Can we Trust the Bible? On the Trustworthiness of Scripture (Dr. Dan Biddle, Genesis Apologetics)

Psalm 78 and the Call to Pass Down Genesis as History

So I'd like to just share one opening passage today that I think is really profound that speaks to this. And then I wanna draw a little bit from Genesis and then we'll get into my PowerPoint deck. I do have 80 slides, but I'm a quick talker.

I really do only hope to keep you here for about an hour tonight. I'll keep a good eye on it and then we'll try to open up for some time for some Q &A. But here's what the word has for us tonight in Psalm 78.

It says this, and really study these words and try to think what the writer's getting at. Psalm 78 verses one through five, give ear, oh my people, to my law. And if you turn that word into the Hebrew, it says give ear to my Torah.

That's the word being referred to. That's the first five books of the Old Testament starting with Genesis. It says give ear to my people, to my Torah, to my law, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old. So he's taken something out of the deep, distant past here, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. So he's talking about something from the past that our fathers have told us that have been carried on for generations.

And then he says, we will not hide them from their children, showing them to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he has done. Translation, we will take this word that has been passed down to us from the patriarchs, the writers of the scripture, and we will tell them to the generations to come of the works of the Lord.

What is the work of the Lord? It's creation, it's Genesis. So this is a command from scripture to take what the Genesis writers wrote. It's not parable, it's not allegory, it's not myth, you take that from the past and you teach it to the future generations.

We have to hand the baton. Because if you look right now around the landscape of this world and you look into the churches, there's something sweeping the nation. And they are turning Christian seminaries, Christian colleges and many churches are turning this book into a fable to try to make it convenient to attract people.

There are about 100 colleges left in America, Christian colleges that will teach this word under the authority of Genesis, teach it as a real creation. But you guys, all you have to do is turn to Luke chapter three, and Luke chapter three talks about the 70 generations, the 70 genealogies that connect Christ all the way back to Adam.

Who was before Adam? Nobody. That's what the word says, not a population of 10 ,000 homo erectus creatures trying to strive and eat their way and outmurder their way of all the other apes to become homo sapiens.

That's a lie, it didn't happen. Who was there millions of years ago?

Nobody.

God himself is the inventor of time that he wound up and started just thousands of years ago. The word is clear, people just don't wanna eat it, they don't wanna buy it. A lot of people nowadays are saturated in Nova and History Channel and Marvel movies and everything else, and they're approached with the word, and they're like, wow, I can't believe that the two things at the same time, the world has so indoctrinated them that when they start hearing the Genesis message all the way from the Old Testament to the New Testament, they start developing smoke up in their brain called cognitive dissonance, it's friction.

People think, how in the world can this exist and this exist at the same time? We had a young gal that walked up to our Noah's Ark exhibit. We've got like a four-foot model, and she walked up and she saw a little theropod dinosaur on the ark.

And she said, wait a minute, what's that doing there? The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, and humans came into existence 200 ,000 years ago. And I said, that's not what the Bible teaches.

And you could see, she was at that moment as an 18-year-old, the smoke was happening in her head where she's trying to reconcile years and years and years of framework and her knowledge membranes in her brain trying to unlearn this framework of evolution that had solidified in her head, but then someone comes in and drops a glistening seed of truth in there, and it will grow, it's just gonna take time.

But there is a myth and there is a lie being spread around the nation all over the place, and what is it? The Bible calls it the lie. Romans 1 says that if you reject your creator, you're gonna have a darkened conscience.

You're not gonna be able to understand these truths because people suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Now, let me take you to the scary verse. The scary verse is in the New Testament in 2 Peter 3, where Peter, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, says, hey everybody, I've written to you guys a lot of stuff, I've said a lot of things to you guys, but above all else, above everything else I ever taught you, know this, that scoffers will come in the last days scoffing, saying, where is this coming?

Because creation's gone on ever since it happened in the beginning, teaching the idea of uniformitarianism, long ages, there's been no God, no special creation, and Peter warns, and he says, they're going to scoff God and they're gonna be willingly ignorant, which means they're gonna teach against two things, and he lies them out for us.

A special creation breathed into existence by God, that's target number one of these scoffers in the end time, and target number two is a cataclysmically destroyed world by the flood. And I would challenge anyone today, bring me a college textbook that doesn't attack those two things.

