Academic Evidence for Creation, Pt. 1 (11/26/2000)

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I noticed we have a few visitors with us also. We're so happy that you chose to be with us today and I know that you didn't come to hear me preach and I don't blame you for that either.

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You came to hear our special guest today and Dr. Carl Ball will be with us and I was thinking it's been 10 or 11 years since we had

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Dr. Ball here in Corsicana. We were over in the old property at the time and the only thing

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I can say about that is I can't believe how time flies but we had a wonderful time.

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At that time I was just amazed at some of the material that Dr. Ball presented for our church and we've been over in his neck of the woods a few times during that interim but haven't had

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Dr. Ball here in Corsicana. So we're so happy you could make time in your schedule at the end of this year to be with us.

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Most of you know Dr. Ball either from his previous visit with us or through your own experiences or maybe you've read some of his books but I'll say a word or two about him before we start this morning.

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He is internationally known as a theologian and especially as a creation scientist and speaker and he has degrees in theology but also a master's degree in archaeology from Pacific College and a

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PhD in anthropology from the College of Advanced Education. He's given his life to the

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Lord's service in whatever area the Lord would lead and we're so happy that the Lord has led in this area of scientific research and being able to take the scientific data that everyone has and prove that it matches

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God's word better than any of the quote theories that are out there including the debunked theory of evolution.

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And the reason we can call it that is in large because of the work that Dr. Ball and other associates of his have done in this country in the last, oh really, in the last 15 years.

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And my belief is that when the evolutionary theory came along it caught the world of theology off guard and it took years,

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I believe it took until the 80s, 1980s before we caught up. And it's the work of these men that got us to the place where we are and we just thank

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God so much for them and it's been such a boost to the believers across the world to finally have the data together and have it show what we really knew all along, that God's word was right.

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And we know that wonderful men like Dr. Schofield and others when they got caught in that way they came up with interesting ideas like the gap theory to try to make everything work together and really we never had to do that.

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You never have to make the word of God fit with science because it is the book of accurate science.

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And we're so happy to have you with us Dr. Ball today and we want you to take our

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Sunday school time this morning and then we'll take a short break and we'll have another meeting at 11 o 'clock this morning then we'll have lunch.

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We invite all of you guests and everyone to stay with us. We always have lunch here every Sunday so it's something we're used to doing.

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We have plenty for visitors and we would love for you to stay, have lunch with us and then we'll have a third session at 115 this afternoon.

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So Dr. Ball would you come? Pastor it's a tremendous privilege to be back and to see the progress that you've made over this decade.

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I knew that the hand of God was upon your life when I was with you 10 years ago. It hardly seems possible.

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I don't even know your youngest son but I know Paul. But I understand the youngest son is an artist and there's a little book back there of creation evidence in color that's not colored yet.

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It's a coloring book and we have PhDs I'm sure in the audience today. PhDs use coloring books in the masters and above programs to learn.

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There's a reason for that. When you begin to outline in crayon your mind reverts back to a receptive status.

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Now this is good pedagogy. We have high school teachers here so we might even take it down to the high school level.

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The mind reverts back to the context in which it is able to learn.

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And therefore I understand from a number of scholars we have over 100 scientists, educators, and engineers involved in the research at Glen Rose.

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Many of these attach to major universities or major research entities. And these scholars inform me that it actually works to use a coloring book.

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So let me recommend that all the adults get a coloring book after service or between services.

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But you can't color them during the sessions today. All right. After I'm gone you can use all the time you want.

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Pastor I love what I see. I think a local church is obligated to make an academic investment.

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First of all a spiritual investment that the Apostle Paul recognized in Acts 17, which

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I will not get to today. He recognized that the foundation for the gospel was creation.

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So the local church is obligated not only to evangelize the community and the regions beyond, but to make an academic investment in the minds of those under its influence.

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And that's what you're doing with the private school, with your influence in public school, and I'm for both of them in their own areas of influence.

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Now the first five minutes a speaker is talking you don't hear a word he says.

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You're trying to size him up. So I understand all this. So I want you to know

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I'm 64 years of age. I have five children. One in glory. I have two stepchildren.

