist who's a Christian.
He's a conservative, but he's an old earther. And he is a geologist and He was a professor at a local very prestigious University right here in Carlisle Dickinson College and He said to me there are no Renowned geologists who believe in a young earth and He he said there's got to be a reason for that other than just cowardice.
There are Christians who are bold in their proclamation of their faith in the scientific world who are old earthers, they don't have a reason to Protect their Identity as a Christian or they don't have a They don't have a fear of Revealing their identity as a Christian might be a better way of putting it and they have come to a conclusion through scientific investigation That the earth is indeed Millions of years older than a young earth Christian would claim.
How do you respond to that kind of a claim? By a Christian.
Yeah, that kind of goes back to the thing I was saying previously about that the narrative that's so dominant in our world today. Oh dominant. I mean basically in our day and age you have to at least Embrace to some degree the evolutionary dogma at least inside of the naturalist.
You must embrace that world. You should want to be a legitimate scientist quote-unquote in our day and age. But he's the only that these simply can actually quote from. Therefore everybody believes this idea culture of our day.
Again I've been kind of swallowed up in that not recognizing The world view that's dry would be the bigger issue. I would say with many Christians in those of years Operational science embrace what they say about present-day evidence.
I would go back to the world.
I have two two comments on that. The first one is this that that's simply not true. There are very credible geology geological sciences working for instance duplication research working for creation .com.
No, when you say that's not true. You're not talking about what Brian's.
I'm talking about the question that was posed. It says that all All the geological sciences scientists believe that That the earth is old. That's simply not true. The second thing is if you were a credible scientist in the university and you suddenly decided creation was the answer.
You're committing intellectual suicide. You're gonna get fired. They're gonna drive you out of the university instantly. You won't survive.
Yeah, well it is. It does seem that the some of the people that I've had face-to-face conversations with we're not coming from an angle of fear cowardice or inconvenience or Trying to prevent inconvenience.
They seem to be firmly committed so much to the point That they are furious with young earth creationists because they believe that we are sharing the guilt in why Men and women and children in our modern era are not coming to Christ.
Because we are making a mockery of the Bible. We are an embarrassment because we are Believing in things that are so out of date and Disproven. And all that. And perhaps I'll have you comment on that when we return because we have to go to our first break right now.
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We are discussing part two Of an interview we began in September on quick answers to tough questions, which is a book published by New Leaf Publishing Group and If you'd like to join us on the air. Our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com.
Chris Arnson at gmail .com and right before the break Brian I was saying that there are Old earth creationists and not I'm not going to. I don't want anybody to think I'm broad-brushing that everybody that is an old earth Creationist does this but I have personally met some Brethren in Christ who are quite hostile towards the young earthers because they believe that we are turning people away from Christianity and the Bible which is interesting that some of them who have said this to me are Fellow Calvinists and I don't know how a Calvinist could come to that conclusion because God's elect will be irresistibly drawn I mean in this You may go through a period of rejection but or rejecting but you are eventually going to come to Christ that so it's kind of an odd statement for a reformed person to make but Do you have any response to that?
In that world they're embracing essentially a naturalistic interpretation. Presently evidence to make a guess about the past based on man's ideas being lifted up higher than the Word of God as far as authority Goes.
I don't think they've recognized that. And then the other thing I will come back to with my fellow believers in Christ as we engage this issue. The ultimate authority for anyone period should be the Word of God.
The Bible is if an opinion about something we should take it to the Bible. What does the Bible say about this issue? What does the clear language of the text say? Demonstrate how should we apply that to our lives and our spending of the past present and the future?
God's Word is to be the ultimate authority. And so I would say understand where you come from that thinking but you know. This is where I think you've got Australian that embracing that world.
It's kind of the Bible first and foremost with the Bible. Clearly say about these issues and make that our authority and build our thinking from.
There.
We have a listener from Kannapolis, North Carolina. Do you know where that is. Brian's being a North Carolinian?