So something's happening in this age that we're living in that we have to wake up and realize it's revival time. And if you start mythologizing Genesis and throwing it out, well, then that's like throwing an anchor off of a bridge in Jesus's shackle to the other side of the anchor.

Because Jesus referred back to the Old Testament 42 times, and every time he did, he treated it like a real history book. Jesus said not a jot or a tittle will disappear from the Torah until everything's been fulfilled.

So Jesus, he also referred back to the Old Testament and Genesis, he said, haven't you guys read that at the beginning, God made them male and female, not after millions of years of some evolution thing.

So it's very, very clear. We know what's been taught, but here, I wanna get even more specific and I wanna paint a picture of the lie that the enemy is using today. That's it's penetrating some churches, it's penetrating many colleges, every secular college and some Christian colleges.

And it's simply this, they're trying to undermine, Satan can't take all the Bibles and stack them up in a big pile and pour gasoline on them and light them on fire. That'd be a little bit too obvious, right?

If Satan wants to come against Christianity, he's not gonna stack up the Bibles and burn them. What is he gonna do? He's gonna take away, he's gonna try to take away their power by turning them into myth.

So people have the Bible sitting on their coffee table, but they're not gonna surrender to it, they're not gonna believe it because it's lost the authority in their minds. It's not scientifically credible, they think, or it's not historically viable.

So the Bible's sitting there, but they disregard it. And that's what's happening to our youth today in high schools and in colleges. But I wanna bring up just one word to just listen to this. This is Genesis chapter seven, verse 11.

And this is the writer of Genesis is writing this. And he says, in the 600th year of Noah's life in the second month, in the 17th day of the month, is that history or allegory? That's history. Someone's writing a history, a chronology of what's going on.

Do you know in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, there are 37 patriarchs given for whom we have their birth, lifespan, or death years. That's not poetry, guys, that's history. So it goes on here and it says, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were open.

Here's the challenge. That sounds to me like an omnipresent omniscient, a God who's everywhere and knows everything, wrote that through man and downloaded it into the Bible. Because many people, what they're doing today in the colleges is they're spinning Genesis and they're saying, well, you know what?

Genesis was actually written by a bunch of sheep farmers 3 ,500 years ago and they had these little quill feather pens and they have parchments out and they're just writing stuff up in what they call the ancient Near Eastern culture and context.

They weren't scientists. They were just writing down what they were writing down in their little limited Babylonian understanding. There's a problem with that. The problem is that. How would Noah have known that the fountains of the great deep, all of them were breaking open?

How do you know that as a man, if you're just sitting there, you just made the ark, you just took about 75 years to build the ark, and how would you know that all the fountains of the great deep are going on?

That's a submarine tectonic event. How did Noah know that? He didn't. God downloaded it to him and the windows of heaven were open. So you have a choice. You have to think that somehow the writer is making this stuff up or God downloaded the truth of scripture to man.

Now I can prove to you with science, when you come back and we talk about the flood, God knew that that happened and it actually really did happen because in the 1990s, God pulled aside six PhD geophysicists, some of the leading minds in the world and revealed to them through their careful study and standing under the authority of scripture that it really did happen.

It's called runaway subduction. It's called catastrophic plate tectonics. Pangaea catastrophically was torn apart just like the Bible says. And the proof for that is unbelievable. It's a 40 ,000 mile rift system.

It's a linear rift system that covers the earth 1 .6 times over. Many of you have looked at a globe and you can see right in the middle, it's called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. That's the largest split. It's a huge split that goes down where the subduction was happening, the sea floor was splitting apart.

It's a 10 ,000 mile tear like a baseball seam that goes right down the center of the earth. The Bible says that the submarine canyons, the fountains of the great deep broke forth all at once, all of them.

And that's exactly what we can see. You don't have to look further than a globe today, a sixth grade classroom globe and you're looking at the flood. The flood evidence is quite obvious, but it's been obfuscated.

That's a fancy word for saying it's been covered up. It's been hidden. It's been disguised in millions of years. It's been disguised in Darwinism, disguised in earth history books. It's been hidden. But when God opens your eyes, you're gonna have an experience like what I went through six or seven years ago when I finally told the Lord, I'm willing to stand under your word.

I'm willing to submit to its history, to its authority. I'm not gonna be a confused wishy-washy Christian. I'm gonna trust it. And then what happened to me, metaphorically speaking, was the Lord was almost like sitting back in the room and saying, oh really, you're gonna trust my word like a kid?