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And my youngest daughter, stepdaughter, is a senior at Mary Hardin Baylor University. She was with me

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I think. She and Matt. Matt's married. He's a dad. You know the years get by.

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I think the last time I spoke for you Laura was there. She is a senior at Mary Hardin Baylor University.

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Her subject is microbiology. That's the most difficult academic study at the university level.

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She's pulling a 4 .0. Let me brag on my little girl for a little while. I got a call a few months ago from an academic committee, and they said you should be proud of your daughter.

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And I said I certainly am. Who is this? And they gave their credentials and they said she scored in the upper one half of 1 % of the university students of the nation in all areas of study.

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But she's taking the most difficult study at the university level. So I'm proud of my girl.

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She already has her Ph .D. Her mentor at the university has already approved the

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Ph .D. topic of research. And it's going to be with Drosophila, Melanogaster, and Meganuropsis.

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Anybody have any idea what that what I'm talking about? Well, yeah, dad's bragged enough.

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All right. But God has blessed you and I want to be an encouragement and I want to invest in your lives.

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I'm very pleased to see the children present today. And my purpose is not to simply let you know that there is a tremendous body of evidence, scientific evidence, academic evidence supporting creation.

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My purpose is to let you know that all of that is totally consistent with, as the pastor already said, the

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Bible, the word of God. You believe the Bible here. I know you do because you've always believed the

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Bible to be literally what it claims to be, the word of the living God.

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This church has been founded on that premise. I want to show you information today and invest in your life to show you that you're believing the truth.

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And whether I could show you that or not, you already believe the truth if you believe the

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Bible, the word of God. But I want to encourage you because the apostle Paul approached the

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Gentile mind a little differently than he approached the

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Hebrew mind. Paul was a Hebrew, but he was the apostle to the

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Gentiles. And when Paul went into a synagogue, they were already prepared with the issues of creation and eternity.

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They knew because the scripture opens with, in Genesis chapter 1, In the beginning

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God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness.

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The light he called day, and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the morning were the first day. They knew that.

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They knew those days were literal days because the Hebrew word for day there is yom, and always when it has the definitive article in front of it, it means a literal solar day.

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Now how does that square with what we're finding in modern academic research?

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Well, stay with me all day. How many plan to stay all day? All right, we're going to have lunch, aren't we?

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I'm staying for lunch. And my purpose is, unless the

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Lord leads otherwise, to try to build a foundation in the

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Sunday school hour, I want to show you scientifically that evolution will not work.

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And then in the morning session, I want to show you some evidence for creation that does not square with evolution.

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I want to show you tangible, actual evidence. And then this afternoon, how long is the afternoon service, by the way?

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It starts at 1 .15. Pastor, how long is the afternoon service? Forty -five minutes. Okay.

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Let's see if I can put 35 years of research. Well, no,

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I don't want to wear you out. In that session, I would like to show you the creation model.

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Church, it is not adequate for a speaker simply to come in and say evolution won't work.

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I must lay the straight ruler down beside that which is crooked.

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I need to show you the creation truth, the creation model. The creation model really does work.

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Pastor may or may not know, I've spent over 35 years researching the original world, described in the

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Bible, and researching it from the academic standpoint. So I have the privilege of having built or directing the building of the world's first hyperbaric biosphere.

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I was telling your science teacher about that before session today. It was Bill, right? And your last name?

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Nichols. Nichols, all right. That's a good name. A lot of Nichols.

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He's worth a lot of Nichols academically. So it's plural. Good. Okay. I was telling him about the biosphere.

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When you were at Glen Rose the last time, preacher, did you look at the biosphere? It's online.

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The prototype is online. The large one, which is longer than this auditorium, 62 feet long.

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Well, that may not be longer. How long is this auditorium? This is about 60 feet. So it's about the length of your auditorium, but 11 feet wide.

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The large one is being completed. The small one has been so successful. We knew it would be because what we're trying to do in the small one, in the prototype, is to simply simulate the conditions before Noah's flood.

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This afternoon, you will learn what those conditions are or were. And if you can't stay for the afternoon or if I don't get far enough, the two -tape video series at the back called

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Creation and Symphony, the model, will give you that information. But it took me two and a half hours to give that information.