Well looking at Charlie's bio here. He's in Greensboro, North Carolina. That's really close to where I grew up in Thomasville. I don't recognize the other one, but I'm on the map if I saw it.
Yeah, yes, I'm in Carlisle now, but I was in Greensboro for 43 years. Okay, but I mean, I mean I my bio is I am in North and North and in Carlisle now. But can Cannapolis is about probably 15 miles North of Charlotte on 85.
Well, we're all gonna have dinner at our listeners house tonight, thanks for those directions.
Hey, we'll be there at 630. Uh, no, it will take a lot longer than that.
We have Casey in Kannapolis, North Carolina who says Will answers in Genesis help Eric Hovind with part two of his Genesis 3d movie. It would be a wonderful thing if if AIG produced. If AIG produced an apologetics Bible, this is a different question.
There is a demand for such a Bible with notes right now. Is that a soon possibility? So you have two questions. Are you getting involved with Eric Hovind 3d movie? And also, are you going to have a study Bible?
I'm gonna do that. I'm sure he's trying just a multi-year venture for him. So just completed. I just saw the movie a couple days ago really and we praise God for the clear message. It presents and so I'm looking forward to see what happens.
Take that step by step. There's nothing that I know of right now. He's thinking there, but we'll see what happens in the future. So if there's a great non answer for you, which is gonna be more specific I just don't know and then the second part of the question I say we have we don't have a particular Apologetics Bible that we've produced as of yet.
But we do sell a couple that are really Bible which is in a sense an apologetics Bible at least to a large degree. That's well done for the gospel and a Bible done by Henry Morris. To get resources that we have a website but far as radar just yet.
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Thanks for giving your time to serve the body of Christ today. As you know Vegetarianism and its many derivatives is popular in our day some point to Genesis 129 as proof that God's perfect design is that man only have a plant-based diet.
The question then becomes during all of man's exceeding wickedness. From Genesis 4 through 6 did mankind refrain from sinning the sin of eating meat. Furthermore, why did God then give Noah and his death as descendants permission to eat animal flesh in Genesis 9 2 to 3.
What is the scriptural explanation of this aspect of progression in the biblical revelation? Well, he's kind of almost answering his own question there in some way. And then and the seventh-day Adventist would be probably the most common that would use arguments that That we should not be eating meat even though it was clear Jesus ate fish and then it was clear that That there were that the Apostle Paul was even saying that there was nothing innately wrong to eating meat sacrifice to an idol.
But he would not do it if it made a brother stumble. But so what we have obviously biblical clear biblical examples including the vision that Peter received That meat is okay. But if you could respond to our guests, I mean our listener I should say in Slovenia.
Sure. No, I mean you really just the man. Also you can't go back to what the listener already quoted from Genesis 9 to Where you know God told Noah after the flood just as I gave you plants to eat now you can eat Everything which as we often joke as a ministry, that is why we can eat hot dogs.
So.
Yeah, if you get that commandment after the flood now why did God permit many meet after the flood. Let me back up a little bit. He asked that people violate that commandment just as four through six and I love a Eucharist.
And I'm thinking if man was exceedingly wicked In that time frame before the flood if he's if there's murder if there's some sacrifice I'm imagining eating meat would not be something that.
The line.
Let's bring let's bring veggie burgers to the human sacrifice.
Yeah, I don't think that's. So why did God allow them afterwards? I think we can make some educated guesses on up with me dogmatic. I'm kind of wondering. This is just Brian talking. How much would you have as a resource via plant?
There's no best food of a definitive. I can't think of anything. I'll pop in my head as to why that shift occurred.
We think Charlie I would I would follow through on that and say that the environment before the flood and I'm still a canopy theory so Ken and I will differ on this one, but The bar before the flood was so lush that the plants were very adequate to give a full diet to all the living creatures.
After that fact the plants just aren't as thriving as much and animals are going to be driven to carnivorous behavior. So as a result of that, we're gonna have a less lush Vegetation so we're going to need to get other sources of food.