Okay, let's go on a tour this summer. And God, through a bunch of circumstances, led me on a little journey. I went up to Canada, I went up to Montana. I went to places where you can look at a 14 mile spread that's filled with not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of dead dinosaurs buried with fish, clams, birds, and mammals.

And something happens to your spirit when you see that and you're like, my gosh, this earth was cataclysmically judged. And what does that do? It makes you stand under the word. What happens when you stand under the word?

Your family gets blessed. You get blessed. I'm not preaching prosperity gospel. I'm preaching Psalms one. Blessed is the man who does not stand in the counselor of the sinner, but believes and trusts in the word of God.

It will profoundly change your life. For me, as a person who's got a PhD and is a behavioral scientist, I spent two decades testifying as an expert in statistics and research. I have a pretty solid command of the scientific method, but God doesn't care about that.

He wanted to take me and sit me down like a little child and say, look at those dinosaur bones. They don't look millions of years old, do they? And then I sort of run the science behind it like, oh my gosh, they're not.

They're now up to 16 bio-organic materials that are found in dinosaur bones showing they can't be millions of years old. And when I learned that, it was like being born again, again. Because I didn't know it, but I was walking around with a shift, a disconnect.

Who's been to the chiropractor before? Okay, people been to the chiropractor. I had a vertebrae, so to speak, out of adjustment between my mind and my heart. My heart knew the Lord was real. I knew his word was real.

I knew his Holy Spirit was real. I felt his power. Experientially, I knew the Lord was real, but my brain, because it had been cooked and stewed in the world for 40 years, wasn't quite sure. And I didn't even know how much I wasn't quite sure until the Lord himself revealed it to me through two things, dinosaurs and Noah's Flood.

And those are the two things that got me. And it was such a profound experience. I had to go back to my first two older kids because when I grew up with raising my first two kids, they'd ask me, hey, Dad, when they were going to public school, they would ask me, well, Dad, what about the cavemen?

And I would say, well, honey, if Earth is old, this is your answer. But if Earth is young, here's your answer. Well, Dad, what about the saber-toothed cats and the cave bears and all the ice age creatures?

And I said, well, if Earth is old, here's your answer. If Earth is young, here's your answer. Because that's genuinely what I thought. I was a saved Christian, but like many Christians, I wasn't sure if there maybe might be a few million years tucked in here and there, or we really don't know, or maybe the gap theory is true.

I was compromised in that area. I was a spirit-filled Christian. I love my church, I serve God. But at that time, I had not yet been enlightened. So now that I've woken up to the truth of Genesis 1 to 11 as real history, I had to go back to my first two kids and retrain them.

So now when they ask me about, what about the dinosaurs? Straight answer. What about cavemen? Straight answer. What about the ice age? Straight answer. Because you know what? When you trust this as history, you only have one answer about those things.

Now, there's a lot of things I don't know and that we'll never know. I'm a very honest scientist practitioner. For years, I've been riding my bike around Lake Natomas, and there's some amazing flood features over there.

You've got huge layers of ash, you've got rounded river rocks. And but you know what? It's probably a lot of it's ice age runoff, but a lot of it's tectonic. Some of it could be pre-flood, some of it could be during the flood, but a lot of it's probably after the flood.

I've taken two really trustworthy creation scientists to go look at this place in Folsom. Like, you got 200 feet, and there's about 50 feet of ash here, and then rounded river rock. And sometimes they're a little bit too confident in trying to explain exactly what they see happen there.

And you know what? I kind of doubt it. I kind of doubt that even they know exactly what happened. Now, I know it either had to be something before the flood 4 ,500 years ago, or during the flood, or something after the flood.

But sometimes geology is such a complex thing to look at, we can't put our faith there. We have to put our faith here. Because the God who's above everything downloaded it to man, and he told us all he wants us to believe about this stuff.

A lot of people want to get into scary advanced topics, and what about the Nephilim? What about the giants? What about this and that? Well, yeah, there's 20 passages in this word that talk about giants, and Nephilim, and all that stuff.

But there's a lot of extra books that try to expand on that stuff, that get it pretty mixed up sometimes. All I need is right here. That's what I need to know about those topics. And there's a lot of things I don't know, but if I just saturate here, this is a living, active, breathing book that has power to it, and it gets earth history correct.

Okay, so that is my brief introduction here, guys. So, all right, so am I on the wireless mic okay? You guys still hear me? Okay, great. Okay, so I'm gonna stand over here so you guys can see the screen as I go through, and I can see it too.