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There are 210 technical references flown onto the screen. And we today need to have technical verification of the creation model.

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The Apostle Paul, as I started 10 minutes ago to tell you, the Apostle Paul, in speaking to the

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Hebrew mind, went directly to Calvary, to the cross, to the gospel.

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Now, are you awake? I'll have to ask you periodically if you're still awake. Are you still awake? When Paul spoke to the

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Hebrew mind, he went straight to Calvary and the gospel. And that's where we want to get.

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But the Hebrew mind already had the foundation of creation. In Acts 17, the

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Apostle Paul spoke on Mars Hill to a conglomerate, which involved the

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Gentile mind that did not have the basics for creation.

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So Paul did not begin with the gospel in Acts 17. He began with creation.

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And he gave a tremendous foundation that had full scientific implications and verification.

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Because the Gentile mind, for you theologians, here's a fine theologian,

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I'm so glad to have met you. Glad you're feeling better, brother. You theologians, the Gentile mind, by and large, is the geophetic mind, the enlarged mind.

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And as the geophetic mind, it's oriented to analysis and to analytical research.

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We are now living in the computer age, passing the atomic age and the space age.

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They're still in vogue. But now it's the computer age. You can contact third world countries and people living in thatched roofs around the world in seconds on the

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Internet. Do you realize that? This day is, by and large, controlled by the geophetic mind.

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So the apostle Paul knew that. He was God's man. So he approached the gospel first by giving analytical data, showing that creation was true.

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Once that foundation was established, the gospel was logical. Now, are you still awake? If creation is not true, there's no need for the gospel.

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As I'm going to show you in a moment, the evolutionary enthusiasts, those who are avidly committed to this, and some of those avid evolutionists are avidly committed against me.

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And that's fine. I used to be an evolutionist. I used to teach evolution. I used to believe it.

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I do not believe it, nor do I teach it any longer, and I have not for some considerable time, because the

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Bible and the scientific evidence do not square with evolution. I'm going to show you in a moment, if I can ever get there, the implications.

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If evolution is true, the gospel is illogical. But if creation is true, then the gospel is absolutely necessary.

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I want to ask you something. Do you believe around here that the gospel is absolutely necessary? Amen. Yes.

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Now, I find an enlarged audience globally.

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Did you know that TBN has given me a weekly telecast? Did you know that? Every Friday morning, 6 .30,

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Central Standard Time. I don't get up to watch it. If I'm up, I'm on the road somewhere going to speak.

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In route to speak somewhere. 6 .30, Central Standard Time on TBN, Trinity Broadcasting Network.

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Now, that time's not very good here, but it's a great time in Europe. They've selected that as one of the global telecasts shown every week around the world.

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Creation in the 21st century. So you may want to look for it. What time?

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What day? Friday. And 6 .30 a .m. or p .m.? A .m.,

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okay. On what network? TBN, Trinity Broadcasting Network. And they've selected that.

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It's shown in Russia. It's shown in the Orient. It's shown in Africa, throughout Asia. So I'm very thankful for that.

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And most of the mail we get, and 98 % of it is positive, most of the mail is from the professional, academic area.

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Scientists, engineers, scholars are writing, saying there is, you're showing, you're demonstrating that there is a tremendous body of evidence for creation, scientific evidence for creation, not only for creation, but for recent creation.

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And, in fact, twice NASA has invited me up to lecture to their scientists and engineers on the world's first hyperbaric biosphere.

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As you'll learn this afternoon, it is scientific and it is biblical at the same time.

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Now, they didn't invite me up to lecture on biblical creation, because they're not into creation as a rule.

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They're into cosmological evolution as a rule. But there are a number of creationists.

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Among them, they rejoiced, plus some of their leaders rejoiced, and I actually taped that program so it would be in their library.

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Okay, now have you sized the speaker up? Are you able to listen? Do you understand my Texas accent? I grew up in Texas and I was out for decades and came back.