All food comes to us without photosynthetic process. But animals can produce food in addition to the plants at a much more rapid rate. So so we get we get more, you know, you got maybe two harvests a year.
But you've got animals that are reproducing and you know producing food all the time.
But I'd like to say to in regard to that I think I think Charlie would agree. I call what we just did there an educated biblical guess. It's based on biblical context based on a biblical worldview. The Bible's not explicit.
Yeah, none none of that is is for certain. Okay, that's all guessing based upon what the scripture tells us. But we have we have to do that a lot when we deal with the world around us because the world has got all kinds Of ideas that are faulty based upon biblical guesses.
And in fact the scriptures even say that a brother that doesn't eat meat is a weaker brother. By the way, I believe you mentioned this the last time Charlie, but why don't you since you brought it up?
Why don't you explain what a canopy theory is? I have a gazebo theory, but if you want.
The question becomes to there there's a couple evidences we have we have giantism in the fossil record that is very large creatures compared To the ones we have alive today. We've got giant insects. We've got large large other creatures that are fossilized.
So we know that the creatures existed and we also have the great longevity in the in the pre-flood world. So the question the question becomes is why is that and there's two explanations? The one the one that Ken would probably respond to and I'm putting words in his mouth.
So if he gets angry tell him I apologize. Would be it's basically it's basically the strong genetics at the beginning and I would say well I think it's also the environment because the canopy theory simply says that when God separated the waters from the waters He put waters above the atmosphere compressing it to one and a half two times the present pressure.
That does two things. It creates longevity and it creates giantism. So that would be my response to that. Now that's my educated guess other creationists will differ with me dramatically and say no. It's not and because there are some certain scientific studies that say that that canopy is impossible.
So that's a contention and it's based upon a biblical guess who's right? Yeah, the Lord will answer that question someday.
That leads me to another question. I don't know if I asked you or one of your colleagues that answer answers in Genesis this before but do you guys? Have any debates among you either in private or more importantly in public where you disagree even as young earth creationists on things and yeah, you know, yeah.
You go head head to head on.
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And Your radio show says the ironing beyond you. They're really understand God's work. Patients that are they may be altered that may be wrong.
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I'd like you to before I go to any more listener questions I would like you to let me know and our audience know What you think are Non-negotiables when it comes to the issue of the origins of creation and so on.
There are You know views that would even overstep the boundaries that even go beyond what old earth creationists would believe as Christians. Can you tell us about something that you would say now? I would absolutely Condemn this with the most vociferous Opposition that I could muster because this is where we have to say no.
I'm sorry You cannot identify yourself as a Christian and believe in this.
Yeah.
Has a big question as a lot of different packing, you know. They believe in alignment with God's word around the world today around Yom and Genesis and then exodus Jesus for fun. I happen to be real history.
That's all Christian on God's word and we'll see the real science car. I mean that's going to get to you know back to grace alone through faith. And so You know someone's it's so much truly Embrace that truth then yes, they're going to be the perpetrators and strictly Christ before they're going to be saved.
You can think wow, I'm glad God changed that in me. Yes. You've got a last ten years. I think that biblical truth Oh God's word and.
One of the things that is most concerning to me about.
Those that oppose what we believe is. Where the historical Adam and Eve are becoming less and less.
Viewed as.
Essential for us to even believe the scriptures to be inerrant to even believe in the genealogy of Jesus Christ himself, I mean there are so many questions that arise and the thing that the troubles me.
That adds to me me being disturbed about this. Is that there doesn't seem to be a real compelling answer reason for Christians to believe that. I mean I don't even understand why there seems to be a gravitational pull of Christians in the scientific world outside of the fear of losing their careers.
Or even the Christians in general towards this view when especially when you're talking about evolution because you have even Secular scientists abandoning this view. Don't they? Many of them.
You know, it's interesting you bring this up. I was just reading an article about this today from our magazine and I talked about my book a little bit too about how both Adams are essential to the gospel, but If you look at the compromise the church embraced.