So we have a non-profit 501c3 ministry called Genesis Apologetics. And let's see if this clicker's working here. Yeah, dim the lights a little bit. It would be great. And there we go. Okay, so just a little bit about Genesis Apologetics.

We have four different divisions of our ministry. We strengthen Christian schools. Dave Bisbee downstairs, talking with your kids today. He's in pretty much every leading Christian school in the greater Sacramento area.

Five or six of them, Victory Christian Summit, all Lincoln Academy, lots of different schools that he's around teaching. And let's see, I think I might need to get some help on the advancer back there.

You'll have to help me through this, it looks like. We speak in local churches. Before COVID, we were getting about 50 talks a year. Over the last two weeks, I think this is my 22nd talk. So we've been cooking again.

We've been up in Vacaville and Reading and everything. It's been great. And next couple slides there. We do have an annual conference this year. We did it at William Jessup. We had to delay it a couple times around, but this year we thought, you know what, rather than delaying it again, because it went through a whole one-year delay, we're just gonna do it online.

So rather than having about 700 people, we were able to stream it out to over 30 ,000 people, which was really great. So just go to G1conference .com, and you can go there and watch our videos. But I think our largest impact and our broadest reach is on YouTube.

We have about 111 ,000 subscribers, which is really cool, because we'll make a video on Friday, you post it out on YouTube, and it goes all over the world. By Monday, it'll have thousands of views to it, which is really, really fun.

And we have over 10 million views on YouTube and about 30 ,000 Facebook followers. And next one here. Dave is, again, he's downstairs. He heads up our student zone. Dave is preparing 72 videos for your guys' kids.

So K through eight, just go to the student zone on our ministry, and then you can start going through his library that he's producing on 72 different videos. He breaks it up. I think it's kindergarten to second grade, third to fifth, and then sixth to eighth grade.

And it's all kinds of things. What about the dinosaurs, six days of creation, Noah's flood, all those things. And next one here. So we have two different other aspects of our ministry. By the way, all of our stuff for students is free.

You can go to debunkevolution .com or sevenmyths .com, or you can go to our book table out front. If you're a student, K to 12 or college, our books and resources are free to you guys. We hope the parents who are here can pay.

But if you're a student, grab the stuff for free. And for fifth and 10th grade students, we have a program called debunkevolution .com. What we did is we took the top leading California textbooks in public school that teach the theory of evolution from sixth grade all the way to 10th grade, and we extracted the top 10 pillars of evolution teaching, and we address all 10 of them using the Bible and scripture.

And then if you have an 11th grader, you can go to sevenmyths .com. And that's a great program where I was talking about a lot of the Christian colleges today don't teach the Genesis as history. Well, this will prepare your student before going to any Christian college or a secular college.

So that's the sevenmyths .com program. And then the next one, here we go. This is a fun book, probably one of my favorite. We have a guy that volunteers for our ministry. His name's Zach. I'm hoping he'll be here later this week.

But he monitors our social media pages like Facebook. We have to ban several atheists every week because we get attacked by all kinds of fun, interesting people. But a lot of people are seeking questions, and they have a lot of questions about our ministry.

We get a couple thousand questions every year. We took the top 50 most frequently asked questions and wrote a book just on those questions. And about 10 of these 50 Q &As actually have videos attached to them.

So grab that book that's outside. And then our YouTube channel, these are our four most popular videos. We've been fortunate enough to produce the leading flood video in the world. And I'm not taking any credit for that.

It's amazing, it was such a God thing. We got the prompting to do it, and we went around interviewing the four leading flood geologists in the world and took the flood account of catastrophic plate tectonics, how it happened, and produced a 23-minute video for it that can show you in just 23 minutes the mechanics of what happened behind Noah's flood.

And the second one over here is called Miracles of the Crucifixion of Christ. The Gospel of Matthew says some amazing things happened when Christ was crucified. You've got Roman legions, battle-hardened army guys that were converting based upon what was happening in heavens and earth when Christ was crucified.

The sun didn't give its light. Everything went dark. There was an earthquake. People rose up out of their graves. There's historical and geological evidence that exactly what happened in that year when Christ was crucified happened.

So go check out that movie. And the last two ones are about dinosaurs. So go ahead and move on from this one.

And one more.

There we go. We're trying to reach students today. That's probably our number one focus. We want to try to get after that next generation today. Where are our students? Well, they're on their phones. 6 .7 hours a day on average.