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My dad said I never did talk right, didn't talk like a Texan. But as long as you can understand me, that's what

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I want. Okay, are you ready to learn? I'm to finish at 10 till 11, this first session, right,

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Pastor? All right. Every person in this audience is asking four questions.

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Those four questions, now the first thing I want to do is to get that square.

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I think we're skewed a little bit with the angle, so would you just ignore the upper line?

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Is that fine? Good. Very good. There are only two ways to answer these four questions that everyone is asking.

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They're answered either by the naturalistic theory we call evolution or by biblical and direct creation or scientific creation, and the two are one.

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Leading thinkers have admitted there is no third alternative. What are these four questions?

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They're called the four great questions of life. Every child in this audience is asking these questions.

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Every grandparent in this audience is asking these questions. Geneticists are now realizing that since all people of all ages have asked these questions, there are references to these questions even in the ancient literature, and at every major university, in at least the philosophy department, these four great questions are discussed.

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They're called the four great questions of life. Here they are. Number one, who am I? Who are you?

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You need to know these. You ask these questions. In fact, I've lectured in over 20 countries,

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Pastor, on creation, and whether I'm speaking live television or a live university audience or a church audience such as this or school audience or to cannibals in the

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South Pacific, former cannibals who have eaten human flesh, seated on a log in Fiji with the waving palm trees and the blue Pacific in the background.

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Wouldn't you like to be there this morning? I go there as often as I can. In fact,

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I opened Fiji to Baptist missions, and we have eight churches like this in Fiji, and I've been there 22 times.

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Why don't I live there if I opened it to Baptist missions? By the way, I speak in churches of all stripes and colors because all need the creation message, don't you think?

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And I even speak to atheistic groups. If they'll listen, they listen for a while because I used to think atheistic thoughts, and they're surprised about that.

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But in Fiji, men sitting on a log who, now the women don't get to sit over there.

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They have to stand in the background. Isn't that terrible? I'm trying to change that somewhat. I'm doing what

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I can. Okay, with the men sitting on the logs and the ladies in the background, when

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I mention these four questions, the men say, Vinaka. That's their way of saying amen. That's right.

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Vinaka. Try that. Vinaka. Okay, you'd make good Fijians.

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Okay, back to the idea. Whether it's there, no matter what the context is, when these four questions are mentioned, people say, well, yeah, yeah,

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I've been asking those questions. Geneticists now realize that it's impossible for us not to ask those questions.

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We automatically ask them because we're genetically programmed to ask them. Number one, who am

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I? That's the first great question of life. Who am I? Personal identity, personal value, personal worth.

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Who am I? Number two, where did I come from? We call that life origins.

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How did I get here? Where did I come from? Life origins. Number three, what am

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I doing here? What's my purpose here? How does all this fit together? Number four, where am

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I going? I don't mean after the afternoon service. I know you're all going to stay through the day and for lunch.

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We might have lunch early. What are we having for lunch? What's that?

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Oh, it's potluck. I like that. Good, good. Okay, I might stop before 1230.

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Okay, but where am I going ultimately? Man is preoccupied with life after death. Okay, now let's make sure

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I'm getting through. What's the first great question of life? Who am I? Yes, personal worth, personal identification.

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Number two, where did I come from? Life origins. How did

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I get here? Number three, what's my purpose? What am I doing here?

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How does all this fit? How does today fit? What's my purpose? Number four, where am

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I going after this is over? Now, if we arrived by naturalistic development, we call that evolution.

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Now, let me define terms. You still awake? Microevolution means variation within genetic information.

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That is no problem whatsoever. We all vary. I vary eight or ten pounds a month, depending on where I speak and what they have to eat, you know.

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We all vary. I'm sure my hair has varied in color a little bit since I saw you last,

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Pastor. No one, everyone was so kind. Your wife didn't mention it? My wife mentions it regularly.

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Okay, we all vary, but that's within genetic boundaries. That's microevolution. That's evolution within kinds.

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For you scholars, that's the barramund, the Hebrew for kind.

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It's variation within kind. No problem whatsoever.

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But macroevolution is the natural idea of evolution.

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That idea is that due to a fortunate combination, and we're going to learn later, stay with me all day, that that cannot occur.