Starting from the 1500s you have the Reformation. There's a call back to the authority of God's word. 1600s late 1600s 1700s you have the Enlightenment come and people start to argue. You don't need the Bible to explain the natural world and then you get to the 1800s.
We don't need God at all. We can explain the rock layers and the fossils and even the origin of life without God according to the secular humanists of the day. And when the idea of millions of years became popular at that time and of course Darwin in the 1850s popularized evolution.
But what many Christians did up to that point was they compromised the word of God the issue of the age of the earth. They compromised with the rock layers being laid down over millions of years and of Noah's flood.
They they compromised all of those biblical teachings. But then they drew an arbitrary line in the sand when it came to human evolution later on Darwin because many of them recognized Who and Adam wasn't a real person and where did sin come from?
Why is that the consequence for sin and why is Jesus called the last that on Jesus Christ? They recognized for years now compromise in one part. He thought of God's word from the.
Saviors or without that we. We have listener in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island. Ronald who says can you tell us about some? Very recent discoveries in science that helped bolster the young earth creationist model.
One of the biggest fields. We're seeing just so many things. I'm so Charlie you see this as well, but a genetics I mean, they're never seen advances. But genetics to me just pops out the image.
But recognize the biblical truth and teaching that we all come from one man and one woman that there is time again by our modern Advances and genetics of Babel. And your second law thermodynamics was strong.
Great example. You can trace the Y chromosome with a wild assumption that humans are only related to humans. So we can go. All this is that I would. Really yeah.
I would give you one other example, which is a to me. It's kind of exciting that is there have been 14 published studies in the journals scientific journals indicating dinosaur DNA available. That's a huge falsification of evolution because if the if dinosaurs are extinct 65 million years.
There's no way biological material can survive even for a couple thousand years. So so those those studies that that show that up. Those DNA samples particularly the ones in the red blood cells. I mean just be up mind-boggling.
That the DNA is there and that should should if you were on a science. You should say well the something's wrong with our dates, but they won't say that of course because their presuppositions dominate.
Now.
We brought this up on one of our past programs. But what you're talking about is the flesh that was on some dinosaur bones.
Yes on some dinosaur bones that were not fully fossilized. There was some there was some fleshly material in the in them on the bone itself and that flesh. Has yielded dinosaur DNA. And how recent was this?
Well, there's 14 studies published in the last 10 years and.
Has this.
Has the fruit of this.
Been.
In any way promising for Scientists to back away. I'm talking about secular scientists.
Back away from their presuppositions that they can't they can't back away the presuppositions. So they they have one theory that the presence of iron Causes these things to be preserved for millions of years.
And of course, that's that's just foolishness because it's not going to happen that way.
Yeah, I talk about this often. I'll talk about dinosaurs and talk about the fresh soft tissue that we're finding and the dinosaur. Balls still there can't last more than thousands of years. And then I don't even ask the audience, you know.
Do you think this will convince the evolutionist? They're wrong about their dates? Answer the question the answer. No, you started off talking earlier this issue. It's not a head issue. Because it becomes a worldview issue and your worldview tells you to interpret what you're looking at to make it fit your preconceived ideas.
And they show an example of this. I'm sure of a clip of Mary Schweitzer. She's a really well the soft tissue in a t-rex ball. All right, and it's been validated numerous should be there with a secular thinking.
It's also a clip of her talking about this and being blown away that it's still around. And so what is her conclusion approaching the stuff from evolution perspective? She says this there must be some natural process that we haven't observed yet.
That's somehow preserving these things for millions of years.
That's.
That that's called a miracle.
Exactly if she's appealing to the unknown and again, you know. That's what you see again and again, so it's not the head issue.
It's the hard issue that becomes the worldview issue now. Was she originally saying that. Wasn't she? Starting to rethink the the age of these remains.
I'm not seeing any recent recent updates attracted for a little while. I know what she what she initially published her that if I'm sure you know, she got just attacked the blitzkrieg.