You know, good, bad, indifferent, do with it whatever you will, but we want to get them where they're at. So we've got about 100 ,000 people that have downloaded our mobile app. There was a gal at a conference that came up to me, and she was looking at me, and she was looking at our booth, and looking at the books and everything, and she walks up and she shows us her app, our app on her phone.

She said, you guys do this app? And I said, yeah. She says, this app changed my life, which was amazing. We give God all the credit. She was at a Christian concert where they promoted the app. She downloaded it.

She was a, I believe she was somewhere in her college degree. She had to rethink and relearn her entire worldview. So it just, and when you can start with a changed mind, a changed mind's gonna change behaviors and choices, and therefore outcomes.

So that's a great tool, just you can download that. And then next slide there. And yeah, this one delays it a little bit. It will come up if you just hit it once. And this next slide features our two movies.

We actually came out with two feature films. I really want you guys to watch this. They're both free on our website. You can access them. Genesis Impact is where we have a creation solid gal, a college gal, go into a museum docent presentation where there's this guy from a secular natural history museum giving this pitch on evolution.

She listens to everything in this 45-minute movie and then asks him questions and unravels all the theories of evolution right then and there. But she does it in a really meek and loving way. So that's Genesis Impact.

And then there's Foundations is a 23-minute movie that shows just how important your worldview is because we take this character, a guy named Parker, a young man, and we take his life through three different scenarios.

What is his life gonna look like when he asks his parents about evolution and then his parents confirm, oh yeah, you're just evolved pond scum. You just evolved from goo and then you went to zoo and then you went through all the process of evolution.

What does that do to his identity? What does that do to his worldview? And we play that out through his life, his marriage, his job, and his deathbed. Then we rewind his life and take him through his life again as a compromised Christian.

Could mean this, could mean that, go figure it out. The Bible's squishy, wishy-washy, and we play that out and how does that impact his life as he lives it out. And then we play it under a third scenario where his mom and dad give him concrete Bible answers and teach him that the Bible's both historically and scientifically valid.

And so he stands on it, he builds his life on it, his roots go down deep and he lives his life out and it turns out much differently than the first two scenarios. Okay, so next one here. So the first lie spoken in the universe, the first challenge of God's teaching was Satan saying, did God really say?

And that's exactly what's happening today all over America when youth are challenged about Genesis and challenged about evolution, the question's being raised, did God really say? So just be mindful of that and we'll go on from here.

The Public School Evolution Challenge and the Need for Creation Teaching

All right, so this is what is happening to students in public school. I'm not gonna stand up here and rant against public school, I'm not gonna be super pro homeschool and super pro private Christian school.

I had two kids successfully go through public school and I had two kids do a little bit of public school and then finish in private school. So there's lots of choices, every family has different situations.

But I will say this, the public school is gonna take your kid and indoctrinate them in 50 hours of course room teaching on evolution, the idea they evolve from pond scum into monkeys and on into homo sapiens, over 250 pages and it used to start in sixth grade but now they backed it up to third grade.

So it's about 250 pages of curriculum. So if your kid's gonna be exposed to that, for goodness sake, if the world's gonna give them 50 hours teaching of evolution, give them 100 hours of creation teaching.

But don't do what the mistake I see some homeschool families make, this is not a general criticism but sometimes what happens in these settings is you raise your kid in this little, in an inoculated bubble, six days, 6 ,000 years, God created evolutions, bad evolutions, bad evolutions, bad, you gotta teach them what the world teaches too.

They really have to know what evolution theory is and why it's wrong. In fact, I had a sweet homeschool gal come up to me once when I gave a talk about the age of the earth, this was a couple years ago, she came up and she was just shell shocked, about 18 years old and she says, I just have to tell you something and I said, what is it?

She says, look, I've been taught creation my whole life and I've always believed it, sounds pretty plausible to me but now for the first time tonight, I know why they're wrong and why we're right. So if you don't do that, the world will do that.

So make sure to get out ahead of them and say, here's what evolution teaches and here's why it's not practically true and here's why it's not biblically true. There's a lot of science that refutes evolution, our webpages are filled with it.

Thank you for those amens, that's wonderful. All right, next one. So millennials today wanna know, how many pages do I have to flip before I run into truth? If it doesn't start on page one, just stop me when I run into truth.

So it has to start on the first page, you gotta raise the kids knowing, page one is where the truth starts. All right, the next one. Let's go into the parable of the sower now. You guys know that there are many deep secrets of the word.