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Academically, it's impossible to occur. But the idea of standard evolution, that's called macroevolution.

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That due to a fortunate combination from either mutation or other influences, you can get beneficial additional information that will give you a higher order.

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Absolutely impossible. Any variation, as I'll show you, if I don't get time, you'll need to pick up the book,

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Why Do Men Believe Evolution Against All Odds? And I have 275 technical references there.

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Leading evolutionary scholars admit, well, this doesn't work in practice, but we know it must work because that's the only way we can explain how we got here.

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That's not good science. We can't prove it in a laboratory, but in the mind, it has to be that way, otherwise we have to give an account to a creator.

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Are you still with me? Macroevolution means development over long periods of time from non -living inorganic compounds to organic living compounds and ultimately complexity that has produced man.

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That is impossible. That's what we normally call evolution. Okay, watch closely. If we arrived by a naturalistic process we call evolution, who am

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I? Who are you? You're really nobody. You're just the universe expressing itself chemically.

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Where did I come from? You got here by a fortunate combination that is against all scientific odds, but you got here by a bizarre path.

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No one knows exactly how, and hopefully I'll get to the point to show you, that leading scholars admit, we don't know how we got here.

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We just know we're here and we know we got here by natural processes. No, we don't know we got here by natural processes.

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That's assuming evolution to begin with. Number three, what's my purpose here? Well, I don't really have any purpose because this is all there is to it.

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If evolution is true, one leading evolutionary professor said, I have a very noble purpose.

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He said, my noble purpose is that when I die I will provide the chemistry for the flowers and perhaps the weeds of the future.

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Is that a noble purpose? Well, that's the best there is if evolution is true.

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Okay, number four, where am I going? You're not going anywhere. Now let me prove that.

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You say, well, wait a minute. I believe evolution, but I believe there is a supreme power who orchestrated it by evolution.

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Oh, now wait a minute. If that is true, if you arrive by evolution, when he said on the sixth day he formed you from the dust of the earth, from the clay, then

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God lied to you. I mean, let's just be honest about it.

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But that's not all. Jesus in Mark chapter 10 verse 6 said, from the beginning of the creation, the very beginning, not 16 billion years after a big bang, from the beginning of the creation,

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God made male and female and established the home. Now, didn't

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Jesus know better than that? If evolution is true, if God didn't make man at the beginning in that first week of creation and then pronounced it complete, then

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Jesus was wrong. If Jesus was wrong, he's not your savior.

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If he's not your savior, you're not going anywhere. Are you with me?

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If evolution is true, even if God did it that way, he deceived us about how it occurred and his son didn't know the difference.

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We're in trouble. Okay, on the other hand, if creation is true, and I say if semantically because hopefully

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I can show you before the day is out that which you already know, you know creation is true, don't you?

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You probably wouldn't be here otherwise. However, quite often individuals come who really are seeking to come out of the bondage of evolution, and it is a bondage.

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If creation is true, first of all, that creation was done by Jesus Christ. All things were made by him and for him.

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Without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Jesus isn't just an incidental

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Jew on the road to Jerusalem. Jesus is the creator become flesh, taking upon him the form of man, and experiencing life to the full without sin.

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Aren't you glad? He experienced life to the full. He grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man.

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He took upon himself our form and became man. Yet the

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Bible said he did no sin. In him was no sin. He knew no sin.

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Aren't you glad? Because when he came to Calvary, God then made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

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Then Revelation sings the final anthem. Revelation chapter 4 verse 11 states, in reference to Jesus Christ, thou art worthy,

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O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

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Wow. I wish there were time. There isn't because there's so much more I want to give to you.

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I give a lecture message on why would a loving God create a rattlesnake.

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Now there may be time to answer that. It'll take me 10 to 12, 15 minutes to answer it.

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Maybe I can get far enough this afternoon to answer it for you, okay? Don't let me forget that.

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Why would a loving God create a rattlesnake? When he said, thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou has created all things, including rattlesnakes, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

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Whoops. I better answer that or I'll leave you dangling. Okay, but this afternoon because I have to build the foundation first.

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Okay, if creation is true, number one, who are we? We are an individual made originally in the image of God.