That's right. That's what I mean. That's why was she attacked if she was if she was capitulating to the old earth understanding or well, especially the millions of years.
She was an attack for presenting the idea that there's legitimate soft tissue in the dinosaur ball. About the age just the fact you found a soft tissue period and she'll say no, this is real soft tissue.
These are blood vessels and we're blood cells. The secularists were saying that's impossible because it's 90 years old. And she went through many steps to validate her findings and it came back again and again through multiple studies.
No, this is the real deal. It's real soft tissue. It's real blood vessels. It's real red blood cells and. So I guess you you know as far as why so there she comes a different interpretation based on a worldview.
We have BB in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Who wants to know if you can name any scientists that were formerly believers in evolution and a millions of years old earth who have Recanted that view even if they did not become Christians.
I'll make a comment on that right away. Yes, dr. Gary Parker. Dr. Gary Parker is a biologist a PhD. And he in his testimony talks about that. He was teaching evolution in college. And he was confronted by some students with some questions and he began to study and he ultimately became could became a Christian.
So there's one example that I know of a certain.
Believe that's true. Also, dr. Danny Faulkner. I don't know for sure, but I think that is true. Also is a case.
He's an astronomer.
Yeah. It would make sense. I know dr. Tommy Mitchell talks about being a theistic evolutionist before he got turned around on this and others as well.
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Number one, this is a bit of you and that's why can we trust the Bible and all that it says because you do the Bible. Is to you put our day and age? And a biblical authority undermining the gospel based and for issue in relation to biblical authorities.
You know the book of Matthew begins the back of Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. That's where the gospel actually start. Another big one is millions of years into God's Word and the gospel. They recognize that you do that.
We can send up a and then boldly proclaim the gospel. Which is what changes hearts and minds which God can use to change people on the inside out and change the culture. So those would be some of them.
Do you have anything to add to that Charles?
No, I think I think he's pretty much covered it though. The whole issue is what world view do you start with. You look through biblical glasses or you look through secular glasses? And there's really only two there's one two two purchases.
Now the.
The old earth Christians are more than eager to tell anyone willing to listen that Science and faith need not be in conflict and the way that they normally explain that is That the secular scientists who have unbiblical of even anti biblical understandings of the origins of the universe they will say that's just the reason why there's harmony between Faith and science is because the old-fashioned young earth folks got it all wrong.
But how do you approach that issue of Faith and actual science being in harmony, and I'm not talking about what scientists believe that are outside of the realm of Those who believe in biblical inerrancy.
I'm talking about what genuinely proven science. How how do you answer the question to the skeptic who says our Science and in the Bible at enmity with one another. I.
Would say look at the evidence that confirms the Bible again and again. I would say you say that science is only possible because the Bible is true. They think about it from a pretty selfish is the God of the Bible made not only the material world.
They also made the immaterial world. He made the laws of nature. He made the laws of logic. He made the laws of morality that are intrinsic within us. He made these immaterial realities that are absolutely true and unchanging.
And because the laws of nature are true and unchanging we can do science but laws of nature like laws of gravity physics and chemistry. They're immaterial. How do you explain their origin in a naturalistic only universe and changes over time?
Why don't they change? Does not make sense with the evolution of worldview. But considering you can do science to begin with if God made both the material world and the immaterial world so we can do Kind of experiments because the technology in medicine and so the science is only possible because the Bible is true.
And so you can start from that level. Again, I would say my my response is going to be to ask the question.
What past event can you prove by science. And the answer is going to be none? You can only prove in the present things that are true in the present. So the whole idea of interpreting the past through science is really a myth.
Because science doesn't address what happened yesterday. If we could do that perfectly we would never need a criminal trial. Because we'd know what happened. Of course. Don't know what happened. Of course, of course.
They will say that carbon -14 dating and things like that help to prove they they help to give you a.
Indication, but they don't prove anything. But is it an accurate indication? Well carbon -14 is a lot of assumptions built in there. Okay, a lot of assumptions are built into a radiometric dating in general.