God only gave us one Bible, 66 inspired books, but if you get out your shovel and your pickaxe and you start digging, there's so much truth in there. You're never gonna get it through some casual readings.

Let's dig in real quickly to the parable of the sower, where he talks about the seed, which is the word of God or about the kingdom of God. The birds are by the wayside, the stony soil, the thorns, and then there's the fertile soil.

You guys have all heard the parable of the sower, right? I'm not gonna go through it too much again. We are gonna watch a short video that gives a quick recap of it. So take it away here and then we'll go on.

The parable of the sower. Behold, the sower went out to sow. As he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil, and after the sun had risen, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced 30, 60, and 100 fold.

Okay, so next slide, please. Let's talk about how this applies towards creation because it actually does in some profound ways. So go ahead and fly in some of those bullets here. So the devil comes away and he comes and takes away the Word.

So the Word will grow. It's a seed. It's got the power of God. If the seed, the Word of God, gets in your mind and your heart, it will grow. It's got the DNA. When it unpackages, it's gonna grow into truth, but Satan comes and takes it away, and then there's people who have no root.

They believe for a while. Well, why would they stop believing? Television, movies, evolution theory, all kinds of things. Next one, and then sometimes they're choked with cares, riches, and pleasures, and a couple more, and then there's, of course, a good ground who having heard the Word with a noble and good heart keep it and bear fruit.

Now let's fly in the next four, and we'll look here. The first one is the devil comes and takes away. Well, that's disbelief. The ones that have no root, believe for a while, that's doubt, and then we have distraction.

The world's really good at all these, isn't it? But if you doubt, lots of distraction, but we want people to have roots and a deepening belief, but doubt, right here are the people who have no root. They believe for a while, but then they stop believing because they start asking the question, but how could it be true?

How could it be true? Evolution says this, creation says this. All right, next one. This is why they start doubting. Look at this onslaught that's happening to today's culture. You get Bill Nye with his idea of science, evolution, millions of years, then the Croods, and then, do you know all these movies are propaganda for evolution?

I was on an airplane once, and the guy to my left is watching Lucy, this movie right here, and Lucy talks about, oh, we only use 10 of our brain, but if we could evolve to use 100%, then we would be just like God's kind of thing.

It's really kind of a satanic lie. Don't go run out and watch that movie. Croods, same thing. That's the idea of a family of Neanderthals, and one of them starts turning into Homo sapien, and he's a little bit smarter than the rest.

To solidify in the mind of your kids, that evolution happened and took place, and of course, you've got life science, world history, biology, and physical geology. All of these things are steeping the kids in evolution.

Yeah, so next slide. So Luke 8 .13 says, they took, they on the rock are they which, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation or tribulation or testing, they fall away.

We want that root to grow deep, but they start doubting because they're hitting an onslaught of evolution. Next slide. This is what we want. Genesis, roots, because think about this for a second. If you've got science versus the Bible, and oh, ape-man evolution, and deep time, and Charles Darwin, you guys, if you don't get roots, you don't have fruit.

To fruit, you need roots, and so many teenagers that we talk to nowadays that are going to churches that don't have discipleship, that are really getting kids into the word, and they're going to public school, this is what they look like.

Their roots are not going down because they're like, but evolution, but evolution, but evolution, and they want to go down deep, but they're believing these lies, and so they're not having fruit in their lives either.

All right, next one. This is what we want, and then there's a couple slides after this, we want the book of Genesis, we want their roots to go down deep because these deep roots start in Genesis 1 to 11 regarding it as true history, and this is what I had to do, you guys, this is amazing.

These are some trees, some palm trees over in Hawaii that will grow a main root underneath the ground, but as they start growing up, they'll actually sprout external roots called stilt roots afterwards.

That's me, anyone else like this? I grew up in the church and thought, well, maybe it's myth, maybe it's allegory, maybe it's some history, some of this. I had to realize later in life, halfway through my parenting years, oh my gosh, you mean it's really true?

You mean it's historically true? You mean all that stuff about caveman and ice age, I have to rethink about how I shape all that stuff? So I had to go after my life and grow some more external roots. Next one, or after, later in my life.

This is what happened if you just have wide roots. If you have a youth group that's just pizza and games, that's what's gonna happen. And maybe I'm being critical of some church programs now tonight, but you guys, this is truth, this is what I see.