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Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness.

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In a physical, tangible dimension, stay with me through the morning service because I want to show you the capacity of the human brain in the physical, tangible expression of God.

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You are, you were originally, the physical, tangible expression of God.

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And to a greater or lesser degree, we still bear marks of that. Some more, some less.

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But you were made in the image of God. Who are you? You are one of a kind. There never has been another with your exact DNA.

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Not even your twin brother. You are one of a kind. Made originally in the image of God, like the rest of us, yet distinctive in your own rights.

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Where did I come from? Oh, we came from the direct hand of Almighty God.

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And in the morning service, I want to get to some information showing you that creation and design and orchestration, major scholars are recognizing what we call irreducible complexity.

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Let me say that again. Still awake? Irreducible complexity. That is that living systems not only are built one on another, all of the construction must be in place at the same time.

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And they're interrelated, interdependent, codependent. You know, you teach some, do you teach any molecular biology?

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No, no, but you teach some organic chemistry. In organic chemistry, not only are these components structured together, they're interdependent and codependent.

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You can't have one functioning without the other functioning. And leading scholars are now admitting that they had to be designed.

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Evolution is not the answer, but we knew that all along, didn't we? And all the church said, amen.

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You can say amen around here. Okay, who am I? You're a special individual made originally in the image of God.

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Where did I come from? From his direct hand of creation. Number two, number three. What am

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I doing here? What's my purpose here? Your purpose is to know him and represent him as you serve him.

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What a noble purpose. You can know your creator. That's sure better than providing the chemistry for the flowers and the weeds of the future, isn't it?

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Sure. An absolutely noble purpose. You can know the creator of the universe.

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Not only can you know him, you can serve him. Not only can you serve him, you can represent him.

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Number four, where am I going? I'm going home to meet him. That's where we're going. Okay, let's see if I can get this in.

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Have you ever wondered why in this enlightened age, and the enlightenment wasn't simply after the dark ages.

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We live in an incredibly enlightened age. Have you ever wondered why with such technological expertise, with the ability to perform in the laboratory that which couldn't be dreamed about 10 years ago, with the ability that man has to stand on planet earth and measure the distance to the farthest galaxy, not only measure the distance, weigh that galaxy, weigh the mass of the entire universe, all without ever leaving planet earth.

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This is the enlightened age. But did you ever wonder why with all of this potential at our fingertips, with all the evidence supporting creation, and stay with me through the day, the evidence supports creation to a degree that's incredible.

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For instance, let me just tell you. The world's two leading astrophysicists have been recognized for decades as being

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Sir Frederick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. What's an astrophysicist?

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He's a scholar with a background in physics, math, chemistry, biology, astronomy, all at the same time.

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He's got it all together. He's an astrophysicist. The world's two leading astrophysicists have been recognized for sometimes being

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Sir Frederick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. These scholars began as atheists because they were programmed to think atheistically.

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They began as evolutionists because they were programmed to assume that evolution was true. So they just knew evolution was true.

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But once they got all of their credentials and years of postgraduate work in the lab and telescopes, they decided, since they knew evolution was true, they wanted to put a handle of probability on it and show that not only did life arise by evolution, but given chance, life could arise anywhere, given enough time, life could arise anywhere in the universe by evolution.

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That's what they wanted to do, put a handle of probability on it, showing that mathematically it would happen or could happen anywhere.

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So they spent a decade on this project. They had access to the world's university laboratories, libraries, and the technical literature.

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They had everything at their fingertips. After a decade, they finally published in the world's most prestigious scientific journal, which is

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Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. They published and they said, to our surprise, we have found that the chance of even the simplest form of life appearing on planet

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Earth by evolutionary means or anywhere in the universe, the chance is 1 in 10 to the 40 ,000th power.

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Now stay with me. One chance in 10 to the 40 ,000th power.

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Scholars in this audience will agree that it's known throughout the world academically that anything beyond one chance in 10 to the 50th power has zero chance of occurring.

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Okay, one chance in 10 to the 40 ,000th power. How big is that number?

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Do we have a math professor here? Do you teach math also? That's the perfect answer.