Sure.
Yeah, I mean again, we're going to say, you know recognizing that carbon -14 Uranium the red isotopes and so forth all of those Ready, I suppose exist in the present and must be interpreted where the world.
You set assumptions about the unseen past. And so if you're an evolutionist or a naturalist you start with the assumption that natural processes have always happened.
Today.
Look at present-day race you calculate backwards to come up with an age and that is just. With assumptions not the least of which it's a basic assumption that the Bible's history is not true. So therefore you're definitely not being neutral and you're starting with an anti-biblical worldview.
So again, it comes out to a battle of interpretation. Based on which foundation you start with.
You started with the presupposition of uniformitarianism that everything is at the same rate we can show Events we've witnessed Mount St. Helens, for example that that's not true. Things don't happen at the same rate.
They happen at radically different rates depending upon the circumstances. The the Mississippi River Delta is an example I use in my book. How long did it form?
Well.
You can make all kinds of measurements but you're always going to guess because there are flood years and Drought years and you have you can't factor all that in there and get a true a true answer because science is interpretive.
And when we come back from our final break right now, I'd like to ask you both because I'm gonna be gone Chris. Oh, that's right. You have to leave early early. Yes well, I'll have Brian respond to. My question involving the fact that old earth creationists are saying that Mount St. Helen proves their point not disproves their point.
So perhaps if you could have. Wow. Oh, you haven't heard that.
No.
The folks that Collaborated on the the Grand Canyon book have brought that up. Wow, I want to hear this. I want to hear that. Well, I can't repeat it right now because I don't remember it.
I thought that you guys would have heard. No, I haven't heard that either. That's a new one for me. Okay?
All right.
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We are now returning to our final 20 minutes of the program with our guest Brian Osborne Who is the author of quick answers to tough questions? He's also a blogger a speaker and author for answers and Genesis and a teacher for answers Bible curriculum.
If you'd like to join us on the air. Our email address is Chris Arns in a gmail .com. And if you would like to do that, I would do it now Before we run out of time. I Also want you to know for some reason I'm having a real difficult time finding this on Their website right now.
I don't know if they've canceled this or if it's just because of my own stupidity My own lack of technological savviness.
The Bosler Memorial Library in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where I live is having an event for every Wednesday in January starting January 10th and This series of events involves a professor From Shippensburg University and since I can't find all of the details you're gonna have to find them on your own, but it is a four-week event 10th 17th 24th and 31st in the evening at Bosler Memorial Library in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Where this a professor from Shippensburg University? Who's a science? Instructor. He is going to be talking about faith and science colliding and how to Figure this all out and I have no idea if he is an atheist or a Christian.
I have no idea about anything. But I do plan on attending and I hope that you pray for me and Charlie Liebert. Who do plan on attending so that we can voice our opinions during question-and-answer sessions?
So if you'd like more information, perhaps you could find the information more quickly than Than I can but you could go to the Bosler Memorial Library Website and What you do is you go to? Cumberland County libraries.
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Forward slash. BOS underscore CILL and that's all caps. BOS underscore CILL and. Hopefully many of you who are Savvy at these things can help help you find this information. Because I can't even find it anymore.
But anyway, that's something to keep in prayer. Let's see. Here here's one from our listener Robert in White Plains West District County, New York. Who asks are? there things that young earth creationists have pointed out to be falsehoods in the propaganda of the evolutionists that have finally been irrefutably refuted.
Unquestionably proven to be false that the evolutionists have admitted to.
Disciplines as well, but comes to mind very quickly. And in Nebraska man and others where basically, you know, there's been 1900s I wish they'd buy it as evidence for evolution for years and years and years even in textbooks and then later on we found out There was a close look at that bone.
It's actually, you know, it's been filed down as a fake with filled-out man or Nebraska, man. We realized that's actually a pig's tooth. That's actually not even a human tooth at all. Just one single tooth that they got their so-called eight-man from as one person said it was nothing but the tooth and so.
So, I think amen I've shown us the best example of that because we can look at the present-day all fragments and recognize Misinterpretations pretty easily over time other places. It's harder, but we do see similar things occurring in other disciplines as well.
We have a. Let's see here. We have Christopher from Amityville, Long Island, New York. That's my hometown where I was born and raised. Very good. I am known as the amiable horror.
He asks Are the fossils that have been reported to have both dinosaur and human tracks in the same fossil real or are they.
Manufactured I think manufactured might be a harsh word or with the plexi tracks of it's actually a very popular example. Sometimes thought they were footprints human footprints inside dinosaur and we thought for many thought that's what it was.
Further investigation doesn't seem to be the case. The way the you have one the dinosaur footprint comes out another footprint comes right inside the middle of that. It squishes deeper into the mud and footprint actually goes underneath the dinosaur footprint.
As it turns out seems to be different. Critter not a person. There are different things like that. Other cases you have a rock layer about the rock layers around the world. They cover typically large portions of continents.
If not multiple continents, so you might have you know and a particular rock layer in. One state in the US might find a particular fossil and in that same rock layer in a different state You'll find something that's kind of peculiar a different fossil.
You would think would line up with that particular thing like bugs or dinosaurs. Things like dinosaurs are definitive though. So we're very careful about that as far as when everything's represented and it's not needed by the way.
So, you know, by the way, you've also won a free copy of the book. We are discussing Quick answers to tough questions and thanks to our friends at a new leaf publishing group. Before we run out of time and before we go out go to any of our listener questions remaining.
I'd like you to spend at least Five minutes to summarize Interrupted what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners today before we go off the air.
I'm sure I appreciate that Chris. And if you guys kind of mentioned this as we go out throughout the interview. But I was in talking about and even so many more I deal with most things. I like to give long answers here from leavers to do the faith itself a project.
I would say what is most and are we gonna stand on God's Word? We just celebrated the rest of the Christians have actually stuck at secular ideas without sending all God's Word. Altogether if we want to be effective and engaging the culture for Christ and the gospel will do that.
Standing on the authority of God's Word from the very and when we stand on that authority, it's so encouraging for Christ. We have answers you said I've got word. It's not that hard to explain how no get the animals on to the ark and how God made two of each.
Kind to come to Noah and give variations for this in a death came. But we got answers to all those sorts of questions. No one for they don't majority. We're reading God's Word again and again. And as we stand on that foundation to spend the faith answer the questions that many people have in our day and age.
Again, that big gives us a great opportunity to boldly look at the Bible. I believe what you believe we're told to give an answer that is in us. So we give answers for it's enough. Our hope of course is Christ and the gospel of you really apologetics and evangelism.
To give the answer one of the main ways that God's Word is being attacked today. It's not attacking the history of the Bible particular in the book of Genesis and enemy what he's done. It's been like a stealth attack where he's attacked the history of the Bible to undermine the Bible authority to undermine the gospel.
It's based in that authority. I don't bottom line Chris if you cannot believe the Bible's clear history. Why on earth would you trust what it says about salvation? If you can't trust the beginning of the book.
Why would you trust the middle or the end of Jesus couldn't like this if you don't believe me when I talk about earthly things. How will you believe me when I talk about and today that is their stomach watch?
So we answer their questions by standing on God's Word that use that platform to boldly become the gospel. Which changes their heart and then I'll change it from the inside out and that's really what our ministry is all about.
Amen.
Well, we have. Let's see here. John and Bangor, Maine. Wants to know. Can you list the five best books? Other than your own that we should purchase on the subject. I don't think he's disrespecting your book.
I think he just because we've already known about your book.
But I'm gonna say the top five that always typically put up and there are many other good ones not just kind of dumb at all. I'm gonna say the books a lot. The foundation textbook of our ministry. It's why it's so important.
So the books call it the lie. But it's also gives us the why why we do this life so important and then after that I would say for many Christians the best four books to get of course after a quick answer to the questions.