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That shows you are a scholar. That's the perfect answer.

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A scholar will say, well, while we can calculate it, we cannot imagine how big that number is, right?

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Not even a chance of imagining how big that is. We can calculate it. Go ahead. Oh, it's beyond that.

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Let me show you. One chance in 10 to the 40 ,000th power.

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Now that's one followed by 40 ,000 zeros. We can write it. We can calculate it. But we can't imagine how big it is.

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Let me show you. Still awake? The smallest unit of measurable material we know anything about is the electron, right?

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We can measure the electron. That's the smallest unit of measurable material known in the universe.

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How many electrons are there? And I give that number in the book, Why Do Men Believe in Evolution Against All Odds.

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I quote the technical literature. How many electrons are there? Take all the electrons.

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Every atom has at least one electron. All other than hydrogen have more than one.

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Take all the atoms, all the electrons on planet Earth, our sun, our entire solar system, the eight other planets, the asteroid belt.

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Take our entire arm of Orion. Take our entire Milky Way galaxy and all 225 billion other galaxies, each averaging over 500 million stars.

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You getting this? Take all of those, and those numbers are in the technical literature.

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Take all of them together, all of the electrons in all of those, and in interstellar space, put them all together.

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How many electrons would you have? 10 to the 85th power.

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Now our scholar knows what we're talking about. 10 to the 85th of electrons. But most of space is just space.

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Let's cram all of space with electrons. Imagine all of the universe is one great steel ball of electrons.

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Now actually steel could have a lot of electrons crammed into it, but we can imagine the universe being one giant steel ball of electrons.

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Just imagine that, because steel doesn't work like that. Iron has electrons whirling itself, but that'll give you an idea.

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The whole universe is one solid ball of electrons. How many electrons would you have then?

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10 to the 130th power. Are you getting an idea about how big that number, 10 to the 40 ,000th power, really is?

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So these two world -class scholars published, and it has not been controverted. They showed the chain, displayed the chain of logic.

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It's not been controverted. These world -class scholars published the chance of even the simplest life form, like a bacterium, evolving.

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It doesn't even have a nucleus. The chance of that evolving by inorganic, naturalistic, evolutionary means is 1 in 10 to the 40 ,000th power.

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They said, let's show how impossible that is. They said it would be easier for a whirlwind to sweep through a junkyard and assemble a

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Boeing 747 jet in flight out the other end than it would be for life to have arisen by evolutionary, inorganic, naturalistic means.

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And they said it looks like something or someone, and I like their old -fashioned terminology, they said it looks like something or someone has monkeyed with the physics, the chemistry, and the biology of the universe.

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Well, I know who did the monkeying, and he wasn't tinkering around either. He did it by his own design, and he did it right.

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Okay, so these two men are not evolutionists any longer. Now, they still will not embrace biblical creation, but they said life had to be brought in in a fully functional form, and it was.

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God breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living soul. So with all of that, wow, I've got two minutes.

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Okay, I'll just get this slide and stop, and then we'll start again in a few minutes.

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Now, I want to invest in your life. Are you learning anything? I want to show you that you have not followed cunningly devised fables.

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When you espouse the Word of God and embrace the truth of the Word of God, you're not simply believing that which is irrational, as someone said, you don't need to park your brain at the door when you come inside the church or when you get up in the morning.

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It is awesome to search out. I was reading this morning in Deuteronomy 29, 29.

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The mysteries belong unto the Lord our God, but that which he has revealed, we have the privilege of searching out.

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Deuteronomy 29, 29. Years ago, a dear friend of mine was Dr. Richard Grove, who's still alive, still a dear friend.

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I haven't seen him for decades. He isolated plutonium -238 for the first time in history.

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He designed the nuclear reactors that power our instruments on the moon, and yet he was a born -again,

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Bible -believing Christian. Believed not only in creation, he believed in recent creation, like the

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Bible says. By the way, the world's leading molecular biologist is Dr.

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Francis Collins. He, under his direction, has been formed the most ambitious scientific biological program in the history of planet

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Earth. Dr. Collins and his group have mapped the human genome.

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They've mapped what makes you tick. He's a creationist.