Are really honestly the four answer books. We have access books one through four. Each book answers around each chapter is a different question. So you get one chapter one answer. You can read them out of order answer pretty in-depth.
That's not in those books from Dinosaurs evolve in the bird answered in those books and they've done it a really good and we have.
CJ from Lennonhurst, Long Island, New York. Who wants to know what age group is your book intended for?
Yeah, great question. I would say the books it's gonna have to age groups from around 10 to 110. My book is very ADD friendly. So whether you're a kid and you struggle with that or an adult the short answers are very helpful to that.
I'd also say that the the publishers Everybody did a phenomenal job of the layout. So I had they asked me if I liked it and I loved it if they made the layout very engaging good pictures. And not too much going on but enough to keep you visually engaged really well done.
And so it'll keep teens involved. It'll keep adults and read another one. I just got bills off of the book and we're excited about that.
Harrison from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania wants to know. Did the young earth creationist community ever get embarrassed by anything that you know of that they were. Boldly defending but were later disproven on.
It's kind of a reverse of the question. We got earlier from yeah.
Yeah, no, that's a really good question and it brings up a really good point. We have a couple articles on our website about this 10 young earth creationist arguments not to use anymore. Basically, there are certain ideas that were presented as truth back in the day.
They were presented as a rock-hard and oftentimes that's born out of Christians willing some sort of. I think it's a worldview issue. It's not an evidence issue. And so. So what example. There's something we could miss.
One example is the the ship in I think in Japan. We found the carcass of what looked like just look at the skeletal framework Ecclesiastes or sort of look. I got a long back and that proves answers on that.
Oh further investigation it would appear and I'm not gonna be too dogmatic on this but it would appear That some of the bones had a well. So what you really had there were just a remnant both basking She'll look and on the ship look just gonna have the same probably so-called fighting to proclaim all the time.
I'm very careful about that. Maybe but I think it's kind of go against that being a possibility but so a bunch of ideas like that were very well, I want to make sure that.
Our listeners have all of the contact information that they need for you. First of all, they can go to answers in Genesis org answers in Genesis org and of course the book that we have been discussing.
Quick answers to tough questions that those books have been provided by the publisher who is New leaf publishing group and their website is nlpg .com that's NL for new leaf PG for publishing group. Calm and.
Do you have any other information that you care to give especially about the Ark Encounter and other things like that the museum?
Oh sure. Well if they go to our main website answers in Genesis org on the front page, there'll be a couple tabs. They can click to go see mission museum websites and they can get to it from there pretty easily.
So answers in Genesis org is a great starting point to launch from to find those other ones. I really encourage them to check those things up. They are incredible and we praise God for what he's been.
Around five hundred thousand came to the Creation Museum. And they're hearing the truth of God's Word. They're being challenged with the truth of the gospel. It's just amazing what God's doing. Age me there just to follow up from the interview of the book.
They can go to add love to engage there. Also. I'll just take a second Chris. I appreciate just what you're doing. I appreciate I really appreciate that very much brother. And if you could just hold on when we go off the air so I can.
Give a proper goodbye to you and Want to thank everybody who listened to the program today, especially those who took the time to write Questions. And those of you who have not already won the book will receive that to God willing within a couple of weeks from Cvbbs .com.
Thanks to our friends at New Leaf Publishing Group. I Want you to mark down in your calendar that tomorrow? We've got dr. HB Charles jr. On the show. He is one of the speakers at the g3 conference coming up in Atlanta, Georgia January 18th through the 20th and We are going to be speaking on two subjects that are both related tomorrow the first hour We're going to be talking about his book on Pastoring and the second hour. We're going to be talking about his book on Preaching.
That's dr. HB Charles jr. Tomorrow on iron sharpens iron radio so make sure you get some questions ready for us and we look forward to hearing from you and Now I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far far greater Savior Than you are a sinner.
We look forward to hearing from you with your questions for our guests tomorrow on iron sharpens iron radio.