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And a recent creationist. He said, I am a deist.

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Now, I have in my library everything purported to have been said by, written by, or published by Charles Darwin.

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I have copies of every book, old copies, not originals, I wish they were, but old copies of every book

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Charles Darwin ever published, every article he ever wrote, every sentence he ever wrote, or that was purported to have been stated by him.

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So I think we ought to know where we stand if we're going to represent this issue of creation versus evolution.

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I think we ought to do our homework, right? Now, Charles Darwin said,

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I'm a deist, okay? What do you mean by that? He said, I believe in a deity.

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Well, let's see. Charles Darwin is the hero of evolutionary commitment, not because of any viable scientific nature of his theory.

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Now, and these are technical references. All of the cosmologists,

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I say all, 90 % of them say Charles Darwin's theory will not work.

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Natural selection preserves the kinds and the species. It doesn't introduce new species.

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It preserves what we have. God used that method. It doesn't produce any new living systems, not because of any viable scientific nature of his theory, but for deeper philosophic reasons.

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His theory of evolution by natural selection was borrowed from others. First time he ever heard of it was from his grandfather,

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Erasmus. He borrowed much of what he said and published from his own grandfather, never gave credit to his grandfather.

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But his grandfather and Charles Darwin and others borrowed it, dating back to the ancient

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Greeks and Babylonians. And this is in the technical literature as well. All the tenants of natural selection, producing evolution and variation from simple to complex is found in the writings and religions of the ancient

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Greeks and Babylonians. His patriarchal position is a result. So it's not a result of his scientific work.

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It's a result of his avowal that the chaotic universe, and the church, I want you to get this, and if you get this, then

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I will have invested in your lives. Charles Darwin avowed that the chaotic universe, now there is a lot of chaos in the universe because of a second law of thermodynamics called entropy.

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Everything is running down. And because of the entrance of sin, and because of the vibes of our minds, we bring discord even into the chemical realm.

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And in the video series back there, I quote technical literature showing that the discord of the vibes of our own minds can have an influence on the physical world.

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So ultimately, the chaos dates back to sin and to man, and the second law of thermodynamics.

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But he took the chaos in the universe. Charles Darwin felt that the chaotic universe had finally realized its own existence in his tormented mind.

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Leading medical experts are now publishing in medical journals a critique of Charles Darwin, recognizing that he was a phobic, an agoraphobic, afraid of everything, extremely tormented.

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In fact, I'll quote from his own writings in the morning service. I intended to do it now, but I got to chasing those electrons out in the universe.

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Okay, Charles Darwin was a phobic and had an extremely tormented mind.

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Charles Darwin identified with worms and wrote.

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He felt a kindredness to the insects and the worms. And as a grown man, he wrote,

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I couldn't bring myself to harm the worm. He said, I love to fish. He wrote this.

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He said, I love to fish, but when I fish, I identify with the worms and I can't bring myself to harm the worm to bait my own hook.

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He had to get somebody else to bait his hook. Well, church, I don't trust a grown man who can't bait his own hook.

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And I'm very serious about that. You see, there comes a time, the

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Jews call it bar mitzvah. There comes a time when we accept responsibility for our own actions.

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We grow up. You know, it's hard to grow up, but aren't you glad we did? Charles Darwin was never able to accept responsibility for his own actions.

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So he always identified. He couldn't bait his own hook, but at the same time, he took great relish.

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He wrote, he said, I took great relish in shooting birds and couldn't harm a worm.

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He took great relish in shooting birds. Why? Yeah, birds eat worms and birds represent design to an incredible degree.

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Okay, I'm trying to wind this up. I'm already over time. Don't look at the watch, please. But here's the reason he has the patriarchal position of evolutionism.

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It's because he's the first man to state that the chaotic universe had finally realized its own existence in his tormented mind.

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Darwin held that deity was equivalent to the mind of man. He thus worshipped himself.

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Wow. Theologian, isn't that our real problem? The center of sin is

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I. We worship ourselves, unfortunately. And that is incredible.

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Pastor, I went over. You knew I would. Forgive me, but I'll stop in time for lunch.